Foot in Mouth...

I seem to have trouble finishing my sentences today which has led to some misunderstandings.

First, I went with my sister Emily to stuff wedding announcements tonight. We stopped by her future sister-in-law's house for her birthday party. The mother of house introduced herself to me and I was trying to say, "I'm Emily's sister, Kristen" but I got as far as "I'm Emily.." and she shrieked and thought that I was Emily and engaged to Richard. The real Emily was quite indignant at my attempt to impersonate her.

Then our home teachers were over tonight. They asked what was going on in my life. I was trying to say, "I'm working the night shift at the hospital and defending my honors thesis tomorrow." However before I could finish, one of them asked me a question. I stopped in the middle of my sentence to answer, so it ended "...and defending my honor."

EuroEnglish

I stumbled across this the other day and couldn't help sharing it. I first heard it when I was on my mission in Germany and it reminds me the beautiful language that German really is.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish": --In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil sevants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaning "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

I just love Germany!

Burning the Midnight Oil

I'm doing my capstone internship on a medical-oncology floor. I worked days at first but it conflicted too much with my school schedule so I switched to working nights (7 pm- 7 am). I really enjoy working this shift- I think I hit my peak around 3 am. Last shift, I started an IV around this time and it went in perfectly. Even if it is throwing off my circadian rhythm a little, it is a great experience!

Aubrey's Wedding and More Fun on I-15

Yesterday was the wedding of one of my very favorite people. Aubrey and I were mission companions and always had a lot of fun. One of our favorite things to do was to dress up and take silly pictures.

Well, yesterday she married Nate- what a lucky guy! You couldn't have asked for better weather and she looked so pretty in her winter cloak.

That night, I played the harp at her wedding reception. This was the first time taking the harp in my new Subaru and using my new harp dolly.

Everything went swimmingly until the car ride home. For those of you who don't know, I got Sheila about 6 weeks ago and she has spent 4 of those weeks in the shop. Yes, I think I bought a lemon...bummer. But I had just gotten the car back a week ago and everything seemed fine. Aubrey's reception was about an hour and a half from my house. The first hour of the drive was fine but then the check oil light suddenly started blinking and the engine started making a funny ratttling noise. I pulled over and the car died and wouldn't start again. So there I was, broken down on I-15, late at night in my party dress and heels, with a harp in the backseat.


Emily and Richard to the rescue! I called my little sister who was conveinently at her fiance's house just a few miles away. She came and collected me and Celeste, while a tow truck took Sheila back to the mechanic. Let's hope that this stay is much shorter than the last one!

My New Blog!

Well my sister Jenny helped me decide on this name. When we lived together, she would always say "Helloooooo nurse!" when she saw me.