by Cougar Cannon
I love sugar;
I love bread.
I wear underwear
on my head.
In art class Cougar made a poetry book for all his deepest sentiments. This is what I found written inside.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
It's been a month since my last confession...
What a month it's been! We moved into our new home in "The Gates" from our hut at the beach. It was a lot of work, but worth it!
And we went to Disney! I love Florida
Friday, September 3, 2010
Beach Cruiser
Happy Birthday to ME!!! I've been hinting for about a year now! Chad and the kids are soooo sweet!
And they got me PINK roses to match!
And they got me PINK roses to match!
Our Medical Journey: Residency
Undergrad seems like a lifetime ago. Medical school is a distant past. The real world feels like the distant future...
It's a resident, is what we are. The transition from Med School to residency seemed stark although we didn't move until after internship year. We stayed with the University of Oklahoma for Chad to do his Surgery year.
I went from too much Chad in 4th year med school, to who was that Chad guy that used to be my husband?
At that time, we were living in Oklahoma, but I felt like a filthy rich somebody that year. Our rent was only $600 a month for a lovely home and for the first time in 4 years we got a pay check. Hey kids lets go get ice cream! No, not from the grocery store!
The next year led us to University of Tennessee where we bought our first house and Chad learned he did NOT want to be a radiologist.
Three months later I was laying on the floor upstairs in my master bedroom gripping the carpet screaming NO!!!!!!!! as the movers piled all my belongings in a moving van. It was raining outside. I got drug away, anyway.
Even the movers laughed as they pulled up to our 916 sq foot cinder block hut in Florida. It's been a tough year. The good news is that Chad loves anesthesiology. Cougar loves his school. And I actually love living in Florida and get to move into a new house in 12 days and counting.
One of the most difficult parts of going from Medical School to Residency is learning that Loan companies lie. Learning that all those loans that they promised wouldn't come due until AFTER residency are forcing repayment. As if residency doesn't pay poorly all ready. It is a very aggravating challenge.
I am very proud of Chad for all of his hard work to get where he is now. While I didn't always get my way, I know that we are where we are supposed to be, doing what we are supposed to be doing.
It's a resident, is what we are. The transition from Med School to residency seemed stark although we didn't move until after internship year. We stayed with the University of Oklahoma for Chad to do his Surgery year.
I went from too much Chad in 4th year med school, to who was that Chad guy that used to be my husband?
At that time, we were living in Oklahoma, but I felt like a filthy rich somebody that year. Our rent was only $600 a month for a lovely home and for the first time in 4 years we got a pay check. Hey kids lets go get ice cream! No, not from the grocery store!
The next year led us to University of Tennessee where we bought our first house and Chad learned he did NOT want to be a radiologist.
Three months later I was laying on the floor upstairs in my master bedroom gripping the carpet screaming NO!!!!!!!! as the movers piled all my belongings in a moving van. It was raining outside. I got drug away, anyway.
Even the movers laughed as they pulled up to our 916 sq foot cinder block hut in Florida. It's been a tough year. The good news is that Chad loves anesthesiology. Cougar loves his school. And I actually love living in Florida and get to move into a new house in 12 days and counting.
One of the most difficult parts of going from Medical School to Residency is learning that Loan companies lie. Learning that all those loans that they promised wouldn't come due until AFTER residency are forcing repayment. As if residency doesn't pay poorly all ready. It is a very aggravating challenge.
I am very proud of Chad for all of his hard work to get where he is now. While I didn't always get my way, I know that we are where we are supposed to be, doing what we are supposed to be doing.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
I's been bein' industrious
I had a baby shower to go to and was low on cash at the moment, so I went through my fabric scraps and put this together. It was a big hit! Yay!
Florida does have rainbows! Who would have thunk?!
My chic paint job was looking rather shabby. So, I zenned and embraced. I painted the outdated drawer pulls "cake batter" same as dresser. Then attacked all edges with sandpaper revealing the mahogany underneath. Now we're "shabby chic"!!!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Our Journey: Medical School
Medical School, gosh, seems so long ago! But not really. Everything is just so different now.
Chad had several options for medical school. He chose OU because it was in-state and MD. Both very good choices in retrospect.
I remember Chad saying I was a snob for not wanting to live in the cheap apartments in OKC. I wanted to live in "The Village." The lovely town homes on campus that were not cheap. I said fine and we drove to OKC a couple weeks before school started to look at his cheap apartments he found online.
Chad learned a lesson that day. Large cheap apartments downtown are not for young white doctors' families. I had set up a tour with the apartment manager. As we went on our tour, I swear people were coming out of their apartments, looking at us and slapping baseball bats against their palms. He couldn't wait to get out of there! But I made him stay for the complete tour. The apartment they showed us had marks from a crowbar up and down the sides of the door!
Fortunately, I had also made an appointment with the nice Town Homes on campus. I got my way that day.
It was really fun living on campus. I saw Chad far more that any other wives saw their husbands and since Cougar was only 2 I wanted him to see his dad as much as possible. We made good friends and had a lot of fun. Frequently, we would have husbands on our couches crashing because they didn't want to drive all the way home during test block week. I'm so glad we lived on campus.
When another little one, Juliet, came along she slept in the hall and we were out of space. Chad went to Tulsa for the last two years of school, which was also nice because that is where we have family. Third and Fourth year were like a big party. Chad had good friends that also came to Tulsa and lived close by. We enjoyed it very much.
We lived in Loan Utopia. Borrow, borrow, borrow. Our motto was, "What's another 10 grand?!"
Food Stamps, Wic and Medicaid got us by on what we couldn't borrow. We managed to come out of Med School without any credit card debt. HA! I was Soooo proud. Pride has a way of humbling us. Residency is a whole different ball game folks.
Chad had several options for medical school. He chose OU because it was in-state and MD. Both very good choices in retrospect.
I remember Chad saying I was a snob for not wanting to live in the cheap apartments in OKC. I wanted to live in "The Village." The lovely town homes on campus that were not cheap. I said fine and we drove to OKC a couple weeks before school started to look at his cheap apartments he found online.
Chad learned a lesson that day. Large cheap apartments downtown are not for young white doctors' families. I had set up a tour with the apartment manager. As we went on our tour, I swear people were coming out of their apartments, looking at us and slapping baseball bats against their palms. He couldn't wait to get out of there! But I made him stay for the complete tour. The apartment they showed us had marks from a crowbar up and down the sides of the door!
Fortunately, I had also made an appointment with the nice Town Homes on campus. I got my way that day.
It was really fun living on campus. I saw Chad far more that any other wives saw their husbands and since Cougar was only 2 I wanted him to see his dad as much as possible. We made good friends and had a lot of fun. Frequently, we would have husbands on our couches crashing because they didn't want to drive all the way home during test block week. I'm so glad we lived on campus.
When another little one, Juliet, came along she slept in the hall and we were out of space. Chad went to Tulsa for the last two years of school, which was also nice because that is where we have family. Third and Fourth year were like a big party. Chad had good friends that also came to Tulsa and lived close by. We enjoyed it very much.
We lived in Loan Utopia. Borrow, borrow, borrow. Our motto was, "What's another 10 grand?!"
Food Stamps, Wic and Medicaid got us by on what we couldn't borrow. We managed to come out of Med School without any credit card debt. HA! I was Soooo proud. Pride has a way of humbling us. Residency is a whole different ball game folks.
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