How old do you think I am? OR You know you're old when...

I don't like being called ma'am. Especially from people who are at least 20 years older than I am. It makes me feel like my mother. Do I look like a ma'am to you? I don't have one gray hair. A patient's family member called me this today. If I'm going to be called something, I'd prefer the following (all of which I've been called):

Sugar
Darling
Honey
Sweetie
Cutie
Dear
Gingie

However, the above mentioned family member may have some insight into my life and have a right to call me old because I recently bought one of these:

 

In my defense, I made a New Years resolution to take my multivitamins daily again. I went and bought huge bottles of them at Costco and it is a pain to get the pills out of each bottle at night. So I separate my pills out once a week. Like my parents. Even though they're old, I'm not ready to be a ma'am.

A first for many

Last week was Restaurant Week in Columbus. Many of the pricier restaurants in Columbus offer a set price ($20-30) for an appetizer, entree and dessert. Since I love food, this is a great week for me. Chris expressed interest in going to Level, a restaurant/bar in the Short North and upon seeing a menu, several others wanted to go. We decided on Friday. Later in the week, Rauchelle informed us it was a gay bar. We still went.
11 Mormons went to the gay bar. 6 guys, 5 girls. It was a lot of fun. We sat upstairs where there were some couches and tables. The rest of the people at the restaurant was a mixed group so we didn't feel out of place.
It wasn't strange until we went to leave.
As we walked downstairs, Candace heard this:
"Here come the straight people."

Another guy heard this,
"He's definitely straight."

I walked downstairs. I've never walked into a room full of so many guys and known that they were probably checking out my guy friend and not me. Oh well.

As we gathered outside, one of the girls in the group asked Candace if she noticed that there were a lot of guys downstairs.
Candace: "Well, it is a gay bar."
Girl: "Oh, that explains a lot."

Anyways, a good time was had by all. I think. The food was delicious. And most of us experienced a gay bar for the first time.

 The night got off to a strange start with Bryce crawling across the table to eat humus from Alan

 

 

Their last night in town before leaving for South Africa for 5 weeks.

Because I love when people burst into "song" and dance AND Glee

Oh Glee, why are your songs so catchy? I'm glad the Italians love you too. Although their dancing isn't that great.



I like the little girl singing on her parent's shoulders.

2000-2009: A review

I'm too lazy to review year by year, so here is a general view, in mostly chronological order (I omitted repeats):

Moved out of my parents house
Drove across the country
Moved into dorms and shared a room
Started college
Had fun roommates
Picked a major
Moved into my first apartment
Met my sister for the first time
Pulled all-nighters 
Had crazy roommates
Fell in love
Studied a lot
Bought a car
Voted in my first presidential election
Worked as a night custodian
Skiied 28 times in one winter
Went skiing the day I learned I tore my ACL and needed surgery
Watched a movie in a cave
Became a TA for a professor
Drove across the country with someone I loved
Visited the Spam museum, Corn Palace and Mt Rushmore
Got the job I wanted in a research lab
Learned to use a Mac
Streaked lots of petri dishes
Saw best friends get married
Went on a church history trip with my extended family
Hiked a mountain
Did a Mormon pioneer trek
Had my heart broken
Went to Vegas but didn't gamble
Bought a tent
Visited all the national parks in Utah
Graduated
Got a job
Went to Disneyland
Saw the Pacific Ocean
Drove through a blizzard
Moved to a new city
Had a health scare with a parent
Went to Italy, Switzerland & France
Called in sick and visited England, Ireland & Scotland
Got promoted
Saw friends have babies
Had Lasik
Played a prank using 300 phonebooks
Rode an elephant in Thailand
Saw the skyscrapers of Hong Kong
Went to Walmart in China
Fell out of love
Got tired of my job and wanted a new career
Applied to nursing school
Moved to Ohio
Went through the Temple
Started nursing school
Jumped into rapids on a white water rafting trip
Learned to knit & crochet
Went to Punxsutawney, PA for Groundhogs Day
Graduated and passed boards
Got a job
Drove a stick shift van all over Portugal and Spain with 5 of my favorite people
Had monkeys attack our car in Gibraltar
Sat on a camel in Morocco
Got OSU season tickets
Repelled down waterfalls in Costa Rica
Had my first code blue at work
Visited ruins and picked up a stranger in Guatemala
Snorkled along the barrier reef in Belize
Watched a patient die
Feared I had a stalker
Saw a concentration camp in Germany
Did a Sound of Music tour in Austria
Visited our nations capital
Rode a bullet train in Japan
Learned to sew
Gained a roommate
Bought a plane ticket to Brazil, Argentina and Chile

Here's hoping I'll have another great decade!