facebook

I've discovered a new application on facebook. It's the Ilike application and it just let me download not only the song Crazy, but the video as well! Have you seen the video? It came out back in the day and starred Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler. This is just way too exciting. This video inspired me....inspired me to take a road trip with Rachel in a black convertible, wear skimpy clothes, rob convenience stores, compete in an amatuer night stripping competition and then chase down super-cute farm boys in our black convertible. So far the dream is still just a dream, but now, thanks to facebook, the dream is still very much alive! Don't tell my parents.

Mabel has been sick today. She pretty much blew chunks all over the floor. Thankfully we have hard wood floors so clean up is a bit easier. I got to her in time to hold her ears back.

Drugs

So, what do you do when you're counting out drugs for a patient and one (or two) of them falls on the floor? Five second rule?

Last weekend, Danny and I took the train to St. Louis to visit my aunt and uncle and my two cousins. I've only been on the train at Worlds of Fun, so this was a new experience for me. We left from Union Station in Kansas City....who knew that you could actually catch a train at Union Station? Anyway - there were old pictures hanging everywhere from the days when Union Station was primarily a train station and not just a fun place for wedding receptions. I think my favorite part of the station experience was when the conductor yelled "all aboard!"

Here's a crazy thing about trains - they don't even check your ticket until you've already pulled out of the station. We were half way to Lee's Summit before anyone came by to make sure we were legitimate train riders. I'm not quite sure what they do with the people who sneak on without tickets, but I have a feeling that it's not pretty. Anyhow, the train itself was a rather pleasant way to travel. You can sit wherever you want (I think Southwest took the idea from Amtrak), you can walk around, you can get a snack from the snack car, and there was plenty of leg room. As a side note, there were several obese passengers on the train who kept walking back and forth from the snack car carrying arm loads of chips, candy and other fat-filled edibles. Have you ever wanted to yell, "don't eat that!"? I have.

St. Louis was fantastic. It's a little misleading when I say that we visited my "aunt and uncle" because my uncle Kurt is 39 and my aunt Angela is only 6 years older than me (I'll post pictures later). Angela should be an event planner or a travel agent, because I think we saw just about everything there is to see in St. Louis in 3 days. They accomplished their goal of sending us home tired. Danny even got a new nickname: Danny-o's Pantyhose - given to him by my cousins Adison and Lillian. I have a feeling that this nickname is going to be around for a while!

The ride home would have been great except that the most annoying pre-teen girl alive was sitting right behind us. Lordy! I've never wanted to strangle someone so badly. I'm pretty sure she had a severe form of A.D.D. She wandered through the train several times, back and forth, back and forth - running at times. We were hoping that the train would hit a bump and she would be thrown out a window.... no such luck. Eventually she sat down next to her grandma and she talked and talked and talked. Poor grandma! Poor me! At one point she performed her rendition of The Itsy Bitsy Spider in her very best Christina Aguliera voice, followed by Take Me Out To The Ball Game where she substituted, "buy me some peanuts and apple jacks" for "cracker jacks." This really seemed to bother grandma....understandably! Anyhow, we finally rolled back into Union Station at about 10:30 pm. We had a fantastic trip, but it's good to be home. I missed my girl!

It never ends

Can anyone tell me when I should start studying for this thing? I'll be taking it next spring. Should I start studying now? Over winter break? Or should I have started when I was BORN?

blogger shmogger

Since I have nothing better to do at the moment, I decided that I should try out this here blog thing-ama-jig. Lately I've had a lot of people tell me that I should keep track of my experiences in medical school because there are bound to be some pretty good stories. Considering I've forgotten 95% of what happened in high school and undergrad (heck - I can't remember what I did yesterday), I thought I should write it all down - the good stuff anyway. So, this little blog is essentially to supplement my memory, but if you want to read it - go ahead.

Oh....and the dog. This blog will undoubtedly include my sweet girl Mabel. In fact, "out the winder" was inspired by Mabel. She spends a good deal of her day sitting on (read: ruining) the sofa cushion looking out the "winder." (www.outthewindow.blogspot.com was already taken - heck!) I looked up the blogspot out of curiosity and this person hasn't blogged since 2003, but they continue to use the name, causing ME to have to spell like I didn't pass 1st grade.

Okay. I don't want to over do it on my first attempt. Start small....build up. Keep the expectations small.