Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

So its been a while since I've had a few spare minutes to sit and type here. Work has been good. More and more fluid and comfortable every day. And adding in new fun things like whirlpool and peds to my week makes it even more fun.

Home has been good too. A safe thanksgiving with my family and then Brian was a great start to the holiday season. It was the first family holiday that we have ever gotten to spend together. We also "launched" our wedding website, for our guests to save the date with. Our wedding is going to be small but hopefully a fun time.

http://www.weddingwire.com/BrianandMora

Last but not least, our beautiful Christmas tree was bought and decorated this past weekend and so it is now making our apartment feel grown up, smelling like a pine forest and feeling closer to Christmas...some pictures below :)




Also, we are finally engaged on Facebook...eventhough in real life we've been engaged for over 5 months now :)

No Pain, No Gain

So today was a sad day for my patients. Everyone seemed to be in non-relenting pain with no explicable or fixable cause. I always feel sympathy for pt's with knee or hip surgeries, but know that eventually they will get to a point where they feel relief and feel their results are totally worth the pain. Today, was not one of those days. From a pt crying to me in italian/ spanish that the brace we had worked so hard to get was making the pain worse. From the poor person who went from I to max A in a matter of a day due to a surgical complication. To doctors yelling at Pts because they are frustrated the ortho doctor is MIA, like PTs can magically locate the pain...maybe we've changed our profession and have X-ray vision now, on top of a DPT....but seriously...today was sad and depressing, and hopefully tomorrow, all the results come back and our pts are feeling less pain and more functional....HOPEFULLY!!!

Find a happy place :)

I just like this song...

Happy thought :)

"Since the moment I spotted you
Like walking 'round with little wings on my shoes
My stomach's filled with the butterflies
And it's alright
Bouncing round from cloud to cloud
I got the feelin' like I'm never gonna come down
If I said I didn't like it then you know I'd lied

Every time I try to talk to you
I get tongue-tied
Turns out, everything I say to you
Comes out wrong and never comes out right

So I'll say why don't you and I get together an' take on the world, be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
So I say why don't you and I hold each other, fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never gonna let me in

When's this fever gonna break ?
I think I've handled more than any man can take
I'm like a love-sick puppy chasing you around
And it's alright
Bouncin' round from cloud to cloud
I got the feeling like I'm never gonna come down
If I said I didn't like it then you know I'd lied

Every time I try to talk to you
Get tongue-tied
Turns out, everything I say to you
Comes out wrong and never comes out right

So I'll say why don't you and I get together an' take on the world
and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
So I say why don't you and I get together, fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never gonna let me in

Slowly I begin to realize this is never gonna end
But about the same time you walk by
And I say oh here we go again, oh

Every time I try to talk to you
I get tongue-tied
Turns out, everything I say to you
Comes out wrong and never comes out right

So I'll say why don't you and I get together an' take on the world
and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
So I say why don't you and I hold each other, fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never gonna let me in

So I'll say why don't you and I get together take and on the world
and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
So I say why don't you and I hold each other, fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never gonna let me in

So I`ll say why don't you and I get together and take on the world
and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again"

Married People!

Marisa and Jonathan got married this weekend after much hubub and mayhem. Their wedding day was beautiful and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. Time spent with family was so much fun and it was great to even get to see cousins who do not often get a chance to visit. Wishing them a beginning of happily ever after :)

Housewifery

I wonder if there is an all encompassing term for the act of being a housewife? Although its pretty sweet not to have a bedtime and to be the person in the couple who can be flexible and tries to just make life easier for their significant other, I must say, its becoming tedious. I mean, I have a laundry routine, and I do at least one load of laundry a day. I remember times where I had not done laundry for 2 or 3 weeks and was forced to launder my clothes for a lack of panties. Now I find myself digging in the bottom of my undies drawer because I feel like I wear the same 2 pairs. There are also the things you VOWED would NEVER bother you, that I now find myself doing. Who would have thought I would get on my hands and knees each day and hand sweep all of the hairs off the white tile floor in our entrance hallway and bathroom? I guess we really do turn into our parents as we age. I even clean with windex sometimes because it smells so clean. I still love having a clean home, but really, its time to start a job. When you start to wonder how socks keep magically appearing at the end of your bed, when you swear you just washed the same pair, you obviously have too much time on your hands. I suppose I should consider diving a bit deeper into wedding planning, but the final details, such as finding a bartender and a limo are so not appealing to me that I have no desire to take these projects on with a whole heart.

Still, I really have absolutely no reason to complain. I'm marrying a wonderful man who makes me happier and happier each day. We spent yesterday hanging out and accidently creating the beginnings of a bridal registry and I think this fun and company of those last three days spoiled me for the rest of the week to be spent entertaining myself....

Its Official...

Our wedding date is set for 5/15/10. :) I continue the chronicles of a housewife, with wedding planning. I've been quite productive as far as planning. We have the following: a place, food, hopefully a photographer and an officiant. In the works are also hotel accommodations for wedding guests, a shuttle, a and limo :/. I am working on the preliminary research for invitations, decorations, cakes, flowers, hair, make-up, etc. Other than that, there is the daily tidy-ing up. I have been trying to do one productive project a day that has a measurable beginning and end. This past weekend Brian's friends came down, which was lots of fun :) We ate a lot and played wiffle ball and my time in peds must have paid off because I was not as horrible as usual! And so, life continues to be a wondeful thing and I certainly hope I continue to be blessed with such good fortune and happiness.

Birthday Happiness

So this year was probably the best birthday I could ever have. I moved in with Brian on friday which was lots of fun. Then on Saturday, we slept late, went to breakfast and then drove up to Stasia and Brad's wedding with Sheena and Abe. One the ride up, my dad called to wish me a happy birthday and tell me the results of my PT boards. I passed with an 89% :) Stefanie and Dennis made me yummy funfetti cupcakes. Sheena did my hair in a cool french twist/bun. We saw the beautful ceremony and ate so much good food. The next day we brought Brian's little brother home for the start of school :( We then stopped to visit with my parents. My mom made delicious ribs and we played Monopoly for a few hours. On monday we went and looked at a Clubhouse which we have decided to use for our wedding! The paperwork is in, so hopefully we will offically have set the date soon.