Rain or Shine kinda life!

A month or so ago one of my girlfriends, P, called with a brilliant idea...

HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH CONCERT!!

     So...last night was the big night...I had originally bought my dear husband a ticket however he has a final on Monday so he couldn't come... So concert attendees included myself, parents, my girlfriends J,P, and B and then P and B's mom and stepdad. The day had some scattered storms during the afternoon, but it seemed to have cleared up a bit by the time we were leaving for the concert...
Now...my mother recently broke her butt...literally her coccyx...so when we determined our seats were metal stadium bleachers...she wasn't to thrilled...but we got a round of drinks and chatted..the opening band came on and we continued to drink and enjoy ourselves in the sunshine...oh by the way..concert was at an outdoor venue..

       So then it was time..they began to set the stage for Hootie to come on...and then it started to drizzle...and the since we live in the south...it began to pour...lighting and thunder included.... And if you have never experienced a South Carolina thunderstorm...they come super quick..and aren miserable...

     Well..the venue put on a twenty minute delay..being that the tickets said rain or shine. (ie. They weren't giving out refunds). And they evacuated the metal bleachers...and basically had Everyone move down a section...so..we sat in poring rain..getting soaked and freezing for an hour..but hey at least we were gonna have good seats..(ps. Most sane people took cover..but no..we didn't!) Then..after all our waiting we got word...CONCERT CANCELED! SO we left...but..then..it wasn't canceled!! So we made our way back through hundreds of people...and somehow even managed to talk our way back to the awesome seats....I am still not sure how we pulled that off...

     The concert was amazing...it rained(but lightly and no thunder or lightning) for the first hour or so of the concert...but I didn't even notice...awesome songs...they even did some of Darius' new country stuff..and my girlfriends and I danced and sang the night away( though the lady in front of us might not have enjoyed it too much..)

And that's how we made the best of a night that we could have let the rain ruin...

     Here's to summer coming to a close, to good friends, good times, and good attitudes...

Please...if you ever have the chance to just dance in the rain..and truly not care...do it it's things like that, like concerts in thunderstorms, that will be remembered forever...

So..here's to making memories
<3 A

I'm BACK!

Hello!
So here's the update..

I am now a MRS. not a Ms. (and the wedding was FABULOUS!)
I have completed a month rotation at a Community health center.
I have adopted a stray kitten I found on the brink of death in my parents garage..her name is Copper.
I have had the BUSIEST summer of my entire life!
I start school back in two weeks..

Over the next few blogs I intend to expand on some of the happening of these past few months...but overall I have been VERY HAPPY...but I am glad to finally have time to come back to the blogging world!

Here's to starting again!!
<3 A

Summer approaches...planning begins!

Right now, as I start this blog, it is officially less than 3 days till my summer vacation begins....

Summer.

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SUMMER...such a wonderful word!! such a wonderful time!!

    This will be my last summer... One last Ho-Rah before adulthood officially starts and summer becomes just another season where I'm in school or work... that is until little ones come along (Far, Far in the future)..at which time it becomes a time where you pay someone/have family entertain your child why you are still working...and maybe a trip or two throughout the season...for the kids of course...

But for now...Summer is freedom! Summer is sun! Summer is friends! Summer is....ahhhh!!  

ME! (A few summers ago....)

     My fiance' is in school this summer though, getting his anatomy on....(he gets next summer off while I have the boards and start rounds)...so I am trying to determine my summer plans... the Wedding is of course summer plan number one... but post wedding (with no honeymoon in sight because of said summer school for the future dentist....) its going to be my little adventure...

   Disney with the girlfriends is on the list!! I love Disney, I love roller-coasters, I love everything about amusement parks.....well except the prices..but hey...its my LAST SUMMER.. Oh..and we are making a stop at Harry Potter World... We grew up with Harry Potter, showing my age here..but I was eight when I started reading Harry Potter...and as a twenty three year old...I still love it!! Driving with my girls, crashing in cheap hotels, eating food that's bad for you... What a dream! (The only bad thing is now...thanks to medical school, every time I eat anything bad for me I think about the path its taking and what reactions are going on in my body to turn this delicious morsel into more fat stored in those ever so lovely spots my body has chosen......)

But...back to the plan...

   The beach, regularly, is on the agenda as well....probably with my girlfriends!!! Going out dancing, reading books, drinking margaritas, sleeping in, trips to the dog park with Tungsten, o the things I will do!! 

  Visiting my family.... and his....playing with our niece...who is absolutely adorable. I feel like I have missed soo much with her this year because I have been stuck in the library my head in a book ... O the things I will do!!

   But alas, summer is not all for fun... I will spend the better part of the weekdays of July (after the fourth of course)..working in a rural health clinic..further my education and bettering my resume for residency....not to mention helping people.....

 But hey I still get most of May, all of June, some of July, and most of August FREE...so I am NOT complaining...

Here's to SUMMER,

to the salt in your hair, the sand on your feet,  the drink in your hand, and the sun on your skin.....

<3 A