December 2008
31 posts
Merry Christmas
Today I am truly thankful for all the wonderful people I have in my life:
friends: it’s been a year of discovering who your true friends are and rediscovering old ones; it’s wonderful to know that despite any distance or passage of time, some friends will always be with you.
family: it’s been an up-and-down year for my family (when is not?!) but I’ve just grown to see how...
I want to be unreasonable and petty and mean sometimes.
I’m a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misscedar) (via thoughtsdetained) (via andherheart)
Surprise
I absolutely adore getting real mail.
So I came home from a long night shift last night and when I ran upstairs (to get to my bed to sleep as fast as possible) imagine the wonderful feeling I had on seeing that long red envelope. Best day ever.
Can’t wait to write out my reply!
The nice part about my job
…is that all week I have been receiving the sweetest comments from my patients, and this always, always makes me happy to be doing the work that I am doing. It makes me excited to come back the next day.
Also, over these past 2 weeks I will have worked 90 payable hours (actually more, because I often come early and stay late, and don’t get paid for 45minutes per 12 hours). I...
“I got, got, got, got no time
My life plays along to the ticking
Of the...”
– A Poet on Adelaide West
All-Consuming Job
I work as a registered nurse on one of the busiest floors of the hospital.
That being said, the job is not easy. I work 12-hour days providing care to some very, very sick people. I spend my time with my patients, getting to know them, anticipating their needs, constantly assessing their health status, preventing fatal events from occurring, and doing all of this under a constant stream of...
Yay, drinking!
Last night I went out for a friend’s birthday and it was gloriously fun. I brought my BFF along and the man I am involved with… but it was not at all strange. I liked the dynamic.
Normally I do not like going out with people I am involved with because they seem to be very possessive of me and rather clingy, something I dislike and have no patience for. But it was not at all like this....
“Unless it is mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of time. There...”
– via don´t touch my moleskine (via sleepanddream) (via beautifulanddepraved)
“Too many people are spending money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t...”
– Will Rogers, as quoted in “The Law of Subtraction” over on the Huffington Post. Thank you to reader Monica, who sent this to me. (via juliaallison)
“Sometimes, when you find the right person, staying in and making pasta then...”
– Reader Elizabeth. After two and a half years of commitment phobia, I’m starting to feel like just enjoying one person’s company would be a nice break. Then again, it’s cold, and the holiday season, and that always makes me want a boyfriend. (via juliaallison)
A Poet on Adelaide West: Rubber ducky, you're the... →
She has a way of expressing things in a way that I never could.
Stuff Environmentalists Like, Part 1 — Plenty... →
Hehehe. Like “Stuff White People Like”, only better.
“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity...”
– Voltaire (via lenachen)
