Life Update, I'm Going Home!!!!!

I work with great people, I live with fun girls, and I am living in a nice city but... I miss my husband and my dog and my friends, and my school, and..l anyway you get the picture.

Last week in finally got in touch with someone in the Medicine department here and discussed with them whether or not to complete the Medicine SubI i am scheduled for next month now that I am doing surgery. Together we decided that it would not benefit either of us and they kindly allowed me to drop the rotation.

Then i was stuck. Do i do another surgery rotation here and really convince them i would be the best resident ever, or do i go home? Well, after talking with multiple people in the program, i decided to go home. I think that i have done a good job here and two months might be overkill and did i mention that i miss my husband, dog, friends...

Anyway, I will be driving back to Tucson this weekend. My only problem is that I set up to rent my room for two months and now I am leaving. My roommate has already posted my room on craigslist but as far as i know there have not been any takers yet. I would like to ask everyone who reads this blog to pray to whoever it is that you pray to that someone will rent my room because while i did not sign a lease i am too nice of a person to leave my roomie broke like that and I really don't want to pay rent for a room i won't be using. Thanks for your positive thoughts.

oh, and Chris started his new job at Wells Fargo today, yea for no more living on commission!!

Lessons Learned

In the last couple of weeks i have learned many little lessons of patience and choices. While I really like Utah, there are a few things that drive me nutty. First, the stoplights. Every morning (well almost) I sit at at least 5-6 red lights in a row. i stop, go 10 feet, stop again, wait, go 10 feet, stop again, etc. One morning i got so frustrated (remember i go to work at 3:30am so i am the only car on the road) so i decided to take a different route. Bad choice, i ended up running into construction, going in a big circle and ending up pretty much where i started 15 minutes later. Patience learned? yes. later in the week i was cleaning my house (as i often do b/c i am a clean freak and i live with two other girls) and i went to take out the trash. When I went to go back inside the door was locked! Little did i know that if the lock is a certain direction it automatically locks itself! of course my phone was inside, my whole life was inside and i was stuck outside. So i did the only thing i knew to do, I ran to stay warm and thankfully one of my roommates came home 45 minutes later. The last of my tales this week is probably my personal saddest. I made the poor decision to let a boy(who looked 16) in a salon on the corner wax my eyebrows. Again, bad choice, i now have two short, thin lines of hair above my eyes that used to be my eyebrows.

Despite all of these unfortunate occurrences, I had a pretty good week. I worked on the general surgery service, I shopped at a great outdoor mall and found a very nice suit for interviews. I discovered Cold Stone flavored jelly bellys, I have learned to love my long walks to and from work, and I even had time to catch a movie.

P.S. I must apologize for all of the whining that occurred last week. Apparently I experienced an unusual short-lived cold-front that by Tuesday had passed. I am now living in what many of you told me I should be enjoying, the Fall. The leaves have suddenly changed to beautiful yellow, oranges, reds, and browns and are fluttering in the breeze outside. The early morning and late evenings are chilly but during the day it is all sunshine. It is really quite pleasant.

It's Colder!!!

Ok, i know i am still whinning but now it is snowing i am so not ready. I keep telling myself that it is beautiful and and I should enjoy it but really i am just cold. It is not just cold rain or sleet snow either. It is big fluffy pieces of snow, snowing. Again pretty, but such a hassle. And for all my resisting yesterday, i went back to the store today and bought a heated mattress pad because i froze all night last night (ps air-mattresses are NOT warm). After the store i headed over to my new coffee shop spot and hauled all my books, bags, and computer of the car and through the snow only to find that it was closed! so sad. So then i started driving to a different coffee shop and the snow kept getting thicker and thicker and i began thinking, "should i just go home? are the roads going to get bad? should i give up? if i do is that being scared and weak or would it be smart? is God trying to tell me i should not be out today?" All this is running through my head as i keep turning toward the coffee shop then back toward home alternatly. I ended up going back to my house and i am still not sure if that was a smart choice or an intimidated by the weather choice but either way i am alive (but still cold...)