So this is Telfer’s nightstand. Notice how orderly it is – how the books are stacked just so – how his alarm clock is nicely centered on one of the piles. 

This is the current state of my nightstand. The only reason why the stacks stay up is because Telfer arranges them for me weekly. Otherwise, books crashing down, sliding off their piles, wake him in the middle of the night.  I sleep fine. I personally think that everyone needs one area in their life that holds a bit of chaos.  And I choose my nightstand.

Well, look what you can do on your lunch break! Along with the updated look, you can view a list of our favorite links (they’re on the lefthand side)…I plan to update the list frequently (we’ll see). 

Well, for some reason I have been in a 2005 writing-in-the-blog dry spell… I am planning to do some retroactive posts – because I know everyone really wants to know the details/see the pictures of our New Year’s at the Young house, our trip to New York in January and our visit with Robert & Rose a few weeks ago. 

We have had a rainy, wet "winter" down here – it’s been rather fun, but Telfer and I both are just a little ready for summer. It’s like 75 today and I must admit, that if I was still in school (you can’t really do this when you have a real job), I would have ditched my afternoon classes and headed to the pool. Big confession.

Telfer’s fourth year of medical school is wrapping up quickly.  He has two more weeks of neurology and then a bunch of piddly little rotations with not much to do…we’ll have to see what I can find for him to fill his time productively (as I have had buyer’s remorse with the XBox lately…).  Mostly kidding.

There are several parties honoring his senior class in the next couple of months – we are off to one this evening in Palm Springs.  Not too shabby…even if I have a sneaking suspician the fare will be meat-free and caffeine-free….

Isn’t this a good picture of my mom and dad?  Well, they came down to Loma Linda over President’s Day weekend for a visit. We had such a good time albeit the endless, unceasing rain.  We were going to go to Disneyland, but the uncooperative weather stopped us.  We went to the Getty  – a first for my parents.  We seemed to eat a lot too – of course we went to InNOut Burgers and California Pizza Kitchen and we also made several good dinners at home (my mom got to see her Christmas presents to us in full action – a marvelous panini grill and a fondue pot). 

Here’s Mom, Dad, and me with our favorite umbrellas at the Getty.