Busy Week!

If you haven't heard the news...we're moving this week! It happened rather suddenly (on Saturday), but we're so so so very excited. It will be a big upgrade. 2 bedrooms, washer/dryer, dishwasher, AND a microwave. That's right- we don't have a microwave in our current apartment. I had to learn how to melt butter on the stove! Don't worry, it was a quick learning curve. This is the apartment complex we're moving into on Friday- it's in Bothell. Instead of buying/scrounging up a bunch of cardboard boxes we decided to rent them from Frog Boxes, located here in Seattle. We had them delivered to Kurt's parents' house. We went there straight after work today and could only fit 21/25 of the empty boxes into our car. I decided to start packing and ended up filling all 21! Once you pop you just can't stop...or is that Pringles? It will be a busy week!

Oh happy day!

I was filing at about 4 o'clock today, listening to NPR's Fresh Air on my iPod, and thinking about how the work day had been super long and I couldn't wait to leave in 1.5 hours. I started heading back to my desk...and Kurt was there! It was a bit confusing. What did he say? Let's go to a movie! I was all for it. I gave myself an hour of vacation time and off we went downtown to see The Green Hornet: Kurt gave it a C. It was an awesome surprise and made my week! Thank you Kurt!!!

Adios!

They're demolishing a building (with plans to rebuild a bigger, better building) on campus at Northwest Hospital. To say farewell employees of NWH were allowed to come and spray paint the building. We arrived a little late, but here's some of the damage.

My personal favorite:

Something you should know about Northwest Hospital- they HATE Swedish! Apparently there was some drama before my time.

The building was well loved.

This may be too much info...

I had a doctor's appointment today. To my surprise when checking in the lady told me they needed a urine sample. I think I had a rather surprised look on my face- I wasn't expecting that. She directed me to the restroom where there were cups to write your name on and a little silver door to open and place your sample in when it was ready. No big deal, right? Well...I was in there for several minutes...and then a few more...and a few more and still no sample. What is going on? Doesn't this only happen in movies? So I went out to the front desk and asked if they had some water I could drink and felt like a total idiot. She directed me to a water cooler where I chugged 3 cups of water and then went back in to the restroom. After several more minutes I was finally successful. Holy cow. I'm glad that's done!

Whatever Works

Last Monday Ani asked me: "Chew- have you tried these little oranges? They look just like pumpkins!"

I love the twins :) And if Ani will eat fruit because it looks like a pumpkin...that's awesome! I'm totally fine with it.

It reminds me of the time I was watching my cousin's son Spencer. He has no interest in eating so when he asked for a blueberry muffin I ran to find one...there were only poppyseed muffins. I gave it to him and to my surprise he said, "I love the little blueberries in this muffin". Yeah...they're great! Sometimes you've just got to let things be :)

Omens

On New Years Day I pulled out the camera and told Kurt I'm going to take our first picture of 2011. Here's the result:

Hopefully it doesn't mean we have shadowy, dark, fuzzy, unfocused times ahead. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

2010

In 2010 I got married and graduated college. So, 2011, you have a lot to live up to.