We ended up getting several inches of snow! It's horrible for our roads though. They don't salt or treat our roads at all. I walked out to the mailbox this morning, and it was just one solid sheet of ice/snow. I've seen a few cars braving the big hill in front of our house and going down into the holler. The teen girls next door had fun all day yesterday sleding and the such. It's days like this that make me want to have kids because I can just see them having fun and playing outside. Plus, it's nice to have the whole weekend off. I was supposed to work, but I wasn't as brave as my neighbors. Also, I got stuck a few weeks ago when it got icy. I had to park at the bottom of our hill and hike through the woods (in high heels, mind you!) to our house. It was horrible! Now my motto is just to stay in. If Clay was here, he might have been able to drive me out. He is from the North afterall.

I love the picture windows in our living room. I'm watching a woodpecker have fun with a tree in our backyard. Also, friday morning, I went to let Little Sister out, and there were about 40 turkeys in our side yard beside our barn! Did you know that turkeys sleep in trees? They do!

Our little piece of the world

Beautiful Snowy Woods

Little Sister tracks!

Snow in the South!

It's officially a huge snow storm here in Tennessee. It's very white and beautiful outside. I'm just glad that I'm inside to enjoy it. Little Sister loves the snow too, which is actually surprising because she hates being outside and pretty much everything to do with nature. She is our princess afterall, but snow is different because she LOVES eating it. I'm sure she would have loved the days when people made snow cream. I heard a lady at the dollar store telling the cashier how her mom used to make her the best snow cream.

Anyways, it's sad though too because Clay is stuck in Memphis. The roads are just too dangerous for him to even try to drive here, which means we are going two weeks without seeing each other.

Earlier today I decided to go down and stay with my parents for the weekend, but as soon as I hit Nashville I could tell the bridges were freezing, and it was getting more and more dangerous. Then, I heard on the radio that there were about 30 reported wrecks on 65 south. So, I decided to come home. I do have a lot of things to do this weekend. I definitely need to get the bedroom painted and some things cleaned up. There's always tomorrow though :)

Clay and I have been good.... and completely boring! Thus, the lack of blog production.

Tomorrow is the last day of my first rotation. It was pretty uneventful overall. I did learn about a type of pharmacy that I did not know existed. I also got to brush up on my IV making skills, which is something I hadn't done since my first year. Basically, I work at the central pharmacy for a group of a few dozen nursing homes in the mid-south area. My favorite day was when I was with the consultant pharmacist at one of the centers. She actually uses her brain for the majority of her day reviewing patient charts, making sure the doses and schedules are correct, and verifying there are is a diagnosis for each prescription. This is all to help the patient and circumvent the era when nursing home residents were prescribed medications to keep them asleep so they are easier to take care of. Many of the other pharmacist at the central pharmacy have a pretty laid back 9-5 job. It's something to consider if I ever wanted a more normal schedule.

I'm at Summit Medical Center starting Monday doing a clinical management rotation. This should be pretty interesting. I just hope I learn a little bit more than I did this month.

Clay has been travelling back and forth to Memphis for a few weeks now. I think he has finally decided that he doesn't like doing that. It's hard to work as much as he does and not ever really have a truly relaxing day. Clay has been doing home improvement things around the house every weekend. I think this may be the last weekend that we actually "work" around the house for awhile. If we can just get the bedroom painted our lives would be complete!!! We also have several things we need to get framed and just a few boxes left to unpack. I can't wait until it's done.

Sadness

Our kittens are missing, and we are sad. I hope they come back when the rain stops....

INTERNET

So, we finally, finally have internet after what feels like a millionty years. Believe me, using the iphone is NOT the best way to do all of the internet things one needs to accomplish! I'm still not thrilled with the internet that we do have, but something is better than nothing. At least, that's what they say. We also do not have cable, which I am enjoying very much. We get about five good channels with rabbit ears, and I am getting much more accomplished. More later...

So, Clay got me a brand, new laptop computer for finishing classes, which was totally unexpected. We had been talking about getting a new computer for awhile considering our desktop is broken, and our current laptop is outdated. I told him it would be amazing if I could just have the REAL version of Microsoft Word and not the bootleg copy. It's so pretty and GREEN! He originally got blue, but we switched it for green. This is me fidgetting around with the built-in webcam thing. We have too much fun with ourselves!

Five Days and Counting...

We had a wonderful visit with Rachel and Jonathon yesterday. They made it here in time to go to late service with us, and Rachel was even brave enough to let Clay drive her car (I don't know what she was thinking!?). We went to Swanky's taco shop for lunch, and then we browsed around at Borders. I ended up buying two books, Blue Like Jazz and 400 Sauces (a recipe book). We also shopped around Target for a little bit because Rachel wanted to look at slipcovers for their new couch. None of us bought anything though. The rest of the afternoon was spent being lazy and just talking. Clay and JD played some dumb football game on the play station that seemed like just a bunch of noise to me. They seemed to enjoy it though. All in all the afternoon seemed to fly by, and it was eventually time to go back to church.

We ended up playing dirty Santa at Ben and Monica's. I had a such a good time, and I hadn't laughed so hard in a very long time! Monica just make me laugh and laugh and laugh! I'll be sad to leave that group of people....

I finished my last exam EVER today, woo hoo!! I'll have different tests and things to take while on rotation, but hopefully, I won't have these really stressful exam periods. Plus, all of my rotations are only one month long. Anyone can do anything for one month, right?

We are planning on moving back to Nashville this weekend. Our preliminary plans are to load the U-Haul (or other cheaper company) on Friday night. If we do that then we can get the apartment cleaned up on Friday night/Saturday morning, and hopefully we'll get our deposit back. After we turn in our keys and all on Saturday, we will go pick up Spec, and then head towards our home in Nashville. We hope to get there early afternoon, but that's a pretty optimistic goal.

Clay finally got his car window fixed......$150 later.