2014: Year in Review

2014 was an amazing year! A lot of things happened in 2014 and I am so excited to tell you about it. Going back to school to finish my classes of medical assistant, was not an easy choice, so what made me, make the decision of finishing my classes? Well the answer is simple: one day I saw a job posting, and the description read that they were looking to hire a medical receptionist, so I took a leap of faith and decided to go. When I got to the clinic, the interviewee told me that they were looking to hire a medical assistant, she asked me if I had my diploma, or if I was certified and I said "No". This was what opened my eyes and decided to go back to school to get my medical assistant diploma. When I got there, the receptionist told me that I might have to retake the entire class all over again to get caught up, luckily though that wasn't the case. So I went and I entered the medical assistant class, and it felt weird, just being there all over again, it took me back to 3 years ago, when I would prepare and administer the intramuscular, sub-q and intradermal injections and drawing blood, or worse, doing the ekg. I signed up for the final two classes that I needed. However, I faced another problem, in which I learned that in order for me to completely get my diploma, I had to go back to do my externship because I was missing a total of 11 hours. Luckily they gave me the option of finishing my hours at a school (this however did not have great results). So I went back to school in September, and I passed my keyboarding class, i was really excited!. And then I had to do the Microsoft Office Word. In the midst of all this, I went to different schools and told them about my situation: that i was a medical assistant student, and that i had done my externship 3 years prior but that I am missing 11 hours. Unfortunately, the school rejected me and said that I wouldn't want to do my hours there, because i had to go through a background check, fingerprint check etc. So my mother told me "why don't you finish your hours, at the clinic where you started 3 years ago". It took a lot of courage for me to tell my mother yes, because of the fact that I promised myself that I would never go back to the clinic where they treated me horribly. But then something hit me, and I said to myself "wait a second kimmy, its only 11 hours, you will only be there two days, you can do this". The day of going back to the clinic, was finally there and I was nervous as hell. Once I got there, it was back to doing what I did before, taking vital signs, calculating BMI, doing the eye and audio tests. However, seeing those who made my life a living hell again, it reminded me of why I decided to quit medical assisting, and how my passion for m.a faded away. The following week, after I did my externship, I went to school and I passed my Microsoft Office Word. December 8 2014, is a day I will never forget, because its the day I got my Medical Assistant Diploma, a career which I happily say I loathe!. But somehow, when I am wearing my scrubs I somehow love it, its something that I really can't explain. And how did my year end, you may ask? Well I received New Year's Eve : Vegas Style! Stay tuned for my next article, where I will write about going to Las Vegas...again! And about my nervousness of getting on the plane.

Favorite Holiday

Earlier this week I asked my followers on Twitter and my friends on Facebook. The week started well and then I got an idea I've always wanted to ask my friends a question, given that I don't really know them that well, I decided to ask a question that I've always wanted to write about in my blog " what is your favorite Holiday? Many of you said that Thanksgiving is your favorite time of the year, because its when we are all thankful and grateful to our family our friends. A lot of you preferred veteran's day. Veteran's day, a day to honor the fallen soldiers and what inspired the Am Vets. Many responded with Valentine's Day. However the answers I got the most were : Christmas. Christmas is, like the song says the most wonderful time of the year. Many kids and some adults love Christmas and they like it, because they get present. But to some, and to me as well Christmas is about spending time with the people you love. Christmas isn't just about giving presents or caroling out in the snow or scary ghost stories, its about being with your family. A wise woman once told me " if you are going to give something, make sure it comes from your heart and because you want to give that person a present, don't expect something in return". Now that we are in November, we are starting to countdown the days until Christmas comes, and its only 49 days away. However as the weeks start to pass by really fast, I don't want Christmas to come.....yet. Why? Because once Christmas comes, you know that its going to by extremely fast and then the next thing you know its December 31st! And then the year ends and a new one begins, and we have to wait one more year, for black Friday, one more year for Thanksgiving and hearing the beautiful Christmas songs on the radio Kost 103.5 One more year for Christmas and one more year for New Year's eve. So yes my favorite Holiday is indeed Christmas, but I don't want it to come fast, I want it to come slow. Because let's face it, after Thanksgiving, the weeks go by fast!. So remember to have a Happy Thanksgiving and beautiful Christmas, and like the song says "Rockin' around the Christmas tree". Always remember that when you're going to give something, give because you want to give, don't give because you feel obligated too, make sure it comes from the bottom of your heart and that you give the present, with lots of love and remember the most important thing, don't expect something in return". This is Kimmy bidding you Adieu. And don't forget to tune in to kost 103.5 because sometime between Friday, Saturday or Monday they will start to play the Christmas Songs.

Good-Bye Sami Brady

On Friday October 31st, Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady, said good-bye with hugs and tears and left Salem. "The Biggest Loser" host announced earlier this year, that she was leaving the show to spend more time with her family. Sweeney, has already written 4 books " All the days of my life so far".
" The mommy diet" "The star attraction" and scared scriptless: A novel". Sweeney's exit was shocking and sad to her fans including myself. After portraying Sami Brady, the scheming teenager that we first saw in our screens in January 6 1993. Sami went from the most dramatic storylines in the show, and we saw her suffer, we cried with her and we laughed with her. Sweeney's storylines went from Date Rape to bulimia, to lying to faking a paternity test to make Austin believe that he was Will's father, to trying to separate her mother from John Black. Her weddings are ones that we will never forget. She was married to Austin and then she got married to Brandon. Next she married Lucas. And then she met and fell in love with at first sight with E.J Dimera, when she learned who he was she decided to leave him. Later she met and fell in love with FBI agent Rafe Hernandez. After deciding to leave Salem, Sami chased Rafe to the airport and confessed her true feelings. However they got separated after Sami lost Grace whom she believed was her daughter, when in reality it was Sydney. In November of 2009 Sami learned from Rafe that Nicole had stolen her baby from her, because earlier Nicole lost her own. This brought Sami and E.J much closer. Sami decided to break up with Rafe after believing that Sydney was dead ( a cruel act of E.J because sami had kept the truth from him, about being Sydney's dad). EJ brought Sydney back in Sami's arms and this made EJ look like a hero. Sami and EJ and on the day of the wedding, Rafe has prove and stops the wedding and tells Sami, that EJ ordered Anna Dimera to kidnap Sydney. Shocked, Sami decides to leave to EJ and take the kids with her. EJ being drunk and sleeping in the bed, Sami enters the room with a pistol and shoots EJ. When Arianna Hernandez died, Sami realizes that Ari had proof that Sami shot EJ, desperate she tells Rafe. However Nicole found the tape first and on the day that they got married EJ came and took the kids away from Sami. From here Rafe and Sami suffered when Rafe was switched with a doppleganger hired by EJ in order to get Sami away from Rafe. This however, doesn't last long and pretty soon Safe is back together. However the biggest shocker came when Sami cheated on Rafe by sleeping with EJ. EJ and Sami get back together and are engaged, until EJ sleeps with Abigail Deveraux. EJ trying to get Sami not to find out the disturbing truth, about his affair decides to end his relationship with Abby. However what EJ didn't know is that Sami turned the tables on him, as she had learned the sad truth, that the love of her life cheated on her. EJ and Sami get married, but Rafe soon comes in and arrests him, little did EJ know that this was all part of Sami's plan to throw him in jail. Sami later confronts EJ in his cell and calls him off. She later does the same with Abby. However, EJ and Sami are still deeply in love with each other and decide to get back together. Sadly and tragically in the midst of their happiness, EJ is tragically murdered by an unknown character. This causes Sami to decide to leave Salem. Perhaps one of the best scenes came when Sami and Nicole said good-bye and Sami let Nicole say good-bye to Sydney. After many years of rivalries between them, Nicole and Sami finally made peace and they hugged. Days later, the day had arrived in which Sami was leaving Salem. She said goodbye to Kate and they both started crying, stating that Kate made her life miserable for years, but that in the end it was worth it, because she turned Sami into a professional woman. It was sad to see these scenes, it was especially sad to see Sami looking at her photo album, I cried throughout the entire episode. Perhaps one of the saddest and sweetest moments is when Marlena and Sami were remembering when Sami was a young teen. I really would have loved to see Sami say goodbye to John as well. Later everyone gathered at the door and Lucas, Kate, Sonny, Marlena and Roman all bid farewell to Sami. Farewell Sami Brady and Farewell Alison Sweeney, thank you for entertaining us with your storylines and your romances for 21 years. I wish you luck and will continue watching " The Biggest Loser".

Memories Of Externship

Hi, I'm Kimmy, and when I took the medical assistant course one of the main subjects in the class was that after finishing the class, we had to do our Externship where we basicallyttake all the skills we learned in class and apply it at the clinic. Everyone says that they have great memories of extern, but I don't. Externship was a horrible experience. Obviously I came in I would do vital signs, etc but for some reason the blood pressure I wasn't getting it right. It took me a week to really understand that I wasn't listening to the  b/pI i was looking. One of the doctors was nice, but the other one she would snap her fingers at me, rather than calling me by my actual name, she would snap her fingers at me as if I was an animal. Then to make matters worse the boss never treated me right. I did get one good thing out of it though, I got to prove that I was the best. Maybe it was the horrible experience at Externship was what made me lose my passion in medical assisting, I went back to school to do medical terminology, but it wasn't the same anymore, it was different, it was like all the passion I had for m.a disappeared into a poof of air. I did get a good thing out of it though; I found my real passion in life:photography; it's something that I have a passion about and I have high aspirations of becoming a photographer. And now I am going back to school to finish the two courses I need to get my diploma. Even if I don't find a job as a medical assistant I will find a a job as a medical receptionist.

Meeting J.K Rowling

I have a lot of memories when I was child, there's the one where I played the part of Rose in the play of the Titanic. There is also the one where I sang a song of Selena when I was in Kindergarten. But the best memory that I have was when I met the best British author in the world. She started a book; a book that would later be turned into a movie. She wrote 7 books that's right I am talking about the time that I went to the Kodak theater and I met J.K Rowling. I was in 11th grade and a field trip was coming up to the Kodak theater to meet J.K. Rowling and I thought "OMG I am going to meet the author of Harry Potter. I was excited, this was like a once in a lifetime opportunity. We got to the Kodak theater and then they announced her arrival. She was up on stage and she was explaining her decision to make the Dursleys leave, and her decision to kill Severus Snape. But the greatest moment for me was when she gave us her book and she gave us her autograph. She's an extremely nice woman and she is so talented, my biggest regret was that I did not take my camera with me ugh!. That to me was the greatest day of my life, the day that I met J.K Rowling the author of Harry Potter.

Play of the Titanic

One of the best things that has ever happened to me in my entire life, was that I got to play the main character of Rose in the play of the titanic in the second grade. We spent a lot of time preparing the play the dolphins, the boat that carries Rose when Jack dies, the whistle they gave to me, painting the boat, learning the lines, learning the dances it was a bit stressful, but I was happy I was kind of my teacher's right hand. The day of the play instead of being backstage after saying my lines I would be bossing the students around, not bossing them but just letting them know that their part was up. And then me pretending to slip and my partner grabbing me that way I wouldn't fall. In fact it was there where I got my first crush even though, throughout my entire life I got rejected by him. Learning the song was easy but that is when my teacher told me "you have to put a lot of heart into the song" and that is exactly what I did, to this day when I sing this song at home I put a lot of heart into it. The show itself was full a lot of teachers, principal, vice principal, other students from the third, fourth, fifth, first. And when I saw those people I was scared and I was nervous and I thought that I was going to forget my lines and forget the lyrics to the song, all the while I kept thinking "what if they don't like me or what if they don't accept me" but I said to myself "no I got this role, and I studied hard for this part and I am going to bring out the best in me and pour my heart out to the audience and I am going to prove to the teacher that he did not make a mistake in giving me this part" and that is exactly what I did and the audience they cheered me on and I felt happy. I felt lucky! To this date its one of the best memories that I have in my life.

Memoirs of me: Kimmy

One of the best memories that I will ever have, was in the second grade I did the play of the Titanic and I played the lead Rose. One of the worst things though of the play is that my front teeth fell out therefore when I sang the love song "My heart will go on" everyone could see the gap in my teeth. Originally in the beginning I was supposed to be Old Rose but then when the teacher heard that my classmate could not sing and when he heard my voice he decided that she would play my grandmother and I would portray her granddaughter, therefore I got the lead. For weeks I spent practicing my lines and mom would tell me "ok don't memorize the lines of jack, memorize your lines" not only did I have to practice my lines, but I also had to practice the song. The day of the show I was a nervous wreck, all the while I kept thinking "what If I forget my lines or what if I forget the song"? but I did it. The nerve wrecking part came when I had to sing the song. A week before the show I remember that Mr Brown my teacher told me that when I sang the song I had to put a lot of heart into it, into the song and that is exactly what I did. I got to say that I was a little emotional. I guess you could say that it was the first and the last time I got up on stage, for years I have been longing to get up on a stage and start singing but that's where I say to myself "what if they boo me" or what if they don't accept me, I know for a fact though that one day I will get up on stage even if it is to be booed.