Best Weather Ever!

So the weather outside is great! I wore open toed shoes to church AND capri pants AND we both left our coats at home. It makes me very happy when the weather is warm. Plus there are so many trees whose flowers are in bloom or beginning to bud. Overall very optimistic weather, which is nice after weeks of freezing rain and 'wintry mixes'.

As usual, school is keeping us both very busy. This week was better for Hubii than the last but I spent a lot of time at school trying to do testing for my research. If you want to see some of the things my lab is researching you can watch this video, but be warned there are a lot of closeups of cadaver knees. Anyways, the lab mostly works with the knee joint and how it interacts with the attached ligaments. I am doing a small research project on how the arteries around the knee behave as the knee moves. There is no testing protocol for this, so I am trying to figure that out right now. All that figuring out means that things take longer than expected. What I thought would be done by Friday night was only at the beginning stages when I left on Friday. I had to quit on Friday because I needed someone to run the x-ray machine for me and the only person authorized to take X-rays in our lab had been running his own tests all day and was too tired to be of any help to me. So I will have to continue testing on this coming week.

But last week was not a total let down because after I left work we went to Hubii's coworker's (Mike's) place for game night. They were playing Arkham Horror, a co-operative game that can be played by upto 8 people! Well, I only missed one round so I joined when I got there. Plus I got fed with delicious grilled burgers on home made buns! But wait that wasn't all! Mike's wife, Kirsten, has had some maternity clothes sitting in her closet since she had her son. She had tried to take them to a large charity consignment sale. Fortunately for me, they were no longer accepting maternity clothes (which seems strange to me, because all the maternity clothes I own are second hand). Here I am modeling one of my outfits and showing off my 24 week belly.

Like I said earlier, I have to continue my research this week but need help from lots of other grad students. To help lubricate the wheels of graduate student generosity I baked up some goodies. Hopefully they are persuasive.

Cinnamon raisin bread

Banana nut bread

I will be going to Denver with my research group this week. We will leave on Thursday and return on Sunday. Hopefully Hubii will survive the weekend without me. Also, please pray that I can get all my testing done by Wednesday as well as all the HW I have due this week. Oh, and that babii doesn't get too affected by the stress I feel this week.