End of an Era

Well there is just over a week left in the school year and it is such a bitter sweet feeling. On the one hand I will be a senior which means I am that much closer to being a full dentist! But on the other hand that means that Art is graduating and leaving me...not leaving me in emotional sense but the physical sense. I am so excited for him to be out there in the world being a real dentist don't get me wrong, but I am going to miss him more then words can express. So ends an era...

Great start...

I took Monday off to use up my last "personal" day which means you guest it...3 day weekend! And it's off to a great start if I do say so myself. Last night we had an ice cream date to dairy king, this morning got to sleep in a little (and by sleep in I mean 8am instead of 7), then cleaned up our room, spent an other 1.5 cleaning the bathroom and landing, then got to watch some tv and then went to the gym for an hour workout. I just love when I am productive. I must admit though most weekends for us are really lazy...just do the chores and watch tv. We try and do something outside of the house (other then go to the gym), but there really is just a lack of fun things to do here in Cleveland, all the more reason I can't wait to move!!

Busy

Life has been so crazy busy lately and posting has been the last thing on my mind.  2.5 weeks of clinic left till May break...and I can't wait. Relaxing, traveling (TBD), and just spending time not getting reprimanded by pts. for things that aren't my fault, or by faculty again by things out of my control. More and more I see that the old saying "those who can do and those who can't teach" at this school. Now I am not knocking teachers by any means b/c there are some AMAZING professors and teachers out there but some seriously? Just exhausted...pretty much sums it all up.
Oh and on a very happy note Art passed his WREB exam!!!!!!!!!!

Faux Ice Cream?

You better believe it...I was so skeptical that this would 1) actually work and 2)taste halfway decent. It is really surprising though how good it was. No it is not anything like really good fatty ice cream but it is very comparable to a good frozen yogurt, and lord knows I love my fro-yo.
Just place a frozen banana in a blender and let it rip. Ok so not exactly that easy...but just blend and scrap down the blender and repeat, and eventually you will get a frozen yogurt consistancy. And you can make some nice variations.
Add 1 tbls of unsweetened coco powder for a chocolaty version (and really the banana flavor almost all disappears shockingly)
Add a tsp of vanilla extract and get a slightly vanilla/banana flavor
Add some nuts, or chocolate chips or mm's or whatever other mix ins you would add to frozen yogurt.
I found this on my new favorite website food gawker. Next I want to try adding some berries for a berry flavored version.

Cooking Obsessed

Lately I have been obsessed with this website my younger cousin showed me a little while back called foodgawker.com. It is basically a website where people post pictures of things they make and it links to their blog to the photo. I have found some awesome recipe ideas on them and tried some and all have turned out really well. I have also just been experimenting on my own recipes and my latest success were my homemade potsticker/gyoza/dumpling things. We have had them for 3 meals already and Art loves as do I...we both could have eaten all of them the first day.
Recipe
1 pound ground turkey, fresh ginger (one hunk prob. about 2 tbls), 2 green onions chopped, couple handfuls of coleslaw mix, some salt and pepper. Mix all together and then fill wonton wrappers

But what makes these even more special? Art helped me wrap them all! Nothing better then doing something I love to do with the person I love, makes it that much more enjoyable.

Dental Prom

So I am a little behind in posting but what are you going to do? We had our dental school "prom" on Saturday night. I did my own hair and was actually pretty proud of my work, although it did take me an hour and about 30 bobby pins.

so it was a little messier then I had intended it to be, but hey not bad for doing it all on my own I would say.









I was unsuccessful yet again of really taking many pictures of the event, but it was really fun. The food was only so so, but there was an ice cream sundae bar which was good. There was good music and dancing which was also a blast. It was also fun to see the faculty outside of school. So different to see people in a non-school setting, dressed up and in a social atmosphere. Just nice to see that they are people too and like to let loose and have fun. And just the few pictures...

Your in America People

Ok, so I must start by saying that I am not by any means knocking diversity or anything to that sort...but I just get so irked sometimes about people who can't understand English here. I mean yes we are a free country and open to everyone and the mixing pot and opportunities...blah blah blah, but still. Why the rant? Well there are some people (students and faculty)  at our school that just can't either speak or read English well at all. Like I said I am all for diversity and equality, but I mean if you are going to be a health care provider especially at a place like our school (a very Midwestern culture and such) you need to be able to communicate and unfortunately the sad truth is that about 90% of our patients only understand English. Sometimes I seriously question our schools choice in students. Along those lines goes with the idea of have common sense people!! Some students I see in our school just don't seem to have any common sense...they may be the smartest people on paper and books, etc. but when it comes to common sense just nobody is home. Ok, that's finnally off my chest.
On a happier note tomorrow is our formal aka "Dental Prom". Should  be a great time...if only this weather would turn a little warmer for us.