M.K.Duke

On Friday I found out that I got the job at the University Hospital on the trauma/acute care floor.  I am really excited to start working, I have been feeling sort of like a slug lately since I have been in limbo.  My start date is most likely going to be June 29th so I have one more week of freedom before I enter the working world.  It will be nice and sort of funny to be working at the same hospital as Jas, we will be able to hopefully eat dinner or lunch with each other on occasion and more than likely I could have to call/page him about one of my patients sort of weird but at least it won’t be scary!  We had planned to go hiking/camping this weekend but we were rained/stormed out so we ended up staying home and doing things in our neighborhood.  Saturday we had a lot of rain and during a lull we went outside to inspect our plants and make sure none of these were munching on them….

Okay so we didn’t actually find this baby on top of the Mama but couldn’t resist posing them before we disposed of them in the trash can.  These two were actually not an immediate threat to the plants since they were under the bird feeder on the opposite side of the garden munching on some fallen seed but still snails surprisingly can cover a lot of ground so we took no chances.  Today Jas and I went mountain biking, it was my first official time mountain biking it was a huge workout.  We went on a really long trail with a lot of steepness, it was hard but fun and I am sure that I will be sore tomorrow.  The trail that we went on took us behind the University hospital and then popped us out into a really nice neighborhood on the other side, here is a picture of the Hospital where both Jas and I will be working for the next three years…

And here is a picture of me looking quite pathetic and only half way done with our ride but happy to be on pavement and not teetering on some rocks and a cliff, some how Jason always seems to capture the best of me…

So I know that I was going to post some pictures of the inside of the house so here is one to tie you over, this might be my favorite thing about the place, the kitchen nook…

As you can see my phone with a cord is conveniently located near the nook so that I can sit and talk comfortably inside my cozy little space.  Last night I was lying down on one of the nook benches and decided to look at the underside of the table, I am not sure what I was expecting to find maybe some old paint chips I don’t know, but what I found was the handwriting of a young girl proclaiming her love for different boys, luckily she dated each entry so it was interesting to see her go back and forth between who she was “in love” with at the time, here are a few quotes from the underside of the nook:

1941  ET loves DH

1945  Elaine Thorup loves Richard Young & Peter Richards

1946 April, May and June Elaine Thorup loves Jimmy Pratt

1946 Elaine Thorup loves Peter Richards

Those are just a few of the love proclamations I found, I thought this was so cute and it was sort of bittersweet thinking of the young girl who wrote these who was probably in her early teens at the time might be in her late 70’s now.  I love old houses and all the stories they have to tell.  This reminded me of the wooden pole (actually a supporting beam) in the basement of my middle school/high school friend Lindsay’s house, our group of girl friends use to scribble similar “love” proclamations on the pole, it has since been dry-walled over but Lindsay told me that she likes to think that someday someone will find our messages just how I found Elaine’s