A Birthday and Recent Happenings

I want to wish a Happy Birthday to the classiest lady I know, my Grandma Frost! She is 90 years young today. My family got together today for brunch after church today to celebrate. I wish I was back in Minnesota so I could have been there to help celebrate but I was celebrating in spirit with them :) I'll be seeing her this next weekend at Hillary's wedding! I can't wait!!

This weekend was my first full weekend off since starting residency and it has been very therapeutic for me. I got off work at 7pm on Friday, got home around 7:30ish and I think I was sleeping by 8:15pm - ha - and I was out for the count. I didn't wake up until the wee hour of 6:30 Saturday morning. It is kind of sad to say that 6:30am is considered sleeping in but *sigh* it is, and it felt really good to sleep that long. I'm not sure what I did Saturday between waking up and then taking my first nap at 11:00am for a whole three hours - it was glorious!! Oh I remember, I woke up Saturday and I went to Target just to feel like a normal person to see if I could find some curtains for our house. I found some curtains but I wasn't completely sold on them so I walked around the entire store and picked up some other needed essentials {shampoo, deodorant, toilet bowl brush - please don't judge, yes we've been in our house for a month and yes, our toilets need to be cleaned but in my own defense I'm never here to use them anyways -ha!- so they aren't that dirty}. Then I went home and slept for those three glorious hours.

Saturday afternoon and just  caught up on life on the world wide web :-) It was fantastic! Then Saturday night I met up with two of my three fellow interns for dinner. We went to Pitch which is a coal-fire pizzeria. If we overlook that parking was terrible and that our "15 minute wait" for a table turned out to be an hour and a half, it was a really good time. It was nice to hang out with my co-interns and see how their lives are going compared to mine. According to my dinner conversations with them, I'm right on track. Yes, I can honestly say being an intern is not fun and as one of my upper-levels told me on Friday "being an intern in July is even worse," and boy is it! But I'm surviving, I'll get through this. Jake {who is the only Y chromosome in the program} wasn't able to make it to dinner with us.

The interns: Morgan, Maricela and Me

Not only was it nice for the three of us to get together, but it was nice for our husbands to hang out and get to know one another. They'll probably hang out without us in the future. I'm looking forward to the next time all of us have the evening off so we can hang out again. It is so hard to be an intern and feel so lonely. Even though these girls are going through the same thing as I am, I never get to see them because we are always on different services and working different shifts and having different sleep schedules *sigh* It will get better.

We stayed out till 10:30pm which is WAY past my normal bedtime {but since I had the ability to take a super long nap earlier in the day, I was able to stay up}. Once we got home though, it was straight to be for me. I slept 10 hours last night! Ten whole hours! It was awesome. Prior to this weekend and since the start of residency, I had only gotten eight hours of sleep on two occasions. I love to sleep. I've really been missing it these past few weeks. This morning, Ryan and I got to work sanding the last few dresser drawers. Yep, we are still working on refinishing the same dresser and night stand that we were working on a month ago. But the sanding is complete on those two pieces and they are ready to be stained. Lucky for me, I think this next week will be a much more low-key week as I'm scheduled to be in clinic. And then not to mention I have a week of vacation which starts after I finish clinic on Thursday! Hillary's getting hitched and we are heading north. I remember when I requested time off for Hill's wedding. I just asked for a couple days but since we are required to take one week of vacation every three months, they gave me an entire week. I remember feeling a little bad that I was taking a week off right at the beginning of residency, but guess what, I don't feel bad anymore. Not after working 260 hours in 22 days. I'm more than ready for a week off! Woo hoo, it's gonna be a fun time!!

Here are some pictures I took off my cellphone this morning. Just thought I would post them.

I can't remember if I posted this one or not, but this is Zoey not wanting Ryan to go down to Baton Rouge.

I wonder if people ever regret getting personalized license plates. At least they aren't as permanent as tattoos!

Cooper and Zoey sleeping and being lazy.

Here's Cooper - the Halloween Cat! And Zoey....I'm not really sure. Maybe she is practicing the new craze called planking.

Cooper still loves air conditioned air!

Zoey usually waits at the top of the stairs for me to get home.

A rare moment of down time while on L&D nights, just hanging out, watching the monitors.

This was me attempting to sleep during the day while I was working nights. Cooper must have missed me because he was glued to my hip most days when I was sleeping.

Zoey also cuddled in during the day while I was trying to sleep. They must have missed me during the night as they couldn't let me out of their sight when I'd get home in the morning.

So, that's about all that's new in my life. I'm looking forward to doing a little celebrating and hanging out with my family this next weekend!

~Ashley