DMV Woes, Or Not

I was totally, totally, TOTALLY going to be responsible tomorrow and go wait at the DMV for hours so I can finally register my car and get a driver's license in this crazy state. Yes, it was supposed to be done within 10 days of moving here...but I was totally going get it done tomorrow! But...as I was collecting all my needed documentation this evening, I realized that I don't have the title for my car (I am counting on it still being somewhere at home in Iowa, I hope, otherwise I have a bigger problem.) So...I guess I can't go spend half my day at the DMV tomorrow. Can't say I am disappointed, but I was kind of excited to show Josh how responsible I was :-)

Amazing Grace

"When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Then when we've first begun"

Wow. I need to think about heaven more. When I actually sit and sing words like this, I wonder why I live so many of my days for nothing. Seriously. If I only had a heavenly perspective everyday, who knows what would happen.

That's it. Nothing more profound. I think it will take me long enough just to wrap my mind around that.

Happy Birthday Josh!

It's Josh's 25th birthday! Yay! He can finally rent a car without being charged extra! :-)

So Josh's family loves their DQ ice cream cakes. I'm pretty sure everyone gets one on their birthday in his family. Jesus gets one on his birthday, too. (Some excuse to eat more ice cream cake, right? "Yeah...this is for Jesus... :-) ) So they get about 7 ice cream cakes a year. Sadly for him, there has been no ice cream cakes for us since living here. He told me many times to get one for his birthday. And this morning, I got a text message saying, "I can't wait to eat ice cream cake tonight!" I think it was just another hint for me, making sure I wouldn't forget.

He slept most of the day as this is his week on for 3rd shift, and then we had our softball tournament tonight! We've been playing on Monday nights for a few months. We signed up as individuals and were put on a team with other random people that had just signed up by themselves, and it's been a blast! We finished #4 in the regular season so we made the tournament! We won our first game against the #1 team, which is all that Josh wanted for his birthday :-) (Oh, and MLB 2K10. I guess he wanted that, too.) We didn't win the championship game...or even come close...but 2nd place isn't bad for a random team :-)

I took a nice whizzing line drive right to the hip in our first game and thought I was going to be spending the night in the ER with a broken pelvis or leaky spleen or something bad...that wasn't so fun. Ouch. Double ouch. But after screaming a bit, I think all that I'll end up with is a REALLY big bruise/welt/nasty looking mark with the ball seems in it. Happy birthday Josh...

Oh, Just Take Me Now

Today is one of those days.

1) Find out Josh's boss has ruined our highly-anticipated summer vacation plans
2) Come to work to work on a never-ending project that I never wanted to do in the first place
3) Listen to exactly 1.5 songs before MP3 player dies on me
4) Attend an entirely pointless meeting
5) Have to sit around and listen to people AFTER the entirely pointless meeting continue to talk about just as pointless stuff--for like an HOUR!!!
6) Find out my most memorable and heart-grabbing patient of the year passed away much too young
7) Couldn't find a fork and had to eat my spaghetti with a spoon

I decided that I just couldn't take any other frustrating moments in my day or I might explode. Consequently, I canceled a meeting with someone who was bound to give me more annoying work. And I feel much better :-)

Although I now have to meet with him in the morning...

Responsibly Irresponsible

I'll admit, I skipped some class in college. Mostly in undergrad, when classes were often a waste of my time. I didn't skip IMPORTANT classes, only classes where I knew the professor was going to blab on about something I'd already learned or could just read about on my own. I was very responsible about skipping. I only missed classes that I knew would have no effect on my grade if I wasn't there. I mean, seriously, chem discussion? Biggest waste of my time, ever.

I was much better in pharmacy school, when I actually needed to know what I was learning for my job one day. Although there was the occasional Friday afternoon class that was REALLY hard to go to...

I kind of miss skipping classes. It was such a great feeling, to be out golfing, or driving back to Davenport, or sitting at home hanging out with roommates, or at the mall, or out biking, or sleeping in, and knowing that you COULD have been at class right now but you're NOT! I loved that feeling. I can't really have that feeling anymore. It's not like I can just "skip" work. Work is just a bit more important than a 50 minute microeconomics class. But I do look back with fondness on my college days where the occasional missed class was like a mini-vacation in the middle of the day. *sigh*