I'm Popeye The Sailor Man

So, for Halloween Greg and I were Popeye and Olive Oyl.  This was probably the most fitting costumes for us together because he has big arms (not really forearms but it still worked haha) and I am long and lanky.  The funny thing was that I came up with this costume just by googling "couples costumes".  Scrolling through the pictures I landed on the picture of Popeye and Olive and started laughing because it was a perfect costume idea.  Also, it was SO easy to put it together because we had a lot of the clothes we just needed to add a few pieces so it was cheep also, which made Greg and I happy :)  Anyways, here are some pictures :)

Now that I look at the pictures I remember that I had to spray my hair completely black and taking a shower was interesting.  Every time I would squeeze the water out of my hair the entire tub would turn black.  I had to wash my hair probably a good 3 or 4 times for it to come out and even then I still had black on my scalp the next day.  Also, it got all over everything if my hair would touch it, I laid down in my bed not thinking and my pillows were black when I got up to shower...oops!

How To Save A Life

I have been taking CPR and First Aid classes for I don't know how long and I had wondered if I would ever need to know this stuff.  The other day at Costco I just about needed it.

I was walking out after I had paid for my items and not happy about how much I had spent, as usual, and I hear people saying someone call 911.  Of course being interested in anything medical I tried to look and see what happend.  A man had collapse on the ground in the middle of the parking lot and was having a seizure.  I saw people were trying to do compressions and breathing on the man after his body gave out because of the seizure.  I ran over there knowing that compressions after a while can wear a person out and asked a Costco employee if the people needed help with compressions and that I know CPR and First Aid.  Luckily as I was asking them the rescue squad pulled up and they took over and I walked out of there way but continued to watch. For the next 10 to 15 min the EMT's were doing compressions, using the defibrillator, and giving oxygen to the man.

I will never know if this man lived or died but because of people having been trained in CPR and First Aid a life can be possibly saved.  I hope anyone who reads this will understand the importance of just knowing the basics on how to help someone in a emergency situation and will go out and receive training.  I know I will for the rest of my life renew my certification as often as necessary.

Change of Plans

So there has been a slight change of plans in my life.  I am going to be taking a year off before grad school.  This decision was made because of my stupidity and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  Let me explain... So I was planning on taking the GRE in december after Thanksgiving, giving me enough time to study and be ready for the test.  Me being the not so common sense smart person that I am didn't make the connection that I needed to take the test BEFORE I was suppose to apply to the schools (First due date for schools I was applying to is November 1st). SO..... having not studied for the GRE enough and now realizing that I would have to take it the first day available made me realize this is probably not the way I should be doing things.  After many phone calls to my mom... who probably was thinking "make a decision already!!"... we came to the conclusion that I should just work, study, and apply next fall to be admitted (hopefully) for fall of 2012.


This is all really hard for me to come to terms with because I just want to keep going with my life and progress all the time.  Also, as most people know I don't do well with change at all, my mom can attest to that.  Well I am really not as stupid as this mistake portrays so I hope no one thinks less of me! haha.

Well being my senior year at BYU I am finally realizing I have a small, small place in my heart for provo but I am so ready to get out of here! haha.  I am truly ready to start building up my own place and moving on with my life.  I am thinking about moving to North Carolina when I finish school and to try and gain residency there so I have a better chance of getting into UNC and having cheeper tuition :)  Also, I have always really like it down there so I think it would be a great experience.  Not that I don't want to live at home and have most of the food and all of the rent and utilities paid for... but I just think that I need to be on my own and establish myself somewhere.


Well I know I don't write on a blog a lot and I am trying to decide which one to use... too many options and indecisive amanda = not a good thing.  So I probably will use this one because I feel like I have more options that I like so I will keep everyone posted :)  Also, I will add posts from my other blogs to keep it all in one place.  So once I start to figure out how to use this I will update it more often :)