3 posts tagged “houston”
Ok, I know it's a few days late, but apparently I've been really bad at blogging lately! Here's the 2008 recap:
January
- January 1st: Shadow breaks my nose. Happy New Years!
- January 13th: I get smacked in the nose again at a CERT drill and realize that my nose really is broken.
- January 17th: I started EMT school - so exciting!
February
- February 28th: My first of many encounters with the neighborhood turkies.
March
- March 8th: Houseboat weekend with Brigitte and Amber!
- March 15th: Mather Air Show Day One: lots of patients to practice on!
- March 16th: Mather Air Show Day Two: more patients!
- March 26th: My hospital rotation - a life changing experience!
April
- April 18th: Rivercats baseball game with Dad, Brigitte and Amber
- April 19-20th: CERT Mobex - disaster drill in Clovis
May
- May 10th: Kati graduates from UGA - Mom, Dad and I flew back for a fantastic weekend in Georgia!
- May 13th: NREMT exam - I passed and am officially an EMT!
- May 24th: EMT party - absolutely hilarious - everyone came dressed as some sort of victim... it was great!
June
- June 10th: Metro's CERT team is called up to help out with the local grass fires
- June 21st: Saved my first patient at a CERT event
July
- July 14th: Visited my customer in Houston. Hot and sticky. Ate more steak than a girl should!
- July 20th: Kati moves home from Georgia!
August
- August 8th: Joanna and Chris come to visit!
- The rest of August - Kati and I go to Germany, France, Italy and Greece... it's the trip of a lifetime!
September
- September 14th: Met Mike! :)
- September 24th: Had a close encounter with a tomato hornworm. Had to call Julie in for backup.
- September 26th: Went to the Neil Diamond concert with Kati!
October
- October 9th: Went to the New Kids On The Block concert with Julie, Mindy, Amanda and Chris.
- October 16th: Selected for the Sarah Weeden jury - little did I know it would last two months!
- October 31st: Halloween party!
November
- November 1st: Went to the Madonna concert with Adam and Eva!
- November 4th: Barak Obama is elected president
- November 26th: Thanksgiving vacation at Lake Almanor
- November 15th: Second Annual Friends Thanksgiving!
December
- December 11th: Sarah Weeden trial ends
- December 30th: Kings game with Mike
- December 31st: Mike's New Years Eve Party - LOTS of pig!
All in all, I'd say it was a fantastic year! Who can complain?!
Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year! Mike's party was a blast - they roasted 120 pounds of pig! It took four of them just a few minutes to cut it all up (lots of practice apparently!). Here's a picture of the pig on the spit:
It was insanely delicious! The party was a blast!
As you probably know, today is my birthday. It's been fantastic... it's 2:30pm and I'm still in my jammies! I've watched a bunch of episodes of "ER" (thanks Mike!) and some "Friends" reruns. It's been wonderfully relaxing!
After a three long days, I'm back home (I was actually home last night, but was too tired to do anything other than hug my dog and go to bed). Texas was a lot of fun, but I'm glad to be home! As I said in my last post, these work trips are a lot less glamorous than I thought... I ended up being out all day without much email access and then going back to my hotel room to work until late at night. So much for seeing the city. That said, I did get to see some of Houston (my field and customer took me out to lunches and dinner and showed me what they could).
I swear, if I don't have another steak the rest of this year, it's going to be too soon. I ended up having three steaks in two days... everyone wanted to take me to "Texas' finest steak". It was delicious, but a lot of meat!
I'm still completely exhausted... I think I must be getting old. Apparently I can't zip back and forth across time zones like I used to be able to. :( I fully intend to go to bed super early tonight and hopefully catch up!
In other exciting news, Kati and Dad are continuing their trek across the US. Today they're somewhere around New Mexico. I'm so excited that she's finally coming home! Never fear, I'm planning a welcome home party and you're all invited. Details to follow once I figure everything out.
Greetings from beautiful Houston! It's much greener here than I expected! Anna (funny, I'm traveling with someone who has the same name and actually pronounces it the same!) and I got here at around 5pm local time. After a small fiasco with the rental car (mine wasn't ready, so we took a minivan) we headed over to meet some of the field guys for a delicious Texas steak dinner... it was FANTASTIC!
Now I'm in my little hotel room, working and getting ready for bed. I've discovered that's the crummy thing about business travel - you never just get to relax in your room. Instead, it's catch up time since you're busy all day. Oh well... I'll save the relaxing for some other time!
