Good times with baby James

Lists.

Stuff I saw today:
1. A happy new Dad wiping his eyes with gauze because there wasn't any kleenex in the OR.
2. 14 patients. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but all crammed into one morning, it was.
3. Elaine's new car (which means she's moving in with me in the next few days!!!)
4. My tomato plant's first yellow flowers.
5. A guy running with a heart-shaped sweat stain on his red-shirted belly.
6. Four tiny green chiles, lined up on my desk in a neat row. Judy suggested that I use only two of them if I don't want to kill Peter when I make enchiladas verdes for him next week. :)
7. The first ten minutes of "So I Married An Axe Murderer."
8. A REALLY cute 3 year old Guatemalan girl.

Stuff to get done before I go home next week:
1. Say goodbye to those girls that I really like, those ones who I used to live with last year in the yellow house.
2. Consider writing sappy goodbye letters to aforementioned girls.
3. Clean up the place so Peter & Elaine don't find out that I have developed our beloved KBM's habit of leaving socks just...everywhere.
4. Help Elaine move in.
5. Finish library books.
6. 6 deliveries...umm that's going to feel like a lot in one week!
7. Dust. Yesterday Judy came over and she offered to purchase me a Swiffer. Hmm. Do you really get dust that fast? I've only lived here a month!! Maybe I'm just a dusty girl.

Ninety-seven degrees and too little wind to be outside, even in the shade with some really delicious lemonade.

Okay sorry I know it's been like a month. My main excuse is that I moved, but work's also been pretty crazy, and I've also been spending much of my leftover time talking on the phone to a particular seminary dude. :)

Anyways things are good. Yesterday Liz Crusey came by to visit for the afternoon and we had such a fun time, we repotted some of my struggling plants and went to the nursery to get some new ones for my new place. It was really fun. Now on my back patio I have cherry tomatoes and a mint plant to go with my lemon tree, and inside my peace lilies are much happier in their new pots, and then I have the orchid and my new button fern in the kitchen. I'm excited about them, I hope they don't all die.

Last weekend I got to see Peter Rowan and Steph and those Bechtels and Cheneys and a bunch of other good ones at Wim's wedding in Nashville.

I'm trying to put some pictures of all of us on here....the formatting on blogger's pictures has been weird lately though so forgive me if this is all dorked with awkward spaces.

Oh! And also Lydia, my roommate from Vandy, just had a baby a few weeks ago. I got to meet him when I went up to Nashville, his name is Elijah.

I've been liking my new apartment so far. It feels airier and brighter and smells better than the last place.

I'm almost used to hearing trains and sirens all the time (it's right by railroad tracks and the police station and the hospital). And so far no ants or roaches, which is awesome. Ha! I guess i sound pretty easily impressed.

What else? Work's okay. It's been crazy. Everyone has their babies in May and June. I've done 7 or 8 deliveries this month so far. On Tuesday I had 3 in one night, which was kind of rough, especially the next day. Wednesdays tend to be our busiest days in the office. I went to bed SO early that night when I got home from work. It's actually kind of generous of me to call it "night," because it was definitely still light out

when I got under the covers. :)

Peter Rowan is great, I just really like him. I'm not going to be seeing him again until the end of the month though, which is kind of a bummer. He's going to come down to SC with me and hang out in Oburg for the week! Apparently he's heard about the crazy Independence Day festivities in the Carolina low country and couldn't bear to pass it up this year. Or something. I'm glad he's coming. :)

Last night April came over and we flopped on the couch and talked and played Truth or Dare. It was really fun. I'm probably going to miss that girl and her Japanese friend when they finally move on to greener pastures later this summer. I'm kind of trying not to think about it. I haven't found that preparing to be sad is actually helpful in making me less sad when the moment arrives. But I've been thinking I need to have a going-away party for them now that I have a mint plant and can make my own awesome mojitos. I've been feeling like making beans and rice again, so there'll probably need to be a party on my back deck soon.

Alright. I think I'm going to go eat pizza, paint my toenails, make puppy chow, mop the floor, and read library books now. In that order. Unless someone's water breaks.