joke

Apparently this was one of the top 50 jokes of all time according to newslite.tv:

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: ''Ugh, that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!'' The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: ''The driver just insulted me!'' The man says: ''You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I'll hold your monkey for you.''
ha ha ha ha ha

tired

So I just got home from a long 12-hour shift...it didn't help that I had been awake since 6pm the night before due to my wacky work/sleep schedule.  We were super busy today, like every Sunday and Monday.  My night ended with a child protective services referral that seemed to take for-ev-er, and I have never been happier to come home to a quiet, clean place as I was tonight.  Talking to my mom on my drive home I told her I didn't know how I would deal to coming home to a family when I was this tired and irritable and worn out.  She told me to appreciate all my quiet and alone time now because I might not always have it.  Good advice.  If I came home at this hour and had to cook dinner and help with homework and clean etc. etc. I think I would just burst into tears.  Thank goodness that stuff doesn't happen to one overnight.  I had a hot bath and now am going to sleep so hard I will probably wake up in 2013.  Buena noche.

Jane Austen Math

     Last night I watched Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.  It was 'meh'.  I know it has taken me awhile but I am catching on to her story formula, and it takes a little of the magic out of it when you can predict who is good and who is bad and who is going to do what.  Here is what I figure for her every story: brunette heroine (smart, not necessarily conventionally pretty, usually poor) + handsome cheating womanizer + good man the heroine meets in her childhood or very early in the story + a stupid sister + a very pretty sister + town gossips = Jane Austen story.  That about does it.  I am dying to see Persuasion but Netflix does not have any versions available instantly, if you can imagine that. 
     Tonight, what started out as cleaning up my spare room, still full of unopened boxes from the move, turned into a whole-place clean/furniture re-arranging.  My back is already sore.  I bought some daffodil and Iris buds at the store the other day, the have opened up beautifully and add so much color and prettiness I can hardly stand it.  Also at the store the other morning, (I went after work), I learned you cannot buy alcohol here between the hours of 2am and 8am.  Is that dumb or what?  Why?  I had just worked a 12-hour shift and wanted a margarita dammit, and it was 7:47.  If people are going to drink they are going to drink, regardless of what hours you can buy alcohol.  Not only did I want a margarita but I needed beer for my french dip recipe...good think the boyfriend had left a 6-pack in my fridge.  I was tired and not about to sit and wait for the time to go by. Stupid law. 

Finally productive

So I had the carrot soup and muffins made by 2am this morning, soup is so good, I am just storing it in a large pitcher in my fridge and then I pour it into a mug and heat it up when I want some.  Delish.  Finally went to the laundromat today...it had been since Christmas that any of my laundry was washed.  I did 5 loads of washing and drying in 90 minutes, not bad.

nocturnal...again

I am nocturnal...again.  Slept all day even though I wanted to be productive and now am up and awake and it's almost midnight.  I guess it is for the best right now though, I am "on call" for work and could get called in at any time, better to be awake and surprised than in a dead sleep and surprised.

The french dips turned out really well.  Surprise surprise I did not get the carrot soup made today but who knows, it might get made a 3am.  ; )

A real meal!

I am in the process of attempting to cook a meal right now.  French dips in the crock pot and sweet potato fries, with popsicles for dessert because I am approximately 7.  Ha ha.  Tomorrow I am going to attempt the magical carrot rosemary soup my mom made over Christmas.  I have been out of the cooking mood for so long, I am a little excited that my urge to prepare foods is returning...

When you live alone you forget how nice it is to eat with other people.  Even at work we are all sent to eat one at a time to stagger how many nurses are on the floor.  Anyways, last night I got to work a little bit early to eat my spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's (I splurged, soooo good) and one of the ER techs and one other ER docs were in the break room eating their dinners as well.  I had flashbacks to elementary school, all of us sitting at a big square table eating our lunches we made or bought, but it was so nice just to have some company to eat with.  There really is something to be said for family (work, social or biological) mealtimes.

the last night

Tonight is my last night until I am on call Thursday.  I am soooo tired.  In this stretch of nights I had a patient with the highest blood alcohol level I have ever seen.  To preface, .08 is the legal limit of alcohol to have in your bloodstream for operating a vehicle.  This individual came in at .475.  Literally, almost half of their blood was alcohol, and they were almost 6 times over the limit.  I am not sure how they were still alive.  Ca-razy!