So I'm doing peds cardio this month and life is good!  I'm done by 4-5 every day, have weekends off when I'm not on call (I only have 2 calls all month) and I'm learning a lot.  Heck of a deal all the way around!  Also, I get to sleep in--I have to be at work at 7:30 instead of the usual 6am for in patient rotations... Yay!  I do outpatient clinic next month so my hours will be similar which is great! 

   We're headed home in a week to visit the fam again so that will be fun, then we're coming back this way to go visit Forks, AKA the Land of Twilight!  We're looking forward to some time off! 

   We've been keeping busy lately--I went to a fun card class and made some cool cards last week, and we've spent some time going to all the local festivals lately.  We went to the Lakefair in Olympia 2 weeks ago which was a big outdoor streetfair thing with rides and stuff--mostly just GREAT peopel-watching--Olympia's always good for that.  Lots of hippies and just eccentric people in general!  Then we went up to Bellevue last weekend for the Bellevue Arts Festival--another street fair with lots of local artists displaying all their stuff.  Nothing we couldn't live without but all sorts of entertaining!  Of course being in Bellevue was also a great excuse to go to Maggiano's, our favorite! 

   Other excitement recently, which I can't believe I waited til now to mention, is my iPhone!!!  It's literally the most amazing toy I've ever had.  It can do anything.  I am constantly impressed with its mad skills.  One of my favorite news apps is a program that finds restaurants near you and you just type in what kind of food you feel like and shake it and it gives you the name and map for a restaurant near you in that category.  If you don't feel like that one, you shake it and it just keeps showing you others!  How cool.  So that's keeping us super-entertained! 

    We also have a Wii Fit now, so that's been tons of fun too! We play at least every other day and have learned a LOT about each other, including that Bob secretly has MAD hula hoop skills!  Who knew?  I am also a naturely gifted ski jumper, which some of you may not have been aware of!  :)  We've had a good time with it and it's pretty cool how the more time you play and the higher scores you get, the more different games you unlock!  I also like how it tests you and then gives you your Wii Fit Age... Bob was 54 once, which was pretty funny!  We definitely feel better about spending time together doing this since it is a little exercise too--you're not just sitting around, so that's something. :) 

    Other fun stuff--I volunteered my medical services at a Boy Scout Camp earlier this week and it was a ton of fun!  It was Webelos, who are 9-10 for those who don't speak Cub Scout, and I had a great time canoing, shooting BB guns, doing some archery, and going on nature walks with them!  One of the most entertaining parts was definitely the first aid/safety class where the instructor was trying to teach them about what to do in a fire.... they had a great time ranger crawling along the floor (to stay under the smoke of course) and an even better time during the "what not to do" portion where they ran around freaking out about the fire.... what a fun age.  :)  There was no real work for me there--there were a few twisted ankles/headaches, but nothing more intense than that.  This also got me out of the clinic and into the sun for three whole days, so I'll definitely be volunteering again next year!  :) 

    Not much else going on--we're dogsitting Harley again, the most obese minpin you'll ever see, but he goes home tomorrow--it's been funny to see Lilo get a teeny bit agressive with him!  He's visited us 2-3 times before and she tolerates him, but this time she's been growling a little at him (while she smiles and wags her tail) whenever he tries to get too much attention from her people!  If he jumps up on us she's immediately in a closer position and growling a little... just funny since she's always so mellow and immediately submissive to other dogs!  Makes us realized how spoiled she is though...

    So I'm thinking I might switch to Blogspot since it's a lot easier to navigate/add cool things to than these MSN spaces... I'll let you all know when I get to that point...Also we're thinking about going private... keep out the creeps, ya know. 

   Finally, Yay for Twilight!  Thanks to Mandy, Brooke, Tamara, and the millions of other friends who all kept telling me these books were awesome and especially thanks to Brooke and Jesh for sending me the mp3's so I could listen to the first 3 books!  They have made my drives everywhere WAY more fun!  I still have a few cd's of the 3rd one to finish before I start the brand new one that came out today, but I'm planning to buy it on iTunes before we drive home next week so I can listen on the way!  Bob has a job WAY far awsay on Friday os we'll probably get a late start and he'll be tired so I'll be driving so it will definitely keep me awake on the long drive! 

   Hope you all have a great weekend and we'll see many of you soon!

~Cathy