New Job

   Since getting back from our anniversary trip, I started a new job.  I was not unhappy in my old job.  In fact I liked it quite a bit, so it was a hard decision to change.  I gave it alot of thought.  My new job is about 180 degrees different than my old job.  The patients are all different, the schedule is different, just about everything is different.  I feel a bit unsettled.  Also I'm learning alot.  It's hard to be new and trying to figure your way around.  It takes awhile to feel confident in your decisions.  Next week I'm going to the KY nurse practitioner conference and hope to get some good information to take back to my new job.  I look forward to learning opportunities.

Anniversary Trip

  This is a hard discipline to be faithful to.  I took a vacation and started a new job and haven't blogged about any of it.  I guess I'll start with our 25th anniversary and our vacation.  Back at Christmas my husband gave me this really strange present of a trip from Minnesota to New Orleans on the train.  We had some words over the whole thing.  This was to occur in one week and the thought of riding a train for a week did not appeal to me.  The whole thing put a damper on our Christmas and I get mad whenever I think about him giving me a trip on our anniversary as a Christmas gift.  He had good intentions but was misguided.  The Minnesota part was so that I could see The Prarie Home Companion, which I have listened to since I was 20.  Well as I later found out, the Prarie home Companion was going to be at Nashville at the Ryman on March 26th our anniversary.  The New Orleans part was so he could go to the WWII museum there.  So as it worked out, we went to Nashville and then down to New Orleans.  We had a wonderful time both places so maybe I can forget the whole Christmas present debacle.  We stayed at a great bed and breakfast in New Orleans which I'd recommend to anyone.  Look up The Green House Inn on Magazine street. (I need to learn how to add links here)   Garrison Keilor was great at the Ryman and friends were in Nashville at the same time so we got to spend some time with Cathy and Baker too.  I loved the city of New Orleans.  We enjoyed great drinks, food and shopping.  I love all the history there and I even enjoyed the WWII museum.  On the way home we went by my sisters, my aunt's and my mom's house.  It was great trip and we had a wonderful 25th anniversary celebration.  It was good to get away by ourselves.