New gig- May 2nd >>July 31st

Busy unit, nice nurses. love my

patients and families.  Many of them

are farm folk which fascinates me.

My dad today tracked in mud on his boots from his hog farm.  They all call pigs, hogs, here.  And my other family brought me in
some kind of venison jerky.  Ooh and a grandma of a pt made me some kind of cozy.Salt of the earth people. really enjoying meeting them.

I love this.  People didnt know what RN meant , so University of Iowa spelled it out for them.
Same with MD, theirs say DOCTOR.

Boo in a pod

tele pronounced tell-e

This is for you Sare bear.
While you are chip chip cheerio-ing , you are missing some really bad American TV.
The new Bachelorette started and she is annoying and fake laughing more than Ali . You can believe that!
She has one dude who is wearing a mask and has yet to take it off and another douche nozzle who is saying on his one on one with  the camera how he isn't attracted to her and is basically playing with her.
I'd like to say , ABC, gentleman..... the final rose.
And let me see if you can guess the second show.
"the good news is that you don't have a fatal disease so we won't be building you a house, the bad news is that you are hugely fat"  yep !  Extreme Makeover : weight loss edition.
I throw in the towel, I will be retiring to my bedroom with a good book or maybe go bang my head against the wall.  

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

Sat by her secret service and aide on my Minni to LA flight. She was in first class. Neat.

Broadcasting live. 
Literally watching a tractor  plough as I wait for my flight. Welcome to Iowa.
Going home to meet my nephew Sage! 

Globbed lately?

uhh, dad, it is blogged...
One major reason I started this blog was for my dad to be able to follow my excursions. Well here is the glitch in that logic. ummhmmm, he is a tech tard.  He can occasionally remember how to check my blog and then even though I have walked him through the steps , he cannot manage to comment on my posts.  
I love that man because what he has managed to master is checking the weather in whatever town I am living.  "Geez, Bran . 13 degrees in Madison today", "83 in Cedar Rapids , watch out for those thunderstorms"  haha  love him.  Oh, he also can check my apartments on Google earth.  So we will leave it at that.   That is how he will follow my adventures, forecast looking bright.  
xxo my pops !

Hey

Hay

will blog, have travel

she went thatta way

My first mobile post!  got this up and running so I can blog on the go.  nice

James and the Giant Bean

taking a picture of ourselves, mental giants that we are

One of my favorite human beings on earth is Jimmy.  He has a mystical power over me and can always make me laugh.
I met him in Chicago for 12 short hours and we had a ball.
We went to Millineum park and saw the bean.  We went to the cheeseborger place, Billy goat Tavern, under lower Wacker? drive (see I have to blog faster before I forget the names of things/places), we walked downtown and saw the Picasso sculpture and we went to Uno's pizza.  Now Jimmy says that Uno's, Due's and Gino's east all are pretty much the same.  We saw the Wrigley bldg which Jimmy says he wants to come back as in his next life.  whatever.  We saw beautiful Lake Michigan and then we met his great friends for insane milkshakes spiked with whiskey in some town.

Jimmy eating his favorite egg sandwich on rye with 4 million pickles

Crunchy snow

Since I haven't blogged in so long, there is no way I can go in chronological order so I will just post at random.  I came to Madison in January of 2011 after the most terrifying drive of my life.
I weathered the snow quite well if I do say so myself but I did have a few misconceptions.


Until I was corrected by my pals Jamie and Steve, I called the salt that they put on the roads and sidewalk "crunchy snow".  I thought is was little ice rocks/snow so I treaded slowly until one day Steve asked what the heck I was doing.   I had NO idea it wasn't snow but salt. haha.  He is a California dude but has been through a midwest winter before and Jamie hales from Walkerton, Indiana and is a bad ass pioneer woman.

 This was my going away present from them.  :) !!  love it

Maison sur le roc

This is a place created by this imaginative loon named Alex Jordan.  It is off of Highway 151 in Wisconsin and I seriously think it is one of the greatest attractions ever.  I truly do think it should be a destination for people.  My videos and pictures dont do it justice.

So let me try and explain this place. He is a collector of absolutely everything from guns to dollhouses to harlequin masks.  He has the worlds largest carousel and at the same time, the worlds largest scale whale.  mmhmmm
He has an entire room of mini circuses, he has a doll carousel, an organ room, the streets of yesterday are cobbled stone paths with mini little store fronts of all his collections.  It is absolutely fantastical.
And the house itself if amazing. The infinity room stretches out over the beautiful Wisconsin valley and it is a structural wonder.

Did you hear that...

I think it is the brewmasters and cheesemakers of Wisconsin crying because I left the state. Or some little baby birdies looking for some worms.  No worries, I will still come back. In fact, I plan to stalk Jamie and Steve most of my days off. 
And Jamie and I are in love with a little robin family in front of the glorious Door Creek apartments.

I have never seen real robin eggs before. fantastic !

Iowa blows

No really, it is windy here. I am adjusting , how very Darwinian of me.