And the Garden Grows some more...

One nice thing about doing my ER rotation is that I only work 10 hours at a time.....and when you get used to working 30 hours every 4th day, this seems like a bit of a vacation. Another 'nice" (yes in quotes) is that I work crazy hours.....like 5 pm to 3 am or 10 pm to 8a which means that even on my off days I try to stay up overnight. Since there isn't a whole lot to do at 2:00 am, I've gotten a bit of stitching in (though I had a couple of days where I had to just hurry up and sleep).

In other news, I got the scores back from my inservice exam. This is a test we take every year as a resident to measure our preparedness for the boards. You pretty much take this test cold.....no studying so the results are always interesting (and don't count for anything). I was quite please with my results. I was about the 85 percentile compared to other residents across the country taking this test in year 2 of residency, I was only 10 points off the score you need to pass the real boards with 2 years of residency to go and about 98% of residents getting my score pass the peds boards on the first try. All in all I was happy. Shows my attempts to read have paid off.

Nothing else exciting going on here. The weather has been gorgeous and I've spent a lot of time outside cleaning up debris from Hurricane Ike (yes, the Cincinnati area was hit quite hard by the hurricane) and entertaining Sophie. I'm counting down to my vacation in about 2 months. I have big plans for my vacation....I'm going to work...LOL. I'm moonlighting 2 days to make some awesome money so I can do some home improvement projects or maybe just pay for my liscensing exam.

A finish and a new start

A finish and a new start......both in stitching and in life.

I finished Thanksgiving Garden Fairy last week. Beads nearly drove me crazy but I am happy with the final product. It's time for me to leave fairy land for a while and start something new.

I started AAGG after I managed to collect all of the floss for the first couple of pages. I'm stitching it on the recommended fabric, PTP 32 ct Ale. I love the effect and am very happy with it. It's amazing to see how just a few stitches can create something beautiful like the butterflies. I added a small stinger to each of the bees. There stingers did not keep the frogs away. I had to frog out all the bs'ing on the snail and redo it. Oh well minor little problem. I'm hopeful this one is going to keep my interest to completion. I'd love to have it hanging on my walls!

In the rest of my life, I finished my surgery rotation and started my month in the ED. I had a nice weekend off last weekend. I did some stitching and caught up on my sleep. The hardest part of working in the ED (or ER) if that the shifts are all over the place. Most of mine are overnight and try as I might, I cannot seem to get my days and nights switched! It does mean that I've had more stitching time! I am glad to have surgery over and done with. It was not as bad as I expected and I did learn some useful things. I also met an amazing patient who has truly touched my heart. She is a very sick girl and she remains in my thoughts and prayers daily. She really needs a miracle.

I also received a lovely package in the mail from Nancy. She made me a lovely scissor fob and after hearing me whine about beading, she sent me a tacky bob! Can't wait to try it out but well there are no beads in AAGG so it might be awhile!

Not much else to report....enjoying the lovely weather we've been having, taking the dog for a walk and continuing to try to leave my work where it belongs.....but not so good at that.