summer time catch up

yes, i know i am horrible about updating this thing.... but it is because i can be. so here are the exciting things that have happened to me in the last few months.

• college world series. that's right after 3 years in omaha i finally made it to some games. my parents came out and spent the weekend with me and the three of us went to a game. i also went to a game with a group of friends and we had a bbq on my roof after that. besides the down pour of rain at the beginning the night ended up being pretty fun.
• brady got home! we were able to get the whole heaps family back together for some family fun, which always has to include some kind of competition so we took it to the miniature golf course. not often you see 4 children over 20 years old mini golfing with their parents, but that was us.
• rotation #2 was at walgreens in omaha. not my dream job.... best thing i've heard about walgreens is them described as the pharmacy mafia.. once you start working there it is for life and they are like a huge family trying to take over the pharmacy world... now is that really who you want filling your prescriptions?
• rotation #3 UTAH.... i worked at rite aid. yes i did feel like i joined the competition, but i felt like i switched to the good side. i gave my first immunization at this place and not the highlight of the experience.
• while in utah we got to go to bear lake... always a fun time for the heaps fam. it is almost one long non-stop weekend of competition. but the skiing was fabulous as always. even skiing is a competition to who is the best skier.... this is one competition i am not even a part of.
• i am now on rotation #4 ... that means in 2 weeks i will be half way done with my 4th year... wow time is flying. this is my ambulatory rotation... i'm working at the lincoln va at the anticoagulation clinic. basically what i do is patients come in and i look at their lab values and determine if their coumadin dose needs to be adjusted.

so basically nothing really interesting has happened in my life... so no need to feel left out that it has been so long since my last post. maybe i'll try to start living a more exciting life, and get better at writing posts, but then again i probably won't.

olympic swim trials

ok ok, so this all happened about a month ago but still who would have guessed in omaha. the one time living next to the qwest center has come in handy. who would have guessed that a basketball stadium could be turned into such an amazing swimming venue. needless to say i visited the trials a couple of times before they were over. anyone who has ever swam competitively knows the art of deck changing very well, but changing on a deck of a swimming pool in front of a hundred or so people no big deal, but there was one guy there who didn't shy away from doing it in front of 13,000 people, i guess he didn't want to miss out on anything. the only thing that could have made this a better experience is if i hadn't been such a slacker growing up and had been able to swim.

where in the world??

fourth year pharmacy student, who would of thought i would get this far in life. i tell you that first semester of pharmacy school i felt like i was starting highschool all over again and wondered if i'd ever be a senior - you know the feeling. the best part about being a fourth year besides the fact that i graduate in less then a year is that i am not stuck in a classroom all day. no i'm currently in atlantic, iowa the home of 7,257 iowans. did you ever know there was such a place? yeah me either. it is in fact the coca-cola capital of iowa, so shame on you for not knowing the location. but for those of you who don't know where it is; it is approximately 70 miles east of omaha. yes i do travel about an hour and fifteen minutes everyday to get there and home and believe or not i get there by 8:00 am. i have been working at cass county memorial hospital- ccmh!! i am doing my general hospital rotation there and it has been lots of fun and a whole new experience. the best part about the place though does have to be the people- they are so much fun.

he's just not that into you.......

i'm currently reading he's just not that into you and well what i have learned so far..... while the author continues to build you up and tell you how fabulous and what a great catch you really are, that if a guy is not breaking down your door, showering you with flowers, and constantly keeping his word and showing you how truly in love with you he is, then he's just not that into you. ok so maybe that might be a slight exaggeration, but maybe not.

through reading this i have been reflecting on my life, i have made a few discoveries, like you know maybe that guy just wasn't that into me or maybe i just wasn't into that guy, no more explanation is needed then that.

i have also realized some other great qualities that i have that are probably really not that great. you know the girl that when she first meets a guy always says the dumbest possible thing. or the girl that rambles constantly when they get nervous. yeah i think i am a wonderful mixture of the two. oh and what's better is i'm sure i think i am funnier then i really am. haha yeah life is good.

getting home....

so i spent the past weekend in san diego, a nice break from omaha.....until it came time to go home. i got to the airport super early (like 4 hours early. did you know they won't let you check in your baggage more then 4 hours before your flight?) unfortunately i was unable to get on an earlier flight, so i was stuck spending the afternoon in the san diego airport. suprisingly i used most of the time wisely and did some of the school work i had missed while away. as it got closer to my departure time my flight became delayed 2 HOURS!!! now since omaha is the happening place it is, there was only one flight from denver that could get me home that night. the only problem was i now needed to just be in denver. i felt like i was living in one of those choose your own adventure books. here were the options i was given. option 1. try to get on the flight (of course i'd be on stand by) that was leaving to denver that would get me to denver 5 minutes before the flight to omaha left and maybe make the connecting flight and maybe not. if i missed my connecting flight i'd be stuck in denver until 9:30 the next evening, unless i could get on an earlier flight, there was a possibility of getting on the 7 am flight the next morning but that just depended if it filled up before then. that choices left a lot up to chance. option 2. i could hang out in san diego for two hours more and just book the 7am flight from denver right then. or option 3. i could take a 7:30 pm flight to chicago and then catch a 6 am flight to be back in omaha by 7:30 am just with enough time to get home and change for my 9 am class.
well i took my chances and went with option 1. i made it on to the flight to denver and we made our connecting flight. after i got on the plane i realized my luggage probably wouldn't. not so bad you'd think except my apartment keys were in my suitcase, my phone charger in my suit case (yes, my phone was on the last bar). so i called my roommate who just so happened to be coming back to omaha that night also to tell her i needed her to let me in the apartment. her flight was supposed to get in at 12:30am just a half hour after mine. i thought my luck had turned around until i got a voicemail from her explaining that her flight had been delayed 2 hours! wow was luck on my side. good news is though our door buzzer goes to my cell phone so i was able to get into my building. but don't worry i did sit against my door reading a book for about two hours hoping my phone would last long enough to know when my roommate got there to let me in. it was around 3 am that i got into bed that night. did i pick the best option? who knows but one thing is forsure i've never been so excited to be back in omaha.

my not so exciting life

while home over christmas break, my mom kindly told me that my life was not near as exciting as other blogs she has seen. unfortunately i believe that is right, either that or she just doesn't find me as funny as i like to think i am.
since we are 3 weeks into 2008.... i figure it is about time to list my good, bad and ugly of 2007 which may hopefully prove i am not really that dull.
the good
1. spending a week in hawaii with nicole
2. puka dog
3. finishing half marathon
4. spending time in san francisco
5. being home for the summer
the bad
1. finding out i have popliteal entrapment (i cut the circulation to my leg off when i run)
2. stress fracture in my foot
3. having to have compartment testing
the ugly
1. "the fall"
2. the countless hours i spent studying

ok so my life is pretty pathetic- i am a student who spends way too much time studying, who is obviously a walking disaster (but one is a genetic defect!) and my my only excitement in life mostly happens when i leave nebraska. but don't give up on me yet..... one day something exciting will happen in my life, but until then my life continues to consist of school, sleeping and looking for my next vacation.
besides 2008 is just starting this year could be my year.

finals

who in their right mind thought finals were a good idea? they obviously forgot to ask my opinion. after 11 semesters of finals you'd think i'd be a pro, haha the jokes on you. to me it is like survival of the fittest again, who can stay up the longest studying and still function as a normal human being. when taking finals at byu you'd think a new ride at an amusment park had opened....waiting in line to take a test, talk about good times. now finals is like going back in civilization to a time when no one showered or shaved, or even changed their clothes for atleast 3 days, but don't worry as soon as finals are done everyone jumps into the shower only because they have a little time to kill before the bars officially open for the day. does life get much better? the best thing about finals however though is that you have finished and that high you get can not be duplicated. you feel like you can take on the world, only to sit down to figure out what to do first and the next thing you know it is atleast 3 hours later, were you really that tired? so basically i have one more semester behind, me and the even better news would be that i only have one more semester of tests.... there really is an end to this madness.