SI-- WEEK FORTY ONE

I'm trying to not start this post with another whiney statement about being busy.. but ya'll.. I worked over 100 hours this past week. YIKES. I don't normally tally my work hours, but this week it helped me feel better about the minimal work I was doing around the house. I felt like I was hardly home because I was hardly home. T has been incredible - he's holding down the homefront and enforcing a "bedtime" because my tendency is always to stay up late (especially when I've essentially just gotten home!). So, life is good. And I'm eating a lot of Subway sandwiches in the hospital cafeteria (and Twix ice cream bars when I need a pick-me-up). Now on to the good stuff!

I'm going to spend the rest of this post bragging about my crazy-talented brother:

If you are local, you need to get yourself over to RNG Gallery (connected to Dixie Quicks) to FIRST - eat a delicious meal (for brunch I recommend the apple brie omelette. For any other meal, my mom raves about the veggie melt sandwich) and SECOND peruse the gallery because my brother is showing his amazing art there through the first week of May:

So, naturally, we all had to be there at the opening to see it for ourselves:

The show, titled "Spung Werks", will be my brother's last before he moves to NYC. It was fabulous to be there with him and see the fantastic turn out for the opening! I'm so proud of him. My favorite part of the show was hearing about how the pieces for this show came to be. It was fascinating that this art was created completely freeform -- sometimes starting with the bold outlines, sometimes starting with the colorful shapes. These paintings were also created with the goal that they would be more striking in person than by photograph. He accomplished that goal with metallic, color-changing, and glow-in-the-dark paints. 9yo M was completely star-struck by E. It was so sweet to see him walk her through the gallery, showing her the different paints, and asking her what she saw in the paintings. Also, by the time I left at least a few of the paintings had a sold sticker on their title card!

As far as this coming week, I'm looking forward to another typical work week. This month I'm working at UNMC on the general medicine floors with a half-day per week of my own clinic at Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue. Speaking of clinic, this is the scene I found when I went to leave last week. I'm hoping that April got it out of its system...

Have a great week! And FYI, we are less than 30 days until graduation!

xo,
Krista