Design on a Dime

Mom has been here for the week, which means something in my condo needs to be decorated. Slowly we have made this place feel like home. The last room to be done was the dining room. We attacked it this trip. And after many trips to JoAnne's fabric store and Home-depot and finally Marshall's it is done!

Before picture (a little messy):


The wall is just screaming to have something to wear. And the chairs are begging for more chic coverings, tired of the ol' country yellow plaid look. Something modern & updated.

JoAnne's fabric store was having a sale: Extremely large frame - buy one get one free! So....we ended up with 2 frames. I'll show you later what we did with the other frame.



Bought 2 types of fabric. One blue flowery fabric that we would frame & hang on the wall in the dining room. The other a cappuccino color cover the chair seat cushions.



We ended up painting the frames to better match the fabric. And we found a cheap frame at a thrift store which was perfect to hang over my bar.



Oh and you can't forget the table. The table can't be left naked! So we dressed it with a beautiful table runner. Sadly, I cannot claim to have made this table runner, but we did buy it in Amish country along with some fabric that will make up my next quilt. (pictures of that fabric to follow).




We were almost done, but looked up only to see a bare corner, just begging to have something there to make the room complete. We headed out to find a cheap vase with some wispys and things to stick out of it to give it some height. We ended up with a maroon color to bring in maroon from my living room.



The final product. Ta-Da!

Did you ever wonder?

Did you ever wonder how snails mate? or spiders? or earthworms?

Well, at the Kinney Nursery (a nursery owned by my great-aunt that I, my mom, & aunts sometime work at) these questions are not unusual. This is probably because at the Kinney Nursery, snails are common finding. There are also jumping spiders that make us all scream.

So this post is dedicated to my Aunt Rena who is always on the look out for something gross/interesting to share with the rest of us.

Don't ask me how I found this website - just watch and enjoy.
It's pretty hilarious and they are short clips!

I can't embed the video within my blog so you will just have to follow the link below to the website to see it. When you click on "green porno" below it will take you directly to the second season. If you want to see my favorite clip - you have to click on the tab for season 1 and it's the first clip there! The spider one!

Green Porno

Bodyslammed by Bambi!

Friday morning I was driving to work around 6:30am when suddenly I saw a flash of color at the left side of my windshield and my door window. Then...bang!,clunk, crash. I hit something or something hit me rather. I looked up in my rear view mirror and....there was a deer, a doe, running off the side of the road.

There wasn't too much damage to my car and I'm not sure if Bambi is still alive or not. I hope so with maybe just a few bumps/bruises. There was no sign of a deer on the side of the road on my drive home. Just a few dents on my driver door and the backdoor on that same side.

Being hit by a deer on the way to work woke me up more than coffee ever would have!
It was a little crazy though - just a flash of color and BAM!

In and around Hershey there are tons of deer running around and if this is my only encounter with one in a vehicle- I'll be happy.

still here

Sorry I know it may seem as if I have fallen off the face of the earth, but.... I haven't. I'm back in the world of inpatient family medicine, which keeps me busy close to 12 hours a day, which leaves little time for all of the rest of stuff I need to accomplish.

Tuesday Sief & I went to see Keith Urban in concert. The concert was just as good as last year, even though my seats weren't in the 5th row! Wednesday I was on call & got stuck at the hospital until 11:30.

Today I had a meeting with one of my Deans who will write my Dean's letter for my application to residency. The meeting went pretty well and I'm actually starting to get sort of excited about applying, interviewing, and really starting that whole process. Still very nervous of what next year will have in store, but I most of the possibilities are pretty positive ones.

Ok, time to go check my email which I have not had time for in the last 3 days. Maybe this weekend, I'll post my personal statement!

for your entertainment

You may have to click on the picture to enlarge it to be able to read it.

Gettysburg

This weekend a few of us took a quick trip to Gettysburg. I figured this would probably be the only opportunity I would take to go. Unless sometime in the future I become a history buff and want to return. I also thought it would be a shame to live this close to Gettysburg and never actually take a trip there. The town is cute, the battlefield museum was nice, and the battlefield...well that was pretty much a large plot of grass spotted with monuments so the tourist have something to look at on their drive through the battlefield (below).



We bought an audio tour which lasted 2.5 hrs - we went for the super educational one. And...well we lasted about an hour! So if anyone is coming out to visit & wants to go to Gettysburg I will happily let you borrow my CD.

update

I didn't get the chance to write about my trip to Kansas City, because I came back and started my family medicine Acting Internship. I have spent the week in the hospital with the family medicine inpatient service and....somehow most of my patients end up in the ICU. I signed up for a family medicine rotation, not an ICU rotation. I'm not complaining - it's just the way it goes with family med. It literally could be anything at any given point in time. It makes the day more interesting. You can go from seeing patients on the floor, to the ICU, and then up in labor & delivery. This next week I will be on outpatient family medicine, so hopefully my schedule will calm down a little bit.

But...as for Kansas City and my never ending quest to find a residency program. My search extends from California to Texas and all the way east to Chicago. You may be wondering why I am searching so far and wide. Well...if you remember my boyfriend, Sief - he and I are most likely going to couples match. Which means that when we enter the match for programs we are sort of a package deal. I will explain this in more detail later, but for right now when you match as a couple you usually have to apply to more residencies than if you didn't apply as a couple.
But in my search I found some great family medicine programs. I'm getting excited about the possibility of moving somewhere new and meeting new people, etc. It's also exciting that hopefully we'll end up in a bigger city - Hershey really just isn't cutting it anymore. Yeah Baltimore, DC, NY, Philly are close, but not close enough & too expensive.

Favorite programs I found? There are a few in Cali I really like, one in Salt Lake City where sometimes they "round" with their patients outside over breakfast (my kind of place), there's one in Corpus Christi that sounds pretty good (but I know that in Corpus they have giant mosquitoes that bite through jeans)! I'm continuing my residency research online and still trying to narrow my list.

I also continue to struggle with my personal statement. I've re-written and hated 3 versions of it now. Oh well..... off to enjoy the weekend!