Finally, the last of the 100 things about me! WaHoo!

Once again, and idea stolen from a friend...

10 years ago: (77)I was a senior waiting apprehensively about getting accepted to college and receiving scholarships. (78) Also, just about now I was going to Prom with a good friend, Brandon Wistisen. I loved my dress, we patterned it after two dresses on Titanic. The one she wore when she was about to jump off the ship, the other during the dinner where Jack is invited. (My mom made it for me, so talented!!) I wish I had it on cd, and I would post it for you to see.

5 things on my to do list today:(79-83)
1. Get food storage-funny story, at work the nurses told me about rice being sold out due to people freaking out! And what do I do? Curse myself for slacking off on the food storage and the first thing I did when I got off was stop at Macey's and bought rice, oatmeal, sugar, flour, cereal, beans, pasta, and yeast! I even waited for 7:00 to come to call my mom for advise on what beans were best! Well, I felt a huge wave of relief, but can laugh at myself for over reacting! But really, I feel a lot better now.
2. Exercise for an hour.
3. Sleep
4. Grab tax forms to fill out FASFA, which I forgot to do!! Frustration to the max!
5. Leave early for once! Yeah! I was 6 minutes early!! I have been so bad lately.

If I were suddenly a billionaire: (84)Buy a home, pay off my family's debts, plane tickets for my family to go to Cincinatti (sp?) for a week once a year and then Kevin's family tickets to come home for Christmas!! once a year, take my family on a cruise, go to Europe, and then, put everything left in investments to make money!!

3 bad habits: (85-87)
1. Early to bed, Early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise! has obviously not been a part of my life!
2. Eating poorly
3. Buying too much crap.

5 places I have served on my mission: (88-92) (California Roseville, north of Sacramento)
1. Citrus Heights (near Sacramento)
2. Willows (near Chico)
3. Granite Bay 2nd Ward(near Roseville)
4. Granite Bay 1st and 3rd Wards
5. Hillcrest (near Yuba City)

5 jobs I have had: (93-97)
1. Home Department Manager
2. CNA in a rest home
3. Loan/Title clerk at a credit union
4. Physical therapist at a chiropractor (not certified)
5. House keeper (I decided to keep going!)

5 words to decribe me: (98-102) HA I made it!!
1. dreamer
2. emotional
3. friendly
4. faithful
5. descriptive (that is why I write a paragraph on one thing!!


I'm taggin everyone who hasn't done this tag!!! But since I combined three, you can choose!! Especially I would love to have Rachel do this, and I am wishing that Stephanie had a blog...

100 Things about Me Continued... ABC's

A boring continuation! Sorry, but once again, a good journal entry for me!! ;0) So, I am still having a hard time doing this, therefore I decided to copy a friend's idea.
The ABC's of ME! (51-76)
A-Attached or Single? Single!!
B-Best line from a movie?
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests..." from Sense and Sensibility when Marianne and Willouby first converse. It is what made me decide to read more of Shakspeare. What could be more romantic than that? Just wait, here is the rest of it...
"That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."



C-Cake or pie? Pie, pumpkin
D-Day of Choice? It used to be Tuesdays, my one day off, but now that I quite the salon...I have way too much free time that I am going crazy!! SO now it will be the day that I start school, around June 2nd! I am sure I will regret that statement!!
E- Essential Item? Deoderant and lotion...my biggest fear is to smell! Funny, I know, but I don't want to repell people!
F- Favorite scent? Cranberries and oranges with cinnamon sticks.
G-Gummy bears or worms? worms
H- Hopes for the future? To graduate as a Sonograpy Tech!! To buy a place of my own. And of course, to be married in the Temple, and have kids while I can!?!
I- Favorite Indulgence? Chocolate, then Caramel, and together please!
J- January or July? Neither!! Can I say April!? But I guess if I had to choose it would be July.
K- Kids? One of my hopes listed before =0) but I also claim my nieces and nephews, so therefore I have 9, 8 that are living. 5 girls and 4 boys
L- Life isn't complete without? Technical communication, meaning cell phones to call family, blogging to keep in touch with friends =0), and texting to have quick simple ways to say hi!
M- My favorite past time? When I had a tub, I would love to light some candles, put in bathing salts and take a nice relaxing soak with music playing, and maybe a good book...boy do I miss that!
N-Number of brothers and sisters? 2 sisters, 2 brothers (I can count their spouses right!)
O- Oranges or apples? Oranges, they remind me of my mission. Plus there is nothing like an orange julius.
P- Phobias and fears? Ever since I was little, I had reoccuring nightmares of wolves! Even though I loved them and thought they were beautiful, I would always dream of being outside, and having them sneak up on me to attack! Scary I know! But I would escape and get inside our house in Chesterfield, only to have them break through the windows and attack my family!! Oooh! I had one just the other night.
Q- Quote? Life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
R- Reason to smile? I have a job!! when so many don't
S- Season of Choice? Spring!! I love the colors after the winter time
T- Television or movies? Movies, big surprise
U- Unknown facts about me? I am vain about my hair! Funny I know, but even in High school, I always got compliments. SO it has gone to my head. Nothings makes me more puffed up then to get compliments on it ;0)
V- Vegetable- Avacado, no sandwich or salad is truly complete without one.
W- Worst habit? Laziness, when I come across obstacles, my fight goes out and I just want to lay down and rest.
X- X-ray or Ultrasound? X-ray of my arm when I was five and broke it playing on the monkey bars at home.
Y- Your least favorite holiday? It's obvious right? Valentine's Day
Z- Zodiac Sign? Taurus

Passing through the veil

You know, there are a lot of entries about faith. So, I hope people don't feel that I am preachey. I just think that due to my job, truly I am always confronted with the gospel principles. SO this entry is about passing through the veil...

I have found it very comforting to know that we are not alone in this life. That there is a plan for each of us, that we have eachother to lean on, and that life is journey that leads us to happiness. Through working, especially here at ICU, I have seen various stages of life. And when it comes time to allow loved ones to pass away, people are left staring in the face of their fears, and their faith is tested. But through my experiences, I have been strengthened through these moments.

It always leaves me in awe and wonder to find that when our loved ones linger towards dealth, that they are given a chance to say goodbye. (This, of course, is not always the case). Whether they are alert and aware that their time is coming, or they are in a coma and their vital signs linger on existence, I have seen that when the final loved one that they have been waiting for finally arrives to walk through those doors to say their final fairwell. And when this happens, I can see from the heart monitors, the patient slowly slip to the other side. It is a hallowed moment. A time when you know that they were just waiting for their family to let them go...

Too funny and sad for words...

So I have couple of funny/sad stories that happened to me at the salon this week. First of all, I have to give a background story. In January, there was a man who came in for a hair cut. I was the lucky stylist, and went to get him. The man had a scratched face, some of the cuts looked infected, and then he says he needs me to fix a bad haircut. Trying not to stare at him and make him more self conscious, I ask a few questions. This is what I found out. His wife made fun of him for going to a cheap place like Smart Styles, and so he decided to get an appointment at the high end salon she goes to. He ends up getting the wife of a coworker, and she, for some stupid reason, brings the clippers with a #2 guard (almost to the scalp) to the top of his head, and leaves the other side long. Hard to explain, I know but WOW! He said he paid $25 for a clown hair cut, and he had a business conference in California the following week.
K-a little bit stressful considering the situation! So I start blending in the sides and top while he tells me the rest of the story. A few days previously, he is at Smiths down in Woods Cross. He is in the parking lot and sees a woman beating her son to a bloody pulp! He yells at a distance to stop, but she ignores him. After trying a few more times, he decides to make his way to her, not knowing what else to do, but to help this poor kid. He touches her shoulder and wam, she turn on him and claws his face! Meanwhile, a lady is just observing them at a distance, and he yells to call 911. Long story short, his week has literally been from Hell! But he still seems in good spirits and can laugh about it. Even a customer who was getting a haircut at the same time, asked him to repeat the story to her husband. He good naturedly did. So, I do, what I think is an amazing job and joke around about having a permanent customer! and wish him good luck in Cali!
So Wednesday, this same man walks in! I express my delight in seeing him and tell him how great he looks! His face is fully healed with a few scars. The top of his hair has finally grown out to what he wants, but needs it shaped, and the sides shorter. So I am catching up on how his trip was to Cali, and he says he has been to New York, Tennessee, and Philadelphia since then! Wow! So then I ask him since he is gone all of the time, did he get to take his family or at least his wife? His comment was, "I would have loved to take my wife, but a week after you saw me, she filed for a divorce." !?!?! OH my!! I couldn't believe it! This poor guy, who already was having a horrible week, had this happen to him. Now granted, I had only met him twice, and for a few minutes at that, but he was such a nice guy! And upbeat about everything! He even said he was living in a motor home now, and was liking it! I couldn't believe it! I thought wow, how could life get much worse for this guy? And then I thought, wow, I have everything so good. So I said a quick prayer of gratitude for my blessings, and then one for him, that his life would start looking up.
On a lighter note, a funny story! The same day, I am cutting this guy's hair, who is superly cute, and he knows it. So I chitchat away with him, style his hair, and of coarse, he needs to rearrange every hair a little differently to be just perfect. I offer for him to use our sink where we wash their hair. I turn to get some hand soap and splash, my butt is soaking wet!! And I think he was shocked because it took him a while to turn it off. I shout, "What, is it the hair cut? You could have just told me!" Ha! It was so funny! He was so embarrassed, so I of coarse tell him not to worry about it, that I did that to my first haircut and got her good! It was just funny how cool and controlled he was before, and then how embarrassed he was. He even gave me a $8 tip! Heck, he can get me wet anytime, if I always got that kind of a tip!?!

Reflections of Christ

I thought this was an amazing slide show! And so, I wanted to share it on my blog. ENJOY!
"Reflections of Christ"

Miracles...

My sister politely reminded me that I have not posted in a while! Sorry! But honestly, I have had a horrible month, as far as pessimism goes, so I didn't dare post! Why? It is spring, and spring always gets me excited for new beginnings. But for some reason....but I think that I am out of that funk!! And so, I am posting!

First of all, I would like to say that miracles do happen. Being Krystell, I am always changing. I decided to wave off the rejection of the Ultrasound program and take Anatomy, Physiology, and Algebra again to better my grades. I am also trying to get a hold of the department to see what else I can improve, but they are ignoring me, but I won't get into that! Therefore, I would have to go back to school in the summer to be done in time, which also means that my work schedule at the hospital wouldn't work, and I would definately have to quit my salon job. So, after a lot of thought, prayer, and fasting, I knew that this was what I had to do. This past fast sunday, which was March 30, I didn't feel like I had an answer one way or the other. Just the same feeling of, it is my choice. However, I was stressed out about working, and going to school, how would I do it all? But then I came to work at the hospital, and I found out that a girl was quitting, and she just happened to work some of the shifts I needed! So, long story short, I am able to change my schedule to Sunday, Thursday, and Friday nights each week, and go to school Mon-Thurs! And I quit my salon job, but the family I live with has a salon in their basement that I can use for my clients!! So I felt a wave of gratitude to my Heavenly Father for making miracles happen for me, as undeserving as I am, especially lately. But I feel it as a huge hug that says, "I still love you, and want you to succeed. So pick up your feet and move forward!!"

I know, I know, you all are thinking, "you know Krystell, she always changes her mind". Which is true! But considering that I love so many things, and just needed to discover new things about myself, my goals, my talents, and my weaknesses. The major reason for giving up nursing, besides rejection after rejection from programs, was that I lack confidence in myself, knowledge, and decision making, which is crucial for a nurse. I felt a huge sick void in my stomach whenever I thought about that responsiblity, the ability to do my best and move one without suffering through hind sight. Do I make any sense? Oh well, so I knew I could not be a nurse. But through 3 years of working in the hospital, I still have a love for the medical field. It wasn't until I was talking to a great friend and nurse that I even thought about ultrasound. So I believe it will be a perfect fit! And I can still do cosmetology on the side, because I love doing that too.

Back to the main thought of this post. I wanted to talk about miracles. I think that it is a hard thing to grasp, and I am still trying to understand and know that it will be an eternal precept. Sometimes things work out just how we have hoped and prayed for. Other times, there seems to be an unrelenting silence. Then there are those times that our worst fears stare us back in the face...I have come to find a truth in the words given in the movie "Charly", yes a movie!! When Sam is talking to his father and eating cookies...After they find out that Charly has terminal cancer and there are no other treatments, and Sam says something to the effect of "What good is faith if it is just something to fill up Sacrament meetings. But when you really need it..." And then his father says, "And when you really need it, the pain will dull to an ache, and you won't give into that void." I have found this to be so true, mostly through the testimony of my family members. Yes, many things happen that seem too much to bear, and our hearts are torn apart. But because of the eternal promises our Father and Brother have made with us, if we endure, all of the pain begins to ebb. Life takes on a whole new pallet of colors, we begin to understand how precious those eternal covenants are, we recommit ourselves to be with Them again, and the painting takes our breath away. That is the miracle of the Atonement. That no matter what happens in this life, that there is so much more in store for us. We have a Savior that not only suffered for the pains of our sins, but also for the heartaches we feel in this life. And that we, with our Father, are strong enough to endure together.