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4 Things I have asked my neighbors to stop doing that I shouldn't have had to
1. Please stop playing music at 3am at full volume.
2. Please stop letting your dog crap under my stairs and then leaving it there.
3. Please stop unscrewing the light bulb that lights my stairs.
4. Please stop parking an inch in front of my garage so I can't open it.

4 Stupidest things my tables have said to me recently
1. I didn't know there was corn in my White Corn Guacamole!
2. Can I just get small pieces of all the appetizers on one plate?
3. Can I get only half of a pizza?
4. I didnt know that was a pizza! (we actually hear that one all the time)

4 Awesome things I've bought recently
1. Contacts!
2. Cappuccino gelato
3. Espresso martini
4. Cadbury creme eggs (yay, easter candy!!)

4 Best surgeries I've gotten to scrub in to so far
1. Emergency craniotomy
2. Bilateral full thickness and split thickness skin grafts on arms, shoulders, and neck
3. Robotic nephrectomy
4. Total hip replacement

Why do drugs when you can get contacts?

So I finally got some contacts, yay! Sorta anyway. I just got a trial pair to make sure that these will work for me. I haven't worn any in forever though, so everything is all warped and my eyes are having to relearn how to focus on stuff with contacts in. I'll be able to see normally in an hour or so though. I hope.... If not, I'll get a different trial pair! Woo! :)

I did my taxes today. I'm getting just over $1,000, which is good. I'm quite pleased. That money will pay off one of my credit cards (I have three, terrible, I know), pay off the school (not completely, just pay the past due bills, ugh), and I'm thinking an iphone. Not to use as a phone, mind you, but to use as an ipod.

My snake is better. His skin still looks pretty bad, but it will until he sheds a few times. There's no new dead scales though, and he's being way more active. At least, as active as kingsnakes are supposed to be. Which isnt very. But sometimes when I come home from work he's in a different spot, so thats good. :)

I got 6 free samples of nescafe taster's choice instant coffee in the mail yesterday. That was fun! Although I greatly prefer real coffee, having some instant lying around is nice. Although one of these is decaf, and seriously, what is the point of that? Doesnt coffee make good fertilizer? Maybe I'll toss it in my herbs that I grow... (and yes, I mean actual herbs (cilantro, parsley, and basil, so don't go accusing me of growing weed)

Blah. I have to go to class in an hour. I've had three people ask me to pick up their shift at work today. Too bad I cant. I could use the money since I've been sick and missed Fri and Sat. Oh well.

Ew. I burped and it tasted like Del Taco.

And I think I'll end on that note.

Yup. Bye!

Poor Simon!!

I think my snake my have scale rot, which sucks, cuz that means I have to pay for a vet. The good thing is that the only decent herp vet in town works at a 24 hour hospital, so I was able to schedule an appt for early monday morning. I might be late to work, but that's ok. This week when I worked the opening shift it only took me 30 mins to do all my opening stuff, and I had an hour to do it in, so I don't think they'll care if I show up 30 mins late. Obviously I'll ask them, but yeah. Ugh. I just hope it's something easy to treat, I don't like that my snake is sick!!!

I also need to see an eye doctor. Which is tricky given my schedule. But I really need new glasses/contacts. Probably contacts and then I'll have these glasses as an emergency back up.

I have no beer in my fridge. It kinda makes me sad.

I finish school on March 4. THANK GOD!!!! I miss having free time. And not having to deal with complete idiots wasting my time all day.

Happy list and Annoying list

Things that annoy me-
A girl in my class today was complaining about those morons who drive 25 miles an hour down the freeway when it's so foggy that you can't see 5 feet in front of you, so when she's driving along at 65 she cant stop in time and risks hitting them. I was about ready to call CHP right then and there. Let's see, she acknowledges that it's really foggy, that most people slow down for the fog, and that when she drives 65 she is in danger of hitting them because she cant see them soon enough to stop, and yet, think they're the morons. She also had her license taken away for two years because of excessive tickets (seriously, I've known people to get 5 tickets in a month who didnt have any problems, how many tickets was she getting???), but still insists that she's a good driver.

Speaking of driving, people who drive 30 down Ming and Stockdale. During the day. When it's nice and clear. And the speed limit is 45.

Doctors/techs/nurses who have abhorrent sterile technique. I wont go into more detail here, but yeah, some of the stuff that goes on in OR's is scary.

People who clap their hands and stomp their feet every time they laugh at one of their own jokes.

People who raise their hand after the teacher says "If there's no more questions you can leave now."

Getting up at 4am.

Filling out job applications.

Filling out job applications for a job that will require that I get up at 4am.

Things that make me happy-
Good books!

Food!

Sleep!

Cuddly kitties in my lap when it's cold and they're all warm and soft and cute!

First scrubbing a case from start to finish ("first scrub" is the person who set it all up and passed all the instruments), without having the doctor have to ask for a single instrument (it was only a circumcision, which is a pretty easy case, but still!).

Walking into a room when people are not only talking about how well you're doing, but are actually arguing over who noticed it first (this really happened today. Very cool!).

Christmas is 8 days away!



Where am I going for Christmas anyway? Do we know yet?

It's everything that is connected and beautiful and now I know just where I stand

Today at Vons it took me three tries to enter my phone number, not because I kept hitting the wrong buttons, but because I kept forgetting what my number is. Then I'm at my door, trying to get into my apartment, but I can't find my keys in any of my pockets, or my purse. I set down the grocery bags to get my phone to call somebody when I realize they're in my hand. The following is an explanation as to why I'm so tired.

Thursday, Oct 29- SJCH Endo from 6:30-12, class from 1-whenever we finished our final exam(it took my 20 mins, I got 167/170 questions right), supposed to meet with my trainer at the gym, but I got sick, so I canceled. Went to bed at around 9.

Friday, Oct 30- Woke up at 10:30 (I was sick!). Work from 4-9

Sat, Oct 31- Work from 4-8, then a Halloween party with some people from work until midnight or so.

Sunday, Nov 1- Work from 10-4, gym for an hour.

Mon, Nov 2- Signed up for a new checking account, then random errands all day, walmart, petsmart, groceries, etc, then Monday Night Football at Firehouse, where I got a little drunk, and then spent the night with some friends.

Tues, Nov 3- Picked up my car from Firehouse, then work from 11:30-2:30, then LA with Michael for a concert (I feel bad, everytime we go to a concert together I fall asleep on the drive home. I try really hard to stay awake, but dammit, it's after midnight and I'm sleepy!)

Wed, Nov 4- Gym for an hour, work at 4.

Thursday, Nov 5- Hmm, it took my editing this post three times to remember Thursday. Interesting. (edit one)I know I cleaned Tabasco's tank at some point recently... That was probably today. (edit two)Oh! And I think I made soup today too... Which takes like an hour and a half (including all the time it takes to cut the veggies and boil the water and let everything simmer and all that). I still have a little left. (edit three) Then I met up with a friend at the Marketplace and hung out at Starbucks until they kicked us out at 11.

Friday, Nov 6- Hiking all day (we left at 8, got back at 5:30) with Kim

Sat, Nov 7- Work from 11:30-4, late lunch/early dinner with family, then walked around the mall a bit, then Girl's Night Out with some girls (obviously) from work. home at midnight

Sunday, Nov 8- Cleaned the apartment (trash, dishes, vacuum, kitchen, laundry), then work at 5:30 (closing shift, luckily we close early on Sundays)

Monday, Nov 9- KMC from 6-3, class from 3:30-5:30, then more laundry, and groceries.

Tomorrow, Nov 10- KMC from 6-3, class from 3:30-5:30, then maybe sleep.... that sounds good.

Wed, Nov 11- Holiday (I dont know which one.... hmm.... Not important.), if they're open I need to get my oil changed. And go to the gym. And then sleep some more.

It's a good thing we dont get weeks off of school very often, cuz if we did I might just die of exhausted. Damn vacations!!

And seriously, how do all of you do this when you have kids and husbands/wives? I am impressed!

I am boring.

Hmm, it's been over a month since my last post. I suck, sorry.

So I only have 3 more months of school, yay! Sorta. I have three months of actually being in school, but there's a gazillion breaks until then, so it'll take 4 months. Starting Monday I'll be working 2 8 hour shifts at KMC, then in 5 weeks I'll be somewhere else (hopefully doing more than two days).

So that's fun.

I actually have this week off though, which has been awesome. Because I have this weird thing (free time is what I think most people call it....) I've been trying to actually do stuff. I went to a party on Halloween (as a faerie), I hung out at Firehouse watching sports, I went to see the Silversun Pickups and the Dany Warhols in LA with Michael (The Loss Adjuster), and tomorrow, provided the weather cooperates, I'm going hiking with a girl from work. Yay! :)

Today... I don't really have anything to do. I need to go the gym at some point, and I need new pants for work cuz we're getting new uniforms, which is awesome (black shirt, no tie), but I have to have spiffy new pants cuz faded ones will stand out too much.

And.... uh... this is why I havent been posting much. I just really cant think of anything to say.

So, bye!

I have mad skills!

So I'm walking up my stairs after work and I notice a praying mantis kicking it under my lamp. Neat. I happen to have my phone in my hand, so I snap a couple pics, and continue up the stairs. And trip a little, but recover, and keep going, and trip again and land on my knees. Seriously, who manages to trip TWICE while going UP the stairs?

Tonight I made $78, which sounds good until you consider that my sales were $750 and I was there for 6 hours. Ugh. Given that the last three shifts I worked I made over $100, I can't really complain too much, but still!

A girl I work with is a trainer at Body Exchange, and she's agreed to give me a discount for personal training sessions, which is awesome. I signed up to do a 5 or 10k charity run next month, and I'd really like to be able to do it without dying.

Happy birthday, Abby! :)

There was totally something else that I was going to write about but I dont remember what it was.... hmm....

Yeah, I give up.

Ok then, bye!