It's Not That Bad

This week was a great week for me in "blogland." Thanks to Kelly over at messydirtyhair and her mini messy project. My blog got a ton of exposure and my first comments ever! When I first started this it really was mainly for my parents to read (which I don't think they ever really did), but as I invested more in it I really wanted to start connecting with others. Now I feel I have started to break through and do that and I can't be more excited. This got me started thinking to, that I wanted to start putting together a weekly link up to hopefully connect the few readers I have together. I am not tech savvy so any advice on how to do this please feel free to shoot me a comment. So here was my thinking...
Have you ever noticed that people tend to stress about things that are coming up (a big test, presentation, meeting, etc.) and then after they realize it was no big deal? Sound familiar? I am a huge offender of this. So what I was thinking would be fun is to write on Sundays what is stressing me out about the week to come and then the following week follow up with how everything went as well as write my stresses for the next week. My hopes is that we (myself mostly) will realize that maybe we do stress too much over the little things. Now I know I won't ever stop stressing out about big events but I am hoping that maybe I can learn the little things that I stress over that really don't need to be. Who's in?
This weeks Stresser:
OS (oral surgery) rotation, I head back to OS for a 3 week rotation. For those of you non-dental readers that means a week of pulling teeth and starting IV's. Now the work is not was stresses me out it is the environment. The surgeons tend to be a little more for a lack of a better word uptight sometimes, but don't get me wrong their job is very stressful. They have a higher risk profession by nature so I understand, but for me I just hate working in that type of environment.
That is pretty much my huge stress out this week.
Last week:
Even though I didn't write last week I will quickly summarize what I was stressed about and how it turned out.
Presentations...I had to give 2 lectures to my residency mates this week, one was about 5 min and one was 30 min. I hate public speaking, always have. I have learned to deal with 5 min. presentations from this residency, as we do them all the time, but 30 min? Well it went great! I didn't think I did that well when I was up there, but the feed back from my directors was that I did really well. They thought I was knowledgeable, prepared, and well thought out. Case in point, I spent so much time worrying about this and for what? Nothing.
Thanks for those of you who made it through this entire lengthy post!

Good Advice

Yesterday some coworkers and I had a "mentoring" meeting with our commander...no we were not in trouble, this is just one of those military things we do. During this meeting he said somethings that I think are so often forgotten. First he told us to never confront people when we are angry because "You will give the best speech of your life that you will later regret." How true this is, how often have you been just livid with something that has happened and you just go off and either confront the situation or vent to someone then later look back and think wow I totally over reacted or said something totally out of line. I know I have done it.  Another really good piece of advice I think people forget is don't be so quick to make judgements/assumptions. Again I know I am guilty of this. Recent example is I found a high school friend of my has been battling lupus for sometime now, and I never knew. My friends and I were quick to judge her as "faking" being sick to get out doing hard swim practices with us. Little did we know that she had some underlying condition weather she knew it at the time or not I don't know, but that is irrelevant. I feel just terrible and wish I could go back and stand up for her and stop the mean things we said. I can't say I won't fall victim to the judgement trap because I am only human, but I will try my hardest to step back and try to remind myself that I don't always know the whole story.
What advice do you have?

Lets Get Messy!

Sooo what is the MINI project you ask?! well if you haven't guessed it yet its allllllll about the mini parts of fashion - the ACCESSORIES...which can also play a huge role in our everyday outfits. Just like clothes, accessories are also worn differently by each person depending on their style, shape, look etc.  So the MINI project will focus only on accessories....but I don't mean just jewelry - tights, hats, sunglasses, headbands, bows, scarfs, shoes, belts, gloves are alllll accessories as well.  Like before   
The Deal 1 Accessory 4 Girls 4 Different Styles 1 Major Blog Day

So a quick background for those of you that are new to my blog (which is 99.9% of you). I am a Dentist and work for the USAF. I love my job and helping our service members. I am married to another military dentist. I grew up in California and hope one day to make my way back there. Oh and I am obsessed with my orange cat Sniper. Now as for my fashion sense...well I don't really have one. I have to admit that I was very nervous signing up for this because I really don't know a thing about fashion or how to dress. I mean my daily outfit is usually my camis, hair pulled into a low bun, and minimal makeup...and accessories? Well forget those because I am not allowed much in that department. This is what I look like most days

(me on the right and my roommate  on the left, during Officer Training)

Kelly did an amazing job picking out something super cute and super fun. She sent us some pink tights from forever 21. These tights went from ballerina pink at the toes to hot pink near the waist. So here is what I did...

My thought was a simple outfit for a night out. Something fun yet easy for even the most fashionably challenged to achieve. Basic black boots, jean skirt, plain t-shirt, and fun pink head band. Just enough color but not overwhelming. I opted to show just the hot pink portion of the tights for a real bright statement. Thanks for visiting and don't forget to...

Check out how the other Girls wore them!

Kelly

Amanda

Reveal Eve

Well tomorrow is the big day, it is the reveal of the Mini Messy Project. What is that you may ask? Well it is a blog link up my friend puts together once a month. You can find the details at her blog MessyDirtyHair. Stay tuned it will be an exciting day.

Just Keep Swimming

For those of you that don't know I basically spent 90% of my childhood summers at the swimming pool. Between practices, life guarding and coaching the pool and swimming was my life. Then when I left for college I feel out of touch with the sport. I just never got into swimming without a team behind me. It just wasn't the same swimming alone. Which if you think about it is really weird considering you don't really ever "swim with anyone." So there was a good 9 year period were I didn't really swim. Sure I hit the pool for an hour work out here and there, but nothing consistent. This past week I finally decided I really wanted to try and start again. I found out that Biloxi has a Masters swim team right off base here. So I just took the plunge, literally and figuratively I guess and signed up. I had my first 2 practices this past week. I was really scared and almost wanted to chicken out the first day because I had no idea what it would be like getting back into the pool, would I embarrass myself terribly? But in the end I am ecstatic that I did it. I forgot how much I loved being in the pool. It just has this solitude to it for me. No matter how many other people are around I just get lost in it all and block everything else out. It just makes me realize that in life sometimes you can't be afraid to put yourself out there for something you are passionate about.