Good Food and a Little Culture

This week I managed to get through another round of testing and now I just have finals remaining. This week in school was, as my professor Jim Ballard would say, "A Banner Week," or at last there was "A Banner Day" in this past week. This semester I have a Women's Health/Pelvic Floor class, taught by the one and only Jim Ballard and this class, as many could imagine, has brought much enlightenment and yet for many, discomfort to us. But the pelvic floor is comprised of many important muscles and we as Physical Therapists are the "muscle experts" so we must learn. This week was interesting because we learned much about poop. And the Gastrointestinal Doctor that lectured for us definitely kept us entertained, with many such phrases as: "When you sleep your intestines sleep, so God made morning to poop." and the reason gas is stinky is because: “You have breakfast, no poop. Lunch, no poop. Dinner, no poop. Ice cream, no poop. If you put a burger and ice cream in a room and left it, you could not even walk into the room it would be so stinky.” I guess if you are working in such a field as his, you have to have a good sense of humor.

On Friday night Matthew and I decided to see our friend Carrie, perform as Maria from the play The Sound of Music, with her stake. Before going to the show Matthew and I decided to use the rest of our "Dining out" budget for the month to get some sushi. We know that it will be awhile before we get sushi again so we decided to get our fill. The show was wonderful and as usual, Carrie shined on the stage. Over the past few years we have been able to go to a few of her concerts and I am continually blown away by her talents. She is just an all around wonderful person that Matthew and I both look up to. She has done many wonderful things and she always has great ideas. It was also fun to see all the children perform in the play. At the beginning of the play there was a small girls choir that came out and sang a medley of the classic songs in the play. Matthew and I were impressed that even the younger girls had memorized all the words, and laughed when we could hear one of them singing out really loud and then saw the little girl next to her try with all her might to quiet her down without drawing too much attention. This included nudging her and then giving her somewhat of a dirty look, all while a third little girl was trying to hold the second little girl's hand. It was very sweet and comical.

On Saturday, Matthew and I got together with some of his old high school friends and their spouses to eat and play a couple of games. We met at the home of his friend Jaime and her husband Braden and were joined by his friends Dave and his wife, Holli and Jim and his wife, Heather. We enjoyed very delicious food including nachos, Italian sodas and an excellent pumpkin chiffon that Holli made. For most of the night we caught up with one another, talking about school, work, kids and future plans. We also enjoyed playing Catch Phrase and a sort of "Newlywed" game. It is kind of amazing to me that Matt still keeps in contact with his friends from high school, but I guess he is still living in the same area where he went to high school, whereas I am in a different state and all I have to keep me connected is Facebook.