well this summer wasn't very eventful. other than my adventures in honduras, a trip to michigan, and bringing Kat to the Burgh, not a lot happened other than a few interesting experiences installing medical equipment in some patients' homes. apparently some patients get pretty lonely and i can understand/deal with talking to them...it's another story when 1) tries to get you to have sex with their daughter (who is missing teeth, has a prison tattoo, a beergut, and is wearing a bikini top....yes please picture that so you may suffer as i suffered) 2) lays down on the bed where you're sitting with her head almost on my leg while making little purring type noises....who would think that installing medical equipment would be such an interesting job??
so that's enough about work, i get chills just thinking about those experiences (not good chills either). Deanna gave me a wednesday off earlier in june and so after a softball game on a tuesday night i left and drove through the night to surprise Kathryn who was working in Grand Rapids, MI as a girl youth intern. i drove til about 1 or 2 in the morning and got up and drove another hour to surprise her at 8 am on her doorstep with roses and donuts. the funny thing was that when she answered the phone, she was not a happy camper (not a morning person AT ALL!) and the first response i got was "are you serious?.....I didn't even brush my teeth..." meanwhile her eyes are barely open and she's walking out into the driveway with her PJ's on lol. so we spent the rest of the day hanging around the Walker area and went to church that night w/ her kids and hung out afterwards w/ the kids. we went back to the house and hung out w/ her host family then i got up at 4 the next morning and drove back and went straight to work. it was a quick hi/bye trip but i was just glad to see her!
i then flew her back to the burgh in july after i got back from honduras. (as usual nothing can ever go as planned with us). her flight from grand rapids to chicago was delayed for a long time and she missed her flight from chicago to pittsburgh. SO they gave her a food and hotel voucher which was a 5 star hotel so it was pretty nice. she finally got in around 9 or 10 the next morning and we spent the day at home visiting people. then the next day we spent in the burgh and went down to the point and hung out there until her flight around 2 or 3 so once again a hi/bye trip but it was good.
that pretty much wraps up the majority of my summer, other than the hundreds of dollars i've put into the jeep just to keep her running.
