About a week until Christmas. I am so excited! It's a little sad being here during this time. Kind of lonely. Christmas has always been such a large and important holiday to me and my family. Not so much with John's. But that's okay. I've been listening to those sappy Christmas only radio stations in my car and at work. My assistant has gotten so sick of it she had to change it back to her country station. That's when I brought in my own radio to listen in my office! Although I can understand how "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Winter Wonderland" can get annoying. Besides the music, I'm also baking pumpkin bread. This is another tradition I liked doing. My sisters, mom, and I would bake cookies and other goodies more so around this time of year than at any other time. The entire house would smell delicious. Since John is out and it's 10pm Thursday night, I decided to go ahead and blast the music, turn on our Christmas lights, and bake!! Those short periods of time when I'm home by myself is nice. I like it. It's quite and peaceful, just me and I can do whatever I want. And tonight, I turned off the TV, logged off facebook, turned up the music, lights, and oven and got a' bakin!

Drug Reps

They're great! They come by, visit you in the office and are uber nice to you. Give you free brochures and samples. (they used to give us goodies like pens and post-its). Then on top of all that, they take you to fabulous steak houses where you order appetizers, salad, wine, 10z steaks topped with crab meat, and dessert. Okay, so if I ever go to places like that on my own, it's more like "I'll have the chicken, to drink, water, no salad, no appetizer, no dessert... thank you, sir". This really is a perk. So if any of you are looking for a job where you go and smooch in doctors offices and are given a ridiculously large amount of money to take your clients out to fancy dinners, this may be the job for you

Good music can make it all better. Blast it

It's Friday night. I'm 26. Not married. No kids. Why am I at home?

Dave & Lisa's Wedding

Another wedding. This one, one of John's best friend. I've always been to weddings of older cousins and acquaintances, but Dave and Lisa is probably one of the first of our friends to get married. It was a bit strange to see them dressed up and doing something so "grown up". Marriage, omg. The wedding was in Roslyn, Long Island. It was nice to be back on the East Coast. I miss it soo much. John and I manage to find sometime to explore the town. A historic town with boutiques and rich, dyed-blondes, skinny 40 somethings shopping with their latte's in one hand and a maltipoo in the other. I found a vintage designer shop selling LV, Jimmy Choos, Chanel, etc etc. Very cool since these are the types of places you read about but I've never been able to find a real one. John and I shopped around, unacknowledged (hehe.. I prefer it to be this way).
One of the best things about this trip was meeting both the bride and groom's family. Everyone was so nice. I love seeing people with their families. You get to see the other side of them that you don't get to see when they're hanging out with you. And now John and I are back in Oklahoma City, doing the laundry and dishes we should have done before leaving on our trip.. I wish I had a mommy around to help me with this stuff ;)


Catholic Church ceremony


John and Bridesmaids

Mr. & Mrs. David Maher

Me, Dave, John


The lucky fella who caught the garter


Tim, Cat (dave's sister) John


Lisa has this thing about zebra stripes.


Wedding party





Roslyn, Long Island

Roslyn, Long Island

Doggie chillin in tailor shop window


The cool shops




Bakery heaven





We did get a chocolate mousse pie. But I wanted everything

Job posting

I got an email today from a job seeker website I signed up for a few months back before moving to Oklahoma to help me look for jobs. I'm still getting emails from them once in a while with some interesting positions. But this one today really sparked my interest. After going through midwifery school I was undecided about what I would do about work. I enjoyed the births a lot, but hated the hours, the stress, and unpredictability of it. So I thought, lets work in a clinic where it'll be 9-5, no weekends, no holidays, no on-call, no fear of being sued up the ass because your baby was born with a slightly lop sided head. And so this is where I decided to go. I'm now working in a clinic that sees no pregnant patients at all. I really enjoy what I do now, but, I know I could be doing a lot more. I was trained for more than this. I am, dare I say it, over qualified (tooting my own horn!). It's a great job for a newbie like me, but already, I can see that in a year or so I'll get bored. Anyway, back to the email. It was job posting for a midwife in a birthing center in San Diego. I've always wanted to work in a birthing center, and if I would have stayed in Maryland, I just might be working at the one in Annapolis right now. After visiting the website of this particular birthing center, I realized that I do miss the births. No matter how nervous it made me or how tiring and frustrating it can sometimes be, the reward in the end is worth it. So maybe I will go back to delivering those babies again. I really do hope so :)

Football Sunday.. and oh wait Monday.. and soon Thursday?!

In the beginning I thought football ruined everything. "You don't want to go out on this beautiful Sunday b/c of what?!?!?" John would be glued to the couch and the TV Sundays and Monday night. And me, well, fine, if you don't want to go I'll go by myself! But now, after watching a few games with him, football actually is pretty fun to watch if you know what's going on. And I've been watching it with John for the past couple weeks. And we totally get in to it. Makes me think of last Super Bowl at Thuy's. But still, I'd rather spend my Sunday's out of the house.