And A Little Bit Of Chicken Fried

     Life is just going by a mile a minute. Sometimes I just want to hold a moment in my hands and admire the joy of a single second. I want to memorize every sense so I can bring back these memories in the same colorful vibrancy I lived them. Everything has been so full of happiness and excitement. I wonder what I ever did right to deserve opportunities this great, people this amazing and memories this cherished. It leaves me in awe every time that it's the smallest things that seem fill my heart to bursting. A few things I've appreciated lately:

- How snow makes everything ordinary beautiful
- The little boy that held my hand today as I walked him through the hallway
- Brad Jones doing the worm while singing J-Biebs
- Hand written letters
- Finding the humor in my mistakes (sending a patient's IV pole flying to the ground and watching the terrified faces of the other patients praying they wouldn't get stuck with me scanning them next. Or when I gave Wade a bowl to make punch in...with a hole in the bottom)
- My roommates, who are amazing and clean the kitchen everyday and make me dinner when I'm starving.
- The little old man who's carotid arteries I scanned and took a million years to finish. All the while jostling his oxygen. I passed him in the hallway when the porter came to get him and he looked me straight in the eyes and sincerely thanked me. I felt awful for keeping him so long, it was a very frustrating case to work through and I definitely was not at my best in patient care but he was so kind to me.
- The little group of friends who are my home away from home.
- Finding an awesome Christmas present
-This song that Kyla and I blast in her car every weekend.

 "It's funny how it's the little things in life that mean the most. Not where you live, or what you drive, or the price tag on your clothes. There's no dollar sign on a peace of mind this I've come to know."