Yo-ga! Yo-ga!

Okay, that title is me making a lame pun on Animal House... Bad. Tonight I went to a yoga class at a place in Coralville - Bikram Yoga, where you do yoga in a room that's somewhere around 90 degrees! It was pretty intense, but I really enjoyed it. It's so crazy how you can use your own body as resistance and struggle so hard just to hold a pose. I mean, standing on one foot doesn't seem hard, but hold it for awhile with your arms just so and wow! Combine that with sweating like a fire hydrant, and I'm pooped! :) (Anyone who is a genetic Trunnell already has an excessive amount of sweat glands, so just imagine doing hothouse yoga... Atleast when you are in such a hot room, it seems like everyone is a sweat machine - it kind of levels the playing field for those of us who natural sweaters!) I would love to go back - I think I could definitely use the flexibility!
I had my pharm. test today - it went fairly well. Not as great as I would like to do, but I think that most people felt that way.
Have you seen the show Ten Years Younger on TLC? I swear they change the host every other day... But there is an episode on right now and the woman is getting her teeth fixed. It's so fascinating for me to watch this show when they have a "cosmetic dentist" doing different things to people. Many times they extensively bleach teeth in one sitting - I can't imagine the sensitivity that those patients will have when they go home! They also never say things like, "And by the way, your teeth are ridiculously white now, but in a week or two they will pick up some stain and won't be near as white." However, tonight the dentist said that the patient's teeth were "quite yellow and the bleaching will take care of that." Teeth ARE yellow. It's inherent to teeth! Now I'm not saying like Cheddar Cheese yellow or anything, but natural teeth have yellowish dentin with translucent enamel over top. They are going to have a yellow hue... I guess I'm anti-bleaching. Our society is so into chemicals and putting them into our bodies to make us look younger or sexier - Botox, hydrogen peroxide for bleaching, silicone for breast implants... How about this? Embrace your smile lines, brush your teeth, be happy with the body God has given you. I'll get off my soapbox now. :)
Happy weekend to everyone!

Hmph.

One of Aaron's and my favorite designers on this season of Project Runway just got kicked off the show - sad! Next week is the finale, so he was so close to Fashion Week! The other guy that made it to next week I don't think is as creative as the one they sent home. Oh well.
I have a pharmacology test on Friday - not going to lie, this class is intense! This class has five hours of lecture a week, so there is a lot of content on every exam. This exam is over analgesics, antimicrobials (antibiotics), and anti-cancer drugs. You may wonder why a dental student has to learn about chemo drugs since we will never prescribe them - apparently the reason is so that we are familiar with them when we have a patient who is going through chemo. Fair enough... :)
Well, I need to get to bed. I have clinic tomorrow morning and I get to see a patient I saw a couple weeks ago. Last appointment I replaced his old filling on one of his front teeth - it was a pretty sizeable one, so it was a bit of a challenge! Tomorrow's appointment will be fairly challenging as well I'm sure, as we are replacing the other front tooth's filling. The twist on tomorrow's procedure is that the tooth is also part of a bridge... Fun. :) I love clinic days. :) Tuesdays I'm in clinic but I'm assisting one of my peers - that is probably one of the most painful days for me because I WANT TO DO IT! :) You know on Grey's Anatomy when Christina always wants to scrub in on the "good" surgeries - I kind of relate. Watching is interesting, but doing is so much more exciting.
Hope you are all having a great week!

Weird Weather Part... 3,190,852?

So we've had lots of weird weather lately. Today lived up to another day of weird Iowa weather. It rained late morning into the early evening, then it turned into the heaviest snow you've ever seen! It seemed like the snow was falling as fast as the rain had been falling! I was really hoping it would just stick with rain and melt all of the old snow away... but no.
Anyway, it's just about midterms time... then it's on to Spring Break! Less than three weeks away! Aaron and I went tanning tonight sort of in preparation for Spring Break but also because this Iowa weather is depressing!
Well, not much else is new - we're a little boring during the school year!
Hope all is well with everyone!

Weird weather Part II

Another day of Iowa weather! This morning I woke up and looked out the window - about 8 - 10 inches of snow in my yard! Yikes! I thought they should have canceled classes, but they didn't so I got ready for school anyways. Aaron dropped me off at school at 8, and it turns out the lecturer couldn't get out of their driveway so I didn't have my first class! That was frustrating to get all the way to school and find out that I didn't need to be there until 9! Then, we had a lab scheduled from 9 - 12... the president of the university didn't decide to cancel classes until 9:30 so we ended up finishing up our lab project instead of going home right away. Still, it was nice to have the afternoon off, but it was rather annoying that they didn't cancel until 9:30. It didn't do us much good because most of us made it in by 8!
Anyway, it's been a good afternoon - we've gotten some good cleaning done. I cleaned the kitchen top to bottom today which makes me feel good. :) Aaron and I also worked on sorting out clothes and organizing our bedroom a little. It gets neglected when I clean normally because it's not really a place I expect other people to see! :)
Oh, I finally took down my Christmas decorations today! lol We don't have a tree, so it's not a whole lot of decorations - I just haven't gotten around to it until today! I figure it's about time... almost Valentine's Day!
Hope you are all having a great week!

Weird weather

We have had some of the weirdest weather this winter. Yesterday we got about 8 inches of snow in a pretty short amount of time. Today, we get rain! Aaron and I rode the bus to school this morning and we sat near the front - we could hear the radio traffic back and forth between the bus drivers and apparently a few buses got stuck today! Iowa City schools were canceled - Aaron and I were both wishing for a moment we were back in high school so we didn't have to go in to school today! :) I think we are supposed to get more sleety-snowy-mushy mix today, and if we are lucky it will freeze solid tonight. Exciting. We discovered last night that the person who plows the parking lot for the apartment building across the street likes to push the snow right out of their driveway and into ours... I was just thinking it was the city plows when they did the street, but Aaron actually saw the guy do it last night. I wonder if the guy is just on autopilot and doesn't realize what he's doing???
Anyway, hurray for the Giants, and good job to E-trade and Budweiser for having the funniest commercials. The stock-trading baby was hilarious. :)
Hope you are all staying safe and warm!