Weekly Update April 17 - 23

The Week in Review 

Welcome to a weekly update one day late. I hope to forgive my tardiness on this update but hopefully when you read this you'll understand the delay. I spent the whole first part of the week in the city I will be moving to for residency looking for an apartment. I have excellent news: I HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE NEXT YEAR! :)

After returning from that trip, I was home for all of 12 hours before we turned around and left on another trip, this time a road trip to see Sweetheart's sister, brother-in-law, and nephew. It was such a great trip, but after all that driving I am quite a bit exhausted and ready to not get in a car ever again.

After all that traveling I am glad that I think I should be able to be around home for the next three weeks before I will have to travel again. I'm all travelled out after the last six months!! I have one more big trip left and then NO MORE TRAVELING for all of residency (except maybe for our honeymoon... haha).

I love going places, I like being there, but the getting there part is exhausting.

This week is going to equally busy and full of appointments and craziness.

The Week in Photos 

Cute baby adores the baby blanket I made! / Studying for ACLS / Running in Places / AMAZING record store in new residency city / Zoo in residency city!

Reading 

This week I finished The Tiger's Wife, which was entirely unexpected and quite unique!

Listening 

We rediscovered Flogging Molly on this road trip and I am completely in love with this cute duet.

3 Things

• I am incredibly excited to eat at home all week. Most people love eating out, but I love nothing more than being able to make a meal in my own kitchen 
• I have to start looking at movers. I wish I could just get rid of everything I own and buy all new stuff. That would be easier. 
• I may become a bike commuter. I never thought I would be in a place where I could bike to work. 

Loving from Around the Internet 
I've been loving this great pinterest board for adorable boxes to ask your special ladies to be your bridesmaids!

Migration Season

Photo: Snow geese in Boulder, CO


There are lot of changes coming in my life. Strange changes I'm not sure I'm entirely ready for like my rapidly approaching graduation day (less than three months away!) and transition from LadyKay (almost) MD to LadyKay (actually) MD and my move from girlfriend to fiancé and next year to wife.

But here's one change I'm really ready for: a whole blog upgrade.

A lot of you have probably noticed that I haven't been as active on tumblr over the last few months. Between interviews and traveling for the holidays, blogging, photographing, and vlogging have really fallen by the wayside.

NO LONGER!

I got asked frequently over on tumblr if I planned to continue blogging into the future as I started up residency -- the answer is of course, yes! But just as I change and grow, I think it's time for this blog to change a little bit as well. I can hardly believe it's been a 6 year journey over on tumblr, one I've been immensely thankful for, but one that I am ready to leave behind in favor of a more "blog" style blog.

Never fear, tumblies, you all will continue to receive updates both as I will link posts from this blog there on tumblr AND of course, how else could I follow and reblog from all my amazing #medblr friends?

The good news about this migration is I plan to do more real blogging over here than I did on tumblr. With an easier to use format, I'm hoping to have more structured posts about:

• Essays
• Recipes
• Advice about medicine/surgery
• Weekly updates 
• Photos
• Fashion in medicine
• Thoughts on balance in medicine 
• just... more... 

What my years on tumblr have been lacking is the discipline to sit down and blog in a way that functions more like my journaling does.

I'm excited for this next step as we go forward and hope that I can continue to do here what I've done for so long on tumblr: show the honest, human pieces of one journey through medicine.