Home for the holidays!

We missed you ladies who could not make it to our mini reunion.

Hope to see you all soon!

Website of the day

Wordle.com - find out what you're really saying! This site will take the content of a chunk of text or a blog and create an image that places emphasis on the words used most often. I thought it was pretty cool, and promptly began creating images. Here's one for our blog.

No time now for an update, but just wanted to share my nerdy excitement with all you lovely ladies. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving! xoxo

Help! I'm technologically challenged!

Hey ladies!

I'm not sure if this is going to work, because I tried to test this without success already. It says that I'm "5117 Girls." Do I need to be added as an admin or contributor? Eek! There are so many things that I've been wanting to share with you. I miss you all so much.

Lots of love <3

Nora

Things they are a changin'

Whew Kim, quite the blog post! I was just about to get on here and write about what was going on with rotation stuff. The good news: I got Portland. The bad news: I got Portland. Sounds kinda weird, but it's the truth. If Brent isn't able to get a NW track spot (and we are being picky, so only if Tacoma or Corvallis are open) then I will switch my rotation spot and go wherever he gets. If he doesn't end up getting a NW track spot, then he is going to stay in CA and our vacations will be lined up together...and I'll stay in PDX. Although both sound great, I'm really hoping he will get a NW spot so that we can still be together. I know we will be incredibly busy, but I think it would just suck not having him around. Plus, now we have Tink, and she would have to live with only one of us. We have both grown pretty fond of her, so that would be hard. AND, we both have been sharing things for our apartment, so who would get to keep what?!?

Anyway, things are a bit crazy as usual. We are waiting to see what tracks are left over on the 19th, and then we will know exactly which rotation spot Brent gets by the 30th, so stay tuned.

I will be home next Tues (I get in REALLY early, like 8am early) but will hopefully be studying my butt off at a cafe in between a run with my cousin (anyone is invited to join). That sucks you work so much Kim, it's Chris Allen's B-day on Tues so I was planning on going out with him and was going to see if you wanted to come (again, all are invited, I don't know what the plans are though). The only other plans I have are for a Turkey Trot on Thursday morning. Chris, you should really come up to my family's Thanksgiving dinner, it's amazing food!!!

I leave Sunday morning at 7 am, so we need to plan something. I'm not sure a Seattle trek is going to work out, I have a respiratory test the Wed after Thanksgiving, so I'm going to try to study during most of the day and just have fun in the evening time...

Okay, I have two finals this week, so back to studying I go.

Can't wait to hear more from all of you girls! What the heck has been going on?!?

Love you,
Ash

Dying to hear more!!

Ashley! I'm dying to hear more details about your Portland placement for next year!! When do you start? When does Brent find out about his rotation? Where is tink going to be??

Em, curious about your Thanksgiving weekend plans...which day would work best for you for me to head up to Seattle?
Ash, I work Mon, Tues, Wed that week.... So what days can I plan on hanging with you? Are you planning on being in ptown over your winter break at all?

How has everyone else been up to? Jesse & Taren I'd love to plan on seeing you when I'm up in Seattle over thanksgiving if possible!! What are your plans?

My (almost blind) date with H1N1 :0)

Wow so my date with Hunter last night….He is awesome. Almost intimidating so. He picked me up and we had some beers and some HH food at the Nightlight in SE. Lots of just relatively basic information, get to know you convo. He is super polite and nice. We had lots to talk about. He talked to me a lot about this Naturopathy school deal (because I asked a lot of questions about it!), and it is super interesting. He is obviously incredibly intelligent, has a very interesting ideology, and is still really down to earth. He is also really well travelled. He studied abroad in Australia, visited New Zealand. Spend 4 mos traveling & backpacking in South America!! (all by himself). Has also done traveling and backpacking in Eastern Europe…(yes I’m screaming with envy!). Both his parents were dentists (he has freakin perfect teeth), and in general is definitely damn good lookin. He is really athletic: played soccer for Pomona college (which is how he best knows Lech), is really into outdoor stuff like hiking, camping, kayaking etc. (yes, melting…). And has a hot body to go along with it (and yes I got to see a bit of it :0))))))
Okay, so seriously. He is really awesome, but I kinda went from being super intrigued and swoony to just feeling like, shit, this guy is why beyond me. I guess I’ll let that be up to him to decide. But I kinda already feel like falling for this guy is going to lead to heartbreak. Can we say COMPLETELY different playing field than ex-bf!?!? So I’m a little confused right now. To top that off: definitely doubting why the hell I’m even going out on dates with someone anyway because I am really not ready nor wanting to dive into another relationship. I really have no idea what his take on that is nor did we have any extensive conversation about our past relationships so…
After HH we came back to my place and made pear cobbler dessert (with the massive amount of pears we’ve collected from the tree in our driveway). It turned out delicious. And he hung out (and we made out) til, well, really really late…like um, 6 O’clock this am…just in time for me to head to work (ed day) and him to head to class…
We are suppose to hang out sometime this week…for a hike maybe, weather permitting….But for some reason I am just not sure how excited I’m about it…maybe I just need to get some sleep and re-energize my head.

Meet Tink

Hey girls!! Just a quick update. We got a 10wk old kitten, still considering a dog as well to join the little family!! I don't really know why we think we have time for pets, but I guess we do...kinda. I'm excited we got her though, she's A LOT different from the cat I got in undergrad (that peed everywhere!). She's got a really spunky yet lovable personality, and we have only caught her peeing on some of my recycled brown bags that I put in her path of getting behind the fridge. She's definitely more time and energy than we realized though, and now are debating on the dog issue. The dog is a 6 mo old mutt, who has a little bit of everything in her. She was seemingly quite and mellow, until we took her out for a walk and she became CRAZY! I just don't know if we have time to train and care for a puppy, and a puppy with a lot of energy. I keep saying that it'll make me run more with her around, but it could also just be plain exhausting. The dog Britt got in undergrad was SOOOO much work, and I don't want another experience like that! Any thoughts?

Anyway, other than that, nothing else is really new. Gonna go wine tasting for my birthday this wknd, it's our first REAL free wknd, where we have absolutely nothing that we can study for (well, other than our board exams in May, but that's just plain crazy). Tomorrow we are learning more about rotations selections, and Brent and I met with the head honcho for rotations who said that she would do her best to keep us in the same city. She didn't guarantee PDX, but she did tell me to try for a rotation in Portland so I'd have bargaining power...we will see what happens! We are hopefully going to know our schedule by Thanksgiving...

Soo, how are you other quite ladies doing? Lena, did you end up going to SD to visit that guy, and how is all of that going?!?

Miss you all. Can't wait to (fingers crossed) see you at Thanksgiving!

Loves,
Ash