Week 1 of my semi-vegetarian diet went well.  There was one incident... that involved lentil soup made with chicken broth, but it was an accident and it won't happen again. I've eaten good-tons of seafood and tofu and veggies and fruit... ah I love food.  And to continue with that, I leave for Kansas City today to attend a family medicine conference.  Thanks to the family med department at USA, everything is paid for.  Flight, hotel, transportation to the hotel, the actual conference, and best of all, food.  Apparently the conference provides vouchers for breakfast and lunch, and we are getting $55 from our family med department for food.  Which means allison, kacie, and I will be dining at only the best and most expensive restaurants in kansas city for dinner every night.  There's an opening social where I plan on winning either a Wii or a $30o gift certificate to apple.  During the day, I hopefully will learn things about medicine.  But now I've got to go pack and find some 80s outfit to wear to that social... good times.

say no to meat and lock your doors at night

It's been a month or so since I've blogged, bad me.  I've been traveling, and it was grand.  It would take me 10 years to write about everything so I'm going to spare you.  But I loooove puerto rico and I loooove Boston.  

In more recent news, I am currently challenging myself to a month of Pescetarianism.  Before your mind wanders too much into what that is, it's a diet that excludes birds and mammals. I am definitely not the vegan type, I need animal products such as eggs and ice cream.  Straight up vegetarianism isn't for me either, because I love fish too much.  But being a pescetarian, I can do.  I might miss my poultry, but red meat I will gladly say goodbye too.  Why am I doing this?  Maybe I'm trying to get on PETA's good side, who knows.  I'm on Day 3 now, and I must say its going quite well.  Tofu, mahi mahi, salmon, scallops... what more could I ask for?  I might soon need to learn how to cook fish though, because my 3 dinners the past 3 nights were prepared by my sister, my dad, and Bonefish Grill.  

I've been remembering my dreams a lot within the past couple weeks.  There was the one where I racing in the 200 backstroke, and I woke up to find I was actually kicking in the bed.  Then there was the one where I was pregnant, for the 2nd time, definitely not married.  I was surprisingly disappointed when I awoke to find out that one wasn't true.  I also had one where my mother, sister, and I were planning some kind of bombing, and I got caught and was on my way to jail.  My mom and sister totally got away with it.  

Last night I woke up at 3am to use the bathroom, and on the way I realized my front door was shining (I was half asleep, not on acid).  That was because I had not closed it all the way and the light from outside was coming in.  (Now I do these things sometimes.  Like when I have a lot of things that I'm carrying I sometimes walk inside and leave my keys in the lock, forgetting about them for several hours.  I usually remember to lock my door at night, and almost always remember to close it all the way, so this was kind of weird)  I went and locked it and got back in bed.  I was in the middle of trying to decide if I should make sure no one was in my apartment when I fell asleep.  That's when I had a most frightening dream.  

DREAM: I woke up to people outside my apartment making a lot of noise.  Turned out to be some creepy killers or rapists or something, I don't know.  Then I saw one look up at me and start running towards my door.  I ran to lock it and tried to dial 911, but my hands were shaking so much I kept hitting the wrong keys (something like this ALWAYS happens to me in scary dreams.  Like I try to yell and nothing comes out.  Or someone's chasing me and I can't seem to move faster than a snail's pace.  Is that just me?).  I ended up calling my mother and telling her I was really scared and they needed to come over.  Somehow, I end up at a hospital perfectly fine.  Not sure what happened with the rapists.

It was really scary and I'm always closing my door from now on at night.  And probably during the day too.  Now since it's 11PM on a Friday night, I guess I'm off to bed to see what scary/interesting thing I can dream about tonight.