MANTI PAGEANT WEEKEND

This past weekend was great, my sexy wife and I went with Patsy Anne Johnson aka My mother to Manti Saturday to go to the Manti Temple and attend the pageant. I have been to other pageants and other temples but neither of them in Manti. We started off with some good food from Magelby's Fresh in Spanish Fork which was delic and Dave Atkinson would have been jealous of the chocolate cake we enjoyed.


Then off to Manti. The temple as you can see by the pictures was incredible. "It looks like a castle", was my wife's first words when she saw it and I would have to agree with her. Very beautiful inside and out. For dinner we went to some small little diner in Ephraim which was again delic. The pageant tells the story of Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel through a couples life. As always you have the ignorant anti-mormons that spend their time in life harassing others. Why? why? and why? are the three words that come to my head. What a boring and unsuccessful life they live. It was a fun weekend visiting an amazing temple and a great visit with my mother and wife.

Complementary Alternative Medicine

Today I had the coolest nursing class ever. One of the classes we are required to take is Community Health Nursing which consists of a lot of different things and today we talked about auras and energy fields and chakras. Pretty weird sounding, huh? I was skeptical at first but when we got to check each other's chakras and fix them, it was sooo neat!

I bet you're wondering what the heck a chakra is. It's basically a center of spiritual energy located in a specific area on your body. Everybody has seven of them. Take a look at the picture to see where they are located. Here are the representations: crown=relationship with the Divine, forehead=wisdom, neck=communication, heart=love, navel=I can't remember..., groin=sexuality and reproduction, and we didn't talk about the base but I'm sure it's somewhere on the internet.

Here's how you check each chakra. Get a piece of thread about 8 inches long and thread a paper clip on it. Tie the ends together. This is your pendulum. Make sure the pendulum is 3-4 inches long because this won't work if it is too short or too long. Once you've got your pendulum, hold it 1/2 inch to 1 inch above the center of your palm or someone else's palm. You have to make sure that you're "grounded" which means you need to have both your feet flat on the floor, take a deep breath, and make sure you are in the "present." After doing that, the paper clip should begin to rotate in a clockwise circle. If you have it in the wrong spot it won't move. Weird, huh? Well once you've seen that, then you can try the different locations indicated on the picture above.

Your chakras are in check if the paper clip moves in a clockwise motion. If the paper clip just moves back in forth or moves in a counterclockwise position, then you've got to fix your chakras. Also, if the paperclip doesn't move, then you have it in the wrong spot. All of these spots are right in the center of your body. If you move to the side, the paper clip will stop moving. So weird, I know!

Ok, so here's how you fix them...I think. Our teacher just put her hand in front of the out-of-check chakra and twirled her finger in a clockwise manner. Then she had the student breath orange aromatherapy oil deeply 3 times. When she checked the chakra after "fixing" it, it was totally normal! Seriously so freaking cool and weird.

We learned a few other crazy things but I'm not going to write about all of them. If you're interested, I'll just tell you in person. Give this a try. It's super easy and so weird.

Research this Summer

Well some of you know a little of my schedule this summer. I was able to get a job at a local PT clinic as an aid and gain some hours for my future PA school application plus a little bit of money. They just don't pay as much money as my wife and I need but what job really does. I work about 25 hours a week there. On Tuesday and Thursday I have been able to be part of Dr. James Porter's research team for 8 hours a week. It has been really fun and interesting. Let me give you the down low on what we are doing and his goal in his research. The first day of research we killed 10 rats and removed their hearts, kidneys, adrenal glands, pituitary glands for more research later. He has found that rats whose mom's were given high salt diets had much higher increases in blood pressure under stressful situations than rats whose mom's were given normal salt diets. Right now we are discovering and proving why this is occurring. On Thursday two rats died. We were doing surgery on them to implant a blood pressure monitor into their belly and for some reason there were some complications and they died. Anyway it is very interesting but would not want to do it my whole life and that is why I will be a PA and not a researcher.

Shootin' Up!

This past week we learned how to give shots! It's actually way fun. We have injected each other with saline in the deltoid, the abdomen, the fatty part of the back of the arm, the forearm, and the booty! We had pass-offs today so on Tuesday I went to open lab to practice and you only get 30 minutes which isn't nearly enough time. But luckily I was able to convince my wonderful husband to come with me so I could inject him four times! He was quite the trooper. Unfortunately, I forgot our camera every time I was in lab and didn't get any pictures. But these here are from other girls in my section. Hopefully it gives you a sense of what class is like.

These are all the girls in my lab. There's seven of us including myself and we have two instructors. Notice the tannish brown thing towards the front of the bed. Yup, that's a fake toosh.

What is the World Coming To?

So my wife and I purchased the Nike Runner program. It is probably one of the coolest gadgets in the world. It tracks how far, your pace, and sets up personal training programs for you. It seriously has changed my outlook on running and I love running now and it has kind of become addicted which I never ever thought possible. Thats not the reason I am writing this blog. As many of you know I live in South Provo while my wife and I go to BYU. On Saturday I started out for a 6 mile jog, I was warming up and arrived at the corner of University Ave and our street. A SUV drove by and a kid yelled at the top of his lungs, "F*&$ You". Now I was thinking, what did I do that would have drove this young man to such anger and profanity. As I thought for a few minutes, there was absolutely nothing I did to piss him off. What is the world coming to when you go for a short morning run and get the F word screamed at you.