Love You, Mean It

As we sit here with Brian playing football and me listening to love songs and getting overly emotional and teary eyed, I think yet again of how happy and lucky I am. As "Let's Stay Together" is finally allowed on the playlist again and is a happy tune again, and I find new songs to love and relate to our lives :)

I'm sappy, I know....

"Ten miles from town and I just broke down
Spittin' out smoke on the side of the road
I'm out here alone just tryin' to get home
To tell you I was wrong but you already know

Believe me I won't stop at nothin'
To see you so I've started runnin'

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you

Last time we talked, the night that I walked
Burns like an iron in the back of my mind
I must've been high to say you and I
Weren't meant to be and just wastin' my time

Oh, why did I ever doubt you?
You know I would die here without you

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you

You and I, right or wrong, there's no other one
After this time I spent alone
It's hard to believe that a man with sight could be so blind
Thinkin' 'bout the better times, must've been outta my mind
So I'm runnin' back to tell you

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
Without you God knows what I'd do, yeah

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' 'bout all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through, yeah
Know there's no life after you"

one year later and a much happier place.

Have Faith

So my Mary Engelbright calendar has been very funny lately. It has eerily appropriate comments for different days and events. When my poor student had her first confrontation with a vomiting patient, the calendar said "If at first you don't succeed, try again. If not, then quit!" For the day that we began to wonder if we would be able to get our house, was the two words of "Have Faith." And for my day in peds was the picture of a bad little boy with the quote "If you can;t be a good example, you'll just have to be a terrible warning." This was then followed by a day of typically bad kids behaving extremely well. There remains nothing much too new in our lives. Still waiting for our contract to be signed and attourney review to end. Keeping our fingers crossed as I try to be a patient person.

Bye Bye Bun Bun

So Marley is being adopted by one of my coworkers and her family in order to relieve my mother of bunny duties. Some pictures of him below on his last evening with us. Hopefully now he will live a happy life with people who love to see him every minute and spend time playing with him. I'll miss having him, but I think this will be a happier life for him.

A bit of this and that

So I'm getting married to this goof ball who can't even be serious for the 2 seconds it should take to get his "portrait" taken.

I'm working 48 hour weeks, but I get to spend one day a week playing with toddlers and babies which is challenging, scary but also going to be great for my career.

I got to go home this weekend and spend time with my parents which is always a delight. And I get a half day on monday to spend with my mom, in addition to the holiday season.

Brian and I have begun the quest of finding a house that we like that we can afford, so this too had kept us busy and allowed us to spend more time together mulling over budgets, and real estate websites and being grown ups some more.

149 days to go until our wedding :)

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"