shadowdream!

I hope this year brings you success in every avenue of your life--job, creativity, having fun, and love. Hope that friendship and good times get woven into every day for the year!

Evite for our annual party has been sent. If you didn't get it and want to come, let me know. I may have old email addresses for some.

Remember - RSVPs let me know how much food and drink to buy!

want to start a riot?

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axel_kinori!

I hope this year is one of great knowledge (and graduation), of gaining a well-deserved balance in all aspects of your life that you have under your control--love, health, friendship, fun, and family time. I also hope that it is just one hell of a fun and exciting year to you!

1.  Started knitting again!  I just haven't been into it this year, but now that we are settled in the house I feel ready to start some projects (right before Christmas, of course. . . ).  Most things in my head are UT related (orange and white scarves, gloves, etc) since I'll be walking around campus in the cold months of the new year. 

2.  Handed in my "resignation" at my clinic job, effective Dec 19th.  We had all discussed it previously.  It was so sad!  I really do love those people and doubt I'll ever find such a fun group of people to work with.  I would work there forever if I felt I could.  Good news is that I could rejoin the practice after I graduate as a nurse.  Even though I'd be in a different department I would still be with a good organization, but this time they could pay me better, offer more job security, and promote me on a career path ; P

3.  Teaching is still lots of fun.  I'm lecturing on the central nervous system next week.  The students are totally tired, burned out, and looking forward to the Christmas break.  Even though I love this stuff, I'm looking forward to the break too.

labyrinthine_!

I hope this year is one where you find out exactly where you want to be, how you want to be, who you want to be, and you make it all happen. I also hope this year is filled with love, joy, and passion in you and for you!

I keep meaning to post and not having time. *shrug*

The day after Halloween, I was asking SAM if I could have a piece of his candy, and he said he was all done with it. He didn't want it any more, and he agreed to having it put away for future car trips. Win! :)

I'm 25 weeks pregnant now! That means I'm past the age of viability, even if I count from ovulation. Yay! The baby is probably around 1.5 pounds by now, and producing surfactant and brown fat. I'm gaining weight faster with this pregnancy than I did with SAM *sigh*, but I'm also trying harder to eat protein, so maybe that's why. Oh well. I've started feeling like I'm accomplishing a few things in preparation for the birth, finally. I got the baby wishlist set up in what I hope is a comprehensible way for my cloth-diapering-innocent family, finally. My birth pool arrived! I still need to pick up a hose and faucet attachment, then we can have a test run, that should be exciting. :)

The baby is kicking harder and harder. :) It makes it a lot easier not to worry. I'm starting to feel like maybe I can enjoy the rest of the pregnancy.

So we have a time change. It happens every time around this year so its not surprising. The thing I find surprising is the speed in which my internal clock handles it.

My body seems to flow into natural rhythms with astonishing ease. I first wake up at 6:30 or so when the alarm goes off for Mongasika has to go to school. (Why 2nd graders should go to school so early is beyond me). I then doze off until 7:20 when I roll over, look at my clock and sleep again until 7:40 when I repeat the process. At 7:50 my body is fully awake. I shower dress and fly out the door.

You'd think that my body would have started doing these things an hour later under normal circumstances, but no all of them happened the same as if there was no time change. I briefly remember at 7:20 being annoyed at how much light in the room there was, but saw that it was sunlight and not artificial and so just rolled over.

And I've always been able to do this regardless of when I go to sleep. If I lie down at 11 (my normal sleep time) I get up at htose hours. If I stay up til 2:AM I get up at those hours.

In college, I could look at a clock, determine what time I needed to get up, and my body would wake up at that time (within 5-10 minutes). Its a neat trick.

In other news, my dog seems to have the same ability. One of the reasons I get up at 7:20 is that the dog wants to go pee. Apparently she has also adjusted to the time change because she was whining at the door at 7:20 and not 6:20.

crazylarper1054!

I hope this year is one filled with great adventures, fun, wild times, and that every adventure is one that is truly exciting in the best way for you. I also hope that your creativity is unlimited this year, and that you, your friends, and loved ones have a great and joyous year!

1.  After living in our house since July, I would have to say that we are now fully settled into our chaos.  There are still boxes unpacked, but I'm thinking of shoving them in a closet to get ready for my family to come over at Thanksgiving.

2.  My last day at the clinic will be December 19th.  I was going to work through Dec 31 so I could have one more paycheck until classes begin on Jan 13th, but I decided we could eat Ramen until then because I need a g'damn break before throwing myself into full time study for the next few years.  I'd like to be with Selena for her winter break too.   I now have short timer's syndrome, and basically just want to leave because I've made up my mind to leave, but I'm stuck in that horrible place where I've been nice and given them plenty of notice to hire a replacement, but my mind is already dreaming about going back to college while my body is still stuck at work.  At the same time I am very sad to be leaving them.  They are such good people.  However, since the partners split my position has gone down the tubes, I no longer feel useful there.  They have been struggling to make me "fit" the entire year, but  the decision to serve Medicare really wrecked things for me.  They have such restrictive policies regarding patient care the the support staff to the physical therapists are completely impotent in administering patient care.  Only PTs can interface with them, not massage therapists, not athletic trainers, etc.  So I kept being put in jobs that I didn't really want to do because they were trying to do right by us all and keep us in our jobs.  But doing other random work wasn't satisfying for me, and I didn't see it changing for the future.  I just didn't want to continue that way.   Furthermore, I feel like I'm just not using all I have, so I need to expand my knowledge base.  Now seems to be the best time.   I was worried about giving up a job in this economy and replacing my income with financial aid, but it would appear that my job isn't secure for much longer anyway.

Got this link from justanotherg33k:

Drunk Ewoks Ruin the Morning Show Halloween Segment

...is amused by his idea for a halloween costume.

Now just need a reason to wear one