this is me at work making a bleaching tray for a patient to have white teeth.
i love being out of the salon. of course i miss the people. i worked with the greatest team...but now i'm doing something i can be proud to say i do.
and i needed that.

and im getting marrieddddddd dsakldmsadlasmk!!

this means im getting married!
josh surprised me this morning big time. after breakfast and a shower i reached for the toothpaste and found the ring taped to it haha. i shouted for him and he came in,got down on one knee, gave a little lovin speech and popped the big question. i was speechless! but of course i accepted his request and now im engaged!
now i get to pick out a dress!
now i get to plan something!
oh my oh my.
josh is the greatest and has been a huge part of who i've been becoming as a woman. i couldn't ask for anyone else to spend my life with.

i painted this for joshua. he loved it. its all that hangs on our wall.

why not update here too.

yesterday after work i came home and fell asleep for a while until lara showed up at my door. surprise! we went for a walk to spotswood so she could check out an apartment. it was a traditional ghent style place. i'd rather her just take up sarahjane's lease and hang out next door. then we went to red dogs so she could eat and i had a beer. there we were spotted by fellow ghentite kirk and i spotted the great jesse phipps. it was good to see him again.

i eventually got hungry and got my boyfriend and we went to ten top for take out. yummm city!! i think i'll definitely be picking up food from there from now on. so many veggie options for me. we ate and watched true blood dvds. i'm really enjoying our naro video rental membership. so much. after a few glasses of wine is off to sleepsville and here i am awake on a saturday off to serve some time at the ol' r&k. i still technically work there but don't work there. i fill in on weekends for extra cash if they ever need the assistance. its not all bad. i still get hair benefits this way you know? but i mean getting ready in the morning is way easier when i can just get up and throw on scrubs. ew.

i plan on watching bill cosby comedy tapes tonight. i've been planning it. no shame. i love mr. cosby.

taking a break from blogger and trying something new.
hang out with me at my kim jong tumblr page.

taking a break from blogger and trying something new.
hang out with me at http://kimjong.tumblr.com

here i am. sitting in my new apartment in west ghent. my neighborhood is entirely too cute and i'm enjoying it very much.
we moved in on saturday when i got done with class. its slowly coming together with furniture and decor but i have a lot of belief in this little place.
living with josh has been similar to our life before considering i had been with him every day this past year anyway. but it is new and fun as well. we fix each other lunches for work and kiss goodbye as we go off for our days. speaking of a year josh and i will have been dating for a full on year next week! we win. so much has changed over this year its sort of scary. i remember josh and i talking back and forth while he was in arkansas for work getting to know each other and i remember him leaving arkansas three months early to come home and really get to know me. hes absolutely wonderful.
last night we walked down to red dog to meet up with lara and richard and ran into our neighbor sarahjane during the process and nick and kristin. i love how that works. i mixed my wines and beers and definitely felt no good this morning but i press on.
i have class today. its my final class before my actual finals which is the final class until i take cpr certification and radiology certification classes and finish all of this madness. three months of schooling went by really really fast. and there went the summer!
im excited for autumn for once in my whole life.

after class tonight i will officially be living in sin with my boyfriend. hah.
i was always honest with my parents about me leaving them which was hard for me at first. my whole life i've been terrified of my mom and her strong conservative views. things are a lot easier these days with josh in my life. i'm not scared of a lot of things like i used to be. not even my scary mother. i've been growing up a bit over the past few months, people.
last night we were at the apt doing some work and sarahjane showed up and gave us a beer to welcome us. shes our kramer. sort of.

i like this photo

everything is going well. this is my last night in the house i've lived in since the beginning of high school. a lot of good happy memories here. like starting bands and writing songs. one too many crazy drunken memories here as well.
i couldn't be more excited. after class tomorrow its off to my new home sweet home.

some photos from our lake house day.











due to me having school this summer i was only able to be at the lake for one day but it was all okay because that one day felt like four days. we had a lot of fun like usual and that may be the last trip of the summer. hmm!
i've been packing like a mad woman. last night josh and i had to finish doing our inspection and moved my chair and ottoman over. so our apartment is only furnished right now with that small chair and small ottoman. i sort of love it just like that. we visited the basement and it was a place i will never visit again. haunt fest u.s.a., brah! if i was a ghost or homeless or the ghost of a homeless person i'd haunt that basement. should've taken photos! nuts.
so my packing continues and hopefully ends today (as long as i get off this computer successfully). my brother/anyone else i can find that has offered today are going to help me with my norfolk commute to throw my stuff in there.
i might work in a dental office in norfolk tomorrow morning with emily. shes been assisting there for quite some time and asked her doctor if i could intern. she has made me very happy.

i watched "17 again" on a whim. i actually really enjoyed it. love that efron boy.
i still haven't seen "500 days of summer" or "ponyo".
i did get to watch half of the mike tyson documentary that just came out. his views on women and sex made me very nervous. when he was a kid he kept pigeons and then these bullies killed his pigeons...so he beat the bullies up. now hes a monster. i felt really bad for him about those pigeons though.
i didn't think i had a lot to pack for the move but now i'm realizing i have way too much stuff! the lease is getting signed today and then after that we can move in whenever. i'm so excited!
theres a lot happening with work, school and interning, and getting our apartment together. i only have three weeks left of school to learn as much as possible and get as many interning hours as i can and i have to be out of this house completely by the end of this month so the new owners can move in.
sunday i'm going to the lake house. i wish i was moving to the lake house.

i walked into some dental offices today after my clinical asking if i could volunteer a couple hours during the week to gain more experience. i walked out with an application to a pediactric dental office. i probably would enjoy that.
we found our place.
west ghent here we come.
like...next week?

josh told me that stephon marbury from the boston celtics went crazy and started eating vaseline. i didn't believe him til i saw the actual video. i haven't been a fan of the man till now haha.

i had clinical today at the dentist office. i was all sorts of terrifed going in on account of the doctor i work with is one mean man that just cannot be pleased. we've had some moments where i wanted to run out of the room but have always gotten through it. today after we did a surgical extraction he actually pat me on the shoulder and said "you did real good". i just about fell over!
fantastic! my confidence level is a lot higher today. i'm starting to get the hang of the instruments and their purposes and what come when. its week six. im actually almost done.
after that josh and i toured apartments. we found something we like but who knows where we are going to end up.

im melting! the earth is so hot!
i swear i dream teeth every night. i see teeth in everything. i saw the maxillary sinus cavity in the sky the other night.
i'm moving in a few weeks and then moving again in a few weeks. so weird.
tides game tonight with everyone in hampton roads. pretty excited. we always have a good time at harbor park. its cool that we have a baseball team we can go see like that but it would be really cool to have a team of any sport that we could all be really proud of. in december we're going to try to go to dc to see a wizards vs. celtics games. i'm very excited about this thought. we'd much rather go to boston for a game but dc is closer so you know the deal.
i hope i take some good pictures soon.

just got home from a long day at the dental office. somday i will be comfortable with all the procedures enough to not stumble around. i work for a very very stern doctor. ahhhhhh man.
so anyway i had a fun weekend.

and thats it.

stayed up too late watching a movie on the jackson 5.
ruinedddd.

july is almost completely finished and so far this summer has been full of fun. i've especially liked hanging out more with old friends and sunday beach days. i've known landon longer than most people i know and its been this summer that i have seen the most of the guy. landon, josh and i played jeopardy last night and i won again. because i'm great. although i'm enjoying my summer and really prefer warm weather over cooler temps i am actually looking forward to it being over. when summer ends that will mean school is ending and i will hopefully be living in a new location. i'm just looking to get all the changes out of the way and that means summer must die. but until then i'm fine.

katie posted this picture on her blog of us backstage during rehearsal for "BIG" junior year of highschool and i had to post it here as well!


so silly. those animals were filthy. when i think about junior year and hanging out backstage i really sometimes wish i would have gone away to school.

the michael jackson tribute party was a lot of fun. so many photos were taken by so many cameras. josh won first place in the costume contest for his portrayal of michael in the video for "you are not alone". yes, he just wore a towel.
i was struggling to get my costume together before the party started and my sanity together really. i had a class on x-rays from 9am till close to 8pm. i took so many darn x-rays and i had my teeth rayed more than i wanted. i'm surprised i'm not in hulk mode. this class is becoming really fun. fun but very challenging and cumbersome.
i just got back from the beach with a lot of great people. i am thankful i have great people in my life. i shouldn't have eaten as much pizza as i did just now but i will say i am thankful for that pizza i did have.