Happy Birthday Kristine!

Today is my boss's birthday. To celebrate the other secretaries and I got her a pretty bouquet of flowers. (Thanks to Erin for her expert arrangement skills!)


Then for lunch we all headed to Brick Oven, a little pizza place close to campus, and enjoyed a wonderful lunch. I think i ate plenty for the rest of the day but that's OK because it was a special day!

So Happy Birthday Kristine!

Being Silly

Ok so this really is a hilarious site and, lets be honest, i have nothing better to do than...

Peter Pan! I just got slapped with a wet salmon - really - I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died... You would not believe I spend all my time in front of a computer. Seriously!.

I am absolutely consumed with responding to fanmail, planning my wedding, just generally being a Darling to society in general, my day drifts aimlessly from sun-up to I feel like going to bed. I am smitten. but this damned rock is heavy.

I make a solemn vow if one more person emails me to ask why I haven't posted today I will start posting pictures of toe fungus, or fecal murals. You wanna test me? Until my paycheck dawneth..

More summer excitement

So life is pretty boring/normal at the moment. The next two weeks will get more exciting. Next Wednesday David, Carolyn, and I are heading to Denver for a long weekend. David's best friend is getting married so we're going to that and Carolyn is bumming a ride :) It'll be fun to get away again, the last little getaway before school starts up again in a month.

While we're in Denver my family will meet us there and then head out to Utah for a little vacation. It will be nice to have them here and spend some time with them. The visit is 1/4 to see me and 3/4 to see my grandma but it will be fun. We'll just kind of hang out. Try and find some fun things to do. It'll be a good visit.

So that's the end of the summer excitement. Hope to see everyone in Denver while we're there!

More Hip Drama

Nothing really new is going on in my life.

I had a drama filled Friday. I went to the doctor about my hip and he said that there is a tear and blah blah. I already knew that. So he wanted me to get this huge surgery. Like i would be in the hospital for a few days, on crutches for a few months, then physical therapy for a few more months. I scheduled the surgery and proceeded to freak out. After thinking about my options all weekend i decided that I don't want the surgery so I'm not going to do it. I promise i wasn't quite as flippant as i sound. The thing is that it's not that painful for me so i would rather not have a huge surgery that will make it more painful. So yesterday i called around and found a different doctor to go see. I think I'll like this Doctor better. I talked to his nurse and she said that he's very conservative about ordering surgery. He also does the simple surgery so if i do need surgery he may be able to do that. So I'm looking forward to talking to him in August. So the saga continues....next installment August 20th :)

Just call me Suzie Homemaker!

I'm bored, tired, and a little cranky. This post really has no point. I'm just sitting at work with nothing to do. I haven't been good at getting to bed at a decent hour this week and I'm starting to feel the effects (tiredness and crankiness). Luckily, tomorrow is a paid holiday, thank you Utah, and I'm really looking forward to it! I can't wait to sleep in, do breakfast/lunch club, and just relax.

Keeping myself busy at work has been a challenge. There is really hardly anything. And if there is my miracle something to do it takes all of 10 minutes and then I'm back to starting at blogs, facebook, and hoping someone will get on gmail chat. I've never been good at finding interesting stuff online so i get pretty bored. However, a few weeks ago an old co-worker came back to visit and said that while she was bored at work she put together a cook book. Genius! It takes up the time, it's enjoyable (if you like cooking), and it's productive.

So lately I've been bringing my few cookbooks to work and typing up the recipes that i like. I've been searching my favorite recipe website too and getting lots of good stuff. Carolyn also wants to be in on the cookbook thing so we are doing one together. She is getting all of her recipes together too. It's going to be fantastic. I'm super excited about having my own little cookbook of food i know i like. The great thing for all of you is that we've decided to give our cookbook to friends and family for Christmas so expect a bunch of amazing recipes end of this year!

I'm hoping/expecting that when school starts I'll have enough reading to keep me busy during most of the down time at work. I hope so anyway. If not I'll definitely have to find another little project to keep me busy. Any ideas?

Apparently I'm an intense athlete!

I got home from church yesterday and got some bad news...surgery is in my future. BOO!!! Yay for the hospital they finally got the MRI to my uncle and he was able to look it over and decide what's wrong with me. The verdict is that it's a Labral tear which i guess is a tear in the cartilage around my hip socket. They can repair it with surgery. The only thing is that the surgery is relatively new so i have to make sure and get a doctor who has done a lot of them or else it might not be successful. They should be able to do the surgery anthroscopically which is less intrusive and easier to recover from. I've been doing some research online and even doing it anthroscopically I'll have to take a week and do nothing afterward and then I'll probably be on crutches for a week or two then i have a couple months of physical therapy. All in all, it'll probably be 3 months after my surgery that I'll be fully functional again. The only good thing about this is that after it's all taken care of i should be able to start running again. This is just what I've found out from my uncle and my own research. I meet with my specialist on Friday and I'll have a better idea of when I'll be doing all this fun stuff. Carolyn and I have decided that there will be a pre-surgery party just because we can so we'll keep you all posted for when that will be :)

Funny note: While i was researching yesterday most of the sites i found about labral tears and surgery talked about how it happens to professional athletes who run 100 miles a week. Yeah so i really don't know how it happened to me but whatever.

In other (less depressing) news, the weekend was great. David and I went to see Dark Knight on Friday and it was amazing! A great last little splurge before we start being really cheap (we're putting ourselves on a budget because we're not saving as much as we'd like). We also went to a birthday party for a friend on Saturday and made amazing fajitas and picked apricots from some trees near my apartment. And we've been getting me caught up on Heroes, it's a pretty fun show. And that was my weekend.

Venting

NOT!!!!

I'm starting to hate the medical world. So you know how I had to take care of forwarding my MRI again after asking the hospital to do it once. Deja vu...my uncle still hasn't received the MRI. So i called the hospital again. This time she's going to overnight it and put a tracking number on it. So yeah, I'm totally calling back tomorrow to check up and see if the third time's the charm. If they haven't sent it out by tomorrow I don't know what to do.

Other hospital stupidity....Billing. I got a bill in the mail last week. I went online to pay it on Monday and it said that i had a balance of $0. I called billing to make sure there wasn't a mistake. The lady called me back yesterday and said that my balance is $0. So, cautious like i am, i went online to double check this morning. Surprise! my balance is now more than double what the bill said. What?! So i call again and the lady tells me that they added new charges and they are re-billing the insurance company. I asked if i should pay the bill now or wait for a new bill to come. Her brilliant answer "It's up to you. We won't say no to your money." Nice, real nice. So I'm so unimpressed with the hospital now that I'm done. No more injuries for me...ever! Maybe i won't be having babies because I can't deal with the stupid hospital.

In other frustration...I'm having to redo all of the textbook orders at work because the girl who was in charge of them and just left screwed them up royally. I'm pretty stressed out with that right now. Hopefully things are getting fixed now, before the semester starts. If there are problems the first day of school I'm going to have a herd of angry professors blaming me. Not enjoyable.

So there is my venting for the day. Other than that life is great. I guess i shouldn't complain. Life would be pretty boring without stupid people to keep everyone on their toes.