Match Week Part 2: Match Day!

So this post is a little late since last weekend was full of celebrating! I found out on Friday, March 15, that I got my 1st choice of residency which was in Psychiatry! I just couldn't be happier about it! So here's a run down of how the week went.

After finding out on Monday that I had matched, I began to wonder where I matced. I became more and more anxious about this as the week went on. Since I applied to both Psychiatry and Family Medicine, I had no idea what was going to happen. The anxiety built all week until on Thursday night I nearly reached an anxiety breaking point. I was wishing at about that time that I had some Psych drugs to calm me down!! :) Well I didn't have any so the next best thing was to just go to bed and hope to get some sleep for the big day ahead.

Friday (Match Day) finally arrived. I woke up that morning so so so excited and so so so anxious. I was incredibly grateful that my hubby and family came to support me. Both my parents and my brother's family were able to join me. The celebration began with brunch and much needed mimosas. As 11:00 am approached and the dean of students approaches the podium with a briefcase containing envelopes for each student, the anxiety continues to build. The letters in those envelopes contained all of our fates for the next 3-5 years. The dean made a few announcements and then it was time to call out names to come up and receive our envelopes and our fates. I didn't have to wait long to hear my name called. "Whooooooo!!" My husband yelled out after my name was called. I get up and walk to the side of the stage to get my envelope along with several other of my classmates. At this point, I am literally shaking. I push through the shaking and nerves and open my envelope on the side of the stage....There is just no way I could do it at the podium in front of all my classmates and their families with the shakes as bad as I had. I looked down at the paper inside that said where I matched and all that was running through my mind is "Thank God. Thank God. Thank God." I then walked up the steps to the podium, placed my dollar in the jar (a tradition at my school. Each student places a dollar in a jar as they annouce where they matched and the last person to be called gets all the money.), and announced where I matched. Of course, my anxiety level is still at an all time high so the pictures don't do justice to how excited I really was.

 

As I left the stage, I smiled at my husband as a waved my paper in the air. What an amazing feeling!!

My family and I then went to lunch, where my sweet hubby presented me with my "draft day" shirt. My sister-in-law asked how he knew where I had matched so that he could have a shirt made. Well...he didn't. He actually had 3 shirts made just in case. Haha. Such a sweetie.

Match Week

It's Match Week for all 4th year medical students around the nation. This is probably the most exciting and anxiety-provoking week of medical school. Not because there is a big test or final but because this is the week that we find out where we will be going for residency. Today, I received this email...

I matched!!! Which means that I will have a J.O.B. starting in July! I won't find out where until Friday, but I am so excited to know that I matched and look forward to finding out where. I will either be a psychiatrist or family medicine doc. I enjoyed both specialties and applied to both. We will see on Friday what the future holds.

Closet Makeover to HOBBY NOOK

I am so so so happy to present my completed hobby nook. It has been in the works for about 9 months. Clearly, it takes me entirely too long to finish tasks that I start, but at least I can finally say that it is done.

How did I become so lucky as to get my own hobby nook? Well...

My sweet husband bought me a sewing machine for Christmas last year. After several projects that completely destroyed the living room, I decided that I just had to have my own special work space for my sewing, crafts, etc. Men get "man caves" so why can't I have a hobby nook? Well, the hubs heard my cries and made it happen.

Over my birthday last year, I was away from home for an entire month taking a class for school.
:(   Little did I know that my husband was at home slaving away cleaning out one of our closets to house my new hobby desk. He found a perfect desk at a local antique shop and sanded it....

and primed it...

and painted it TURQUOISE!

He then called me early on my birthday and told me to get my laptop and open up my email. Waiting there for me was a document containing photos of the progress of the desk and the finished product. He also reminded me of how great of a man I have, and he was right. Here is the picture of the finished product.

As you can see from the first picture, the space has been added to since this first addition. I had lots of decorating ideas for the space and couldn't wait to get home and start on them. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of the projects that I did as they were in progress but here are pics of the finished products.

The first thing I did was buy a peg board from Home Depot. Yep, the same kind that you can find in most garages. However, I spruced it up a bit.

I spray painted the entire thing pink. After it dried, I placed lace on top of it and then sprayed a coat of white paint. This is how I got the floral design on the board. I also got some molding (the kind that goes around door frames) at Home Depot and painted it white. My hubby was kind enough to make the frame around the peg board. Now I had a great place to hang all of my most used craft tools. I got these white buckets at The Container Store.

I made the CREATE letters from cheap wooden letters at Hobby Lobby. Then painted them the same turquoise as the desk and mod podged on scrapbook paper that coordinated with both the turquoise and pink.

My final project was painting this old cabinet that I got from my mother-in-law. It was a dirty off-white color and was a left behind treasure that she acquired after buying a new house. It's a great place to house my ribbon.

This past Christmas, my husband spoiled me even more by buying me a Serger machine and the super cute pink tractor seat stool to complete my nook.

 

Happy Crafting.

 

 

New Blog

I am currently in my last year of medical school (it couldn't have come sooner!!!!), which is why I finally have a little time to make a blog.  I have tried blogging in the past but was never consistent with writing during all the studying, testing, and working through the first few years of school. Life definately won't be getting any easier with me starting residency in July, but this is something that I want to try yet again. I hope to use this blog to document the fun times with my beautiful family, keep up with yummy recipes I try, and celebrate crafts that I actually complete.