Rebecca and Ramy have a nice new tradition. Ramy gives Rebecca a bath at night, and then he plops her on the bathroom vanity and lets her look at herself in the mirror while he combs her hair and then they brush their teeth together. Rebecca really enjoys this. If he gets her ready in the morning, he repeats this process to brush her hair. She loves it. I'm not sure what it says that she enjoys looking at herself in the mirror so much!
It was a nice weekend for us, but it seemed to go by too quickly. Ramy came home early on Friday, because he had a doctor appointment in Loma Linda. Rebecca and I accompanied him and entertained ourselves in the empty lobby with a game of chase the toddler. After we left, we walked around Ontario Mills mall and had a completely un-nutritious dinner there. Saturday morning, we ate breakfast at Bravo Burger while the car was being washed next door. We saw my friend Raquel there (she was pregnant with triplets due a week after Rebecca - they were born at 25 weeks and all died), which was awkward but it was nice to see her. Then we ran around and dropped off dry cleaning, went to Costco, etc. Saturday evening, we ate at the new Yard House in the Shoppes at Chino Hills and then watched the movie Definitely, Maybe. It was a sweet movie, but not anything life-changing. We went to 7:30 mass yesterday morning, which was our priest Fr. Ken's last service with us. I wonder who we'll be getting to replace him. Hopefully someone who speaks fluent English. In the afternoon, we mostly hung out at home and that kind of thing. We ate breakfast at Panera Bread afterward, and Rebecca downed a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice, which later gave her a bad diaper rash. Nothing a little Desitin and Triple Paste couldn't handle though. Being the good wife that I am, I made Ramy a batch of cioppino yesterday evening, and he'll be eating on that while I'm in class a couple of nights this week.
I attempted to clean out Rebecca's chest of drawers this weekend. I got a bag full of clothes she has outgrown to donate to charity. I'll probably save most of her higher-end brands and may resell them. Or I may get lazy and donate those and take the tax writeoff.
I'm really enjoying my new position at Casa Colina. I'm there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I'll be spending my Tuesdays doing testing in the inpatient unit - most of these people are either in after a traumatic brain injury or other really serious accident/illness and need a brief neuro exam/testing to define a new baseline or to compare with premorbid functioning. Or they are in on the Senior Evaluation Program, which is a multidisciplinary team that checks out seniors and determines if they are safe at home, what kinds of assistance they are in need of, etc. My role in that is mostly determining dementia and cognitive decline. As my supervisor said, "A lot of those assessments are ridiculous. It doesn't take a Ph.D. to tell you some of these older people have cognitive decline." On Wednesdays then, I'll be in the Transitional Living Center. This is still an inpatient unit, but these folks are adjusting to their lives with a disability generally. So I'll be doing full batteries of neuropsych testing to determine their status after the acute medical recovery has happened (in the regular inpatient unit, you can't really do that since a lot of those people have just awakened from a coma, are still on a lot of pain meds, etc). So it is a nice package of neuropsych experience overall, and I think it will make me much more marketable for internship.
Speaking of which, I'm almost finished with my comp paper. I think I'll be done with it this week. I'm still on track to propose my dissertation this month. Woo hoo! Then I can focus on internship applications for all of September and October. I think my fall schedule is going to be really nice too - I'll only be going to Loma Linda one day - Thursday. I'm going to take my other religion class this fall, and hopefully I can subsitute the advanced neuropsych assessment class for the one remaining class I still need in our department. I'll also be teaching the projective personality assessment lab again this fall, so more Rorschach for me! I'll also use that day to go over to U of R to do the administrative stuff associated with my dissertation project, although I'm sure that I'll be over there a little more often than once a week to get it up and running.
I've also been doing a lot of travel planning this weekend. For those who like to know, we'll be in Tennessee October 10-19th. Our schedule is filling up, so if you want some time with us, make plans! (I'm just being facetious, of course). My mom has a couple of trips here before then, and then she'll be here the week of Thanksgiving too. I think we're going to spend Thanksgiving in Las Vegas and then come back to L.A. to do Black Friday shopping. Now we just have to decide where to stay in Vegas. Then we'll be in Tennessee for Christmas, of course. Exact dates on that have yet to be determined, but we'll all be there by the 19th. Rebecca and I may come a bit earlier and we'll be staying until after New Year. But then we'll have to be back here, because hopefully I'll be doing a lot of interviewing for internships in January. It's going to be a really busy time from now until the end of February, when I will hopefully find out what internship site to which I matched. And of course, Miss Rebecca has a birthday that month as well.
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