Hello Love! I am going to post some thoughts and feelings from the past couple of days. My access to internet has been limited - cox expects to get us cable by the 29th - but I am glad that I am writing to you now!

On Saturday night my family went to see Hellboy II - one of my Dad's favorite movies - it was pretty good - different than what I expected but good. It is an odd action/hero movie and sort of cute/funny too.

Sunday morning my parents came over to the new place to check it out dressed up for the first time and they liked it. We then went to breakfast at Mac's - it was awesome and as you know cheap. I had the breakfast sandwich, I think you have had it before too. Mary and I then went to the library for the rest of the day to take a practice exam and study until 7 pm mass. I scored a 23 I think, Mary a 26! As I get closer to the test date I am deciding if I am going to apply to both MD and DO schools - it may just be DO but I am not sure. It is a lot of work to fill out the applications for both this is my only chance so I may just do them both anyway. AT STills average score for admitting is a 24.3 - so I hope to be good for DO schools.

I saw Ed Hermes at mass, we had a good laugh because he saw the note you emailed out and I told him I had talked to you twice. Well, his GF has been in Mexico for the past 3,4 weeks and she has only called once! I felt really lucky and sort of bad for Ed - hopefully she call soon. My family was at mass too and we sat with Chris Triv - he sings during mass and has a good voice, I enjoy it. Mary and I then went to four peaks with the gang - there were about 25 Newman people there and everyone asked about you. I sat my John G, Triv and Chela for a bit. We left early to get to bed at 10. I am trying to go to bed every night at 10pm to wake up at 6am to get ready for the test day , plus I like getting up early. We should do it together when you get back :) Before bed Sunday night I had to get ready for a staff meeting Monday morning at work. As a group we are reading "crucial conversations" a book about communicating, and I had two chapters to read - nothing too interesting yet.

Monday was a good and busy day at work. Nancy's dad died this past weekend though, so that sucks. haha, this is sort of funny but, there is this little 18 month girl I tried to take vital signs on and she was scared of me. Every time I entered the room she would start to cry - so of course I stopped. From what Mom said she associated me with male doctors and they make her cry too. But we all had a chuckle! Monday night I went to study and take a test again, can't remember anything about it though. Went to bed and woke up at 6 to take a test this morning at 8am - simulating real test day. It went ok too - I think a 25. We went home to take a break and came back to Noble library at 5:00pm. Mary and are going to study until 9 and then head home. She is house sitting for her friend, so she sleeps over there. Ah, I went to the YMCA this afternoon to check out a membership it looks good - would you want to do it with me? I would love it!

Here are some thoughts or things to come in the blog - Mary was making fun of the blog (in a nice way) asking, "Why don't you just write an email so she can write back?" She makes a good point but a blog is fun too!

• I used the hotel whitcomb pen today at work -remember our trip to SF to "watch bball" - that was awesome!
• Thoughts about prayer and prayers
• Crazy rain we had
• work out plan and scheduling

I think that is it for now love! I hope everything is going great for you so far. I think about you all of the time, wondering - What is Allison doing right now? And it always brings a smile to my face to think about you down there. I am so excited for you but do miss you mucho mucho! More to come on the blog - in fact I am going to send you the link right now. Love you!