Iowa

Well after a long trip home, I back to good old Colorado. I really enjoyed my trip home and both my mom's party and my internship were a success. I learned a ton at the hospital I spent 7 days at. The OT I followed was really good and challenged me to come up with answers on my own which was great. I got to give a couple visual and psych tests to patients which was exciting. I also did manual muscle testing which tests arm strength on a few. It was great to actually do this stuff on patients instead of classmates to see what it is like in real life. I also found out right before I went home that I'll be doing my first 12 week internship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN which is very exciting! I think I'll see a lot of really cool stuff up there. I still need to set up my second one, but I'm hoping that perhaps I'll be able to get in at a hand clinic in St. Louis. I need to call them in the next few weeks to see if any of them will take students. If those don't work out, I'll have to find a hand clinic somewhere else, not sure where yet though!
My mom's party went really well (she turned 50 yesterday). They surprised her at work on Friday and I was in on that too so she thought that was all there was and didn't suspect a thing for Saturday night. When she got home her first words were "You can move out!" to me. It was funny. Then she asked if Becka and I bothered to clean the house, which we informed her that in fact we spent the day cleaning. It was great. We had a really good turn out and I think everyone had fun.
I'm trying to get myself into routine now that I'm back. I hate those first couple days after you travel when you're trying to get back into the swing of things and you're all disoriented. Hopefully I'll get pulled together after today. I have the thank you's written for people that helped at my mom's party already and did a bunch of other random things I needed to get done. I need to unpack one last suitcase, then that will be done as well. I have a whole list to get through yet though which includes grocery shopping and cleaning the bathroom and mopping the kitchen floor. I'm hoping that I'll get it all done this week!
Jenny is dragging me to a random meeting thing in Denver on Wednesday. I don't really want to go, but I suppose it won't kill me. I already informed her however that I won't be going to the retreats that this meeting is all about. It's supposed to help you learn to build better relationships and a bunch of other random things like that. Well, not that she wants to go to these seminars either, but Liz asked her to go and we all know how well she says no to people! We'll see how it goes. Hopefully it isn't too painful!
It is weird to think that I have less than a year left of living in Colorado. Time has really been flying by out here! I'll "graduate" next May and I'm sure my parents will move me back to Iowa then so they are only making one trip out here. I think I'll probably go home close to then as well and volunteer at the rehab center in Burlington. That is my current thought at least, subject to change of course! But I don't know where'd I'd work for just a month anyway since I'd really only have June. At least if I do some volunteer it'll be better than being a bum for a month....although thinking about it, it doesn't sound so bad... Scary to think that in only a year and a half I'll be entering the real world. Not fun! :)
Well those are my current random thoughts. I'd really like a nap, but I don't think I'm going to get one unfortunately. Perhaps I'll just work on going to bed early tonight!