Happy Valentine's Day!

I got to sleep in today - yay! Then I went to yoga, and afterwards pretty much lounged around the house all day with Mark. He made me dinner (Mahi Mahi, green beans, corn on the cob and apple dumplings) and we watched High Fidelity - a good day! Unfortunately tomorrow is killer school day... gross - when is Spring Break?

I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.

Why oh why did I do this to myself?

I thought I was helping my later self out by signing up to do everything I could early in the semester to get it out of the way. Last semester the first few weeks were slower, and things got crazy after midterms. So I thought, hey, I'll get ahead and do things early. The problem is that this semester is NOT last semester, and I'm already overloaded. But, there's no turning back now! After class I did not one but two assessments - the ETCH on my adorable cousin Sarah, and the SAFER on Mark's grandma. After I finished the ETCH, Christina, my other cousin, treated Jenn and me to makeovers, complete with turquoise eye shadow and purple lipstick. Gorgeous!

It was a busy week, for sure. Next week probably won't be any better, but...I'm sure my future self will thank my past self at some point.

TToA FTW!

We won again - that's right: 2 weeks in a row; 4 times in 2009. This time we won by 5 and 1/2 points, which is still kind of a blow out. For some reason tonight the restaurant was really crowded again - so this victory was even better. Also, there was a wing-off for 2nd, so we just got to watch the entertainment.

I also have a public service announcement: Boys - it's ok to wear pink. Usually a light pink (or crazy hot pink if you insist) polo works - long sleeve dress shirt is ok, too. HOWEVER, it is NOT ok to wear a mauve cableknit sweater with puff sleeves. I can see how maybe you thought you would be hip and start a trend, but wearing a woman's sweater is not the way to do it. It will never happen.

I don't care if there's a tornado - get back to my show!

We're having some bad weather tonight - as in, several cities are having tornado warnings, but they'll only forecast the weather when it's a commercial break. I used to think this was really funny when I would visit Jenn in Galveston and the Houston stations would preface their interruptions with "Taking time from the commercial break so you don't miss your show..." because apparently so many people complained. Not so funny now that it's moved to Dallas!
Today I had my first trip to fieldwork - Comprehensive Therapy Services in Richardson. It was great - it's a clinic with tons of cool toys and supplies, and I can already tell I'm going to learn a lot from Justine. I'm really excited -this is why I came to school! I'm getting slammed this week in classes - hopefully by scheduling stuff early in the semester I'll have a little more wiggle room later on. We'll see!

Go Go, Go Carefully

*Sirens blare, lights flash* ATTENTION! Gomez has a new CD coming out March 31. For those of you who don't know, Gomez is one of the most awesome bands ever, from England. If you don't know them - you should get to know them. Start here - they're giving a free download of a song from their new album. Go Go, Go Carefully and download it here: http://www. gomeztheband. com/

The coffee cup to the left...well, I needed a picture of the day. This is Anna's new coffee cup. It does not leak. The insulation is still inside the cup. It doesn't have a handle. On Friday night Michelle mentioned that she and the posse (my words, not hers!) hated seeing Anna drink out of her broken cup, so she bought Anna a new one - wow, that was really nice! I think her ulterior motive was that combined Anna and I have spilled no less than 4 times in class. So maybe they thought Anna was totally to blame for all of those. Haha, just kidding - but I thought it was funny that she did indeed bring a new cup for her. Yay! I'm pretty content with my spill-resistant owl cup. Even if it is 1/2 the size of a normal carafe.

learning in the form of torture

I've said it before; I'll say it again: I hate talking on the phone. Not sure what it is - I just don't like it. Anna and I worked on a project for Peds yesterday, and it involved not only talking on the phone with an occupational therapist (who I really really appreciate taking the time out of his schedule to talk to us) but also he wanted us to learn more so he asked us questions - to which I really didn't know the answer. (Luckily he was really nice about it - just trying to get us to do some critical thinking!) About 50 minutes in, Anna's phone died. Ahhhhhhh! Luckily we finished up the conversation with some really good info about our case study, so we should be able to make it work.
Then Mark and I watched Stepbrothers, although it might be time for a new DVD player - we had to switch to the computer about 75% of the way through b/c the DVD kept skipping...but I don't think it was the DVD's fault because every movie seems to do that these days. Anyway - still funny! See it!