To cut or not to cut...that is the question!

Right now is the time when third year medical students begin seriously considering what they are going to do in their future. Is it going to be surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, or something like aerospace medicine? Some know right off the bat. It's easy because they've wanted to be an obstetrician their whole life or the only rotation they've enjoyed is psychiatry.

And then there's the rest of us...unsure of exactly where we are supposed to go and what God has planned. As I talked with a classmate this afternoon, she made the comment that she imagines it's easier to make the decision without having to think about a husband or children. I happen to disagree. I think it would be easier to make a decision if I did have those to think about.

My dean wants my personal statement for residency applications in T-minus 7 days. I've tried to write it like 20 times already, but I can't get past the first paragraph.

Loving when blind is not true love.
True love is seeing the faults and loving nonetheless.
- Anonymous

Maybe a little too excited...

My printer quit working several months ago, and I'd been stalling on buying a new one. I gotten by with using the printers at the hospital and the library.

That's all changed now. I bought a new printer on Monday night. I went intending to buy a cheap printer that just printed on paper. I didn't need any fancy scanner, copier, photo printer contraption. I just wanted a printer. Well...I walked out with a fancy scanner, copier, photo printer contraption...and I couldn't be happier. I'm in love with my new printer...if that's possible. It's glorious. Seriously! It's beautiful. It does exactly what I ask it to, and the pictures are crystal clear.

I'm doing the happy dance. I'll be doing the happy dance for a while. My new printer makes me happy...really happy!

Fond memories

The other day I stopped by a very popular fast food restaurant to purchase a beverage. The line for the drive through was way too long so I decided to pop in and purchase my beverage at the counter. I ordered and was given my cup. I walked over to the soda fountain and realized that I would have to wait a minute or two because someone was ahead of me and she was making a suicide soda (you know...where you mix the different soda flavors together). She was very precise while making her concoction and would taste it after each addition. I couldn't help but chuckle to myself as I remembered doing the very same thing as a child. What made me smile even more was that the lady appeared to be in her eighties. Childlike innocence makes me smile...even in someone who isn't technically a child.

Survey

Rules for the game:
1. Put these rules at the beginning of your post.
2. Answer each question (see below) in your post.
3. Tag five people at the end.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
May 1998...I was finishing up my freshman year of college.

Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Tithe and offerings
2. Pay off my student loans
3. Buy a house
4. Put a large chunk into savings/ investments
5. Start a philanthropic organization to help pay for medical care for those who can't afford it

Five jobs that I have had:
1. Lifeguard
2. Floral arranger
3. Resident assistant
4. NICU registered nurse
5. Neuroanatomy and Behavioral Science tutor

Three of my habits:
1. Checking email frequently, but responding infrequently.
2. Drinking coffee every morning
3. Taking my shoes off the minute I come home or enter someone's house.

Five places I have lived
1. Overland Park, Kansas
2. Azle, TX
3. Waco, TX
4. Dallas, TX (and surrounding cities)
5. Galveston, TX

Five people I want to get to know better (most people have already been named)
1. Bethany
2. Keziah
3. The Hoppers
4.
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In that silence

My heart has been heavy today. Actually, it's been heavy the past several days. I've been crying out to God not knowing what to do, but then this evening, I just sat there. After I finished reading His Word and was reminded that He created the world and it can never be moved by anyone but Him, I just sat in silence. It was in that silence that I felt His peace flooding my soul. It was in that silence that I was reminded of His love and began to sing,

Your love, oh Lord, reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness, stretches to the skies
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains
Your justice flows like the ocean's tide
And I will lift my voice to worship You, my King
And I will my strength in the shadow of Your wings
Your love, oh Lord, reaches to the heavens...

Breaking the rules...

Last night I broke my own rule. I still can't believe I did it. It was something that I held to so tightly. It was something that I actually prided myself on. Maybe it's a good thing...I shouldn't have prided myself in it in the first place.

I'm still quite shocked and don't know if I can type it...I asked people to be my friend on facebook.