My Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday! It started out a very happy day. Russ had to go into the hospital, but it was supposed to be a short day...he just had to check on his patients and write a few notes. I made myself breakfast, had a nice walk and (phone) talk with my friend. And Russ came home at 10:30am with a cake!!! I thought it was going to be great. We agreed to go to the mall and then out to dinner. Yay! Shopping is one of my favorite things to do! I can make a day out of it...but it's really more like an indoor nature hike. I walk, stop and look, walk somemore...but really don't buy anything. If I need something? That's a different story...but if I just have time to burn....oooh, I love just walking in the cool airconditioning, browsing the racks and people watching. I took a shower and in that time, he fell ill with the "sleepiness". A "30 minute nap" (really a 2+ hour nap) later, I still couldn't get him moving...so a nice birthday breakdown....and then the mall was closed. Very nice. I broke down about being soo lonely and isolated...and it was my birthday, in a new place and I just wanted some support from him to make it nice. I wasn't asking for much....just some togetherness time...he wasn't even post call.... Anyway, he made up for it by calling the friend we were "someday" going to have dinner with and he invited them out. The food was great. The intern-mate/resident-mate was nice and his wife was really nice too. She's already invited me over for dinner and to do one of those "speed dinner/meal preparation" thingies!

It ended up to be a great time.