Super Long Winter

Life's just going too fast lately.  I cut down a lot on my volunteering.  I haven't done a duty since New Year's Eve, and before then I hadn't done one since Halloween.  I had to work 4 induction weekends (10 hrs a day Sat and Sun) in 5 weeks last year.  Thankfully this year it's only one a month and the February one got cancelled.  That's much easier to handle.  I decided I'm never doing 2 weekends in a row again.  I was feeling subhuman with no rest outside the work week.

Yaz being a good model in the snow

Our house in the middle with the green door and a dog in front

Tim got a couple interviews for med schools.  He had one last Wednesday that he felt went well, and he has another on the 15th.  That pushes our Valentine's Day to the weekend.  Our conversations have been about almost nothing else but med school and preparations for the interviews.  Tim's been reading books on how to do well at a med school interview, he's been looking up info on the university (Queen Mary's) including the history, any special curriculum, and any famous research that has come from there.  There's a lot there.  It turns out the museum has the skeleton of the Elephant Man, and a writer of one of Tim's major biomed textbooks teaches at the Bart's med school of Queen Mary's.  I can't wait 'til this part is over, 'cause then it's just a waiting game.

We decided for Valentine's Day to do something a little different.  The pathology museum of St Bartholomew (the med school of Queen Mary's University) is hosting an event called "Mending Broken Hearts" which is a seminar involving something to do with organs and I'm guessing at least one heart.  Should be interesting.  At least it'll be different.

The baby I look after turns 1 this weekend.  I got him a Mr. Potato Head 'cause he likes putting thing inside of things lately.  It's good for his dexterity and who doesn't like Mr. Potato Head?  The kids are a lot of fun.  The mother is a little crazy sometimes, but she'll start working from an office 3 times a week instead of at home.  That makes my life a little easier.  It's not nice to feel like everything you say can be heard by your boss.

This is the pond near the house where I work.  There are some geese walking on the iced part.

It's finally above freezing so I can drive my scooter to work again.  I was taking the bus and train when it was freezing and below and it takes twice as long to get to work so I had to wake up earlier and pay more money.  I was living in my long johns for a while 'cause it was so cold.  I'll be so glad when winter is over.  It feels like it's lasting forever.

I hope everyone got their Christmas cards/post cards!  I haven't heard back from everyone so I don't know if they got received or not.