Neighborliness

Having a lawn that is contiguous with my neighbor's is tricky, I tell you. If they mow, should I hurry out and mow too so it doesn't look all messy? Do they hate it when I use the broadcast-spreader because their side gets fertilized when they don't want it to be? Is it rude to stop edging right at the property line? What if I accidently mow a row a little too far across? Eek! Not wanting to get iron stains all over the driveway I decided to use the drop spreader last time I fertilized and look what happened! Now I look like the totally selfish neighbor who didn't want to share even a sprinkle of fertilizer. Good grief.

I have edged all the way across, can't stop myself. I avoid all eye-contact with the neighbors post-edging.

Ingrown Toenails

Today I tried removing my third ingrown toenail ever--not my personal toenail, my third attempt on a real, live patient. I did great with the digital block, that's been my main problem before. Totally numb without any do-overs this time. Alas, the blasted nail was so embedded I couldn't just flip it out. I don't know if it was as bad as the picture below but I had a bit of a struggle, had to go ask for help.

 

I haven't had to deal with any plantar warts yet, this is just for gross-out purposes. Eew!!

New Spice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs&feature=related

I don't know if the link will work or not. It's a Youtube video called New Spice: Study like a scholar, scholar. I'd never seen the real commercial  http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice?v=uLTIowBF0kE&feature=pyv&ad=5066079497&kw=old%20spice%20commercial&gclid=CLrAg9fX86ICFQQKbAodwRgylA   

Oh, holy cow, that's a big old link. It's an Old Spice commercial. Whatever happened to the sailor guy and the song? Or is that Irish Spring?

Just got notification my paper was accecpted for publication in JAANP--wahoo!

Midnight Post

Maybe Al Gore's next film really will be called, "Uncomfortable Secret." 

My phone rang at 1 AM today, jolting me out of sleep. It was a text message from my sister asking for information about Caspar Heinrich Osiek, just in case she decides to visit Borgelzhausen, Germany. "How long did he live there?", she asked.

Are you kidding me??  Good grief, kill me now.

Caspar's ye olde immigrant ancestor of unknown paternity who added an H to the family name causing 160 years of subsequent misspellings and mispronunciations.

Couldn't fall asleep, stayed up until 3AM reading the Idiot's Guide to Medical Spanish--Vamos a sacar su sangre. It's all good though, I slept during Sunday School instead. Sheesh.

Pioneer Trek

I spent 4 days last week tromping around Wyoming in a skirt. The wind almost never stops blowing and my face turned  immediately to leather.

All the handcarts.

Playing Ninja--I pretty much stink at this game.

Base Camp.

Your's truly on the left.

The storm on the horizon quickly caught up and spent the remainder of the day with us. It changed over to snow about 11:30 PM which we discovered when the wind blew down all our shelters--the first of several sleepless nights. Chilly!

Overall, good experience. Those pioneers--made of tougher stuff than I.

Bill Clinton's movie

So, this girl at work was asking, "Didn't Al Gore make a movie called 'Uncomfortable Secret' ?"
True story.  Hysterical!

Blasted Tree!

The darn tree roots completely mangled one of the sprinkler heads causing me much trauma. 1. Not enough space to stick my hand in. 2. Sprinkler totally embedded in a huge root. It was quite the effort to cut away enough of the roots so that I could unscrew the darn thing and cap it off. Curses!

Totally used a plumbers wrench, spoon, saw, rubber gloves--everthing pictured--to chisel, yank and twist. It took me a very long time. The tree is just waiting to drop more of its nasty seeds.