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I don’t want to start using Pinterest. Stop trying to make me use it, Internet!

I knew somewhere in the depths of old photobucket accounts I’d stumble upon a picture of you.

Peter Pham.

I was recently reminded of you when my little sister put up a post about your clinic. My eyes started welling up at the thought of our lives once intertwined by youth group and “big brother to little sister” mentality. There was a time we were close, and we developed terrible jokes that even we didn’t understand, we would laugh for the sake of laughing.

I guess hearing about you was a revelation of how I’ve distanced myself away from the church/my home/my community. I think the last time you and I actually talked was right before you set off for your sabbatical in Vietnam. Anyways, I wanted to say I miss you, a lot. Jennifer misses you a lot. We both held each other with a heavy grief of missing you.

I hope your dream lives on, Peter.

http://petersclinic.org/

I can’t run away from you.

you’ve consumed me. Entangled limbs, eyes locked on each other, fingers intertwined. I want to run the steepest of hills with you. I want to watch the horizon glow with the morning sunrise. I want to travel with you, everywhere. Anywhere. I want to keep growing and learning. I want the sounds of your heart beat at night.

I need you to be the source of stability. A physical constant. 

Don’t run away from me.

I love elephants <3

Before and after.

Can you believe one of them is going to law school this year?! And the other two are in process of application to their said medical field professions?! 

BUT ONE OF THEM WILL BE IN LAW SCHOOL VERY SOON?!

This excites me greatly, she’ll never understand how happy/proud I am of her :] 

Me and my new 9 to 5 (by Don Fulano)

Well…I’ve started a new position as an optometrist tech at a private practice, and I’ve enjoyed it more than shadowing. There are some parts which are hard to get down, IE the lensometer which measures the refractive power in your glasses (and gives me a good idea of your current prescription.)

it deals with a light in which you change the axis on, the focal point of it etc until you see a circle made up of points and two lines running through the middle of it…

I don’t know why I’m so bad at doing this, but I slightly want to blame my astigmatism and it’s ability to refract light more than usual making it pretty hard to see “clear crisp lines.” When I ask the optometrist to check me, she’ll kind of give me a look and readjusts it and asks if the one she found was much clearer than mine.

about 10/10 times she’s right… I’m just bad at finding these lines.

Another note: I’ve gotten the opportunity to shadow the lens techs at the eye store next door, so I can make glasses and prescribe them! How neat would that be? :]

I’ll end my nerd rant, I wish someone was around to hear me go on and on about it for hours.

the lack of sunlight and a really grey/rainy day at work is taking the weirdest toll on me. As of right now, I want to be anti social, in my room, and to cry.

Maybe I’ll cry as I drink something warm, that’ll do it.

Everything feels like some weird terribly dramatic sad movie deal. I blame the excessive flooding, the inability to get ready in the morning due to the lack of electricity, and just fatigue from being awakened every 30 minutes by thunder.

robot-heart:

Disaster Was Written In My Tea Leaves (by Boy_Wonder)

cek0913:

gingerhaze:

rocketfists:

Noelle it’s back!

will someone make it stop

GPOY

Yeah… How I’m feeling especially with the lack of super bright sunlight

thingssheloves:

(via girl with balloons Art Print by Elisandra | Society6)

Happy year of the dragon.

Not that it means much, but I hope your lunar/vietnamese/chinese/what have you-ese is a beautiful, prosperous, and healthy one!

As for me, I started the new year with getting rid of the old and stepping in with the new. I am nostalgic for the times I would be gambling with my grandmother and my cousins on New Year’s day. I miss skipping school the next day because I was simply too exhausted from all the fun we had (plus driving home and car rides are tiring for anyone.)

I also miss the dresses…

I can’t take a photo to save my life, and neither can my brother.

But yea, this…the time we spend together is what I miss.

This year is starting off so great.

Mariah got an internship! I knew she’d get it, even though she didn’t attach her resume to her e-mail the first time around :] I got a tech job, so I can finally interact more with patients and can watch them flinch as I get them ready for the tonometer (eye puff machine!)

Anyways, as I’m watching this new semester slowly begin, I’m realizing the immensity of the world, its time-line, and its ability to move with the flow of things even when don’t move the same way rhythmically.

Oh, as I’m learning my way around insurance, verification, benefits/eligibility, and progressive lenses, I can just feel myself loving this field more and more. It’s also really nice to have the doctor herself be so excited to teach you everything she’s learned in her 6+ years of optometry perfection period. 

I can’t wait to start teaching new time contact wear-ers how to put those silly things in their eyes!