My birthday present to you...

Christmas just got "Gleeky"!



Until next time...

You're In!!

I've been buried in "red files" (application files) for the past week and I'm super excited for students to start getting their acceptance packets!

Now back to reading more files!


Until next time...

My first "I'm a grown up" moment...

A lot has happened within the last year. This time last year I was studying for my final finals, I graduated college on December 18th and I moved home. Then I was unemployed for two months, landed a SWEET job with an awesome company called Experts Exchange and worked for there eight months. I grew in a relationship and watched that relationship end. I quit my sweet job and moved to San Diego for my dream job. I spent a week in San Diego unpacking my life to just live out of a suitcase traveling for three straight weeks for work. I came back to the house that was supposed to be awesome and it turned out to be anything but. I put a deposit on the apartment I've wanted in live in for years and I will be moving (again) soon. I learned my love of cooking and buy cooking magazines in grocery store lines rather than Cosmo. My days at work now consist of reading applications and talking with some awesome high school students who are as stoked as I am about Point Loma Nazarene University rather than mulling over A/B test results of a new page on the website.

All in all, my life has changed a lot in the past year and I have done a lot of growing up. This is the first time I've lived on my own, not in campus housing and hundreds of miles from my parents. The reality of rent, bills, responsibilities and everything else that comes with "growing up" has slowly been becoming reality to me.

That was until last night after work... I had my first "whoa, I'm a big girl now" moment.

I was walking out of my office at Point Loma and I could see through the palm trees, downtown San Diego all lit up and utterly beautiful. I stood at my car for a minute or two in the freezing wind, but didn't care. I wanted to look at the lights. I don't know what it was about the moment, but it was definitely an impacting one.

I'm looking forward to continuing my "growing up" stage and seeing where my life goes from here. I turn 23 on Saturday and I'm actually kind of nervous. I'm getting further and further from my teenage years and feel this sense of ever growing sense of "you have to be responsible now kid" mounting. I know I can do it and I have nothing to worry about, but it's still stressful to think about sometimes. I will never lose the kid inside me, but there comes a time when you just have to grow up.

Until next time...

My recent ER adventure...

As some of you may have seen unfold on my Facebook yesterday, I spent a good portion of my day in a Coronado ER being poked and prodded like a medical rat.

Why? What happened?

Well... turns out I had an ovarian cyst that ruptured yesterday morning.

Whoa, WHAT!?

Well... about a week ago I started having this dull pain that wouldn't go away. If you know me, it doesn't surprise you that I was like "oh I'll go to the doctor next week if it doesn't get better..." Well it didn't get better. It got much worse.

Yesterday at work in the staff meeting I was noticing that not even moving made my side hurt really bad and then a little later all of a sudden I was bent over in pain, hands on knees pain. I, again, ignored it and went to lunch with a friend of mine and since my mind was busy in conversation, the pain was put to the back of my mind, still present, but not the only thing I was thinking about. However, when I got back to my office my mouth started to water and I was getting dizzy...

Off to the walk in clinic I went.

After some tests done there, they said "GET TO THE ER NOW!" awesome....

Off to the Coronado ER (shorter lines) I went...

While I was there, I was rushed to the back to a bed because lower right abdominal pain usually means something with your appendix. After the initial exam my gallbladder came into question or my kidneys. So I had an IV put in, blood taken for labs and told to sit tight.

After the ultrasound, they concluded it wasn't my gallbladder, but weren't sure if it could be my appendix or not yet.

Off to the CT scan I went...

After the CT scan they ruled out my appendix and confirmed it was an ovarian cyst that most likely ruptured that morning. That would explain the surge in pain in the morning and the random fluid floating around my tummy.

Now what?

Bed rest for two days with pain meds and anti-inflammatories and lots of liquids. Doc warned that today would be worse than yesterday in terms of pain and so far he's right. I woke up in the middle of the night with pain which was SO unfortunate. This morning I'm doing better, just waiting for the pain medication to kick in... I declined vicodin because it makes me sick so they gave me a less strong, but WAY less side effects pain medication. I'm glad for the less side effects, but not a fan of the less strength.

All in all, I'm glad it is only a cyst and not something worse and I'm doing much better!

I'll keep you all posted.

Until next time...