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12:33 am
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Big News!
Yeah, I don't ever update this anymore (clearly), but this is something I have to post through every available media: I'M ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My man (of almost 3.5 years!) took me up to UNH last weekend under the pretense of dropping off some paperwork for his masters when really he had hired some guys from an acapella group to sing Love of A Lifetime (the wedding song I picked out in 6th grade) under T-Hall while he propsed. It was amazing and perfect and even a surprise, which I hadn't expected considering I knew he had the ring all along. I'm so damn happy.
Current Mood:  So freakin happy
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01:11 am
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Tag, you're it!
Wow, I know I'm never on here anymore, but I was tagged and I can't resist a waste of time! ;-)
List ten fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same:
1) Jake Perry, Sweet Home Alabama (Josh Lucas) - love those southern boys!
2) Mulder, X Files, duh
3) Ben from How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days (Matthew McConaughey)
4) Chase Hammond, Drive Me Crazy (Adrian Grenier), sexy geek = okay in my book
5) Luka, ER *drool*
6) Clark Kent, Lois & Clark, hello Dean Cain!
7) Larry, Closer (Clive Owen)....AND he's a doctor
8) Capt. James West, Wild Wild West, Will Smith = hottest cowboy ever
9) I would totally do John Smith from Disney's Pocahontas which was always disconcerning until I realized it must be Mel Gibson's voice seducing me
10) Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You (Heath Ledger) - I'll always have a soft spot for the bad boys! (not to mention Heath is smokin' with dark hair)
I guess it doesn't matter who I tag since I highly doubt anyone reads this, but for the hell of it: Emily (on MySpace!), Heather (same), Cassie, Sandra, and Jess. Is it sad I really had to think about this? Or that it would probably be totally different in a couple weeks? haha.
Current Mood:  bouncy
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12:18 am
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Hey, she's not dead!
Um, because I don't have a life right now....
| Layers | | Layer.one | | Name: | Courtney | | Birthdate: | 12.7.82 | | Birthplace: | Portland | | Current location: | Home for the holiday (Portland) | | Eyes: | Brown | | Hair: | Brown | | Height: | 5'6 | | Righty or Lefty: | Right | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Layer.two | | Your heritage: | IRISH....only one I care about, anyway | | Your weakness: | Furry animals, shoes, Jack Daniel's, my man (awwww - gag) | | Your shoes you wore today: | Silver Old Navy flip flops, gotta love 'em | | Your fears: | What are you, my shrink? Probably not since I don't have one | | Your perfect pizza: | Nothin' but the cheese, lots of sauce, maybe some fresh tomato slices | | Goal you'd like to achieve: | Running a 10 minute mile. I'm at 12 right now | | Layer.three | | Your thoughts first waking up: | Is it really necessary to work out today? (the answer is generally "yes") | | Your best physical feature: | According my envious female friends my boobs, but I like my curly hair :-) | | Your bedtime: | HA! 2, 3, sometimes 4 AM | | Your most missed memory: | Am I the only one who thinks this question is worded ALL WRONG? | | Layer.four | | Pepsi or Coke: | Neither, ew! | | McDonald's or Burger King: | BK *drool* I need a Whopper, stat! | | Single or group dates: | One on one is best ;-) | | Adidas or Nike: | Do I care? | | Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: | See above | | Chocolate or vanilla: | Both equally, but not as much as strawberry | | Cappuccino or coffee: | Neither | | Layer.five | | Smoke: | Nope | | Cuss: | Uh, I need to cut back | | Sing: | If I'm alone! | | Take showers daily: | Of course | | Have a crush: | Yeah, on your MOM! Wow, I'm not all that mature right now | | Think you've been in love: | Of course! | | Want to go college: | Been there, done that, got the tshirt - literally! | | Want to get married: | Darn tootin' | | Believe in yourself: | Phst, of course, I'm the best! | | Get motion sickness: | Nevaaaah. Unless it's on one of those rides that spins | | Think you're attractive: | You better believe it! | | Think you're a health freak: | Not a freak, but I try to aim for healthy 5 of 7 days a week | | Get along with your parents: | Yup | | Like thunderstorms: | Yeah, but lightning still makes me nervous | | Play an instrument: | Used to, but I'm pretty sure it's all gone, now! | | Layer.six - in the past months | | Gone to the mall: | I think I might live there, actually | | Eaten an entire box of Oreos: | What is WITH this question? No, of course not! | | Eaten sushi: | Definitely NOT | | Been on stage: | I don't think so | | Gone skating: | That would be a negatory | | Made homemade cookies: | I love to cook!, but no. I made whiskey cake, that's way better | | Gone skinny dipping: | Not that recently, no | | Dyed your hair: | It's all natural right now | | Stolen anything: | *sigh* No....such a goody goody ;-) | | Label.seven - ever.. | | Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: | HaHA, yes. I was nicknamed "Jackette" by a bartender last weekend | | Been called a tease: | It has been implied | | Got beaten up: | Does that happen to girls? | | Layer.eight | | Age you hoped to be married: | I can't say, my boyfriend may freak ;-) | | Number and name of children: | I want at least one girl named Molly Rose! | | Dream wedding: | In a church | | How do you want to die: | Oh! Mad cow or Westermani or botulism or the plague - crap, what others were there? | | Where do you want to attend college: | Gee, I don't know | | Dream job: | Pathologist, but it will never happen. That would be more school than a friggin' doctor right there | | Country you want to visit: | IRELAND | | Layer.nine - In a guy/girl... | | Best eye color: | Gray | | Best hair color: | Dark | | Short or long hair: | Not too short, but longish is okay | | Height: | Taller than me | | Best weight: | I like some meat on the bones :-) | | Best clothing: | Polo shirts and khaki cargo shorts, mrrrrow | | Best first date location: | Mini golf! | | Best first kiss location: | The beach, duh | | Layer.ten | | Number of drugs taken illegally: | One, and don't we all give it a try? | | Number of people I could trust with my life: | Ha, I prefer my life in my own hands, thanks | | Number of CDs that I own: | Like I know that | | Number of piercings: | 3 body plus my earlobes | | Number of tattoos: | The one and only (for now) | | Number of times my name's been in the news: | None that I know of | | Number of scars on my body: | Dos | | Number of things in my past that I regret.: | Ummmm, maybe just one | Take this survey | Find more surveys
You've been totally Bzoink*d |
Current Mood:  gettin tipsy
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02:48 am
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For the record....
I was searching for stables around Manchester that did trails, lessons, and the like which led to searching for hoses for lease/sale, which led to this:
That, my friends, is the horse I have been dreaming about since way back when I actually rode horses. A gray Hanoverian, 17.1 hands *drool* I actually gasped when I saw the photo. Too bad I don't have an extra $13,000 laying around. Or, you know, a stable. And while we're on the subject of money, why does my favorite breed of horse happen to be wicked expensive?? Not that any horse is cheap, but the registered ones run $50,000+!! Definitely a show breed :-P
I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Current Mood:  in love
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11:39 pm
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5 star night in ManchVegas
I love how I can go to an apartment party on a Friday night and somehow still end up in downtown Manchester in the wee hours of the morning. I had to work on St. Patty's Day, which was only mildly depressing until my boyfriend decided to throw a party - then it was really depressing. I managed to get out early, however, and was ready to go come 11 PM (normally I get home at midnight). Due to a previous dinner of yogurt, SlimFast, and applesauce (leftover tooth extraction food) I caught up super quick with my Guinness, mmmm Guinness. Of course a lot of people left a fairly short time after I got there and by almost 2 AM things were pretty dead, so we did the logical thing and called Dominoes, who decided to not answer their phone. I drunkenly joked that we should go to the Arrow (24 hour diner) and next thing I know we're hiking 1.4 miles down Elm St with the frickin' wind in our faces trying to find the place. It was awesome. I love it when randomness like that occurs.
Of course it was 4 AM by the time the taxi brought us home, but the food was amazing and the other patrons of the diner were oh too much fun. We're planning a repeat visit sometime in April when my now, at this very moment, newly turned 21 sister comes down for a weekend - happy birthday, Lizzy!
In other news, I watched the pilot episode of Lois & Clark on Saturday and it was quite good for a pilot. I usually find when I watch a show I think is sooooo great for a long period of time that the early episodes seem really corny in retrospect, but this was good. I think both Teri Hatcher and Lane Smith are a bit over the top with some of their theatrics (they definitely got better), but Dean Cain jumped right into the Clark Kent role very well. Of course he's no great actor or anything, but he's a fairly convincing Superman and super yummy to look at, hehe. I did have to laugh hysterically at the scenes where he was "inventing" the Superman costume and how confident he was that no one would recognize him because he took his glasses off. I never got that part of the Superman world, but hey. Such a good show. Thank you, Suncoast Video, for going out of business and having TV show collections half off ;-)
That's all! Work is good, my mouth is healing slowly, and I made it back to the gym today for the first time since the tooth debaucle. I've also turned into a clothes hog and have started compulsively shopping for a new (size 8) spring wardrobe. At least this time I went through my drawers first and got rid of a whole lot of stuff to make room :-) I love having money.
I'm out! 'Night.
Current Mood:  content
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01:40 am
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Wisdom teeth out = suckage
Not that I thought oral surgery would be a breeze or anything, but I was so fixated on the idea of being "put to sleep" I don't believe I thoroughly pondered the repurcussions of having my gums cut open. Day 1 and 2 were not half bad! The applesauce/pudding/ice cream diet is new and fun, take lots of little pills, have your mom take you to the mall - that was awesome! Day 3 the shit hit the fan. Of course it was my own stupid idea that I no longer needed the Vicodin (still did! still did!), but nothing could explain the brick wall my energy level hit. Between Saturday and Sunday night I slept a good 22 hours and still almost didn't make it through a full shift tonight (not like I had much choice with one person in FL and a supervisor who called out).
Other things I hadn't planned on: unaffected tooth pain - the ones left behind hurt!, sore throat, neck pain, earaches, gum irritation (damn stitches, fall out already!), temporary loss of full motion of the tongue.
I think you get the point.
The next time I have ANY procedure involving IV drugs, nasal cannulas, and, most importantly, scalpels I am taking a week off of work. Full week, get full use of the pain meds (good Lord, I could have used those today), and sleep a whole damn lot.
Speaking of which, it is WAY past my still wounded mouth bedtime. The first day I eat solid food without pain or fear of it disappearing into giant gum craters you will be the first to be notified. Or first after every person I see in real life and share the good news with :-P
Current Mood:  exhausted
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01:41 am
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Luck o' the Irish
This is probably going to be a rather queer seeming entry (I don't know what it is with me and the word queer lately....I mean it as odd, not gay :-P), but the weirdest thing just made my day today. I fairly recently found out that I'm 5th generation Irish, meaning I'm the 5th generation of my dad's side of the family to live in America and not Ireland (my great great grandfather came over). I never though much of it when I was younger but lately more and more people, some I don't even know!, have been asking if I'm Irish because I "have that look about me". Which, go figure, I always thought meant red hair and freckles, but clearly I'm not that type of Irish.
So anyway, I'm really kind of nervous around strangers, our servicemen at the lab being no exception, but we were talking about the temperature and I mentioned my hands were always cold. He made some comment about "cold feet, warm heart" and said it was an old Irish saying, which made me laugh and I said it was somewhat fitting, then. Well he got animated when I hinted there was some heritage there and came out with "I thought you had the look of a Colleen" (sidenote: COLLEEN = An Irish girl.) Come to find out he's the first of his family to live in the states, his mom and dad are still back in Ireland and he owns land there. I could have sat and listened to him all night! (it was even that slow at work for a change :-P) I can't wait until the day I go to Ireland, it seems like such beautiful country. I guess the guy owns land there and goes to visit a few times a year since most of his family is still there and I thought that was the neatest thing.
Quite a random happening of conversation, but it was really exciting for me. And I'm very proud of being Irish, even when I thought I was a much more distant decendant it was a country and people I was interested in, so it flattered me that a "real Irishman" said I looked so, hehe.
I'm weird.
Bedtime! Goodnight :-)
Current Mood:  chipper
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01:42 am
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Sleeeepy time
It's late and I should be sleeping, but I have to share this. I was looking through old pictures from college and the like the other night and noticed a difference between those and the ones from a recent trip to Portsmouth....
OLD
NEW
Can I just say how happy I am to not still look like I do in that first picture? Because I am.
That is all!
P.S. Did my emoticon just build a boat or what?
Current Mood:  accomplished
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01:42 am
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RIP Toby-fishy
My fishy died on Valentine's day STOP
He was the very best fishy who ever lived STOP
He was my baby for 4 years STOP
I will miss him very much a lot :-( END
Current Mood:  sad
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02:15 am
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Face it, we're gorgeous
Tonight was a pretty cracked out night of work. We're talking some serious personal drama. Always with the drama, drama, drama! At least I wasn't involved for once, at least not directly :-P
I hope I can walk like a normal person without rigor mortis of the calves tomorrow. It's slightly unnerving to lose control of the lower half of your leg.
Sooooo tired! Nighty night :-)
P.S. My sister and I rock for getting portraits of us done. Wasn't it a thoughtful anniversary present? Just go with it....
Current Mood:  silly
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01:11 am
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Lots of thoughts of....death?
Soooo, I was watching Full House tonight (as always, at midnight) and it was the episode where Jesse's dad comes over from Greece and ends up dying while he's visiting. Ummm, did I mention the entry was probably going to be depressing? Anyway, it upset me because once in awhile the thought fleets through my mind "Your parents are going to die some day" and of course the show just brought it to the forefront. I don't know how well some of you know me, but I don't do death. If someone dies and it feels like the end of a normal life for awhile, I work my damndest to make life normal. I don't talk about death, I don't talk about dead people, I hate funerals because I always cry in front of people and that's another thing I "don't do". I've been lucky so far in my life that the only people who have died have been acquaintances: quasi-friends, floormates, school mates, coworkers, but the thought of a funeral for anyone in my immediate family just makes me want to....I don't know. It's scary!
I will now stop thinking about things as irrelevant as death right now. Stupid TV show.
Well, my truck died in the middle of Rt 3-A on Friday (a totally acceptable, different kind of death). The battery had been draining for 2 days previous and the Ford Dealership I went to last time couldn't fit me in, so I just kept driving it (what else could I do?) and it ended up not making it to Concord. I bawled my eyes out for a good few minutes, then spent the rest of the afternoon trying to not do anymore of that! The AAA guy was a bitch and said they couldn't tow me unless I paid them right then and I didn't have anything of monetary value on me at the time, which was annoying, but it all worked out more or less. Phil had the day off so he came and took me the rest of the way to work (MUAH!) and I was only 2 hours late, which isn't bad considering. I got a call from the garage today saying it was the alternator, as I was pretty positive it was from the start, and it's only going to be a couple hundred bucks, so that makes me :-D I can't wait to go pick it up tomorrow. As much as I enjoyed having Jeremy drive me to and from work today I really prefer my independence!
Ummm, that's really all worth reporting right now. Vegas is off, for now, because my boy is trying to head back to school soon and we all know that's not cheap! Instead we're extending our NYC trip this summer, which I'm supposed to be planning before the end of this week - better get on that before Emily maims me! Phil's parents are now talking Costa Rica or some place in Mexico near both Cancun and Cazumel for our trip in November and I'm totally psyched! These all inclusive resorts sound amazing, I can't wait! Just gotta make sure I have the earned time saved up :-)
Jeremy is going to Iraq at the end of the semester for 3 months :-( First Shane and now him - we need more testosterone in the lab, not less! I don't know what I'll do without one single guy my age working there, they're my only sanity some days amongst all the estrogen. The female has never been my favorite of the two genders, but at least everyone is really nice.
*yawn* I'm tiiiiired! Eight days in a row, now, I've worked out. It's really quite amazing. I'll probably have to take tomorrow off to go get my truck, but we'll see what happens.
Goodnight!
P.S. At least I was only depressing for one paragraph :-P
Current Mood:  introspective
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12:52 am
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1 2 3 4 5 6 SWITCH
You know your rage is out of control when coworkers start telling you that talking to you is stressing them out. I don't know what it is, but some nights I get so intense and need everything to be in it's proper place, running smoothly. Which hardly ever happens in the lab. Mere was having a great night, apparently, until I came along and my tension was catching.
I'm so extremely tired of our kitchen/apartment being in shambles. Almost 2 weeks ago, now, they started this remodeling project and it seems simply assanine to me that they managed to tear down and put up ALL of our kitchen and bathroom counters and cabinets in one day, but the wall work has taken this long after. And it's not like they've even been there every day....just once in awhile they show up, throw some more putty on the walls or something, leave behind a ginormous mess, and then don't come back for a couple more days. Incase you missed this part, our ENTIRE KITCHEN is in our LIVING ROOM right now and it's about to send me over the edge. All of my food is in my bedroom, it's next to impossible to clean dishes because we can't have anything on the counters, and even if we cleaned them we have no place to put them away other than on top of the kitchen table, which (for review), is in the LIVING ROOM.
Not to mention it has totally screwed up my schedule because we can't shower when they're there working and since we never know when that is going to be I spend the night at Phil's, go to the gym, come back to Phil's to shower and get ready for work, go home for an hour to eat lunch, then go to work and repeat said cycle. I love my boyfriend and all, but I need more than an hour a day spent in my own habitat to keep a sane head about me and clearly it's not working out at the moment.
So on top of that, driving to work today my battery light came on in the old truck-a-roo. Telling me my brand new battery from all of November is low. Sure enough, driving home tonight my headlights and dashboard were barely operational - WTF???? The last thing I want to hear is that something like my alternater is going and draining the battery because Lord only knows how much that would cost to replace.
And I have to call the oral surgeon sometime before the week is up to make an appointment for a consultation and to get my wisdom teeth out. I'm assuming they're expecting to set up the consultation and pick the surgery date then, but my boss happens to be doing the schedule for March starting next week and needs to know such retarded details as when I'm going to be morphing into one of the Chipmunks.
It's not a lot, but sometimes it's the littlest things piling up that just send me right over the edge. Welcome to the real world, isn't that what they say? :-P
Ugh, tiredness abounds. Off to update the ole fitness log, then hopefully some good sleep. I can't wait until this renovation nonsense is through and I can sleep in my own bed!
Goodnight.
Current Mood:  super cranky pants
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02:15 am
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Huh what?!?!?
Um, whoa. Where do I go for these long periods or time???? God only knows!
I was driving home from work tonight and heard the great Living On A Prayer by the great Bon Jovi and it made me think of that one night at Marg's here in ManchVegas and how great a night that really was. It was warmish, I think (I was wearing a tank and jeans) and there were a bunch of us and a great crowd and that song came on and everyone starting singing along at the top of their lungs. Bon Jovi sings the best "rock out drunk" songs. I loved that night because I saw MLS Matt and wasn't afraid to talk to him like I always had been back in school. I've grown up so so SOOOoooooo much since high school that it amazes me every day. I love that I'm not intimidated by everyone I meet anymore and that I don't automatically default to thinking "they're so much cooler than me".
I loved that Matt didn't recognize me because I'd lost 50 lbs ;-)
Life is good. I keep saying it and it keeps on keeping on. Is it weird that I'm in love with paying bills? I hate money and I hate spending it, but I feel so grown up at the beginning of every month when I send out my rent and school loan payments and credit card bill. I have an electric bill! I'm still shocked at the fact that my Dartmouth loan will be gone after the first of March....$3200 in 7 payments :-D And my Perkins loan, which starts in March, will be mostly paid off by the extra monies my parents get by claiming me as a dependent (for the last time). Can you believe I pay $1100 a month to school loans and $500 for rent and yet my checking account never dips below $1000? Or that I can put $100 into savings every pay period and not miss it? Don't get me wrong, I'll have school debt probably into my late 30's, maybe even 40's depending on how the whole "buying a house, having a family" thing goes, but it's incredible the things I'm able to do right now financially. I feel empowered.
The job is good. I work with good people, I love the hours, and I even find myself thinking things as strange as "I really enjoy doing diffs" or "I hope I'm in chem tonight". I even enjoy the little spats with the nurses because I know when I'm right and whether they understand it or not I'm not going to give into them because they yell at me. As a med tech I understand this is a way to make ourselves feel more important (hehe), but why should the ER be allowed to ream us out because results were delayed by a machine wash and yet act like it's nothing when they mix up patients? (which has happened about 3 times in the last 2 weeks) or accuse us of losing specs that they never even sent? Stupid hos. It definitely won't be the same if Mere goes to school in the fall, she's my best new friend!, but c'est la vie. I'll just cross my fingers she goes to Boston and not Utah.
Oh, and I'm working out again, which is fabuloso. I would love to lose it all before the warm weather, but I'm giving myself alllllll year to lose a mere 25 lbs. A quasi-New Year's resolution, I suppose. I lost 3 a couple weeks ago, but then came down with the plague and couldn't work out for about a week and a half :-( Let's hope the momentum returns!
Home to Maine this weekend! I pray to God my parents don't read this thing, but just incase I will not yet name the super-awesome present my sister and I have come up with for them (or, you know, I suggested and she said "uhhh, sure"). It will be cute watching my bestest boy have man time with the little bro, it never fails to melt me a little seeing them hang out. And now Andrew has "big boy" toys like Star Wars foosball and air hockey, which I'm sure will provide plenty of entertainment for the masses. I love my family, I don't see them nearly enough, though my parents won't be around this weekend - it being their 25th wedding anniversary and all. 25 years, man, that's a damn long time these days.
On a totally non-sequitor note: J'adore my boyfriend! Two year anniversary is coming up fast, I better get crackin' on a gift! He wants to set a $50 limit, but I declare I can spend whatever I want, especially considering how he one-upped me hardcore at Christmas time (see previous entry for GIANT sapphires). Decisions, decisions.
Wow, it's almost 3 AM....though that's not all that late to me anymore - evening shift rocks! I will close with the possibility of Vegas in April?? Yeah!
Current Mood: life is good
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12:33 am
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Merry Christmas to me!
How would you like those precious stones around your neck? ;-) I gotta say that I enjoy them!
P.S. I love that my sister got me a bucket of peppermintini mix....20 cocktails are now freezing in our booze fridge, hehe (not to mention the signed Bob Marley CD - wohoo!)
P.P.S. I love that my roommate got me my first bottle of Jack and Phil's parents got me totally adorable work out clothes.
P.P.P.S. I love that my parents got me no less than 2 Disney princess themed gifts AND Aladdin on DVD
P.P.P.P.S. I love that we're going to Boston for New Year's in ONE WEEK!!
Last, but not least, I love that I just made an entry out of post scripts :-) Goodnight!
Current Mood: in love
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10:38 pm
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No place like home for the holidays
My first Christmas season on my own was a smashing success, I would have to say. I spent all day Friday baking and cleaning the apartment for my first ever hosting of a girl's night. It was classic Christmas complete with holiday movies, cookie decorating, and "special" cocoa. After Mere and Amber left I felt so accomplished I even called my mom to tell her how clean and festive our apartment was and how my night of pizza, cookies, and other fun went so well. AND, my one and only batch of fudge this season came out even more perfect than usual (probably because I bought the brown sugar fresh unlike the stuff my mom often has, hehe). It was a good season leading up to the holiday and I will elaborate further later, but it's time for church and then BED. Any time tomorrow morning is going to be early after not getting up before 10 for the last 3 months!
Merry Christmas!
Current Mood: happy
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12:57 am
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Very short, mostly pointless
This amused me:
| Your 2005 Song Is | 
Don't Cha by the Pussycat Dolls
"Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me"
What happens in 2005, stays in 2005! |
And I'm getting a cold :-( It would happen right before Christmas.
CHRISTMAS! I can't wait :-D To go home to a state which is apparently trying to tax water, now? Come on, Maine, there have to be other ways to make money besides sucking your residents dry. No wonder my dad is always talking about moving to NH. Haha, the first thing that went through my mind when reading the article was "No taxation without representation"....not quite the right time period :-)
Feeling delirious....must be bedtime....
Current Mood:  run down
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02:17 am
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Way too late at night for this
I haven't done a survey in awhile (dare I say I began to outgrow them?!?), but this one looked like fun and why not at 2:18 in the morning? There will be more of my ramblings continued further down.
FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Babysitter
2. CVS/Pharmacy (Portland)
3. Zyla's (Durham)
4. Med Tech (Concord)
FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Hope Floats
3. Muppet Treasure Island
4. Love Actually
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN:
1. Portland, ME
2. Durham, NH
3. West Lebanon, NH (blechhh)
4. Manchester, NH
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1. Amazing Race!!
2. ER
3. Supernatural
4. Full House
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Washington DC
2. Myrtle Beach, SC
3. Orlando, FL
4. Orange County, CA (twice)
FOUR OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE RESTAURANTS:
1. Tortilla Flat (best Mexican food!)
2. Burger King (haha)
3. Amato's
4. Ruby Tuesday's
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1. Cereal
2. Ice Cream
3. REAL MAINE ITALIANS (OMG, there's a shop here in Manchester and they're for real!)
4. Crab Rangoons
FOUR SCHOOLS YOU'VE ATTENDED:
1. Riverton Elementary
2. Lincoln Middle School
3. Deering High
4. University of New Hampshire
FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. California! (bet it's not 2 degrees there)
2. Out drinkin'
3. Home with the fam
4. In bed with my sleeping boyfriend! (guess where I'll be headed in a few....)
Soooo....a week and a half until Christmas - I can't believe it! I'm so glad I was done my shopping in November because time is just FLYING by! I only have 3 days off between now and then, so I had best get busy with some wrapping and baking. It's going to be a short holiday for me considering I have to work Christmas Eve (3-11:30) and again the day right after Christmas, but at least I have the day itself off and will get to see all my relatives. Once in awhile I feel selfish and wish my boyfriend's parents were taking another trip because I'll miiiiiiiss him that day, but I of all people understand wanting to be with your own family on Christmas! And there's always New Year's in Boston to look forward to with Emily, Philip, and MEREDITH! (not that she's most important, but she's the one planning the night, really). Apparently my boss is going, too, so that will be interesting, hehe.
This is going to be abrupt after all that Christmas ga-ga, but I've decided working in a hospital makes you value your life a bit more, or at least it does for me. When you see a newly diagnosed cancer patient at the ripe old age of 17 come through, a girl your age who has had 40+ blood transfusions already in her life, when you're running samples from a family of corpses who perished in a fire or a car accident trauma victim how can those things NOT get to you? None of those people woke up one morning and thought they were going to be in a serious accident or possibly even kick it, but they were or they did. Yet another reason I could never be a nurse. Look at me now! already emotional about patients who I never even see. I know them only as test results and still feel for them and their families, I couldn't imagine having to see them face to face every day. Some people have said this would make me a great nurse because I would actually care about my patients, but I think it would make me nuts (or more than I already am, hehe). Life is funny sometimes, that's all....not funny hahah, but funny "what can you do"?
I had a birthday - go me getting another year older. And as far as I know I'm still pretty damn healthy, so I'll stop obsessing over the little uncertainties in life. It was a low-key birthday consisting strictly of presents and a visit from my entire fam, which is right up there on the excitement scale considering I see them once a month (if I'm lucky) AND that they all had to reschedule something to be there (besides my 13 year old brother who is homeschooled). I was a bit late to work for the first time, but no one really minded considering they all knew my fam was coming down from Portland. It's so weird to be living permanently away from them. I'm sure it would be weirder to be living WITH them at this point in my life, but still. Before NH was just a place to go to school and now it has become home. Who would ever have predicted that I, the person most likely to leave ME, would be living so close the the MA border. I know it's not terribly far, but being the clingy home-body I was it's a big step towards more in the future (possibly VA?)
And now look....it's almost 3 AM again and I'm supposed to be going to the gym tomorrow morning (we'll see how that goes!) I'm glad Meredith is back at work, even though she's still in a lot of pain :-( I missed having someone to be silly with :-)
Goodnight!
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10:33 pm
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Mind boggling
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you choose? That's almost the situation Phil and I find ourselves in now and I don't even know where to start! I know the thought of Vegas is exciting for him, but I've never left the US before! (Canada doesn't count, everyone from Maine has been there at least once :-P). His parents have offered to take me, him, his sister, and her boyfriend anywhere we want to go, their treat.
Oh the possibilities!
In other news....we got our very first "on our own" Christmas tree today ("we" being Em and I, though Philip helped). It's exciting. And our apartment smells AMAZING.
Life is good, y'all, life is good :-)
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01:04 am
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Trauma in the ER
There's nothing like the rush of adreneline you get the first time you're working in a hospital and hear the page "Trauma team activate level one". Level one is apparently one of the most severe traumas possible at Concord. I don't think they ended up taking emergent blood (that can be exciting), but I got to run my first John Doe. I love working in a hospital.
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11:54 am
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Melancholy
Well, Halloween was kind of a let down this year. Not because Phil's party flopped - we had a good time, really. I've just always done something on the actual day and the fact that I spent the 31st alone all morning and at work all evening pretty much depressed me. Not to mention everyone at work was talking about taking their kids trick or treating and for some reason it made me really miss those days when Halloween was that exciting. Technically Halloween really is a kid's holiday, but in college there was always the costumed drinking on the weekend closest to and then the bus trips to Salem the night of. Instead I spent the evening issuing more blood than should have been allowed at work. Someone somewhere decided it would be extremely funny to make Halloween all about the Blood Bank :-P At least Emily had bought candy for non-existant trick or treaters (kids who live in this community probably hit up the neighborhoods in the area) and I got to have some when I got home and watched the end of Jason X at my boyfriend's. Have I ever mentioned how much I love Jason Vorhees?
My sister ended up coming down for the party and it was nice having her here. After going to breakfast on Sunday we watched The Wedding Date and lazed around before dinner (BK!) and forcing her to watch 2 episodes of Supernatural with us. I love that show! The ghostie ones are my favorite, like with any show, but the sci-fi-ish ones aren't bad, either. Emily is in love (a little bit) with Jensen Ackles, which I think is funny because every time I see him all I can think is Eric from Days of Our Lives. I prefer the other brother.
Yeah, so the Halloween party! Out of my roommate, sister, and I, I ended up being the most "happy", which is always annoying because then I feel like those less drunk than me are judging me. I was disappointed to not spend a lot of time with my boyfriend after working so hard on our couples costume, but he was the rabid host who couldn't leave people to their own defenses for more than a few brief moments at a time. It was nice catching up with my Sarah-girly! which was really what I had been most excited for, anyway, but by the time we were done blabbing at each other and wanted to play drinking games my other friends were already leaving, which surprised and disappointed me. I missed drinking with Jonah and Shari, who are really 2 of my favorite people to drink with. Overall I had fun, but it wasn't the awesomely amazing time I had imagined with all my old friends and a ton of alcohol and I hardly got a minute with Phil to myself, which is hard considering most of our couple time comes on the weekends with our schedules being opposite, now.
So that was pretty much my weekend, besides spending 3 hours Saturday at 7-11 because I locked my keys in my car and AAA was looking for me in Manchester MAINE with no way to call me since they wrote down the wrong area code. Work this week has been fine and the days go by so quickly! Probably because I'm not counting the minutes until the weekend like I used to on days, or more accurately "the minutes until I can sleep again". I'm on my first weekend this month, the one smack dab in the middle (when Harry Potter comes out!) I'm nervous because I'm just getting used to having 5 techs on at a time as opposed to day shift when there are at least 10....on the weekend it will be me and ONE other person. Gonna be time to kick it up a notch.
November is really my least favorite month of the year, which is slightly odd since it's right before my favorite favorite. I've bought 3 Christmas presents already, though, which gets exciting! I'm going to have to remember to bring all my ornaments and dorm decorations back after Thanksgiving since I already missed having my Halloween ones this year. I LOVE CHRISTMAS! It better feel more like a special holiday than Monday did. I have to work Christmas Eve, but there are 3 of us when there really only need to be 2 after dinner time so I'm hoping I can leave early since I'll be driving to Maine, though Karen is already arguing because she has kids and will need to leave early to wrap. Push comes to shove I am the newbie and will probably get stuck until the night crew comes in, but at least I'll get to spend Christmas day with my family.
I have babbled on more than long enough and since the water just came back on perhaps I should have a shower before work :-) Feel free to say hi!
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