Weather: Not sure... it's pretty dark out, but not raining
Music: Blind Pilot
Mood: Trying to stay awake
So... it's been a while, huh? I'm on night shift at work now, so I'm currently trying to stay up as late as I can in order to switch back to a "night" schedule. A few updates to bring people up to speed (I'd bet people know some of these already, but here it goes):
1. My dad had open heart surgery to replace his aortic valve and double leg surgery to get rid of a nasty clot that had lodged there. He's well on the road to recovery and doing much much better. However, he now has a new friend named coumadin to deal with.
2. Jamie got a job! She just started, last week, in a unit at the same hospital as me! She's on the "Intermediate Neurological Care Area" that specializes in patients strokes and other neurological conditions (like meningitis). She really likes it so far!
3. We moved! Jamie and I were living with Jamie's Aunt and Uncle in Arvada, CO. Now we've moved in with a couple friends of ours (Sonja and Mike, married, both nurses) in an apartment in Wheat Ridge, CO that is only 2.5 miles from work! So Jamie and I have been biking to and from the hospital... which is awesome.
4. It is Sonja and Mike's goal to move onto a sailboat someday, and they've recently taken sailing lessons. Now they get to take some small 22 foot boats out on their own on a few local reservoirs... and Jamie and I get to go along and learn too! So we've gotten the sailing bug a little too and we're slowly getting to learn the terminology and technique. It's really really fun, and it'd be awesome to get out on Lake Superior sometime (or maybe the Bahamas...).
5. Not a lot of progress on wedding planning... more to come later in that department.
That's all for now, more to come soon now that things have settled down a bit!
-Reed
Relaxing in beautiful Crested Butte, CO
Having an interesting afternoon on Lake Dillon up in the mountains. (From left to right is our friend Lindsey, roommate Mike, and Jamie)
Jamie taking it easy when the winds were light.
The not-so-nice-looking-vortex-of-death that began forming over our boat as we tried to push ourselves off of a sandbar (oops). Got back just before things got ugly. 
