My attempt at motherhood

Happy mothers day to all those wonderful mothers out there. As you can see from the photo, this was my attempt to be a mother today. Ella jumped up and down on my head as I was trying to take a nap. Brittney thought it was poetic justice after I watched two hours of golf on mothers day.

I would like to give a shout out to my mothers, Janie and Anne. I love you guys, thanks for being great moms and grandmas. Brittney I love you too. (we will celebrate mothers day next week?)


Finals are this week and I am just going to wing it, I am so burnt out I can't bring myself to study any more. Wish me luck.

They say that a dog is a reflection of its owner, I am glad this is not my dog.

Friday Golf, 5 hours of fun

I made it out golfing today with Todd before the onslaught of studing for finals next week. We had a great time and even had a few great shots. We played from 3:30 till dark (8:00). Starting today is not going to be any fun, study, study, study for the next week. Brittney is starting to think she is a single mother because I have been gone so much lately (the golfing does not help). She actually hired a substitute husband named Natalie.



Here are some photos one on Todd seting up for a drive and one of the turtles hanging out on the shore of the pond that I have recovered over 500 balls from. I caught a turtle in my golf ball dredger once.

A patient I saw today was shot in the head 20 years ago and the left side of her body was mostly paralized. I found that her left optic nerve had some serious atrophy attributed to either the gun shot wound or glaucoma, we are not sure yet. We are having her back in a month to do some more test and more than likely getting her started on some glaucoma therapy to decrease her intraocular pressure so she does not loose her sight.

So if you ask me what I been doing for the past few years I will tell you, restoring sight to the blind, eradicating disease, saving lives, and perfecting my swing.

My computer is back up and running so I've got some photos posted. There was a big storm today and blew Ella's play house into the neighbors fence, this has happened three times and it is dead now.

Here is a photo of Ella tearing up the hallway on her skates also Ella and I with our scripture specs on.

My Callaway fusion clubs came today, they are sweet, but still do not know if I am going to keep them, probably will.

Yesterday I mentioned we will be moving back to Utah before Christmas of 2007, well I did some mis-calculating, it will actually be before Thanksgiving 2007. All I have to do now is set up two externships.

This is what Ella said in her prayer today, "Thank you for chocolate, curious george, Matt and Karin, and noodles". Crazy kid.


Check this out, if you google "Callaway fusions" guess who comes up 5th?, yours truely.

Won the lottery (kind of)

I was at school from 7am to 8:30pm today, I'm tired. After class we had a dinner for graduating our CEVS (clinical evaluation of the visual system) class. CEVS is a year long class that is one of our more important classes that lays the foundation for our clinical skills. Our instructor gave out some awards and I recieved the "keep me on my toes" award. I guess I kept her on her toes by asking a lot of questions and ensuring she was doing things correctly. We had one battle during the year about a test question that she admitted my answer was correct but still did not give me credit for it. She won that battle and I learned from then on that I will probably never win those battles so just lay low, fly under the radar.

After the dinner our class met to determine each of our fates for our fourth year externship sites. This is were I won the lottery. Only by divine intervention was I able to get my last 2 quarters anywhere I want. Which means we can move back to paradise before Christmas of 2007. The grandmas will be stoked.

Brittney's addition to the blog in early celebration of our departure:

Some more reasons Alabama rules:
There are a lot of awesome people here
The winters are mild and pleasant
It storms here with the wrath of heaven
There's a lot of cool research happening at UAB
Our house is sweet

Things we won't miss:
The lack of mexican food
The DMV
The trash on the side of the road
Feuding neighbors
Walmart

Birthday Wish List

My computer is still giving me problems, so I have not been able to post for a few days. I have some photos I want to post but have been unable to. Ella got her roller skates and she rips up and down the hallway.

Friday I played golf and shot my best game yet, 85. If I keep playing the way I am, I will shot under 80 in no time. Well that is my goal anyway. I have been improving little by little and it is a lot of fun.

I rode Saturday and got chased by too many dogs to count.

My birthday is the 21st of this month, and here are a couple of items on my wish list:

Stans no tubes sause
Egg beaters road cleats
White lightning chain lube
Fairway woods (not sure what brand yet, just something good)
A new golf bag ( maybe an Ogio)

I will be happy if I only get the Stans sause but I thought I would throw in the other stuff just in case Brit wanted to get me something.

Top States you do not want to live in

Another 8 to 8 day at school today. I had my last clinical evaluation of the visual system lab practical tonight. I had to do BIO (binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy) with scleral indentation on a patient. I was really nervous about it all day but ended up doing great.

I won $25 tonight at a presentation put on by Varilux and Transitions lenses. Varilux makes awesome progressive lenses (bifocals without a line) and Transitions makes the lenses that get dark when you go out in the sun and clear when you are inside. They told us about their sweet products and wined and dined us. I won the $25 for answering, "what year did the first progressive lens come out?" 1959.

Now for the Top States you do not want to live in: (based on vision requirements to get a drivers license) this is especially useful for the cycling community cause were out there riding.

1. Iowa (20/70 in one eye)
t2. Alabama (20/60 in one eye)
t2. Georgia (20/60 in one eye)
t2. Pennsylvania (20/60 in one eye)
t3. Indiana (20/50 in one eye)
t3. Oklahoma (20/50 in one eye)
t3. Texas (20/50 in one eye)
*in one eye means they only have to have one eye! you know blind or enucleated!

States you do want to live in:
(no one eye drivers must be at 20/40 both eyes)
mississippi (they have to be first in something)
Hawaii
Nebraska

(20/30 in one eye)
Utah
Kansas
Conneticut
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Ohio

All the other states are 20/40 in one eye.

So what does 20/70 mean? Ok so 20/20 vision is what the average person can see, it indicates a certain size letter that the normal person can see from 20 feet away. 20/70 indicates a certain size letter that the normal person can see from 70 feet away, but if you have 20/70 vision you can see the letter only if you are 20 feet away. That is 50 foot difference!

How does this effect us cylcist out on the road? If you can only see 20/70 in one eye it will take you 50 more feet before you can see me biking on the side of the road and if you are blind in the right eye, I am really in trouble because you may miss me all together because of your restricted field of view on the right side (where I will be riding).

Bottom line, be especially careful if you live in one of those "top states not to live in" (that's me) and be careful if you live anywhere else. I know what it is like to be hit by a car, it is not fun I have scars to prove it. Brit knows what it is like also, she suffers because of it every day (messed up neck).

Computer down, Golf game on the rise

My computer has been down for a couple of days, I am having to reinstall the operating system because it wigged out on me. I am posting tonight from Brit's sweet IBM (nice work Jon). sorry no photos.

Is it a sign that I am a bad parent when Ella gets out the toe nail polish and paints my toes without me even knowing it? I was laying on the ground fixing my computer and my toe nails got painted pink. Brit about freaked when she saw Ella with the nail polish and I didn't have a clue.

I bought another set of Callaway big bertha fusions on ebay today. They have upgraded Royal Precision Rifle shafts and are only a few months old. I may keep this set or I might sell them and make some $. I have ten minute breaks between classes at school and that is when all the ebay deals go down.

Brittney and I went to the driving range tonight and shared a jumbo bucket of balls. I think Brittney is our next Annika Sorenstam or michelle wie, she did pretty good for her first golf adventure. I asked her if she wanted to caddie for a round of 18, she gave me a funny look and asked for the car keys, I guess she has better things to do than watch grass grow. To bad, I even said I would carry the bag, cause I'm just that kind of guy.

My Volvo has been acting up lately, where is your family mechanics when you need them? We miss you Doug's Auto.