photo theme thursday: home

home

thursday challenge is a fun blog idea site where every thursday they post a theme and you have to either find a picture you already have or take a new picture that goes along with it and post it on your blog.  this week's theme was "home."  this picture was taken a couple of winters ago around christmas.  i love this picture because our house looks exactly like those you see in christmas movies or martha stewart catalogs.  i also love when snow covers the lights by the sidewalk so it looks like the snow is glowing.

there's a secondary reason for this post.  today i went to see my urologist and he declared me normal!  blood work, x-rays, everything looked fine.  i'll see him again when i'm home in december and then a couple times after that every six months and then hopefully i'll be down to once a year visits.  becoming healthy is sort of bittersweet, however.  as sad as it is, i know everyone in that office and they know me, just like the girls at st. mark's registration.  i feel like i'm on "cheers" but instead of everyone yelling "norm!" when i walk into the bar, they all yell "laura!" when i walk into the office.  (ok, so there's no actual yelling going on but you get the point.)  i may have to stop by every once in a while just for the heck of it.  oh, also, the blood work my general physician took on tuesday for my physical all came back normal.  this means i still do NOT have diabetes (for those who don't know, a doctor misdiagnosed me as pre-diabetic about 3 years ago and i didn't realize it until after taking four 500mg metformin XR tablets a day for 8 months).  mom gave me the seal of approval to go to georgia....though i was going to go anyway.  it's an odd feeling to listen to my body and hear nothing.  it's peaceful and quiet for once.  i just feel whole.  i hope it lasts.