We're here!!!

Countless hours, 1 scratched wood floor, 3 gashed pieces of adored mahogany bedroom furniture, 2 non-working toilets, 2 broken electrical outlets, and 1 defective refrigerator later ... WE ARE MOVED IN!!! :) We have no blinds yet (those come Friday), so we have some old curtains hung up over the windows towards the street and towards the neighbor's kitchen. We got a working, non-damaged refrigerator today, and the hubby used his new tools to hang up a pot rack tonight so that our pots we got for our wedding will FINALLY be used on a regular basis. We have internet and cable now (obviously), and while we are only about 1/3 of the way unpacked and our house looks like a tornado hit it, I don't know if I could be happier. I love our house, imperfections and all.

In other news, I had my 3rd migraine in 12 days today. Ugh. I went a year without one, and now 3 in less than 2 weeks? Double ugh. At least I can finally think straight without feeling like a sledgehammer is pounding the right side of my head.

My puppy is 5 weeks old! It should only be about a month or so til we pick him up. That means 1 more month til everything in the house gets chewed to shreds. Yes, I know we are insane for getting the little guy, but I'm just a sucker for canines.

Okay, I know this post is totally incoherent, but I still have a small residual headache and can't think fully straight yet. More to come when the house gets cleaned up and we take pictures!

Best Laid Plans

We were supposed to be landing in Dallas right about now. Instead, we're sitting in a Holiday Inn Express while the hubby watches The Dukes of Hazzard on TV and I upload pictures, blog, and listen to Babe on my laptop (it's a guilty pleasure -- I love this movie).

We just spent 5 days in Sonoma with daily trips to Napa. We obtained the start of a decent wine collection; I joked that some of the bottles we bought will be opened at our first child's graduation from high school! We had a great time and really got to reconnect during this trip. While we were there, we celebrated our one year anniversary! It's hard to believe that it's already been one year. So much has happened since then! It's been the hardest but also the best year of my life.

With this weather delay, we've had to shift plans around quite a bit already. Our original flight was to leave at 5:20 PM Wednesday. We tried to book seats on the 12:55 AM flight, but by the time we got through to the helpdesk, that flight was booked. We were then put on an 8 AM flight with a layover that put us into Dallas at 4:35 PM, and we weren't even going to be able to sit together. After getting to the hotel, I found a direct flight leaving around 11:15 AM and landing at 4:45 PM. Thankfully we were able to get 2 seats together on the direct flight! We were supposed to have our final walk at our house at 9 AM tomorrow and close at 11 AM. Now our builder is staying late so that we can have our walk after we land (hopefully around 5:30 PM), and we plan to close at 9 AM Thursday morning. If all goes well, we will rush back to the apartment to meet the movers between 12 and 2 PM. Then I go back to work on Friday and work over the weekend as well (at least no call!). At dinner tonight, the hubby reminded me that all things work together for good and that even though we can't see it now, we know God has a purpose for this.

Here are a few pictures from the trip:

The view from Silverado Winery

The courtyard at Silverado

We stayed on the second floor of this cottage.

The dessert from our anniversary dinner

Our new favorite winery -- here we received an hour long one-on-one tour for less than the price of a single tasting at some of the other vineyards. Best of all, the wine was phenomenal!

Frog's Leap, the winery that made the wine we drank the night we got engaged

True love

Picture of my little one

Sebastian is one of these little fellas; I'm just not sure which one yet. Aren't they adorable?

It's here!

We're closing on the house WAY sooner than we planned! We leave for Napa next Friday and get back on Tuesday. If everything goes as planned, we close on the house on Wednesday and move in Thursday. CRAZINESS!! The hubby and I started packing today. I forgot how much I dislike moving! It's worth it though.

Oh yeah, and we put a deposit down on a Yorkie puppy last week. He's 3 weeks old today. Last Saturday he was so little that he fit in one hand! Sebastian is on his way.

I am so exhausted. I haven't had a week off since last July. Last month I worked 19 days in a row. I cannot wait to sit on my bootie and sip some vina rosa while enjoying the fresh air in California. It's going to be such good times.

Spring cleaning

There is no denying that I am a slob. I have never ever claimed to be a neat person, and while my apartment is clean, it is frequently very messy (big difference). Last night I attempted to find a particular pair of pants to complete the outfit I wanted to wear to clinic; incidentally, the entire outfit was built around showcasing a beautiful necklace I acquired when my mom came to visit 2 weekends ago. As usual, I had issues finding this particular pair of pants because it's easy to miss a pair of simple black pants among the disorganization that is our closet. I've become very apathetic regarding keeping things organized here as I realize we have only about five more weeks here. However, last night was different.

I started looking through my clothes for this particular pair of pants and realized that I had several pairs that did not fit or that had not been worn in years. I separated those into a pile and kept looking for this favorite pair of mine. Then I started to find some shirts that I had saved from several years ago. I had been holding on to these shirts because they were cute! I looked so cute and flirty in them! Then I realized that I hadn't worn most of these clothes in at least 3 to 5 years; they were the clothes I was wearing when I was, um, looking for attention or trying to look young and like I was having fun. Since buying these clothes, I have transformed into a yuppie and am honestly too grown up for them; I have a different definition of cute now. Buh-bye! At this point, I was getting motivated. Time to hit the shoe rack! If I hadn't worn the shoes since moving to Dallas, I figured that I won't wear them again, so I got rid of several pairs.

I'm now minus several feet of clothes from the closet and still have more to go tonight. This is just less to pack and move later!

ARGH!!!!

It's 11:45 PM, and I'm still up. Why? I went to bed shortly after 10 and fell asleep around 10:30 only to be woken moments later by my neighbors stomping around. Then either a child or a woman started to cry, and 50 minutes later, this was still going on. In exasperation, I called our courtesy patrol, something I've actually (shockingly) never done before. I just didn't feel like playing the bang-on-the-ceiling-with-a-broom game tonight. Now I have less than six hours to sleep, and I'm so tired. They are still making a lot of noise though, so it's not looking promising for me to get some sleep.

I can't wait til we have a closing date. I'm ready to go sleep in a sleeping bag in the new house. I just need some sleep!!

Already?!?

The hubby got a call on Saturday. It looks like the house may be a reality by the end of APRIL. Wow. Looks like our Houston visitors will actually have a place to stay sooner than we anticipated! If only I can get the details worked out to find some movers, I would be able to start a countdown til I can sleep without the sound of vacuuming or loud monkey-lovin waking me up. I need to take new pictures of the house; we have walls, cabinets, and doors up now. Craziness.

I'm watching Dancing With the Stars right now. I DVRed it like I do with most shows so that I can fast forward through all the boring parts. I've never watched this show before; the sad truth is that I really just wanted to see how Heather Mills-McCartney would dance. She only has 1 real leg, and I have a weird curiosity to see how it's gonna work! HA HA HA ... Billy Ray Cyrus just came on!! No lie -- his female partner has a mullet!! Too funny. NO THEY DID NOT -- he is dancing to a song that says, "I want my mullet back." The irony!

I made the most delicious roast chicken tonight. I've actually never cooked a whole chicken in my life; I'd always just used the boneless skinless breasts before. I have to admit that it was quite tasty. I'm practicing different meals so that once we actually have room to have people over, I will be able to cook for people. I used to cook dinner for my friends in college at least weekly, but I haven't really done much cooking other than for 2 since the middle of med school. I need to get back into practice!

I feel like ...

Crap. I woke up this morning with a lovely case of gastroenteritis. My only trips today have been from the couch to the bathroom and back with a very occasional excursion to the kitchen for more fluids. I felt horrible calling in sick because today is my short-call day (aka my day to cover 2 floors until I sign out to night float at 7 PM), but I knew I'd never make it today. Being sick sucks!

I'm beat

Daylight savings time was not my friend. I'm on call and soooo tired. Why am I not lying down? I'm waiting on labs. Doctors (myself included on occasion) like to order early AM labs. Now I'm waiting on them to come back to decide whether I give a med now or order more labs in 2 hours and recheck levels then. Good times!

On the bright side, our house now has walls. I'll post pictures when I'm more alert. :)

On the down side, my fella's back in New York. The irony of it all -- he's been home for 7 weeks, and I've been on call q4 for the last 8. He left tonight (actually Sunday) for 4 weeks (still home on the weekends), and now I only take call 1 night out of the next 4 weeks. Go figure! I'm now at the point where all I can do is laugh.

WHOO HOO!!! My labs came back, meds given ... it's 1:45, and I get to go rest my eyes til I get paged. YAAAAY!

The Downside of Pediatrics

It's 1:55 AM, and I'm awake for 2 reasons:

1. I'm coughing so hard that my chest hurts, and what I'm coughing up matches my green scrubs.
2. I'm checking on labs while I'm on call. If I don't check these labs, kids could get hurt, and my attending will yell at me in the morning. Neither of those is a particularly enjoyable thought.

Did I mention that over the last 15 hours, I have totally lost my voice? I can't wait to go home tomorrow and indulge in the Nyquil.