New Calling in Life

Well, I may have found a new calling in life. I spent my day at Baylor School of Medicine participating in a residency fair for medical students. I sat at a booth and talked to students. And I loved it. I am wondering if I can just transition from practicing medicine to just talking about practicing medicine. Describing to people what a "faith based residency program" is certainly raises eyebrows and brings up tough questions. But it was all enjoyable. I discussed medicine and residency with a wide variety of people, including locals, folks from California, multiple Mormons, a Muslim from Turkey and a woman who went to medical school in China and badly wants to be in a residency program. When the Chinese woman asked bluntly if she could come join our program I hemmed and hawed, relaxed my collar and tried to nicely explain that I wasn't exactly the person who gets to decide who actually matches in our program. So is there a future in this ..... we'll see.

Spring has come and gone

One of the sad things about living in Southern Texas is that you really only have one season:SUMMER! I take that back..there are three: a couple of days of spring, summer for 9 months, a month or two of early fall weather, and then a day or two of spring. We had some beautiful weather two weeks ago (in the 60's) and then last Friday we hit 97 degrees--that's right, folks--97 degrees!! It was a record. The last record was set in 1920 at 92. Crazy!!
I tell Matt all of the time that i look forward to moving back up north so that we can have some seasons. But we have realized after talking with family and friends that the southern part of the country does have some good things attached to it. the most important being produce. We have never paid more than 75 cents for an avocado. We love this feature!!
We don't have to worry about winter clothing--but i LOVE sweaters.
We only have to run the heat in the house for maybe a total of 7 days a year. But that leaves 358 days a year for AC.
Okay.. i have gone on long enough about Southern Texas.

It's Official

Well... it has happened. Isabella's first steps. Wobbly. Too fast. Potentially dangerous. Everything you could ask for from a toddler's first steps. I foresee much fun, cuteness and injury.

Laughing--so funny

Last night I was being silly with Isabella during her favorite show: "Dancing with the Stars". She loves to hear the music and to dance along. Anyways.. i was doing high kicks and Isabella thought that this was so funny. The video is a little wobbly because i was kicking. There will be a long video on our youtube site that you can see too.

1st Easter Egg Hunt

This past weekend was our residency Easter Egg Hunt. We had a great time together at our program directors house. Isabella loved the eggs (mostly to just suck on). Here are some pictures from the day:

happy girl

This was a slu (sp.?) of pictures i took last week of Isabella. We think they are pretty cute. It was lunch time and she was very excited about eating. What a happy girl.

videos

I just put a couple of videos on youtube. so, just click on the link on the top left and you'll get right to it. Since we have had to go down on our internet speed it takes forever to upload them to the blog so i'll try to add them to our youtube.

Bear walk

Isabella is crawling so fast these days. She can get across the house in close to 10 seconds.
I just caught her doing her "bear walk" i like to call it. It is pretty funny..i think she wants to walk, but knows she's not there yet.

Our largest craft project yet

Well, after 8 months of having this on my brain and wanting to finish it, we finally got our headboard completed!!!
This project was started with the help of my friend, Heidi, when she was visiting. We got a curtain done and got all of the fabric i would need to complete a headboard. It was going to look great in our bedroom, well the morning that we were going to get to the headboard part, the break-in happened and so went the project.
I didn't get to pull it all out again until the beginning of this new year. Anyways...we got out to Lowe's and got the wood. It just happened to be the windiest day of the year (sometime like 50 mph)--crazy!
Well, here are the final results. I think it is pretty good for a first time. Tell me your thoughts.

Wow... what happened

A lot has happened since the last time I have sat down for my web-based, spilling my guts and thoughts therapy that is affectionately called blogging...


1) very busy last week of february, one of the roughest since last summer's break in to our home
2) computer viruses and spyware, crippling our computer system with comedy
Our desktop read "Warning, there is a 90% chance or greater that you have been infected with spyware and adware, click here to pay $39.99 and it will be removed." Whoever, came up with this one is brilliant yet devious and probably deserves bodily harm.
3) Scooter didn't get fixed, BUT....... I got the new one for $800, with a few problems..... more to come on this
4) 1 week Psychiatry rotation - the feeling of "ahhhh, low pressure schedule and all these people are a lot crazier than me" . A state run hospital on the border of Mexico, staffed by quirky doctors. This week provided mucho blog material
5) Psych day number 3, almost getting attacked by a manic and delusional patient, which ended with me being unharmed and the patient getting restrained and put in isolation. I haven't been that genuinely scared in quite a while.

More to come......