Lately things have happened. I promise.

The last 12 weeks are going to go down in history as a strange blur in our lives. We are back in the United States, we have a dishwasher, cars and all the $30-per-month utility bills we can ask for.

I am also happy to announce that I have started contributing a tins’y bit to our living expenses as a freelance social media and blogging consultant. While David is at the hospital helping the sick, I spend my days reading, writing and getting cozy with my new BFF HootSuite (a social media management dashboard).

I still miss the frantic excitement of a newsroom, but the companies I work for now are absolutely amazing. Each is giving me the ability to combine my passion for health with a skill for effective online business communication. You can see a list of a few of my wonderful clients here. The daily slogs through monotony are starting to ease up a little.

While I would still love to end up back in a newsroom, I am so thankful to have another skill set that I nurtured during our time abroad. If not for the Significant Others Organization and the example of so many incredible Grenadians I met along the way, I don’t know what I would be doing now.

As for David, he is finishing up his last few weeks of Internal Medicine. Next week he will be out of the hospital and back into the books prepping for the Internal Med shelf exam.

Then begins six-weeks of Surgery – his *maybe* love. The hours are allegedly slightly rougher than internal medicine (rumors are 4 a.m. – 5 p.m. with a 30-hour on-call stint every other week). But I am so excited for him to finally get into the OR and see what he has been dreaming of since year one.

That six-week marathon of long hours is punctuated by a few bright breaks – Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. The hospital is giving the clerks two weeks of time off right smack in the middle of the six-week rotation for holiday decompressing. Sigh. We are so blessed to be able to spend each holiday with family from now on. I can’t wait!

In the meantime, I’ll keep tapping away at my keys and David will keep donning his white coat and saving the world.