I am the luckiest mommy in the world. My husband has a business trip in La Jolla, and my in-laws came to stay at our place with the baby. All of which means I get an adult vacation. Yay! (And I don't miss the little guy at all, not even a little bit, nope, nope, nope. Except when I see other families with babies. And when I think of his cute little face and his cute little smile, and...but aside from...

I'm so glad that there's only 2 days left this week -- I am flat out exhausted.  I've had a busy week of many new patients, therapists out in orientation and for other reasons, heavy patients who need a lot of help transferring (and one who likes to scream as well), and today I totally crushed up my shins doing a car transfer with a very dense stroke patient and her husband.  I'm thinking ahead to...

Haven't posted in awhile (again) because of the last 3 weeks of much goings-on. So, a quick outline of what I intend to add into future posts: - Work is crazy. Hopefully it still exists when I get back. - Wedding went frickin' *amazingly*. Much love and thanks to everyone. Will post pix and much more thanks. - Afterwards, managed to hang out with some friends and relatives for a few days and decompress...

I'm home again from Estrella War in Florence, AZ.  I couldn't attend last year, but the stories were horrendous, and I was warned about how it was going to be wet and rainy and windy and the site was going to be a sticky mudhole.  It actually turned out to be absolutely gorgeous! I arrived Wednesday evening.  Thursday morning our warband got to the field just a little late, so we were still at marshal's...

The 25 things meme has been going around Facebook, and I got tagged on it by a former co-worker. Since I'd hate to let a good entry go to waste, here it is re-posted. 1) I've always greatly admired and wanted to be like two fictional characters: Maureen Johnson Long, Cordelia Naismith...and one real person as portrayed by Hollywood: Maria von Trapp. I'll leave the whys of all this as an exercise...

You know, I'm not sure why this challenge was so hard for me to complete, but it was.  I went back and forth about different ideas for themes and never really settled on one, to be honest.  I have a camera full of about 60 images from the weekend, all a mish-mash on themes and not quite 10 of any of them.  I thought about Southern California plants (for all of you chilly Midwesterners), and of things...

Thanks for the pseudo-tag, minemouse   :)  Let's see if I can come up with things that you guys don't know. 1.  I dislike food things that are too mushy or squishy, texture-wise.  I refuse to eat anything gummy.  2. I cut my cholesterol by almost 50 points about 5 years ago by diet and exercise alone.  I've gotten laxer about my health though, and I bet that my cholesterol reading would...

It was a fun day of music and mayhem, to use Dame Richenda's word.  At this normally static-arts-display-focused event we had: - a theatrical production by a "reduced Shakespeare" company (Duke Guillaume as Juliet is an experience not to be missed) - a performance from the Calafia music guild (nicely disguised -- surely nobody in the audience could tell Master Samuel assigned parts arbitrarily and...

thefridayfive   Feelings... What made you happy this week? My boss telling me that he appreciates me...the PossAbilities banquet...my husband welcoming me home with smiles and hugs. What made you sad? Feeling unsettled about the future. What made you angry? Administration at the hospital What are you looking forward to in the next week? Thanksgiving in San Diego with ...

3604 words today, total 26554. Halfway there! I'm officially caught up from the weekend and even a little ahead. Excerpt: “We're going to keep having this conversation until you quit that. Stop apologizing. It's all right.” “I'm sorry --” Enis brought her hand to her face and laughed a single, helpless little laugh. Doctor Menga laughed several times for her. “That's better. Relax. We're not...