Couches, Mattresses and Thunder, Oh My!

So the most important update since I last posted is that we now have a couch. Or rather a love seat and soon to have a couch. Bought them from a friendly family on Craigslist who happens to have a truck, and took pity on our couch-less plight and agreed to deliver the love seat to us yesterday when we realized it wouldn't fit in our CRV and the original plan was he would deliver both on Sunday because that was when he was getting his replacement couch. I think so far the cats are the happiest about this situation, although they had seemed very happy sleeping on the futon in their domain in the office prior to this. I supposed the lack of cat fur on the couch presented a problem they couldn't resist conquering.

Our next excitement is to pick up our new mattress set today! Although it just started to thunder and we're picking it up ourselves - strapping it to the roof. So I hope it has a very sturdy cover on it! The mattress is long overdue and it will be nice to be back in our bedroom as we've been sleeping in the guest room on our old bed as we were getting too old and creaky to sleep on the air mattress.

Updates in terms of work. So far Tyler is enjoying his internship, he is having a very long orientation process but is having fun getting to know his co-interns and figuring out all the nitty gritty of internship. He is again the only guy in his intern class, also the only one from the west coast, and the only one married, with a kid (on the way) or with pets. Apparently we're just as boring as you can get! Except for the west coast part of course. I'm still adjusting to the fact that there is no food waste pick up here and feel horribly guilty putting corn cobs in the garbage, and am very weirded out by styrofoam take out containers and grocery stores handing out plastic bags like candy.

For my work - I have completed 1 of 4 non-patient based trainings before I get to start my mentored/shadowed working shifts. 3 of them are on weekend days so it's a rather scattered process. I got to learn all about the crazy EMR (electronic medical record) this clinic system has and started learning their protocols. I'm still having pangs of guilt (what is with the guilt issue here? maybe I have a problem) giving up my full spectrum training for a year. I'm going to miss well baby visits, they don't do well child exams under the age of 7; IUD and Nexplanon insertions, the idea of a non-OBGYN doing them boggled the mind of my training nurse so much that I thought she just didn't understand what I was asking at first; doing joint injections and taking care of pregnant women, amidst other things. But - everyone seems very nice and things are going more smoothly than I had hoped in terms of figuring out my upcoming maternity leave so that's good news.

Our unpacking (or rather my unpacking, I have turned into a stay at home house organizer for these couple of weeks) is going well and it's starting to feel more like a home. We just got our crib (thanks Mom and Bradley!) and are hopefully getting a rug (from Craigslist of course) for the nursery today so my nesting urges are kicking in and I'm getting pretty excited! Judging from the kicking, Baby Laney is psyched as well. Or maybe she's just telling me I need to find more quality tacos because we haven't found anything measuring up to our taco bus in Seattle yet.

Apparently I can upload videos - so here is one from the dog park this morning (snuck in before the temperature reached the 90s), the tail end of some zoomies from some poor yard deprived pups (thanks to Malcolm for his tasteful closing act). I'll have to get the video of Rue with her acrobatic ball catching from Tyler's phone now that I've discovered this capability!