Some days I feel like my life is a whirlwind and that it is creeping along way to slowly all at the same time. This week has been full of those days! To recap:
Wednesday March 14th: Find out we matched to Saskatoon. Ride to Saskatoon with Eddie after work for the Match Party with all of our classmates. Ride back to Regina with 15 of my drunk classmates in a 20 passenger limo arriving in Regina at 05:00am.
Thursday March 15th: sleep from 05:30am-10:00am. Get up, go to the hospital. Come home go back to sleep!
Friday March 16th: Catch a ride back to Saskatoon after work with a classmate. Look at ads for places to live with Eddie, (he as Mr Wonderful had pre-screened the pool of potentials and made appointments for Saturday).
Saturday March 17th: Look at townhouses all morning. Stop for lunch to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Look at townhouses all afternoon. Decide on place to live! YAY! Go to Symphony Saturday night. Go out with Mark and Cheryl after symphony.
Sunday March 18th: Go to church in Saskatoon. Drive back to Regina!
So in summary we found a place to live next year! And all the details worked out beautifully. We got the moving date we wanted, and our place will suit us very well, with lots of space for us to spread out in. We are SO EXCITED! Less than three weeks now until we are moved into our new place. I get to live there until the wedding and then Eddie will move in after the wedding. Now we are starting all the other stuff that goes with moving--address changing, disconnecting and reconnecting services etc. Never a dull moment!
Monday, March 19, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Match Results
And the Match results are
....
Saskatoon!
I know this may seem like not very exciting or that it was obvious that we would be in Saskatoon, but we are very excited. We have classmates who are moving all over the country as of yesterday: Vancouver, Prince George, Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, London, Toronto.... . To know that we are officially moving to Saskatoon was a huge relief, because that is what we had hoped for!
So we are going to be home hunting this weekend :) I am SO excited for us to pick out our first home together. It wont be a house, and it won't be something we buy, but it will be our first home together so that makes it "stinkin' awesome!" After we are done rotations we will move back to Saskatoon and I will live in our new place and Eddie will live with his parents until we get married (which is almost 2 months away :)
So that's the update!
....
Saskatoon!
I know this may seem like not very exciting or that it was obvious that we would be in Saskatoon, but we are very excited. We have classmates who are moving all over the country as of yesterday: Vancouver, Prince George, Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, London, Toronto.... . To know that we are officially moving to Saskatoon was a huge relief, because that is what we had hoped for!
So we are going to be home hunting this weekend :) I am SO excited for us to pick out our first home together. It wont be a house, and it won't be something we buy, but it will be our first home together so that makes it "stinkin' awesome!" After we are done rotations we will move back to Saskatoon and I will live in our new place and Eddie will live with his parents until we get married (which is almost 2 months away :)
So that's the update!
Monday, March 12, 2007
First Shower
No, not my first water shower--my first bridal shower.
I went to PA for my first bridal shower this past weekend. My aunt threw me a lovely shower with most of my great aunts and several of my mom's first cousins present, as well as some close family friends.
It was a new experience that is for sure! I am not used to opening presents in front of 25 or so people! I also had the joy of getting to model and then wear for the duration of the shower a wedding dress made of toilet paper. Yes I did say toilet paper. It was a like a new variation on the paper bag princess. It was all in good fun though, and I think my grandma got quite a hoot out of seeing me all dressed up in toilet paper :)
I went to PA for my first bridal shower this past weekend. My aunt threw me a lovely shower with most of my great aunts and several of my mom's first cousins present, as well as some close family friends.
It was a new experience that is for sure! I am not used to opening presents in front of 25 or so people! I also had the joy of getting to model and then wear for the duration of the shower a wedding dress made of toilet paper. Yes I did say toilet paper. It was a like a new variation on the paper bag princess. It was all in good fun though, and I think my grandma got quite a hoot out of seeing me all dressed up in toilet paper :)
Monday, March 05, 2007
Heart Surgery
I think I am in for a cool week :)
Today I got to be first assist in coronary artery bypass surgery--super cool! Its a bit unnerving when the surgeon says, "now whatever you do, don't move, even if you are dying," as you are staring down into an open chest and the patient's heart is literally staring back at you. Unnerving but awe inspiring at the same time.
These surgeons know that what they do is so super sub-specialized that they just want students to learn about what the operations are like and a bit more about cardiac anatomy and physiology, and don't want us to do scut work. What a fun rotation this one will be!
They truly are gifted though--you don't just want anyone with half-baked surgical skills cutting at your heart! It really is amazing what they are able to do in the operating room. I will admire them from afar and never aspire to be one of them, but it will be a sublime experience to spend the week invited into their ORs.
Today I got to be first assist in coronary artery bypass surgery--super cool! Its a bit unnerving when the surgeon says, "now whatever you do, don't move, even if you are dying," as you are staring down into an open chest and the patient's heart is literally staring back at you. Unnerving but awe inspiring at the same time.
These surgeons know that what they do is so super sub-specialized that they just want students to learn about what the operations are like and a bit more about cardiac anatomy and physiology, and don't want us to do scut work. What a fun rotation this one will be!
They truly are gifted though--you don't just want anyone with half-baked surgical skills cutting at your heart! It really is amazing what they are able to do in the operating room. I will admire them from afar and never aspire to be one of them, but it will be a sublime experience to spend the week invited into their ORs.
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