There's no Place Like Home

Yes, I am officially unemployed once again and have decided to give this "stay at home" thing another try. I found, after a whopping two months, that working can really crimp your style. Not that I have a life really... but heaven knows I wasn't going to find one in Mayberry! I thought I'd share a few things I'll be missing out on:

• Rick and Bubba in the morning (yes it is an actual radio talk show program...they have a pretty catchy theme song that caught my attention when surfing channels one morning.)
• The quest for the perfect commute, and ultimately realizing there is only one way out of Dodge which is down a two lane country road with enough traffic on it to require a three lane highway.
• Practicing my sounthern hospitality wave to every car I let in front of me on above mentioned road.
• The ten or eleven motivating thoughts posted outside the churches I pass on my way, and pondering the one that reads "Spiritual but not Religious? Find what you're looking for...join us on Sunday."
• Testing my driving skills as I drink my Slim Fast and check my hair and makeup while all the while staying on the narrow road that has no shoulder.
• Being happy I am at least going against traffic.
• Passing by a farm on Franklin Road and never getting tired of seeing the cows and the beautiful view.
• Entering historic downtown Franklin and feeling like I've stepped back in time.
• Once again testing my driving skills as I navigate my car down a long gravel driveway to park as close to the fence as possible allowing three other cars to park in the backyard of old yellow house turned dental office.
• Knowing that later I will have to back out of said driveway...YIKES!
• A day full of phones, patients, money, scheduling, fighting with insurance companies, e-mails, x-rays, computers, sales reps, ordering, copying, fixing equipment, toothaches, prescriptions, filing, entering data, making deposits,writing checks, schmoozing, and spit sucking.
• Off the wall questions about my religion. Example..."with your church's view on polygamy would someone having an affair receive any kind of discipline?"
• Trying not to laugh at such questions answering them with as much grace and dignity as I can muster.
• Impromptu lunches out with the office.
• The feeling of satisfaction that comes when you know you've really helped someone.
• Wondering how a doctor can still make money when he trades for a service someone can render when they can't afford their dental needs.
• Watching someone smile for the first time in a long time after having some excellent cosmetic dentistry.

Yes...I'll be missing out on some good things and some not so good things. We'll see what becomes of me. I'm just thankful I have a choice. For now that choice is home, and there's no place like home! Wish me luck as I continue my quest to get a life...we're not in Kansas anymore Toto!! We are far away and over the rainbow!