Take me home tonight, while I wear my sunglasses at night

What a crazy and busy, roller coaster week it has been!  But how beautiful! (if you can put on your aviator sunglasses to shield yourself from what is the awesome comeback of the 80s)

Allie assessing Brian's lifting technique at Summit Strength

The coolest thing we did in school this week was a Functional Capacity Evaluation, which is used to assess a person that has been injured to make sure they are able to return to work.  We went out to Summit Strength in Lee's Summit and spent an evening doing the functional tests that a normal worker would do (lifting, thepushing, pulling, squatting, etc), and assessing the proper body mechanics of it and maximum weight that can be safely lifted by the patient. Here is what I learned:

• DO NOT lift weights the day before in your work out
• expect to be sore the next day
• It can definitely be counted as your workout for that day, cause it is hard work!

Friday morning some of my classmates and I volunteered at the "Stoke House", where our Neuro professor Dr. McKiernan (or Brian in the PT dept) leads a balance class for people who have had a neurological lesion.  I worked with a woman who had an aneurysm in September.  It was a really great opportunity to see what we have been learning in action!  We also surprised one of our classmates Trebor on his birthday Friday! After cramping 20 of us into his neighbor's apartment and blowing his socks off, we all went out for a laid back night of camaraderie.  Happy 25th Trebor!

But the best part of this weekend was Colleen's 30th birthday party!  It was Pretty in Pink and 80s themed and me and Lindsey (friend in Oklahoma) pulled out our best blue eyeshadow and puffy sleeve dresses for the occasion.  It was an absolute blast to dance the night away to my favorite 80s songs while looking like a complete fool to outsiders.  It is safe to say that the endless hours of running man dancing and screaming at the top of my lungs to Journey and Kenny Loggins wore us out! 

Now it is back to a mere 2 weeks of difficult concentration on the task at hand...finishing the semester strong!  Life can be so beautiful in so many ways! Sometimes it is the endless hours of laughter dressed in tacky outfits, or the easy conversations with friends during our lunch break. Life for the little moments and treasure them, cause wrinkles should be from all the laughter, not the stress! So in the words of Ferris Buller.... 

"Life moves by pretty fast, if you don't slow down and take a look, you might miss it" :)

Exhausted after a serious night of far out dancing!