Waste Management Bill

I've never been even remotely excited about getting bills in the mail. However, we just received our first piece of mail at our new address from waste management and I was thrilled. We have a garbage can!! Our new address doesn't end in an apartments number, I can pull into a garage (well, I hope I will when we finish unpacking), I have a neighborhood, I have a backyard (tiny-but we have grass), and when the kids are driving me nuts I can send them upstairs! Don't get me wrong, we still live in a condo, but it feels so great to not have anyone living above or below us.

Doug has also finished the worst 2 years of dental school and he feels like a new person now that most of the book work is over. He has really enjoyed his patients and is making great progress on his clinical work. I am so proud of him...he has really accomplished a lot since we have been down here. We both feel a huge relief that he is now in the clinic...Doug feels so much relief that he broke down and bought a TV to celebrate! There is nothing Doug loves more than a good couch and TV and now he has one. Our TV broke about a year ago and he has been going crazy ever since. He defiantly deserves it, but I know I will be in trouble in a couple of months when football season starts!