A Day Off

My annual Gyn appointment was today, so I took the day off. We have a generous vacation time policy and Brian and I never go anywhere, so I can take these from time to time. I love, love, love my Gyn! I picked her out last year figuring it would be good to establish myself with someone (rather than just seeing my PCP for that stuff) and this was our second visit. She's really thorough and informative and has great bedside manner while being casual at the same time. Does that make any sense? They are in the process of updating basic info in their records so we spent some time reviewing what was in there (Harvard Vanguard has had an EMR for years, but they are focusing on cleaning up stuff now). They still had me working as an Administrative Assistant at Secure Horizons (an old THP product) - I left that job in May of 1999! All of the important health related stuff was up to date however, so its all good. :)

There were actually a few couples in the waiting room while I was waiting, all of the women quite thin (of course sitting in a Gyn office, I'm always wondering why they are there - a mixed sex couple going in the exam room together). There was a very serious looking couple probably there before heading into the office for the day, and they both had kind of identical clothing: gray dress pants, blue button down shirts. They went in to the back area looking very nervous for her exam. As coincidence would have it they came out around the same time I did and we shared the elevator down to the parking garage. They were both grinning from ear to ear and squeezing each other's hands and looking like a couple of giddy teenagers. It looked like perhaps they are about to become new parents. Ah, life!

Post the MD I ran some errands and I'm home now. I'll mow the lawn and spend the rest of the day until dance class sewing. I'm finishing off that Leia dress so that I can start on other things. We have a troop next week, and she'll be all fresh and new and ready for it. Inara and garb up next, and somewhere in there will come some family photo scanning and ancestry stuff and knitting.

In more serious news, please keep Erik and Dale in your thoughts today folks. An awful administrative error somewhere resulted in their home being foreclosed on underneath them in February (of which they had no clue until yesterday, where they found a note on their door that they were to be out of the house in 3 days). You may not even know them, but if you've got the time please send them your positive thoughts - they could use it! :)

A lighthearted story

I figured I'd share this because there is so much suck going around. Its my favorite story as of late.

My Sister was driving recently and JD was in the front seat (the fact that he's big enough for the front seat now kind of freaks me out, but whatever). Metallica was on the radio, and JD was bopping his head around and grooving to the music. My Sister says "That's Metallica - Auntie Jodi used to really love them when she was a teenager." JD looks at her, thinks for a second and says "I like them a lot. They sound like N - I - N " [spelled out]. My sister stops and looks at him "Wait, N - I - N, you mean Nine Inch Nails?!" and he replies "Yeah - they are so cool".

So the question is, where does a 10 year old living in cow-hampshire hear NIN? My Sister isn't listening to stations on the radio where he'd catch it normally (though maybe she is - the fact that Metallica came up could mean something, but their newer stuff does lend itself well to 98.5 - OK, that's just me being grumpy). I just don't see a ton of NINies coming from that area, or perhaps not at least that young. I swear, I've had nothing to do with it. I'm not around my Nephew enough to have that kind of influence. I'd be lying if I said it didn't do my heart good though. Perhaps I should make him a mix CD? :)

Another cute nephew story, Brian overheard he and 2 other boys talking at his birthday party. The taller (presumably older) one asked the other two if they had seen Shrek III yet. JD answered yes, the other kid no. The bigger kid said "Girls really dig Shrek - its a good thing to know about". GAH! I'm not sure if I'm ready for my nephew to be thinking romantically but its amusing to see little boys concerned about these things so openly.

When I was 10 I was already all swoony about boys, but girls tend to get there first, don't they? The boys were too busy making fun of me for wearing a bra (the first in my class) and snapping the back strap. Maybe it was flirting? Or repressed Catholic School-ism? Either way, I had better not catch my nephew doing anything mean like that to some poor girl! :)