Matt and Christine’s Visit

Christine and I have known each other since we were in the 9th grade. 1998. Yikes! And what a blessing it is to have her for my friend! She and her fiancée, Matt, will be getting married on October 6th. He rocks. They’re happy together and I like that. Anyhow, they pulled off a 700-mile-round-trip-on-a-motorcycle-ride together in one day. They stopped at my place to sleep a bit and have dinner. Yay

Christine and Matt's Visit

Mexican Independence Day

¡¡¡VIVA MEXICO, HIJOS DE TODA SU MAIZ!!!

- An appropriate Abuelito comment for today

Happy Birthday, Abuelito … wherever you are!

Happy Birthday, Abuelito. Celebrating your life through my memories of you

I know he is no longer in “this” world, but I still wanted to take a moment to wish a very happy birthday to my Abuelito – a person in my life who had a huge impact on me, who supported me in everything, and who loved me dearly. What wonderful memories I have of you, Abuelito.

Study groups and exams

Just a quick note… yesterday three of the girls came over to my place to review for physiology. We have exams coming up on Monday (they have a total of 8 exams… 2 this Friday, 6 on Monday). I’ll have three exams on Monday: Microbiology/Immunology, Biochemistry, and Physiology.

Anyhow, the girls came over and we opted to review the later half of the course thus far. We were able to get through two of toughest lectures: Cell signaling/homeostasis and cell electrophysiology (membrane potentials). I’m so glad! I feel much more confident in that particular area.

Tomorrow I am meeting with another girl to review the last two lectures of this chunck: membrane potentials II (action potential – a lot more complicated than you’d think!) and synaptic transmission. I’ll probably review that again on Friday afternoon with a different study group, but I don’t mind. Hopefully they let me “teach” it like last time – it helps me to learn.

I really need to put some time back into micro/immuno and biochem though. I cannot underestimate them the way I did last year o.o

Yeaaah, this tends to happen a lot ._.

A box of tissues with lotion in them

I found a few good friends at medical school last year but we’ve been separated because they are now M2′s and in different campuses. I was really worried this year about being able to find friends that I could fit in with. I know the exact moment today when I realized I had found them…

I mentioned that I wanted to go to Puerto Rico one day. She invited us all to head over for a week to stay with her (that’s her home) in the summer. I hesitated and said, “Hmm, it depends on how my family is.” Another girl asked me how my family and I were doing and dealing with the passing of my Abuelito. I told her that we were still struggling. I told her that I was especially sad right now because in two days, if he were still here, it would have been his 81st birthday. And then I told the group of girls that I was worried about talking any further because I knew I’d break into tears and that I was having much too good and happy of a morning to have it end in tears. The girl from Puerto Rico got up and, as she went to her room, said,

“I’ve got a box of tissues, the ones with lotion in them!”

And that’s how I knew

One life to love

You only get just one time around

You only get one shot at this

One chance, to find out

The one thing that you don’t wanna miss

One day when it’s all said and done

I hope you see that it was enough, this

One ride, one try, one life… To love…………

- 33 miles: One Life to Love

Little randoms

A few days ago I got my first piece of mail that was addressed to “Dr. [My First and Last Name].”  It was from a company that insures doctors. In any case… PBT Insurance Office… you are four years too early! I don’t graduate until May of 2014  :-)   Here is a picture of it because my sister insisted on being able to see it (I had already torn it up at that point though…)

Mail addressed to "Dr. Susy Grajeda"

Now, shameless plug for the cuteness of my cat, Liesl:

Chilling on the couch

Yes, how may I help you?

This is one of my favorite places to sleep. Check out the awesome cover that Susy's Mami Nena made her

Aren't I a cute cat?