Art project progress

Thought I would share what I've been working this spring break. I'm almost done! This is for the college of optometry art competition. All of the shading is individual vertical lines drawn with a fine-tipped Sharpie marker. Many, many lines...

Sea Adventures - end result!

Here's Olivia's finished copy of the coloring book. She had a lot of fun doing it, but I think she wanted more little areas to color in.

Sea Adventure color-by-number

I've been sending a lot of time with Olivia this week since I'm on spring break and Katie is super busy writing her book. Olivia and I have been drawing and coloring a lot, and we did a color-by-number page in her little Kindergarten math book. She really really liked it, so I thought it would be fun to make another one for her. So this afternoon, while she was taking a nap, I drew out this little picture here. I think it turned out pretty nice. I thought I would share it with you! Click on the picture to see the pdf.

Once you print it out, just color this boxes in the left hand corner with the colors you want to use; that'll make it easier to use if your kid can't read yet.

Have fun!

Where I am meant to live

I just found the spot where I am supposed to live:

This is the corner of Bryan Street and Lewis Street.

This is found in the city of Bryan, Ohio. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere. See?

I found out some interesting things about this great city. First, there are only about 8,000 people that live here. Second, it is known for manufacturing three famous items: Dum-Dum suckers, candy canes, and Etch-A-Sketches. Katie said that of all the candy that could represent me, perhaps Dum-Dums represent me the best. I resent this statement, because Dum-Dums are pretty trashy candy. If only Bryan, OH would manufacture Jolly Rancher Jellybeans...those things are the absolute best tasting candy in the world.

Bryan, Ohio looks like a pretty nice place. 

Olivia can be pretty mature

I just put Olivia to bed and as I was leaving she asked for a drink of water. She took a long sip, then laid back down. I noticed she had her cheeks puffed out, and I thought she was just being silly, but it turns out they were full of water. I know that now because I squeezed them. The water squirted out all over her face and on her pillow.
I said, "Oh no, I'm sorry Olivia! I didn't think you had water in you cheeks!"

Her reply was so great:

"That's OK daddy, it'll dry off in a little bit. But next time will you please not do squeezies on my cheeks?"

Crazy stories from work

So it's been a while since I have posted on here, and I thought a good post to warm up to writing again would be to share some good stories from work.

Nothing too exciting ever really happens at school because we can't see anything too complicated, but that is definitely not the case at work. For instance, last week a guy with Downs Syndrome came in and needed some surgery because half of his face was paralyzed. He couldn't blink one of his eyes, so that made that eye all nasty and it had a huge ulcer. They ended up having to permanently sew his eyelid shut so the eye wouldn't get worse. Me and 4 other people, including his mother, had to hold the poor guy down while the doctor sewed his eye shut. He was screaming and crying and straining the entire time. It just reconfirmed in my mind that I am very happy with my career choice and I don't want to be more invasive than I have to be.

Im too lazy to think of another story, so you just get one. Also, I am trying to learn some guitar chords. I know D, G, A, A minor, and C. It's actually surprising what songs you can play with just those chords.

Crash

I finally finished finals last week! My last one was on Thursday, and it feels GREAT to be over. However, that night, my body finally succumbed to the inevitable and I got a fever and chills. This always seems to happen once I do something stressful. Luckily, it happens AFTER finals and not during it, but I can almost count on it. So the next day I slept in until about 11 am (which was amazing since I got about 3 to 4 hours of sleep each night the week before), and I felt pretty good. I should have just rested the rest of the day, but I was bored and wanted to do something fun, so we did. And now I'm still sick. Hopefully I'll be completely healed before we drive out to Virginia.

Also, I would just like to say how awesome Katie was during finals week. I basically only saw her for only 2 hours everyday and she didn't mind that I studied so much. And she made me awesome lunches everyday. They were actually like little Japanese bento boxes, except with normal lunch food instead of sushi. And then when I was done with finals she had this little celebration thing planned and we ate chocolate cookies and watched the Avengers. I really liked that movie. 

I'm going to sleep some more now, so good luck Nathan, Alison, David, Lisa, and Mark with finals!