All Things Bright and Beautiful

Can I just tell you how great life is. Well its PRETTY AWESOME. On Friday I took a neuroscience test and totally beasted it, if you want to know how a particular neurotransmitter is made or the generals on how the nervous system is created starting from conception, I can tell you. I then went to a volleyball game and sat with friends(James was one of these friends, I gave my number to him the day before, and later on after we started dating I learned he was hoping that after the game we could go on a date, however he didn't tell me this; he was hoping it would just happen. However, I had already planned on going to the game and sitting with a different guy because I thought James was just another friend...awkward, but obviously it worked out) and we ate the last of my nutella stuffed sugar cookies (I made them for my neuro study group on Thurs which went from 5-10:30) and what isn't great about that, especially since BYU Men's Volleyball DOMINATED. On Saturday morning my team had a flag football game, and my TA for my neuroscience class was on the other team. We lost, but it was a fun game and I'm just going to view it as making a case to be put in the lower division. I met my old roommate Chelsea at the Rugby game and we watched her husband Rob play, while we basked in the beautiful weather, because I don't really understand rugby AT ALL. Then later that night we had a girls night and made easter eggs out of embroidery thread. Sometime Saturday afternoon I shot hoops with my crazy cool neighbors (I wasn't about to post this then because I was afraid of the potential of a relationship but that crazy cool neighbor was my now wonderful husband James edit 02/28/2013), lets just say I stink at horse, although I did beat one of them (not James because he wins at every competition I have with him) with a free throw shot sitting down (but I also got bruises on my back from doing sit ups on the hard wood floor as I was practicing the shot). On Sunday it was again a BEAUTIFUL day, I had amazing church meetings, and I went to Eagle Mountain for dinner to visit family. I always love hanging out with them and I hadn't seen them since Thanksgiving, so it was nice to see them, even if every time I visit they ask me why I don't bring a boy with me ;).
That brings us to Monday. I'll admit the daylight savings transition wasn't great but all things considered I had a wonderful Monday. Brain Awareness week is this week as is the start of March Madness (BYU plays tomorrow at 7:30). To top that off we discussed the blood brain barrier and cerebral spinal fluid in Advanced Neuroscience today. After the cerebellum, if I have personal expertise in anything it is the blood brain barrier, because Astrocytes (as in the glial cells that composed my tumor) play a very important role in it and I know my cerebral spinal fluid. We talked about the composition of CSF (I knew it had a sweet salty flavor) and the flow of CSF. The last slide of lecture showed a scan with a brain that had severely enlarged ventricles because the flow through the fourth ventricle had been cut off by a cerebellar tumor. The person in front of me made a snide remark that the brain  in the picture didn't look like the person would be living much longer(it was very distorted). To this I replied that I can personally guarantee that the person whose brain was shown didn't want to live much longer, because they were in so much pain they would rather be dead. To make a good day great, I took a nap outside, in shorts and flip flops, between classes. The great got even better as we went to Bishopric FHE and they fed us dinner.
Life is great, and I decided that even if I had failed my Neuro test, spent the whole weekend alone, it was snowing and I was suffocating in school work, at least I still have the ability to think and learn, I only average 3-5 headaches a week, I have a earthly family that loves me as well as a Heavenly Family that loves me, my body is still functioning (which how anyone's does is a miracle in itself) and nature never ceases to be spectacular(I was admiring how pretty and detailed individual snowflakes just a few weeks ago).