Things are floating along swimmingly here on the Dread Pirate Ship Steffke.
This sentence would like to apologize for the previous.
As you can see, keeping up on the blog has slipped from my list of priorities over the last few months. Lots of ups and downs regarding whether to sell our house; contemplated buying a duplex a few blocks away (really cute!); Greg was pushing the whole, "We will be moving while you're in school, so you'd better start making that part of your reality," thing; and then we had a couple of realtors come over and as soon as they set foot in the door, Greg got all Tom-Cruise-in-Far-and-Away, stuck his proverbial flagpost in our fertile soil, and then ran off the realtors on horseback with a gun slung over one shoulder and his family dangling precariously from the stirrups, shouting curse words at those dang gumb maggots tryin' to take ar lay-und (*spitting for emphasis*, *end scene*).
Ah, the American Dream. How sweet it is.
So we're here, and we're staying (at least for the next six months - I'm sure this will be a recurring topic at least until one of us starts raking in something other than old shoes and empty soda cans).
Started nursing school. All's going well so far - the trickiest part is scheduling the rest of my life around it, which is the way it has to be for the next 19 1/4 months (but who's counting). No catostrophic roadblocks yet, but I do need to start scheduling more fun time with Maddie before she divorces herself from me, moves in with her father, and NEVER CLEANS HER ROOM AGAIN. Getting anxious to start clinicals, begin actually doing something that resembles the career I'm going into. Greg's really enjoying all the medical-speak going on around here. For example,
Greg: I can't get this stupid patch to stay on.
Me: Did you take a shower first?
Greg: No.
Me: The integumentary system - your skin - has a lot of hair follicles and sebaceous glands that produce a small amount of ----
(sentence cut-off mid-stream due to lack of audience).
Really, he's loving it.
Off to start the day. Playing a fun game today called "Let's See if We Can Finish the End-of-the-Month Paperwork at Our Job, Read Two Chapters of Anatomy, Finish Anatomy Labwork, Go Grocery Shopping, Go to the Gym or Do Something Physical, Go to the Bank and Post Office, Bake Cookies with Daughter, Make Lover Wild With Passion, and Decorate for Halloween - All in One Day!"
It's like trying to be Dwight from "The Office", somebody cute from "Grey's Anatomy", Jane Fonda, Carol Brady, Carrie Bradshaw, and Martha Stewart all at the same time.
Oh, yeah baby. You know you like it. Tell mama how much it hurts.
Posted by stephanie at October 8, 2007 07:47 AM