"Hey Boo! Catch-up!!" "Mustard!!"

Don't judge. I do love scripture scouts. When I was thinking of a title for this post, and I decided it was kind of a catch-up blog...and this immediately came to mind. Due to the many many hours and hours listening to these blessed tapes (I think they're available on CD now...) I am often reminded of the many songs, stories, and quotes from them!
I apologize for it being more than a month since I posted! I will definitely do better during September. Because it has been so long since I have written, it will probably be a lot of reading - so bear with me! Here's what I have been up to over the past month:

1. Schooooool! School officially started August 23. It is my LAST fall semester of college ever! That may be close to the best news of all time. Naw, I do love school, but it is such a great feeling to be less than eight months away from graduation day! Oh yeah, and with the start of school comes the start of clinic! I am loving my clients and, once again, know that I am in the write program!
   
2. Kansas City. The weekend right after school started, Audrey Nash and I went to Harrisonville to pick up Ross (in the car, not lift him up...) then we went to Kansas City MO to see all the church history sites. I guess technically we were in Independence and Liberty, but close enough! I will say that not only were we greatly inspired and touched by all of the sites were got to see, but there is also a wonderful place called Sheridan's Frozen Custard that is as close to inspiring as custard can be! I recommend the blackberry sunday. Oh yeah, also, a piece of advice - don't try and eat out, even at taco bell, when you are gluten-free and when another person in your group can't eat anything that is cooked at all. Haha, it makes for an interesting adventure. **Here's my thank-you shout-out to the Independence Taco Bell for dealing with us, THANK YOU!!**Ross was a little bit nervous about the drive home from Independence. He didn't want anything to happen to him before his mission!
3. Externship!!!! I have been interviewing at a school and medical settings to figure out where exactly I will be placed. It is so real now! ...and I am starting to get nervous...but also excited!
4. New Roommate! (wow, I have a lot of exclamation points in this blog) After a month and a half of living by myself in my apartment, my new roommate moved in! Her name is Codi Keyser, she just graduated from BYU and is going to Missouri State now in the PT program. We have had a blast! Also, I didn't know there was anyone who could like cookie dough as much as I do (except Kiely...flashback to July when she filled a tupperware container full of it for lunch at school...) but she does! She also agrees with me that the chocolate chips in choc chip cookie dough are fine, but really, if you are going to eat cookie dough, the chocolate chips are just a waste of calories! Its like destiny! ;) Luckily we also have the same taste in movies so there have been plenty of chick flicks watched in our free time (what little free time we have)
5. Guitar. Skyler Barger moved to Utah and was basically selling everything but the clothes on his back, so I bought one of his guitars! Its not the highest quality instrument, so I decided to have my friend at work paint it! It will look very artsy, creative, stylish and trendy, just like me...(yeah that was a joke, feel free to laugh. Nothing about me is any of those things...see picture below and caption below...) But seriously, I am excited about the guitar. Pictures of the guitar to come later!!Okay, the reason this angle is so weird is because I tried to capture the entire essence of this outfit. Yeah, I wore scrubs that are too big, my I Heart BBQ shirt and a baseball cap...for two days in a row. (Hey give me a break, I didn't really leave my apt at all!) Don't you worry, the first and half of the second day I wore my USU hat, and the second half of the second day I wore my MSU hat. I didn't want either to get jealous. Hey, my hair was straightened, doesn't that count for something? Oh yeah did I also mention no makeup? Hmmm, I wonder if I should actually post this picture... ******Dear Future Spouse. I promise I usually wear makeup and I usually don't wear the exact same outfit two days in a row. A pair of jeans a few days in a row, yes, and maybe even a t-shirt twice in a week, but not the whole outfit! Don't worry!! Please don't make any long-term decisions based on this picture!******
   
6. Amycakes Bakery! The job is going SO GREAT! I love the people who work there, as well as the job in general! I also love that I'm starting to get some forearm muscle back from the giant rolling pin. I am basically responsible for making the cookies, bars, brownies, cinnamon rolls, and the occasional cake/cupcakes or danish. Stop in for a treat! You won't be sorry I promise!
7. The Banks have come!! Yeah sorry Meagan, I couldn't think of a good title for this one. I am so so so so happy that Meagan and her husband Jaron have moved to Missouri! I've been looking forward to it for so long! Jaron is going to chiropractic school in Chesterfield MO, which is just 3-ish short hours from Springfield, but 1.5 hrs. from Rolla! Wahoooooo! Take that, long distance friendship, Meag and I will show you whats up! Its kind of funny that we're sticking with our pattern of 3 hours apart though. It seems like since we were across the street neighbors in Rock Springs WY we haven't been able to live closer than three hours away from each other...weird...
8. Hair Cut! I almost did it. I almost went short(ish). But luckily, I didn't have the guts! By the time I got in there I asked her not to take any length off, but to just fix up the bangs and stuff. She ended up taking off WAY more than I thought (okay okay, it was like 2 inches) but its ok. I still like it. And I still like her. Here's a pic...You can kind of tell how short it is here...ummm, basically out of all the pictures I tried to take of my haircut, this one was the least embarrassing...but if you are dying to see a real picture of the hair, let me know. This can suffice as "the day Devery got her haircut and only wanted to show everyone half of her face."
   

Whew! I think that's about it! OH YEAH! What have I been doing day in and day out? Working on my THESIS!!! That can easily take up 3-5 hours of any given day. But I think its finally coming and starting to look good. I'm on page 35 right now (and I just finished up the Into and Methods sections), so keep your fingers crossed. It should be done by January!!

You want to see what my playlist has been this month?
(they're all hyperlinked so you can listen if you want :) )
Dynamite - Taio Cruz
Love Like Woe - The Ready Set
Haven't Met You Yet - Do I Even Need To Say?
Bulletproof - La Roux
Look Through My Eyes - Phil Collins
What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Come What May - Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor

Alright alright, I'm out of your hair. Sorry I was so long winded! Enjoy!!

P.S. The carrot on the right is a normal size baby carrot. The carrot on the left is the wonderful treasure I found in the last bag of baby carrots I bought. Score!! Someone in the checking the carrots for the appropriate size department isn't doing their job. This one is more like a teenager carrot!

Through a downtown bakery window...

So, I spend a lot of time looking at this view:
But... I kind of love it. Number one, the window decor is always SO CUTE! Right now its decorated for the bakery's first birthday. Also, The 3-4 hours a day I spend looking through my downtown window (ok, not my downtown window, but the one I look through) usually allows me to see a variety of things!! (By the way this is taken from exactly where I stand rolling out cinnamon rolls, making brownies/bars, making cookies, etc...

1. Business men. I love that I work downtown, and there are businessmen with briefcases walking around. Always very quickly, always with a purpose, and always looking at their cell phone.

2. Mothers with children. I am pretty sure I have seen this exact scene right outside "my" window, matching outfits and all. Often times they come up to the bakery, look at the "closed" sign, and walk away sadly :( ...now that I look at it though...I wish that mom was standing behind those kids!
3. Can I just tell you how many couples I see on dates downtown, especially on friday night! SO MANY!! I love seeing the ones like this who are all dressed up! When I do see them though, I walk quickly with my head down though, because at this time I usually look extra awesome with my hat or bandana, dirty jeans, and oil-stained shirt.
4. So far my favorite thing that I've seen is the truck pulling a trailer...full of watermelon...pulling out of the parking lot. I so badly wanted to grab one. And honestly, I'm not going to lie, I wondered what it would look like if the trailer tailgate had opened...could you imagine?? That would be amazing! (And terribly sad for the poor watermelon farmer at the same time.)

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

I LOVE FOUR DAY BIRTHDAYS

Day 1: Saturday, July 31
My friends surprised me with a party in Rolla! We had dinner and a campfire and it was so so fun!

Ross even came down from Kansas City!


Day 2: Sunday, August 1
Jake gave me a cake stand so I just had to use it! Sarah and I made a layer cake - buttermilk with peanut butter frosting, with crushed golden oreos. That night a few guys came over who had recent birthdays so we all had birthday cake!Day 3: Monday, August 2
My real birthday!! That day I ran some errands in Springfield - went ot the restuarant supply store, wholesale food store, and teacher/education store. It was great! That night I went to dinner at Lamberts with Mary, Sarah, and Skyler-then went swimming at Mary's pool. After we swam I went HOME!

Day 4: Tuesday, August 3
Family Birthday Day! We went to elephant rock state park, and the Johnson Shut Ins State Park. Both of those places are a-ma-zing! We had so much fun climbing all over the boulders, swimming in the river, and playing in the pools/chutes etc...pictures to come later!

Thanks so much everyone for such a great birth...week!!

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan

Today, my dinner was delicious! Yes I made it, but no I'm not trying to brag! I though I'd share my "recipe." I call it, Spaghetti Squash with Pesto, Garlic, Onions, Tomatoes, and Parmesan Cheese. By the way, that title is copyrighted (what IS the past tense of that word?) so don't even try to take it.
Here it is:

1. Heat 1 tbl of olive oil, then saute 2tsp of minced garlic and some chopped onion in a pan over medium-high heat.
2. Add some pesto ( 1 tbl?) and some chopped up cherry tomatoes...I think I used 4 of the big ovally ones.
   
3. Heat through, then add some cooked spaghetti squash and cook till hot
4. Salt to taste and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Yummmmmm! I am enjoying it as I type. I LOVE IT!!

That's all I have the energy to type up tonight. I hope you like it!!

Yearbook day?

Its the last day of school!! Time for summer break!! (Maybe if I use enough exclamation points I will forget that I only get three weeks off!!!!) When I come back, I will have ONE more semester of school "on-site" before I move to VANCOUVER WA!
Clinic this semester was great - my clients were...an adventure...and I learned a ton from them and from my supervisors. I also got to do fun things like paint a cucumber and a tomato (yeah, for real, we did that).
I don't really have much else to say - I am hoping that I actually make it through the day. Its going to be a long, non-stop day including clinic, conferences, meetings, thesis work ( I mean, hanging out with Dusty), work, institute, Andys, and a movie with the girls! Ok, well I only need to make it through thesis work, and the rest is fun stuff lol.
So, if you don't hear from me for a while, its because I got stuck in the clinic, and please come save me.

This summer, my 21st summer in existence, I have become an OLD LADY!! Really, what the heck? I'm not even a cool old lady, just the kind that doesn't do anything.

• On any given night, including Friday and Saturday, your best bet will be to find me at my apartment, alone, not hanging out with anyone. (This is not a pity blog-I could have gone somewhere, I just chose to go home.)
• I have gone to bed early more times this summer than I have in a long time! There has been a few times when I have been in my bed a good 4 hours earlier than normal.
• I don't know if you know this, but I am really from the wrong decade. My choice of music on a regular basis is not music that is current...
• I'm known as the mother, or even grandmother figure among some groups of friends, because I cook/bake all the time, always have random things with me, and do things like...make butter in speech therapy sessions...who does that?
• My sense of style/fashion is so far from trendy, or even current, its not even funny. I was definitely put at the bottom of the list of stylish people. (again, not a pity blog - I just speak the truth Kye Browning)
  

Its funny that I feel so old these days because all of my friends at school are telling me how young I am! "Devery you're just a baby!!" Ok ok, yes, I'm not even 22 yet, but that doesn't mean I graduated in 2009!! (Cylie Cornell!!)

Here's another list - this is a running list that I will continue to add to.

Amazing Questions I Am Asked At School About Being Mormon:

• Do you celebrate Christmas?
• I heard that you believe when the statue falls off the temple in St. Louis, that the World ends...true?
• "We could rent a 14 passenger van" "Dev, could you hook us up with one of those?" "...did you just ask me that because I'm Mormon?" "Yeah...I was being totally serious."

Alright sorry for all of the random stuff - and that its been so long since I posted. In general its been an awesome summer, I am having a BLAST! Haha, last time I told someone that exact thing, they said "What's his name?" Nope, there's no "he" involved, unless you count Dusty, my thesis. (I had to name him because I'm spending so much time with him - and its a cowboy name because when I was little I wanted to be a cowBOY when I grew up. A thesis is pretty grown up right?)
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Ehhhh, the curse of not knowing how to end this blog...so its just going to stop.

7 year old client: "Do you have children?"
Me: "Nope, I don't have any kids."
"Are you even married?"
"No, no I'm not married."
"Do you have a boyfriend"
"...No, I don't have a boyfriend either."
"Devery, do you even have a crush?"
"...why are we talking about this? Wait, do you have a crush?"
"Well, I might be lying right now: No."
"Oooh so you do have a crush??"
"Ahhh ok ok, you're right, I do. But I don't want to talk about right now."
"Whats her name?"
"I cannot tell you that."
"Oh come on, you can just tell me her name."
"I might be lying right now..."
"No no, just tell me. At least what does it start with?"
"Its close to a 'z', and close to an 'l'."

...to be continued...hopefully. (I'm dying to know what letter is close to a 'z' and an 'l'...