Non-schoolish things

Well a bunch of utter chaos has occured since I left school last Friday. Saturday was the lovely Kate's Bachelorette party which was a ton of fun, then Sunday was the Dent family Christmas party at Mike's parents' home in East Lansing. Monday was full of doctors appointments and running errands all day, and was concluded with a fantastic 21st birthday bash for Shruti! :D She had her first REAL pina colada, and I was so happy to be there with her to make sure the experience was great without getting out of hand. And she gave me a wicked pair of earrings for Christmas which I adore. :D

Yesterday I finished Christmas shopping, cleaned, and wrapped all the presents. Today there are more doctors appointments, then we have to scoot on over to East Lansing to pick up Mike's suit for the wedding. Then tomorrow morning is the wedding rehearsal, followed by the rehearsal dinner in the evening, and Friday is the wedding pretty much all day. Saturday is the Gibbard family Christmas in Grand Rapids, and I'm going back to the Mountain Saturday night to spend Christmas with my own family. *whew* So really, my week in Kalamazoo with Mike was really my week to get a bunch of crap done that keeps me just as busy as my schoolwork did. :( And even though I would really love it if this break would crawl by so I don't have to go back to school, I can't wait for the craziness to be over so I can just relax and enjoy the holidays with my family and with Mike. The older I get the most responsibilities I seem to have this time of year, and the less time I get to spend doing what I love with the people I love. It makes me sad, but I suppose we all have to grow up sometime.

Grades came back, and I did a lot better than I expected to considering my level of stressing out throughout this entire semester:

• Clinical Anatomy & Physiology: A
• Profession of Pharmacy: A-
• Medical Biochemistry: B
• Pharmaceutics: C+
• Integrated Lab: C

I passed everything by quite a wide margin and my GPA was exceptionally better than I had anticipated. Overall, I'm pleased with how well my first semester went, and I truly believe that I can do much better next semester as well. And now that I have half a year under my belt, I won't have quite so many ulcers worrying over whether I'll be able to continue in the program. I can hardly believe that only a year ago I was applying to Ferris for the first time, and now here I am, well on my way. :) I learned quite a bit about myself in the process, but that's a blog entry for another day.

*whew* I think that's everything. I need to eat a cinnamon roll now.