Update on College of Dentistry - School of Dental Hygiene

Kaitlyn got a letter in the mail yesterday asking her to please set up her interview appointment at the School of Dental Hygiene!!!! It will be one of the next 3 Fridays. She goes for 4 hours - there are three 30-minute interviews, a writing sample, a tour of the College of Dentistry - School of Dental Hygiene and some other stuff. We are so excited and she is nervous. I don't know why, she's at the top of her class with a 3.95 overall GPA and she just made a 91 on an anatomy test where the average was 70. Two girls she used to skate with are in her anatomy class with her. One was even assigned to her table (small world). Did you know they start cutting on cadavers the very first day of class? She said the "body" for their table was a 52 year old woman who was kind of overweight. Go Kaitlyn!!!

Champagne & Desserts

Tonight is the annual fundraiser for the University Women's Association (of which Jann is the president). It is called Champagne and Desserts - where champagne and chocolate and desserts are served then we see a play. This year's musical is "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." The fundraiser is for scholarships for OU students. Jann purchased me a ticket since I designed the invitation, tickets, name tags and place cards for the chocolates. Actually I was "volunteered" to do this. Anyway, Jerome thought he had died and gone to chocolate heaven with all the chocolates we had in the office today (that I drove 40 miles to go pick up yesterday). I personally sampled all 4 kinds - the chocolate mint ones were my favorite - tasted like Girl Scout cookies!!

Valentine's Day

Jann brought me tulips to put on my credenza for Valentine's Day. I'm sure she did it because she is tired of looking at my half-dead poinsettia from Christmas. It was the one I had placed on the altar at church in memory of Mack. Jerome wanted to be in the picture too since he's a Garden Gnome and all.

I also sat him on one of the few small patches of snow left in our backyard. Looked like the Matterhorn to him, I'm sure.

Jerome the Garden Gnome

This is my new friend, Jerome. Jerome is a Garden Gnome and he's going to start appearing in a lot of my photographs. Since my girls don't like me flying up photos of them, I'm going to let Jerome become an honorary Jondahl and he's gonna be in my photos every now and then (maybe even every day). We'll see what kind of trouble he likes to get into. At least he brings me flowers whenever I see him! Today, he patiently sat on my calculator while I played on facebook.

I recently cleaned up my desk area (dusted even!). Now I have it all organized.

Fun Saturday

Saturday was a fun, busy day. I finally went back to Zumba class (hadn't been in 2 weeks because of the snow/ice). I made a decision NOT to go to the Affair of the Heart this weekend. Too many other things to do. Joe and I went to the city early in the day so I could go and watch the Oklahoma Challenge Ballroom Dancing Championships. I sat in the ballroom of the convention hall and watched for an hour or so while he went down to his office and did some work. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the couples dance. I wanted to get out there with them!! It was the Latin competition, which is my favorite - Cha-Cha, Rumba, Swing.

We then left and went to the Oklahoma City Stockyards to meet up with some friends. We were going to eat an early dinner at Cattleman's Steakhouse but I think everyone else in town for the PBR was thinking the same thing. The wait was going to be an hour and a half so we left and went to Texas Roadhouse which was a couple of miles away. The couple (who are both young enough - late 20's - to be my children) brought 2 of their children, a boy and girl (from different marriages) who were both about 6. The little boy brought me a dozen pink roses and gave them to me. He was sooo cute! After we ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse, we all went to the Professional Bull Riding event at the arena. Here are some pictures -- Sorry the pictures aren't real good quality. We had great seats up in the suite but far away from the action. I had to zoom all the way out and my camera is not that good. This is the gate where they let the bulls go back inside.
Here's one of the riders/bulls.

Another rider/bull.
Joe and I in the suite.

The Express Personnel Clydesdales.

Another Prayer Shawl Completed

I worked with one of my Zumba teachers at OU almost 20 years ago. Last summer she somehow tore her aorta in her neck and can no longer teach zumba and I don't know if she's gone back to work at OU yet or not. Anyway, I made this prayer shawl for her. The colors are crimson and white. I'm going to take it to my "circle" on Sunday and have it blessed then I'm going to take it to her. Joe was not supposed to get me in the picture, I just wanted to show the pattern on the shawl.

Snowpacolypse - Part Deux

Well, it snowed again last night. The weather people were calling for 6-12 inches as another massive snowstorm moved in. We only ended up with about 5 inches and it was really dry and light. I could actually shovel it off the patio without killing my back! Jann and I stayed home today. Last week we stayed home for 3 days and then worked on Saturday to make up some work. I'm ready for spring.