Patient quote of the day:
"I'm tired today. We had our Christmas Party this weekend" - Patient
"Oh, did you have fun?" - me
"Yeah, I danced a lot!" - Patient
"How did your knee feel with that?" - me
"Great! The right combination and I'm fine!" - Pt
"What combination is that?"
"Crown and ice!" - Pt
20 minutes later....
"Do you need some water?" - me
"No, but I'll take a beer!" - Pt
Somehow all my patients think we run a bar... maybe we should open one next door?
Monday, December 6, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
"there are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them" - vicki baum
OK, so the quote doesn't really have much to do with anything in this post. Other than the fact I've been dancing around today for exercise, mostly because I'm going crazy with studying... but until we get to that...
Determination, my friends, determination!
About what you may ask? Well let me tell you, about this blog! As you can tell I am a very busy bee and have hardly any time to write! (not entirely true, just sometimes I would rather drink wine and read a good book snuggled under the blankets while watching the snow fall!) But my friends, I've decided since we are all such busy bees, I will try to stick with this a little bit longer and maybe just have shorter, more frequent blog events!
Today was very very busy (ha). I returned my redbox movie: Letters to Juliet - definitely a cheesy romantic movie, yet wonderful if you like that kind of thing. I may or may not have leaked a few tears, although the ending was absurd! I took my skis to the shop to get tuned. I realized this weekend while I was skiing with my sister that my skis can't handle the late afternoon/early season ice patches, they slide right over and I almost bite the dust! Plus my parents will be here in two weeks and we are going for a 3 day ski vacation, so my skiis need to be in shape! Then I got some groceries, some wine, and spent the rest of the day studying and planning my week.
Studying you ask? Aren't you a doctor already? Well yes I am (still surreal) but I am taking yet another certification test on Saturday. The CSCS - Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist exam. I'm nervous!! I feel like I've hardly studied at all. Hopefully my PT background will help me!
Next Monday, I am in charge of the clinic as my bosses are off to a Titleist certification course (yep that's a PT course specializing in golf training and rehab). I'm really nervous, but also excited. I'm just concerned one of the techs (who is basically my age) wont listen. I'm definitely still transitioning from student to PT, and need to take more initiative/control with the techs. I'm also praying that nobody gets sick, or has exacerbations, or sudden adverse events during the day I am alone! Not that I haven't handled two of those already since working here, but it's awful calling 911 - and worse when you don't have your wonderful mentors telling you how well you handled it and helping calm you down! No, the incidents were not my fault. They both have conditions where these adverse events could happen anywhere, and they just happened to be in my treatment session. Although sadly I think it did scare one of my less mentally sound patients away.
Tonight I had dinner again with Carolyn and Paul. They are so wonderful! They had me over for Thanksgiving last week and I had a blast with Carolyn's family, who I haven't seen in at least ten years. Hoorah for old friends!
Thank you so much my dear readers for sticking with me! You are all very wonderful! I have had readers recently from the UK and New Zealand even! Welcome new friends :)
Determination, my friends, determination!
About what you may ask? Well let me tell you, about this blog! As you can tell I am a very busy bee and have hardly any time to write! (not entirely true, just sometimes I would rather drink wine and read a good book snuggled under the blankets while watching the snow fall!) But my friends, I've decided since we are all such busy bees, I will try to stick with this a little bit longer and maybe just have shorter, more frequent blog events!
Today was very very busy (ha). I returned my redbox movie: Letters to Juliet - definitely a cheesy romantic movie, yet wonderful if you like that kind of thing. I may or may not have leaked a few tears, although the ending was absurd! I took my skis to the shop to get tuned. I realized this weekend while I was skiing with my sister that my skis can't handle the late afternoon/early season ice patches, they slide right over and I almost bite the dust! Plus my parents will be here in two weeks and we are going for a 3 day ski vacation, so my skiis need to be in shape! Then I got some groceries, some wine, and spent the rest of the day studying and planning my week.
Studying you ask? Aren't you a doctor already? Well yes I am (still surreal) but I am taking yet another certification test on Saturday. The CSCS - Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist exam. I'm nervous!! I feel like I've hardly studied at all. Hopefully my PT background will help me!
Next Monday, I am in charge of the clinic as my bosses are off to a Titleist certification course (yep that's a PT course specializing in golf training and rehab). I'm really nervous, but also excited. I'm just concerned one of the techs (who is basically my age) wont listen. I'm definitely still transitioning from student to PT, and need to take more initiative/control with the techs. I'm also praying that nobody gets sick, or has exacerbations, or sudden adverse events during the day I am alone! Not that I haven't handled two of those already since working here, but it's awful calling 911 - and worse when you don't have your wonderful mentors telling you how well you handled it and helping calm you down! No, the incidents were not my fault. They both have conditions where these adverse events could happen anywhere, and they just happened to be in my treatment session. Although sadly I think it did scare one of my less mentally sound patients away.
Tonight I had dinner again with Carolyn and Paul. They are so wonderful! They had me over for Thanksgiving last week and I had a blast with Carolyn's family, who I haven't seen in at least ten years. Hoorah for old friends!
Thank you so much my dear readers for sticking with me! You are all very wonderful! I have had readers recently from the UK and New Zealand even! Welcome new friends :)
Monday, November 22, 2010
"No Soup For You!!!" - Seinfeld
Thank you my dearest faithful readers for keeping up with me despite me not keeping up with you! (yes that makes sense, I swear it does!)
I will try not to drone on and on about how much I love this new state of mine, but have I mentioned that I LOVE IT! Last weekend Katie and I went to Breckenridge for the opening ski weekend.
It was a ton of fun, despite the crowds! Katie borrowed a snowboard from a friend and decided to take lessons. After I left her at her snowboard class I hit the slopes (and by slopes I mean lift line)! Basically imagine hundreds of people sliding into each other in lines at the bottom of a hill. I immediately jumped into the single line (it always moves faster), however I had to hike up half the bunny hill to even get in the singles line! Then I had to work really hard not to slide down into the person in front of me as the line moved back down the hill. Thankfully it was only 15 minutes (GAH!) in the line. So I get on the lift with these three obnoxious teenagers... you know the type. They were on snowboards and giggling and being absurd, talking about how they switched to snowboarding and how they could be so much better at skiing by now, like their little sister, but no they switched. However they were convinced they would never go back, until their body actually couldn't snowboard anymore. I really wanted to tell them how when they are old and their knee cartilage is gone and they can hear their bones rubbing together, that snowboarding is actually nicer on the knees than skiing... but I kept my mouth shut. Let them find out the hard way! So I am very thankful as we near the top of the lift, and then the girl next to me says "I hope I don't fall this time!" well crap!
Of course she does fall, and takes me with her. I lost both skiis, poles, and had to duck under the chairlift! Very exciting for not doing any skiing yet.
Thankfully the rest of the day went much better. Not much improvement in the lift line, but it started snowing and snowed all day so the conditions were great! I met Katie for lunch and we went to the bar, which was packed with people. So we joined this guy sitting at a table by himself. After we started talking to him a bit, his friends show up, and had to find more chairs since this guy gave us his chairs. They turned out to be nice, and Katie told me later that she had actually met them before (but they hadn't remembered at all)!
Then we split again and I spent the afternoon mastering Moguls! It felt great, and the last hour and a half was wonderful because it only took 2 minutes to get through the line and it was still snowing! You just can't beat the feel of the crisp air in your face, the smell of the snow, the spray of the powder. I love it!
After skiing we walked to the Breckenridge Brewery for dinner, and through the snowy christmas lights on the way back. It was beautiful!
This weekend I spent a lot of time studying for the CSCS exam with some friends from work. Then Sunday night I saw the new Harry Potter movie! It was wonderful you should see it! I won't give anything away, but I was cracking up because Hermione had a tiny little bag packed with anything and everything (think Mary Poppins), including a small stack of books. Which only reminded me of my friend Jenny, who once took a red purse to a bar. The bag fell off the bar (chair? i dont remember, but she dropped it) and the purse hit the floor with a loud thump! Turns out it was FULL of books! "the library hit the floor!" My friend probably thought i was completely absurd giggling away at those few scenes in the movie, but all I could think of was JD at the bar! There were also a lot of dark scenes, and things jumping out at you. I personally thought that there were far too many small children there (especially one who kept crying and crying), I guess half the parents haven't read the books and don't realize how dark the last book is! Which, by the way, I am now re-reading.
Then today I ran through Garden of the Gods again. It was gorgeous! I had a flashback to right after my interview, which was the last time I ran there. It was kind of surreal to realize how much has happened in the last few months! My next stop was Poor Richard's - a delicious little cafe/bookstore/restaurant/toy store. I had delicious hot cider, and then ordered some soup. I waited 20 minutes and then finally asked the barista how long it should really take soup to come from the restaurant (which was basically two rooms over), and they brought me my soup and said I could get a gift card before I left. I had basically paid $4 for my soup, and they gave me a $10 gift card! I win!! Thank goodness for good business practices and free things.
I'm excited about this week! I only work 3 days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday). I'm having Thanksgiving with Carolyn and her family, including her sister, one of my closest friends from middle school, who I haven't seen in at least 10 years! Then my sister gets here on Friday and I think we're going to go skiing! It's going to be a great week. :)
I will try not to drone on and on about how much I love this new state of mine, but have I mentioned that I LOVE IT! Last weekend Katie and I went to Breckenridge for the opening ski weekend.
It was a ton of fun, despite the crowds! Katie borrowed a snowboard from a friend and decided to take lessons. After I left her at her snowboard class I hit the slopes (and by slopes I mean lift line)! Basically imagine hundreds of people sliding into each other in lines at the bottom of a hill. I immediately jumped into the single line (it always moves faster), however I had to hike up half the bunny hill to even get in the singles line! Then I had to work really hard not to slide down into the person in front of me as the line moved back down the hill. Thankfully it was only 15 minutes (GAH!) in the line. So I get on the lift with these three obnoxious teenagers... you know the type. They were on snowboards and giggling and being absurd, talking about how they switched to snowboarding and how they could be so much better at skiing by now, like their little sister, but no they switched. However they were convinced they would never go back, until their body actually couldn't snowboard anymore. I really wanted to tell them how when they are old and their knee cartilage is gone and they can hear their bones rubbing together, that snowboarding is actually nicer on the knees than skiing... but I kept my mouth shut. Let them find out the hard way! So I am very thankful as we near the top of the lift, and then the girl next to me says "I hope I don't fall this time!" well crap!
Of course she does fall, and takes me with her. I lost both skiis, poles, and had to duck under the chairlift! Very exciting for not doing any skiing yet.
Thankfully the rest of the day went much better. Not much improvement in the lift line, but it started snowing and snowed all day so the conditions were great! I met Katie for lunch and we went to the bar, which was packed with people. So we joined this guy sitting at a table by himself. After we started talking to him a bit, his friends show up, and had to find more chairs since this guy gave us his chairs. They turned out to be nice, and Katie told me later that she had actually met them before (but they hadn't remembered at all)!
Then we split again and I spent the afternoon mastering Moguls! It felt great, and the last hour and a half was wonderful because it only took 2 minutes to get through the line and it was still snowing! You just can't beat the feel of the crisp air in your face, the smell of the snow, the spray of the powder. I love it!
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| After a wonderful day on the mountain |
After skiing we walked to the Breckenridge Brewery for dinner, and through the snowy christmas lights on the way back. It was beautiful!
Then today I ran through Garden of the Gods again. It was gorgeous! I had a flashback to right after my interview, which was the last time I ran there. It was kind of surreal to realize how much has happened in the last few months! My next stop was Poor Richard's - a delicious little cafe/bookstore/restaurant/toy store. I had delicious hot cider, and then ordered some soup. I waited 20 minutes and then finally asked the barista how long it should really take soup to come from the restaurant (which was basically two rooms over), and they brought me my soup and said I could get a gift card before I left. I had basically paid $4 for my soup, and they gave me a $10 gift card! I win!! Thank goodness for good business practices and free things.
I'm excited about this week! I only work 3 days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday). I'm having Thanksgiving with Carolyn and her family, including her sister, one of my closest friends from middle school, who I haven't seen in at least 10 years! Then my sister gets here on Friday and I think we're going to go skiing! It's going to be a great week. :)
Monday, November 15, 2010
"The average american will eat 35,000 cookies in a lifetime."
Monster Cookies 101:
(courtesy of Paula Deen and the food network)
Ingredients:
3. Mix in salt, vanilla, PB, and butter, Then add in everything else!
Bake 8 - 10 minutes. Let stand 3 minutes before transferring to cool.
Eat Sushi (this will keep you from eating ALL the cookies before your party!)
Get a lot of tupperware. This recipe makes A TRUCKFUL of cookies. They are delicious, but nobody needs that many cookies. Put them in some tupperware to bring to other friends, work colleagues, and to hand out in the street. DO NOT give them to people with peanut allergies... unless you really really hate them and are prepared to call 911 or perform CPR. These cookies are loaded down with Peanut Butter! (I guess you could always substitute with some other form of almond butter or something if you are allergic - sorry T!)
(courtesy of Paula Deen and the food network)
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 jar (yes a whole freaking jar!) peanut butter
- 1 stick butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips (or more if you like... i used half of a bag)
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 4 1/2 cups quick cooking oatmeal (not instant)
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| "one of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn't belong" |
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large bowl mix up eggs and sugars
3. Mix in salt, vanilla, PB, and butter, Then add in everything else!
Put heaping spoonfuls (ok technically tablespoons if you are picky) onto the cookie pan
Bake 8 - 10 minutes. Let stand 3 minutes before transferring to cool.
Eat Sushi (this will keep you from eating ALL the cookies before your party!)
Get a lot of tupperware. This recipe makes A TRUCKFUL of cookies. They are delicious, but nobody needs that many cookies. Put them in some tupperware to bring to other friends, work colleagues, and to hand out in the street. DO NOT give them to people with peanut allergies... unless you really really hate them and are prepared to call 911 or perform CPR. These cookies are loaded down with Peanut Butter! (I guess you could always substitute with some other form of almond butter or something if you are allergic - sorry T!)
These cookies were a HUGE success! Enjoy!!!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
"Wine is Sunlight, held together by water" - Galileo Galilei
Have you all seen the website of 1000 awesome things ?? Thanks to my awesome friends, I now own the book of awesomeness. However, sometimes it is much better to come up with your own list. In anticipation of Thanksgiving, I'm going to go through a few of my very own "awesome" things, which happen to also be things I am thankful for. With no further ado, and in no particular order:
1. My awesome friends! This week I got not one, but two packages from my friends! The first being delicious Swedish chocolate and candy from Theresa, and the second being a book from Jenny (which I had happened to leave at her beach house this summer...ooops!) It is very exciting to get mail.
2. Delicious wine, such as this one, which I am drinking right now!
Do you see the cheetah on the bottle? There are also Cheetah spots on the cork which were a fun surprise!
3. Adorable children selling delicious baked goods of sugary awesomeness outside of grocery stores. Today there was a gymnastic team outside of King Soopers selling cookies and other yumminess in preparation for their state competition. This of course reminded me of my sister Kacin, and all her gymnastics events when we were growing up, so I obviously was obliged to buy some peanut butter cookies. They came in packs of 4... this is what is left:
4. Grocery stores with idiotic names like King Soopers. I couldn't make that crap up. My mentors/bosses like to call it "King Stupid's" which it is. Especially at the one I went to today which was OVERRUN with idiots blocking the aisles. The gymnastic kids' cookies totally made it worth while though.
5. Golfing! This was my 4th time out golfing in Colorado Springs. There is a gorgeous course here that has amazing views of the mountains. It is unseasonably warm here, which makes for wonderful golfing weather. I'm steadily improving. Considering that I'm playing on these old wood irons, I have to say I'm doing quite well! In fact, yesterday I made a 40 foot putt! Watch out Tiger.
6. Daylight Savings. Isn't it wonderful to sleep in?
7. Expensive cheese. Have I mentioned how much I love cheese? Today I made the mistake of going to "King Stupid's" without eating much lunch. Which meant that I bought A LOT of cheese, and not only your typical boring mozzarella type cheese (which I did end up getting some of as well, to make some cheesy chili). Of course I had to get the expensive cheese! Have you heard of Manchego? It's a delicious spanish cheese that happens to go quite well with red wine like Sebeka. They didn't have any Manchego, so instead I bought this other Spanish cheese: Canto de Mantalban. Apparently it's very similar to Manchego, except it is a combo of sheep, goat, and cow milk. It's actually quite delicious, but not as sharp as Manchego. I am still deciding which I like better. Here is my ridiculous collection of cheese:
8. Cooking. It's very therapeutic to chop things into tiny little pieces. It's also quite exciting to take one recipe (Erin's "Blanco Chili") and turn it into something else. It's base is the same - white beans such as white kidney beans, navy beans, and garbanzos. I added to the recipe some habanero sauce, red peppers, tomatillos, and used paprika instead of cumin. I'm also adding Havarti cheese and mozzarella, where as the original calls for white cheddar. Oh and a touch of red wine, just because. Final product:
9. SEASON SKI PASS! Yesterday I bought my ski pass that gets me unlimited access to Breckenridge, Keystone, and A-Basin, as well as 10 days at Vail and Beaver Creek. I can't wait to use it! Sadly, the resorts that are open only have a couple runs open. I'm getting antsy to use my fancy new season pass!!
10. People thinking that I have a southern accent. When I "Fake" the accent, all my colleagues and patients at work think that it's adorable. Occasionally if I am stressed out or annoyed it will actually be a real southern accent, but not as intense as one would expect from a girl from NC/GA. I have one patient from Texas who actually has an accent, and it feels like home. I would have never thought that I would miss the southern drawl.
There are a lot of other things that are awesome which I am thankful for, but I believe that is all I will leave "ya'll" with tonight.
Hope you all have enjoyed your weekend and are still adjusting to the time change, so you can enjoy an extra hour of sleep tomorrow... which, of course... is AWESOME!
1. My awesome friends! This week I got not one, but two packages from my friends! The first being delicious Swedish chocolate and candy from Theresa, and the second being a book from Jenny (which I had happened to leave at her beach house this summer...ooops!) It is very exciting to get mail.
2. Delicious wine, such as this one, which I am drinking right now!
3. Adorable children selling delicious baked goods of sugary awesomeness outside of grocery stores. Today there was a gymnastic team outside of King Soopers selling cookies and other yumminess in preparation for their state competition. This of course reminded me of my sister Kacin, and all her gymnastics events when we were growing up, so I obviously was obliged to buy some peanut butter cookies. They came in packs of 4... this is what is left:
4. Grocery stores with idiotic names like King Soopers. I couldn't make that crap up. My mentors/bosses like to call it "King Stupid's" which it is. Especially at the one I went to today which was OVERRUN with idiots blocking the aisles. The gymnastic kids' cookies totally made it worth while though.
5. Golfing! This was my 4th time out golfing in Colorado Springs. There is a gorgeous course here that has amazing views of the mountains. It is unseasonably warm here, which makes for wonderful golfing weather. I'm steadily improving. Considering that I'm playing on these old wood irons, I have to say I'm doing quite well! In fact, yesterday I made a 40 foot putt! Watch out Tiger.
6. Daylight Savings. Isn't it wonderful to sleep in?
7. Expensive cheese. Have I mentioned how much I love cheese? Today I made the mistake of going to "King Stupid's" without eating much lunch. Which meant that I bought A LOT of cheese, and not only your typical boring mozzarella type cheese (which I did end up getting some of as well, to make some cheesy chili). Of course I had to get the expensive cheese! Have you heard of Manchego? It's a delicious spanish cheese that happens to go quite well with red wine like Sebeka. They didn't have any Manchego, so instead I bought this other Spanish cheese: Canto de Mantalban. Apparently it's very similar to Manchego, except it is a combo of sheep, goat, and cow milk. It's actually quite delicious, but not as sharp as Manchego. I am still deciding which I like better. Here is my ridiculous collection of cheese:
8. Cooking. It's very therapeutic to chop things into tiny little pieces. It's also quite exciting to take one recipe (Erin's "Blanco Chili") and turn it into something else. It's base is the same - white beans such as white kidney beans, navy beans, and garbanzos. I added to the recipe some habanero sauce, red peppers, tomatillos, and used paprika instead of cumin. I'm also adding Havarti cheese and mozzarella, where as the original calls for white cheddar. Oh and a touch of red wine, just because. Final product:
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| Delicious Habanero Sauce! |
10. People thinking that I have a southern accent. When I "Fake" the accent, all my colleagues and patients at work think that it's adorable. Occasionally if I am stressed out or annoyed it will actually be a real southern accent, but not as intense as one would expect from a girl from NC/GA. I have one patient from Texas who actually has an accent, and it feels like home. I would have never thought that I would miss the southern drawl.
There are a lot of other things that are awesome which I am thankful for, but I believe that is all I will leave "ya'll" with tonight.
Hope you all have enjoyed your weekend and are still adjusting to the time change, so you can enjoy an extra hour of sleep tomorrow... which, of course... is AWESOME!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
"The dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible" - T.E. Lawrence
I had a wonderful surprise today... a package from Sweden from one of my bestest friends - Theresa! She sent me delicious swedish chocolates and these candy strings (kind of like licorice, but it's caramel), and a really nice card!
One of my favorite parts of the card: the SBG geography 101:
To top off the wonderfulness of this package, I had a notice in my mailbox saying there is a package at the post office for me from one, J Doster, another one of my bestest friends (see the sky scraper NY reference in the SBG card above). Sadly I will not be able to pick it up until Saturday because the post office is not open in hours where I am not working (before 8 AM or after 7 pm). This just means I have something to look forward to!
Sometimes I wonder how we got here... Jenny living it up in NYC, Theresa blowing glass in Sweden, and me starting my career as a PT in the beautiful state of Colorado! I had a patient today ask me what she should call me, she wanted to call me Doctor! Sometimes I intimidate myself with the title. :p
I am very proud of all of us following all our dreams (and of all my other wonderful friends out there doing what they love)!
One of my favorite parts of the card: the SBG geography 101:
To top off the wonderfulness of this package, I had a notice in my mailbox saying there is a package at the post office for me from one, J Doster, another one of my bestest friends (see the sky scraper NY reference in the SBG card above). Sadly I will not be able to pick it up until Saturday because the post office is not open in hours where I am not working (before 8 AM or after 7 pm). This just means I have something to look forward to!
Sometimes I wonder how we got here... Jenny living it up in NYC, Theresa blowing glass in Sweden, and me starting my career as a PT in the beautiful state of Colorado! I had a patient today ask me what she should call me, she wanted to call me Doctor! Sometimes I intimidate myself with the title. :p
I am very proud of all of us following all our dreams (and of all my other wonderful friends out there doing what they love)!
Monday, November 1, 2010
"We're All Mad Here" - Alice in Wonderland
Today I got a washer and dryer! This may not be exciting news to many of you, but for me it is wonderful! I no longer have to trek across the parking lot to the laundry building. A place where clothes go to die! There's the threat of bleach left in the machines, and the threat of all your clean clothes smelling of smoke (the entire building reeks, it's not even that cold yet, why on earth are people smoking inside ?!?!?!). In addition, the washers aren't even big enough to wash a load of socks, and they require $1 in quarters per load. Every time I want to do laundry I have to go find someone to trade cash for quarters, which at most stores you can do. Not at target, oh no. Apparently that is against their rules. No quarters for you! Needless to say, i'm very excited about having my own washer and dryer in the comfort of my own home.
I had a very unique Halloween this year, in that it wasn't the typical - go out and drink a ton and be ridiculous kind of weekend (and did not involve the tocatta and fugue during a midnight concert, dressed in costume, with objects and people flying around me). I guess all in all it was a tame weekend. We did dress up at work and had a pot luck party. Our patients cook some wonderful food! We had everything you could think of, including 2 different types of chili, corn bread, bean dip, some sort of rice and shrimp, an indian rice dish, cupcakes, homemade chocolate covered peanuts/pecans/peanut butter, apple pie, and lemonade! A true smorgasbord of food, but it was wonderful and I got to take some home.
Then on Saturday a bunch of us from work went to the public golf course in costume! You would never get away with that in Pinehurst! We were ridiculous. We had Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, Patch (dalmation from 101 dalmations), Minnie Mouse, and of course me - Jessie from Toy Story. So we play our 9 holes of golf, and then decided we were starving and needed to eat before we would be able to drive home (yay cart lady with the yummy drinks), and we go into the clubhouse and there is a wedding going on! It wasn't your average wedding either, they were ALL in costume! Talk about a fun wedding. We ran into the mother of the bride while we were in the restroom, and she was telling Dyanna how her daughter loved Alice in Wonderland and how we should come crash the party, but to be careful because there are a lot of scary vampires around and we have beautiful necks. Seriously. ?!?! There had to be an open bar somewhere. We wandered around a bit but it was stuffed with costumed wedding parties, and ended up just chilling on the back porch/bar area and eating a ton of deliciously fried foods.
On the actual day of Halloween, I met up with some guys I have met here at one of the local breweries. There were hardly any people there, but the beer and food was delicious! I enjoyed hanging out with just guys for once. Let me tell you how wonderful it is to spend time with boys (or I guess I should say men?) after being immersed among 31 girls in PT school for 3 years. yikes.
I had a fun time this weekend, but didn't see as many interesting costumes as I would have expected. I think I'm ok with that. I can't believe it's November already and I have worked a month already! Time flies....
I had a very unique Halloween this year, in that it wasn't the typical - go out and drink a ton and be ridiculous kind of weekend (and did not involve the tocatta and fugue during a midnight concert, dressed in costume, with objects and people flying around me). I guess all in all it was a tame weekend. We did dress up at work and had a pot luck party. Our patients cook some wonderful food! We had everything you could think of, including 2 different types of chili, corn bread, bean dip, some sort of rice and shrimp, an indian rice dish, cupcakes, homemade chocolate covered peanuts/pecans/peanut butter, apple pie, and lemonade! A true smorgasbord of food, but it was wonderful and I got to take some home.
Then on Saturday a bunch of us from work went to the public golf course in costume! You would never get away with that in Pinehurst! We were ridiculous. We had Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, Patch (dalmation from 101 dalmations), Minnie Mouse, and of course me - Jessie from Toy Story. So we play our 9 holes of golf, and then decided we were starving and needed to eat before we would be able to drive home (yay cart lady with the yummy drinks), and we go into the clubhouse and there is a wedding going on! It wasn't your average wedding either, they were ALL in costume! Talk about a fun wedding. We ran into the mother of the bride while we were in the restroom, and she was telling Dyanna how her daughter loved Alice in Wonderland and how we should come crash the party, but to be careful because there are a lot of scary vampires around and we have beautiful necks. Seriously. ?!?! There had to be an open bar somewhere. We wandered around a bit but it was stuffed with costumed wedding parties, and ended up just chilling on the back porch/bar area and eating a ton of deliciously fried foods.
On the actual day of Halloween, I met up with some guys I have met here at one of the local breweries. There were hardly any people there, but the beer and food was delicious! I enjoyed hanging out with just guys for once. Let me tell you how wonderful it is to spend time with boys (or I guess I should say men?) after being immersed among 31 girls in PT school for 3 years. yikes.
I had a fun time this weekend, but didn't see as many interesting costumes as I would have expected. I think I'm ok with that. I can't believe it's November already and I have worked a month already! Time flies....
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