A fresh new day

I miss blogging. I stopped for a while because it seemed tiresome and I feel like my life is not nearly interesting enough to document and send out to the world. But the truth is I really miss it. It is quite cathartic to type out my thoughts and send them to cyberspace. It somehow rids me of mulling them over, and over...and over.

So here I am!

How do I start when I've been gone for so long? I have a whole list of topics that I've been jotting down in my phone - things that strike me as funny, or unusual, or thoughts I just need to put out there. But how do you pick the most important, most brilliant and thought provoking one for my grand return to blogger?!?!

You can't. That's all there is to it. And so here is what is happening in my world at this exact moment:
1) I am trying to get back on the health eating train, so I am currently eating a whole wheat sub from subway - even though I like white bread much better, and in fact really wanted a bean burrito from Taco Casa.

2) I don't understand how so many flies got in my house, or why they refuse to stick to the fly paper and die.

3) My dog is staring at me from the backyard wondering why I am such a bad owner as to make him go out in the 100 degree heat.

4) I am starting my packing list for going HOME. Ahhhhhh home. Just saying the word makes my shoulders relax and my brow un-furrow and the world seem like a slightly better place. I have really grown to love Texas, and love our adventures, but nothing will ever, E.V.E.R., replace the deep gladness of having my toes in the cool grass while I pick out cloud shapes and discuss nothing in particular with my family.

and finally 5) since this blog is supposed to be about my learning and my life in medicine (not just my life in general) I'm happy to report that I'll be taking on a new job! I'm still working at the Rural Health Clinic but I will also be filling in some time for the hospitalists. Yay for seeing in-patients! That is a whole side of my brain that has not been used in a long time, and I"m very much looking forward to dusting off the cobwebs.

So, if you are still out there, even though I've neglected you for so long - hello :) welcome back :) I'll try to do better :) and thank you for listening/reading my internet based catharsis.

Much love
Pamela