29.3.13

MISC.

Going biking (outside, in the scary wild of Sequim).
And getting ready for Easter and TWD finale and the last week of work before SF!!!
Confession: I'm packed already. Whoops!


If you ignore the porn bit (as in they are in) isn't her hair kick-a? Yes. That is the answer.



Isn't this elephant necklace intriguing? The stone is such an interesting shape.


And some information about elephants... didn't every kid want to work at the zoo at some point?


I NEED THIS. Okay, lie. But it is awesome and I wish I were five again so I could say I needed it.


Summer singing with the roof open.


Going to see Ben Howard again in April. Yay!


28.3.13

...

I
HAVE
NOTHING
TO
SAY.

14.3.13

MISC.


I'm ending the week early. I'm the boss of this blog, I do what I want.
And I want bed.

This has been a very important two weeks for several reasons.
1. I saw Blades of Glory. That movie is hilarious!!
2. I started back at my home clinic which was like coming home and also completely foreign all over again.
3. I'm going to dinner at some meatball place in Tacoma that was on Diner's Drive-In's and Dives! Tonight! Yahoo!!!!!
4. I asked most of my bridesmaids to be bridesmaids.
5. I live streamed conclave at work and happened to catch the white smoke while charting! What luck! The last thing I live streamed was the space shuttle landing, the last American one. Did that make anyone else cry?


(I keep staring at these photos to remind myself spring will come again! Sunshine!)



Keep praying for my lovely friend and this job, or any job that she loves!


And for Big Time Timmy Jim.


This is scary right?


Conan is the perfect morning companion.


A galaxy skirt!


A new Pope with an important name (have you read about what people say the symbolism of Francis will be? And the new Pope's stances on things... it's going to be interesting hearing Vatican speaking for a while.

12.3.13

POPE.


Electing a new pope! What an exciting time!
I saw Benedict give a benediction over a crowd in Germany. He could have performed mass for all I know actually, nothing was in English..... but it was fun to gather with so many people and see him.


Embarrassingly I immediately think of this movie and Jimmy Kimmel when I think of the Pope.








Another really good Catholic movie.

11.3.13

Proposal.


Joshua's proposal is pretty much like the rest of our relationship at this point- laid back and full of love (and laughing and crying).

He fooled me for a week telling me that he ordered a Lacoste polo shirt UPS which I thought was bizarre but he said it was fast and only a couple dollars more and I believed him... when in fact he picked out the champagne diamond ring I'm sporting these days. It had to be signed for and I kept offering to do it since he had to work and he kept making terrible excuses about why I couldn't. Goose.

The Herberts- you know them- were leaving and I offhandedly said to Josh that it was going to be so sad they wouldn't get to see my ring. And so at their going away party he lured me outside with a promise of a present from his adopted nieces and we stood on the beach with the crashing wild (tiny) ferry waves and the freezing wind whipping about and he turned from the dark water and said, "Ready?" (because sometimes I respond to surprises inappropriately. Example: when Joshua kissed me the first time I burst into tears and left his apartment immediately) and then he got on one knee and pulled a lotion covered (it exploded in his pocket) ring box from his pocket. And honestly I remember not another thing.

The proposal was sweet, but the how is less precious than the when. Joshua protects my heart. He gave me a chance to celebrate with my family before they went away, to have time of laughing and planning and not of only crying and packing.

I didn't know what was going down, so I wore one of the teens GIANT house slippers. It was supposed to be a run to the car! So romantic I  know. On the way back off the beach it got caught in brambles and I had a thorn in my foot that was so deep it bled and bled when I pulled it out. Of course I didn't even notice the thorn until the next day when the giddy shock wore off...






My only regret is that I wasn't wearing this dress which was out of stock all winter and is finally back! I might splurge on this one thing (one outer wear thing that is) for the honeymoon.

Also do new rings and necklaces make you achey? Maybe it's because I fidget with them but oh man it's brutal the first month! My fingers and chest always feel bruised while I get used to the new accessory! And then after that it feels naked if you ever take it off.

7.3.13

Naughty, but sweet.


A patient of mine had this awesome bag today and I'm sorely tempted to get one as my to-and-from work tote. It's naughty! But it's pretty much how we all feel about cancer. Today was a great day to be an oncology nurse... lots of time to assess and just sit with patients and check in with their lives and listen to their symptoms (because everyone has something) and give reassurance and a boost. 

Some days it feels like your whole job is to push fluids and keep patients quiet until they leave. It's an untruth grown with stress and heavy workloads. But not today! 


Want one? Here they are.

1.3.13

MISC.


I've done nothing but try to knock out big scale plans for the wedding this week. Work. Tumor board. Wedding. Four Brothers. Do you go back to movies over and over because they are familiar and comforting? Four Brothers should not be comforting but I watched it all nursing school and I immediately dug it out when the lists began for the wedding. It's a silly (a little embarrassing) comfort but there you have it. Going on a breakfast double date with my brother at Kelly's- they make a pesto scrambled eggs with crispy hash browns that is killer. Maybe creating a wedding registry. Hoo boy... it's happening! I'm deliriously happy to soon be married.


(My sweet baby, he's been sleeping in my room all week)



Still hilarious.


Are all the men in this shoot gorgeous or what?


My Mom and I are doing this, my first bike ride (if I don't wuss out)!


We will start saving up for this.


Giving to charity... I knew there was a valid excuse for me buying music from 1D!