tiring vacation

Well, it took me until thursday around noon to finish the painting. I painted 6 rooms - the laundry room and downstairs 1/2 bath are sage green, the 2 bathrooms upstairs are blue, and the 2 bedrooms are ivory. I didn't feel up to painting the office. I probably would still be painting. I also got other decorations. For my room, I'm going to do a simple painting of square canvases...cause we all know I can't paint anything besides simple geometric shapes. I could probably make a square unnoticeable. For the office, I took my cross-stitch old world map in to get framed since I had a coupon. I also reorganized that closet since it was a mess. For the guest room, I took the cross-stitch butterflies in for framing (again, i had a coupon). I got a frame for the 2 smaller geisha cross-stitches I did. I also bought a candle for that room. All I need now is the dresser. The one option at Fred Meyer's is a little taller than I prefer since that means rearranging the 3 pictures on that wall. There is another lingerie dresser that is perfect height but wrong color. I could special order one that will need to be painted the dark color and then varnished. There's another one at Sears.com. I just need to figure out which is cheapest and easiest to obtain. Oh and I got a frame for the Multnomah Falls Print I bought in june. I wanted white but couldn't find it so I bought this silver one instead. It matches the hardware in that bathroom. Well, time to watch the shows I recorded when I was busy painting.

yippeee!

Well, my vacation is gettin busy.
Friday - post call clinic was busy then I just watched tv after finishing my notes. Thankfully I had a fellow R2 on call with me so senior call was uneventful. One patient was being induced but nothing exciting, again, that was a nice thing. Nothing like a complicated labor to get me worried. And only 2 phone calls. And since Long was on with me, he dealt with floor calls. I guess he had an easy night as well since there were no admissions. And since it was an easy night, I got to sleep. It was the exact opposite of the call before that one...I still have PTSD. Although it was nice since my postcall clinic had to be mostly cancelled since I was delivering a baby. Anyway, I wasn't beat after clinic so I could stay up and watch some tv and work on my cross stitch advent calendar.
Later that night a bunch of my fellow residents and I went to the pumpkin patch on Sauvie Island. We were supposed to meet Laura (another R2) and her family at the Haunted Corn Maze but we went to the wrong farm. We bought pumpkins (I got a huge one!) and ate junk food and waited. We finally went to the maze and the guy told us we were at the wrong place. oops. So we head over to the right farm and see Laura. They thought we had already been through since they were running late so they had completed the maze by the time we got there. It was pretty fun! They had people jumping out to scare us and since I'm jumpy, I was startled many times. At one point, one of the ghouls was walking right behind me and I knew it...Julius kept telling me to turn around and I knew it was there so I kept walking. It took us 1.5 hours to get through the whole thing. At the end is a picture of all the mazes they have made in corn, including this year's maze. It's interesting to see where we were when we kept going around in circles.
Saturday - I just laid around the house, went for a walk in the neighborhood, worked on my cross-stitch.
Sunday - I took Lien to the airport then went to Jantzen Beach to get my digital picture frame. I'll have to go back there someday to go shopping. Lots of fun places! Oh and if I want any servicing for my computer, the apple certified compusa is there too. Then I spent the entire afternoon getting annoyed that the memory card I bought for the frame wasn't working.
Monday - got my TSH repeated since they changed my dose. I got bruised but not too bad. Then I bought a new card reader/writer to see if that will solve my problem with my frame. Then I got started on my painting plan. First I went to home depot since it was right there by compusa. Then I went to Lowes to get my paint. Oh and along the way I went to the sports store to buy a swim suit so I can go swimming at the aquatic park (somehow it seems wrong to wear my bikini to a water aerobics class). Then I got home and realized that it was my old cardreader that was the problem and spent 4 hours putting photos on the card for the frame. It works great now! Then I started painting. I chose a light sage for the downstairs bathroom and decided to also paint the laundry room that same color. The lighting is different in both rooms and the green looks different in the laundry room - like a scrubs color. And since I started in that room, I was worried that I chose the wrong color. Then I got started on the bathroom and thankfully it looked more sagey in the room it was originally intended for. Today I have to do the second coat then get started on the bathrooms upstairs and the 2 bedrooms. I'm not painting the office yet. too much furniture to move so I might wait until someone strong comes to help me move the stuff...like Kevin. I've seen his work, he's qualified. Just kidding. I may wait until next year.
Tuesday - more painting today but the most exciting news...the new Macbook Pros are out!!! I've been waiting soooo long! Yippeee!!! I may make a trip to Bridgeport to take a look at them! I have to get a bike rack at the container store anyway...