Small World

Behold the power of Crown 9 and the friendships formed.  I just got back from a stake relief society conference and ran into Coralie.  Do you remember her?  I think she lived in the apartment on the second floor just North of ours.  Anyway, I was wandering around in an activity and thought I recognized her.  So I asked if she went to BYU and she even remembered my name.  We chatted for a few minutes.  Apparently her husband is from out here and they have lived here about a year.  It was funny to hear her say refer to Crown 9.  You would have been proud of the way she said it.  Way to keep the reputation of a crazy bunch of girls!

Oh, so speaking of small world, do you guys remember a Stacy from our freshman ward?  I believe she lived immediately below us.  I ran into her at my parents ward.  Apparently she married a guy who grew up in Sun Prairie.  They are out in San Jose California if I can remember correctly.  There are no such things as goodbyes in the church, you always run into people again.  I'll try to start taking pictures of these people to help jog memories if I think of it.  We just need to run into each other a little more frequently. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDI

Happy Birthday Wendi, you crazy monkey!!

The Milwaukee Art Museum

Last Saturday I finally convinced my sister Rachel to come to the art museum with me.  They were holding their version of art in bloom so it was a must see event.  We went to the Minnesota institute of art's art in bloom last year.  Local flower artists are invited to create an arrangement inspired by pieces within the museum.  I have included pictures of some of my favorites.  Some of the bouquets are obviously linked to a certain piece.  Others took awhile for Rachel and I to figure out which portrait brought it to be.  I apologize for the fuzzy pictures.  There is also a snapshot from Easter thrown in there.  It was probably the most challenging hunt ever due to the snow.  The eggs sunk in and you could walk by them several times and not see them.

 

I would like to take this moment to publicly thank all institutes that offer student discounts.  They rock!  I have had some amazing experiences at theaters, museums etc. from their understanding price break.  Hoorah for going back to school!

 

Fruit anyone?

 

So I have been doing a fair amount of temp work over the winter.  It brings in a little extra money and helps fill the weekend when I'm not Jason's at the clinic (which was every weekend).  Temping usually involves setting up a day in advance to sub for another hygienist at any given office.  (I have gone as far as thirty miles away to do this.)  I have also been called the morning of asking me to go in if possible.  In short, this experience has been less than pleasant.  It seems that with the exception of one office, most of these places are what are termed hygiene mills in the dental community.  I get 30 minutes for children and 40 minutes for adults to: take x-rays, assess their gum health, update their records, remove all that has been left on their teeth (The last part is very difficult because most of these places have scanty and inefficient tools), get an exam, record what I did and make it a somewhat pleasant experience.  Of course that's all moving around in someone else's area and with their dental products.  I have seen cleaning practices that make me uncomfortable and perio protocols that are seriously lacking.  I was even in an office where they dip their radiograph films by hand to chemically process them.  (That hasn't been done as accepted practice in decades.)  Fortunately, I haven't had to do any cold sterilization; I promised myself I would simply walk out of an office asking me to do that.  At the end of the day I'm exhausted and often wonder if it's worth the extra effort.  Now that the weather is getting better, I think I'm going to be much more selective of the temp jobs I take.  It definitely makes me grateful for the positions that I have.  They were certainly worth the wait and have been wonderful places to work with kind people and high quality care.

Google Reader

FYI for all you blog slackers (not that I'm exempt from that title at all): Of course Google is the smartest of all companies in their monopoly of the web, and my little bro has always been quite the Google fan, keeping me informed of their most recent products, like google calendar, or google documents, or google homepage, or google whatever. And for people who read blogs, there is google reader. You can set up google reader to check all the blogs you read, and whenever there's a new posting it'll come up on google reader, so instead of checking 10 blogs, you just check google reader, kind of like checking your email inbox for the new messages/posts. And you can even post a feed on your google homepage so it'll show new postings there. I like the thing, so I just thought I'd pass the word along.
And as a side note, my little bro just found out yesterday he got his dream internship with Google for this summer, so he's pretty excited, I guess.
Have a great day, everyone!

Pics

For your viewing pleasure...
Here's Gino--short for Penguino. Rachel loves chewing on his beak. And the rest of these, I realized after I started uploading them, are of Rachel in her high chair. She does spend time outside of her high chair every once in a while... but you won't see any of that today.
Here's a book you could really sink your teeth into (as long as you have teeth).

Awwwwww.
Rachel's first experience with solid food.

WWF?

While this looks like Shannon winning a wrestling match by virtue of the headlock she grabbed Zub with, it is really much simpler. Its a hug from a loving big sister... all together now... Awwww.