My night in the ER

The culprit ...


So last night, dan and I went to dinner with some of his friends. No big deal.

We came home on the subway. No big deal.

I was slightly addicted to the above pictured book. No big deal. I'm a book worm and becoming addicted isn't something strange for me.

As we were walking out of the subway I was reading the book. Climb the first set of stairs. No big deal.

Get in the elevator. No big deal.

Climb the second set of stairs. No big deal.

Walk out of the subway and miss the one tiny step? Big deal!

I rolled my ankle and for some reason my body decided it wanted to faint. So the dizziness commenced, the blurred vision, the roaring in the ears, the inability to support myself. The cold sweats as my blood pressure dropped and I collapsed onto dan.

I did try to warn him. He tried. But I just needed to lay down on the nasty New York sidewalk. And the crowd gathered. Apparently my skirt was bunched up into all sorts of indecent-ness. I heard a lady yell "give her some decency for goodness sake!" before my skirt was pulled down a bit.

There's some good in New York!

Then since the ER was about 10 steps away of course a wheel chair man came out and escorted me back and I tried to calm the adrenaline and embarrassment coursing through my body.

Then we sat. And sat. And sat some more. My butt was numb but you know what?

I finished my book : )

Abbie! Who has the next one? I need it!

The sun'll come out tomorrow...

Pic from our honeymoon cruise...

Why my life is looking a little bit up right now?

1. I passed my Licensed Master's of Social Work Exam on Saturday with flying colors (only a year after graduation, I am lazy), so I now have an extra letter after my name--LMSW, woot woot!
2. I booked a cruise to Mexico for Christmas with my peeps! : )
3. The fourth of July is this weekend=long weekend!
4. I go home to Cali in 17 days
5. Our 1 year wedding anniversary is in 13 days
6. My birthday is in 23 days (I can't believe I'm going to be 24!)
6. I got a promotion at work. I am now a clinical supervisor for my therapy team (there are only 2 people on the team right now, but that's plenty for me! : )

I'm still trying to decide of that last one is a good thing or not. I'm still leaning a bit towards not, but I get paid more, which means this crap is a teeny tiny bit more rewarding.

Let's hope things keep getting better rather than more craptastic shall we?

Slow Down!

Life is going a little too fast for my taste right now... I feel like I can't get a handle on anything for more than a second and then it's changing. Aye me! One more week and a half and then it's the 4th of July, and the week after that is our 1 year anniversary and the week after that I go home for 10 days : ) Just gotta finish out this week... one day at a time. Then hopefully some more happy posts, full of pictures and goodness.

On a happy note, I really love my husband. He helps me climb out of my little tree that I get worked up into. He somehow knows exactly what to do and say to make me feel better, especially when it matters most. He pretty much rocks my mundo.

Happy Father's Day!

My dad is awesome. I could probably leave it right there but maybe I should defend that statement. He is awesome because 1. he's a ridiculously hard worker, always finding little things to do even when he really could be taking a break 2. he's compassionate and understanding, always trying to step into other people's shoes to better understand how they feel 3. he's pretty funny in a quiet hanging around in the background making little amusing comments kind of way. Which is pretty entertaining in my opinion and 4. he's one of my number one cheerleaders, and who doesn't need a great cheerleader on their side sometimes (okay a lot of times if you struggle with life like me). He never puts me down and always makes me feel like I'm smart enough and good enough to do whatever I want.

And he has awesome hair. Check out that fro up there. Pretty rad don't ya think?

I love you daddio. You're the cats meow : )

Oh goodness...

Back in beautiful Spain

I cried in a session yesterday. Too much yelling, too many stupid people not listening to me, too many sad stories, too many kids having to hear horrible things that they shouldn't have to hear. And I couldn't do anything to stop it. Not even standing up and clapping my hands and yelling could stop them for a second.

I think I need to find something else. ASAP.

Cake wreck

This is what happens when
1. You don't level the bottom layer of a two layer cake
And
2. You don't wait until the cake is actually cool to frost it because you can't wait to get that chocolate in your mouth


I am a chocohollic who just failed : )

Summa time!

pic from here

The best part about summer? The oodles and oodles of berries that are oh so ripe and juicy and a much healthier dessert than the chocolate and cookies and everything else I chow down on regularly during the other parts of the year. Last night I had blue berries with half and half (trying to be a little bit more healthy than just straight cream!), some corn flakes crushed over it and a tiny bit of sugar sprinkled on top! YUM! I'm sad that I'm missing the strawberries in California, they're going to be done by the time I get out there in July, but thanks to airplanes I've been able to enjoy some here. I heart strawberries. I can't wait to go home and go to the local produce shop and pick out tons of fresh fruit to snack on. I love me some California produce!