Man, is it cold.

[medpedspouse]

Glad to meet you! Attending wife here in the warmish state of TX...we get snow but nothing compared to you. As vgirl stated, I would perish in a frozen tundra. I can only take 3 max 4 days of freezing temps.

[PrincessFiona]

BTW, 2 fellowships? Holy buckets!

How old are your kids? What did you do before residency/kids?

[Ladybug]

Please tell me the next time you go to Beaver Dam, it is only a couple of hours form me!

That would be dangerously fun! I'm PMing you…

[HouseofWool]

Yes, yes it would!

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Welcome!! We're in NC but did time in Cleveland...yes, I meant that to sound like prison. I don't do cold.

[JediMaster]

Well hello there.


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[cristinb]

Gosh, thanks, peeps. What a nice welcome.

DrBandMe--we're in MKE too! (Tosa, really, but only 5 blocks over the border.) I grew up in Madison and came to MKE for undergrad while dh was in med school here. Went under hook, line, and sinker for this weird cold city. How is it treating you?

I like the cold, mostly, it's the DARK. Also I had a big fitness push this year and lost some weight? And dudes, it really is way colder now. I have been internally mocking cold people forEVER. I am having my comeuppance. Right this very minute I am in a camisole, LS tee, cardigan, AND puffer vest and I'm perfectly medium comfortable. Also: I am inside my house. That is just stupid.

[HouseofWool]

Oooh, I spent 5 years living just off 67th and North. I loved it there.

[cristinb]

My shorties are two boys, 11 and 9, and two girls, 7 and 4. I really like the big family--I would have had more, but dh was cool with 2 and stretched outside his comfort zone to 4 for me. I couldn't really take advantage in good faith EVEN THOUGH WE MADE VERY CHARMING BABIES AND MORE WOULD HAVE BEEN JUST FINE. :P

ENT is a 5 year residency normally; we did a residency with an integrated 2 year research fellowship at University of Iowa. And then that didn't feel like quiiiite enough training? So we went to Nashville for a Care of the Professional Voice gig at Vandy. Eight years. Just stupidity. But he really super loves the work he does. I know I don't have to beat the drum on what that means here.

Before kids, I put me through school as an old student as an optician (like the nurse for an optometrist). It was a good gig--enough brains but not too much brains, and when I left at the end of the day it was done, nothing followed me home. I was supposed to be an English teacher, but relocating for residency to a state where teachers made $24K/yr made that a not-so-attractive option. We had our first kid after a bunch of infertility nonsense and I just couldn't leave him (I've gotten much better at leaving him now. :P ) Iowa City was a great place to be a fresh sahm, it was hugely overrun by grad students and residents and we were all broke together. Turns out I liked the job, so I kept it.

[cristinb]

Oooh, I spent 5 years living just off 67th and North. I loved it there.

No way! My kids' elementary school is at 68th and Garfield! I'm right in your old turf. You'd be stunned to see the gentrification underway. I can eat like 12 ethnic meals between 61st and 73rd and North. Which: great, because I'm lazy and hungry.

[DrBandMe]

Well we need to meet up! I'm right outside East Tosa near the new Taco Bell going up and the florist shop. We're close!

[HouseofWool]

No way! My kids' elementary school is at 68th and Garfield! I'm right in your old turf. You'd be stunned to see the gentrification underway. I can eat like 12 ethnic meals between 61st and 73rd and North. Which: great, because I'm lazy and hungry.

My friend is on city council and has been a big part of the gentrification.

I miss Cranky Al's like crazy!

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Welcome!

[DrBandMe]

Just had Cranky Al's today, HOW!

[HouseofWool]

I used to take C there when he was little and get him a doughnut as a treat. Alex, who isn't cranky at all always called the ones with jimmies, Sprinkly Dinkelies.