In the books...

Day 1 at my first externship (at Advanced Eyecare Blue Springs/Raytown) is in the books.  Everything went just fine--whew!!!  They told me it was a slower than typical day, but that allowed us a lot more time to review the office operations.  I watched Dr. Wilson do the first few exams and in the afternoon I had a more active role.  These real life exams are quite different (and much quicker) than the 2 hour torture fest we put our patients through at the school.  

On to day two....

We're Separated (not in marriage, just living arrangements temporarily)

I have moved to Olathe and Brian is still in St. Louis.  My lovely sister Makenzie is allowing me to live with her,in her apartment in Olathe, while I am on my rotations in Kansas City.  I have 3 different rotations in Kansas City from May through December.  I start my first one on Monday at 8:00am in Blue Springs (which is not close to Olathe, but that's the price I'll pay for free housing).

Brian will remain in St. Louis continuing to work full time and taking classes 2 to 3 nights a week for his MBA.  

Redbox Rocks!

I....WE LOVE REDBOX!!

$1.00 per movie!  Online reservations! AWESOME!

Yes, we still have Netflix, but only because I am trying to finish the "Sex and the City" series.  Once I am done with that we will be 100% Redbox.   If we had a new Tivo and could use the instant watch feature then Netflix would be more appealing, but we don't....so redbox wins!

Summer Days

I am very excited for warm weather and sunny days as we approach the summer.  I am tired of all the clouds, cold temps and crazy winds.

BUT there is one thing about summer I HATE more than anything and I swear they come earlier and earlier....I mean we have not been able to put together two consecutive warm sunny days.....I haven't even worn shorts yet......I haven't been able to sit out in the sun reading a magazine while catching some rays......can't I just enjoy some warm weather first??.......I HATE JUNE BUGS!!!   

When the sun goes down it is time for me to go indoors because I HATE those nasty little things! 

It is May 4th, cut me some slack!

Virginia Wedding

Our high school friend, Travis Boyd, got married last weekend in Virginia-where his new bride, Karen, is from.   Travis lived in Harrisonburg, VA while working as an accountant at the Cargill plant and met Karen during that time.  They now live in Wichita, Travis still works for Cargill. 

 

We left early Friday morning, had a layover in Atlanta and flew into Richmond, VA.  Harrisonburg is about an hour and a half drive from Richmond.  We rented a car (brand new Nissan Maxima-it was sweet) and drove to Harrisonburg and arrived just in time to change and get to the rehearsal dinner. 

Saturday morning the boys went out to shoot guns and ride four wheelers.  Brian had a blast, despite rolling a four wheeler while trying to do doughnuts on an incline and subsequently rolling or smashing his ankle (someone has been watching too much Nitro Circus on MTV).   I know NOTHING about guns (and that is OK with me!), but the boys sure were excited about shooting some of these things--I mean REALLY excited!

I think they paid $10 to shoot that thing!

Brian got to bring home the casing for show and tell.

I am not sure if he was more excited about the guns or our rental car....

Saturday afternoon we went to the wedding; Brian was a groomsman (the only other VF groomsman was Travis' brother).   Some other VFHS 2002 classmates made the trip to attending the wedding: Jordan (& fiance Sarah), Anton (& girlfriend Blaine), Sarah and Travis' cousin Dianna & husband who are expecting their first child in September (though you could not even tell she was pregnant despite being 5 months along...she's as tiny as ever).

Sunday we drove back to Richmond, got on a plane to Atlanta, had a layover in Atlanta and then flew back to STL and we were home at 11:15pm.  I am pretty sure we were in airports and on airplanes longer than we were actually in Virgina.  I really wish we could have stayed longer and made a mini-vacation out of it, but we both had school and work to get back to on Monday.

Congratulations Travis & Karen!!  

I PASSED!!

Scores from Boards Part 1 were posted today........I PASSED!!!  

What a relief!

Motivation Lost

Second semester 3rd year is ridiculous.....busy work, busy work, busy work.  I am not a fan of busy work to start off with, but now that I have lost ALL motivation it's even worse.  I just can't bring myself to write these endless papers and assignments.  It's not so much that the assignments have no value, but we really aren't getting a lot of clinical education and it's getting really old.  Luckily, only one month left, but that's one a month more than what I have the motivation for!

Its not only school.....its housework, eating well, exercising--all have been lost in the last few weeks.  Hopefully a few consecutive days of nice sunny spring weather can inspire me to get back on track! (Not sunny days interrupted by SNOW!)