High Five For Friday

1. Survived the cold.  I realize it's been cold everywhere, and the northern states were hit much harder than the South, but there were record breaking single digit temps down here and we are not built for the cold. I dreaded Tuesday morning, as I had to dress up for clinic, and was sure the frigid wind would cut right through my dress pants. It did. But I made it. Mostly thanks to a scarf that is usually overkill for Alabama, and a thermos of hot tea.

2.  Community group; personality test.  This Sunday's sermon at church was about resolutions for the new year, and how you should get to know yourself well enough to be able to make better resolutions, otherwise you are making resolutions that you can never achieve. We were asked to take the Briggs-Myers personality test, and bring our results to community group to discuss. Jesse and I took them earlier this week and had a great time laughing over how precise mine was (ISFJ). His was pretty close too (INTP).  Go HERE to take yours to see what it has to say about you. It was a lot of fun to read aloud the things that make me tick, and it only takes 10-15 minutes! If you take it, come back and comment with your results!

3.  I started back to school. Not much else to say about that, except that it's full speed ahead already!

4.  Community Eye Care One of the classes I am taking this semester is Community Eye Care, which is wonderful because it allows us to see real patients and remember the reason we are all in this! Each week we have a different location to go to, to set up a vision screening.  Each student is assigned to a specific skill or task to perform on the patient, which is usually fairly quick and is pass/fail. At the end, each patient is counseled on the findings of the day and advised appropriately, whether that is to continue their current scheduled care with their optometrist, or urging those that haven't been in years to go for a full eye exam.  This week my group went to a local senior center, and we had a blast! The patients were fun and hilarious at times, especially when they like to tell you all about their love life and "lady friend."

5.  Jesse and I went to visit friends Mike and Kelsey after I got home from school today. Just an impromptu hang out to relax and chat for a while. Thankfully Addy woke up from her nap and provided us with extra entertainment. We love seeing this princess! (Her new thing is to wear her tiara = adorable.)