Treah’s Blog

ok, Navy Blue, not silver, Blue.

The day finally came. I am getting rid of the Jeep Wrangler. The car has been exactly what I wanted for the past 6 years but it is time to move into the more reasonable car that will be nice to drive instead of neat to drive. I am not getting the top of the line nor am I getting my dream car but I am getting something that is nice and new. It has cruise and is automatic. It has those new side airbags. Everything I need. It is silver too. A Hyundai Elantra. I love silver. I like it in dark blue but I walked to silver first.

They gave us the car to keep for the night. We are lucky and it looks like a majority of the car will be paid for by the trade in on my jeep. We told them what we wanted for the jeep and they went for it. Weird in my eyes but no complaining here. They haven’t seen it yet so we will have to see what they say tomorrow. Also I dont have the title in my hands, or the soft top. Both have been living at my parents house the past 6 years.

I like the idea of a new car. Something that doesn’t take much gas on the interstate. I will feel more mobile in it. Now I add up a 1 hour trip by how much gas it will take. No more of that I hope. I will be gaining about 15 miles per gallon I think. What a change.

For some reason I have been super tired the past few days. I went to sleep at 9:30 last night and then today I took an hour nap after school and I am still tired. Instead of going back to bed early again tonight I decided to sew on my first quilt for a bit. I finished the quilting on half of another block. I am not as into the quilting as much as the piecing but it will be nice to say I did it by hand when I am done. The quilt will not fit our bed though and may be big for the full beds in our extra bedrooms so I am not sure yet where I will use it. I am definately making my second quilt small so that I can use it in the livingroom.

School is going well. I finish my wards this week and start clinic next week. That will be very nice but at the same time I hate change. The nice thing will be no call and not having to come in till 8. The bad thing is that I always feel put on the spot and wrong. It is a huge learning curve though when you are wrong all the time. I can feel that I am gaining more and more clinical knowledge but it is still stressful to be put on the spot. I am also getting better about being wrong. “I don’t know” passes my lips multiple times a day. If it wasn’t for UpToDateonline.com I would be in a lot of trouble. Luckily I try to keep lists of everything I say I do not know to and look it up as soon as I get a chance. Today I learned about the relationship between calcium and albumin. Everted future dumb looks on my face even though I left rounds today thinking I HAVE to be dumb to not know about the relationship between the two. Thanks to my lovely intern I was sent in the right directions on what the answer to the relationship was. They were cute today standing behind my attending trying to help me with answers behind her back.

I wouldn’t say I have the worst schedule now. I get out early every other day (still after 8 hours of work at least) and work later on the off days but I have not done much crafting. I have on the other hand been printing out a lot of articles that relate to my patients so as to read up on their conditions, treatment and related information. Must have paid off cause I went into a test today without as much test prep as normal (but lots of reading otherwise) and I actually did well on it. ME! I did well on it! Who would have thought. I needed that.

I got the best package in the mail yesterday, my mom went to JoAnns and they were having apparently a fantastic sale and she bought me 10 prints, a yard each. They match perfectly. So well I can’t decide yet what to do with them. For now I make sure I peek at them each day and will continue on the project I have started. I love fabric. I wish I came home to packages like that a lot HA!

The bad news of this post is that I have to be at work/school tomorrow at 8AM and will be there till probably 11 or 12 the next day. I will be plenty tired. Wonder if I will ever be use to and prepared to work like that. I still wort of dread it. I dont mind going in early or working all day but I wish I could at least have a 2 hour break to eat with Justin or something. No doing in this field. At least I enjoy it while I am there. I enjoy it a lot.

Some projects I have done. This includes a new section to the new quilt I am working on and also an empty bobbin. I don’t think I have ever emptied a bobbin. You are talking about the queen of buying things I need because I am sure I do not have it at home (including white thread.) Also, there are tissue holders I have made. They made a recent cold a little more pleasant and happy.

It has been weeks I believe since I wrote on here. I have been busy I geuss. I have now finished my Obstetrics/Gynecology rotation (and passed) and am now on my Internal Medicine rotation. I got lucky on internal medicine because I have a wonderful team. We have to stay till 8 some days and others we have to stay till 3 and then on others we stay till 1 or so. It is not bad at all. Next saturday I have to be at the hospital for 24 hours though.

Even though I have plenty I could be doing I have been sewing a lot instead. I am working on another quilt top. This one will just be twin bed sized. It is from the fabric I bought with the keepsake quilting gift card my parents got me. The fabric is awsome but I do wish it contrasted against itself more. Thats ok though. It will be nice and comfortable. In a few days I hope to get my walking foot and so I may be able to machine quilt this one easy. Not sure yet.