M&Ms for Breakfast

Breakfast of champions.

It was one of those mornings.  I was lumbering like a rushed zombie out the door to work. I looked around and managed one of the few words zombies can manage,

I staggered back to the counter and grabbed some of my roommate's pretzel M&Ms and put them in the pocket of my sweater.  For a split second I thought, "I'm a grown, 23-year-old woman for crying out loud!  I'm too old to be eating M&Ms for breakfast! I should be over this!"
Then I realized, there will probably never be a time in my life that I don't occasionally have M&Ms for breakfast.  That's just how life is.  YO to the LO. You sleep when you're dead. Not like I sacrifice healthy choices for kicks... I'm just embracing the imperfection of life!

52 New Things: Quoted in the Daily Herald & Meridian Magazine(20 to go)

I sent out a press release to a bunch of local news outlets about our new free custom pediatric orthotics program that we're starting at my work.  Someone came to do a story and take some photographs, and I totally got quoted!:)

An orthotic is a "device you wear in your shoe that corrects gait or structural abnormalities that can be painful and lead to injury if not corrected," said Michelle Allen, who works in Dr. Gibson's office. "It is just painful for kids if they have an abnormality. We don't want them to have to wait until they are an adult to get an orthotic. If they do sports or dance or they are running around all day, it could lead to problems later in life."

The story was originally by the Daily Herald and also picked up by Meridian Magazine. Yeah, now I'm cool.:)

Dr. Gibson casting for orthotics at Mountain West Foot & Ankle Institute

My boss, being a boss at casting for orthotics:)

One Year Later...

Okay.  It's actually been 13 months.  But I'm slow at posting my thoughts.

April 20th, 2013 I graduated from Brigham Young University with my Bachelor's degree in public health.  It feels like it could have been yesterday.  Time FLEW this past year.  But as I look back, I realize a lot has changed too.  I've made new friends, been new places and had a lot of new experiences.

I think the weirdest part was that there weren't semesters to break up my routine.  Every week is basically the same schedule.  It's nice, and I have plenty of opportunities to do fun and different things, but it makes time fly by so much faster.  There's nothing with which to measure it.

I wonder if this is why time seems to go faster and faster as people get older.  There's less and less deviation from the schedule.  Someone once told me that after you graduate, it's important to make every year special and different.  So you can look back and say, "2013, that's the year I...."
I think it's really good advice.

Looking back on this last year, it's been a whirlwind of events, emotions and people. I wonder what this year will bring???