My collegiate brain keeps me on semester time, so for me, the new year begins around the end of August/beginning of September, because that's when the academic year starts. Even our health insurance works that way; the deductibles refresh in July instead of January. Work has been pretty busy since the new year started. I did a lot with organizing the new student seminar the week before the semester began, and I have been coordinating the senior seminar for students every Friday. On the plus side, I am officially in my new office (delighted squeal) and I feel like I am in office heaven, although I do really miss having someone right there whom I could just lean over and talk to. I was thinking about what I was going to hang on the walls of my new office and I just didn't know what to do, and then one of my coworkers inspired me. He pretty much has his office plastered with Star Wars toys and collectibles, so I went right to work: I measured my Lord of the Rings posters and found frames for 2 of them and am having the 3rd one framed. They've just been rolled up in a tube for the past 4 years and I decided my new office would be the best place to display them. They make great conversation starters :)
Jared is two weeks into the Respiratory Therapy program and I think he is liking it a lot. He has had to buy a lot of things for the program (scrubs, stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, etc) which has been hard for us because we don't even know how we are going to pay for our daycare and rent right now, but I know we will be able to work things out. The other day, he had gotten out of bed quickly and hurt a muscle in his back, and then on Friday morning he woke up and his left leg was numb and he couldn't feel anything touching it half the time. Well, long story short, he got 5 xrays and an MRI (because when a doctor recommends you get one or lose function to your leg, I guess you don't tell them no), they called us after the MRI to tell us to get to the ER right away for emergency surgery, and so we get to the hospital and check in, and the doctor comes in and says it's not as bad as they thought and we can just go home and get some rest. So now, we have to pay a bill for an MRI, xrays and a trip to the ER when we really didn't need it. *sigh* Even though he doesn't have to have surgery, he does have a very large herniated disc in his back, that we are hoping, with time, will fix itself. "This life is a test, it is only a test..."
Last week we decided to take the kids and Jared's cousin to the fair. We had lots of fun eating yummy food and looking at things. We walked around for about 3 hours and, needless to say, my legs were ready to give out from under me when we got back to the car.
We had to find a place to sit so we could eat our yummy scones and honey butter. As Jordyn would say, "doo-lish-ush!"
Uriah kept standing in front of Jordyn when I wanted to take a picture of her. Silly boy!
Jordyn got all messy eating a chocolate strawberry. Jared's cousin told her to touch her forehead, so what does she do? Yeah, she got it all in her hair. Silly girl!
I'll never get over the blue eyes all my kids keep getting!
I walked the kids over to the shark show so they could see the sharks and see the guy swim with them, but this is what I found when we got there. Poor little guys were tuckered out!
The boys and their giant turkey legs!
We had a good time at the fair. It was nice to get out of the house and get some air. And I have decided that, when my guinea pigs go to heaven, I am going to get a floppy eared bunny!
