Saturday, May 3, 2008

I did it!!

Now that graduation is over, it feels really weird not to have to think about upcoming assignments and tests and studying. But it is definitely a good weird. It was such a busy day, but it was a good busy. It was so nice of Dave, my mom and dad, Brent, Christy, Kenny, Dave's parents and grandparents, Brittany, Bailey, and Owen all to come celebrate with me. I had a pretty sweet cheering section.Thanks guys!!
So this is how my day went down.
6am wake up to get ready, I had to be to the school by 7:30.
8am Convocation. This was an hour of boredom. Thank goodness I was sitting by Gina, we pretty much talked the whole time which made it bearable. The speaker was awful. She kept talking about how it is our responsibility to save the environment that her generation destroyed, blah, blah, blah. I know it's important to care about the environment. But she was pretty much chastising us at our graduation. Not cool.
9:30 pics with my friends
10:30 Brent's commencement. Brent earned his Masters of Accountancy. I'm so proud of him. That is such a huge achievement! I hope to be hooded some day when I earn my Masters. We only stayed long enough to watch him walk and get hooded because we had to eat before my commencement. The speaker at his was way good. He spoke of having ethics and how you have to decide now what you will and won't do. He said, "Everyone needs to have Go To Hell Money." He then went on to explain what Go To Hell Money is. You need to have enough money saved up that when your boss asks you to do something you think is unethical or you don't feel good about doing, you have enough money to tell him, "Go To Hell!" I really liked that because we talked a lot about ethics in hygiene and I'm certain that there will come a time in my dental career that someone will ask me to do something unethical, and I won't do it.
11:00 Brunch at the Union Building.
12:00 Line up for commencement. It was so fun to walk. It felt like such a huge accomplishment. It was also somewhat unreal to me. I've been working towards this moment since I was 14 and now, 10 years later, I did it. Crazy! Britt took lots of family pictures after so I'm excited to see those.
2:30 Lunch at TGI Fridays's. It was really good. My old friend Nate Hirschi was our waiter, I didn't even recognize him so I'm glad he said something.
5:00 We headed down to Brittany's to watch the kids/help with Christy & Kenny's engagement pics.
7:00 Headed to SLC for the Jazz game. Yep, we got row 5 tickets to the game that sent them to Round 2 with the Lakers. The Rockets didn't have a chance. Right from the beginning the Jazz played awesome and they kept it up the whole game. I love Kyle Korver!! He is so hot. I wish I would have had my camera because towards the end of the game when they were 20 points ahead, he kept encouraging the crowd to stand and be loud. He's so cute! By the 3rd quarter the busyness of the day caught up with me and I crashed. I was so tired that I felt sick. The sickness was also brought on by the halftime show which was Rubber Boy. It was the most disgusting thing ever. The boy would like dislocated his shoulders to do crazy tricks. He would contort his body in the most disgusting ways. At some points I had to turn away. I never felt good after seeing that. Dave went and got me a Diet Coke, so by the end of the game I had enough energy to stand and cheer. I love going to games, it was so fun! As we walked to the care I was seriously delirious due to fatigue. Good thing Dave was with me to take care of me or I wouldn't have made it home.
Brent and I at graduation May 2, 2008

7 comments:

~adelle said...

YEAH! That is so exciting to finally be done with school. It is a weird feeling when you actually realize you don't have to study anymore.

I saw that rubber guy on TV at the jazz game. He was so gross. I totally had to look away too. He was creepy.

Also, I am still on the hunt for your wedding video...I found the tape from the temple so at least we have some video footage...I still have hopes of coming across the DVD though.

{Jamey} said...

You went to the Jazz game you lucky dog! That was an awesome game! I'm so glad I got to know you better this year. We really didn't talk much last year, so I was glad I got put with all of you guys for the VA~ We had alot of fun talking on the way to SLC and studying for boards! It's kinda wierd that we won't see everyone as much, but like you said, "It's a good weird", and I really am glad that it's all over. Keep in touch and hopefully we'll all keep blogging so we can see what everyone is up to. Good Luck and I wish you and Dave the best!
Jamey

Trent and Cas said...

That was such a good game! I bet it was so much fun! I think kyle korver is so hot too! It is so weird to be done, but not so done because of boards!

Marky said...

Way to go Joni!! We are so proud, what an accomplishment that is.. I'm sure it is such a great feeling to be finished! :0)

Trinity said...

YAY joni! We are so very proud of you and your accomplishments. Congratulations on maintaining a 3.6 GPA or higher and for always excelling in everything that you do. We love you. See you wednesday.

Mar said...

Joni,
You are amazing! I'm so happy for you and also so proud of you! I'm glad you posted what your big day was like. I'm sad that I couldn't be there to see you and Brent graduate. Charlie is sad about missing it too!
Mar

The Dicksons said...

Hey Joni! Congratulations on the graduation! That is so awesome. Feels like yesterday that you were just leaving school early to go get your assisting certificate. PS This is Carlie.. add me to your blog. www.markandcarlie.blogspot.com. We all need to get together! Hope all is well!