I'm Baaaaack

Ack! Long time, no blog, I know. I'm sorry. I suck. I missed you guys, too. A few bullet points to catch up, and a longer post later this week if the L&D gods are kind to me.

~ First and most important, my baby Bean turned 1 year old on July 19th. My *baby*! *sniff*

~ We celebrated with a cookout and cake. Bean ate and smashed his cake to pieces, had a bath, and then slept for 14 hours straight (sugar coma).

~ I had my second blogiversary. Whoa. (How do you spell that? It is a made-up word... makes it difficult!)

~ I delivered 20 babies in the first 23 days of July.

~ I then lapsed into a deep coma, er, "went on vacation."

~ My lovely office staff booked 22 patients (in 3 hours) for my "half day" prior to leaving for vacation.

~ This made me so happy that I started my trip with a "to go" cup of vod.ka and Sprite, just to get the party started right.

~ Driving for 8 hours in the car with a 4 year old and 1 year old (who is not yet big enough to sit facing forward) is a bitch. Even with the aid of vod.ka and Sprite.

~ Even so, my kids are awesome, and were quite well behaved 95% of the time.

~ I visited with my husband's family for 10, boring, I mean, fun filled days in which I subsisted primarily on hot dogs, turkey sandwiches, chips, and spaghetti. Oh, and vodka. So much for low carb.

~ I am fat. I love food. I am screwed.

~ I finished my oral board case list. Woot! Let the angsting over that on which they are going to grill me on commence.

~ I scheduled 4 more interviews. (I know, I said I was done...I wasn't, apparently.)

~ I went to not one, but two of my husband's family reunions. I deserve a medal for that.

~ I also deserve an honorable mention for spending 10 days without any form of air conditioning.

~ I wrote a post for Mothers in Medicine for the "birth story" topic day. Check it out if you want a long-winded account of CindyLou's delivery.

~ My grandfather had a heart attack, a couple of heart caths, and fortunately has made it back home ok. I worry about how much longer he will be with us.

~ Last but not least! Thanks to anonymous for the tip...I got linked in an article by Melissa Healy in the LA Times, y'all! (The LA. Freaking. Times.) I was linked along with some real giants of the blogging world like Kevin, MD, GruntDoc, and Dr. RW. Of course, the rant that was selected to quote I sounded the most unintelligent and angry out of all of them. In fact, I was called "ribald" which means of lowly status or base {boo} or lewdly funny {that's more like it}. I own that, and hey, it's the LA times.

So, I'm certain that lots and lots more than this happened, but these are some of the highlights. Now I have to go clean the house and do laundry so the cleaning lady can find the floors and counter tops tomorrow! It's good to be back!

P.S. Holy crap, it's August. Where did July go?