2022 Seasons Salivations
Happy Everything!
CookieChick and Squirrel Girl have been hard at work creating yummy treats for everyone. Chewy gingerbread, Mexican wedding cakes, and kg*m/sec2 have gone back into the vault, and snowballs and peanut butter kisses are making a repeat appearance. My choice this year, Salted Peanut Miracles are just like a Pay Day Bar, but better! Eris has chosen Elvis cookies - a chewy-soft cookie with peanut butter, bananas, chocolate, and bacon! Gluten-free choices for my favorite niece Amelia includes chocolate meringues and no-bake peanut butter clusters. CookieChick's kitchen was upgraded with a new stand mixer this year and it is the Cadillac of mixers - the Kenwood Chef titanium. It's very powerful and has all the bells and whistles.
2022 has been a WILD year! CookieChick had a new job (and a commute) to get accustomed to, Eris moved to Albuquerque to start college, and Randal grew a beard! Hey, nobody call Randal a slacker. Growing a beard is a lot of work.
I've been with Loyola for a year now and it has been a whirlwind. I am way busier in the office and the acuity (complexity) of patients is way higher. I have more than one patient who've had lung transplants. I had not known any before that. I am also spending a lot of time teaching students, both in the office and in the classroom. I teach Principals of Clinical Medicine, which is a second-year med school class for physical exam skills and clinical reasoning. It's been exciting and fun.
Eris has finished her first semester of college with 4 As and a B. She survived a terrible teacher and Covid but has gotten soft living in the pleasant southwest. she's been complaining nonstop of being cold since she got back to Chicago. Kids!
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