Just Sayin' Friday

I hate when I walk in the bathroom and can smell that the air freshner has just been sprayed.  I know EXACTLY what the person right before me was doing...yuck!

*Update: After I wrote this post I was sharing it with some of my friends who all agreed it was disgusting, but then we coined the term linen turd!  It certainly isn't clean linen if you're covering up a turd! HAHA!

We Killed a lot of Trees (not by choice)

As most of you know Tom is in his last year of residency.  As exciting as that sounds, its actually a bit scary because now the question is asked "What are you going to do next?"  And this time he actually gets to answer for himself.  So, when the question was asked of Tom, "what are you going to do next?", he said "a Sports Medicine Fellowship".  My jaw probably hit the floor.  I was thinking I would hear the word "JOB" come out of his mouth, but of course my lovely, wonderful, hardworking, always in the middle of a project, never sitting still husband wanted to further his education!  Really this shouldn't be a shock to me, but I was definitely ready to live out my Real Housewives of NYC life and be a stay at home...well...a stay at home mom to the dogs I guess :) (not that that would EVER happen!)
So, as any supportive wife would do, I got on the Sports Med bandwagon.  Tom met with his advisor multiple times going through each individual fellowship program one by one narrowing them all down to 24 choices (yes, I did say narrowing).

*Side note: Fellowships are very competitive.  There is only ONE in Minnesota and it only accepts THREE people a year!*

He then brought them all home for us to go over together.  They ranged from Maine down to North Carolina over to California and everything in between.  We talked about where we would like to live, and ultimately what kind of Sports Medicine did Tom want to practice?  Division 1, high-school, Professional, clinic, etc., etc.  I of course could have cared less what he said after I found out there was a chance at Iowa City.  I mean come on, is there really any place better?!?  GO HAWKS!  I really listened to all he had to say about each program and took in all the positives and negatives.  We then ranked places solely on where we might like to live.  The list looked something like this:

1.Iowa

2.Maine

3.California

4.Wisconsin

5.North Carolina

6.Minnesota

I was thinking, "great we've narrowed it down from 24 to 6!"  Oh man, was I seriously mistaken!  Let's just say we finally mailed the applications out yesterday and 23 amazing schools will get to carefully read glance through Tom's application.  Yup, you read that right.  We took one out.  ONE!  and the only reason we took it out was because we initially thought it was in Kansas City, but later found out it was in the middle of no where Kansas and Tom knew I wouldn't go for that!

Now, you may be thinking, what does all this have to do with killing a bunch of trees???  Well, if any of you have ever applied to any sort of higher education you know the amount of paper involved, but this by far exceeded any I've ever seen.  Probably because normal people only apply to 1 or 2 places but whatever.  Consider this:

9 page application

2 page CV (resume)

Transcript

Copies of publications

Personal Statement

3 Letters of Recommendation

Dean's Letter

Copy of Medical License

Copy of Board scores

and probably 10 other things I am forgetting

All of this to 23 different schools equals half of a National Forrest!  We literally went through 3 reams of paper in one night!

The silver lining in all of this is, we're done! off the hook for a little bit.  The next step will be interviews, ranking, and match day!  OH JOY!  Can you sense the excitement in the Mullin household???  YAY for furthering our education!

P.S. I meant to take a picture of all the paper, but got too excited when I saw the finish line and just sealed those envelopes SHUT!

411

So apparently you want to know a little more about me, so heres the 411.

• Random facts about me:
• I have a younger brother (and I secretly love his girlfriend and would be very sad if they ever broke up)
• I love making lists just so I can cross stuff off (sometimes I'll add something to the list I've already done just so I can cross it off!)
• I've always wanted to have twins someday
• I am addicted to Netflix
• Tom was my TA (teaching assistant) in college...now he's my husband
• I own all the seasons of Friends on DVD
• I love my hair...one of my mom's favorite quotes I've said, "People pay thousands of dollars a year to have hair like mine".  I'm kinda a snot about it :)
• Fears I have:
• Someone sneaking in on me when I'm in the shower
• Monsters under the bed
• Mice
• Snakes
• I hate being scared (like when someone jumps out at me)  I ABSOLUTELY HATE SCARY MOVIES AND HAUNTED HOUSES
• What I would tell my 16 y.o. self:
• SLOW DOWN AND ENJOY LIFE
• You're not going to marry him
• Save your money
• He's gay
• Don't wear that
• Don't be so bitchy
• Things that make me happy:
• My Family




Addie Girl






Rocky Boy






Hubby

• Good weather (SUNNY)
• Sweets (altough I really need to get this under control!)
• Reading a good book
• My dream job:
• Being a mommy
• Things that drive me crazy:
• Lying
• Secrets
• Self-centered people
• People who think they know it all
• Hypocrits
• People who go door to door through our neighborhood
• The doorbell at my work
• People who use thier cell phones instead of communicating face to face
• Some people I work with
• Who I'm closest to:
• Tom
• My mom
• Ann (best friend since highschool - we were good friends in middle school until we both got cast for the same role in the musical - competition got serious)

Well that's enough about me!  Tell me about you!

Give me some credit

A good idea is hard to come by.  They are few and far between in my world, so when I have one I want some credit.  Maybe I'm shallow or whatever, but when it's such a good idea that people actually listen and take action I want some damn credit!
Now, I'm not saying I want my name listed in the newspaper or on a billboard (bright lights in Times Square would be acceptable however), I just think its fair to give credit where credit's due.
Let me back track a little bit...
In the past few months I've come up with two (YES TWO!) really positive, helpful, great ideas at work.  Both ideas have been implemented and been a success.  The problem is this...another person is taking full credit for the ideas!  Now, it's not like I privately suggested these ideas.  I said them out loud in a staff meeting.  EVERYONE heard the words come out of my mouth.  Yet somehow they've all gotten amnesia and forgotton who really came up with the ideas.
Maybe I just need to let it all go, but really I don't want to.  I wanna pout and be mad about it.  I want my name flashing in lights telling the world that I came up with TWO great ideas, cuz we all know I'm probably done for the year now.



HAD TWO GREAT IDEAS!!!



Belly Laughs

Sometimes you just need a good laugh...



When I was teaching we did this activity on the 100th day of school and I literally had a kid do this!


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Who Knew?!?!

Apparently there are people out there in the interwebs that actually do read my blog.  I had pretty much given up any hope on that idea...hence the no postings since April.  Lately though people have been asking me why I haven't posted for so long and I realized PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY READING THIS!  So, to my dear readers, I promise to keep up my blog, and post more than once every 5 months!