Life is Good

Hey, Barb.

Love the neighborly hoopla last night. What's up with that? And then having to get up at the crack of dawn to go to work. Sorry.

No late night parties here, even though it is Tuesday Late Night, which is what we grownups call the District's Wednesday Late Start.  Usually it's dinner with the gang, but a) T&A have family plans and 2) the weather is so unbelievably crappy that none of us even wants to walk across the street for dinner.  I had ribs planned for this evening and once you're committed to that, you're kind of stuck.  So in a few minutes, I'll head out onto the soaked deck in the pouring down sideways rain and Halloween-decoration-destroying winds, to barbecue. They better be good.

But the weather isn't really getting me down because I really, really like my new job! It's not as hard to learn all this information as I thought it was going to be, but it's still challenging and entirely new to me, so I'm not bored. And far from capable.  It'll take me a good month, I think, to be totally comfortable working the desk alone. I know, that sounds crazy, sitting here with a Master's Degree, but who thought there would be a gazillion different types of insurance and a gazillion different conditions and rules within each type? And then, working in the same-day clinic I have to process different kinds of state insurance, and the 37 different options for paying when you don't have insurance.

But it's fun.  It's never dull; some of the patients are real characters, as I'm sure you can imagine.  Many, I know personally so that makes it fun too.  Today, my friend Jenni went into labor and I was the first one to know since she's one of our patients. Of course, I couldn't tell anyone, so that kind of sucked :)

The rest of this week I'm on full time, 10 - 7, which will be fine with me since it looks like the weather isn't going to improve any. I'd rather be there than sitting here unable/unwilling to go anywhere.  This weekend is T's birthday; he traditionally throws a birthday/Halloween party that, traditionally, starts out as a few friends coming over and ends up as a massive drinking bash with everyone he knows.  This year will be no different, so I'm sort of planning ahead for that on Saturday night. I hate that Halloween is on Sunday night this year, but JJ has decided he's too old to trick or treat, so I won't have that whole jacked-up-on-sugar problem when it's bedtime.

Look at that...I wrote twice in one week!  And I wrote elsewhere, too! I tried to write a second entry today, to share some pictures from the 50th, but I was having problems transferring them over from iPhoto so I gave up on it.  Just goes to show that busy begets busy.

Love you!
A