Morning Family Conversation

Scene: Turnip watches in horror as I wash my plate that still has streaks of maple syrup on it.

Alana: No sweetie, that's too much sugar.

Jake: When she got her pancake, I put some syrup on it. Do you think I'd give her a dry pancake? What am I, a monster?!

Turnip: Yeah, if you did that, I would have to call the SPCA - Society for Pan-Cake Advocacy.

**I don't know if this translates, but it was hilarious at the time! And yes, Turnip talks to us.

For Loula

Baby Loula needed a fancy brown hat! Her mother loves brown and has way too much hand-me-down pink stuff. The little bow on top makes it feminine, but not girly. I really love this hat which is a mini version of a white hat I made for myself this summer. It is being modeled here by an enormous navel orange.

So much to say, so little time

There are so many things I have been wanting to blog about in the past few week but my free time is very very sparse. I've been wanting to post pictures about things I've knitted over the summer, pictures of the front of our house and how it's looking much nicer these days, pictures of Turnip's new walking collar, entries about school and my feelings about psychiatric nursing...... there's just so much but you will all have to wait patiently.

This week started off really insane and now that I have my two exams over with, I can take the afternoon and evening off. Thank goodness. I thought my eyes were gong to start bleeding last night as I was studying for my test! But, you'll be happy to know I did very well on both and now I have two quizzes to look forward to this Friday. And I have to go to two 8 hour clinicals. And create and run an ocupational therapy group. And write a paper. And start working on my presentation. And have a one-to-one evaluation with my instructor. Oh jeez. I better just finish up these dishes first. One day at a time.......well, that might not work. Let's try one hour at a time.

Planning way in advance....

For those of you who have been asking, my graduation date is Friday, May 23rd 2008 at 10am.

But I'm not thinking about this until next year when my evaluations and grades will say it's okay for me to graduate.

Ok, I now must go read about antibiotics on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Grrr....

Too many tomatoes!

They won't stop! I haven't even watered them in a week!But, they are still tasty and beautiful.
Adorable Japanese eggplants. I have a plan for them...
Small dog or giant cucumber?? (She is not licking her chops for this, trust me.)
Bonus picture: birthday cupcakes! Happy 33rd Andy!

Quick Update

First week at school went extremely well. I'm not even stressed out yet! I'm impressed with the second year instructors because of their cohesiveness as a team and extraordinary organizational skills. They are such a breath of fresh air compared to my instructors last year.

I start out my clinical next week at Emergency Psychiatric Services so I'm heading in deep the first day. My tasks at clinical will mostly be about communication - we're really not to do anything else except talk. Because the population I'll be working with can be unpredictable, we're not allowed to touch or even go near a patient's room for our safety. Ok by me.

I've been reading all my chapters like a good student so far (this will not last long...) and I already have one project out of like 100 done already. My syllabus is so full of reading, quizzes, tests, group projects, individual projects and papers that my head is spinning. Fortunately, we have all the information we need ahead of time so really all this work is about time management. They are really stressing the importance of time management this year because that's 99% of on-the-job nursing.

And stay tuned for an excited announcement about Turnip's improved behavior!

Cue ominous music....

I start school at 7am tomorrow.

:: cry ::

Makin' Bagels!

Jake made bagels this weekend. I think he really wanted to try out his new outdoor stove thingy (bought for beer making) on something he's familiar with first. I didn't really help, but I took pictures!
The doughy goodness:
Jake's new toy:Boil for one minute each side in a malty solution:
From the oven.....
...to my mouth! Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside - the perfect bagel.
That boy is so talented.