sweet tooth

California Pizza Kitchen's Chocolate Banana Royale Cake = heaven. I'm not even that big of a chocolate cake fan but this was absolutely delicious. So moist and rich, but not too sweet, which was perfect. (I know, I'm such fat kid) Any other day, I would've taken one glance at the menu, seen the Red Velvet Cake dessert on their menu and been sold. Red Velvet is my faaaavorite. I'm talking, I'm 90% sure thats going to be my wedding cake, although this new cake poses some serious competition. And now, thanks to CPK and their heavenly dessert, I will probably get diabetes. :-p

Anyway, look it up. Try it. Love it.

what would you do?

One of my friends thinks she may be pregnant and she's pretty concerned about it, understandably. She's not in a relationship with the guy, they've just kinda been "hanging out" for a while but their status is undefined. More than anything, they're just occasional hookups I'd say. So she's not sure if she's going to keep the baby but that just got me thinking, what would I do? I'm Catholic and we all know where I should stand on the issue, but I had a minor scare in college and the first thing I thought was, 'there is no way I'm having a baby at 20'. But that was then, this is now. Sure, we're done with college, we all have jobs, somewhat financially stable, we're older, hopefully a little wiser, but me personally, I'm still not ready to have a baby. And neither are most of my friends. We all say we would never do it, but what if you were actually put in that situation? Would you really raise a baby on your own? OR, if you decide you're not gonna keep the baby, would you really be able to go through with it?

Anyway, like I said, my friend and this guy are not married. Hell, they're not even officially dating, which definitely makes the situation stickier. If they were married or even in a relationship, she may think differently about the situation. She's enjoying single life, going out, drinking, getting ridiculous on weekends, etc. -- your typical mid-20s lifestyle. :) So if she is in fact pregnant, she's pretty sure she's not going to keep it. But she doesnt know if she should still tell the father about it. There's the whole "what you dont know cant hurt you" mentality... But he has a right to know, I mean, he's the father. ...But what if he wants to keep it?

Heavy stuff. Granted, she doesnt know for sure if she is pregnant, so all her worrying could be for nothing, but it got us all thinking... Should she tell the father? ...What would YOU do in her situation?

night shift entertainment

Last night was a relatively calm, slow night shift (up until one patient went INSANE and started thrashing ans screaming. Seriously, i've never seen anything like it). During this slow night shift I found this lovely order written by our intern:



"cc" is no longer an appropriate term in the medical field; we now use "ml" instead. I'm assuming our pharmacy (pain in the ass that they are) made him write a clarification order and he decided to be a smart ass about it. LOVE IT. :)

Party! (aka dude-fest)

We had another party this past weekend and it was SO much fun! Totally random crowd, but it was great. AND there were so many guys! Usually when we have a party it ends up being all girls except for DJ and our friend Matt, but this time it was a total dude fest! We had about 25 people, only 8 of them were girls. Tons of cute single guys, 4 of whom are doctors? Awesome. ;)

Here are some of my fave pics from the weekend...

The ridiculousness / silliness pretty much sums up the entire party


Everyone loves jello shots. Just look at the expression on Dave's face!


Landon loves them so much, he tried to sneak some out and save them for later.


Georgetown's Finest Interns.


LOVE this pic. I burst out laughing every time I see it.


Approx 10:30am the next day: Mimosas.

St. Patty's Day Highlights

Carbombs at 4pm. Obv.


Approx 5pm: already getting silly.


6 Bles nurses!


Roomies!


Dave had a little bit of a rough afternoon. This is what you get when you work a night shift, sleep for only 3 hours, dont eat, then start drinking.


Only cool people wear sunglasses at 10pm while out at the bar


I love this picture. Silly urologists... :-p


I love us.


Starting the drinking day at 4pm, managing to not blackout or get sick, AND not lose anything? Not too shabby. Although I did call it a night relatively early (11:30pm) and I did almost lose my cell phone -- almost. But whatev. All in all, I'd say it was quite the successful Irish holiday. :) Hope everyone else's was good too!

Orienting

My boss just emailed me asking me to orient a new staff member. I was just talking to Caroline about having to precept a new grad and how I dont know how good I'd be at it. (Typically they give new grads a preceptor who has been there for a year, therefore that would mean that I could potentially be precepting a brand new nurse when we get the wave of new grads in July). Thankfully this new member is a traveler so its not like I'll be training a new grad, I'll be training an experienced nurse, but still.... I'm pretty nervous about it. But my boss wouldnt ask me to do it unless she thought I could, right? mreh..

Almost spring time!

I actually dont mind winter and the cold. I love snuggling with a blanket, drinking a glass of wine and reading a good book. And I think that snow is beautiful and so much fun. But I am so excited that warm weather is fast approaching! Cherry blossoms, sundresses, walks in G-town, laying by the pool, reading on the balcony, barbecues, the waterfront, its all so happy. :) Also on my happy list at the moment:

• sunshine
• the current 62 degree weather
• wearing flip flops for the first time this year
• wine nights
• finally having furniture in our apt
• Yankee Candle: "Garden Sweet Pea"
  
• Oreos & peanut butter
• scrapbooking
• tax refunds!!
• working day shifts and having a normal sleep pattern
  
• T-Revs & Rostopher
• cute pics of boys and their 1 year old neice (siiiigh...)
• my little cousins

look at those big brown eyes!


testing out the bday presents


yummm cupcakes


shhh, dont tell anyone, but he's my favorite...


Hope everyone is having a good week so far!! :)

March!

A lot of the snow has melted, which I totally was not expecting to happen until like April since we had SO much of it, but alas, the wintery wonderland is fading. Today it is 50 degrees and somewhat sunny.... and tomorrow its going to snow. Silly weather patterns. Anyway, here are a few more snow pics that I never got a chance to post.


on our deck:


almost as tall as the mailbox!