Back up and running

Well, we moved on Sat. July 12 and life has been crazy ever since. I had to work almost every day last week, and we just got the internet a few days ago. Now i can finally blog. I know people want to see pictures of the place, but although most everything is unpacked, it is not finished being painted or decorated. Truth is the decorating has not even started. I am waiting until we finish painting to even go there. We are experiencing commuting and it really has not been bad. We had one horrible night of a long commute due to a deadly accident on the freeway. We pulled off and shopped and ate and visited heather. We got back on the freeway at 9:00 at night and it was still packed. Luckily we only have to brave one exit from heather's house to ours. We cleaned out the garage yesterday and now we can get both cars in it, Tristan was definitely pleased with himself. Most everything that is left to be put away is his junk so I have to remind myself to be patient. He has two more summer school classes he is in right now and once they are over in a couple of weeks he will be home for two weeks and can finish the unpacking.

That is pretty much what we have been up to. I have had a migrain for the last week. Good thing is i can't eat anything cause my stomach is so upset from it, so i have lost 5 pounds. too bad that is only temporary. Once you start eating solids again the weight comes right back. Once again, our lives are not very exciting. But here are a few things we experienced recently:

1. A new ward that we absolutely love.
2. A 5.6 earthquake today in southern california
3. I put in my first central venous catheter yesterday. You are probably thinking what? It is a huge long IV that goes in your groin and threads up the vein toward your heart. Only doctors can put them in, not nurses. However, Nurse Practitioners are being allowed to do this now and i got to yesterday. It was such a rush of adrenaline. I also did my first spinal tap or lumbar puncture a couple weeks ago.
4. Tristan finished one session of summer school and started a second one. He is doing well in his classes right now and i am so proud of him for giving up a whole summer.
5. We will be celebrating our one year anniversary on Sunday. I can't believe it. It came way too quick. But when you are having so much fun together i guess that is how it should be.

Exhaustion!

Well, as of this afternoon, we are officially home owners. Escrow closed yesterday but it then takes a day to record it with the county before it is completely official. We originally were to close on July 2nd. The escrow company the man we bought the house from chose to use was absolutely horrible. They are so slow and because of their slowness, they offered to extend escrow to the 9th. Tristan and i decided we wanted to keep the date the 2nd so we could clean, paint, and have the tile laid before we move. We should of known that when the escrow company suggested the 9th that it would be the day they would decide no matter what we said to get their act together and complete escrow. We signed papers and wired the money on July 1st and it has taken this long for the escrow company to stamp the pages and look over everything. Now we are in a bit of a crunch to get things done before we move in.
I should of known that nothing i plan goes smoothly and now we will be painting and fixing things up while moving in for a while. Oh well, it is do able but i hate when my perfect plans get botched up. I have been at the house almost everyday since last Thursday cleaning. I went back to work yesterday and apparently i looked awful cause even parents of my patient's were asking me if i was ok. I am exhausted and my back is killing me from bending over for the last five days. Tristan has school so he gets out of helping quite a bit. Between packing, cleaning two places, moving, and trying to arrange everything for the construction workers and painting, I have not been able to blog. Just thought i would let everyone know we are still alive. We are moving on Saturday so i probably will be out of the blogging world for another couple of weeks while we get settled in.

Big News!

Well, most of you may be thinking i am going to announce that i am pregnant due to the title of big news. Give me a few more months before that good news is in the works. At least when we do make that announcement, we will have a room for the baby in our new house. Tristan was making fun of me because i wanted a 4 bedroom house so i have plenty of room for all our kids. He had to keep reminding me that we were not having them all at once and that three bedrooms and 1700 sq feet is plenty big for our little family even when there are a couple of kids in it.

We are really excited and even more scared, nervous and stressed out. Our offer was accepted the beginning of June, but we have been trying to decide if we really want to move. We love our location (close to work and school), our apartment, and our friends. Plus i hate packing, moving, unpacking, and decorating. Yes you read that last part correctly, i hate decorating. It means that i have to make more decisions, which is not easy for me. We decided this week that we will buck up and move (or in my case i will part with all of my money and be dirt poor). We are moving one exit outside of orange county, at the start of corona. I never thought i would live out there and rely on the 91 freeway as my mode of transportation. That alone was almost the deal breaker. It needs some paint and new flooring, but over all it is in great shape. Even better it is in an awesome neighborhood and an area with canyons, parks and tons of hiking and biking. I will be sure to show pictures after the house is all done and moved in.

Love them dogs

This is what happens when you are at the grocery store on a saturday afternoon and your husband calls to tell you the 7-11 around the corner is giving out free slurpees, hotdogs, sandwiches, cookies, chips etc. You get so excited about the free food, you hurry over there to get a hot dog and then....

This is how you start to clean it up....


Yummy, but nothing is as good as a polish dog from Costco. Love them dogs!!!

Things you do to make your husband happy!

Tristan is back into biking. Since we got married both of us have not done so well with the working out. Now he is back into riding everyday and he loves to have someone to go with. He just chose me as his latest victim and i now own a mountain bike. Something i never thought would happen in my life. I have a huge fear of bikes, i feel so unsafe and unsturdy on them. So even though it is something i want to try and do, my fear usually gets in the way of my excitement.

One day last week i went to pick up tristan at a bike shop after he dropped his bike off there for a tune up. Next thing i know i am riding all these bikes and being fitted and all of a sudden i own a mountain bike. We went riding the next day after we picked up my newly assembled bike. It was a lot of fun. I am a very cautious rider but i remembered all my skills from my spinning classes i used to do. It was hard at first to know where high or low is and to change the gears. I was really frustrated at the start and told tristan i just want to go back home this is lame. But like always i got over it and i learned it and i loved it.

Here are some pics of me modeling my new bike and sexy helmet.

Busy Week

I missed my weekly post. Something I promised i would do if i blogged. I am realizing i have nothing of importance to blog about. No news of expecting, no updates about my cute children, nothing, zip, zero, zilch. I am boring. We have been in crazy house hunting mode. It only further depresses me when we go looking at homes. How can these dumpy tiny homes be so expensive?? Why do condo's have 400 dollar association fees when they don't even have a pool or bbq or playground. It is sad when you make more money than the average house hold and are looking at houses way below the average price and you still can't afford one. Our realtor pointed out that we could afford x amount a month and wanted to know why we were skimping on what we wanted our monthly payment to be. I had to nicely tell him about tithing. He thought we were crazy that we would throw away a so much money a month. Yes it is true that money would buy a very nice place but it is not even an option.

Other updates:
1) Tristan finished the semester and passed his dreaded chemistry class. I am so proud of him, but even better is that he is so happy with himself. He started his organic chem class today, a 6 week crash coarse. This could be a really bad 6 weeks of my life.
2)Tristan and i are trying to work out more and it is going pretty well. I am now only working 3 twelve hour shifts a week and the time off is nice; too bad i have to study for a national test this summer. I finished my job teaching at cal state long beach. It was my first time as a nursing clinical professor. It was so fun and i got voted the most fun teacher!
3)It was my sister Heather's birthday on the 22nd. Congratulations to another great year and to many more. Heather is battling breast cancer for the second time and just turned 31. Here is to a very sweet sister and someone who is extremely brave. Who would have guessed that the girl who was too shy to even order a pizza in college would be so fierce (if you watch project run way, you know what i mean).

Trip to the gynecologist with my husband!

Well if that title does not grab your attention i don't know what will. For those of you reading this thinking i am pregnant, guess again. The title is not completely true. Yesterday Tristan did go with me to the doctor, but it was not a gynecologist. However, I did get a full physical including a boob rub, a pap smear and a finger up my rear!!! Who could ask for anything more for the low price of 20 bucks. I even got a free insult from the doctor when he walked in the room, looked at me and said."What are you doing about your acne?" Nothing like meeting someone for the first time and that being the ice breaker.

I made Tristan go with me cause i have a horrible cold and could not drive myself as my head has so much pressure built up inside it may just blow up spontaneously. He was a good sport until we got in the room and the assistant told me to take off my clothes and put the gown on. Tristan was upset that that included my bra and underwear. I then had to tell him that this was not just any old doctors visit i was going to get a breast exam and a pap smear. He got quite jealous at this point. But when it came time for the female part of the exam Tristan told the doctor he is going to be a physician assistant and asked if he could watch. Next thing i now the Doctor is doing the exam and Tristan has a very up close and center view and is being taught by the doctor what everything is and how it all works. Is this making anyone else uncomfortable???

Actually it was not awkward at all but i think that is because i have been in the medical field so long and of course Tristan is my husband so that makes it OK. He had the time of his life while i got an extra present too. At the end of the exam without any warning the doctor sticks a cold jellied gloved finger up my poop chute. My eyes bugged out of my head and i gritted my teeth. Tristan asked me what was wrong and i told him. "This is an exit only dude."

I bet that doctor thinks we are a couple of crazies. How many husbands want to watch their wives feminine exam, and how many patients are yelling "This is an exit only dude!"