March showers bring march flowers?!

That may not be the way the saying goes but that is certainly what is happening here in Omaha. Spring is here! I love it! Ryan left Friday afternoon for a hockey tournament out in middle-of-nowhere west Nebraska so I had the place to myself this weekend. Friday I stuck around work a little later than normal as one of my chief residents put together a LEEP skills lab for us interns {we were supposed to do this in July...but....better late than never!}. Here is a link to what exactly a LEEP is because WebMD can likely explain the ins and outs more than I would care to write about on here: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/cervical-cancer/loop-electrosurgical-excision-procedure-leep-for-abnormal-cervical-cell-changes

Here is the 'A Team' as my chief Ashley and I like to refer to ourselves practicing LEEPing on beef tongue.

I'm pretty sure the clinic staff appreciated us doing this Friday evening so the procedure room had a few days to air out - ha! It smelled like burnt roast beef after we left because well, basically, it was!

After my LEEP practice, a few of us girls went out for dinner and drinks. We ate at Cantina Laredo. It was pretty tasty but I was also pretty hungry by the time we got there. On the way to the parking garage, I noticed that the daffodils in Omaha are starting to come out. There were daffodils sticking nearly 5 inches out of the ground down by the restaurant. Yes, spring is here!!  After our group therapy girl's night out {sort of, I think I was home by 9:30 or 10 at the latest} I went home and slept like it was going out of style.

When I finally woke up at noon on Saturday {hehehe...what?! Don't judge, I work a lot of hours!!} and spent the majority of the day studying and working on presentations, etc for work to get a little ahead since I have a feeling that these last three months of intern year are going to be quite busy. I spent most of Sunday doing the same thing. Good thing I had stuff inside to occupy my time as it rained all day on Sunday {Omaha's version of April showers}. I managed to make quite a dent in my to do list and even managed to wash and put away all the laundry, clean the kitchen, put away and organize all of the papers that needed filing from 2011 and organized a bunch of my junk in the office. It was a very productive weekend, if I say so myself. But it didn't stop there, I cooked dinner for us when Ryan got back from his hockey tournament and then I went and watched Ryan's old-man's-league hockey game and then mixed up a batch of sugar cookies {possibly more on this later if the idea in my head actually turns out} before heading to bed.

Hoping Spring isn't too far behind for all you Minnesotan folks :)

~Ashley