Author: eaumaison (Page 109 of 210)

A great end to a long two weeks. I’m not even on call tonight. Freedom!!

While Amanda is adventuring across the globe, she asked that I post more on my blog to appease her homesickness (which is mild, I’m sure).  I explained that I haven’t been having a great time with work lately, so I haven’t been in the mood.  But I guess I can conjure up some at home stuff to write about for my dear sister.

Jack is getting more confident and careless while running around.  We had some scrapes this week.

I’m trying to get him away from the TV more often.  They get addicted so soon!  We went to story time at the library yesterday and today.  I can see his little brain figuring out the routines and games involved.  He’s so shy, but already getting braver about participating.  He’s also better about not hitting other kids. 

I must be knitting too much.  I’ve had constant pain in my hands and forearms for over a week.  I try to take frequent breaks, stretching and resting my arms.  It’s no fun not being able to knit for hours like I want to!  Those on Ravelry can see I have a lot of projects in the works.  This is the first summer where I haven’t wanted to slow down my knitting. 

Today I’m making an effort not to knit at all and to minimize iPhone use, in case all that finger and thumb work is contributing too.  Sewing is not my best craft anymore.  I’m out of practice and impatient.  I know!  You would think knitting takes more patience.  But it takes so much more effort to set up a piece by sewing than knitting does.  You can pick up needles and yarn, start or stopping willy-nilly.  But sewing involves lots of space, planning, prepping, thread, pins, measuring, and cursing at the pattern because the marks NEVER line up for me.

I’ve had this great jersey stripe fabric for a while with a top from Burda in mind.  It came out a little boxy, but I think it will look nice with skinny jeans.  (I did iron it after taking these pictures.)

I didn’t bother to hem anything, so all the edges are raw.  The jersey won’t fray.  This was a simple project.  It took longer to sign in to buy the pdf, print, and tape it together than it did to cut and sew the actual shirt. 

So that’s life this week!   Oh, did you know you can buy bags of ice at McDonald’s for $1?  I send Ben to fetch once every couple days.  I like to have a giant cup of ice water with me all day long. 

Happy birthday Dad!  I hope we see you on Facetime tonight. 

Not really 🙂  But I’m so happy to see they finally used a picture from open spin night last winter.  I’m on the far right (straight from work, in my scrubs).  Here’s the page it’s on. I thought it was hilarious we all had chunky vintage glasses too.  I should really try to catch the next spin night. 

Best spent in a chilled basement, with chilled cherries, SYTYCD, Chipotle, Coke Zero, and knitting.

I’m missing Amanda and Miranda. It’s a show even better with friends.

While Jack took a nap we dashed back downtown for the arts festival.  It started off another perfect day for walking. Cool and cloudy.  But the thunder started its warning.

Hmm, looks like it’s really raining.  We should stay in this booth for a bit.  

 Whoa!  Shoot, I can’t keep my feet dry in this.  I think it’s up around my toes.  Water bottles and flip flops start floating past us. 

 Uhh, this is really bad.  The guys across the street just lost a few two by fours to the torrents.  It’s pounding.  A loading dolly just floated past us in the gutter!

 Ahh, the rains abated after quite a while. We were up to our ankles in the tent.  We ventured down the middle of the street where the water was more shallow.  Then at a junction we hopped up to the sidewalk. 

 And we were so proud we remembered the umbrellas today.  Fat lot of good they did us!  But then we said “oh, screw it!” We’re already soaked, let’s see if any booths are opening back up. 

 

It was a perfect day to go to the zoo.  Cool, cloudy, and not too crowded.  We had a great time with the new elephant exhibit.

He thought the gibbons swinging around were the best.  Penguins were a close second place.

My folks are visiting! We are enjoying a very NIJ dinner (not in Junction) at Euclid Hall.

My proudest moment this week: Jack ate all his dinner tray. 4 squares, 4 food groups: string cheese, two servings of ham, three servings of strawberries, and three servings of sweet potato. I'm so happy he ate some protein and vegetable!

Ben and I couldn’t remember what we did for the fourth last year.  Apparently this.  So that we capture memories, as much as they are, I’ll post about today.

After an unrestful night of tossing and turning in bed I got up at 5 to go to work.  I had one patient in the main room, where I simultaneously did all the machine and equipment maintenance.  Then they added a second patient for me, this one in the ICU.  Before that I had a nice, relaxed lunch (salad with ham and boiled egg) and talked to Ben, who had Jack at the Tilly’s house for a little party.  I’m told Jack ate 6 watermelon slices, three brownies, and handfuls of goldfish crackers.  He’s been losing weight from this cold so frankly I’m thrilled about all that food!  He and Wolfie also had fun throwing poppers and splashing in a puddle.

I left work around 6:45, just shy of a 13 hour day.  It’s nice to get 50% extra pay for working today.  This was my drive home on the bottom of C-470 facing west. 

Hey, where are the mountains?  

Rounding the loop just past Kipling, even up close I could barely see the foothills.   It’s been hazy all week because of the fires here.  But today was the worst by far.  Ironically, I hear it’s from winds bringing the smoke to Denver from a fire in Laramie. 

At home I played in the basement with the guys.  Ben is proud that Jack can play video games at a younger age than he did himself.  When I got home Jack had just cleared the second level of Angry Birds on his own, earning three stars.  He tried Fruit Ninja next.  We’ve been trying to teach him that not all video games, and not all consoles, work by flapping your arms. 

Fireworks are pretty much banned across the state because of the wildfires.  There are a couple displays, but I’m sure they are packed to the gills with people because of how few there will be.  We were never big fans of fireworks because 1) they are late at night.  Unless the 5th is a non-work day we’d rather sleep, and 2) crowds. But I kept Jack up a little past bedtime to watch the Capitol fireworks in DC.  His response was very meh.  Instead he licked his dinosaur like an ice cream cone, sending Ben into fits of giggles.  This went on for a while. 

And that was our Independence Day!