Current mood:

sleepy

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!