High Five for Friday

A quick round up of the High Five of this week before bedtime!

1. Our optometry class ordered our first round of equipment this week!  A little closer to feeling like "real" doctors! Come July I will be rolling around a case full of diagnostic tools (most of which I probably won't know what to do with at that point)!

2. So I'm kind of cheesy and would like to make a "Bucket List."  I have one in my mind, but I forget things. And as you know, I love to make lists, so I was on the hunt for a cute journal to write everything down in.  Thanks to the wonderful world of Etsy, I found this one.  Jesse and I plan to use it together. It has 4 separate sections, so we will both have an individual-based bucket list in separate sections, and then fill the other two up together.  I also chose this style book because it is loose enough to fill with pictures and small memorabilia as we complete each item.  So when we're old and gray we can look back on all of these awesome things we did together.  (Aawww...)

3. Every now and then a new optometry club, called the Private Practice Club, meets on campus. I missed the first meeting, but thanks to my friends raving about the wealth of information they obtained, I attended the second meeting, and I am SO glad I did.  The speaker was a very inspiring and successful optometrist and businessman who encouraged us to write out our vision of how we want to practice one day.  He did this himself as he started his practice from scratch, making a mission statement for his office and all his decisions are made to fulfill this vision.  He spoke quite the truth when he explained that right now as students is the time that the reasons we wanted to be here in the first place are most fresh on our minds, and it's now when we need to analyze our vision for ourselves and our future practices so that we never lose sight of our initial purposes and goals.  So, I need to add that to my bucket list...or to-do list, I guess.

4.  We enjoyed a fun game/dinner night last night with our friends Mike and Kelsey playing "Ticket to Ride" (which helped brush me up on a little geography).  They have a vast game closet. They are awesome.

5. Wisteria is blooming!  It is beautiful, and almost gone. Sometimes happiness is just that simple.