me...for now!

well i figure i have been on here long enough to finally give an update as it seem a few of u don't know what im up to at the moment.

so....

beginning of this year i got married to brett, he's my high school sweetheart *blush*. hahahha. nah but really, its been fantastic, married life is awesome. its amazing how much absolute fun you can have living with someone else and knowing that they're goin to be with u forever :). im hugely lucky.

honeymooning on the sunny sands of the gold coast was a great way to kick start out flat out lives and provided an awesome, invaluable opportunity with absolutely no requirements or commitments for 7 days. absolute bliss. and word for the wise - dont save renting a car and goin to the mountain villages for the last day - way better than theme parks and shopping!!!

so continuing on the lucky front - i managed to graduate from my first 3 years of med school! so now that i have that behind me im doin my clinical years (actually goin to a hospital :O) and am absolutely loving it. its a fantastic feeling to feel as though you were made exactly to be doing what you are! medicine is a fantastic work place as its challenging, teaches u bucket loads, is full of fun interesting people, and to match my 5-year-old aspirations - ive already managed to make a difference in at least one persons life. Well that's the life goal achieved... now to enjoy the ride!! oh and i shall.....

however being what it is it keeps me well occupied. but its great to be spending so much time learning things that are actually important.... as opposed to the biological cycle of Na+!! whipped my way through GP, emergency, general hospital medicine and surgery so far. am now pulling my emotional heart strings in psychiatry and thoroughly enjoying myself. not looking forward to the impending exams tho ...... everything is quite a lot to learn! heehee

naturally with the whole marriage thing brett and i moved out to our own place. after owning a house just before our wedding, we realised the amount of interest u pay on a morgatage is far more than rent so for now we are living in some one elses place, enjoying their financial and up keep burden :P. its a fantastic house - its stands alone, has a garage (yay for brett and the 3 motorbikes we now own!) and a nice garden and even some fenced off lawn (here comes the puppy!). newly re-decorated on the inside its clean and pretty. So its really quite perfect. Brett and i were hugely blessed and managed to furnish the entire thing with only buying a few antiques cause we liked them and whiteware (brand new thanks to the immense stress of pre-xmas house) thanks to our fantastic families and wedding/engagement gifts. its a dutch house (i rule the roost :P) so the motto is 'stop by, the coffee is always hot!' so text for our address, and if we're home we'd love to catch up with you!

our families are healthy and well. hating the fact we aren't with them everyday but enjoying seeing them as much as possible - a couple of times a week each at least. brett and i realise more and more how precious our families are to us and feel so hugely blessed to be surrounded by such great family, with whom which we have our closest friends and confidents and manage to drink endless cups of tea.
friends have all paired off which is nice, makes for an easy get together. feeling like old fogies having pot luck dinners with all our married friends on regular occaisions tho! as everyone gets busy doing their own things it does get harder and harder to keep contact though, but i have found that the increased effort really rewards only you so its by far worth it. im hugely sorry to those who i dont manage to catch up with as often as i should (or at all). excuses dont cut it. in particular, natalie if your reading this drive over now and drag me out - i think every day - must go and catch up wtih her tonight or tomorrow, but as usual i get side tracked. force me!!! im dying to chat properly and actually establish regular contact. we haven't been so good at that hey.

so the future plans......

have fun :). pass my exams without killing brett during the stressful progress. if brett has found a new job (or quit his current one) we'll try and whisk ourselves off to South Africa during december, but if that isnt' goin to work out....next year again it is. summer holidays to paihia and mount for 3 or so weeks. next year back to hit the ground running at med school. hopefully brett will be settled in a job he loves that pays him what he deserves. perhaps if im ultra lucky the bikes will be gone and a new car for me (mine is dying the mechanic told me today, slowly but surely). then in the future..... graduation, specialisation intermingled with overseas travel (EUROPE!!!!!! and a xmas in new york) brett setting up a buisness, me finishing my formal teaching, the ever anticipated children.... and an exciting life whereever we end up.
in short....

im happy.

and i hope u are too!