A good half hour of entertainment.

Check out this site that I stumbled across yesterday. Especially nice for kids of the 80s. It brought back some lovely childhood memories....

Awesomeness

It was a generally good day.

I got up late, but I still managed to get coffee and breakfast and get to my morning meeting on time. I had a really good meeting with my research collaborator, and left with an in-theory-educational DVD about infant development titled "Everybody Loves Babies." I also left with a quest to purchase the book, What Babies Say Before They Can Talk, about infant communication (my research is on mother-infant bonding). Which, I found it on the nook bookstore (the nookstore?) and stopped in the parking lot of the Barnes and Noble near State Hospital to download it onto my electronic reader. I went to SH, at lunch and read the first chapter of What Babies Say, and had a lovely conversation with Peng and Mike and then our newly transplanted junior fellow, Moira. I had a lovely hour of supervision (we talked mostly about what novels we've been reading, since two of my patients are off for the summer and one went to the beach last week instead of coming to therapy). I ran and got more coffee (white mocha, yum). My last patient of the day no-showed (thankfully...) and so I got the rest of yesterday's diagnostic interview typed up. I kibbitzed with Peng and our boss Athena for a while, and finally came home and had dinner with my parents. It was nice.

Oh, also today I printed up a return label for and reboxed the First Aid for the Pediatric Boards from yesterday's post. Because I'm thinking that will be useless on the psychiatry boards I'm taking in two short months. And then I re-ordered the right book. From Barnes and Noble. 

And then! I came home, right, and I looked in my mailbox for the first time in several weeks (my mailman hates me). And in my mail I had the most awesomest card from Jer and Ali (and little baby Grace). On the front it says, "I'd totally take a bee for you" (there's a little picture of a bee) and then when you open it, it plays this song:



Which, I looked up on Lyrics Freak, and I think it's a song about a little bluebird nightlight. I....love that so much.

(Thanks, guys!!)

In other news, my parents today attended the memorial service of one of their neighbors at Shady Pines. He was a nice guy. Lived downstairs, next door to the other Greek lady. He was 97, and he finally gave up golfing four years ago. I saw him last week and he was looking pretty good; apparently it was a swift decline, which is a blessing, I'm sure. Still, sad.

But here's the thing.

They came home with balloon animals.

No joke! There was a guy there making balloon animals. We think maybe he was a friend of the deceased. To the best of my knowledge, the guy that died wasn't a clown or anything. Maybe he just really liked balloon animals?

Saturday night

Five random things on my mind tonight....

1. It's my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, Mom.

2. About a month ago I backed into some guy's car, and we're trying to settle without involving my insurance. We've spent part of the evening negotiating by email. He got a little snarky. The whole thing is summed up nicely in this quote, courtesy of Claudia (who's also given me some good advice about this): "Good tactical  move not calling him an asshat."

3. Wow I'm tired. And I have to be at the gym at 8am to work out and meet my trainer.

4. Tomorrow's going to be another busy day. Graduation party number two, you know, before the actual graduation next week.

5. Today was also Chicken Day. One of the local volunteer fire departments, to which a couple of my friends belong, does this big fundraiser every year where they spend all night cooking barbecue chicken. It's really good. And they rig up a drivethru at the firehouse, which just cracks me up (and is very convenient).

Stuck in my head

So this song came on my iPod this weekend at the gym, and it's been stuck in my head ever since.



And now it's stuck in yours.

Happy Single People Awareness Day, also, as well.

Weddingness

My aunt and uncle and I are having a great time at the beach. I promise some real content soon, but for now....my aunt showed me this. It's my cousin's fiancee's cousin's...something something something. And it's awesome.

Tuesday Fragments

It's been a while since I did the whole "Friday Fragments" thing. But today was sort of all over, so it seemed fitting. Even if it is Tuesday.

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I spent a lot of time on the NOAA website today. I felt better. I now feel worse. The entire Eastern Carolina coast is under a hurricane watch right now. Seriously, if Earl invites himself along to our beach retreat, I'm going to lose my damn mind.
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I actually said the words today, "We had a big argument over Costco." That should just never be uttered.
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Hurricanes always remind me of a particular man from my past, who lived (lives? Who knows) in Hurricane Alley and allegedly threw a hell of a hurricane party. I learned more about hurricane proofing than I ever wanted to from him. Who knew it might actually turn out to be relevant?
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I got my stuff today for the conference I'm going to in New York in October. That made me a little giddy.
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Overheard on my walk in to work the other day (remember - hospital in the middle of a college campus): "I'm not sure this geology class is worth the half hour walk to class. I mean, I pass like fifty rocks on the way there, why not just study those?"
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Corny Joke #1 I heard at the Starbucks at work today: "Skeleton walks into a bar. He orders a beer and a mop."
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Corny Joke #2 I heard at Starbucks today: "Helium walks into a bar. The bartender says, hey, we don't serve inert gasses here! Helium doesn't react."
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Corny co-worker joke I heard today: "I bit into a pumpkin muffin and was like, 'wow, this is fantastic! Oh my gourd!!'"
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TV quote I love du jour: "Broken bodies are easier to mend than broken minds." From NCIS, about PTSD.
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Tomorrow my coffee shop is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. I'm excited about the discount. And wish them another 10.
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The hurricane is going to miss us. The hurricane is going to miss us. The hurricane is going to miss us. 
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I really like my coffee people. I'm a little bummer that after I get back I'm going to have to get to work earlier and not linger so long at the coffee shop in the morning.
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I really need to go to bed. I haven't been getting out of bed so well in the mornings...

Hysterical. No, wait, that would be gynecology...

I stumbled across this today. I heart it so.



Happy Friday!!!

Brrrrrrrrr-rrrrrrrr-rrrrrrrr-rrrrrrrrrr

No, it's not cold. But it is late. And it was an exhausting day. Hopefully I'll have time to write more about that tomorrow. And I don't have a good Wordless Wednesday picture to share, so instead, I give you this. It's cute, even to dog people.

Funny stuff for a Monday

One of the adolescents told us about this on Friday. But I think it's more appropriate for a Monday.



Makes everything a little better, doesn't it?

Ooh! It's another funny video!

I'll have some real content to post soon, I promise.

But in the meantime...apparently this group of soldiers had a little time on their hands and made this parody of the Lady Gaga video for one of the soldiers' wives who really liked the song. And Ruthie shared it with me this am, so now I'm sharing it with you.

Oh, Don Piano!

So, Sarah walks into my office today. We're having a seemingly normal conversation, until she replies with: "Oh, Don Piaaaaaaano."

I....what now?

She then tells me, oh! It's my new favorite expletive.

I looked dubiously at her, and she showed me this:

Cute stuff

How cool is this?

No, wait - it's a cake. (Or in the revered words of Aunt Voula, Eine cakey, mourdi.) Now even that much cooler, isn't it? But - WAIT. The yarn balls? Rice Krispies treats (with fondant yarn on them). The basket is some sort of red velvet or oreo cake or something, I couldn't quite decipher it.

You should check out their whole gallery. Too bad they're off in NJ....there's a bunch of cake-appropriate occasions coming up and all....

Knifty

I think this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while:



Today was my first day back at work. It was lovely and it was so nice to see everyone again. My dad also flew in this afternoon, so the whole clan is in NC now. Hooray.

Y'all, I'm so tired....

Now the Leafs call me up to drive the zamboni

This? Just made me giggle. The audio is by one of my all-time (but now defunct) favorite bands. I miss Murray.

"You're my big handsome."

Watch. Laugh. Enjoy the scenery.

Quirky

Okay...so....included in this video are (I think):




1. My old roommate
2. A handful of my childhood friends
3. Several of my old teachers.

Oy....

And now for something completely different.

It seems like maybe we needed something a little lighter on here today. So I give you this - a lesson of which I've been trying to convince my patients for two and a half years now...

The best medicine

Laugh. Go on, it's okay.

Lindsay Lohan's eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan

You know...I actually give her a lot of credit for this. You have to know when to laugh at yourself.

Wonder how you'd spin this?

Monday mirth

So Lila walks into my office today (first time I've seen her in like, two months!! They've been keeping her hidden out at the community clinic. Bastards). And we start talking about...well, important things and unimportant things, cerebral stuff and general trash...because, frankly, that's what goes on in my world. And she shows me these two videos. Which I think are hih-freakin'-LARIOUS. But, do contain some minor strong language. So, make sure you know who's listening if you've got your speakers up.

First, this one, which is a little commentary on the (very disappointing, I think) Snuggie. And gives it a more accurate name:


And, secondly, I think I just had a status update the other day about this....