Getting Started...

It is currently fall break here at UMich. No one is around. Yay!
Yesterday Adam, Nate and I went to a pumpkin patch/apple orchard about 20 miles from here. As Nate said, "you haven't lived until you have gone pumpkin hunting with Adam...". It is like taking a 25 year old kid to a pumpkin patch and setting them loose. In a word...entertaining. The pumpkin patch looked like it had been through a war and lost-there were pumpkin corpses everywhere. Adam kept looking for the perfect one to bring home, love, and eventually butcher. He finally found one after much searching and it is now sitting between our offices surrounded by gourdes that he got from another apple orchard we went to today.
Adam's and my decision to seperate and work out of different offices is working out very well. We have our privacy and don't have to worry about how to schedule discipline or RA meetings so that they don't interfere with each other.
Patrick had his advanced nursing school interview on Friday and it went very well. He was charming and engaging and, he feels, he will really stand out when it comes to the selection process. Unfortunately, there are 125 candidates for 36 slots, but we think his chances are good.
Our seven year anniversary is November 5th. We haven't been able to spend our anniversary together for the last two years because of his position as a Field Secretary with FIJI. It will be nice to be with him for this year. The FIJI colony here in Michigan is being chartered that Saturday (the 6th) and it is a formal affair that I have to find a dress for. I am not good with "formal" attire. I hate looking for it, trying it on, and of course wearing it. Unfortunately for me, I have to find something that doesn't make me look like the hippo from Fantasia (the one in the pink tutu). There will be a lot of important people at this event and I have to look half way decent.
Joanie is pregnant again and is doing well. There was an initial scare this past week because an ultrasound turned up something that looked like a molar pregnancy. This is not a good thing.
If you go to the link it will tell you more about what a molar pregnancy is. http://my.webmd.com/hw/being_pregnant/hw165879.asp
Fortunately, it was a misdiagnosis and both mother and baby to be are fine.