Its April! 5 more months to go!

Hello! Yay! Its April! Only 5 more months until Sept, which is when I hope to be home! But it might be Oct before I make it back, so then we're back to 6 more months. Oh well. I am not going to think about it at this point! Time continues to fly by, so I'm very happy about that! The faster the better! All my plans are booked for my leave in June! Derek and I meet up in the Athens airport, I think we arrive within 30 min's of each other, and then we are on the same flight together to Santorini, so I'm super excited about that! Derek comes home at the end of April, I'm really looking forward to that too! We should be able to webcam chat again, I'm looking forward to that! I know Derek is pumped to come home and plans to go hang out at Mom and Dad's, ice fish and pick up the puppies! And be spoiled by Mom as well!
Things are going well here, we've been fairly busy with lots of incoming casualties, but it keeps things moving smoothly, and keeps us on our toes. It also helps to pass the time, although I would not want to wish suffering on anyone! I would rather be bored to death and have no patients, but that is not the case here, nor will it be.
We had our first beer call, I was working nights, so I just came into work early and sent the evening shift to the Stand Easy (our work hang out behind the hospital) for their two beers! I hope I get to go to the next one! woohoo!
The weather has been good, very hot this past week, and today we had our first thunderstorm. I walked home in the rain, it was nice and refreshing! Still nice and warm too, but its more like mud falling from the skies! And the ground turns into wet clay very quickly! But the storm keeps messing with our TV and internet, so that's no fun! But I did sit out on the boardwalk, and watch the rain, and the clouds, they were brown! I put up a picture so that you could see. Brown sky, its hard to capture on film, but its something to see in person. Kinda neat actually!
I finally bought that new camera I wanted! The red Canon IXUSi, its really really nice! And red! yay! I have been trying to figure it out over the last two days, and I'm really happy with it so far. But it does have a European plug on it, so that will be interesting once I get home.
Rumour has it that we are moving into the new quarters up in the Canadian lines, (we currently live in the American quarters down by the shit pond), by the end of this month. Its going to be a very painful move for me, since I have double the crap that everyone else has! haha! Not fun! Oh well, I pity my roommate, but we'll make due. We always do!
I finally saw pictures of my new nephew/niece! Elizabeth and Rob sent me pictures of her latest ultra sound, I instantly started to bawl! I just hope I'm home in time for the birth! I'm crossing my fingers! I'm pretty excited for little Maverick! (Rob's idea of baby name) to arrive! Going to be awesome!
So, that's life here in a nutshell. Been pretty busy, but I'm feeling alot better than I was, I still have a bad cough, but oh well, I don't expect that to go away, not with all the dust.
Anyway, have to run, just got paged in! Time to go back to work!
Lots of love,
Mary Ann