It has been a busy year for us. Jamie is now officially an LPN and on her way to RN and we are now homeless, sort of, in a perpetual camper kind of way. I've had the rare opportunity to be at four, count'em, four! facilities during my two travel assignments, which is unusual at best and makes me a crazy person at worst. (Hey now.... I heard that.) But we achieved several major goals this year, selling the house quickly and to a very nice woman who will love it and take good care of it, divesting of most of the material items we'd accumulated in 9 years, and we actually were crazy enough to leave behind everything and everyone we knew and go off into the wilds of Arkansas. To a place where you can't find one decent real grocery store, just Wal-mart (crummy produce).... and where, believe it or not, the traffic sucks. And to top it all off,...it's a dry county! Who ever imagined-- no bar at Chili's!!! Jamie just said, "but the scenery is pretty though" .... well, she's a tree hugger who loves bear and moose, what more needs to be said? I will give her that the area is beautiful. It really was during the Fall in the mountains. I just wish the people's vistas here were as open and welcoming. But the weather is pretty nice, relatively speaking.... and I like the facility where I'm working (enough to re-enlist as their indentured servant.... I mean, traveler).... and Jamie likes her new job, so we will stay here until the end of April.I hope the start of 2009 finds all of you warm, happy, safe and looking forward to the opportunities that lie before us in the coming year. We love and miss all of you..... and I'd lift a glass and drink a toast to you.... if I could buy champagne around here!!!
Have a Very Happy New Year!!
