Wow, so it’s been a whole month since I wrote. I apologize! I got totally distracted by other things, including my writing. xD My book will be out September 1st, so I’ve been focusing on stuff with that. And reading – I’ve got so many book reviews to write, 10 at this point and even more to read. But I’ve found such great reads lately, esp with indie authors!

This last month has been interesting. The boyfriend finished his first month of residency last night – he was doing overnights in the ICU. Now he moves back to days and today was his day to turn around since he starts tomorrow. Let’s just say he’s really tired!

Paleo.. we do it still, mostly. We will do it more now he will be home for dinner at least.  My hip and waist haven’t lost anything else but I’m okay with that for now.

I need to go exercising some more – aka, rollerblading – but school starts in 25 days!

I’m all signed up, and have 2 online classes, 3 on campus classes (two days a week). I’ve also signed up for help so I can get extra testing time, so hopefully that will help. I can only afford to take 5 classes instead of 6 but my counselor thinks 5 is plenty.  I’m having a hard time disagreeing although I only have limited funds so I have to finish in 4 semesters. So, pretty much, no room for failure I’m really only worried about the Statistics class and the Calculus class. Otherwise, I think I’ll be great.

Son has been sick the last two days, poor thing! But he’s feeling much better today, YAY!

Otherwise, not much going on here. Preparing for school, he’s transitioning to days and my son will be going to daycare two days a week. We have a ‘trial day’ next week!

Medical Monday will be on the 5th! So I will post again then.

have a great weekend!

And, the first Monday in July!

So welcome to Medical Mondays

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What have I been up to and what’s coming up?

Well, my SO officially starts residency today! Except, he doesn’t, because his first night of work is Wednesday.

Yep, night.  He works ICU night float for his first rotation – 6 pm to 7 am – with Mondays and Tuesdays off.

Then, next month, he actually is going out of town for his rotation. I’m not really looking forward to that, since he’ll have to stay gone the whole work week and will be staying with a friend :\

After that, his schedule shouldn’t be too bad, but just as he will be coming back from that away rotation, I begin school!

Yep, I’m officially accepted and enrolled in classes.

6 of them. 18 credit hours.

Business Statistics, Intuitive Calculus, Managerial Accounting, Microeconomics, Principles of Management and Computer Apps (Aka, Microsoft Office)…me, busy? Never!! In all seriousness, can’t WAIT for the calculus and the statistics classes. (Somebody please SAVE ME!!!)

3 online, 3 on campus – with enough hours between each that I will be there from 7:45 am until 5 pm two days a week.

Good news is, I have so much credits I’m officially a senior!!

Bad news is, this degree will take me two more years, or 4 more semesters, to finish. LOL.

SO is excited to get working. Perhaps not the overnights, but that’s okay, he will get night float out of the way!

Oh yes and he got the handy dandy pager…which apparently I can send texts too. Gotta love technology

Oh right! So he made himself an ANON blog in which he talked about his first week of orientation (which was a hoot at times, apparently) and I assume he intends to continue doing it when he has time. You can find him here: http://grouchydoctor.wordpress.com/

He’s not really grouchy though

Have a great Monday all! and the rest of the week, of course.

YAY!

Okay, well, kind of.

I’m not much of an outdoors person and when it’s summer, I just appreciate the fact it’s not snowing or really cold out when I have to go outside.

This does mean I can skate more though, which is always a plus!

Our Paleo food choices are going pretty well. I did slack a little. I’ve had a little bit of trouble giving up my sweet completely. I love Rolo’s and am not quite sure I want to stop eating them, but I really have eaten TOO MUCH of them lately. Haha. We also really love pizza xD

My stats haven’t changed any – still 39 hips and 30.5 waist, which is still really good from where I started. For me though,the problem is eating enough calories – I only need approx 1,300 for my size, what I desire to be and my activity level. I am not, however, hungry that often and this can cause issues when I don’t want to eat because lack of calories is just as bad as too many. Plus, I’m not a big veggie fan and fruit goes bad rather quickly. I prefer to drink my fruits due to texture issues. Also, finding veggies I like can be a pain as most either taste horribly to me or have a texture I cannot abide. So, it’s still a work in progress!

The family…well, my son reminds me of him at his age…and he’s a picky eater. My SO does way better than I do, although his results don’t seem as obvious as mine have been. However, he did stop using his sleep aid and wakes up feeling way better now in the morning. He still needs his coffee, however!

As for school…I’ve mostly got it worked out! However, due to some credits I took elsewhere, my major will be a BBA in Accounting! I’m not quite sure how long I have left, but I have ten classes I believe should transfer just fine, although they will be worth a credit less than where they came from, since the school I am transferring back to only have 3 credit classes and not 4. Currently I have 56 credits at the school I’m re-entering and need 65 for the degree. So even if I have 35 left…I will be thrilled. At tops, I hope I only have 3 semesters of school left, which makes me deliriously happy.

SO has to go to work on the 21st (for certification or something?) and his training starts the 24th. Apparently, his first rotation, which starts July 1st, is going to be Night Float. He’s real excited about that! xD

Okay, I think that’s all.

I hope to be updating more soon

If not, well…it’s Medical Monday! Click on the button to find out more after you read my post!

If you’re new here, Hi! I’m Cass, the SO of a Resident Physician and mother of one.

Last month, my SO was still a med student. By the time we do MM for July, he will have started working. I just say he’s a Resident Physician now because he has a job, he will be going and I don’t wanna type “soon to be” anymore. Ha.

He only graduated a little over two weeks ago so at this point, we spend a lot of time together. I think in about another week though, he will be wishing to go back to work.  He’s been pretty busy for years and having a sudden 1.5 months off is of course nice right now, but I think it will wear off. Plus, at this point, we’re both home with my son 24/7, who will be 4 tomorrow, and boy is he exhausting.

Not only does he have a mouth on him (I posted all about it HERE) but he is up from 6 or 7 am until 7 or 8 pm at night. I don’t give him naps – if I did that, he’d be up until 11 pm at least – so by the time 1 or 2pm rolls around, he’s insanely cranky. Overall though, he’s pretty well behaved. I think part of the problem is that he’s bored.

To that end, he will be in daycare at least part of the time…when I go back to school in the fall!

So, I am hoping that a few days of the week, he will make some friends and have other kids to play with. After all, next year he will be in Kindergarten. I keep wondering where the time went…

As for school, by my calculations of all my credits, I have one year left and I will have my Bachelors of Accounting. Never one to give up, this would be my sixth trip to college, but I have never been so ready. I’m in a good place, I’d be able to get a car and hopefully by the age of 29 (next year) I will be a college graduate. Even if I go to next Winter before I get it…it would be one goal of mine that I thought would never happen after these 10 long years. I am so excited! I will also have the assistance of my counselor, who is going to help me to make sure the school gives me the aid I need to succeed, especially when it comes to testing.

I don’t really know what I’ll do after that. Of course, I have my writing and I hope to publish my stories, but this degree is important for two reasons. It means that I didn’t waste years of financial aid and school credits only to give up. It also means I have something to fall back on, should my relationship fail or my SO was to (heavens forbid) die. I’ve never really been independent, so should I need to be, I want that ability. Plus, it will make me feel good about myself.

So I’d probably get to finding a job, although I am considering looking into the GRE and perhaps just going straight into getting my Masters. It’s mostly the testing I’m worried about. I am extremely book smart, but unless I have very specific questions, I get lost! At this point though, I’m just aiming for finishing one degree

So that’s what’s going on for us. Paleo is going well for both us, although it’s only about 80% of the time - we love our pizza! I’ve not lost any weight but I have lost 3+ inches off my waist and hips since it began. SO is feeling better as well, although the kid is picky so we’ve had a harder time getting him to eat better. We’re getting there though. SO goes for walks and now that the weather is better, I get to skate more! Yay!

Oh yeah, and if you were following the blog on Bloglovin’ before, I hope you will refollow because I moved hosting so it changed it completely. Sorry!

Thanks for stopping by! I’m off to read others’ posts!

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One of the funniest parts of parenthood I’ve found so far is when your kid starts to repeat everything.

I admit, before I had my son, I loved to swear. I’ve toned it down a LOT since then, but I still cuss. Sometimes, more than others, depending on what happened and when I’m really upset, without even thinking about it.

Of course, my son is almost four and it’s been going on for a while. His first word was “bitch” – aimed at me – to which he’d promptly ended up in the corner. He was just shy of two at this point and I was very, very upset that he called me that!

Then, roughly 8 months ago or so, I took him to a doctors appointment with me where he randomly starting shouting “Pussy!” over and over again. Needless to say, my face was flaming as the doctor sat there trying not to look horrified. To defend myself, he had heard my mother calling a cat a “pussycat” but I guess he decided to leave off the “cat” part of it when repeating it!

However, the older he has gotten, the harder it has been to curb his discovery of new, awesome words, especially when he’s around others like my family who forget to not swear. And I find the older he gets, the bigger the grin he gets when he says them…and the harder I end up laughing.

Yes, laughing.

You see, I learned a long time ago that the more I tell him no, the more he says the words – just to get a negative reaction out of me.  Even if I say it in a stern voice – or make him stand in the corner – it doesn’t stop him. He has an excellent memory though and doesn’t forget ANYTHING. And honestly, it is so, so, so hard to keep a straight face. Especially when such big ‘adult’ words are coming out of such a tiny adorable mouth.

I remember when I was in middle school and my friend paid me to not swear before lunch. Told ya, I’d always had such a horrible horrible potty mouth!

But as an adult, I consider…when he’s in middle school, would I rather have him swearing, or doing something else like drugs? I never ended up doing anything worse than saying “fuck” like it was going out of style.  I was a good kid, and swearing was strictly forbidden at home so I just did it overkill style in school.

So I plan to teach him he can say them at home, but he can’t aim that AT anyone (as in, calling people names or using it to be disrespectful) and of course, he should respect others as well. In general though, swearing doesn’t really bother me. Obviously I would tell him that racist or other truly offensive words are not allowed. Even I don’t use them though so I would definitely lead by example.

We already are working on the ‘not directing it at others’ part…and he does a pretty good job of that. Although he has taken to muttering “dickhead” under his breath when he is irritated or frustrated. The first time I giggled but now I just act like I didn’t hear him and he doesn’t say it repeatedly. He will also crash his cars together while playing and say “oh damn!”….He doesn’t get a reaction from me then either.

But really I’m not ignoring him…I’m over at my desk, snickering while turned away from him. And he’s none the wiser that he is his mother’s personal entertainment.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! My birthday was just great…even though it was a few days late, we went to Texas Roadhouse for my birthday because I had a gift card. I had the filet again – why wouldn’t I? It tasted absolutely fantastic.

As for my Paleo stuff…I’ve not lost any more inches. Then again, I’ve been stressed and I admit, I slid a little in my eating. However, not putting ON any inches has to be a plus. I also haven’t gotten to skate but it’s on my schedule!

On the 20th, I made some Paleo friendly banana bread!

Recipe is HERE - I followed it to a T, but I think it needs more banana’s, because the flavor was just barely there. Otherwise, it came out great and it’s nice to mix things up a bit!

As you can see…it went “blah” in the middle after it cooled down!

In other news, my SO is now off until end of June, which is when he will start his first year of Residency. He graduated on the 18th. I expect after being so busy for so long, that he will get sick of sitting around in about 2 weeks and be anxious to start working. If not, he might drive me nuts

As for me…I’ve been writing. To that end, I changed my author name because I decided I am probably going back to school. I would not want one to affect the other and even though I think that probably wouldn’t happen, I will not take any chances.

I have a few things to do, but my aim is this Fall. I was 6 credits away from an AA degree – which I aim to finish. However, I’m going to go beyond that for my Bachelors in Paralegal Studies. I think this will suit me because I’m a very logical person and it would fit my personality very well. Plus, it helps that they are rather in demand usually.

My son’s bday is in 12 days. I haven’t planned a thing and don’t even have a present for him. I gotta hop on that.

Oh yeah, I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time this year. Still made me happy at their happy ending. I’m a sap! ;D

I think that’s it. This week, I have to promise myself to eat as paleo as possible even if that pizza sounds REALLY tasty, hop to getting things done to go back to school and see what plans I can come up with for my sons birthday.

Whats your plans for the next 7 days? Been busy or not so much? Excited for summer?!

I can’t really believe I’m two years away from being 30. Ahhh!

stock photo from http://www.kozzi.com/stock-photo-24733181-cupcake-with-a-ribbon-and-a-lit-candle..html?tag=17019&tags=17019,21930

Not really anything special going on today. I’m not really much of a party and cake person.

I already got my gifts a few weeks ago – some new headphones because mine broke, and a pair of inline skates so I could use them!

I did get a card from my SO this morning My son ‘gave’ me a card on Mother’s Day…SO helped him sign it, and my son was so proud of himself!

We finally got our furniture! Which my son has decided to claim as his own. Example:

As for my stats…as of May 6th, I was 40 hips and 32 waist.

I just took my measurements and I am 39 hips and 30.5 waist!

We still don’t eat complete 100% Paleo but it’s working! I’ve not been inline skating because it’s been cold outside again, but it is going to be 85 today and in the 70s all week, so I will be doing more skating.

Other than writing (which you can read my writing blog here *I also did a similar post to this one there!*) I have not been up to much. Finally reading some books again after getting settled into the apartment. I just recently finished reading Brooke Cumberland’s ‘Kitchen Affairs’ which I put up on Goodreads HERE.

SO graduates on Saturday the 18th so I’ll take some pics!

Oh yeah and I got a food processor which I can’ t wait to use – I just have to figure out how to use it without breaking it.

Have a great, healthy day all!

I previously mentioned that we aren’t eating 100% Paleo at this point because we’re still figuring out the financial aspect of it and how to do it 24/7. Plus, a flex day seems to keep us all from going hog wild and buying some cookies which would stay around the house and get us all in trouble long-term.

So last night, we ordered pizza for dinner. Yes, we were being lazy, but damnit, we missed pizza so much.

Plus, one day couldn’t hurt…right?

Stock photo from (http://www.rgbstock.com/ photo/nCXKylG/ Right+or+wrong%3F)

But not in the way you think.

Basically, we both got sick.

We’ve only been eating 90% Paleo for two weeks and yet, our bodies absolutely reviled that pizza.

Whether it was the grease or the bread or the cheese…or heck knows what…

Our bodies screamed NO THANK YOU!

Needless to say, we won’t be doing that again.

I wondered if it would mess up my Paleo progress but today, I looked in the  mirror and for the first time in a while, smiled.

I could see it. I could see my smaller waist and hips. I was ecstatic.

And as of today,  I am at 39.5 inch hips and 31 inch waist. YAY!

So, I forgave myself for the giving into a weakness and eating pizza – then had some eggs and bacon for breakfast!

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Welcome to my first Medical Monday post on this blog.

You may have read my first two MM posts on my writing blog - I moved it to my new blog because this one is more personal based and therefore, will be a better fit for these posts!

If this is the first time you’ve ever come to either of my blogs, hi there!

I’m Cass and I am the SO of a soon-to-be Resident Physician. He graduates May 18th and starts his first year the last week of June. I also have an almost 4 year old son.

In my last post (which has been taken down on the other blog) I talked about how his first year of residency was going to be right where we were living. However, we weren’t living together at the time and now we are!

We moved at the end of April and have been in our new apartment for two weeks.

First, adjusting to living together has been…not very difficult, but still an adjustment. All in all, we’ve gotten into a rhythm already, although I know it will change when he’s finally started Residency. Especially when he may do a rotation away from home in the field he wants to go into! I think our relationship is way better though, even if we’ve had a few tiffs. I think that’s to be expected when first living together.

The new apartment is lovely…and I was planning to share pics in this post, but the apartment is practically empty! We ordered furniture from Ikea…because neither of us have ANY…and it still hasn’t arrived. Good thing two desks, two chairs and a chair for the kid can suffice until then!

It will be nice to eat dinner at a table when it finally arrives.

The company who was supposed to deliver never bothered to call and tell us one of the pieces had been damaged in shipping and they were waiting on a replacement. Well, that’s nice, but we’d still like the rest of the stuff, like a table to eat at! Haha.

The nicest part is the lake that is right out our sliding doors. My son already jumped in and let’s just say, he won’t be doing that again. However, I’m planning to get him a lifejacket just in case.

The view from our patio doors.

Another big change was our food intake. We decided to go Paleo (which I write about on this blog) and I’ve already lost a few pounds. SO is pretty sure he has too, but it’s hard to tell from scale to scale. I’ve not been relying on the scale and more on the inches lost, which is so far one inch each from my hips and waist. We don’t do it 100% though – we both still love things like…ice cream and butter, Lol! However, we limit that a lot.

And sometimes, the food we make I am unable to eat due to texture/taste issues. I’ve been really good about saying what does and doesn’t work, which is hard for me because it’s not always easy to explain WHY I don’t like it. I always give new foods a fair chance though! He, on the other hand, pretty much eats anything…lol.

In regards to the plan, I think it’s a good idea for him to be mindful of his health (and me of mine). I think looking better and feeling better will help us both in all areas of our life Already I have so much more energy and I’ve started rollerblading again.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to.

Did things change a lot the first time you ever moved? What kind of things can I expect the first year of residency?

And lemme tell ya – it hurt. I hurt all over. From my three falls, I’m sure. But it was more than that.

My arms here, my legs hurt, my ass hurts.

But I went out and I skated anyway. I only managed 18 minutes – it was supposed to be 20 minutes but I had to sit down at one point before I fell over.

My calves hurt. I could feel the muscles in my backside and thighs working with every skate forward.

I lasted as I long as I could and today, I’m taking another break because I just hurt. I’m sure it gets better – I’d just like that to happen sooner rather than later, so I won’t put myself to do it every day no matter what. With a lame leg, that would be dangerous. I have to take it very slowly.

Still fun as heck though!!!

As for food, we have been eating mostly leftovers. Yesterday (5/2) we had a non-paleo dinner because it was my SO’s birthday and so, we just went out. It was nice, but I definitely think it made me not feel well. Also, my no soda plan went down the hole when I was lying in bed unable to move last night. Caffeine withdrawal headaches are like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. I ended up having some just to get rid of the headache. There is, however, no more soda in the house!

Breakfast is eggs & bacon in the mornings – I don’t mind repetitiveness though, so this doesn’t bother me. You can always eat other things I’m sure, but for me, it works. Two fried eggs and two slices of bacon with some juice or water is what I have. Leaves me full for hours, I love it!

However, we got a kid free night on 4/30 and decided to take advantage of that. We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse! In short, it was freaking amazing. And I found myself eating a salad….and ate almost all of it. I was rather proud of myself!

Dinner 4/30 – salad with NO cheese, and made from scratch honey mustard dressing. Yes, I did eat the 3 croutons in the salad, however.

Dinner 4/30 – Dallas Filet cooked medium, with a baked sweet potato, nothing on it. I ate all the steak and only a little of the potato.

Lunch on 5/1 was interesting – I basically fried up the pork chops that were gonna go bad with some italian seasoning and pepper, in coconut oil. Put some spinach and grape tomatoes on the side. However, then I decided to have my hand at making some of my own dressing – my friend told me some olive oil, vinegar and citric fruits like strawberries. Wellllllll, that didn’t turn out so well. I’m working on fixing it but it just had too much vinegar for my tastes!

Lunch 5/1 – pork chop, spinach and grape tomatoes.

I don’t remember what I ate for dinner that night. It was leftovers of some sort! ;D

Lunch 5/2 – skillet steak fried before with pepper in coconut oil, put in a frying pain with organic tomato sauce & fresh carrots, tomatoes.

That’s it. I have to say, so far – minus the problems caused by caffeine dependency – I feel so great. The lack of sleep from my son waking up at 6:45 am are a totally different thing but I don’t even have trouble getting out of bed even when that happens.

Trying not to measure or weigh myself too often. But I take my aches all over from exercising as a good sign!

I will post again soon!

Are you changing your lifestyle & eating better? Have any interesting ideas for food you want to share? Tell me below! I love to hear people’s thoughts! ;D