Studying for the Boards

We're hanging out at Starbucks this afternoon while Robbie studies for the Boards. Here he is hard at work:

After trying it out for a couple weeks, Robbie has given his stamp of approval to the Dental Boards Mastery app we purchased for his iPad. Also, this is the first week that Robbie has come home from lab and told me that he actually feels like his skills are improving (which is awesome because he is his own toughest critic). They started doing Class V restorations and he was able to bust out a composite one relatively quickly before the lab closed for the day on Wednesday. It's those little moments of success that I think really help keep you going in Dental School.

A Class V restoration is one that is along the gumline (the gingival 1/3 of the tooth).

We don't really have anything planned for Memorial Day. He's going to use the time off to get some more studying done. I will probably go to the pool to get a little sun (hopefully my pale skin doesn't blind anyone!). Tomorrow evening we're going over to our friends' house to have some sangria I made and to play some board games. Other than that it should be a pretty mellow weekend!

Meeting Kate and Joe

Today we were able to meet up with Kate and her soon-to-be-Dental-Student husband, Joe. They are moving from California to Pennsylvania for Dental School so we were able to grab Starbucks with them on their way through Denver.

Joe and Kate, we had such a great time meeting you both! Robbie and I both think that Joe is going to make an excellent Dentist and that Kate will be such a wonderful help to him throughout the whole process. Thanks for stopping in Denver! :)


In other news, Robbie and I forgot that they were sweeping and re-striping our parking lot this morning so we went outside and our car was gone! VERY luckily, the office had only spot towed it to the other side of the apartment complex so we got to play hide and seek with our car for 10 minutes before we were able to find it. Definitely beats paying $300 if they had decided to have it towed for real.

Also, I finally decided to join Twitter today (for the sole purpose of getting more traffic for my blog). I haven't had enough time to really mess with it at all and I'm not at all familiar with how it really works. If anyone has any pointers for using Twitter, please feel free to leave them in the comments.

Lastly, I'm going to the eye doctor tomorrow for a check-up and *drum roll*.... to get fitted for contacts! I've tried contacts in the past and have never loved them, but I've decided to give them another try. I actually really like how I look in glasses so I'm getting an updated prescription for my glasses as well. Sometimes I like to think that my glasses make me look like Alexandra Cabot, the Assistant District Attorney from Law and Order: SVU. Especially when I get a really serious expression on my face like this:

 Maybe I should start wearing more pant-suits. I'm pretty sure everything I know about the law and my rights, I learned from Law and Order.

Summer's a Comin'!

I love Colorado weather, but April was really annoying this year compared to other years. We kept having 2 really nice days of weather followed by a couple days of snow storm ("blizzard" for the out-of-staters) and it just kept flip flopping like that back and forth. But I just checked the forecast and it's supposed to be sunny and in the mid-70's from now until Tuesday evening! Woo hoo!! It's actually such a nice day out today that I was able to pull out my bicycle and go on a four mile ride. I rode down the street to Starbucks to get an iced peach green tea lemonade and brought it back to share with Robbie.

sluuuurrrrp!

As a kid, I always liked the winter time the best and had plans to move to Alaska when I grew up (I think this idea came mostly from my love for the "Julie of the Wolves" book series). But the last couple years I've been enjoying warm weather and being in the outdoors so much more that I just can't wait for summer to come.

Robbie's second semester will be coming to a close in less than two weeks so he's got a lot of studying to do right now. The semester ends on Wednesday the 8th of May and then summer semester will start up on Monday the 13th (I am a little disappointed that he won't have a longer break than 5 days in between). This summer will be somewhat intense too because he's taking his written boards in July.

In spite of the fact that Dental School won't be easing up over the summer, I'm still looking forward to a lot of things including:

• hot weather
• a Fourth of July BBQ with our friends
• swimming in our pool
• bike rides
• having our windows open to let in the delicious fresh air
• eating ripe watermelon
• getting a little sun so I'm not quite so pale
• just being outdoors in general

The only things I'm not looking forward to about summer are:

• Wasps (our apartment complex seems to have an abundance of them in the summer and they all seem target me and no one else)
• Mosquitoes (that carry the dreaded West Nile Virus!! duh duh duh!!)

In other news, I'm flying out to Las Vegas this Monday to hang out with my sister for her birthday. I checked the weather and it's going to be 98 degrees so she told me to make sure to bring my bathing suit. I'm especially looking forward to going to Firefly (a wonderful tapas restaurant) while I'm there to have warm spinach salad, bacon wrapped dates, and sangria. YUM!

This is us the last time I went to visit her. Yes, we're crazy.