Gina Bean!

Last call, last hard rotation, a little over a month til we fly to Mexico… I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!

I got a really cute blanket pattern from Courtney, the NICU fellow, today and plan to go buy some yarn tomorrow to try it out.  I think it’s the pattern I’ll use to make one of the many baby blankets I have lined up for friends who are expecting over the next few months. So [...]

The past 3 weeks my parents enjoyed a little (big) vacation to Vietnam and they returned today!  Luckily today was one of my short days in the NICU (27 days left, woohoo!) so Evan and I had plenty of time to head down there and hang out with them.  They both look well and happy, [...]

We went out for Jasmine’s birthday dinner and managed to shorten our wait time for a table by shrinking the truth a little and saying we had fewer guests than were actually coming.  The highlight of the evening was definitely passing baby Kate around (this is what happens when you bring a baby out to [...]

Except for a few phone calls this morning and running to the grocery store to pick up stuff for dinner (which Evan prepared), I was able to bum around all day.  It was an absolutely perfect way to spend a cold Oklahoma spring day.  It really just makes me wish May would hurry up already [...]

In addition to playing Lego Star Wars III all day, I also managed to get some studying done (yay!) and finish up the schedule for Jasmine and me next year so we can send it on to Shannon, who will need to figure out who will cover the weekends we’re not working. Figuring out the [...]

Evan and I picked up Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars when it came out yesterday and have been busily enjoying it since.  The game play is much less linear than the previous 2 games but because I’m not familiar with the story of the Clone Wars animated series, I’m not sure what’s going [...]

I’m starting to feel the stress of this month’s (and next’s) rotations, finishing residency, starting a real job, boards, and the wedding pretty acutely and though I usually handle it well, it was a bit more difficult tonight to keep it all together.  So wonderful, sweet Evan is making cinnamon rolls for us.  To make [...]

Evan and I have spent the majority of my day off today (before being on call again…boo!) playing Dragon Age II and sleeping.  The dog has spent the majority of her day, like most days, sleeping as well.  What a wonderfully lazy Thursday it’s been.  I can’t wait until this is a more common occurrence.

Evan went to Durant to hang out with his dad on Monday and I wasn’t expecting him back til around 7pm or so tonight.  I wanted to have a nice dinner ready for him (thanks to him, I know how nice it is to come home to a hot, delicious meal), so I started cooking [...]

Because I’m a nerd, I calculated how many hours I’ll have worked in between days off.  (It was a mistake but I’ll write about it anyway.)  In 17 days, I will work more than 200 hours.  I know which elevators to take and which to avoid, I’m on a first-name basis with most of the [...]

In our quest to find something silly and entertaining to watch, Evan and I decided to start watching the old British show Red Dwarf tonight.  Red Dwarf started in the late 80s, and as I’ve learned after reading its Wiki article, ran until 1999, with another season planned for 2012.  It’s not really laugh-out-loud funny but [...]

My big plans for tomorrow include getting haircuts with my sisters, getting my ears re-pierced (my right ear piercing closed up years ago and I just never bothered having it fixed before, but now I want to wear earrings for the wedding), doing some wedding/reception planning, and then hanging out!  Since I’ll be busy having [...]

After staying up all night and sleeping all day while on nights, it’s pretty hard for me to get back to a normal schedule on my weekend off.  Luckily Evan likes staying up late too, so we still get to spend a lot of time together, but it definitely makes it hard to plan much [...]

I’m rather bummed that I’m spending this week on nights with all the lovely weather we’ve been having.  Of course, when I’m off this weekend, it looks like we’ll get thunderstorms.  Good sleeping weather though, I suppose