A little less than a week away :) nothing but excitement now!

My 5 year-old Saturday

It's 104 degrees outside. John and I decided to hit up the Oklahoma Zoo. Lucky for us it was pretty empty and the animals were actually out. I haven't gone to any zoo in a long time. Despite the pounding sun, it was a lot of fun. Being out all afternoon totally killed us. We went home, took a nap until about 4pm, woke up and watched Princess and the Frog. Cute movie. Again, I haven't watched an animated Disney movie in a while. So to sum it up, I spent the day like a five year-old :)

Missing my Summers

It's been about, oh 3 or so weeks since I've been back in MD and I am missing it already. I will be back home in about a month or so, but it's not the same. It's summer, I should be at the beach, or a cousin's house, or going out for late night Rita's/froyo/ice cream runs. Lately work has been so draining. By the time I get home I just don't want to do anything. And it can get tough sometimes when you don't have anything to look forward to on the weekends. By all means, I always look forward to the weekends, just to be able to wake up late, lounge around, and not have to be anywhere. Also there are weekends when we do have plans. But boy do I miss those rowdy get-togethers and nights of loitering. A part of me is very excited to start a life here in OK. I am very happy with the new job (even if it's all day non-stop on your feet trying to solve the world's menopausal issues). And I am totally excited about the new house. However, 2 days ago I was driving to work early in the morning and a song by O.A.R came on and for a moment I just wanted to keep on driving West and end up on the coast of the Pacific Ocean :) This particular song always, always reminds me of my trip to San Diego. This song became my California 2008 trip theme song. Dang song kept playing over and over on our drive down there. But it was good. And I just love it when I hear this song. I can remember what it felt like to be driving down the coast with the ocean on the right and mountains on the left. It's probably the fact that I'm right smack in the middle of the continent and have no ocean within reach. What to do, what to do. A trip to San Diego would be the next best thing.....
Move over, Vi. We're gonna be heading your way! (hopefully semi-permanently in a few years!)

what the f*ckity f@ck f!ck

it a million degrees here and the AC died on us twice! they fixed yesterday and today when I walked in after work, it was hot! poor doggies. I'm just waiting for 9:00 to roll around so that I can just lie down and go to sleep. There is nothing we want to do. The air is so hot and still. This stinks

Forgot I had a blog!

I almost about you, my poor little blog. (thank you everyone else for still writing. I like reading the things you write). Anyway back in Oklahoma and started at the new job and it was very tiring. Hopefully all this stuff will make sense and not spill out of my brain. It was especially hard returning to work since I did have a wonderful 2 weeks off. It has been the best 2 weeks of summer so far. Thank you to everyone who pitched in and helped with the parties. I wish all of my bridesmaid could have made it! I was so happy to be back, so happy to do even the most mundane of errands. It felt so good to hang out, no worries, no major schedules. That is how summer is supposed to feel.. I love it.

South OK wine festival

It was a big coincidence that John and I found out about this community festival. We were in the shopping center looking for a mortgage broker office when we saw the posters advertising "Chateny 7th Annual Wine Festival". This wine festival was going to be held in a shopping center parking lot. I wasn't expecting too much since this seemed to be a very small event, but it was close to home, involved wine, free live music, and pet friendly. Neither John nor I are wine drinkers but we had nothing planned for Saturday evening so we decided to go check it out. Holly and Baxter came along. I love it when we can do things together, me, John and our dogs. The parking lot was transformed with a large outdoor stage, ice cream trucks, wine booths, food stalls, and a large crowd of young and old sitting on lawn chairs and picnic blankets listening to the band cover Journey. $5 for a wine glass and 5 tasting tickets. The best part of the night was the people. People here are sooo nice. Asking us how we liked such and such wine and so many others asked us about our dogs. Those two got quite a lot of treats! It was such a nice feeling to be outside surrounded by good people. It really was a community event and I was happy to feel like I belonged. I haven't felt this sense of belonging amongst a large group in a long time. Okay, so I didn't actually know any of the people there, but everyone was very welcoming and that made it easy for me to like I belonged. These little events are so much fun. We're actually planning on going to another wine festival next weekend. Although that one will be on a much larger scale.

New Job!

I got a new job. Great! But I'm also a little sad. Our plan was to stay here for 2 years then move to California. But now with this new job, I'm going to stick around OK for a bit longer. I reaaalllly hope I like this new place. I've been working with teens and young women. Now I'll be working with menopausal women. Um, I'm a bit nervous. The older my patients are the more "issues" they've got going on. I was able to shadow for half a day at the new place, and 98.9% of all those patients were on prozac. Aye ya. My mom is all excited though. This is wonderful, I'll hopefully be able to help all my older cousins and aunts!! Prozac for everyone! Here's the website http://www.docmenopause.com/ . My picture better be up there...eventually. Plan all you want, but things will always change.