Buckling Under Peer Pressure

After an unusual 2006, and many requests to journal some of my life experiences, I've buckled. Living with an 82 year old and working in an emergency room as a practitioner is not the normal life of a 26 year old single female. So, as my new years resolution (which I don't usually make), I will try to keep an up-to-date journal on many of the stories that keep me laughing as I meander through my life's experiences while searching for the Lord's will in my life.....

Today I drove back home (OXR, Al) from my parents in Louisiana. The whole town that I grew up in is now completely different. They are finally widening the road my subdivision is on to 4 lanes and so many trees were cut down in the beginning process. It's amazing how many houses are on the road between my house and school that I have never noticed before. (I travelled that road almost everyday of my life for 13years and never knew people actually lived behind what I thought was all woods!) And, word on the street is that we are going to get chain restaurants where the new Wal-Mart was just built!!! My little town just outside Baton Rouge is about to be metropolitan area....AUGH!!!

Doesn't everyone really dislike 18wheelers that throw rocks up on your windshield? Well, it wasn't exactly an 18-wheeler, that would have been too easy. Instead a old dump trunk that was carrying a back-hoe on the oldest trailer I've ever seen threw a huge rock and cracked part of my windshield. Unfortunately, the antiquity of the vehicle must have been the reason why there was no license plate number to write down... Hopefully insurance will cover it, because I've put enough money into my car the past year. Okay enough gripping....

OH GUESS WHAT?? I found out today that I get to go snow skiing!!!! I'm so excited, I didn't think I was going to have the chance this season, but fortunately Libby and I are going to go north of Las Vegas for a weekend. I know it's not Colorado snow, but hey at least I get to be on skis again!! :-)

Okay, I start work tomorrow so hopefully I'll start some interesting medical stories tomorrow.....