I'm a big sister again.  New baby is here!  Emorie Pearl (again, no one consults me on the names of the kids, clearly.  If there were going to be any more I would demand that we vote on names by committee.  Honest to God.) was born Sunday morning and is doing great.  A day or two and then she is able to go home and overthrow the entire household ( Read more... )

The three weeks update that must take place so that we can go on.  A lot happened and it wouldn't be right not to chronicle it.

• We caught up with John and Laurie while they were in PA and we had a wonderful time in Harrisburg.  I wish we lived closer.  We need couple friends like that, ones without kids or psycho girlfriends that are one the edge of ( Read more... )

Texas Tech's game last night was electrifying.  There are not words to describe it.  I was at work and one of the secretaries thought I'd flipped out because she found me jumping up and down in a patient's room in the final seconds.  She's a Northerner anyway.  No concept of what this game means on so many levels.  She didn't go to a school that ( Read more... )

Let's catch up.  I think the best thing to do is jump right back in.  Novemeber is NaNoWriMo, and though I am not writing a novel, I have made a pact to write daily.  Because I like to and because it's the best free therapy ever ( Read more... )

Happy Father's Day.

My dad is speeding across the southwest towards Tuscan (I guess the 100 degree weather at home just wasn't hot enough so they need to vacation where it's hotter?  This doesn't even make sense-) so I spent this one with Wayne's stepfather and my favorite father-in-law.  We went down to their campsite and made
moutain pies with ( Read more... )

Only the numbered list will do ( Read more... )

Yesterday was fake Easter.  We are so far past Easter that I really think it was just us eating pig stomach though.  It was my first family holiday without Wayne (home asleep, had to work that night) and it went well.  Except for the part where Wayne's mom is explaining that she's registered as a Democrat so that she is able to vote for a ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get to take care of prisoners.  They beat the hell out of each other and shank each other and to me they come.  Their medical problems are not more complex than anyone elses, but there's that moral dilemma.  Personally, I prefer prisoners locked up.  I have no idea what they did to land themselves in prison and don't want to know.  You ( Read more... )

The scene- about two months ago.  It is a gray, sloppy afternoon and I am cocooned on the couch, gazing up at Don Corleone on the television.  Enter my husband.  He is coming in through the front door, from the outside, I don't know why.

Me:  I don't want to go to work tonight.  I just want to stay here and watch my movie.

W:  Then stay home.  You ( Read more... )

Last night we went to a fancy wedding.  I love a fancy wedding where I get to wear a dress and heels and enjoy elaborate floral arrangements ( Read more... )