My day today was a bit like grocery shopping with a toddler. I had a neat little list of things that needed to be done, but was unable to at all follow it! Tim left yesterday for his underway until Thanksgiving. I have been saying all along that our house was going to sell as soon as he left because then I'd have to move with the baby and the dog by myself. Low and behold, the realtor called at noon asking to show the house in the afternoon. I scrambled to get the report done that I was in the middle of. I fed Jack some lunch, did another report. When we're at the grocery store, he thinks it's really funny to throw things that he can reach out of the cart so I have to stop and pick it up. Today he followed me around the house and took his toys out that I had just put away. I was in a good enough mood to laugh at him-- and myself!

So anyway, I'm back. I took a long weekend and it was back to oncology today. I got a report from Breena with some really good news. I have hit my 300 minutes! I'm not sure what that means really but it's a lot of time! I have over 3800 lines transcribed! I don't even care about the requirements of the internship, I'm just really proud that I have gotten that much done! I used my method again today that I tried out on Wednesday. I timed each report and I limited myself to only a bit of research. This has really really helped. I try to generally keep each report to 15 minutes and I get a lot more done that way. Also, the notes I have been taking for myself are starting to work, I can go back and reference things in my own handwriting. I think my brain finds things faster when they are in my own writing.

It's good to be back. I'm going to try not to work too much, although it is tempting since Tim isn't around. Today flew past and I even had time to go to the playground. I'm getting the balancing act down.