This past Saturday I worked a reception at the Odyssey. This time the reception was in a larger and not downstairs like the last.

I love needles

Mom and I went and donated blood this past week.

Here is mom

My feet and moms feet
Blood exiting my body via the large bore needle
Another foot shot
Look at all that blood. The lady came over and said stop squeezing you are more than done.

Vegas the third and final trip of the summer

On August 22 my "oldest" friend Kim (oldest in the sense that we have been friends all of our lives. Our moms were pregnant together) and I made a twenty-four hour turn around trip to Vegas. The primary purpose of our trip was to see Poison perform but we had tons of fun with just about every aspect of our trip. We got to Vegas at around 1:30 or so and checked in from that point we walked over ten miles, saw three bands won eighty six dollars and slept about six hours. The concert was at the Pearl inside the Palms casino just across the street from our hotel.

We walked across the street about two hours before the show was scheduled to start

Sebastian Bach opened

Followed by Dokken

And finally Poison

After the concert we went back to the hotel where Kim proceeded to change. We couldn't decide if we wanted to go back out so we called Kim's boyfriend Brandon for a third opinion. Needless to stay we ended up back out and headed to the Strip.

Here is Kim in the Monte Carlo rotating door

The foot shot

The sort of depressing wall art adorning the hotel room walls

And a bug.
We wrapped up our trip by having breakfast with my grandma and her friend Harriet who live in Henderson but had stayed the night in a Hotel right of the strip in the opposite direction of us.

Chair Covers

My mom was ever so kind enough to make new chair covers for my roommates chairs. The chairs themselves are quite nice and extremely comfortable but the covers had definitely seen better days. My mom dismantled one of the original covers to use as a pattern and went from there. Mom's so nice she even let me help so I could claim partial ownership of the new covers.

The dismantled cover

The chair without a cover
Mom removing a stitch something
The beautiful finished project

Kaylin turns eight

I have been extremely blessed by the families I have had the privilege of babysitting for. It is hard to believe that I have not watched Kaylin and her younger brother Thomas for over two years because at one point I spent more time with them than I did my own friends. I feel like I am part of their family and always will be.

How unfortunate

My mom and I went to return some movies and rent new ones at the video store last night and on our way out we were slightly amused by this. We are not sure how the girl driving the car ended up in this predicament or how she planned on getting out of it. After her and another gentlemen looked at it for a few minutes they proceeded to walk away just leaving it the way it was.

Last week Jenny and I went to the student health services office at CSUB to have our final TB testing for the nursing program. Kameron came along for the fun. I love getting to hang out with Kameron and am always amused by him. We got out of the car and he decided to wear his backpack. Well before we were half way to the building he was over it.

Jenny had no qualms about taking it from him and almost forgot it was there when she went in for her shot.
Good news, Jenny and I don't have TB and we also got to have blood drawn for the Varicella titer. We are hoping for positive results because we both have had chicken pox.