Currently drinking Waterbrook Reserve 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
http://www.madwine.com/watcabsauv19.html
great!

I GOT INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
HECK YEAH HECK YEAH HECK YEAH!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
Before Thanksgiving I got notice that I got invited to two med school interviews! December 14th for Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and January 28th for Touro University in Las Vegas! So excited by the two offers and can't wait to try out my interview skills and hopefully being quickly accepted!
This weekend we also did some wine tasting in Yamhill County! We visited many many winery and drank and drank and drank untill our teeth and tongue were purple. Some highlights from the day of wine tasting with Aj and Steph were August Cellars, were Andy has know the owner and manager for many many years, we got a personal tour of their amazing tour and awesome tasting of their and their tenants wines www.augustcellars.com some suggestions are : August Cellars Willamette Valley 2003 and 2004, 2006 Gewurztraminer and 2006 Riesling. I am not usually a white fan but these are very good. I would also suggest some of their tenant's wine http://www.artisanalwinecellars.com/ their 2006 Gamay Noir and 2006 Viognier were great. I bought 2 bottles of the Viognier and I wish I had bought 2 of their Gamay Noir as well. Wildaire Cellars also had a great Pinot Noir 2004 but it was the first wine I tasted all day and didn't grab some when I could.
We also visited www.argyle https://argylewinery.com, probably the best wine of the day was their 1997 Extended Tirage Brut a little spendy at 40 bucks (ok alot spendy) but defiantly a bottle to open when you are celebrating! I think if i get any money for Christmas i will be making a quick drive back to Dundee to purchase as many bottles as possible of this Brut.
We also visited Erath Vineyard but were disappointed in the crowds and the wines. Like I said before usually I am a big red fan (especially on Pinot Noirs) but Erath whites were much superior then their reds (but still out shined 10 fold by August Cellars and Artisanal) and their reds, especially their Pinot Noirs appeared over priced and left something to be desired in the tastings .
After we tasted every wine they had to offer in hopes Erath would redeem itself we head out to Rex Hill to taste A to Z wines but when we arrived we found their had closed at the earily hour of 3 not as 5 as advertised on their sign. Sigh, next time we will have to plan out time better.
Speaking of next time, hoping to organize a wine tasting weekend for the weekend before my birthday I believe February 2nd, i think i will pay someone to drive this next time!

Gewurztraminer

Pinot Noir, 2006 Ge

It's a miracle . . . . I can walk! I get to ditch the crutches!!! . . . . if I feel comfortable and/or my leg can handle it. The last part is a little tricky, I went food shopping/ I mean wine shopping at Fred Meyers and after just a half an hour my leg is DEAD!!!!! I'm walking with a huge limp but I think I"m going to try and make it a pimp limp!!
Currently drinking "Menage a trois Red" just awesome especially if you decanter it for about an hour before drinking, I would give it over 90points!!!!
Peace out, or better yet, pimp out!

Status Post surgery 2days, since I'm also status post shower 2days, I wont be posting any photos. Anyways just a quick update, I'm feeling better today. Yesterday was very very painful, after calling the doctor I was let in on a little secret that if I re-wrap my brace and let some of the pressure off my bandage it wouldn't hurt as bad, and a few minutes a miracle happened, the pain for relieved! Yeah, ok that is enough of my perocet and wine rambling! Signing off-AO

More wines!!!

Some more good wines!
RiverAerie 2005 Barbera Columbia Valley
http://www.riveraerie.com/TheWine.html
Patchwork 2005 Pinot Noir
http://www.patchworkcellars.com/index.html

Enjoy!!!
AO

Surgery is scheduled September 5th!! Yeah. . . . oh wait, Andrea watch out for that sidewalk. . . . So if i didn't slow down for the torn knee, I'm definitely now slowing down for the torn ankle! Yeah the ankle will be healed and I will be off crutches just in time for surgery and more crutches!

Favorite Wines (all under 20$)
2002 Red Diamond Shiraz
2005 Castle Rock, Russian River Petite Shiraz
2005 ConCannon, Petite Shiraz
2005 A to Z, Pinot Noir
2000 Folie a Deux, Cabernet Sauvigon

Ones I want to try!

2005 Domaine de la Seigneurie, Saumur Champigny
2005 Serrano Rosso Conero 2005, Umani Ronchi
2005 Dmaine Brusset: Cotes du Rhone "Laurent B."

It's unfournately offical

It's unfortunately official, I have a torn ACL with a pretty big bone bruise. Surgery will be scheduled for sometime in the fall. http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/Anterior-cruciate-ligament-ACL-surgery So in the next few months, looking to finish up my "moving" projects and am starting to line up "sedentary" projects.

MCATs are done! A review on "Energy Drinks!"

So after many 13hour days of studying, my test is done. As some might know, I am very close to being narcoleptic when I'm not running around. So as seen by the picture to the left, during those hours of studying I tried multiple different kinds of energy drinks.
1. My favorite is Starbucks Double Shot Light drink, with 130mg of Caffeine, 70 calories and a nice taste it is a clear winner.
2. Enviga- a close second choice comes in many flavors, i perfer the berry one, only 5calories and 100mg of caffeine, tastes more like a snapple then an engery drink.
3. JetSet- also comes in many flavors, i tried the ginger ale, tastes just like a regular ginger ale but with 125mg of caffeine but has a hefty 130 calories per can.
4. Tab- tastes more like a typical energy drink, but has more of a cherry taste with only 5 calories isn't too bad.

Next time you are in need of some caffeine and had enough coffee try an energy drink listed above, just beware http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/ergot_ad.htm

Almost June

Count down 7days 19hours and 20minutes till my life can begin again, . . . till the MCATs are done.
Kickball Spring '07 finished last Friday we got beat by one to the team that went on to win the whole 41 team tourney for a second season in a row. www.myspace.com/reallyjelly is our team site! Summer season is soon to start and we can't wait to challenge another team to a beer drinking contest and of course a kickball game.
See you in June!

Dixie (we didn't pick the name) Jack is in love!

I"m back or atleast my hair color is!

I'm back to blond! Or at least over half the hairs on my head are.
Spring is here and the summer is fast approaching. Sorry for my slacking on postings, but between; indoor soccer, kickball, triathlon training (kind of), MCAT studying and the arrival of a new puppy to our house hold I have been busy. I will update Flickr soon. I"m hoping after the MCATs on May 31st and my med school application due on June 5th that I will be able to post more often then once a month.

February is here

February is here! My birthday has come and gone and more signs of spring are appearing everyday.
I'm halfway through my genetics course and *crossing my fingers* I am still enjoying it.
Last night attended Pete Yorn concert at the Roseland. It was fabulous, he is a great performer. We started out at Danielle's apartment with some Terroso wine from Portugal. http://www.nysun.com/article/39112?page_no=2 I would highly recommed this wine, good price performer, can be found at your local Fred Meyers.