Second week of summer

Well I obviously make more time for blogging during the school year than I do during the summer, but what a great summer it's shaping up to be. This week the big guy and I went running almost every day. He's exhausted, but that's a good thing when we need to be out and about.

Yesterday J had the day off and so we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. It was way different than the others had been, but I was still having a great time. It may have something to do with the fact that I haven't seen the inside of a movie theatre for over a year... Hopefully I'll see the inside of one again soon so I can see Sex and the City...

Today we're going to walk over to another little league game (fully slathered with sun screen) with J's dad. After that I am heading out for another run, and hopefully that doesn't go too late in the day because it's gonna be a hot one.

This afternoon we have a neighborhood barbeque, and that should be interesting. I'm not counting on a great turn out. Our neighbors are so antisocial that they actually drive into their garages, and before they even turn off the ignition, they shut their garage doors. If you don't want to talk to people, whatever, but at least spare yourself the carbon monoxide.

After the bbq my friend KV is having a birthday party. It's going to be great. There's an 80s theme, complete with clothes, hair and music. I'm pretty pumped to see her new place too. Should be a fun day, but somewhere in there I need to get ready for the fathers day brunch we're having tomorrow. I'm sure it will get done!

A better schedule

This weekend was fantastic. We met up with our great friends Sonny and Becky at my favorite little brewery in the world. It couldn't have been a more beautiful day either! Then our friends Kevin and Brianna had a barbeque and we got to see their little two year old son, who we have never seen in his whole little life! Brianna is also 8 months pregnant, so there will be another little one running around before you know it! Then Saturday morning we went to see a little league game for a family friend and it was a lot of fun. The diamond was only a mile walk from our place so we walked over with the big guy and J's dad D. The only bad part about it was that we forgot the sunscreen. I'm the worst future doc ever. Luckily I was wearing my fabulous hat and jeans, so only my arms took the brunt of it. J's neck is pretty red and the backs of his calves, but needless to say, lesson learned. Overall, the rest of the weekend was really lazy. I went to the library and got a bunch of great looking cookbooks to get ideas for the summer. We watched three movies and drank some mojitos. Lazy and lovely.

Last night J had a hockey game really late (and he had to work this morning, sucks to be a responsible adult) so I made him a snack that I have to say I am very proud of! And don't worry, J, I will post them on our blog too!



As summer sets in for me, I feel myself slipping into a nice lazy schedule. Don't get me wrong, this is something I want. But, I do have some extra goals to add to my schedule, and one to cross off (one trip to a Golden brewery down!)

I truly plan on losing about 10 pounds. I know that I'm not an overweight person, but I talked about it with my doc and she agrees it's a good idea. My family has such a strong history of diabetes that it really freaks me out. Plus, I want to be in the best possible shape I can get myself into before we start trying for that family again at the end of the summer. I figure the better shape I can be in going into it, the easier it will be to get back into it after we have a baby.

This is turning into a long post, but I swear I'll wrap it up soon!

I think the best way to get into great shape is to start running again, so a big tired R will be a common event I think! It should be fun too, and R could afford to lose some pounds as well...

This past weekend put the baby thing into perspective for me. After what happened this spring I was having a hard time even thinking about it. As a med student, I find myself constantly surrounded by people who are not only content to put their entire lives on hold, but who think it's crazy not to. It's easy to slip into thinking that this path is not only difficult but impossible if you want to have a family at the same time. This weekend, being surrounded by people who obviously put family first, put that into perspective a bit. In 30 years (wow, I'll feel old then, but really it's not that bad) what will matter? The fact that it took a little longer, or was a little harder to get through med school or the fact that I have a big family that gets together and has crazy raucous holidays and weekends together? I'm going with the latter. (But I'm just competitive enough to know that a little harder time in med school, does not equivocate to poorer performance, just in case J was worried) Anyway, it was a calming thing for me. It made me ready to try again when the time comes, but it also makes me feel excited to take advantage of this summer where I'll be able to do all those things I wouldn't have been able to if the first pregnancy had worked out.

So, long story short, I'm still looking for takers on our tour de beer this summer, and I'm hoping to hear from lots of friends to have super fun gatherings!

Oh yeah, one more thing...everyone cross your fingers, say a prayer, do a dance, whatever you do, for Medicine Girl on June 12th when she is certain to crush the boards into submission!!! Good luck!!!!

Old Friends

Hurray! Our friends the Lewises are in town!!! I'm meeting them this afternoon, and as Becky put it "we'll go to Golden City so you can cross that off your summer to do list." I'm super excited. Then tonight we're getting the band back together for a bbq at our friends Kevin and Brianna's place. Another great day in Golden! I'm very excited. And the weather even decided to cooperate. It's a gorgeous day!

In other news, I've decided to become a hat person! I bought this great lime green straw hat at my favorite store over the weekend. It's cute and I'm slowly getting used to it.

Well, Becky just called, so I'm off to my favorite place on the planet! I hope everyone is well, I know I am!

Not really the plan..

Well this is a bummer.. It's such a dreary day here! This is not the kind of day I was expecting for the summer. But, I can't really complain. In Colorado we pretty much have 300+ sunny days per year, so when the weather gets dreary, it's like something new and different and that makes it more fun than annoying. It also makes it very unlikely that I will be running outside with the big guy. Instead, I'm doing the absolutely unthinkable....

I'm studying.

I know. I don't get it either. I'm going to spend a couple of hours this morning preparing my board studying plan for the summer, and getting out the anatomy books so my students don't end up knowing more than I do. Part of me is sad about it, but I know that it's the right thing to do. I'm still planning on reading lots of books for fun and getting my butt out of the house as often as I can, but while I'm here, there's no reason to forget a whole year of hard-learned information, no matter how much I might like to.

Yeah summer!

Well, I know I've been a bit absent, but I'm back! And so excited to have a lovely summer break to regroup. I really appreciate all the happy encouragement from everyone for finishing the year off strong. I'm excited to move forward into summer now! Even though summer will smell like aweful formaldehyde.

I'm TAing the anatomy classes for the physical therapy and physician's assistant courses at CU. I'm really excited about it, though you never truly get used to the smell. Anatomy lab always gives the greatest stories. I'm looking forward to sharing them with you. Already I've been laughing. The professor for the class looks exactly like Edna from the Incredibles. She must be 4'9 or so. And she cracks me up like no one's business. She won't let the students play any music, and won't let us spray Febreze in our office because she says that it triggers her asthma. So, needless to say, it should be an interesting summer.



But it's not a huge amount of hours a week, so I'm mostly looking forward to all the great stuff I can do in my free time. There will be many walks and runs with the big guy and the house will finally stay really clean. But I also want to make a list of the things I want to do before school starts again. I might not get another chance like this. So, here's the start of the Summer List:

1. Go "revisit" the breweries in Fort Collins. There is supposedly a beer bus tour in colorado, and I am going to figure it out. Who's coming with me??!

2. Run the Rocks. Red Rocks amphitheatre is gorgeous and I've been dying to try to run up their crazy stairs. It'll probably nearly kill me, but I can't wait to try.



3. Make at least 3 visits to Golden to visit the two great breweries and the new winery (did you even know that existed, I didn't). And of course run the creek a bunch.

4. Write some letters to my grandparents. I'm the bad one.

5. Get cozy with First Aid (I can't slack the whole summer).

6. Try to visit one farmer's market a week. I love those things!

Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated. It should be a really great summer and I'm really looking forward to it. I hope it brings as much excitement to you all as it does to me!

I'm Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, last night I decided I really had no plans for studying for the final so I would take all of it last night! Woohoo! It's all over. Yesterday was seriously stressful, but I'm so glad to be through with it.

We had an online final, and they've never done anything like that before. So of course there were technical difficulties. Each part, open book and closed book, was split into eight or nine cases. Once you started a case you could not stop it and the system was a little finicky, twice I had to have them reset my questions because it gave me weird errors and was going to give me a zero. But, now that it's all over, I'm pretty happy with it and I made my goal. Today I pretty much just took it easy, and tonight is the keg olympics brough to you by the CU school of medicine class of 2011. J and his sister J are coming too and it should be a good time for all of us, and a reminder of all the fun we had in college.

Tomorrow my mom and sister come tomorrow and that's going to be great! It'll be the first time my mom has seen the house which is great! And now it's getting all painted and gorgeous courtesy of J and his week's worth of work. So, long story short, lots to look forward to, very little to get done! Awesome!

Hope all is well with all of you!

I wish for sleep

I know that I should not be freaking out this much at this point. I've worked hard, spent most of my weekend studying up a storm. I've written almost 60 pages of practice questions for myself and my classmates, and I can't help but feel that I have a lot more to do. I need to remind myself that really, it's just another test, but I'm in such a panic right now. Part of me just wants it to be over, the other part of me needs another day or so to get ready. The biggest part, though, is just tired of it. I need to stop. I need to rest. But I have at least one more day of this. It'll be alright, I just have to pace myself, or I may never actually finish this final afterall. Let's all get excited for tomorrow this time!