downtown KC

Last night a good friend of mine, Anna, came into town.  While I was busy babysitting and cleaning up 4 year old puke, she and Seth were hanging out.  Today she had an interview in downtown Kansas City MO and wouldn't you know, I don't work on Mondays so we hopped in the car and drove downtown and ate at The Mixx, a delicious salad, soup, and sandwich restaurant - local to KC.  It was quite a treat!  Then while Anna was interviewing I went to the park right across from city hall and read my book.  It is such a gorgeous day today, it was like 75 degrees and there was a cloudless sky.  So while I was down there I took some pics with my phone of the skyline and what not.

Kansas City - City Hall

Oak Tower from my spot in the park.

Looking North-West

Looking West

Then I came home and Anna and I watched last night's Real Housewives of NJ. Seriously? I haven't watched but a few episodes of that show, but it is definitely more outrageous than Beverly Hills.  Then I went and got some supplies so that I could learn to needle felt.  I found this DIY on the blog A Beautiful Mess as I was dinkin' around on Pinterest, and I'm now absolutely in love with the blog!! It's amazing!  Someday mine will look like that and I won't have to work...yea dream big girlfriend!  Anyway, I'll let you know how it works out when I'm finished with it!

edu-ma-cation

I am currently working on my Doctorate of Audiology (Au.D.) On May 19, 2013 - I will officially be Dr. Emilie Galemore.  Holy cow.  I have been in college for nearly 8 years pursuing this degree (4 years of undergrad, 4 years of grad work - one piece of paper).  I have spent the last 4 years of my life devoted to learning about a body system that covers space smaller than a roll of duct tape.

Can you hear me now??
Image from here.

When I tell people what I've chosen to devote my life to, there are two groups of people.  The first group of people say "Huh?" and laugh it out.  Cute you little jokers! The other half of people say "What's an audiologist?"  Well for those of you who aren't jokers and need some explanation, and audiologist is someone who diagnoses and treats hearing loss and is also trained in balance problems and treatments.  We do comprehensive hearing evaluation, sell and fit hearing aids.  Evaluate individuals who have balance problems (vertigo, dizziness, etc.), and we do evaluations on individuals who are deaf and help to indicate whether or not they are good cochlear implant candidates.  What's a cochlear implant you ask?? Check here for more information:  What is a Cochlear Implant?

I am currently in a year long externship, I guess that is a fancy word for internship or what we like to call residency because it sounds fancy and official.  I work 40 hours a week at an audiology clinic here in Kansas City.  It is a great cochlear implant center here in the city and I'm learning so much! I get to see adults and children with cochlear implants and with hearing aids as well.  Don't worry, I'm not the one who does the surgery for the implant, a neurotolgist does that and then the patients come back to us for programming their devices, we make them hear.  It really is a pretty beautiful thing, allowing someone to hear for the first time, or the first time in a long time! 

It has been a really long road to this point.  I can't say that I've always been 100% thrilled with my choice.  But, today, I'm happier with my decision to stay in this career path than I ever have been.  I know that I don't have a lot of readers or anything, but I guess it's just nice for me to even be able to put out a really soft explanation of what I do all day everyday! I have some really great colleagues at my job and I have amazing, amazing learning opportunities each day, with each patient, whether it's learning about something specific to do with ear problems, or whether it's learning to sit, be still and listen to what someone has to say, showing some compassion.  What a blessing it has been so far, and will continue to be!

My Stories

I love TV.
Good TV.
Bad TV.
Reality TV.
Drama, Comedy, or Action
I love it all.

I thought today I would share 3 of my faves.
There are many many shows that I love, but
if I put all of them on here we would be reading for days!
So here are a few I've been watching a lot of lately!

1. Big Love

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This great HBO drama follows the life of a polygamist family.  It ran for 5 seasons and has since ended.  It's funny, it's touching, it's outrageous how something like this can be so addicting.  And it has an all-star cast - Bill Paxton plays husband Bill Henrickson alongside his 3 wives, Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nikki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin).  I don't feel like I can even do this show justice by talking about it here, but it is definitely one to look into!

2. Big Brother

Big Brother is a disgusting guilty pleasure of mine.  I love sitting in front of the TV for 3 hours a week screaming at the characters about what to do and how I could do it better to win $500,000.  I guess it must be harder than it looks because if it were me, Mike Boogie would have been voted out long ago and Janelle would be well on her way to the half mill.  I love this show and all of its antics, including the phenomenal dose of back stabbing and trash talking, not to mention some pretty great competitions that I think would be stellar to play in!

3. Breaking Bad

Well I just started Season 2 of Breaking Bad today (please no spoilers!).  But I love this show. Basically anything to do with drugs, cops, or a mixture of the two makes me love it almost instantly, and the fact that there are tons of great characters in this show makes me love it even more! I can't wait to see how this season pans out - I mean let's face it, the finale of season 1 was amazing!

1 year

1 year ago today.

• I remember little things like:
• I lost my make-up brushes, and then I found them.
• Seeing a friend walk into the church at the last minute.
• Looking at a red dahlia in my bouquet.
• The gold etching on the tabernacle
• The fan under the altar - it felt so good!
• Voice cracking when I first started saying my vows.
• The music
• Walking back down the aisle hand in hand - did this really happen?!
• Lots of beautiful flower petals running out of the church!
• A great car ride away
• IT WAS HOT! - EVERYWHERE!
• Good dinner
• Lots of dancing
• Lots of friends
• Some awkward toasts
• Great cake - the top of which will be opened tonight - one year later!

Happy One Year Seth! I love you!

On a different note, I got totally spoiled this morning.  I got a mirror full of post-it notes and a great card AND a beautiful pandora charm!

here we go again

I have done this blogging thing off and on and always deleted it when I got sick of it, but I just want a place to write down my thoughts and what not.

On Monday, Seth and I will have been married for one year. I had an older patient tell me this past week that it will just keep speeding up. He said, "Sometimes I look around and feel like it's still 1950, that's how fast time goes by."  I really truly can't believe it.  The time has flown. And they sure aren't kidding when they say that the first year of marriage is hard.  Sometimes it is flat our ludicrous.  But I would be lying if I didn't say that it had made me a better person.  I don't know what we are doing this weekend, I really want to go see "The Campaign" so hopefully we can swing that either tomorrow or Monday.

We got Seth's classroom a little more decorated today and I think he's going to be great. We had some anxious moments in our house this past week, we found out that Seth might have had to move to a different building in the same district. It would have been really disappointing because he absolutely loves the school he's in right now.  Luckily the administrator pulled him in on Friday and told him and another teacher (in the same situation as Seth) that they were both going to be able to stay in the district. What a relief!

Anywho. We're tv bingeing on Big Love.  If you haven't watched it I highly recommend it if you aren't easily offended! :D