Another Lovely Card

I am still plugging along on the wedding thank yous. My new goal is to have them all done by our 6 month anniversary, which is in a week. Eek!

I managed to get through a massive chunk last weekend and ran into this gem. You just can't help but love cards from the pets! This one is a gift of photo paper and a card from Lucy Lu (written by my dear Mom):

CTA Into the Sunset

Whoosh!

Medical Science That Makes You Wince

International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Illinois
Visited: January 16, 2010

Thorek Medical Manuscript and Rare Medical Book Library
Gorgeous and appealing set-up. I was ready to pull out a chair and dig into some very odd medical books!

To my public health peeps -- wouldn't a project in prostitution prevention have been fun? It is never too late to start our own evidence-based program!

"Disease of the Anus, Rectum and Sigmoid" Looks interesting! It would be fun to dig into with a cup of coffee and a bag of pork rinds.


Stomach Stapling Tool by Aladar Petz. Ouch! The ones pictured above were at least 12 inches long. Not a small tool by any means!

Vaginal Speculum of Roman times. Triple ouch! I hope that these tools look a lot more cumbersome and evil than they actually are. This is where I insert my "thank God for modern medicine" comment. For real. The notation in the exhibit says "..the speculum demonstrates the high degree of engineering skill available to ancient doctors." I must say that they don't look as primitive as the tools below!

Stone carving representing circumcision practice. Quadruple ouch! To think they just used rocks to do this back in thee day, how incredibly brave.

Aside from the glorious sex themed photos, there were many interesting tools and techniques described at the museum. It is definitely worth the $10 admission. We spent a good three hours there investigating all four floors of science fun! I wouldn't say it is very kid friendly, probably too boring for the wee little kiddos. There were hardly any photos of nude people, the carving above and a few artistic paintings is about the extent of it.

I walked out in need of Tylenol and a cocktail -- a lot of sympathetic pains throughout my body and visual imagery I wanted to wipe away forever.

Take a-ways that my non-science, naive mind learned --

• early surgeons were barbers,
• the original inventor of nitrous oxide (who was not given the official credit for being the inventor) was cited for throwing sulfuric acid at prostitutes and then later committed suicide but first inhaled the nitrous oxide before taking his life by another method (hanging, maybe?),
• the iron lung really does look as intimidating as it sounds and the one at the museum was painted a retro blue (makes me wonder if you can pick your colors to match your style -- I would want a bright red one like my car),
• Cesarean sections done today are commonly in the lower (uterine) segment that involves a horizontal cut above the bladder (of my group of four, I was the only one born of the "old style" C-section -- I need to get out more, or have kids)
  

Windy City

Back in town from an extended weekend in Chicago.
More to come!

Dear Santa of 2010

Dear Santa of 2010,

I saw this costume antiquing and thought it would be the perfect item to add to my wardrobe. I really want to wear it to work, where we have no dress code. I think it would make a really good impact on my efficiency and information absorption. I am pretty sure that my co-workers would listen to me and take my advice as words to live by. I don't think it will make my butt look fat and it will definitely encourage a fabulous hair day.

Thank you in advance,
Sarah

Lovely Cards

Five months and counting...still not done with the wedding thank yous. For shame, I know. Just call me the rule-breaker, holy terror of IOU a thank you land. To give myself a titch bit of credit, I am hand making them. So they are just a teeny bit more time consuming than the average wedding thank you authors' are.

Despite the major delay, I have to say that it has been most awesome re-reading the cards now. It has been interesting reading the little handwritten notes and the care of the card giver to underline special words (like ETERNITY, FOREVER, TOGETHER, MAKE BABIES NOW, and GIVE-NOT-TAKE). I can take it all in from a more objective viewpoint and appreciate it all so much more. Is the method of underlining key words in a card the possibility of passing on subliminal messages? Maybe if I piece all of the underlined words together in all of the cards, I might find the answers to a long and prosperous marriage or the best way to make krumkake or the best month to make babies? If the card givers really wanted to hit home a certain message like "RUN NOW," they would have had to attend one of the bridal showers. Get me before it was too late!

I really don't know how many couples re-read their wedding cards, or even keep their cards. I plan on keeping the cards and possibly pulling them out on anniversaries or finding some way to incorporate them into my life creatively. Maybe. More than likely, they will sit in the decorative box that I plan to store them in and collect dust from our love haven. But the cards can sit there knowing that I appreciated them at least twice in their existence.

For your reading pleasure, I am posting one of my favorites so far:

Soup of Sarah PREMIERE

New for 2010! My random thoughts will be featured in my new blog segment called Soup of Sarah.

Has my creativity "died on the vine?" Maybe.
Do I avoid my computer at all costs when I am not working? Definitely.
Am I one strike away from extreme burn out? Oh yeah, baby!
Do the stupid, random thoughts stop? Hell no!

Here's the first random thought of 2010!

Too much attention is given to germs on the toilet seat and, oh let's not forget the dreaded toilet flusher! Has anyone thought about the germs on the end of the toilet paper roll? I know, I know. Most of the time the end of the paper is just ripped from afar and not actually touched. But what if? What if someone took their doody covered hands and decided to rub all over the end of the paper for the next visitor? You never know! Someone needs to make an antibacterial spray to get those germs off that paper ASAP! I demand a clean, pure and fresh toilet paper to use on my bum. At home, at work, at the mall. You name it! I need a guarantee that I won't be rubbing someone else's butt germs on my butt.

Who's with me?