September 1, 2009

My Last Day at Lakeview

Beloved Lakeview

My new home...hopefully some day beloved I am now a week into this new job. I do alot of the same clinical contract analysts stuff that I did at Lakeview it's just on a bigger scale now with more responsibilities. Do I love it? It will take some time but I'm sure I'll get there. My office furniture hasn't arrived yet...apparently everything for my office is on back order. I do have a phone and computer, and a card table and chair from the conference room, so it's kind of an office for now and it has a window...but don't get too excited for me, it's a window to the warehouse there's no great view. Lakeview gave me a farewell gift; a digital picture frame with pictures of all my friends at Lakeview. I love it! But it makes me miss them all so much! I'm making new friends. We have an hour for lunch everyday, so it's really nice to have a huge park across the street to go walk around or sit in the shade and read, it's very relaxing. The hardest part is after being outside in a park, in the beautiful weather, you have to spend the last 20 minutes of your lunch trying to talk yourself into going back to work. I do have to travel more with this new position but it won't be too often and shouldn't be for longer than a couple days. The girl in the office next to mine told me that last year they were in California for three weeks trying to finish a big project....I really hope I never have to do that! I'm learing so much and I am, so far, enjoying the challenge!

August 17, 2009

Midwives

This is the latest book I read for my book club. It's also on Oprah's book club list. This book is about a midwife in 1981. Unexpectedly one of her mothers dies during labor and she performes a c-section to save the life of the baby. Now she has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The book is written in the view of the midwife's daughter and tells their family experience before the trial, during the trial and breifly after. For me the book was really slow...but it was alright.

August 3, 2009

The Comet Bobsled

I took JD to the Olympic Park to ride the Comet Bobsled for his birthday. It was incredible!! Totally breath taking and the experience of a lifetime! You get pretty shaken up at G5 force and it takes all you have just to hold your body posture and your head up. JD and I are still friends and we had a great time hanging out together. We did the other activities at the Olympic Park but the bobsled was the ULTIMATE experience!!

July 16, 2009

Books to Movies

Lately there have been several books that I have read that have been turned into movies. And most of them I would have to agree with the norm that the book was way better than the movie. Finally an exception, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The movie wasn't better than the book but I felt it was equally as good. Having read the other books in this series and seen all of the previous movies, this was the only movie so far that didn't really follow along as closely with the book. The movie had additional parts that were not in the book and vice versa. It was done really well!! I have been so disappointed at the movies lately that I almost decided not to see any more movies when I had already read the book. Perhaps there is hope yet...

Here are some movie/book disappointments:

  • My Sister's Keeper
  • Angels and Demons (Also The Davinci Code)
  • Twilight (though the preview for New Moon looks promising)
  • The Golden Compass
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