Thursday, October 17, 2013

It's Friday...and the best day of the year

I'm linking up with Jen for this very special edition of 7 Quick Takes.  Here goes...

1) It's my BIRTHDAY!!!  I love, love, LOVE my birthday and think it is definitely the best day of the year without a doubt.  It's an entire day dedicated to celebrating me, the day of my birth and all the great things about me (at least that's how I choose to see it). Kidding.  I just really like having everyone I love check in with a quick Happy Bday and knowing that they're thinking of me on my special day.  And, the presents.  Again, I kid! (sort of)

2) I'm away at a conference and missing my family.  It was really weird driving to WI by myself and not having the peanut gallery in the back with their constant chatter to accompany my every moment.  It was eerily quiet.  So quiet that I had to get Ira Glass to be my companion with a couple downloads of This American Life.  I love that show and it's even better when I can get it on demand.

3) At this conference I have learned one very important thing.  I no longer possess the ability to sit still. In medical school it was an average day to have my butt in an auditorium seat for 8-10 hours of lectures followed by extra time in the library. But, it's been, ahem, a few years since I was doing that and luckily between chasing boys at home and running around the clinic my days rarely involve a lot of sitting. There seems to be a curvilinear relationship with age and the ability to sit.  I know from direct observation that my boys have no tolerance for sitting still. I hope that will improve in the next couple years and perhaps peak in their college or grad school years (many prayers and fingers crossed) and now I think my sitting tolerance is quickly declining again.  I can make it through Mass and that's about my limit.  God help us all when it's a long homily.  I'm hoping that has something to do with Stan constantly mussing up my hair with trucks and leaning out of my lap until I'm on the verge of dropping him.

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(It's hard to see the animals I have on the vertical axis. From bottom to top they are flea, puppy, squirrel, bats during the day, panda, and sloth. I need to snaz up my graphs next time)
I have given you graphical representation of WTH I am blabbing about in #3.  I think Dave is approaching the sitting tolerance of a puppy at age six and I peaked at sloth-like daily activity in med school, and now I'm back down to about a squirrel.

5) I drew my graph on a piece of paper that I had folded into a paper airplane during a lecture.  I am not good at folding paper airplanes anymore (it dumped after about 2 feet) and I think I need to brush up on this skill so I can amaze the boys with my mad paper folding and airplane flying skillz. At least I think it looks cool with the rad lightening and racing stripes. Disclosure that all my flight tests were after the lecture so don't worry about it. 


6) I am staying with a friend from college while I'm in Madison and it's so fun to catch up with girlfriends. I am constantly amazed that I have such good and constant friends that even when we don't talk for months, once we're together it's like no time at all has passed. What a lucky lady I am! 

I'm trying to decide if I'm the worst houseguest or the ideal houseguest. Basically I leave the house before anyone is really up and I come back after everyone has already turned in. Same story for tomorrow. If I could somehow find a way to do the guest bed sheets once I leave I think that would rocket me to ideal in no time. 

7) George has a new tooth and a new nickname.  

He has one of his bottom teeth in and he looks like a little jack-o-lantern at this most appropriately spooky time of year.  His new nickname is "Rhino" because he likes to head butt everything in his path while he crawls around.  Doesn't matter what it is - parents, doors, walls, toys, brothers, dogs, cribs - they all get a gentle-to-sometimes-aggressive nudge to move out of his way.  

I find it endearing because I am his adoring mother, and I'm actually hoping the nickname sticks because who doesn't want to room with a guy named Rhino at camp or college?

Hope everyone has an incredible October 18 (best day of the year)!  Feel free to drop me a Happy Birthday in the comments. The best present would be actual comments after my blog - shall I even dare to wish for ten? Aim high Meggie, aim high. 

16 comments:

  1. Happy birthday! My husband's was yesterday, so good people are born mid-October.

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    1. Thank you! And a belated happy bday to your hubby! I happen to strongly agree with assessment about people born in mid-October....Jerry's bday is Sunday :)

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  2. Love this post...makes me miss you do we must get together to celebrate you abs see the boys...Gotta see this Rhino again...and the guys too!! Happy birthday Meg!!

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    1. Yes! Let's definitely find some time to hit a playground in the next week or so. Before it gets too cold!!

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  3. I didn't realize you had a blog! I will be reading from now on. Enjoy your birthday and the great homecoming you will receive from your adorable men when you return!

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    1. Thanks for reading my blog! I'm definitely exited to get home to all the little men tomorrow.

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  4. Let's extend the October birth greatness to all of October and I am on board too :). I really think we need to see a video of Rhino in action. That is hilarious and I will do everything I can to help make that nickname stick! All Zellers will hereafter refer to George as Rhino . . . consider it done!

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    1. Pretty much all October birthdays are awesome so I'm willing to concede part of the celebration to a pan-October party (mostly bc my day is almost over now). Thanks for helping me keep Rhino going. It takes a whole family to make a good nickname stick

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  5. Ever the good writer Meggie! Happy birthday! We miss you!!

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    1. From Chris and Christie Patka

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    2. Yes! Let's definitely plan a crazy family get together! Why do we live so close and never so each other?!? I miss the patkas!!

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  6. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day! I am also sitting through a conference today and not doing well with the sitting still, thus reading your blog post to get me through this session! Amanda Collins

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    1. Thanks Amanda! I hope my blog musings helped passed the day a little faster for you. My day felt like it lasted forevvvvvvver in that conference room.

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  7. Happy Birthday! You are a perfect house guest. I made you cupcakes. Maybe we can pair them with the wine you brought ~ does pumpkin spice go better with red or white?

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    1. Thanks for taking care of me on my bday!!! No better way to spend my special day than with one of my favorite SMChicks

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  8. Happy birthday! One's birthday is always special and I like the way you expressed it :-)

    George is gorgeous with that new tooth and rhino attitude. Boys are the best for sure.

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