Mom

Okay Mom sorry for posting that picture you don't like. Here's a better one.

Rambling about cats and news and stuff

Well....not so sure I have much to say, but I was sick of looking at my big ice cream face every time I brought this up. So here's Tico Gonzalez instead, last year on the cruise. So hot right now.

I was going to go to bed early tonight because I was up early this am delivering number 101, but I got called in to the hospital around 9:30 pm, and then I sat around and caught up with Elaine for a while, while she finished up her shift. Longest sentence award. Elaine's the one I'm moving in with once my lease runs out. Yeah. P.S. I'm not moving till the end of May now. We drove past some cool looking places tonight, we're hoping to check them out tomorrow sometime. If we moved there, I would have a Starbucks on my way to work in the mornings! That could be bad news. Not that I ever find myself with 15 extra minutes in the morning, I don't know what I'm talking about. :)

Today I was thinking about my cats and how I kind of miss them now that they've been gone for long enough for me to forget how they got into everything and smelled up the apartment if I was too lazy to clean out the litter box EVERY DAY. But they were fun. It's fun to feel like it makes a difference to somebody what time you come home at the end of the day. Does that sound depressing? I don't mean it that way. I was just remembering that I liked that part.

Alright well, hi. I'm a girl who posts pictures of kittens on her blog. :)

Whatev.

So here's my latest news:

-I joined the church choir.

-I bought a lemon tree with good-smelling flowers on it, to counteract that weird Spencer's smell my apartment gets sometimes.

-My friends are coming in 6 days. I have 5 call nights and 4 work days in between now and then. Not that I'm keeping track or anything....

-I can't wait to meet Nicky's baby next week, I am ready.

-Last time I went to the tanning bed, a bee flew in there with me and I didn't notice it until I felt something CRAWLING ON MY LEG. I thought the buzzing was a bulb about to burn out. I screamed even though I was on my cell phone, then I hung up and got dressed and told the tanning bed girl, who freaked out. Then I figured out that she was more nervousy than me (and wasn't going to do anything) so I grabbed it in one of those little towels and threw it outside. But I didn't feel brave and like, wow I should go be a missionary because I can totally handle stinging insects, I just felt like ew, why does this place have bugs? So maybe I'm sort of done with going to the tanning bed. I felt like that was a good sign to stop.

-Mom, I think I have the week around 4th of July off. I might come home then.

Yeah. I have to fall asleep now.

Last night I was off call...finally

Yesterday afternoon was gorgeous, so after work I went up to Nicky and Steve's and we went to the park to play soccer and enjoy the weather.

Wim met us, he's in town on business this week. We all had ice cream. Mine was peach. I think his was walnut. Steve took like half an hour to pick his out, after he'd tasted everything. (I think he ended up with coconut almond chunk.)

James liked the soccer.

Steve and Nicky at Coolidge.

James was into the ice cream too, although he didn't really understand how to lick it out of a cone. He's more of a spoon man.

After James had to go to bed, I stopped by my old house. We played a really funny game. Donivan was making me laugh a lot.

April and I on the couch. I guess we were both getting a little tired.

So, that's probably enough pictures for now. Maybe I'll stick the rest of them on my facebook. I don't actually know how to get rid of all those weird spaces, so whatev.

The dress..because you asked.

This is the dress. Try to ignore the piles of clothes around me. I'm doing laundry today. More accurately, I'm doing laundry this week. :)

I'm going to wear it with these shoes. And a big fat necklace that I'm still working on.

shortness

Hey I had some blogging issues, but I think they're sorted out now. So I heard back yesterday, and you should just call me if you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm tentatively excited.

On Tuesday night I got my best news though: the Cheney's are coming down for Easter too! So we'll all get to be together on Easter again. I think Nicky should make me a dress. Just kidding...because I totally already have my Easter dress, I bought a dress last weekend to wear to all the summer weddings. I told that to someone who asked me if I seriously meant to wear the the same dress to all of them, like that was tacky or something, and I kind of didn't get it. It's a great dress. Umm, okay Linda's here now, I gotta go.

Still haven't heard back yet

Today was so beautiful and I had the afternoon off. It was brilliant. I went to Chattanooga and pushed James in a stroller at the park with Nicky, then she went to get a haircut and I got to babysit a little bit. So the two of us (James and I) are working on this hot chocolate outside a coffee shop when IA pops up (he works next door) and says "hey, give me a couple of minutes to finish what I'm doing and I'll come sit out here with you and enjoy the sun" or whatever. I felt sort of embarrassed like maybe he thought I planted myself out there so he would see me, which I most certainly did not....but whatev. Ten minutes later Nicky came back and was ready to go and we just left before he ever came back outside.

I guess I would've been okay with chatting for a little bit, but not talking at all? That's less confusing and complicated. I feel a little hopeful that we'll be normal friends someday, but right now I'm not in the mood to work on that. Sure I'll pray for him and say hi, but that's probably enough.

Anyways afterwards I drove back home and went to Spanish and it was pretty fun this week. Then I went to Krista's to watch American Idol, but geez, it was so boring. The boys are no good. A girl's gonna win this year.

Somewhere in there I ended up skipping dinner and now I'M STARVING. Yeah, like an orphan. I think I'll just go to bed though. I got two patients to round on in the morning. Guys, I had the busiest weekend ever, it was rough. I was at the hospital every day for hours, and every night I got called about patients, and by Sunday night I was like "are you kidding me?" because I had been there for like 8 hours straight, and had finally left, and then 3 hours later they called me about somebody else. However, my 95th birth rocked on Saturday, it was a really good one. That's as far as I am, 95. I'm going to make it into the triple digits this month!!! I think that's probably going to warrant a huge party, when it happens. I know before I said go out to dinner, but I think maybe 100 births? I should cook and invite everyone over and have a pinata and a karaoke bar or something. Be ready.

A sort of frustrating day, and some pictures of James

Here's some pictures of James. He got a haircut.

I was at his house last night to eat soup. It was a disgusting rainy day- the kind where you wake up to darkness and thunder and lightning, and Nicky made potato soup. It was a great idea. So I ate some, and we watched Marie Antoinette.

Here's what happened today. I got to work late (because I underestimated the time I needed at the hospital) and there was a note on my phone saying, "check your voicemail." On my voicemail were 3 annoying messages, the kind where the patients say, "I went to the pharmacy but my prescription wasn't there." So I had to call the different pharmacies and say "uh, yeah, those prescriptions I called in yesterday? I was serious about them." Then call the patients back and tell them that their stuff should be there now. It's actually not that annoying of a thing if it only happens once, but 3 times in a row??? I was irritated. It was a lame way to start the day off. CVS, guys. They sucked today. But luckily the morning didn't drag, and pretty soon I was back at the hospital. Eventually we did a c-section and then I went to the last part of the missions conference meeting tonight. I couldn't really handle it. It felt like forever long. Maybe I was just tired.

I'm on call again this weekend!! I'm switching weekends, so this is my second in a row. Feels a little harsh, but this way I'm off for Easter so I can stalk all those St. Louis people who are coming down. So that thing that was happening last Thursday? I still don't know about it.

Today I went to pay my rent, and I told my greasy, jewelry-wearing landlord that I would be leaving when my lease was up at the end of April. He said, "sorry, but you have to give me 30 days notice." And I said, "ummm? what?" but he still didn't get it, so I was like, "how about 60 days notice? Will that work for you?" and then he scratched his head and stared at my lease agreement for like 5 minutes. Then he goes, "well, I can only accept that in writing and on the first of the month." Then I knew he was trying to be a moron because the lease only says 60 days, it doesn't say the first of the month, so I pointed that out and asked for some paper. And I felt impatient and rude and pissy. Then he turned all friendly and was like, "all right, that's fine, I mean, I'm not trying to be a hard-ass or anything, you know that, right?" I didn't really get it. So I left. Whatev. I'm moving out in two months. To where, I don't know yet.