Pirates Beware

Today is international "Talk like a Pirate Day." There is an online pirate name generator (you can find anything online these days). Joel's name is Bob the Pink. Apparently they know about Joel's masculine acting past. My name came out to be Kathryn the Engorged.....are you kidding me? How did they know about Nathan?! Nathan's was Isaac the Badly Burnt. This raises a few concerns for me as a mother, but I'm not sure where to begin with that one.
Anyway, Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

#5

Joel was offered an interview today with Rainbow Babies Hospital in Cleveland, OH. We're still trying to figure out when to schedule this one. I think we may wait a couple days and see if we hear from some others first since it's not at the top of our interest list......... and so the maneuvering and strategies begin.

#3 & 4

Joel just scheduled his 3rd & 4th interviews- Syracuse &Penn State! This is getting to be fun! (Of course I say that because I'm not the one who has to interview)

Stina's Quilt-in-progress

Well, after a 6 to 3 vote (and Christina's approval of course) I put together the front of her quilt. She wanted something to wrap up in while watching TV- I think this is plenty big enough for that.

#2

Joel got his second interview request yesterday from VCU in Richmond, VA! Of course he's going to this one, because he loves Richmond so much.

Residency Interview Season has begun!

It's official- Joel got his first interview request today!! I thought we would be waiting a lot longer to hear back from residencies, but he's already heard from 2 schools. CHOP sent him a confirmation and said he'd be hearing from them probably by the end of September, and he set up an interview with Pitt for the first week of November!! YEA!!

Oh my GANGA! (aka- steal of a deal)

So we went to Kohl's to go shopping on Labor Day- Joel needed to get a suit that actually fit him for his residency interviews- and we came out serious winners! He found a suit he liked (I personally thought he looked quite hot in it, but that's just me). When the cashier rang up the normally $80 pants it said $8. I looked at it again and made a comment to Joel that I thought there must be some kind of mistake, so we asked the cashier to make sure the price was right. I don't want to pay extra, but that seemed a little too good to be true. Well, it turns out that it was red-tagged clearance, but was never marked so it WAS $8. We then had a 15% off coupon, so Joel's suit pants cost a total of.....wait for it..........$6.80!!!!!!!! (somebody check my math for me) With a price like that those are definitely the best looking pants I've ever come across!

Residency Time!

Joel officially applied for a Pediatric Residency today! We applied to 13 schools- 4 in Pennsylvania, 4 in Ohio, 3 in New York, 1 in Virginia & Delaware. Now we just have to wait for interview calls- probably starting in November. We're so excited it's ridiculous.