Pumpkin Carving

In the midst of the goop.

Ryan looked and looked for the perfect pattern. He wanted to do Lightning McQueen, buy alas he wasn't able to find a suitable pattern, so he picked one out of the book we had. Part way through he mentioned how hard it was to carve. Silly Ryan, he had chosen the hardest one in the book!

This was a lot harder than it looked, but I had to do it; it was so fun! Imagine the fright if you were to discover an eye that large staring through your window on a dark night . . . Dun dun dun

I hadn't done this in ages! I had forgotten that dried pumpkin goop itches so bad.
Didn't they turn out lovely?

The Happiest Place on Earth

DISNEYLAND!

This was our last ride. We love this picture; we totally hammed it up. Ryan got drenched, the water jumped over me and soaked the lady behind me! I had a wet leg and one shoe full of water, but that was it. So we both sloshed our way back to the hotel.

The Tower of Terror!
I loved it!

Amazing fireworks! I'm still trying to figure out how they made the moon.

Toon Town

The Haunted Mansion

Not Quite a Monday

Come to work, not sure if I'll be running blood. Find out an hour later that I would. Start to get all set up. The Coulter (a cell counter) won't pass the high control. Run it again and again and again. And again. No success. Get a new control from a different box, enter the new numbers into the spreadsheet, run the control. The Coulter passes! Realize the other Coulter was run on the other control. It's now out of specification, must be redone. Run the control on it. Again and again and again. It all passes but one parameter and it's off by one measly platelet. Go to run the control one more time. It slips out of my hand. Crash! Crack! Splatter! There is a puddle of blood on the floor splattered. It's on my shoe. Pout. Clean up the broken glass and puddle of blood. Bleach my shoe, drench it, multiple times. Decide I'm fed up with the Coulter, turn it off. Realize I turned off the Coulter that had passed the controls. Feel really frustrated. Turn the Coulter back on. Rerun all controls. Get the other high control from the new package, start mixing it. Notice it's not mixing right, realize it has been frozen. Run it anyway. Need a reading of ~425, getting a reading of ~1520. More frustration. Throw the previously frozen, now thawed control in the biohazard. Turn off the Coulter again. Justify the non-passing parameter on the other Coulter (it wasn't a production run). Continue with the blood run. Finally get to the first point just before noon. Starving. Units ready at noon and need to be run. Wait. Run units. Take a break to eat. Breathe. I smile and have a good day.