Yuck

Last week I worked 79 hours.  The week before I worked 73.  Still within the "legal" hour limits but definitely outside of my "ideal".

Today I finally had off and Bry and I went to Church. Then we cleaned up the house a bit and dropped my cousin off at the airport.  His grandmother recently died and I had the chance to know her fairly well over the past 10 years - she will be missed.

Then we found our new secret obsession - White Trash Documentaries.  By this I mean Swamp People and The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.  We have both developed mild Southern twangs and are craving some alligator - or just alcohol and prescription drugs.  Very classy way to spend the afternoon, I must say.

Tomorrow I got back to work and Bry will have the day off to do whatever he'll do when I'm not home.  It's not knitting - my works in progress are never changed when I get home to them.

Today I did finish one hat - the Happy Birthday hat by Susan B. Anderson in pink and white - a commissioned piece for a friend.  Photos to follow.

Next week we will celebrate our 3rd Wedding Anniversary.  We have been following the traditional anniversary gifts for the past 2 years.  This year is Leather.  While I had some unmentionable ideas for what to buy Bry  - I think I've hit on a good idea.  I am open to suggestions, however.... Leave your best ideas for me below.

(P.S. Who took time to think of a 90th anniversary gift?  And is STONE meant to mean "TOMBSTONE"????)

Year	Traditional (U.S.)	Traditional (UK)[11]	Modern (U.S.)
1st	Paper	Cotton	Clock
2nd	Cotton	Paper	China
3rd	Leather		Crystal, Glass
4th	Linen, Silk	Fruit and Flowers	Appliances (electrical)
5th	Wood	Wooden	Silverware
6th	Iron	Egg	Wood objects
7th	Wool, Copper	Woollen	Desk sets/Pen & Pencil sets
8th	Bronze	Salt	Linens, Lace
9th	Pottery	Copper	Leather goods
10th	Tin, Aluminum	Tin	Diamond jewelry
11th	Steel		Fashion jewelry, accessories
12th	Silk	Silk and Fine Linen	Pearls, Colored gems
13th	Lace		Textiles, Furs
14th	Ivory		Gold jewelry
15th	Crystal		Watches
16th			Silver Holloware
17th			Furniture
18th			Porcelain
19th			Bronze
20th	China		Platinum
21st			Brass, Nickel
22nd			Copper
23rd			Silver plate
24th	Opal		Musical Instruments
25th	Silver
30th	Pearl		Diamond
35th	Coral, Jade	Coral	Jade
40th	Ruby
45th	Sapphire		Sapphire
50th	Gold
55th	Emerald		Emerald
60th	Diamond (Yellow)	Diamond
65th		Blue Sapphire
70th		Platinum[12][13][14]
75th	Diamond, Gold		Diamond, Gold
80th		Oak[15][16]	Diamond, Pearl
85th		Wine	Wife's Birthstone
90th		Stone

Struggling

It's going to be a rough 4 months of inpatient medicine.
To top it off I'm starting with Peds - not my favorite at all.  I really don't like sick kids.

Also not going to be too much knitting going on.  We'll see.

Hope your spring is going well and you (at least) get to enjoy the outdoors.

Bry and I celebrated Cinco de Mayo last night in proper fashion - after 13 hours of work for both of us and we didn't get home until 10:00pm.  We needed the margarita though!

It's a rough stretch here for both of our jobs - really considering dropping everything and running off to a foreign country.  And working at MacDonald's.  Bry's going to have to start taking the keys away from me - last night we were on the freeway and I nearly just kept driving to Mexico.  Beginning to think Medicine is not the best thing for me.  I've thought it before but now I'm just miserable.  It's hard to do something you don't like for 13 hours a day.  Then again, I keep reminding myself that I am not enslaved in the Corsican salt mines.  But they probably don't have HIPAA and Wisconsin Department of Regulations and Licensing, and Resident Duty Hours there.  Not looking too bad now, huh?
 
How far is Corsica?