Last night, Jeremy made me birthday porkchops with Dave’s famous Butt Rub.
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This birthday morning, I got the most beautiful day ever for a gift and an opportunity to spend 1.5 hours of it outside with family, friends and their kids.
Vince ran around the soccer field wearing non-regulation BACON socks.
Mom was pretty excited to watch the sub-floor of her addition gradually taking shape. Beneath that, I have already made the sewage connections and placed the 6 mil plastic sheets for ground cover to channel the possible Radon gas emission and to keep the ground moisture out. The plastic sheets are there but not completely fixed in place. I guess after plumbing work (DIY) and insulation (by others) I will put them in place properly with a staple gun.
This year, it seems that Mom can finish framing, roofing and siding parts. The rest is for next year. The first thing on the list for next year is new deck to connect the old one at the back. This way, it will make in-and-out much easier through the back exterior door of the addition.
And the last thing for this year is to put the fence in front back to its original place. I don’t think it is hard.
First clinical today. We are a group of good looking nursing students. I was nervous, but it was a fantastic first day. My instructor is great, my classmates are smart. The nurses on the floor seemed to like working with each other and with their patients and did not seem burned out. And! I did a head-to-toe assessment on my very first patient.
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Back to school night for Vince. His science teacher has 70 snakes in his house. Here I am with Dr. J, the school mascot. I told Dr. J I was JW class of ’86 and he gave me a high five.
Look at this beautiful postcard Nat wrote. Such nice handwriting.
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Thanks for the shoes, Donald. They are fantastic and beyond my wildest dreams. I will take them out for a spin on my acutal birthday. xoxo. <3.
Ms. Maureen. Edda’s 5th grade teacher. We love Ms. Maureen and had a nice chat with her at back-to-school night. Edda’s been doing well with holding her fork full of pancakes and bringing it to her mouth. Thank goodness for school, they make Edda do all the things we are too impatient to do at home. We are lazy and just feed her ourselves – just waiting for her little mouth to open like a bird. One day during gym, she decided that she was done and had had enough so she whirled around and she went up three steps by herself while holding onto the railing to exit the room. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her clear more than one step. We also discussed holding Edda back a year – she’s in 5th grade now and technically would move onto middle school next year, but it’d be fun to be in Ms. Maureen’s class one more year.
Jeremy lost 9 pounds when he didn’t eat anything for three days. I’m happy he’s eating again. Especially ice cream.
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We had our first lecture today on Adult Health. This is a photo of the review session held right after class. It took the prof the full THREE hours to go over the syllabus. I know, how is it possible to spend three hours going over a syllabus? How much work is there? Well, all of us were paying full attention for the whole three hours and constantly asking questions to clarify the confusing parts. Because we spent the whole class time on logistics, we didn’t actually get to any class content that was suppose to be presented during the first class, so after three hours, we all herded ourselves to recitation where students who took the class last term presented the actual real lecture – very quickly (we were not there another three hours, thank goodness). The first class of adult health isn’t about respiratory issues, it isn’t about cardiac issues. It’s about diabetes. The first thing to learn in adult health is to manage diabetes (!).
Happy 46th birthday Jeremy. Enjoy your pie!
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Vince wanted to watch a movie starring Robin Williams. He wanted Aladdin. I wanted Good Will Hunting. The compromise was Dead Poets Society with a bowl of popcorn.
Edda usually has total control over the living room TV. We’ve had about a decade of Blue’s Clues and Dora in the background of our home life. It’s hard to watch other things on the family TV because once you turn on the Olympics, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off or Dirty Jobs, Edda gets mad and sad and she follows you around the room and gives you no peace. Sometimes we try to set up a second, little TV right below the main TV to keep her happy. Sometimes that works and sometimes that doesn’t work. Vince has decided to just hold her in his lap and he just whispers in her ear, “This is a really great show. Just wait and see.”