Invader!!

You know that post, way back in my first months here in El Paso, the one about the mosquito in my room? Well, tonight I saw a cockroach skittering into the corner of my room. A cockroach!

If it were only a mouse, I've trapped those before, I'd know what to do. But what do I do with a cockroach? At the moment it is hiding under the mattress, so for tonight I'll just have to pretend it doesn't exist and try to sleep.

So what do I do to get rid of a roach? How can I trap it? Any ideas?

Extremes

Another week has passed since I've returned from the snowy north. It was a drastic change from blowing snow to sand storms, from minus 30 to plus 30, from snowshoeing and tobogganing to frizbee and hiking. Even on my trip south, trying to get to El Paso, I left a country of snow to be caught in a snow/sleet storm. I escaped that to be caught in a rain storm. And finally I flew into a dust storm.

For vacation I was so relieved to have two weeks off where I could rest easy and not be constantly on the alert for the ever-pending call of "birth team", but now that I'm back in the clinic (currently up in the middle of the night because of one of those calls) I realize again how much I love this work. Yeah, it gets in the way of a normal life. No, it's not really all that fun. But I love it. And I'm glad I'm here for now.

CANADA!!!

It's been a full two weeks since my last post. And during these two weeks I've been in CANADA!!! Yes. I've been blessed once again! I was able to go home for my two week break, and though it was too short to fit in all the people I may have wanted to visit, God worked my schedule together so I was able to see many of my friends and family.

Being April, I was half expecting to come home to a land of slush and floods, but, lo and behold, the place I landed in was a winter wonderland!

To give you just a glimpse into my time here, one afternoon I headed to my friends' place, and this is a summary of how we spent our afternoon:

We made.

We destroyed.

We conquered.

April Fools

It is April. The first day of April in fact. And seeing as we sometimes celebrate this day by playing pranks, I had been thinking of what I could do here, on my blog, in honour of this day. The first idea was to tell you about my pregnancy, but for those who know me, that would be an extreme almost-impossibility. The next idea was to announce my engagement, but that also is kind of far-fetched without first having had a boyfriend. So then I thought I could let you know that I have a boyfriend. But that is too much of a possibility  at my age for me to be joking about it and I didn't want to have to back track and give explanations.
So I've settled on just letting everyone know that I'll be heading back to Canada later this week.