I think you are.

"Are you kidding me mama?" 

"No...."

"I think you are. I think you are mama!"

A story

"I was touching the sea urchin & papa said, 'put the sea urchin down!' And I did and I washed my hands...ssssshhhhsssssooooooo....and then I did. I did put the urch...the sea urchin down, ya know?" 

missing money

The way our office works when we bill medicare is that the money goes to the patient and it is then their responsibility to bring it in. It's complicated and boring to explain and not so important so I'll move on:
Today a very old patient brought in some medicare money. I opened her account and looked at the medicare explanation of benefits and got very confused until I looked more closely at the date... December 2006. I told what I assume was her son this. He asked her, "Have you been holding onto the medicare money?"
She said, "Oh no I always bring them in right away."

bookkeepers & their figures- from an old male patient's perspective

"She doesn't have the figure of a bookkeeper...
none of ya'll have figures of bookkeepers..."

I got a problem.

We have a dear elderly patient that is very hard to understand because of her thick accent.
Our conversations are short but often hilarious.

The other day she requested I give her a number for a store that sold walkers because the one that she had didn't have wheels in the back and stuck in place.
She then requested I hurry because she had to go get her nails done. As I looked up the number I asked about getting her nails done.
"I miss my last appointment" She said shaking her head.
"You're getting a manicure?" I asked.
"No- I do my fingers. I get foot."
"I told them...."

(Loooong pause)

"I got a problem."

and that was it. End of story.
FAVORITE.

marriage is what brings us togezza....today.

Marriage is hard. Harder than I expected and I expected it to be hard. However- marriage has brought a new freedom to love that I wasn’t expecting. However there is another part to it that I didn't think of a part that took me by surprise.

The moment I said (or whispered, really) , ‘I do.’ things immediately changed- but- in a good way.

There is a comfort and safety in marriage. There was a space in my heart that opened up, a space I never knew was there. I am now free to love more than I felt possible before. In this space is the a greater understanding of God’s relationship to the church. A greater understanding of caring for someone other than myself. An urge for forgive and move on, to be honest and open. A willingness to be selfless.
Don’t get me wrong, I am still selfish despite not wanting to be but I feel it fading more and more. I feel my character growing. Despite all of the difficulties- despite how hard this marriage thing is- I love it, and I love my husband.

a small wedding budget and 18 days left!

I read a lot of wedding blogs. A LOT. It's my new thing. Along with looking at wedding photographers. I really enjoy it and have learned a lot but one thing that strikes me as strange is that even the budget weddings which I've read about can run to like 10 thousand bucks. That to me is insanity! How is that an inexpensive wedding? It makes me wonder what I would have added if I had 10 grand to spend on a wedding. The only thing I can really think of is one of those cool little photo booths for guests to go in a get their photo for their wedding favor. Instead we're giving soap as a favor....hand made soap. The rest is exactly what I want.
We've done a lot of stuff by hand...well my mom has done a lot of stuff by hand. She made all the bridesmaids dresses (saving them a bundle!) she helped me with the soap, and she's making my wedding dress. My so-far beautiful fancy wedding dress that will end up being a total of probably 150 bucks, but completely unique and original. I've put work into it too- a million beaded flowers, beaded by hand and then hand sewn onto the gown, but my mom did the main work on the dress.
Rebecca is doing to reception decorating. I can't imagine what I would do without her. I wouldn't have decorations or linens or any of that stuff! I'm so grateful to them for doing all of this for me. I don't know the first thing about wedding decorating- and I don't have the motivation to learn.
The one thing we did go all out on money wise was the photographer. If I it wasn't so important to me to have a good photographer we would have spent have the money we are spending....but it was, it's the one thing I really can't do without...that and the groom! :P
Even so- with our small budget that we both put half into- we'll have a beautiful wedding and get our amazing photos. It will be a small wedding, and that's exactly what I've always wanted- but it will also have class and style, thanks to the help of Rebecca and my mom....and I'm starting to get excited!