A new year

It's a brand new year, full of possibilities!

Rebecca and I flew back to California yesterday morning. Grammy was sad to see us go, and we were sad to leave her, but Ramy was glad to have us home, and we were glad to be back with him. It's so nice to be loved and wanted by so many people! Hopefully it won't be too long that we have to always be flying back and forth and saying tearful goodbyes at airports. But the four suitcases all made it to Ontario with us, and we had a good flight. I had an eye doctor appointment soon after we arrived home, and then I ended up with a horrible headache and enjoyed a nice late afternoon/early evening nap. We were up and at church this morning, and I'm no worse for wear.

This is going to be a really crazy few weeks for us. Ramy has several trials scheduled (he's in closing on one tomorrow, in fact), and I am doing interview after interview. I have fourteen internship interviews, and I never heard back from one site. But 14/20 is pretty good, I think. I'm pleased with it and looking forward to getting the interviews over and done with and my rank ordering submitted, and especially to finding out whether and where I matched. So this is a big week with four, big, very important interviews, because these will definitely be ones that are high on my list! On Tuesday, I'm interviewing at Metropolitan State Hospital and then I have a phone interview in the afternoon with the USC Counseling Center. On Thursday, I'm interviewing at the Los Angeles VA, and then on Friday, I'm interviewing at the Loma Linda VA.

Ramy's mom was taken to the emergency room on New Years Day with chest pains. Although they determined that she did not have a heart attack, she had at least one EKG that was somewhat abnormal and has an enlarged heart. She came home on Thursday but will be having a cardiac stress test tomorrow. So please say a prayer for her, as well as for Ramy's dad who continues to be in exceedingly poor condition.

There are also several other people I'd like to ask for prayer on their behalf. My mom's good friend Marilyn Craig (one of the funniest ladies you could ever meet) has had a long ordeal with back problems and is having something incredibly dreadful-sounding done on Jan. 27. Please pray that this fixes her for good! Lisa Grubbs is also having difficulty after her cancer surgery (although she got excellent news of a complete physical and pathological response to her radiation and the experimental drug she was given) and possibly has an infection. Please pray that she is easily fixed up and back with her family and for her mom Joy who is a newly retired woman, eager to know that her daughter is back on the road to a full recovery. My friend Julie is traveling with Baby Addie for the first time tomorrow. It's a nerve-wracking venture for a mom and baby to get on an airplane, so I'm praying they'll have a good trip and that Julie's interviews go well. I'm sure those Yankees are going to want her to come to their stupid internship sites instead of letting her stay here to hang with me. (I'm only kidding...mostly).

Well, Ramy has taken Rebecca to visit his dad at the nursing home and to visit his mom at her house. In the time they are gone, I need to get all the Christmas decorations down, finish cleaning out my closet of clothes to donate to Goodwill, unpack five suitcases, and put away all our clothes and Christmas gifts. So what the heck am I doing blogging???