I'm back--not sure for how long, but I was brought back to the blog today as I was searching for the photos from our California trip 5 years ago.  I can't believe I haven't written since then.  Wow.  
Life has been busy, but for now I'm just going to write moving forward because there's just too much to write that has happened since I was last on here.  I suppose Facebook is much to blame for my absence.  Even though cellphones make taking a photo and posting it so easy these days, it takes more effort to post on here and write about what is going on.
Today is Friday, October 27th.  I have taken off the last two days from the practice and will work through the weekend and into Monday to hopefully finish up my comprehensive exams for the PhD program at Capella.  The task has been overwhelming and I simply cannot begin to verbalize how distraught I have been at times.  There are three questions that require concentration and google to understand what they are asking.  All three are to be answered in one document submission in exactly 28 days.  Each answer much be about 17 pages in length with a minimum of 20 sources.  There are so many things to consider such as transition words, paragraph format, APA formatting of professional sources and the warnings about plagiarism!  yuck!  While I would NEVER intentionally plagiarize, the concern is to do it unintentionally.  This is the first time that we are allowed to copy ourselves from previous submitted papers that were in other courses or residencies.  I learned very early on that once a paper is submitted to Capella, it becomes the PROPERTY of Capella!  Crazy, I know.  I was shocked.  So, if you ever try to use any of your own writing again (except during comp exams, apparently), you are plagiarizing.  

Stacks and stacks of printed articles from scholarly journals that were written ONLY in the last five years are everywhere.  As you can see, everywhere.  I AM going to make my way through this if it kills me.  And it just may do that!  haha!
I have had writer's block the last couple of weeks and was feeling frozen in creating anything that might resemble an answer.  I've written a great deal.  Question 1 is pretty much completed and Question 2 is about 3/4 completed.  I feel like I'm procrastinating more today for some reason.  I guess my brain just needed the break.  I've taken Imodium and been eating Tums for the last two weeks almost daily.  No joke.  I never have stomach troubles, so I suppose it is just anxiety working on me.  Trying to keep my clients going at my practice while managing this can get tricky.  I'm thankful to have Steve to handle so much of the home stuff that I can't...and he does it without complaint.  Amazing.