Jenny Check

kitty hat!

Here is the furry kitty hat I made for Robyn. She looks like the negative of Max from Where the Wild Things Are. Hurrah! Happy coincidence that she is wearing a Wild Things t-shirt.

My next project: pink legwarmers for my mom!

babysitting

I got to hang out with the twins yesterday while Alma and Justin and Luke made a trip to the doctor for Justin's four month check up. We dressed up in princess costumes and did a lot of twirling. I had to do a little mediation between them because they both wanted to wear the shoes Emma is wearing below...

Justin was pronounced healthy at 18 pounds, nine ounces. 18 pounds in four months. Wow, that is some breast milk.

arm socks!

Here they are, modeled by Emily, at a dinner party celebrating her vacant apartment.

 

waiting for rocky road ice cream...

Ted, snuggling with John and Nicole...

Mark J with the aperture setting.

arm socks

I finally finished the arm socks. Well, I thought I finished them yesterday, but then I tested them out with a t-shirt and they weren't long enough. So then I undid the bind off and made them longer. I still have to do the second test and then have Emily come in for a custom fit, but I think they are pretty much finished. hurrah! I'll post a pic of Em modeling when she has her fitting.

In other news, I had my first day in labor and delivery. I thought it was going to be a slow day, but then it picked up pretty dramatically. Now I am thinking of switching my concentration from critical care to labor and delivery and maternity. hmmmm.

Gus and Vince love the purple shawl. They sit on it, knead their paws and purr. Robyn loves the purple shawl too. She curls up with it and cuddles it. It is super soft and fluffy. Unfortunately, it is a wear around the house item... looks kind of funny. I'll post a pic soon...

drunk

This is me after coconut ice cream for dinner, champagne chambord cocktails and a manhattan. Whew! At Dylan's, the bartender remembered us from several months ago and remembered that I don't like martini glasses because of the spill factor. That is one good bartender. Afterwards we went home and ate air popped popcorn. yum.

Today I ate brunch with Emily, Mark and Harold at Crossroads Cafe in South Beach. Then I was supposed to go home and do work, but instead I met my Seattle friend, Floyd, and perambulated around the Haight. Then I went home to start doing the work, but then watched Sex and the City and knitted Emily's armsocks. It's been a bad day for work, but a good day for knitting. I finished the purple shawl and I'm almost done with one sock. hurrah!

Harold rues the day he got me knitting books for Christmas. He is convinced that now I'm going to fail out of nursing school.

babies

I started my maternity clinical yesterday in the nursery. I followed around a nurse named Kim and we assessed all these babies and changed their diapers and fed them. It was SO CUTE. The nurses at Kaiser Redwood City are really nice, and all the patients are relatively happy because they've just had babies. Today I actually have to do more hands on stuff, but so far, so good.

weekend visitors

Emily, Mark and the Izzle came to visit yesterday. Izzle liked the cats so much that she waved to them constantly.

music and gus under purple shawl WIP

Yesterday, Harold and I went to the symphony. It was a Haydn/Chopin/Mozart concert, and I wasn't too excited about it. But last night's concert was good- during the Haydn, I tried to figure out the chord structure and how he moved from key to key without jarring your ear... it was kind of a fun experiment to figure out the hook. They did Mozart's symphony 40. I haven't heard it live in years, and it really took me back to thinking about college days. I forgot how much I loved the second movement. I found myself thinking about how it was so amazing that Mozart could be going through such a shitty time, and yet have time to be so stylish and elegant and polite in his music. It makes the music so much more poignant to me. I also felt that special concert moment of feeling like life was elevated for a while out of my daily routine into something with so much emotion, grace and feeling. I should go to the symphony more often.

Tim Day is now playing with the symphony, and his wife is now the acting principal. I wonder when the flute auditions will be or if they've already happened. I'm so out of the loop.

The SF Symphony is sounding great. I used to complain about them and buy tickets for touring orchestras instead, but I think they're getting better. Maybe it was the conductor last night, Peter Oundjian. He used to play in the Tokyo String Quartet, but now he's conducting, and I think he really pulled a good performance out of SF.

anniversary party

After a long day at school, Harold and I went to K & C's ten year anniversary drinkfest at Shanghai 1930. Lyle Snow was there, amazingly enough... We talked about Larry McMurtry and Million Dollar Baby and how we normally don't like boxing movies or Clint Eastwood. I miss seeing Lyle every day! I took some pictures of Lyle, but since he despises pictures so much, it would probably make him mad if I posted them. I had a delicious martini and then Harold and I went to Butterfly's new location at Pier 33 on Embarcadero. We were planning on going to Finding Neverland afterwards, but then I had a lychee martini at Butterfly and that was the end of that.

Fridays, our classes are at Laguna Honda Hospital in their cavernous auditorium. We could barely hear our miked professors and patients rolled in and out in their wheelchairs. We'll see how this goes... I think my critical care class is going to be fun. All the exams are take home or open book and she's regaling us wih anecdotes to illustrate her points... for example, we're studying legal issues in nursing, and to illustrate abandonment, she told us about a nurse at a hospital that had three nurses on duty for the floor during the night shift. Someone coded, and two nurses went to help with the coding patient, leaving the one nurse to oversee the whole floor. The one nurse thought that it was a convenient time to go eat dinner and left. Needless to say, the nurse was fired and is now facing all sorts of charges. Yikes. Sometimes it just takes some common sense...

beehive hat and wavy gravy scarf

Hurrah!

The beehive hat is huge, even for my big noggin. I feel like I should get those horn rimmed glasses with the rhinestones to go with the hat, but I will resist. I am happy to have these  Stitch and Bitch projects completed and wearable. There was one sad hat, the beret, which was sort of a disaster. I followed the pattern from Knit Hats! for the beret, only when I finished, it was so huge, it looked like one of those Rasta hats that hold people's long dreds. So I felted it, but then the sides weren't poofy enough. Poor thing. When I wear it now, I look like a mushroom.

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