grati-tudes-day.

just to re-cap. i'm not good at blogging when very busy. and i'm post-call and tired and kind of grumpy. and chose today to do a little blogging. and since it's tuesday, well. why not. except i changed it a little because i have an attitude today. maybe next week would be a better time. nah.

i'm grateful for...
1. my fiance. :) oooh fun... a picture... it's small, but you can see it bigger at our photographer's website if you want! we have a lot of goofy looks on our faces. and we aren't always looking where we are supposed to. but there are a few of them that i'm in love with.


for more photos, go to http://www.joyfulphoto.com/ (i can't remember how to make the link clickable...) and click on portraits, then clients and the password is d+a.

2. we close on our new house next week. it's so lovely! how about a picture?? we'll move all our stuff there next weekend. i'll move in after this month is over, and derek will move in after we get married. yay.


3. wall paper strippers. we have a lot of hideous wall paper that i was going to be stripping on my own... BUT... we decided to hire a couple of ladies to do the job for us! thrilled with that decision!

4. the upcoming end of the PICU. followed in a few months by the upcoming end of residency.

5. my new grown-up job. i start mid-july. it will be scary and exciting.

i'm funny.

i just spent an hour and a half or so reading back through my blog. made me realize that i kind of miss detailing out some of my days happenings. also, reminded me that i'm pretty hysterical. so i thought i'd chime in for a minute or two. but not more than that, because i have to get to bed.

one million things have been missed in the past year and several months. things i'm sure would have made great blog posts. we will mourn those losses together.

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i just heard on a tv commercial that you should ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. woah. please don't ask me that. ever.

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i may have the swine flu. i'll find out tomorrow. i'm starting to feel better already, but it doesn't matter. if my test is positive, i can't go back to work til the weekend. pity. if it's negative, i'll go back tomorrow afternoon. which is why i have to go to bed.

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if i could remember how to link back to previous posts quickly and easily, i'd do it now... to point out some of my favorites and remind you how funny i am. i'm also contemplating a new layout in order to freshen things up a bit and renew my love of the blog-o-sphere.

ok. i'm out.

starlit nights.

derek and i have season tickets to starlight this summer. it's super fun to me to have a revolving date like that. and we have a good time.

"the drowsy chaperone"
the first show of the season was pretty terrible. neither of us had ever heard of it before and we both hated it. there was no intermission, we're pretty sure because they were afraid people would have left.

"high school musical"
decent, but a little cheesy. i'd not seen the movie. derek had done the show for their fall musical last year, so he had quite a lot to say about the things they did or did not do.

"the music man"
pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little... derek couldn't go that week, so melodie came along with me. i think he was a little sad because he'd never seen it before. the only time i'd seen this show was when aunt ruth was in it for their community theater. it was great.

"fiddler on the roof"
last week, we decided to take kelsay and cody along with us. cody is leaving for college in a couple of days, and kelsay had always wanted to go. and we love double dates. :) derek had played the lead in high school and sang nearly every word to every song. i hadn't seen it before, and didn't really know the story. it was very good. and we looked pretty cute, even though it was freezing!! in the middle of AUGUST for goodness sake.



"les miserables"
happens in a few weeks. derek hasn't seen it, i love it. i'm excited! :)




isn't this the very absolute best t-shirt you've ever seen? i got it for derek's birthday, expecting that he would chuckle and then chuck it to the back of his closet... but he loves it. and he wore it on our very next date. :) too funny. too too funny. i love it.

catch up.

so i spent the last month curing cancer. some days were fine. others were really really hard. but i only actually almost cried once, which is WAY better than i anticipated. i'm a crier. i cry a lot. i was just not uber-emotional this month for who knows what reason. maybe because i was all out of tears from the previous month. who knows.

anyway. i was violated a couple of times this month, and i only share these stories so that i don't have to live the horror of them on my own... please forgive me... first time was by a gay 18 yr old kid who was asking me why he had trouble maintaining an erection when he was having anal sex with a condom on. and again by a 15 yr old kid (who has some pretty bad brain damage) who was really frustrated in the middle of the night one night and tore off his diaper and starts masturbating in the room. that wasn't really the violating part... that part was when his mom says to me, "i think maybe he just needs to ejaculate."

and because i forced you through that, i'll leave you with these... from the night that the girls and i went to cameron to see derek direct the king and i...

twitterpated.

unnamed.

my new car is super cute. and fun. and has a sunroof. and power doors and windows. and cruise control. fun.



so, the story behind deciding to buy the new car... a friend of mine is going through a really hard time and all of a sudden found himself in need of a car with no feasible way to get one. and then i started thinking. thinking about how many people helped me get that car... the one i got right after the accident when i had virtually no money. and realized that i no longer needed to be driving a car that was virtually given to me. and i truly felt like God was asking me to reach out to this guy. so i did. and i sold him my car. which meant i needed a new one... so i could get to work. so derek came down and we went car shopping. :)

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speaking of derek. he's at cancer camp this week. and when people at work ask about him and i tell them that, he becomes that much greater in their eyes. and mine. i like being proud to talk to my friends about him. i like that people can't wait to meet him. and that they love him when they do. he's pretty amazing.

promises fulfilled.