perot in the news

in the business section of the dallas morning news on sunday there was an interesting article that the head honchos at perot (whom i've met) were interviewed for:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/techtelecom/stories/DN-medicalrecords_15bus.ART0.State.Edition1.4c3f33a.html

Texas

i landed in texas at 10:00 on saturday night and the first stop on the way to the hotel was a #3 from taco bueno. yum! sunday involved seeing mom and dad and having a cranberry limeade from sonic.
for the next eight weeks, i will be staying in an extended stay in plano. today was the second day of the health care academy and i got assigned my first project. out of 23 associates i was picked as the team lead/project manager. this will be my first chance to impress the big boys, so i'm pretty excited. i don't have all the details yet, but the project involves work flow processes for uta's nursing school.
here is my last picture in boston:
**i bought a new hair straightner today so that nastiness should hopefully be remedied

if you are at all interested in healthcare...

things within the healthcare industry are going to be changing pretty rapidly, so these are a couple of blogs that i read daily:



http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/



http://news.avancehealth.com/

one month

i admit i've been somewhat lax with the updates but that is because nothing much is really going on here besides working. monday was my one month anniversary in boston... the time has flown. i fly back to texas on saturday and am excited because texas has:
1. family
2. friends
3. sonic, bueno, chick-fil-a
4. warm weather

speaking of weather, it has warmed up here. we got up to fifty on sunday before dropping back down into the twenties. since the snow has started melted pretty much everything is brown and slushy.

allison and i have gone jogging the last couple of weekends. it is nice to have someone to run with... especially because i probably wouldn't go running in the cold by myself. mostly we are doing P90X, which is kicking my rear.

the church i'm attending here is doing a thing called the essential 100 challenge, so i've been reading a passage daily on the train and enjoying it. i would definitely recommend it:
E100.AmericanBible.org

sans snowsuits

Megan requested pics of the girls without their snowsuits and what Megan wants, Megan gets. Allison got her digital camera back yesterday and took a couple of pictures and I stole them.

Whitney showing off her two teeth:


Malarie playing:

Snow Day

yesterday church got canceled on account of snow. we got AT LEAST a foot yesterday. the snow was too soft to build a snowman or sled, so we just played. and i finally took some pictures!



this is a tree in the front yard...there is a trunk under there somewhere


malarie and me in the backyard



see how deep it is? there is no snow angel-ing, just snow flopping



malarie has a rockin snow suit



whitney just looks like a marshmallow



in the front yard... the snow is up to my shoulder


sitting on the snow pile

proof that i can shovel snow... i have to earn my keep :)

malarie watching as i work... to bad it snowed again and covered up my path

One Week

I've officially survived one week of Boston. Lindsay and Steven showed me a really good place in chinatown yesterday to get pho, which makes me happy and we walked to Macy's to shop during lunch, which I just find weird. Sometimes it feels like I've been here a year- mostly because the Williamsons treat me like family- but then I get confused all over again and realize I'm still a tourist. Since I've ridden the train/subway four days in a row I think that technically makes me almost a pro (besides the fact that I can really only get from home to work to back home again). Even though I freeze my bum off waiting for the train-I need to buy better gloves- I definitely like sitting and reading for a half hour better than sitting in my car and yelling at people. I take the express train in to work so I don't have to remember stops, but going home the train makes about seven stops. Normally the conductor announces which station you are at--you REALLY don't want to miss your stop--but the first night he wasn't announcing where we were and I started to panic a little. But, I sucked up my pride and asked the lady next to me who pulled out a map and told me where I was and how long before I got off. So, there are a couple nice people here in Boston.
Despite the thermometer reading 0.0F (meaning the temp is somewhere in the negatives) I am going to make my first trip to the mall today. I was wearing high heels without tights yesterday and my manager informed me that I need to buy some stockings to keep warm. I will also be buying some batteries for my camera. As far as work goes, I'm still pretty overwhelmed and feeling pretty useless. I'm starting to learn the basics of the applications and doing some really some projects. Hopefully someday I'll feel intelligent again. I was in a meeting on Wednesday and some lay asked me where I was from. When I replied "Texas" her response was "but you don't have an accent." Ummm... not everybody who is from Texas talks like a hick.
Happy Three Day Weekend!