July 13, 2005

• so much to update!!!!! where to begin? i guess with the travel day, last thursday. it began with ian being on the "no-fly list". i didn't know what that was, but apparently it's a list of names of known terrorists who aren't allowed to fly. hehe that got sorted relatively easily! it was a long day. it included being grounded in a small plane in orlando, waiting for a storm to pass, with only peanuts and 90 degree water to subsist on. it ended with tom's friend dave's car being towed right before he was about to come and get us from the airport, and us forgetting one of our bags at the airport. whoops! oh, and the renters not being ready to move out on time so we had to spend our first night in a hotel!

  it's been great to be back though. we've hung out with friends a lot. ian has had a lot of attention, especially from tom's sister heidi. the house is pretty dirty (think two bachelor students and a big dog) and the carpet is TRASHED! our first errand was to lowe's to order new floors. we're getting hardwood downstairs and berber upstairs. can't wait! i've been painting the baseboards. they're trashed too and i want to get them done before the new floors are put in. and i've been cleaning. a lot. an example of how grimy it is.. there's dog pee all over the walls - yellow gooey streams everywhere! YUK!

  our stuff is apperently supposed to arrive on the 20th. the car we don't know yet. tom's friend has lent us a car until friday so i'm planning on doing a lot of errands tomorrow! one cool thing.. it's a convertible. i'd actually never driven one before. i loved it. can't wait for my mini! today is the day that it's supposed to be completed, and shipment from england should take 3-4 weeks so i'll have it by the 2nd week in august!

  tomorrow is an open house at my new office. when i say new, i mean brand new! they've moved offices and i'll be working in the new building. i guess that's what the open house is for. anyway, i'm planning to go and say hello.

  that's all for now. not much exciting going on. oh, one more thing.. aside from some twinges in my elbows from painting, i'm doing great! down to 3 mg of prednisone, and have used my pain med once since getting here! i think i'm going to do so much better with this different lifestyle! i'm still terribly bummed about losing dr gorman, but hoepfully my dr here will be good. it doesn't look great so far.. dr gorman had to call her personally in order to get me an appointment and then it's not until september even though dr gorman wanted it to be this month, and she only sees patients on wednesdays, which is one of my clinic days. *sigh*. at the moment i've asked work to give me some time for the first appointment, and i'll beg the dr to allow me to make friday appointments, when she supposedly only sees kids, but it's a non-clinic day for me so it won't cut into work. why can't it be easy? there isn't a single internal medicine dr at that clinic that's accepting new patients. and since i've been gone for 3 years i'm considered a new patient.

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