On My Mind

• We got the heat fixed. Evidently SOMEONE flipped the switch and turned the entire system off. The guy (his company happened to service it a couple of weeks ago) IMPLIED it was possibly either us or one of his workers that did it. I was quick to point out that OBVIOUSLY it wasn't us, because we were completely unaware there was even a light switch and it is in the most ridiculously hidden place we would have never even known it was there.

• My girlfriend is teaching me to knit. Tasha taught me a couple of years ago, but I let it fall to the wayside. I actually have 2 hats that were nearly done when I stopped, so my girlfriend finished one of them off quickly last night. NICE. Isn't it pathetically sad?
  

• The kids and I went to the grocery. (Do you think it odd that I just call it the grocery? I also call the post office the post.) But, once we arrived, I discovered I left half of my list at home. BLAST! Luckily it was my Sam's Club list that was AWOL, so I was still able to do the bulk of my shopping. This week we are having:

• Fricassee
• Salmon w/ Lemon and Pine Nut Relish
• Manicotti
• Paninis
• Gnocchi
• Shrimp Etouffee
• Buffalo Chicken Strips
• Slow Cooker Pot Roast

(Can you tell I'm married to someone with Italian blood?)

• Last night Adam was on the phone with his intern and I overheard this conversation.
  

Adam: "Did he let you exam him?"
Person on phone makes a response.
Adam: "So you are telling me he let you put your finger in his bottom and exam him?"

This is a VERY NORMAL conversation for Adam to be having. Afterward I asked him about it, and he said if what the intern was telling him was correct, this guy would have been WAAAYY to uncomfortable for a full exam. See- according to doctors.. everyone lies.

• We had another lecture on Tuesday night. It was the Museum Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or the MET). I'll admit it, after the US Ambassador to China I was apprehensive (ohh the pain), but it turns out he was really engaging and interesting. He told several different anecdotes, but my FAVORITE was about the painting at the top of the stairs after when you enter the museum. Evidently some German guy had it in his BARN in upstate NY for 30 years or so. He died and the executor of his will actually offered it to the MET. They were skeptical, but once they physically looked at the piece they knew it was authentic. This was just one of his great stories. He also showed pictures of an exhibit that they incorrectly measured and in order to get it into the museum they had to cut out the door frame, parts of a ceiling and a ridiculous number of other things. It really was fantastic.

• I love that my husband and I are both in the "medical" field (him more than me). We always have really interesting conversations and I'm sure most people would be appaled at our dinner topics. Even Lulu was begging to watch a video of Adam removing a growth from some ladies liver. But, on the flip side, I hate it when I learn about the TERRIBLE side of humanity (all of the crazy kid stories he has), life ironies (congratulations- you got a new liver two weeks ago, but because of a complication you need a new liver), and how ridiculously long the pathway of healing can be. Sometimes I wish I still lived in the land of "not knowing better." It seems ohh so mucn happier.