Stuff and Things

I know it's been awhile since I posted, so this is quite the conglomoration of details.

I have included pictures from the Milwaukee Zoo. My family and I went on Labor Day. Jason isn't in any of the pictures because he was hard at work considering Labor Day and Memorial Day are two of the busiest of the year in emergency medicine. We chose to go to the zoo specifically because it was a location where we could get a wheelchair. You'll notice my sister Rachel has quite the boot and couldn't handle any activities where she would be on crutches all day. It's a pretty cool zoo with a great nocturnal animals exhibit as well as some other well done displays. Emily drove the wheelchair, and by some miracle no strollers or small children were hit. My dad even made it out with us which was really fun. (Rachel has currently moved up in the world and now has a walking boot for her broken foot.)



My parents bought me a sewing machine for Christmas this year and I have had a lot of fun working with it. A bunch of the women from church got together and learned how to make reversible skirts. I made one for myself and then my sister Emily picked out some fabric and designed one she wanted me to put together. You'll have to tell me what you think, but I think her prints compliment each other really well.



Now that the fall has begun I am starting my very last dental school pre-requisite. I have been downloading biochemistry lectures and trying to follow a regular schedule. My first exam will be this Thursday, we'll see how it goes. The exam will be proctored to me through the public library so it will be a regular testing situation, just in a different location. For the most part, the class has been very frustrating. The lectures frequently stop and it's nearly impossible to get through an entire lecture without some loss of information due to the sound skipping or the lecture slides blurring. Speaking of dental school, I am really looking forward to my interview at the University of Minnesota Dental School. Not only is it an honor to be invited, but it will also be nice to visit my old colleagues. As for the other schools I applied to I'm not so sure what will happen. Part of my application which was out of my hands was extremely pro-Minnesota. I don't know what other dental schools will think of that.

Work has been great. It's a really different clientele from the dental school but I'm enjoying it. I have a lot more exposure to working with kids now than I ever have before so it's been good for me. I went for a bike ride this weekend with one of the doctors I work with which was great. It's fun to have a lot of common interests with the people I work with and to actually get up and liking to work. They are both doctors I respect a lot and work well with.

phat me and mostly fixed house

Well, I finally got around to taking some pictures of the house. I was going to wait until the doors were installed, which was supposed to happen today, but alas, it just happened to be the only day all year that it has rained in the morning, so the guy that came to install them couldn't do it because he had to use his machinery outside to cut the doorknob holes, and such, and couldn't do it in the rain. So it's another couple of weeks of a door-less house. But we're pretty much used to that. Luckily we don't really get any visitors, so the door thing isn't really an issue. Anyway, this is our mostly fixed and moved into house. Notice the walls that are walls, not holes. And the new paint job.


For now the baby's room is my genealogy hub--my grandma died in June, and I got all her genealogy records that she had done a lot of by hand before the day of the computer, and a lot of computer printouts. So I'm trying to go through it all and get the info in a computer so I can free up the room.
Notice the closet doors in the computer/guest room--although the regular doors aren't installed, we do have closet doors, which is actually kind of weird after more than a month of not having to deal with a door to get something out of the closet.

Here's a couple of pictures of me getting phatter. And fatter. I'm a growing girl. And the kid is, too. She's quite a kicker these days, and it's pretty entertaining sometimes--I'm thinking about taking up belly dancing, since my belly dances on its own.

Mike got a job

Hey Mike got a job and we will be heading east. We will be in Connecticut in the Hartford area. Crazy crazy. He starts Nov 5 after he finishes writing his dissertation. I'll get ya'll some more details later.