Winter Wonderland

I haven't been able to post with pictures for a while because of the above pictures. The snow in Diamond Valley has been out of control! There has been so much fall that it covered the satellite dish and the internet signal box, so basically we were cut off from everything (with the exception of phones) till now. I mean all together there has been over 25 inches fall within these couple of storms. Its funny cause its been all fun and games in St. George but just up the hill its been "ice hell". I think snow is way fun and its beautiful but when it comes to driving it is horrible, good thing my mom has the FJ Cruiser or some nights we wouldn't have made it home.

Christmas was really fun this year, we got a TV!!! We are really lucky to get it too, 3:00 am at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving was totally worth it!!! Its awesome and makes Call of Duty: World at War look amazing. Plus we got great deals on Blue-Ray discs and they look pretty cool too. Don't think I'll be able to watch regular movies now, it looks way to good to go back. We got some other small stuff too but mostly it was all about the TV :)

It was hard day though, lots of places to go and lots of people to see. I think next year we're going to have to come up with a new plan cause driving around all day is not my idea of a perfect Christmas. Not that I don't like seeing everyone but its more fun to just hang out and relax.

Complainer

BREASTS.

I HATE breasts!!

I know, that sounds disturbing, disgusting, and just really weird but its true. I am a registered Mammographer and I hate breasts. I got my registry just recently and I was very happy about it; I get more money, become a more valuable employee and expand my modalities. Sweet right?? Well I was generally happy about my position within the breast/mammography/titty world, only performing mammos on Fridays and just doing general x-ray and cross training into CT on the other days I worked. Life was good.

But as it would seem, I couldn't be happy and content forever. I now have to deal with breasts and old women four days a week and I have to be happy about it. I work Tuesday through Friday as the full time mammo tech and will be doing said job till about the middle of January. I cannot completely complain about my situation; I do get more hours taking on this position and that is really great considering the "economic crisis". I would however fully enjoy this opportunity at hand if I were in fact working in x-ray or CT but no... boobs.

And you maybe wondering, 'Jessica, why did you register in mammo in the first place??' and the answer is simple. Gotta start somewhere... Mammo was open and I took the opportunity at hand. Don't get me wrong; I am SO thankful for my job, so grateful that I am still working, so blessed in the fact that I am full time, and so appreciative for all my opportunities. I would do this everyday if it meant I didn't have to go back to one of those crappy jobs that I use to work at.

But none the less, I have to deal with old breasts that feel like pancake batter in a plastic sandwich bag....

yeah, hope you liked that one :)

But even more thankfully, this will all eventually end and I will go back to the exciting world of trauma and blood. But for now I thought I'd share with you my horror and disgust.

Umm... Twilight???

So I have been bombarded by my mother, sister and sister-in-law to read the Twilight series for at least the last 4 or 5 months. I put it off because I really needed to study for my Mammography registry so I could pass the stupid thing. Well, after I passed I was told that I had to read them because the movie was coming out and pretty much my whole DeMille side (mom's side) of the family were going to go together and that I shouldn't be left out. So I read them... and honestly it was a cute story. Really simple and very cute but I can honestly say that I am not as taken with them as some seem to be. I enjoy a fresh new story and new characters but I don't know if I didn't take enough time to read them or put myself totally into the book (I read them in the car on the way to Denver, very distracted) as much as I usually do but I just thought that they were okay.

So then it was time for the movie to come out and us girls to take the trip to Vegas for the premiere. It was everyone!! All my cousins, there kids, my aunt, everyone. We had so much fun!!! We went to dinner and then arrived at the theater (the BEST theater EVER by the way...) at 9:00 pm, three hours early to wait :) Crazy girls!!

And I LOVED it!! I thought it was so great and so crappy at the same time. I loved that it was SO low budget and I loved all the stupid cheesy lines, I just loved it. On a serious note I do think that the actors were chosen very well, each one is actually perfect. Edward was perfect, Bella was perfect, love it! I'm excited to see how they do New Moon especially with a bigger budget. I think I even like the movie better than the books just because I love cinematic adventures and this one was tops :)

I do have to say though that what most people need to understand about movie making is that there is no possible way that they were going to fit the whole book into two hours, especially with the budget that they had. Granted I do think that alot of time was wasted with music and no one talking, they could have put something in there. But come on... its just a movie :)