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| Don't faint, I'm updating...Hi everyone. I know I haven't posted anything since Christmas, so here goes. Just before Christmas I found out that I am a diabetic. So, on that note I am participating in a diabetic study. Today I got my first meds. I am taking both an injection (Lantus), and a pill (Medformin), but actually the pill could be a placebo. Anyway, I am about to have to inject myself for the first time. I've been doing the finger pricks to test my blood for 2 weeks now, so I think that will help me, but I am still hesitant. Your prayers are appreciated.
On another side of the note, it is now apparent that I REALLY need to lose weight. So, I bought a treadmill. I put it together last night. Surprisingly it was pretty easy to get together. Now I just have to start seriously using it. 
Hope everyone else is doing well.
Love to all my friends and family!  | | |
| Merry Christmas everyone!Just wanted to wish everyone a
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Let us remember the reason we celebrate is to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope everyone gets to enjoy family during Christmas and New Years. Love to you all!  | | |
| I'm back homeI got back home Saturday evening. My trip was great and I enjoyed the time with family, but it is always good to get home. Now it is time to look forward to Christmas. I feel like I am more in the Christmas spirit this year than in the past few years. Maybe because this year I am able to give more since I am still working through the winter. That is the bad thing about contract work, you are at the mercy of their needs. But, the point is that giving is one of the really nice ways of celebrating Christmas. I have made it a personal tradition over the past 10 years to spend the same amount I do on my nieces and nephews in buying toys for Toys for Tots. I just pretend like I have one more niece or nephew out there that I need to buy for and I concentrate on toys for this one.  So, I need to get busy with finishing up the shopping.
I will be spending Christmas with my brother and his entire family, along with his daughter in law's Mom and brother and sister in law. It should be a wonderful few days of sharing and just spending time together. It is always good to be able to be with family and friends, especially when they are Christians during Christmas time.
Bekah and I went to see a movie on Friday night. We saw August Rush. If you haven't seen it yet, it is a real must see and great for the entire family (PG). It was wonderful! Both Bekah and I and her friend that went with us all loved it! I really want to see it again soon. I may actually go to the movies by myself just to see it, which is something I am not in the habit of doing. It will make you cry, laugh, and totally make your heart soar. You can't help but get so caught up in what is happening. Well, I won't say more. Don't want to spoil it for you!
I also got to see Lucy, oh and Michael and Paula-Beth too.  We all had lunch together on Friday. Lucy is growing and such a pretty baby. She slept the whole time we were at lunch though so I didn't get to play with her. I am so looking forward to seeing her more at Christmas.
Well, I better get back to work.  Love to all!
MERRY CHRISTMAS! | | |
| Offending us as ChristiansMy cousin sent me this link http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000005834.cfm to a video about how the companies seem to be afraid to use the word Christmas in their advertising or even in the vocabulary at all. I thought the video was great. I like how he expressed that 90 % of us celebrate Christmas and although maybe some of the other 10% are offended by the word Christmas, if you are a shrewd businessman, shouldn't you be more concerned with offending the other 90% of us? Who is going to spend more money? Those few who are offended by the word Christmas or the majority who are offended by leaving out the word Christmas?
I'm with him on the idea of practicing "Merry Tossmas." When I get a catalogue or magazine for Holiday savings or Holiday gifts, I will celebrate "Merry Tossmas" by tossing it in the trash.
Check out the Mike Huckabee videos to the right also. | | |
| Going home tomorrow!Well tomorrow morning is the last of this first residency. It has been great. I know that there is a lot of work ahead of me to obtain the Doctorate degree, but I actually feel much better about all the work now. CTU has shown that they will be very helpful and will ensure that they do not stand in my way for success, but instead will help me as much as they can.
There are 13 people in my group and we are the DM (Doctorate of Management) 13 class, which means we will be the 13th group to complete this program. After this weekend I think we all made a great start at a feeling of camaraderie and that we are a team who will support each other through this journey. It is quite a varied group, one woman originally from Iran, a man originally from Nicaragua, a man originally from the Dominican Republic, a woman originally from Jamaica, and a man originally from Mexico. Among the other 8 of us, there are 3 retired military (2 men and 1 woman). The rest of us all come from varied backgrounds. We all come from a wide array of geographical locations, New York, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston (2), Michigan, Pennsylvania, Denver (2), Colorado Springs area (3) and of course me from St. Louis. Our proffessor is from California. It should be an interesting 3 years.
We also spent a lot of time in the larger group with those there for their Doctorate of Computer Science and Doctorate of Enterprise Information Systems.
Tomorrow afternoon I will start for home. It has been a great time, but I am ready now to go home. 
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