PETCO Park

Go Padres! 1st place in the division! Not that being first place in the NL West has meant that much over the past few years...

We went to a game tonight on a whim. $5 tickets! We had to sneak into the seats we wanted-we've mastered getting by the guy that checks your tickets. We were sure he had us pegged for a while because he kept looking up at us suspiciously, but we just sat there looking innocent, and he left us alone.

Josh got me a hot dog because I was STARVING. I went to put ketchup on it, and when I pushed the ketchup lever, mustard came out. I rather despise mustard, so I had to wipe it all off and then used the mustard lever to get ketchup. The guy behind me did the same thing. Then we noticed a worker standing against the wall laughing to himself as he watched. I'm pretty sure he switched the labels on the ketchup/mustard machine. It was pretty hilarious.

32 Days and Counting

Josh and I will have gone 34 of 36 nights without sleeping in the same bed. Sad. Very sad. He worked for 8 nights. (Then a night together! Yay!) Then I went to N.Carolina for 5 nights. Then he worked for 8 nights. Then he went to Iowa for 5 nights. (Then a night together! Yay!) Then he works for 8 nights. And that is where we are now. Almost done! Josh working nights has its schedule perks, but I am NOT going to complain when it's over. (Watch, I'll probably get a job where I have to work nights for the first year or something. Wouldn't that just be cruel.)

Soccer vs. Football

I found this rather funny!

"If you forget the space, my name spells Vile"

Ah, I love these girls. My co-residents. I increasingly feel like that is a strange thing to call them, though. They are so much more than just my "co-residents" in this crazy pharmacy residency journey; they are 3 of my dearest friends. I think we must get along better and have more fun than any group of residents anywhere, ever. And on Thursday we all get to go to Charlotte together for 5 days! Oh, the memories we'll make...as we sit through 7 hours of lecture a day and freak out about our upcoming project presentations...At least we'll be together.

We have all had our share of hard times over the past 10 months since we met, and we've all been there to help each other out. Through car troubles, boy troubles, student troubles, preceptor troubles, project troubles, health troubles, computer troubles, interview troubles, being-forced-to-go-to-drug-dinners-too-much troubles, talking-about-the-same-simple-things-over-and-over-at-every-meeting troubles ...shall I go on?

I have been so blessed to be surrounded by amazing people through each new life journey. It's crazy to think about how, a year ago, I didn't even know some people who are now such a huge part of my life.

Vi, Vivian, and Silvia are just 3 of the reasons that I frequently say to myself, "Wow. I'm really, really glad I didn't end up in Milwaukee."

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...