I have not updated in a while and for this, I apologize and will try to keep this entry focused on interesting events.
I will pick up where I left off...LAST Monday. That day, I spent a half-day in ophthalmology. You can probably imagine what that was like...eyeglass prescriptions, glaucoma patients, candidates for cataract surgery. It was not too terribly thrilling, but the doctor I was with was very nice and told me that ophthalmologists have a great lifestyle. After I got done there, my dad and stepmother took me out to eat.
Tuesday, I shadowed a pediatrician. That was actually interesting. I saw a lot of sick kids, obviously. But I also got to see some babies getting check-ups and vaccinations and regular things like that, and I loved being around the babies. They just made me feel happy. I saw so many young mothers, though. Several of them were still in high school and just seemed so lost. The doctor had to be really patient with them, and also with several of the parents I saw who spoke no English or very broken English. If I took anything away from the day, it's that children are a LOT of work. They have to come for check-ups very often when they're little, get all of their vaccinations, buy all of these specific medicines and products, etc. And there are all of these little tips the doctor would give out, like putting Karo syrup in a baby's milk bottle. I was thinking, "People are supposed to know this stuff?!" Funny story: an older boy (probably about 11) came in with his mom with pretty normal complaints of a sore throat, coughing, etc. The doctor asked if they'd been in the water recently, and the mother said, "Yes, my boyfriend took us to the beach on vacation last week," and the little boy immediately says, "I thought you said he was your husband!" And the mother tries to stay composed, but just sputters out, "Well, soon-to-be. Fiance." She just looked down into her lap after that. I had to try SO HARD not to laugh. Kids say the darndest things.
Next day was Endocrinology. It's basically a specialty that deals with anything involving hormones. You see a lot of diabetes patients and people with thyroid problems. I actually enjoyed it. That day, I was frustrated with people who would not listen to the doctor. Now, I'm not saying you should just blindly follow anything a physician tells you. You shouldn't. But a VERY young person (early 20s) we saw that day REFUSED A BIOPSY of a lump in her throat because she said she was needle-phobic (even though she's had two epidurals before). Her next appointment is in three months. I do not see how a person sleeps at night knowing they might have cancer...I guess patience is a virtue I am going to have to learn, because I wanted to shake her, and I don't hear of many doctors shaking their patients.
Next two days...ER. That Thursday was interesting at least (nothing went on that Friday morning). Thursday, I worked from 3PM 'till 11PM and saw a near-drowning, a drug OD, a (catatonic) schizophrenic, and a man in a tractor accident. WHOA. I also learned that ER doctors are not on call. You would think they are, but since they are scheduled around the clock, no one ever gets called in. I actually enjoyed working at night, but I think I would feel differently if I had a family.
I will blog about this week's adventures starting tomorrow so it's not too overwhelming. Haha. But at the moment, I am scared. I'm going back to summer school in July to take Chemistry II. Chemistry is so hard for me that I won't have time for a job, and that is really awful. I can't afford to not have a job, and I even told my mother the other day that I can't stand not working. I have worked since I was 16 years old. But she and I both know that if I work and take that class at the same time, I will probably fail the class, which would be a waste of time and money. I just feel so guilty, though...I NEED to work. I can't afford not to. But I can't afford not to get into medical school in two years, either, if that's what I'm planning to do with my life. It's just a sucky situation. I'm really dreading going back to my house and getting the internet and cable turned back on...they told me they are going to charge me some kind of activation fee for a reason I don't understand, since everything is activated, I thought. I am going to ask why, but I feel like no matter what, there are people just ripping me off everywhere I go. Bills just suck. But I HAVE to pay them, and I can't get rid of them. Except for putting them in the shredder, which means they would just reappear later and be more expensive the next time.
Yes, I do need a nap.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Sleeeepy.
Wow! So, yeah. I've had an interesting three days.
Tuesday, I shadowed two cardiologists. The first one was insane and really made me laugh. I read through about a thousand heart echoes with him (OK, probably about ten.) We rounded on some patients (sorry, no details. He went in the rooms by himself. Boo!) Then, I watched him insert a heart catheter...THAT was cool, once I actually figured out what they were doing and how to interpret it on the screen. What they do is insert a wire surrounded by a sheath right by the groin into the heart and its vessels and look for blockages. You can see everything they do on a camera in this huge computer lab, which also has computers monitoring the patient's vital signs and things. Later that afternoon, I also watched another cardiologists do some caths and insert a stint, which basically opens up a blood vessel so that blood can flow through it more easily. The two cardiologists I followed were nice, but definitely a little more gruff and not as warm as the female physician I followed Monday. They also said their dictations into a phone service instead of typing them out themselves, and I have never heard so many long words come out of a person's mouth at once...and so quickly! Although it got tedious to observe, I think that I would enjoy cardiology if I were actually performing the procedures myself. It was interesting to learn about, and they seemed to get a good balance of patient interaction and performing procedures...except for the second cardiologist, who performed caths like a machine and was referred to as "the man."
Wednesday...was an interesting day. I had to be in the surgery unit at the hospital for women at 7 in the morning, and I went straight to a C-section. Whoa. It was my first time seeing an actual surgery, and I never felt sick or thought I couldn't bear to watch...but C-sections are freaking GRUESOME. The OBGYN later told me that they are the bloodiest and messiest surgeries to perform, and I could see what she meant. It seemed like it took the doctor forever just to cut through all the layers before you get to the uterus, but she finally got to the uterus and moved organs aside for a little while longer before she pulled the baby out. I have to admit, it was pretty cool seeing the baby come out. It was still grayish-colored and started crying almost immediately. I guess it's just a cool feeling to be standing in a room and another person basically just appears out of thin air...or a stomach. Whatever. I watched the baby get cleaned up and saw them make the footprints and handprints. It was so sweet. Then, the mom finally got to hold her baby, and she seemed happy, but really out of it. Then, they took the baby somewhere while she got stitched up, which took FOREVER since the doctor actually stitched her up instead of using staples. The nurses told me that it was good that she was doing that because a lot of doctors use staples out of laziness. Anyway, I saw the woman in the recovery room later and it made me sad...she was just laying there without her baby or any people around her because she was hurting so badly. She had the baby by C-section because they all thought it was going to be a ten-pound baby, but it was actually only 8 pounds and some ounces...so she technically could have had it naturally if they had known the real weight, which isn't her fault. But anyway. That experience showed me that I want to avoid having a C-section by almost any means...I know some people need it in emergencies, and that's the only way I want to give birth by C-section. The nurses also told me that the doctors usually don't let laboring go beyond a certain number of hours because they are afraid of being sued by angry parents, which makes me sick. That's honestly why I don't know if I could be a surgeon or an OBGYN...it's just too much risk.
Anyway. Wow. Lots about the C-section. I also saw a labia revision...and if you don't know what a labia is, I'm not going to tell you. Haha. But I saw one get REDUCED, and it made me hurt. I also saw a fibroid the size of a baseball be removed from a uterus. Surgery is very tedious, but I like to sew, so I was actually interested in the stitching up part of it all! Later that afternoon, I went to the NICU, and I honestly did not see much except for very tiny babies and two very tired doctors who were too busy to talk to us much.
Today, we went to the center where they perform cancer treatment. We got to see how radiation is set up and administered...it's like an assembly line of patients. Almost all of them drive up every single day for months to get a couple of minutes of treatment. It's not painful for them, but depending on the radiation site, they may have side effects later. We then went and saw how dosimetry is calculated, which was complicated and full of math. At lunch, we went to a tumor conference and learned about medulloblastoma and melanoma. I liked learning about melanoma, since it's going to be the closest I get to seeing something about dermatology this month. There was also this doctor sitting behind me who sounded like Bill Lumbergh from Office Space, and it amused me. That afternoon, we saw where they give chemotherapy, which was a little depressing. The bays they sit in are so small, and some of the people in there looked like they were my age. I also saw a pain pump in someone's stomach get refilled. So far, I wasn't very interested in oncology. I know the doctors interact with patients sometimes, but I didn't see any of that today, so it didn't help me become too interested in oncology at this particular time.
Outpatient surgery tomorrow at 7.
Tuesday, I shadowed two cardiologists. The first one was insane and really made me laugh. I read through about a thousand heart echoes with him (OK, probably about ten.) We rounded on some patients (sorry, no details. He went in the rooms by himself. Boo!) Then, I watched him insert a heart catheter...THAT was cool, once I actually figured out what they were doing and how to interpret it on the screen. What they do is insert a wire surrounded by a sheath right by the groin into the heart and its vessels and look for blockages. You can see everything they do on a camera in this huge computer lab, which also has computers monitoring the patient's vital signs and things. Later that afternoon, I also watched another cardiologists do some caths and insert a stint, which basically opens up a blood vessel so that blood can flow through it more easily. The two cardiologists I followed were nice, but definitely a little more gruff and not as warm as the female physician I followed Monday. They also said their dictations into a phone service instead of typing them out themselves, and I have never heard so many long words come out of a person's mouth at once...and so quickly! Although it got tedious to observe, I think that I would enjoy cardiology if I were actually performing the procedures myself. It was interesting to learn about, and they seemed to get a good balance of patient interaction and performing procedures...except for the second cardiologist, who performed caths like a machine and was referred to as "the man."
Wednesday...was an interesting day. I had to be in the surgery unit at the hospital for women at 7 in the morning, and I went straight to a C-section. Whoa. It was my first time seeing an actual surgery, and I never felt sick or thought I couldn't bear to watch...but C-sections are freaking GRUESOME. The OBGYN later told me that they are the bloodiest and messiest surgeries to perform, and I could see what she meant. It seemed like it took the doctor forever just to cut through all the layers before you get to the uterus, but she finally got to the uterus and moved organs aside for a little while longer before she pulled the baby out. I have to admit, it was pretty cool seeing the baby come out. It was still grayish-colored and started crying almost immediately. I guess it's just a cool feeling to be standing in a room and another person basically just appears out of thin air...or a stomach. Whatever. I watched the baby get cleaned up and saw them make the footprints and handprints. It was so sweet. Then, the mom finally got to hold her baby, and she seemed happy, but really out of it. Then, they took the baby somewhere while she got stitched up, which took FOREVER since the doctor actually stitched her up instead of using staples. The nurses told me that it was good that she was doing that because a lot of doctors use staples out of laziness. Anyway, I saw the woman in the recovery room later and it made me sad...she was just laying there without her baby or any people around her because she was hurting so badly. She had the baby by C-section because they all thought it was going to be a ten-pound baby, but it was actually only 8 pounds and some ounces...so she technically could have had it naturally if they had known the real weight, which isn't her fault. But anyway. That experience showed me that I want to avoid having a C-section by almost any means...I know some people need it in emergencies, and that's the only way I want to give birth by C-section. The nurses also told me that the doctors usually don't let laboring go beyond a certain number of hours because they are afraid of being sued by angry parents, which makes me sick. That's honestly why I don't know if I could be a surgeon or an OBGYN...it's just too much risk.
Anyway. Wow. Lots about the C-section. I also saw a labia revision...and if you don't know what a labia is, I'm not going to tell you. Haha. But I saw one get REDUCED, and it made me hurt. I also saw a fibroid the size of a baseball be removed from a uterus. Surgery is very tedious, but I like to sew, so I was actually interested in the stitching up part of it all! Later that afternoon, I went to the NICU, and I honestly did not see much except for very tiny babies and two very tired doctors who were too busy to talk to us much.
Today, we went to the center where they perform cancer treatment. We got to see how radiation is set up and administered...it's like an assembly line of patients. Almost all of them drive up every single day for months to get a couple of minutes of treatment. It's not painful for them, but depending on the radiation site, they may have side effects later. We then went and saw how dosimetry is calculated, which was complicated and full of math. At lunch, we went to a tumor conference and learned about medulloblastoma and melanoma. I liked learning about melanoma, since it's going to be the closest I get to seeing something about dermatology this month. There was also this doctor sitting behind me who sounded like Bill Lumbergh from Office Space, and it amused me. That afternoon, we saw where they give chemotherapy, which was a little depressing. The bays they sit in are so small, and some of the people in there looked like they were my age. I also saw a pain pump in someone's stomach get refilled. So far, I wasn't very interested in oncology. I know the doctors interact with patients sometimes, but I didn't see any of that today, so it didn't help me become too interested in oncology at this particular time.
Outpatient surgery tomorrow at 7.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Day One.
Well, before I talk about my first day at work, I must say that the show, "Master of Dance," really is everything I thought it would be. I know I'm such a dork, but I've really been looking forward to this show. Laughs for everyone. I love watching people having FUN dancing. I aspire to be like Tiffany from the first episode! Ha.
Anyway! So, I woke up WAY too early this morning. Just nerves, I guess. But I got the parking garage pretty easily and went up to the room where had orientation and talked to some other participants. There are eight of us, and everyone seems really nice and cool so far. Most everyone is from Ole Miss, though. Hardly anyone is representing MSU! Oh, well.
We are all split into three groups, even though people in the same group don't always do the same thing. This morning all we did was orientation, which was pretty boring, as those things usually are. We DID watch this weird hospital safety cartoon starring a mouse nurse with a mouse friend who contracted HIV from a hospital needle. But we also got our pictures made for our badges (I felt like I was in high school again, and the dorkiness totally showed on my face) and we got our lab coats, which look cool and intimidating but are pretty hot and itchy. Then, we toured the hospital and several sites away from the hospital. The hospital is SO huge, and I kept getting lost...but at least everyone else did, too. We got to eat lunch in the physician's lounge, too. Most importantly, we have to flash our badges at this little thing to make the doors to it open, which makes us look like we're actually important. But anyway. The physician's lounge was pretty neat. Some nice doctor actually talked to us and didn't look annoyed by all of us young 'uns, and there's a nice TV in there. We also can eat in there FOR FREE, and today, they had a salad bar with three kinds of salad, stuffed crab, chicken cordon bleu, roasted potatoes, corn, all kinds of soft drinks, frozen yogurt, and cereal. Sweeeet.
After eating lunch and spending twenty minutes trying to find my car, the other guy in my group and I headed over to the internal medicine clinic to spend our first afternoon with actual doctors. I got to follow this awesome female internal medicine specialist around for almost four hours, and it was pretty amazing. We saw five or six patients, and even though I saw no crazy cases, it was still interesting. Diabetes, sleep apnea, pap smear, pericarditis, medication adjustments, tests ordered...that's pretty much what I saw today. Also, I watched the doctor do a lot of charting, and I never realized how much that takes up of a doctor's day. She had to spend more time charting than seeing patients, which she told me no doctor enjoys. She also spent a lot of time just talking to me and answering my questions, which was helpful because she's a female physician with a family, which is what I hope to be one day. She only works three days a week right now while her child is so small, and that's something I'd like to consider when I have children, especially very young ones. Anyway, if I end up wanting to specialize in cardiology, I will have to complete a three-year internal medicine residency first, and I realized today that I think I would enjoy internal medicine. I think I would enjoy treating a wide range of problems for at least that long, even though I would miss never treating children.
I would write more, but I am incredibly tired. I plan on getting more sleep tonight...less nerves. Tomorrow, I'm spending the day in the cardiology unit and the cardiac cath lab. YAY! Going to watch Jon & Kate plus 8 now...it's new tonight! I know you care a LOT, right? That's what I thought.
Anyway! So, I woke up WAY too early this morning. Just nerves, I guess. But I got the parking garage pretty easily and went up to the room where had orientation and talked to some other participants. There are eight of us, and everyone seems really nice and cool so far. Most everyone is from Ole Miss, though. Hardly anyone is representing MSU! Oh, well.
We are all split into three groups, even though people in the same group don't always do the same thing. This morning all we did was orientation, which was pretty boring, as those things usually are. We DID watch this weird hospital safety cartoon starring a mouse nurse with a mouse friend who contracted HIV from a hospital needle. But we also got our pictures made for our badges (I felt like I was in high school again, and the dorkiness totally showed on my face) and we got our lab coats, which look cool and intimidating but are pretty hot and itchy. Then, we toured the hospital and several sites away from the hospital. The hospital is SO huge, and I kept getting lost...but at least everyone else did, too. We got to eat lunch in the physician's lounge, too. Most importantly, we have to flash our badges at this little thing to make the doors to it open, which makes us look like we're actually important. But anyway. The physician's lounge was pretty neat. Some nice doctor actually talked to us and didn't look annoyed by all of us young 'uns, and there's a nice TV in there. We also can eat in there FOR FREE, and today, they had a salad bar with three kinds of salad, stuffed crab, chicken cordon bleu, roasted potatoes, corn, all kinds of soft drinks, frozen yogurt, and cereal. Sweeeet.
After eating lunch and spending twenty minutes trying to find my car, the other guy in my group and I headed over to the internal medicine clinic to spend our first afternoon with actual doctors. I got to follow this awesome female internal medicine specialist around for almost four hours, and it was pretty amazing. We saw five or six patients, and even though I saw no crazy cases, it was still interesting. Diabetes, sleep apnea, pap smear, pericarditis, medication adjustments, tests ordered...that's pretty much what I saw today. Also, I watched the doctor do a lot of charting, and I never realized how much that takes up of a doctor's day. She had to spend more time charting than seeing patients, which she told me no doctor enjoys. She also spent a lot of time just talking to me and answering my questions, which was helpful because she's a female physician with a family, which is what I hope to be one day. She only works three days a week right now while her child is so small, and that's something I'd like to consider when I have children, especially very young ones. Anyway, if I end up wanting to specialize in cardiology, I will have to complete a three-year internal medicine residency first, and I realized today that I think I would enjoy internal medicine. I think I would enjoy treating a wide range of problems for at least that long, even though I would miss never treating children.
I would write more, but I am incredibly tired. I plan on getting more sleep tonight...less nerves. Tomorrow, I'm spending the day in the cardiology unit and the cardiac cath lab. YAY! Going to watch Jon & Kate plus 8 now...it's new tonight! I know you care a LOT, right? That's what I thought.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
What's a title?
I did not sleep in. Instead, I woke up to Fox News blaring and a puppy pawing at my foot. After that, I helped myself to a bowl of Lucky Charms and tried to enjoy some Paula Deen on TV. My relatives were supposedly at Wal-Mart during this time.
I just got back from riding around my new town, trying to figure out where the employee entrance to the hospital was and seeing if I could manage to get to the road where the mall is from the hospital. I did it. I also stopped at Wal-Mart to get concealer, since my eyelid is burned from getting my brows waxed Friday. Sigh. I have had wax dripped in my hair, eyelid burned, eyelid cut with trimming scissors, eyelid irritated from additional tweezing after said waxing. Oh, well. If I didn't get my brows waxed so often, I really would look like a jungle woman.
When I was riding around today, I tried to listen to some CDs today that had a lot of significant memories attached. I'm trying to replace those memories with new ones. Does that ever really work? I hope so.
One of my best friends that I stayed with this weekend recommended that I listen to the song "Breakin' Up" by Rilo Kiley. I'm glad she did. I usually hate when people link or post song lyrics, but I'm doing it anyway. I think most everyone could relate.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rilokiley/breakinup.html
But I think I'll go now and try to do something productive. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have something interesting to say since I start my job then! I'm pretty excited.
I'll leave you with a picture of the Rachael Ray recipe I'm craving today...Audacious, Herbaceous Beef Burgers. I swear, Rachael Ray is such a nerd.
I just got back from riding around my new town, trying to figure out where the employee entrance to the hospital was and seeing if I could manage to get to the road where the mall is from the hospital. I did it. I also stopped at Wal-Mart to get concealer, since my eyelid is burned from getting my brows waxed Friday. Sigh. I have had wax dripped in my hair, eyelid burned, eyelid cut with trimming scissors, eyelid irritated from additional tweezing after said waxing. Oh, well. If I didn't get my brows waxed so often, I really would look like a jungle woman.
When I was riding around today, I tried to listen to some CDs today that had a lot of significant memories attached. I'm trying to replace those memories with new ones. Does that ever really work? I hope so.
One of my best friends that I stayed with this weekend recommended that I listen to the song "Breakin' Up" by Rilo Kiley. I'm glad she did. I usually hate when people link or post song lyrics, but I'm doing it anyway. I think most everyone could relate.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rilokiley/breakinup.html
But I think I'll go now and try to do something productive. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have something interesting to say since I start my job then! I'm pretty excited.
I'll leave you with a picture of the Rachael Ray recipe I'm craving today...Audacious, Herbaceous Beef Burgers. I swear, Rachael Ray is such a nerd.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Moving forward.
So, here I am.
Currently, I'm living at my great-aunt's house, waiting to start my new job as a physician shadower on Monday.
For the next three weeks, I will be following around physicians in various specialties, such as surgery, cardiology, gynecology and obstetrics, and radiology. I was also told that I would be spending several weekend nights hanging around the ER. THAT will be crazy. I am interested to see what kinds of unique cases will come through, but then again, emergency room medicine is pretty much on the bottom of my list of preferred specialties.
Anyway, during the week, I will be working from 8 AM 'til 4:30 PM and will be expected to wear an oh-so-stylish uniform of collared shirts, khakis, tennis shoes, and...MY VERY OWN LAB COAT. Can you tell I'm excited about that? Now, if only we could wear scrubs...and if I weren't so poor, maybe I could have bought those silver and white mesh Nikes in some random shoe store that I pointed out to my mom as "doctor shoes."
However, I am currently storing all of my clothes, neatly arranged on a hanging rack, in my car. I am sleeping on the couch here at my great-aunt's, and have no room of my own. I was also pretty nervous about living here in the first place, considering this is the first time I've really met her. When I first arrived today, I was my typical, socially-awkward self and was having trouble holding conversations with the random assortment of my aunt and uncle's children and grandchildren flitting in and out of the house. After a few hours, though, things definitely got less tense for me and I was talking easily to people AND eating one of my favorite dinners they graciously cooked for me...cheeseburgers and fries with ranch. I don't think it will be so bad here.
In other news, one of my best friends is getting married in July and I went to a bridal shower of hers today. I love bridal showers. I love the food, checking out everyone's pretty outfits/shoes, seeing how happy the bride is when she opens up kitchen item after kitchen item...and today, I won the bridal shower game and got a $25 Wal-Mart gift card. How much does that rule? I'm thinking of writing the hostess a thank-you note just for providing my broke self with some extra grocery money. Also, I'm just so happy for my almost-married friend. After going through some pretty rough times in life and love, she's found someone that loves her insanely and would never leave her and vice versa. It gives me hope that I will find a similar thing one day. I know it's out there, but I don't have the strength to find it right now. However, I know that it will come with time...and that one day, I will be receving breadmakers and salad spinners and looking glowy at my own bridal shower. And even better, I will know that I am marrying the right person for me...or one of the right people for me, anyway. I believe there are several people in the world for everyone...not that I advocate leaving one for another. Ha. I'm a pretty big fan of monogamy, and committment, for that matter.
I'm off to do a little reading and watch TV from my place on the sofa-bed. It's my last day to sleep late before work on Monday, and I plan to make the most of it.
Currently, I'm living at my great-aunt's house, waiting to start my new job as a physician shadower on Monday.
For the next three weeks, I will be following around physicians in various specialties, such as surgery, cardiology, gynecology and obstetrics, and radiology. I was also told that I would be spending several weekend nights hanging around the ER. THAT will be crazy. I am interested to see what kinds of unique cases will come through, but then again, emergency room medicine is pretty much on the bottom of my list of preferred specialties.
Anyway, during the week, I will be working from 8 AM 'til 4:30 PM and will be expected to wear an oh-so-stylish uniform of collared shirts, khakis, tennis shoes, and...MY VERY OWN LAB COAT. Can you tell I'm excited about that? Now, if only we could wear scrubs...and if I weren't so poor, maybe I could have bought those silver and white mesh Nikes in some random shoe store that I pointed out to my mom as "doctor shoes."
However, I am currently storing all of my clothes, neatly arranged on a hanging rack, in my car. I am sleeping on the couch here at my great-aunt's, and have no room of my own. I was also pretty nervous about living here in the first place, considering this is the first time I've really met her. When I first arrived today, I was my typical, socially-awkward self and was having trouble holding conversations with the random assortment of my aunt and uncle's children and grandchildren flitting in and out of the house. After a few hours, though, things definitely got less tense for me and I was talking easily to people AND eating one of my favorite dinners they graciously cooked for me...cheeseburgers and fries with ranch. I don't think it will be so bad here.
In other news, one of my best friends is getting married in July and I went to a bridal shower of hers today. I love bridal showers. I love the food, checking out everyone's pretty outfits/shoes, seeing how happy the bride is when she opens up kitchen item after kitchen item...and today, I won the bridal shower game and got a $25 Wal-Mart gift card. How much does that rule? I'm thinking of writing the hostess a thank-you note just for providing my broke self with some extra grocery money. Also, I'm just so happy for my almost-married friend. After going through some pretty rough times in life and love, she's found someone that loves her insanely and would never leave her and vice versa. It gives me hope that I will find a similar thing one day. I know it's out there, but I don't have the strength to find it right now. However, I know that it will come with time...and that one day, I will be receving breadmakers and salad spinners and looking glowy at my own bridal shower. And even better, I will know that I am marrying the right person for me...or one of the right people for me, anyway. I believe there are several people in the world for everyone...not that I advocate leaving one for another. Ha. I'm a pretty big fan of monogamy, and committment, for that matter.
I'm off to do a little reading and watch TV from my place on the sofa-bed. It's my last day to sleep late before work on Monday, and I plan to make the most of it.
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