Tax time

Yeah!!! We filed out taxes. I was not so fond of tax season last year when I had to pay a whole boat load of money due to a small miscalculation on my part. This year was significantly better. We are getting a nice juicy check from the IRS. We are so excited to be able to pay off the last of our credit cards (which by the way now only exist as very small plastic pieces), but not before we take a little off the top to go to Las Vegas. Yeah for tax returns!!!

linoleum experiment

I love these kinds of experiments, I just had to laugh :) Greg was heating up a sandwich in the microwave this afternoon. I smelled something funny and looked up and saw smoke outside of our door. I started walking closer and realized that the smoke was not coming from the outside, it was drifting that way from my microwave. Apparently the sandwich was wrapped in foil which did not get along with the microwave. In Greg's haste to save the microwave he pulled the flaming sandwich out onto the floor. It was not until we tried to clean it up that we realized that linoleum melts into a black goo when caught on fire. :) I thought it was completely funny, Greg, not so much.

Introducing my new niece!!!

I'm so excited, my older sister, Amy, and her cute husband, Dustin, had their first child together. Her name is Chloe Isabell Duncan, she is 8 lb 7 oz, 19.5 inches long (which just happens to be the exact size I was when I was born). She is beautiful! Her little head is even perfectly round.
Mom is doing well, I was actually a little surprised when I saw her and she look so rested and put together, not at all how I would feel after being in labor all night long, getting no sleep, and having a not so small baby.
Greg and I stopped by to see how they were doing and spent some time with everyone. Skyler and Emily (Amy's son and Dustin's daughter, both 10 years old) are very excited about their new little sister. While Dustin was giving Chloe her first bath they watched at the window and proudly announced to every passerby that "our baby is in there". Most just walked on by ignoring the kids but one young resident stopped and talked to them. Asking which one was their baby and being excited with them. It was so nice of him and completely adorable on the kids part.

Growing Up

So I was at my clinical (basically an unpaid internship) seeing patients and doing my thing. I saw a woman whose blood pressure was through the roof and I realized that I could do anything I wanted to do with her. I could send her away, I could admit her to the hospital, I could prescribe pills. It was up to me.
I have known for a long time that I would be a nurse practitioner but it really hit me that it is getting very close. In a very short four months I will graduate. If all goes well I will have passed my licensing exam by the end of the summer and will be working with my own patients by then. That means that I will be able to treat my own patients, write my own prescriptions, and have my own practice very very soon.
Wow, that sounds so grown up!!!