best.walk.ever.

got delayed by the rain. stepped in a hole, turned right ankle. ozzy ate goose droppings. ozzy ate dead fish. ozzy ate more goose droppings. fell off sidewalk, turned left ankle. mike played with willow branch that snapped in half and flew directly into my eyeball.

went home. iced ankles. decided that outside wins today.

very important!

I forgot to mention -- I am married to an officially unofficial sports writer now. Well, at least one that is now receiving a nominal fee for his efforts.

All joking aside, Michael is an excellent writer and he definitely has the talent to make a paying career of his hobby. Which is great, because I think everyone should love what they do for a living.

And, you know, he's real cute too.

PICTURES!!!

Here it is -- the first of probably several posts to include many random pictures. These blogs will be brought to you courtesy of the fact that Mike and I, together, have finally decoded Kodak's secrets -- though I'm pretty sure it involved the staff of Ra and something to do with our firstborn child. I'll try to do this somewhat chronologically. This first pic to the left is the front of our house this past February when we had a ridiculous amount of snow. Notice the massive ice hanging from the gutter (which is apparently a bad thing, I found out. Who knew?)

Here I am in front of the Capitol Building on my awesome trip to D.C. for ACP's Leadership Day in May.

With the Bride & Groom at the Kidd/Sokel wedding...

...and at the Moody/Shoup wedding...

...and at the Nichols/Alleshouse wedding....

(it's difficult to get Mike to take serious pictures)

And I'll end this post with me at the finish line of the Morse Park Triathlon this year. I finished! Hooray!

(NOTE: though I've decoded Kodak, Blogger still has many mysterious and enigmatic ways. Hopefully I'll continue to unravel them and my posts will start to look less funky...)

marching forward.

well.. June has now come and gone, and I'm already a week in to my July elective. June was a fun & busy month, though not too much happening on the Africa front.

NICU was fantastic -- aside from the whole critically ill newborns thing. The elective didn't absolutely convice me to go into neonatology some day, but it didn't rule it out either.

July already seems to be running away from me -- it's only about 3 weeks until I leave. I actually started packing yesterday, though I think I'm probably already over the 50 lb limit and I haven't actually packed any clothes yet. Or medical equipment for that matter. Both fairly important things.

Things are coming together, thought it seems like there is still SO much left to do -- both in terms of getting ready to GO to Africa, as well as getting ready to LEAVE the US, if that makes any sense at all. The biggest thing right now is getting as much residency application stuff done as possible before I leave. Which has been stressful, to say the least.

This is a short post, but hopefully soon I'll be able to post a bunch of pictures detailing the whirlwind that has been this spring/summer: 3 exams, 3 weddings, and a triathlon, to name a few things.

Until then...