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Enjoy!
-Richie

So here I am in Wise, VA staying with Patty.  It is snowing outside and I have to get up early and drive 2 hours to work in the morning.  I have aquafresh whitening strips in my mouth right now, which are making my teeth sensitive.  Patty is doing her nightly “Spend an hour on myspace and surf the internet for wedding stuff” ritual so naturally I am bored out of my mind.  I thought to myself, A) how much I have hatred for myspace (mainly for their ads, spam and complete idiots that post stuff on it) and B)  I’ll update my website.

 I’ve had alot of questions about the music.  Well I paid Artistlaunch for my yearly bandwidth dues but I got an email back stating that ”They will be launching their new site soon.”  That was a month ago.  They just now put up Artistlaunch 2.0 BETA and I can log into my account now.  You’ll be able to buy MP3s and hopefully also download them soon…in the meantime, I’ll try to get some hosting.  Speaking of which, avoid Aplus.net like the plague if you can.  My server speed is way way down and so I am going to switch to hostgator.com when I can get my last loan disbursement. 

Patty had her Bachelorette party this past weekend in Asheville.  I had my bachelor party….no wait, I didn’t have one.  All of my close friends work for a living, are way far away or are in medical school so no bachelor party for me. :(   Yeah go ahead and say it…ya know you want to! :P  Luckily some friends of mine were available to play games online that night and keep me company.  Sometimes being up in West Virginia away from all your friends you grew up with sucks!  Ah the sacrifices we make to be sucessful in life.  Please drink some beer in rememberance of the soon to be bachelor-no-more.

Still 6 days away and I’ll be a married man.  I’ve had quite a few emails lately asking if I have been getting along ok or if I am getting cold feet or if I am stressed out.  I really appreciate your concerns ;)  First off, I’m not really stressed out about the wedding. In fact I am kinda excited for it to get here.  I’m majorly stressed out about moving to Roanoke, particularly buying our first house which I have never done before.  I’m also still waiting on my COMLEX PE score to get back…which is the final thing that could possible keep me from graduating.  I feel pretty confident that I passed it but waiting is by far the worst part.  Never know until you get that paper with “PASSED” on it. ;)   I love Patty, she is amazing and I’m steadfast in getting married to her.  We are going to have a great life together.   So no on the cold feet thing.  I don’t think I’ll have a runaway bride situation either hahahaha.  Still, some interesting emails this week, mainly from you crazy people in the United Kingdom! ;)

Wow, the snow is really coming down out there right now.  Which means I *may* be late for work tomorrow due to the plows not coming.  For those who are asking I am on my last rotation which ends on April 11th….then I will be done with school till graduation on May 31st.  

I’d like to give a special shout out to my new soon-to-be collegues at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA.  Looking forward to working with ya’ll for the next 4 years.  Let it be known that delivering babies still scares the poop out of me!

Hitting submit, time for bed, these aquafresh white strips are killing my teeth.  Ah, the things we endure all for the vanity’s sake.

 -Richie