Ummm, hello? Ahem? Is this thing on?

Hi family! I am not dead, but rather, alive and well :-) I have been going 90-to-nothing since i moved back home in october. I am working at a Neuro ICU/Intermediate stepdown unit and learning a lot. The hardcore ICU class starts in Feb, but I take 4-5 intermediate patients on my own after a 6-week psuedo-orientations. I look stupid a lot :-) And only one doctor has made me cry... but I hid it well and was not found out. I learned that no one will go to bat for you if taking responsibility for their own actions may cause consequence for them. They will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat. Not my kind of world, but the one in which we live :-/

So work is good. My little 2008 Toyota Yaris was running just fine until a sports car ran me over from behind on christmas eve. He was going about 50 and I, ony about 15, and he was looking out the window to the left. So, he threw me into the car in front of me but after I skidded a ways. I had two impacts but the worst part is that my coffee went everywhere. My sister Jamie (randy's daughter) was there in a heartbeat because mom was out of town and she walked me through the process of after-accident-bullshit. You always remember your first time, i guess :-) Or so I'm told!!!!!!!!

the last bit of news i have is that i am falling in love :-) hardcore. But dont tell him that because i dont want him to run for the hills! never felt this way about anyone and he... he... i don't know. he's just great. his name is ian. he's 26 and handsome as the day is long? Wanna see a picture? I thought I would take a poll. Anyway - that's all from me for now... life is good. I am on the right track and plan to keep moving in this direction... it's serving me well!

LOVE!
Cas