Happy New Year Ya'll!

I got back to Vicksburg past night and today Mom and I went downtown where I got three truly awesome shirts at Crown to Heels. I wanted to check out the Catwalk but they had closed early. Later we went to get our nails did during an intense thunderstorm. I now have lovely glittery red fingers and toes. Here's to a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2011!

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Kitten + Great Dane

...at my cousin David's house. They're friends!



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Location:Pemberton Square Blvd,Vicksburg,United States

Lunch

We went into Athens today to take my grandfather to the doctor. We stopped and had lunch at the Varsity!

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Hartwell, GA

I'm staying with my grandparents in Hartwell, GA until Thursday. I hadnt been here in several years. I went running in the country roads near their house last night (which Im sure is always a weird sight for people driving by) and took some pictures of the sunset. There were cows mooing at me to the left.

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Quiet Treatment

I took this picture the other day at the hospital. What do you think goes on in there?



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Merry Christmas!

I paid $200 yesterday (after finding out at the last minute that I actually didn't have to work on Christmas) to move to an earlier flight today so that I could arrive in time to have dinner at my grandparents' house. So you can imagine how upset I was when my flight was delayed. Delta cancelled 900 flight today for weather and this wouldn't be the first time they'd left me stranded in Memphis.

But all's well that's ends well and I ended up being only an hour later than I'd expected. Those extra four hours were still worth the money- I'm so happy to be home.

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Forgotten Cookies

Last night I made Forgotten Cookies, which are delicious little cookies that my mom used to make around Christmas that involve making meringue. Here is me making the meringue. I was reluctant to turn the beater up to the highest speed lest the mixing attachments fly off.


After approximately 15 minutes, Holland got tired of being the backseat driver and told me to move over and let him see the mixer.




...and here he demonstrates his perfect "firm, dry peaks." The cookies turned out delicious - thanks Mom!

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Happy Birthday!

Cookie monster cupcake



Mignon Faget earrings from Holland- didn't he pick well?

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Hard at work

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Abusing the med students

The workroom was dirty!


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skiing!

Holland's dad came in this weekend to ski at Deer Valley's (a ski resort in Park City) opening weekend, so Holland and I went up today to visit and ski on our one day off this week. Here is Holland enjoying a chocolate chip cookie and tea at the ski lodge afterwards. It was a great Sunday!

hot bowl of soup

Sorry I haven't been updating as much this month - the VA has taken over my life! Being a resident is most pleasant than being an intern but in some ways more stressful because there is a lot more responsibility. A lot of interesting things have happened in the past week - last Sunday we got the biggest snow I've seen since I moved to Salt Lake City. I had to dig my car out to leave the hospital at night, then dig it out AGAIN in the morning. Literally. With a shovel.

Anyway, Holland and I went on a little outing last night to the Korean restaurant, which was perfect because it has been freezing outside and Korean food is sooo warm. I've already shown ya'll pictures of the lovely food there - here is another picture of something interesting that I noticed while we were paying for our meal.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Look what I made:

It's Heavenly Hash Brown Casserole- my favorite holiday dish. My mom usually makes it but I figured this year I'd have to make it on my own. We had thanksgiving dinner with some resident friends and it was very nice.

My car this morning, post-call

I was on call last night at the VA hospital and it snowed all night. I had to practically dig my car out of the snow before I could go home!

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You'd think he's the one who feeds her

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Goodbye Fall

Holland and I landed in Salt Lake City on our return flight from Mexico Sunday night. On Monday morning we woke up to cold, heavy rain that turned to snow. It snowed most of Monday and Tuesday and we've had a few flurries yesterday and today. I came home yesterday to find that the beautiful yellow leaves are falling - my street is literally buried in them. I don't quite feel ready for the cold yet!


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First Snow in Salt Lake City

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First Snow

It's hard to tell, but these pictures are my attempt to capture the first snow this season- up in the mountains, that is. SLC has just been getting a lot of rain! And it's cold. I'm sad to see fall go!





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Fatter Every Day

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Lake Blanche

My friend Mary and I went on a hike to Lake Blanche on Sunday, which is about a 20 minute drive from Salt Lake. We got lucky and managed to catch the beautiful fall action in full force.








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Holland hung pictures!

I'm so happy- I finally feel a little settled in!



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Look what someone left on my doorstep!

Isn't that creepy? I have no idea who it was. If you're having difficulty reading the sign, it says, "This is our friend Pumpkin Pete. He's here to bring you a Halloween treat. Pass him along within three days' time. Or you'll be cursed by this Halloween rhyme!" One of my friends who has lived in this neighborhood for a while says that people in our neighborhood are always doing things like this for fun. I'm supposed to pass it on to someone else in the neighborhood....so Holland and I very sneakily placed it on the porch of some friends who live one street over. Hahahahah!


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Airplane snack

This is for Nana, from my flight back to SLC from Dallas. We were chatting the other day about how much she likes Sierra Mist and I'd never tried it- so I did. Also thanks for the chocolate, Mom!


This is a very nice rancher from rural Utah whom I sat next to. He was returning from Switzerland, where he'd made a special visit just to pick up this cute little puppy, a Bernese mountain dog! She had to ride in the cargo hold the whole way back to SLC. I met her afterwards and she was so sweet and well-behaved!

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Oh hello

My dad and I had dinner at El Sombrero's fancy new restaurant. The building was very cool and I finally got the kind of margarita that I miss all the time living in Salt Lake.



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Lunch at the Tomato Place

On Hwy 61 in Vicksburg. I'd never eaten there and it was both charming and delicious. As you can see, I took a lot of pictures.























p.s- I didn't realize that bottles filled with water on the windowsill were an effective fly deterrent, did you?


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Rainy Friday

It's been like this all week. So weird for Salt Lake but I like it- I miss the rain.


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I made yogurt!

With my new yogurt maker. While I was mixing it up yesterday I couldn't help but think of toys like the Easy Bake oven. Things that you want from catalogs when you're a kid because they look so awesome! And that your mom hates because they make a huge mess. Like a snow cone machine- I mean, how cool does that sound when you're seven?

Well this is a grown up version of that sort of thing. Now if only someone would get me the Margaritaville margarita maker...






I haven't eaten it yet but it smells good. I'll feed it to Holland later and see what he thinks.

And speaking of Holland, look at this authentic Mexican deliciousness that he made for dinner:



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Breakfast for Dinner

Holland and I decided to finally make use the our wonderful farmer's market eggs and goat cheese that have been sitting in the fridge for a couple of weeks now. I decided to make a whole mess 'a grits to go with them. It was the first time I'd had grits in months - I stood over the pot and ate it off the wooden spoon.


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Heart!

This picture is so Holland.

Project Box Spring

So, to make a long story short, I was super excited to move into my new house because now I can have a real guest room! I assumed I could put the extra bed into a small bedroom that is down in the finished basement, where there is also a laundry room. It was only AFTER I signed the lease that I discovered what I now know to be a common problem in old Salt Lake City houses: you can't fit a box spring into the basement. The stairwell is just slightly too short. I also can't fit the other extra furniture that I thought I could down there because the doors leading into the basement rooms are too small but that is another story.

To make things even more stressful, prior to realizing that the box spring wouldn't fit, I offered the guest room for the next month to a friend from Mississippi who is a fourth year medical student and coming to do a visiting rotation here.

Holland, being the resourceful person he is, found an online tutorial on how one can basically disassemble and then reassemble a box spring. The following are pictures chronicling this project.

Step one (which actually took the longest): remove all staples holding the dust cover and padding to half of the box spring.


And here is the box spring folded up on itself. At this point I'm hoping it will work but also thinking of how we'll just end up with a mangled heap of wood and wire if it doesn't.



It fit down the stairs and through the doors! Here is Holland looking very macho, beginning the reassembly process.

Plate holding the severed ends of wood together. Little piece of metal tubing holding the cut thick wire together...with a little electrical tape for good measure (actually just to keep the metal joining piece from sliding around).


Look closely at Holland's thumb and you will see his bright blue stitches from last weekend. You will be happy to know that it is healing nicely and the stitches can come out tomorrow. Even better, his fingers survived this project intact! Which is miraculous since it involved a staple gun.


We stapled the fabric parts back on. Holland was excited that he got to buy a staple gun for this but rued having not bought the pneumatic one that requires an air compressor, instead of the simpler spring-loaded one that he does now have. I, personally, was very happy he didn't get the pneumatic one.



It worked! Now my friend has a bed.

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