Halloween

For Halloween this year we got together with some friends and went on a ghost tour of downtown Memphis. We thought it sounded like a fun and scary night. However, that was not the case. I'm pretty sure that our tour guide thought he was a comedian and forgot that we were there to be scared. Oh well, we had fun with friends! Anyway, before the the tour we went out to eat at a place called Big Foot Lodge. It's kind of like Big Judds except a lot more sanitary! :) They have a four pound burger that they call the Sasquatch. They have this deal where if one person could eat it in under an hour then your meal is on them. They take your picture after you eat it like at Big Judds except only three people had their picture on the wall! One kid ate it in under 10 minutes! Can you believe that?! Just for you information that means he ate a total of 12,387 calories in less than 10 minutes. Just thinking about that makes me want to throw up. Yuck. We were going to get one and share it with all eight of us but it takes 40 minutes to make and we didn't have that much time!

A not so great picture of all of us at the restaurant...I forgot the flash was off!

Jesse and Marissa, so festive in orange and black!

Becky and Buddy (Becky is the new girl I work with)

So this is random but the hand dryers in the bathroom at Big Foot are super powerful. Look at Becky's skin!
Zach and I with Sasquatch himself

The Butcher Shop is haunted according to our tour guide. I took a picture because he said that some people who took pictures of it could see weird lights in the windows above the shop. I guess we weren't lucky enough.

This sign was posted on the way out of the parking garage. I thought it was pretty funny. Oh and by the way, the machine DOES take $20 bills, you just get all your change in quarters. Just ask Becky and Buddy!

Last but not least, Zach and I carved a pumpkin for the second time ever together! Okay, so I lied, I decided what we should carve it as and Zach did the carving! Here's what it looked like when it was finished........

Yes it is a white pumpkin so we had to carve it like Jack the Pumpkin King! Zach is so talented!!

For Becky...

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

• Moved to Idaho the beginning of the summer
• Talking on walkie talkies at night with Tiff and Brian, we thought we were so cool!
  
• I had probably just enjoyed my first Spud Harvest vacation
• Being bribed by my mom to stay at school for a full week...ha ha!
• Spent most of my time at Tiffany's house doing who knows what
  

5 things on my to-do list today: (this is really tomorrow's to-do list, today's was non-existent)

• Clean the Ivies
• Exercise
• Carve a pumpkin with Zach
• Clean our apartment
• Plan my Sunday School lesson

5 snacks I enjoy:

• 100 calorie packs--I am right there with you Beck!
• Chocolate, the darker the better
  
• Chips
• Rice Cakes...Amy's fault
• Grapes, bananas, clementines, I love fresh fruit
  

5 things I would do if I were a $Millionaire$:

• Pay off Zach's schooling, I don't know how much left there would be...ha ha
• Travel all over Europe and South America
  
• Buy our summer home in Italy :)
• Pay tithing and help others
  
• Start Zach's practice
  

5 places I've lived:

• Georgia
• Kansas
• Alaska
• Wyoming
• Tennessee

5 people I tag:

• Megan
• Anya
• Brittany Chase
• Jennifer Garner
• Aunt Lisa
  

My job...

This post is LONG overdue but I wanted to show our families how much my office changed this past summer. Here is a before picture of our office...
Here is what our office has looked like since August! It's still amazing to me how much better it looks now! It doesn't look like the ghetto anymore! YAY!
The doctors decided it was time to get a better sign with all the other changes.
Anyway, this is where I spend a little more than 9 hours of my day Monday through Friday. I never really blog about work even though some pretty funny stuff happens almost everyday. This is where I hear some of the most interesting things. Really, like when a patient asks me if they need more medicine "dropped" into their glasses because it has worn off. I didn't know what to say the first time someone asked me that. I literally had to hold back the laughter. Almost everyday when we call to remind patients of their appt. they have with us the next day I hear a scripture on somebody's voicemail. My personal favorite was, "If you leave it, I'll receive it, better believe it!" I thought about changing my voicemail to say that. :)

About a month ago I answered the phone and the person on the other line asked to talk to Dr. Powelson so I asked him who it was and he said, "Oh this is Mike Meyers. WAYNE'S WORLD! WAYNE'S WORLD! PARTY ON!" I busted up laughing and he hung up. Some of our patients really say whatever is on their mind also. This last week I was told by a patient that my dimple on my chin is sexy. Zach was jealous until I told him that it was a 50 year old woman who said it. ha ha! I never knew my "butt" chin, as all my friends in high school called it, was "sexy." I didn't know what to say back to her except "thank you, will this be debit or credit?"

I never imagined myself working in a doctor's office, not really my thing. Some days are boring of course, like when all the patients decide not to show up but for the most part we stay fairly busy. I like learning about what Zach is learning at school also. It's fun to be able to talk to him about optometry and actually understand a little bit. Basically I'm just glad that I am able to work right now and have a good job! Oh, and thanks Katie for letting me steal the pics of the office off your blog!

Tagged

So Kirsten tagged me to list 6 random facts about myself. Since I figured out 6 quirks I have pretty fast, I decided to do it. So here goes...

1. I eat the shells of sunflower seeds. I never thought this was weird actually until Zach pointed it out. I just really hate trying to get the seed out and then spit the shell out. Too much effort. Plus, the shell has all the salt!

2. I absolutely cannot stand to have a messy kitchen. Even while I am cooking I will wash dishes. I refuse to let dishes pile up in the sink, and never leave them there over night. Occasionally, Zach will leave a dish in the sink and well my wrath is unleashed. Okay, it's not that bad but it drives me crazy. To go along with this also, I really like washing dishes but absolutely hate drying them. Works out well for Zach huh? Oh, and I really don't care if other peoples kitchens are messy, just mine needs to be clean.

3. This one has to do with cleaning also. I refuse to put my clean laundry in a basket to carry it from the dryer to my bedroom. Why? I know that if I use the basket I won't put the laundry away and it will just sit in the basket for days. So, I just grab all the laundry and carry it to our room, put it on our bed and put it away right then. I know that when we have a house and I have more than 10 steps from my dryer to my bedroom this will probably change, but until then, no basket for me! If you can't tell from #2 and #3 I like things to be done in a certain way.

4. I had braces TWICE in high school. The first time was during my sophomore year for about 9 months I think. When my orthodontist took my braces off the first time he didn't put the permanent retainers on before taking off the braces. In the 10 minutes between not having braces and not having a retainer my teeth shifted. So, I had braces put back on a few months later, but this time it was after I could date...yuck. Luckily, the second time only lasted a few months and he put the permanent retainer on before taking the braces off.

5. I match my perfume to what color my shirt is everyday. Example, if I am wearing a blue shirt I wear cool water perfume because the bottle is blue. If I wear a pink shirt then I wear Pink perfume. Of course I don't have perfume to match every color so if I wear a shirt that I can't match perfectly I choose what ever perfume would match the outfit. I know this is super weird. I have a weird obsession with color coding that doesn't stop at this...

6. I had a hard time thinking of a 6th thing, so I asked Zach and he came up with one right away. My all time favorite sandwich that I make for myself consists of peanut butter, lettuce, and mustard. I've eaten this since I was a kid and still have it about twice a week for lunch. Don't knock it until you've tried it!

I tag...Amy, Becky, Megan, Hailey, Tiff, and Kiera and anyone else who feels like letting everyone know all about your quirks!