Almost over

Hard to believe, but I will be done with school in a mere two days. That's right, Friday is my official last day as a student intern. I've already sent in all of my final documents so the next two days should be just clear sailing. Then I can start to study for taking my OB registry exam :-)

The Perinatal Clinic where I am interning now has posted a per diem job which I've applied for. At least, it was posted two days ago. When I checked on it today, the job was no longer there, so I have no idea what's going on with that. My application went through okay, and nobody said anything to me today about there being a problem, so I'm wondering if they took it off the external site and only put it on the internal site for now. I guess usually they have to do that in case there are any internal candidates that are interested. From what I hear, that shouldn't be a problem. I hope that's right, because I would really like to work there, and per diem is just fine for now.

Tomorrow I attend a fetal autopsy conference which should be interesting. Then more scanning. I have to admit, my mind has mostly been on Hawaii this week. We leave on Sunday and I am just so looking forward to going on vacation and seeing all of my family members and relaxing at the pool and on the beach, and well.....just everything. Two weeks of just breathing :-)

Oooh, shiny

I am making the jump into the 3G world with my new phone, the MyTouch, reviewed here. That's even the color I got, "merlot" :-) I'm very excited, way more than I should be about a phone...it comes next week, so I'll be busy learning how to use it just in time to go to Hawaii where the 3G stuff won't work because they don't have a network there yet.

Mom and Aunt Mare left yesterday morning. We had a very busy trip. Highlights included a Ride the Duck trip around the city; Pike's Place Market with drinks at Kell's bar but no mini donuts; U Village shopping with dinner at the Ram; a day at Greenlake people watching; Mom and Aunt Mare's solo trip to the Space Needle; my graduation ceremony followed by a lovely picnic at Jay's office; and a brunch cruise on the Argosy around the Sound. Whew! I think everybody was pretty warn out by the end of the visit. Luckily the weather cooperated and it was pretty nice the whole time they were here. It continues to be warm and sunny, and there are actually supposed to be a wave of 95 degree days at the end of the week and through the weekend. I think I'm going to stay in and sit in front of a fan.

Visitors

Mom and Aunt Mare arrived almost on time, at 10:10 yesterday morning. We picked them up from the airport, went home so they could drop their stuff off, and then went to BlueWater Bistro for brunch. It was a gorgeous day yesterday so after eating we headed for downtown and some touristy fun. We went on the Ride the Duck tour which was a really good time. We had a one hour tour of the city followed by about half an hour in the water on Lake Union. The tour guide was very upbeat and kept everyone laughing. By the time we were done though, the visitors were worn out so we came back home so that they could nap. After a light dinner, everyone enjoyed the Harper's Island finale and then bed.

This morning I woke up before everyone, which was a surprise because I definitely expected Aunt Mare and Mom to be up way before me due to the time change. Turns out they didn't get up until about 8:30. It was pretty gray and overcast today so we did Pike Place Market since you can stay undercover if it rains. Then I took them to mass afterwards and made some good chicken corn soup.

Tomorrow I'm back to work and I think their plan is just to stay home and rest :-)

Update as requested.

I apologize, I've been remiss. Seems since more and more people are using facebook, I've been mostly updating that and not beaglehaus. However, I have been asked for a blog update and I am nothing if not accomodating.

Let's see...it's been since San Diego and my birthday weekend since I updated. I started a new clinical site since then. I'm at Swedish Hospital in the Perinatal clinic, so I do OB all day long. And I love it! I thought maybe it would get boring after a while but so far it is not at all boring. I really like the sonographers that I work with, and the doctors are fantastic. It's cool because the docs are also these ladies obstetricians most times so they are pretty familiar with the cases and why the scans are being done. It's a high risk site, so we get a lot of older women or women with physical or chromosomnal problems with their babies. It's very interesting.

Mom and Aunt Mare are coming tomorrow for 10 days. I graduate on July 18 so they're coming in for that. The weather is supposed to be okay while they're here...mostly in the 70s with a showery day here and there. We pick them up at the airport at 9:40 tomorrow morning. I rented two single rollaways for while they are here, but in typical Weiler luck, when Meg went to pick them up they only had a single and a double. That won't work of course, because there is not enough room in the back bedroom for those two beds. We have to take the double back tomorrow and pick up another single. Like I told Jay, at this point I just heave a big sigh because I'm getting so used to things not going right. He says everytime I sigh it's the sound of my soul dying just a little more :-)

Our friend Simon is staying with us for a few days while he sorts some things out in his life, but unfortunately he'll have to vacate the spot by tomorrow so we can get ready for Mom.

And it's countdown to Kauai time - 30 more days!

San Diego trip

We're in the San Diego airport waiting to depart for Seattle. We had a wonderful weekend at Kirk and Krispy's place and saw a lot of the city, although I'm sure there was a ton that we did not get to see.

Friday night Krispy and Rip picked us up at the airport. Rip was pretty shy but when we got back to his home base he perked up and started talking. It was a fairly early night, and then up early the next morning. On Saturday morning we went to the San Diego Zoo for a bit, then some quick lunch and then we headed to Coronado to the beach and to see the Hotel Del Coronado which was totally awesome. The morning was cloudy but by the time we got to the beach it was sunny and warm. The resort is fantastic and I sure wish we could afford to actually stay there :-). Disaster on the way home after Riley consumed an entire bag of gummy bears (Thanks Aunt Kelly and Jason!) and chased it down with a big glass of lemonade. Some dramatic drooling preceded a veritable gusher of liquid and half digested gummy bears making a quick exit from Riley's tummy. Ummmm, yuck. Good thing it was me sitting next to her and not Jason. Surprisingly, she managed not to actually hit anything but her own carseat.

Saturday night we took Kirk and Krispy out to dinner at the Prado restaurant in Balboa Park. It was about perfect as a place to eat. The food was fantastic, the service was fantastic, and the ambiance was totally 5 star....outside on the patio, overlooking a beautiful courtyard, with lights strung up all over, it just could not have been nicer. We all enjoyed ourselves immensely.

Sunday we got up early and Jason, Krispy and I climbed Cowles Mountain (along with Camden) while Kirk stayed back with the kids. Then while Kirk went to play softball, Jay and I took a trip to Old Town San Diego and walked around there for a bit enjoying the touristy and arty theme. We came home and joined up with everyone else for some more sightseeing, including Seaport Village and the Sunset Cliffs. Everybody was totally exhausted by the time we got home and it was an early bed night for all.

This morning Ripken started his new preschool and the nanny came over to watch Riley so the four adults went to breakfast at Pipes, then took a nice drive back down the coast stopping at the gliderport and the Soledad mountain monument before heading back to the airport. The trip was tiring but way too quick and we really enjoyed ourselves and our hosts :-) Can't wait to come back again! I'll try to post some picture after we get home and download them off the camera.

Hey! It's hot.

Seattle's been going through a little bit of a heat wave the last few days, and in fact we have had record temps yesterday and today. Actually hit 91 degrees officially today, 1 degree higher than the previous June 4 record. I think our bedroom was quite a few degrees higher than that though. It has already cooled down substantially though, and is supposed to be back in the high 70's by tomorrow. I'm not complaining, it's wonderful to have such summery weather so early here and once Jay had put the AC unit in the bedroom I was able to sleep just fine :-)

I ran another two miles yesterday so it wasn't just a fluke people...yay for me.

Jason has an appointment with a podiatrist on Monday to find out why his foot still hurts. Good thing too, because we have the Furry 5K on Sunday so his foot will probably really be hurting on Monday.

Kelsey is winding down her junior year, knockin' out the finals, and finishing up her first college class. Meg is almost done with this quarter too. I know they're both ready for a break.

I have two more weeks to go at the clinic and then I switch back to Swedish for my perinatal rotation. I'm going to miss the girls at the clinic, but I'm also looking forward to driving into work with Jay again in the morning - I miss that little bit of time. I'll have to take the bus home though, our leaving schedules don't match up. But it'll still be better than driving every day.

One more week until we leave for San Diego for my birthday weekend!

I RAN TWO MILES!!!!!!

Let me say that again:

I RAN TWO MILES!!!!
I RAN TWO MILES!!!!

HOLY F*&^#NG SHIT I RAN TWO MILES!!!

In case you're not getting the drift...today was Week 5 Day 3, so the first day where it was just 20 minutes of running and no walking intervals in between. I'd been dreading it, but I got dressed and headed for the track this morning to take advantage of the beautiful weather before it gets too hot. I had the track all to myself, which was very nice, and off I went.

My podcast got screwed up though, so I couldn't quite time myself. Actually I had decided to just use music instead of an interval podcast today so I could have my own music. I put a playlist together with 5 minutes of walking songs, and then 20 minutes of running songs, but my shuffle apparently shuffles playlists too so my plan was foiled almost immediately. And of course I forgot to wear my watch. So I walked through two songs and then I started running on the track and after 1.75 miles thought I was probably done with the 20 minutes (because the songs started repeating, and also because of my previous slow times) but I ran another quarter mile just to be safe, so two miles altogether!

People, you don't know how momentous this is....I have never in my life run even 1 mile before. 2 miles is crazy talk! I'm sweaty but happy right now, and am ready to shower and party tonight at a friend's house. Hope you all have a great weekend!