Flying High!

Justin and I are flying high. We love it here! The weather has been out of this world. Except I'm already too hot...it's February...I'm going to die this summer. It doesn't help that we're in a record drought right now. Have you seen the news in California? I hope we have produce this year in our stores!

We had a very fun week. My parents were going to come last weekend to visit but it didn't work out. Too bad. I had Monday off which was nice because I had an extra day to recover from my cold. I used the day to help my friend dye her hair and shop for a new bed comforter. I found one on sale at Target and we got the whole set and new sheets for less than $100. We love it!

My mom bought tickets to the Donny and Marie Show downtown and since they didn't come down, Justin and I used the tickets. We made a night of it, so at 5:30 we drove down to the strip and had dinner and frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity. We went to the show at 7:30 and enjoyed meeting a couple from England. I kept thinking, "If my mom were here she would talk about the church to them...I have to say something!" Sure enough they happened to mention that they live right next to the "Mormon Church" so I asked "Oh are you familiar with the Mormons?" and they said a little and then I told them, "We're Mormon!" Ha! We talked a little about it and it sounds like the members there have really reached out to them so good work is being done! They were a nice couple. As for the show, we loved it! We didn't recognize any of the songs they sang but holy cow - they were good. At the end they sang a few Broadway numbers from The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, and Wicked. They sang "For Good" and it reminded me of when Keaton and I sang that with a group when we graduated high school Presh!

Nachos!

Frozen Hot Chocolate!

Justin's brothers have been planning a trip down here and to the Grand Canyon and they said I could include Keaton if I wanted, so Wednesday I gave him a call and helped him book a flight to come see us in April and go to the Grand Canyon. I'm so excited! I'm having my students take part in the "Doodle 4 Google" competition where they could win a $30,000 scholarship and a $50,000 grant for their school. A lot of them are really talented artists so we're all excited!

Thursday I did a Jeopardy review with my classes. The kids got way into it. They are so fun! The Relief Society asked me to lead a station in the "New Year, New You!" activity. I ran the "nutrition" portion of the program and one of the sisters brought green smoothie to demonstrate how to make and sample. I preached to them about soluble and insoluble fiber and why they are both important. It was a lot of fun! The gal that did the green smoothies gave me some new ideas for how to do them and I'm excited to try it! I made a few new friends that night. Yeah!

Friday my students took the post test for the unit I taught. My classes all improved by 20-30% so that was awesome! One class went from a 62% class average to an 87% class average. They learned! Huzzah! I had 6 or 7 students get 100%. Happy, happy, happy! Justin and I ate out at Red Robin and used our club house hot tub for the first time. Soaking will become a regular activity! So nice.

Saturday we played Ultimate all day. We played with our group from 10-12 then played again at 2 with our ward for the "Floats and Frisbee" activity. We had a few adults and lots of youth play with us and we had a lot of fun. We did our grocery shopping and visited the hot tub again. Love it!

I'm done teaching water and now I'm onto weather. I start tomorrow with the new unit. I'm so glad to be done with my water unit because it's the one I'll be using for my portfolio which is due in a few weeks. This gives me plenty of time to put it together and make it perfect for when the BYU-Idaho employees come down to evaluate me. I'm so looking forward to our Girl's Weekend in April which has been set for the 25th! Next weekend we're playing in the "Trouble in Vegas" tournament with our teams back in Idaho. Our friends are coming down to play and a lot of them are staying the night at our place. Fun fun times!

Valentine's Day

It's been another successful week with student teaching and work for me and Justin. Monday we did our first visit to a family in the ward as ward missionaries. We get new assignments every few weeks to visit 2-3 families. It's been a good experience so far...now we get to stretch a bit more and visit less active members and invite them to hear the missionaries or come to church. We have a ward activity coming up and they're playing Ultimate so we're excited for that.

This week I taught glaciers, groundwater, and natural resources (renewable and nonrenewable). I did a game with them that I made up last year that demonstrates how renewable resources work. I put a piece of candy in a bowl, one for each student, and tell them they can get a piece now or they can wait and after each round I double whatever amount is left. I do that for several rounds and then split whatever they earn at the end. I bought two bags of dum dums totaling 720 pieces of candy! I wanted all my classes to do it so I needed a lot. It was fun to watch them freak out on each other if they tried to take a piece of candy. It's a fun way to teach that if we use natural resources carefully and allow time for them to replenish themselves, there will be enough to go around for all. They also made posters showing how to convert a renewable resource into electricity and what the electricity is used for.

We decided for Valentine's Day that we wanted to save some money (gazelle intense!) so we went grocery shopping to make a meal at home. Well, Justin's boss called him in on Thursday and gave him some very encouraging words as well as some gift cards to a nice restaurant. Justin has totally revamped the way the company tracks their inventory, ordering, etc and his boss told him they really appreciate all he's done and that after 90 days they're going to "talk" so...that sounds like a pay raise to me. Since his boss gave him a gift card to eat out, we made our Valentine's dinner Thursday night instead of Friday night. Justin bought some nice fish and I made cilantro lime rice. It was delicious!

Love the sunset!

Thursday night I had the first signs of sickness. I felt a scratch in my throat and woke up Friday with a sore throat. Typical! I get a long weekend and my body decides to get sick....lovely. Friday the students didn't have school but the staff had to go in for training. Nevada is putting a program into place where legislators (or at least people who work for them) come and evaluate teachers. I think the most I've learned from my student teaching experience so far has been the politics of teaching... which I don't like. But they fed us breakfast and lunch that day. Slidin' Thru catered our lunch; it's like a taco bus but for sliders and it was awesome!

For Valentine's Day I gathered letters for Justin from family and friends to give to him. I emailed his closest friends and family weeks ago asking for contributions and then I did a scavenger hunt with them, each letter with a clue to the next letter. Justin works early on Fridays so I dropped him off at work at 6 and then had from 6-7 to get ready and set it up for when he got home at 1 to do the hunt while I was still at school until 2:30. He loved it! For me, Justin wrote out a bunch of "coupons" for me and then cut them up like a puzzle, so after I put the puzzle together I had coupons like "a shirt for $15" and stuff like that. We went out to dinner and I ordered a delicious steak! I never order steak - too pricey - but we had a gift card so I went for it. It was a great Valentine's Day.

Three gift cards! Woot!

Justin's letters and clues; my puzzle

my puzzle coupons

Saturday my cold really set in and I spent the whole day at home. Today I stayed home from church so as not to infect the ward and to rest up some more. I have the worst immune system...so why did I choose to be a teacher?? Hello! Kids = millions of germs. Tomorrow school is closed so I have the day off. At least I'll be able to rest up for one more day before I have to get back into using my voice all day long. Tomorrow I'm helping my friend dye her hair since she also has the day off from student teaching. Maybe it will tempt me to get highlights in my hair again...we'll see!

Science Experiments and Hair Cuts

Teaching this week has been really great. I had my first observation from my supervisor and she gave me all 3's out of 4. She said that's really good for a first time observation and that from what she observed, teaching comes very naturally to me. I have to agree with her! I love teaching and I'm good at it. I love working with the group of students I have. Some are impossibly hard but it's worth it when I'm grading their science journals and I see they've left me notes like, "We love you Mrs. Rose!" One student even gave me a hug. It's been great!

This week we did some fun experiments in class with different densities. I did this experiment with warm and cold water to show them how their densities are different. They loved it!

I took cold and warm water, dying them blue and red and place the cold water on top of the warm water. The water mixed. 

I did the same thing but with warm water on top of cold water. It didn't mix that time. They recorded their observations and gave a conclusion for why the water mixed the first time but not the second -- fun!

We bought a new hair clipper set so I can start cutting Justin's hair again. I cut his hair today and it is the best I've done yet. It's a little short, but at least it's even this time. We also checked out the 'best bakery in Henderson' and shared a slice of chocolate cake. Yum! The weather here has turned cloudy and sort-of rainy. Because it there's hardly any rain, the oil builds up on the roads so when it finally does rain it's really slick. Luckily we haven't had to drive when it's been raining yet.

Ready to cut some hair! Before...

After!

"the back of yo'head is ridikulus!" 

Chocolate cake!

Cool sunset

 We found a kitchen table on Craig's list for $140! We love it - it feels good to eat dinner at a table for the first time in two months! It's in great condition and just the right size. We love Craig's list! Next paycheck we'll be looking for a used mattress. Thank goodness for Dave Ramsey! We pay with cash only for things we can afford. It's a slow process but we're learning and we're grateful!

Friday night we went out to dinner and watched some Prison Break at home. We also did our grocery shopping and got our favorite treat - cold cereal! We go through it so fast. Berry Collosal Crunch? We refer to it as Berry Collosal Crack because it is so addicting! Saturday we "slept in" until 7. Crazy when sleeping until 7 feels like sleeping in! We made French toast and helped clean the church, then played ultimate at Sunset Park. We played for three hours! It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect. I've been hesitant to play because when I went one time with Justin I didn't touch the disc hardly at all but Saturday I scored a bunch of points so I finally proved myself! I worked on my lesson plans for next week and we watched more Prison Break.

Sunday we had ward conference and church got out an hour early. Gotta love that! Justin caught up with his parents and I called my mom to visit for a bit. I'm grateful that it's so easy to stay in touch with the people I love that are so far away. Now we're having breakfast for dinner! We are very happy and so grateful for all the blessings we have!

Super Bowl Weekend

Justin and I have had another great week. This week for student teaching my goal was to have five positive interactions with students every period. I have 181 students and this week I memorized every single one of their names. Boom roasted! I take over with my lessons tomorrow all the way through May, so we'll see how it goes! Tomorrow I teach water properties. Wish me luck!

Justin has started an "It Works" program. "It Works" is one of those weight loss programs that includes wraps and supplements. One of my visiting teachers from Rexburg is a consultant and she offered a few people on facebook to do three months of the products as part of her portfolio for a special deal, so Justin got in on it and now he's trying the products. He did his first wrap and it took two inches off his waist, so we'll see how he does with it for the next few months. I'm apprehensive about it things like this, but I'm supportive. Justin is excited about it so we'll see how it goes!

Thursday we had our first meeting with the other ward missionaries and the ward mission leader. They have a ward mission plan, and part of the ward plan is for every family in the ward to have a family mission plan so part of our calling is visiting families and helping them create a family mission plan. They have this mantra "willing and brief": when we meet new people we ask if they would be willing to hear a brief message from the missionaries about how families can be together forever or some other church-related topic. It's had a lot of success so far in the ward. 

Thursday I also had my first cohort meeting, which is a mandatory meeting I have weekly with the other student teachers and a supervisor. Two of my five class periods are very difficult, so I asked for specific tools to help with students who don't want to be at school and don't want to do anything. I'll try implementing those strategies this week and see how it goes.

Friday for date night Justin wrote out three options for me to choose from. He's the cutest! 

Eating out with Justin is my favorite thing to do with him. We went to Red Robin (YUM!) and watched Cars. We also started the "Mitt" documentary on Netfilx. I saw Hart post about it on Facebook and it interested me. I couldn't watch very much of it because it stressed me out for one thing, and it made me more upset that Mitt Romney isn't in the White House. Gah, enough said.

Saturday we did our weekly grocery shopping and bought our first bathroom scale. I also got some school supplies for student teaching. We exercised and in the afternoon just to get out of the house we walked around Hobby Lobby and Home Depot for those days when we can spend some money on doing crafty/buildy things in our home. We walked around Sunset Station which is one of the casino hotels in Henderson. They had an amateur bowling tournament going on so we watched them play for a bit. We went to Cafe Rio to start our fast and that night we watched "Playing for Keeps." 

This morning I coudln't sleep in past 7, so I finished the 6th Harry Potter book before getting ready for Church. One lady who is new to the church bore her testimony and at the end made a little comment about rooting for the Broncos for the Super Bowl. Funny. We had a lesson on Family History and Temple work in gospel doctrine and it made me think of Mom and all the work she's done. 750 names in one month is quite an achievement! Justin and I threw some things together for a little Super Bowl party. Justin found a way to stream the game live on the laptop. He has a talent for looking at what we have in the cupboard and throwing together something spectacular. He made chicken nuggets and potato wedges, orange julius, nachos, and chocolate muffins. Yum! Naturally he is loving watching Seattle do so well. I'm happy for them but really, Broncos? I lost track of the fumbles. I at least wanted a close game.

That's all we have for an update this week. Today I'm feeling a bit homesick. In gospel doctrine we talked all about family. Justin made a comment about how at Redfish Mom puts together a skit for the grankids to act out different life events of our ancestors and it made me cry. I sure do love and miss my family! 

Some Furniture and other Happenings

Monday night after ample complaining from me, we finally started taking a serious look at getting a couch. At 6:45 Justin got on Craig's List. A few minutes later a sectional was posted for $200....we decided we'd go take a look and it was just down the street! So at 7:00 we went over to their address right away and took a look. It just so happened that the guy was moving his new furniture in. That was lucky for us since we were not about to take a sectional home with our car! We liked it, but told him we'd need to wait until the next day to take it away. He said, "I tell you what -- I'll sell it to you for $100 if you use my moving guy to take it to your place." We immediately agreed, got the $$ out of an ATM and just a few minutes later, we had a new couch for our apartment!!! WE LOVE IT! It was a total steal. Next objective: dining table and chairs!

I fixed the pillows after the picture was taken...

First week of student teaching has been a total breeze because I haven't started teaching yet! Excellent. The reason is last week my mentor teacher was still showing a movie ("Supervolcano" AKA the dumbest movie ever. If you want to know what would happen when Yellowstone erupts it's this: everyone dies. Period. Just pray you die quickly in the eruption rather than slowly starving and freezing to death in resulting ice age! I was cringing the whole time...) and for this week she wants to finish a unit on her own so the teaching lately hasn't involved me. So what have I been doing in my spare time? I show up for school and I lesson plan, lesson plan, lesson plan. Last week I cranked out my scope and sequence for the rest of the semester: I teach until May 14th and I'll be teaching five units: water, weather, climate, Earth history, and astronomy. I figured out which weeks I'll be teaching each topic, and I cranked out all my lesson plans for my first unit - water! Talk about power start to student teaching. I feel way ahead of the game and my lesson plans rock! I've already talked to my administrator and asked him to come and observe me so he can put in a good word for teaching in the fall.

I'm really excited to teach the bunch of kids that I have. I have five classes and each has 25-40 kids. I know! These classes are huge. Today I memorized everybodys' names (I have a wonderful gift for memorization) and they were all surprised when I'd call them by their first name - in a good way! I'm slowing winning over their hearts.

We had a co-teaching training Wednesday night with our mentor teachers. They want us to co-teach the whole time for student teaching which is very frustrating to me. I want to take on the classes on my own! I'm so sick of co-teaching. Luckily my mentor teacher and I are totally on the same page and she is willing to let me take over whenever I want. I've been well prepared and I am ready to take on these classes on my own. I don't need to co-teach! I feel like I am a great teacher, so I've asked to take over starting next week. I can't wait!

Justin is doing very well at work. After 90 days we'll be able to purchase our own health insurance and Justin will get a raise. He's been heading up a new project at his work which is exciting to him. His bosses call him in for meetings and listen to his ideas. He feels like "a real adult!" with all these important people listening to him and his ideas. The project in a nutshell: right now everyone has to input their data several times into different programs and Justin is figuring out a way to have everyone input everything once and have it go to all the programs they need. He's a wiz! Love him.

We got church callings this Sunday. We are ward missionaries! I am so excited. This is such a perfect calling for us right now. Our ward mission leader is on top of it. Our whole ward is so great. Everyone is totally committed to their callings and it's exciting to be a part of it all! During Sunday School we meet for Gospel Doctrine with the missionaries and the investigators. Last Sunday was my first time ever sitting in a lesson with an investigator. It was cool! We get to teach the class in a few weeks. The nice thing about having early church is we get to study the Sunday School lessons Sunday morning together, so it's been fun reading the Old Testament with Justin and sharing our insights.

As for our weekend, Friday night we met up with the Brooks - our best friends for life! Justin and I ate out and then they came over to play some Risk. That game is impossible to play in less than 4 hours. We played for about 3 and were too tired to keep going so we called it a night. Saturday morning my Relief Society had a temple trip so we did a session in the morning and met for brunch after. In the afternoon we went grocery shopping and just laid low. It feels good to just relax. Sunday evening we got together again with the Brooks for dinner and dessert and games. We played some hand and foot and ate fried chicken! This was my first time every frying chicken and it came out very well if I do say so myself. I have been little miss homemaker lately with all my cooking! Every Monday I make a huge casserole that Justin and I eat every night throughout the week. Justin has loved everything I've made so far.

Other than that we are doing very well. We play ultimate on Saturday mornings and Monday nights, we exercise every day for 30 minutes together, and I've been reading Harry Potter again. I need to be better about taking more pictures...until next time!

Update

Last Monday I took Justin to the eye doctor. His vision has been wiggity-wack lately. Some days he sees better with his glasses (as he should) but other days he sees better without his glasses...considering he's pretty much as blind as Velma, that's saying something. The doctor examined his eyes and determined he has burned cornea!! What? How does that happen? Well, if you don't change your contact solution every single day, gunk will build up in your old solution and "with age" (age? he's 25 years young doc!) our immune systems deteriorate and our eye balls can't fight the stuff anymore, resulting in  damaged cornea. I, of course, being the wife know he doesn't change his solution like he should. Well he didn't listen to me...hopefully he will listen to the doctor. Isn't that always how it goes? Love you sugar! She gave him some special eye drops and we have a follow up appointment today. We'll see if anything else is going on.

Up until Tuesday we were going without heat but Tuesday was the day for the gas man to come in and fix us up! They told us to expect him between 7 and noon....that seemed like a weird window, but I wasn't judging. I wanted a hot shower! So I anxiously awaited the gas man to come....and he didn't come all day! What the heck? They didn't show up until 4 o'clock, and it took less than five minutes. What the heck dude? It was annoying because I couldn't go anywhere all day because I had to wait on him. If I had any bit of my sister in-law Rachel's spirit in me, I would have demanded they put it in free of charge and to have the rest of the month free for their inconsideration! Oh well.

Wednesday we did some furniture shopping at some thrift stores. Right now we're getting an idea of what kind of comforter we eventually want to get. You can find surprisingly stylish stuff at places like Ross and Kohls. We hit both and walked through the HUGE mall on Sunset Drive. That was fun, but man...talk about taking a quitting alcoholic to the bar...I haven't gone shopping for myself in AGES and seeing all my favorite stores was tantalizing! No, agonizing! But I am gazelle intense! We have been sitting on the floor for crying out loud! One of our camping chairs broke, so when we're both home we both feel guilty for sitting in the only chair so we both sit on the floor. It's getting old fast. We did see a $35 couch at Savers but how are we supposed to get it home without a pickup? #marriedproblems

This is our debt motivation board I made. It has quotes all over it including from Dave Ramsey to keep us motivated! I'm also trying to convince Justin to let us attend Financial Peace University classes. 

crouching works too...

We went to Dunkin' Donuts for my first time ever. I love that I grew up in a small town because now I have so many "firsts" to experience! We got a call to speak in church on Sunday. We finally got the ok to put nails in the walls so we put up all our pictures. Friday night we pulled our air mattress out to the front room and watched Netflix all night. Saturday I had my student teaching orientation meeting at 9:30. They gave us the same lecture as always..."You represent BYU-Idaho! Look professional! Be on time! Be dependable!" My first day is tomorrow and I teach until May 14th. I spoke to my supervisor today and she said she's never seen a student teacher who wanted to get a job not get a job here, so I'm excited about the possibilities to teach next fall.

My friend Christine and I went to the orientation together and we both realized we don't have sufficient "teacher clothes" to get us through the semester, so our gracious husbands gave us the go and we went shopping for teacher clothes! Huzzah! That was a lot of fun so we spent all day Saturday looking for the best deals. That night Justin and I spent the evening perfecting our talks. Sunday morning we did the same thing. We got to church 20 minutes early because we wanted to be sure to have plenty of time before church started. We got inside and found the program to read the following:

What's that? No "Sister Rose" and "Brother Rose" on the program? I asked Justin "Did they say it was for this Sunday?" We just assumed that if they call you on a Thursday to speak, they mean for the next Sunday. Oh well, we thought, it must be for next week...and then our wheels started turning. Oh no...the guy that called us to speak...I remembered his voice...it was the clerk from our old ward on Tropicana Avenue!!! We were asked to speak in the Tropicana Ward that day, and we weren't even in that ward!! When we realized the mistake we felt awful. How awkward was that sacrament meeting? Can you imagine? Well we will never know because we realized the mistake at 1 PM and their church is at 9 AM! Whoops! An honest mistake...we felt terrible but it makes for a very funny story. Next time you get asked to speak in church, be sure to confirm which ward you've been asked to speak in!

Sunday night we had game night with the Brooks. We love having friends close! We ate cookies and popcorn and had a good game of Settlers which Christine dominated! I did terrible, but that's okay. We are in the works to plan a Havasupai Falls hiking trip with them during spring break. The Grand Canyon is calling me...

That's it for the week. Wish me luck in my student teaching adventure. It's going to be a blast...!??!......

Last Week of Freedom

This week is my last week before I start student teaching. I actually don't know when I officially start taking over the classroom. All I know is I have an orientation meeting this Saturday. I'll probably be stuck observing for a week or two before I actually start teaching. I feel like the people in charge of student teaching could utilize this down time way better than they do. How hard is it to ask the coordinating teachers what should be taught in the next 14-18 weeks so we can use all this down time to start brainstorming how to teach? Makes sense to me...

We finally MOVED!!!! I am THRILLED. I thought we'd be stuck at Paradise Square for the rest of the month, but the stars aligned themselves this week and we made arrangements to move. All day Thursday and Friday I packed and cleaned like a mad woman. Justin and I agree that that apartment has probably never had a deep clean EVER. It was awful. I'm so glad to be gone from that yucky place!!!! Todd and Christine helped us move and they noticed the blood on the sidewalks...yeah....

I cannot express how happy I am in this new apartment!!! WE LOVE IT! This apartment is huge compared to what we're used to, and it's really nice! It has new carpet too! We could easily have our first two kids here. Electricity transferred over no problem but our gas isn't getting set up until tomorrow (Tuesday) so we've been freezing! We boil water to do dishes and bathe....brrr!

Sitting in blankets, pjs, coat and hat

Sitting in blankets, pjs, coat and hat

Trying to stay warm!

We were so blessed to have our friends help us move. They have a trailer so we were able to take everything in one trip. They moved into a friend's apartment who left their TV and a nice shelf so our friends gave it to us for free!! After a year and four months of marriage, we finally have our first TV! Still no channels, but we got a Chromecast for Christmas so we've been playing netflix and pandora from our smart phones and it plays on the TV.

Still in our camping chairs... Through the glass doors is a patio with another huge storage closet and another closet that has our own WASHER AND DRYER!!! They keep it outside because having the washer and dryer inside adds a lot of heat (not good for summer time). It also keeps the noise down in the house.  Still in our camping chairs... Through the glass doors is a patio with another huge storage closet and another closet that has our own WASHER AND DRYER!!! They keep it outside because having the washer and dryer inside adds a lot of heat (not good for summer time). It also keeps the noise down in the house.  Lots of room for our future couches/sectional Lots of room for our future couches/sectional Another huge closet for storage. Another huge closet for storage. New TV and shelf - with pictures of Christ, the Rexburg Temple, and a framed The Family: A Proclamation to the World New TV and shelf - with pictures of Christ, the Rexburg Temple, and a framed The Family: A Proclamation to the World There's so much room in the kitchen. We don't have enough stuff to fill all the shelves! And it comes with a microwave and dishwasher (last place didn't have either of those)! Woot! Future dining room... Future dining room... Our new shelf Our new shelf Our huge bathroom! Our huge bathroom! Our trusty air mattress. It is surprisingly cold to sleep on an air mattress... Our trusty air mattress. It is surprisingly cold to sleep on an air mattress... Our bedroom has two closets. Naturally, I claimed the huge walk-in closet... Justin's closet. Ha! Justin's closet. Ha!

The apartment complex has a very nice lounge. There's a theater room, fitness center, pool, racquetball court, tennis court, basketball court, and sauna. It's unbelievable! 

We went to our new ward yesterday and loved it. The family ward is huge and there are tons of kids. Everyone was really nice and welcoming. A few sisters teach in the surrounding schools. They said they have science openings in their schools so I have a connection for teaching in the fall if that's what I choose to do! Awesome.

Saturday night we got together with the Brooks and hit downtown. We walked up and down Fremont Street watching magic tricks and looking for a place to eat. You have to be selective when you breathe - someone blew cigarette smoke right in my face. Ugh! 3,000 people die every year from lung cancer from second hand smoke. We went to Container Park which is an area where all the shops are constructed from left over train box cars. Outside the park there was a giant prey mantis that blew fire every few minutes. It blew fire right as we were walking out - I screamed so loud! We finally picked a place to eat: The Heart Attack Grill. A man actually died of a heart attack after his triple by-pass burger! You can read more here. The restaurant plays up the fact that it's so unhealthy. First thing the waitresses do is put you in a hospital gown - and they're all dressed like nurses! Oh, and if you weigh more than 350 pounds you eat for free...

Single by-pass burger...meaning it has ONE patty. Double has two, triple three, and so forth until it maxes out at 8!! The quadruple by-pass burger alone is 10,000 calories!!!

A taste worth dying for...

The small writing says, "Calories? I don't give a damn!" Rhett Butler is wearing a hospital gown and Scarlett O'Hara is dressed as a nurse.

All the other fast food mascots eating at the heart attack grill.

They put a slice of butter in the brownie shake....oh my.

Justin is now walking distance from work and my school is just a five minute drive down the 215 from here. Life is good! Now I'm thinking what I can do for my last week of freedom...what would you do?