IS BUSY!
First off, let me apologize for not posting in a while. This is my second attempt at this blog. The initial page sort of froze up and none of my links worked anymore. I tried to have our friend, Jonathan, help me trouble shoot the problem with me, but it was working for him. So I just decided to start over and transfer everything old to the new.
Tom is very busy. Really he is hardly ever home. They are keeping him very busy at MUSC. I'm lucky if I see him 10 hours during the week. I feel bad that he is SO tired all the time. Of course I also get frustrated when he comes home and wants to eat and go to bed and I just want a few minutes with him when he is conscious. I try to be patient and hold out for the weekends. I get at least one weekend day with him all to myself.
I also have a job. I was hired in July by Dr. Zetz at Crescent Moon Orthodontics. I'm working as an assistant along with another dedicated assistant and then one who has been out sick since right after I started and another who is often out sick due to chronic issues. It makes it interesting. I find it somewhat frustrating that I came to this office from an office where I felt like a valued member of the team and I was confident that Dr. Brown trusted me and wouldn't be mad about decisions I made, but here I feel not quite so appreciated or confident. I only work Thursday and Friday for the most part, so I just go and do my best try not to worry to much the rest of the time.
The vast majority of our things are unpacked and have a home in our new house. The Office still needs book shelves so I can finish unpacking boxes in there, but it's only now getting so it's comfortable to work in the garage after 10am. We also need to finish arranging the garage. It needs shelves and a work bench. I also need to by a table and chairs for the kitchen.
We have a lot more wildlife at this house then we did on Mall St. Just this evening I had two
rabbits in the backyard. The birds are eating me out of house and home. The neighborhood has residential ducks and Hattie and Sam are enthralled with the frogs we encounter on our walks. We also have a couple different lizards running around the house, definitely Anoles and I think the other is a Skink. The best part is the wildlife we don't have. For those of you who had to listen to me wine about Skibby Man and his noisy neighbor in the apartments behind us (over our backyard) in Portland, WE LOVE OUR NEW BACKYARD! It is SO quiet. There is a house behind us, but it has a large backyard so it's a ways away and the only noise I hear is when they are mowing their lawn. It's GREAT!
We are still trying to find restaurants we really like. We have a few we can go back to, but we aren't in love with several of the places we've tried. The supermarkets are lacking as well. I finally made it into Earth Fare a few weeks ago and was so happy to smell that "natural food store" smell. In general the other grocery stores are okay but lacking basics like good frozen vegetables and buttermilk (in the south! Isn't that crazy! I thought buttermilk was as much a staple in the south as Okra and fried chicken! No cornbread, either!)
We did go to see Fort Sumter in August. We also visited Fort Moltre again as well. My sister Lisa and my brother-in-law Kenny came to visit us in mid-August. Kenny is very into history and the civil war and the like. So while they were here we took the boat out to Fort Sumter and had a tour (in the pouring rain, it started just as we got off the boat.) It was very interesting to see the fort and hear about the battle. I didn't know that the fort is actually built on "northern" soil. The land the Fort Sumter sits on is fill brought down from Massachusetts! The aircraft carrier you see here is the Yorktown. It's located at the landing where the boat back and forth to Fort Sumter docks. There is a submerine there as well and you can take tours of both.
First off, let me apologize for not posting in a while. This is my second attempt at this blog. The initial page sort of froze up and none of my links worked anymore. I tried to have our friend, Jonathan, help me trouble shoot the problem with me, but it was working for him. So I just decided to start over and transfer everything old to the new.
Tom is very busy. Really he is hardly ever home. They are keeping him very busy at MUSC. I'm lucky if I see him 10 hours during the week. I feel bad that he is SO tired all the time. Of course I also get frustrated when he comes home and wants to eat and go to bed and I just want a few minutes with him when he is conscious. I try to be patient and hold out for the weekends. I get at least one weekend day with him all to myself.
I also have a job. I was hired in July by Dr. Zetz at Crescent Moon Orthodontics. I'm working as an assistant along with another dedicated assistant and then one who has been out sick since right after I started and another who is often out sick due to chronic issues. It makes it interesting. I find it somewhat frustrating that I came to this office from an office where I felt like a valued member of the team and I was confident that Dr. Brown trusted me and wouldn't be mad about decisions I made, but here I feel not quite so appreciated or confident. I only work Thursday and Friday for the most part, so I just go and do my best try not to worry to much the rest of the time.
The vast majority of our things are unpacked and have a home in our new house. The Office still needs book shelves so I can finish unpacking boxes in there, but it's only now getting so it's comfortable to work in the garage after 10am. We also need to finish arranging the garage. It needs shelves and a work bench. I also need to by a table and chairs for the kitchen.
We have a lot more wildlife at this house then we did on Mall St. Just this evening I had two
rabbits in the backyard. The birds are eating me out of house and home. The neighborhood has residential ducks and Hattie and Sam are enthralled with the frogs we encounter on our walks. We also have a couple different lizards running around the house, definitely Anoles and I think the other is a Skink. The best part is the wildlife we don't have. For those of you who had to listen to me wine about Skibby Man and his noisy neighbor in the apartments behind us (over our backyard) in Portland, WE LOVE OUR NEW BACKYARD! It is SO quiet. There is a house behind us, but it has a large backyard so it's a ways away and the only noise I hear is when they are mowing their lawn. It's GREAT!We are still trying to find restaurants we really like. We have a few we can go back to, but we aren't in love with several of the places we've tried. The supermarkets are lacking as well. I finally made it into Earth Fare a few weeks ago and was so happy to smell that "natural food store" smell. In general the other grocery stores are okay but lacking basics like good frozen vegetables and buttermilk (in the south! Isn't that crazy! I thought buttermilk was as much a staple in the south as Okra and fried chicken! No cornbread, either!)
We did go to see Fort Sumter in August. We also visited Fort Moltre again as well. My sister Lisa and my brother-in-law Kenny came to visit us in mid-August. Kenny is very into history and the civil war and the like. So while they were here we took the boat out to Fort Sumter and had a tour (in the pouring rain, it started just as we got off the boat.) It was very interesting to see the fort and hear about the battle. I didn't know that the fort is actually built on "northern" soil. The land the Fort Sumter sits on is fill brought down from Massachusetts! The aircraft carrier you see here is the Yorktown. It's located at the landing where the boat back and forth to Fort Sumter docks. There is a submerine there as well and you can take tours of both.
