Hello old friends
There's really nothing new to say
But the old old story bears repeating
And the plain old truth grows dearer every day
When you find something worth believing
Well that's a joy that nothin' could take away

And so we meet again
After all these many years
Did we sow the seeds we're reaping
Now that the harvest calls us here
It seems that love blooms out of season
And much joy can blossom from many tears

So old friends you must forget what you had to forgive
And let love be stronger than the feelings
That rage and run beneath the bridge
Knowin' morning follows evening
Makes each new day come as a gift"


Hey Guys! Just wanted to let you know that I'm really enjoying my new job. It's weird how things change in life. It seems I used to have tons and tons of friends and now, just a few very close ones scattered far, far away. (My closest friend lives 20 minutes or so away...yes Trish, that's you! :) ) It's also hard to hear about coaches getting together and doing things and not being included. I'm sure that moment will come. As a matter of fact, you guys would've thought I was the biggest dork at how excited I got when a teacher yesterday invited me to go for a drink with them after this coming Friday's football game. As I'm sure most of you know, the demeanor of a person inside work is often times much different than the demeanor of a person outside of the office environment. It is the same, even in athletics. Anyway, I'm surviving and loving it. Tomorrow, I'll post a little list I found in a magazine I really liked and my comments on most of the things on it. Have a good night! :)

In an old college tradition....A Happy List!!!!

For those of you who read this and don't know, the Happy List was created my Sophmore year in college. It was an email of, well, things on your mind...not always happy. Some were hidden codes or inside jokes, some were obvious (like the sunshining) and others just an inventory of the life. Somehow a rule evolved that if you included someone on your happy list, you had to include them in getting a copy of it. This way, they knew they made an impact on you and, more often than not, they then joined the list and the circle grew. So, here's my list for this past week....

1. Standing in the rain watching football, football and more football all day yesterday.
2. My new boss' son, Billy (he's 10, in case anyone was wondering)
3. Remembering Erin (who's birthday was August 26th. I hope she's in peace.)
4. My new digital Driver's License (and hoping that I look like my driver's license picture! It was actually a good one!!!)
5. Knowing Trish's husband, Chad was surprised at his 30th birthday party last night and that he'll now stop pouting because no one did anything for him!
6. Jeans weather
7. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
8. Sleeping 12 hours today
9. The Emmy's (I'm addicted to watching them...and trash t.v. in general)
10. The new Fall t.v. season (and knowing now more than ever I need Tivo, since I won't be able to watch all the shows I've grown addicted to like Jack & Bobby, American Dreams, CSI - Miami and Vegas, The O.C., The West Wing, etc.)
11. Kaitlyn Mollie Lewis
12. Hoping my cousin Jeremiah is happy. (He got engaged...or was supposed to...Friday night to a girl from Brasil - where he is currently until January...back at the Word of Life camp he attended for 2003.)
13. Eating like a Pac-Man (and I want so much to lose 10 or 15 pounds, as I'm now the heaviest - scale wise, even though I don't think I look like - I have ever been.
14. Feeling pretty good as I, and those around me, approach 30!
15. My mom's cats. (They do o.k. filling in for Maverick)

Happy Fall everyone! (At least it feels like it here today!)

As of 2:30pm yesterday, I have a license!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone!

I was gonna get on here Thursday night and write a whole little blog about my last "official" day at Lanier. (I worked for our Philly office Friday, so I had to turn everything in on Thursday.) I was a bit sad to be leaving and it caught me by surprise. I was going to get on here Friday and write about how dissappointed I was that my license didn't come through yet. Everyone seems to be able to sympathize with how frustrated I must be that the State Medical board lost my license (and check), then found it, then wouldn't retrun my phone calls for 6 months, then did return my phone calls but things went slowly (and I wound up having to re-submit some forms anyway) and finally, finally after about 1 year of submitting paperwork and checks and badgering people to get answers and processed I am only awaiting my fingerprinting results. Which as of today I still don't have (and I was fingerprinted a week ago). Tonight, I finally decided to log on and just let you all know that I had my first day of work today at Lenape...where I couldn't do much because I don't have a license. The group that is now handling my licensure is very good. Unfort., they can't speed up the Crimial Background people in getting my prints processed (they told us Friday it would be two weeks). (My dad's golf partner, a judge in a neighboring county told us they can get fingerprints processed within 24 hours. So, if I get arrested, they can run my background check fast. To work for the state with children after an agonizing year of state run mishaps and blunders on my behalf, two weeks.)

In any case, every night I thought about writing I realized I was too tired to sit for any length of time and do anything but sleep. So, before I retire for this evening, I just thought I'd give you an update. The day my license does finally go through...I might break down and cry from sheer exhaustion of fighting the state every step of the way in what should be a normal, month or so process. I hope you all are doing well.