Ten on Tuesday (Vol. 44)

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Found this fun project by one of my inspired blog follower Stephany Wrties

1. How do you feel about Groundhog’s Day?

I never followed this event. However, I remember in elementary we will learned about this event and would find me just nod my head. Since I do not believe in this, only God can judge and tell what the weather will be. 


2. What color are your fingernails right now?
No color. I never paint my fingernails. Anytime I apply nail polish myself, it looks so sloppy and makes me feel like my nails are suffocating. I like the natural look better. <--agree with Stephany)


3. Do you like riddles?
Not really because my brain doesn't do well with them... haha


4. When you were 10, how old did you think “old” was? At your current age, how old do you think “old” is?
Uhumm... that is tricky question because today people can look younger than their actual age. However, I would say "old" i


5. Do you wish on stars?
Nope, because I know it never works, only God can make my wish come true through prayers!


6. Do you recycle?
Yes! I feel really good recycling stuff. Thanks to my parents teaching me how to recycle or other wise i won't care. In addition, I am eco friendly type of person since love the enlivenment and being outside.


7. On a scale of 1-10, how good of a cook are you?
Uhmm let say 6-8 it depends on what I cook, however, would love to learn more about cooking skills and etc. Since want my future family to enjoy my cooking. 


8. Do you color your hair? Professionally or at home?
I grew up get it done by professionally, until got to college i end up doing one coloring with my roommates and ex-boyfriend. Till I became older at age 22, I decided to quit and do it professional since I have wild and neat ideas to do with my hair. 


9. On a scale of 1-10, how do you rate your manners?
9- i grew up in an family that has strong morals which we learn how to treat others properly. By being polite, helping others, have respect for others, and much more that you can think of. You will rarely find me being rude to other people (i.e talk back, cuss at them,) unless they REALLY REALLY pushed my "pissed off" button. We all are humans, right?! We can't be prefect with our manners. -Smiles


10. Who are the last 5 people you have texted?
1)Mommy 
2) Tim 
3)Chelsea 
4)Stephen
5) Olga


Ten on Tuesday is a weekly series run by Chelsea of Roots and Rings.

2 ED visits = Surgery!

Did you read the title of my post?! That's right I went into ED (Emergency Department - new name for Emergency Room (ER)) twice and ended up having surgery. Oh Joy!!!!

Two small dots on left (right for you) kidney are the Kidney Stones

It was insane from Wednesday (Jan 11) to Tuesday (Jan 17th)-- Wednesday morning I started to feel nauseated;It felt like I had a stomach virus for about 30 minutes and had warned my aunt, who I was staying with in Omaha, that I wasn't feeling well. I decided to go back to bed to lay down and popped one of my gastro pills and all of the sudden my left side started to have terrible pains, thye had me on the floor they were so bad. I felt as if I had to throw up to get rid of the nausea in my stomach but the pain was too powerful. At that moment I knew it had to be a kidney stone because I had felt the exactly same pains 2 years ago while in Baltimore and had to go to John Hopkins hospital. So, I had to call out for my aunt, while I was texting my mom who, was apx. 3 hours away, that I was in server pain.  An hour later the pain wasn't going away and my aunt decided to take me to the ED at Methodist Hospital 5 mins away. I was screaming in pain I couldn't even walk to the car I had to crawl. My mom called my younger sister who was 45 mins away to meet me there and to help interpret for me. While waiting to get into the ED (it was an extremely busy morning) I was screaming in pain-unfortunatly there were 2 gentleman there staring at me. Finally after half an hour later a nurse took me in while I was throwing up and the pain was still there. Got an iv going so they could get the pain killer into me.I was still in pain 20 mins later, so they decide to increase the pain killer and finally the pain reduced.They request a urine sample before giving me a CATscan, however I couldn't go because there was probably a stone blocking it so they had to put in acatheter just to get a sample. After getting the sample they took me into CAT- Scan and discovered I had 2-3 kidney stones in the left kidney. I remained in Fast Trac Care room till my parents arrived around 3:30. I was able to go back to my aunt's an hour later with pain killer pills to help. 

Looking all good after surgery

The next day I was supposed to return to New York, but ended up having to cancel it which I was very grateful because I was not getting any better. Through out Thursday and Friday I was in mild pains in the same place, doctor told me to drink water and take pills when needed-I followed that. Ended up having the same severe pain on Saturday morning, went back to the ED and again back on IVs and retook the Cat- Scan (no catheter this time!) and found 3 or 4 stones were still there. They decided to send me home with higher mg of pain pill since there was nothing they could do about it. 

Again I was still in pain on and off through out Saturday and Sunday. My parents and grandma came down to Omaha on Saturday after I was dismissed from the ED and it was nice to have them around till dad and grandma took off to a funeral Sunday in Kansas.

By Monday (16th) morning I wasn't getting any better so Mom decided to call an urologist office and was lucky enough to get in a right away. We went there met with the urologist, he gave me 3 options: try new pills, suffer through it or surgery. I was thinking for the past 5 days I was taking pills non-stop and I didn't want to go through that any more so we decide surgery was the best option. Also I was schedule to fly back on Friday 20th,so I preferred to feel better before leaving.I was lucky they were able to schedule a surgery right away for that afternoon. I went back home with a shot in the butt for the pain till surgery, OW!!

Picture of Ureteral Stent that is inserted

At 3:30 it was time to go into surgery,I had wonderful and helpful nurses and doctors around, which helped my mom feel more calm while she was interpreting for me. They took me into surgery to remove one stone and insert ureteral stent byUreteroscopy procedure. After surgery, I woke up from being under general anaesthesia in mild pain from the surgery in recovery room. Later they decide to put me into a regular room till i was able to urinate, eat, walk, and be pain free. I was still in pain from the surgery and had a difficult time urinating so they had me stay the night. About 7:30pm I was able to eat, I was very hungry since I had not ate for more than 24 hours. I had plain butter pasta and mashed potatoes (yummy!). I wasn't able to sleep through the night till 3-4am when I finally zonked out after the last dose of morphine and then woke up at 7am to go to the bathroom and decide I was strong enough to go home. I slept the rest of the morning and rested, mom, dad, and grandma were still around and also I had family come over to visit. Mid morning dad and grandma left to go back to Osmond while mom stayed till 2. She left after taking me for yummy cupcakes at Jones' Brothers.

So sad went into the ER again!

I remained at my aunt's until I flew back on Friday. I was sore most of the time however from the Ureteral Stent. I am so looking froward to getting it removed in about a week or so!

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers while I was going through this pain! They were much appreciate and definitely answered by our Father in Heaven along with Jesus who was stand by me all the way! :)

Wonderful information on kidney stones

http://www.webmd.com/kidney-stones/ss/slideshow-kidney-stones-overview

fill in the blank friday...

1.   One of my favorite things to do when I have free time is     sleeping, watch a movie, or hang out with my friends   .

2.   When I have free time I tend to    be more lazy than motivated. Waste my time on pinterest, facebook, and blogging.

3.  If I had an entire day completely to myself I would    (if I'm not too lazy)- start off my morning with Starbucks, then would go out on a bike ride, and rest of the day would probably find me vegetable out or out with my amazing friends!

4.  I would prefer to spend my free time (alone or with others...)    a little bit of both. I love doing things with friends and family, but I also need alone time to catch up on myself. - even if it's just running boring errands    .

5.  Most of my free time happens    on the weekend or nights only if I'm not schedule to do anything (I.e working, babysitting, appointments, or booked to go on a date with a friend)  .

6.  The best thing about free time is    that you can relax and have free minded (depends- ha) .

7.  The next time I have free time I should probably   do things that I kept on procrastinate with  .


My Friday went great- hang out with Shawlee a new guy I met and sorta of got my eyes on! Heetee. Hope you had a great Friday!

Party 2011 Away...

You gotta be kidding me it's already 2012!! Did I just sleep through the whole year of 2011?! Guess not because I had a great time partying away 2011 with my Omaha buddies. They are so much fun to party with and have good time!

We had lots of food, loud music, funny comments, foosball tournament and played Battles of Sexes game. It was a great time!

Here are some pictures from the night....

  Hope you all had a great NYE and wish you the best for 2012!! <><

Christmas in Nebraska

Christmas here in Nebraska went great and very relaxing! Seeing ALL my family once again was the best part about Christmas. I was able to catch up on all my hugs and kisses with my little cousins especially for the littlest one Sydney. She makes me laugh and I just love her to pieces. I pretty much stayed with my parents for the week after Christmas, till Tues Jan 3 my little sister and I headed back to Lincoln to stay at her place till I fly back to the East coast next week.

Had three Christmas to go to, My grandpa's side of family (Whole Hoppe clan), my dad's side of family (Haselhorst), and then my mom's family on Sunday on New Years Day. We all had a good time catching up on family news and playing games together. 
  
Anyways, I got all that what I asked for- Thanks "Santa"! (Most fav is my new Husker warm up jacket). However, one thing was missing on my list was a White Christmas, we had no snow at all- Boophooey!

Posted some good pics from Christmas... 

Mom wrapping gifts

Emily and her Boyfriend Taylor at Hoppe Clan

Sydney with her gift from Santa

Emily with her gift from me

My lovely Grandma and I

Cousins: Nicole, Jenny and I

Haselhorst Christmas

Played kinect

Hoppe Christmas- Apples to Apples

Made Christmas cookies

Hope you all had a blessed and wonderful Christmas, even remember the truth purpose of this Holiday! <><

Week at Copper...

Sorry for the lack of posting over my vacation at Copper Mountain, after the first day it got super busy and too much relaxing in between. The first 3 days were terrible just so much as my previous post, lot of crud and not as good it was supposed to be. 

On Tuesday night we spent our night in Breckenridge shopping around and ate at Eric's a yummy local bar/restaurant. Wednesday night we went to Japanese restaurant at Copper Village, it wasn't too great for sushi as we thought it would be. Thursday night we dine at the condo which was the most Delicious ribs I ever had!

On Wednesday night and morning we finally had chuck of snow on the mountain, it was little difficult for me to ski at first since was used to curds and thin snow. I kept on falling and falling then finally afternoon runs were much better! It was same for Thursday morning runs had no fall and switched to different type of skis in the afternoon. 

 Friday we headed back up northeast to Nebraska and dropped off the boyfriend at Denver airport back to California to his hometown to have Christmas with his family. 

Lets pray and hope the next time we come back to Copper it would be MUCH better on the slopes to ski/board on!


Here are the photos- Enjoy!

From Copper

Copper Day 1...

Weather: Sunny/ 43*

Ski Lifts Open: 14 out of 22

Trials open: 52 out of 135

Our morning runs went well with plenty groomed snows, which made our skiing/boarding much easier. 

Afternoon runs were terrible!!! Since it was sunny and warm snow had melt then became curd snow (not slushy but ICY!) It was pretty tough to ski on. I did slipped on a crud, slide down the hill for good minute without stopping- it was scary and crazy! It was kinda embrassaing because it was right by the lifts and whoever were on the lifts saw the WHOLE thing! Too bad I cannot hear what they would say, bummers! But my boyfriend and others saw it, i was practically going into the woods or off orange boundries. Snow was all over my face, gloves, and even inside my coat and pants- ugh. I did laugh afterwards, result of this accident is headache and SORE neck. Haha After that run did another run and said "lets called it a day"! 

As for Vincent, was very impressed that he is a fast boarder which I do not have to worry about teach or wait for him down the slope. We both go at the same pace. He did fell few times not as much I did haha. He is really enjoying his time, tho!

Lets see what tomorrow have in storage for us even it said it likely to snow- WHOOT!

Picture of the Day: (GRR I left behind my camera cord in Rochy- "sobbs")

However. found a picture that pretty much of looked like when i was slick down the hill on crud snow

Arriving Copper...

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Ahh... Vincent and I finally made it to Denver after missing our first flight due to our ride not show up. We were on standby at first but Thank God they got us a seat to Chicago to our connection to Denver (the earliest out as possible).

Our first flight was well, we grab some yummy Gourmet popcorn at our layover in Chicago and relaxed till our next connection. 


Second flight was interesting, because I was assigned to sit in first class seats while the boyfriend had to sit way in the back of the plane. I totally felt bad that he didn't get the chance, even we tried to get him pushed up. Had nice "snack or dinner" and some drinks, however realized first class is not my thing! Anyways, yes we made it to Denver by 5:30pm several hours later from our original flight (1:30pm). 

While in Denver we made few stops before heading to Copper Mountain. Arrived to our family condo and pretty much hit the sack since we both were exhausted from traveling and stressful morning. 

Now looking forward to skiing in the morning! I can't believe how much I miss the Mountains. God's amazing by bring us both "safe and sound" to Copper. <><

Late Friday Fillin Blanks...

Oops a little late!

Let's celebrate by filling in some blanks!

with Lauren

1.   The holiday season is     exciting! It's full of family, friends, love, thankfulness and the Lord!

2.   Snow makes me   dying to hit the slopes!

3.  The best comfort food to eat when it's cold out is    soup and warm bread!

4. Winter is the best time for    being buried under cozy blankets and being cuddled   .

5.  I can hardly wait for    ski trip to family's condo at Copper Mountain, CO and be the first trip with the boyfriend!

6.  When it comes to holiday gifts I prefer to    give what will touch their heart and see big smile on their faces.

7.  If I were to rate my excitement about the holiday season on a scale from 1-10, I would say I am at about a    10 because its time of the year I fly home to see my family and friends- Miss them dearly!!

Birthday Weekend

My birthday weekend went well. I worked from 9am to 5pm then the boyfriend had flew back into town from his home visit for Thanksgiving holiday. He and I just relaxed at the place where I was house sitting... look what had done!

Made Miso Soup

made our own Sushi!

Our yummy sushi!! (Smoked salmon and Crab with cream cheese)

He got me a gift! (he knows me so well now, right colors and in love with the fish symbol)

Yuppers he made both for me!!

Played with Cody

Ended our night watching my tradition movie

Went to church in the morning together... God's so good to provide me a Christian boyfriend- who would go to church with me! <><

What a great weekend I had, thanks to the boyfriend for making it fun and relaxing. Now gotta see what 24 year old has in store for me! <><