XC Meet

Well, I've been trying to make up for the fact that I have missed out on a lot of different events over the two years that I was on the island. Saturday, I went to my brother's cross country meet, held at my alma mater. He actually goes to the same school, too. He's a junior with the ambitions of going to pharmacy school. The running family joke is that I'll be the one to write the perscriptions that my brother will fill, and my sister, who's in the last year of law school, will be the one who will represent me in malpractice suits when either my brother or I mess up the perscription. Yeah, that joke is getting old.

Patience

Patience is supposed to be one of the seven fruits of the Holy Spirit.
It is also said that patience is a virtue. Whoever said that, needs to be lined up in front of a firing squad and told to try to relax and wait until they're actually ready to shoot.

I hate waiting for Step scores. It's driving me crazy!

Nothing New to Report

Nothing new to report on the homefront here. I'm just in the middle of a giant waiting game, as I wait to hear back from friends and their scores, as well as my own. Keep all fingers and toes crossed!

In the meantime, I'm getting organized and cleaned up as I'm trying to take care of the 2 years of junk that I managed to tote back and forth between home and the island. Ebay and half.com have become my two best friends (as well as a source of cash!)

Some Pics around the House

I decided to take some pics around the house , since fall is coming and pretty soon, everything will be dead or dying. The first pic is of the grapevine that is finally starting to produce some grapes.

Be Nice to Me...

...I donated blood. =)

Alfred Hitchcock Birds

Crazy Birds!
Click above to watch these birds that just swoop around every night. It reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock movie.
(sorry, but i couldn't zoom in anymore).

WELCOME ALISHA ZAYNAB

Congrats to my friend, Munir, to his newest little addition.

I'm Back!!!!

Howdy, all!

I'm still alive and kicking, having completed the dreaded med school obstacle: Step 1. The big day was this past Friday. Don't know what to think or expect, but I'm still praying hard and keeping my fingers crossed that things went well for me. At this point, I just want a passing score. I'm not going to be picky =)

Since then, I've done a lot of pacing (it's going to be a long 3 weeks until I get the results!!), as well as trying to relax. Key word: trying. I've played some tennis, saw some family, and now I'm trying to get things organized so that my transition to clinicals can go smoothly (this is the longest that I've been home in 2 years!) I've watched more movies in the past few days than I have in like the last year. And gasp, I'm already bored. For two years now, my life has been on the fast track. To tell me to stop and take it easy is now outside of the norm. I'm literally at the point that I don't know what to do with myself. Ah, well. Shouldn't complain. =)

Going to my happy place

With less than 2 weeks until the big day, I'm as stressed as ever. Pretty much trying to keep the sympathetics from completely overtaking my body (i'm so stressed, i'm beyond the initial parasympa response), i'm at Panera, trying to return my heart rate from its current tachycardic state.

I'm trying to push myself to just keep at it for these last couple of days, but it gets harder and harder to do so, since I'm cycling through "yeah, i can do it" to "i don't wanna do it" to "wah, wah, wah, this test is going to kick my butt."

. just think of my happy place.
Remember, sky light?

Almost forgot...

I have another video of the car before they took it off the blocks... all manly stuff for the guys out there...engine revving, as well as the car horns.

Just click here for the video!

Dad's Roadster Update

So, for those that have been following the progress of my dad's "midlife crisis" (he doesn't read my blog, I think...) Anyway, he's been building a roadster from scratch. Well, it started off as a kit with guidelines, and he goes from there. So anyway, some chrome thingies have been added to the side (I can't even change a tire, so don't ask for details). The body is being custom painted in Charlotte. That won't be finish until October sometime. For now, though, he's putting some last minute touches to it, and test driving it around the area (mainly our long driveway).

And yes, that's my younger brother with him in the car, thinking that he's funny :)

So, for the video, click here

Doe, A Deer...

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Pics of a doe that stopped by in the backyard. I got as close as I could, until it ran off.