You Can't Catch Me I'm The Gingerbread Man

 So Once again I've neglected the blog, but its not because stuff hasn't been happening and there's nothing to blog about its the fact that I only have pictures of crafts to post and if I post those then the post will be all about the craft and not our lives. I'm not really sure how interesting that is to most of the readers. But don't get me wrong I'm probably still gonna post those type of posts. I just wanted to make sure there are a few posts about what is actually happening in our lives so here goes.

Steve is in the last few weeks of his Internal Medicine rotation. Its been a good one, but very stressful. He was studying for the Step 2 practical exam and so he was super busy. He took that test last week in Atlanta and I bet he did awesome. (I would know since I helped him prepare. I was the one who got to pretend to be all these practice cases from his book so he could practice tons of different scenarios. It was fun sorta!)  

So with that test behind us I figured most of the stress would be behind us, but we keep looking ahead at the crazy schedule we have this year and have to realize that its gonna be a crazy year. He is now preparing for the written half of Step 2 which he takes in June and preparing to apply for residency which is no joking matter. At the moment he is still narrowed in on doing Emergency Medicine, but without any actual experience in it its hard to say if he'll like it. 

So here is our schedule for Steve at the moment he has his Family Medicine and Pediatrics rotations coming next and right after they are done is when he takes the Step 2. Then we are flying out for the weekend to go Steve's parents 50th wedding anniversary in Colorado. After that quick trip he is hoping to have an Emergency rotation, but at the moment we're still searching for one. It is a really awful month to get rotations so its been a wee bit challenging.  Then August is when he starts his Surgery rotation in NY. It is 3 months long and sadly I might not even get to go (Explanation farther down)which is gonna make those 3 months really terrible aside from the fact that surgery rotations as a general rule are awful anyways. (Surgeons tend to be the meanest people in medicine and take it upon themselves to make everyone around them suffer, no joke.) Then he luckily has locked in a Emergency rotation in November and then Applying for rotations and finishing up some elective rotations and then graduation. Yay! Thats our year at the moment.

So the reason I don't get to go to NY is because I hopefully will have a job at this point and will be working full time this summer at the local mosquito abatement. If I do get the job then we might even have enough money to live in NY without going totally broke. I don't find out til next week if I got it but it sure would be nice after over a year of crappy random jobs with no structured hours. I want a job so bad. 

Anyway here's an explanation of the random pictures I posted (No post should be without a picture) After our crazy big storms here the park near our house has really deep snow. I'm talking over a foot and its so fun to watch Sophie run and leap like a deer or jack rabbit through the snow. I think she could be happy forever living in the park with the squirrels. So we took a bunch of pictures and here's a sample of them. (We took tons of pictures but at the risk of being one of those couples where everything's about their dog I opted to just post a few.)