I get stuck at the same place

Here's the problem: I grocery shop on Saturday or Sunday and sit down to menu plan sometime Sunday afternoon or evening. I can get through Wednesday most weeks but then I get stuck. I didn't quite...

"think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy"-anne frank

A typical day on the surgical oncology service

3:50 am - alarm goes off, snooze 4:00 am - alarm goes off, get up, get ready 4:40 am - leave the apartment, drive to the hospital 4:50ish am - start looking up labs, calling nurses, checking on...

The weekend

Friday: finished early at 3 pm due to the Texas Surgical Conference happening at our hospital this weekend. Came home and listened to Sigur Ros and made spaghetti with turkey meatballs. I haven't...

This post is for me. If you're going to read it, don't if you're easily offended. The one thing that makes me the most upset is people commenting about how hard their lives are. You have to work 9...

These beautiful people

Life is really hard right now. I've become this reclusive, annoyed, exhausted person over the past week and I hate it. But it was nice to take a couple hours away from the hospital and go out for a...

Happy birthday to me

On this quarter century birthday I: - woke up at 5 am - didn't have time to drink my morning coffee - got pimped multiple times - got a paper cut - only had one resident tell me happy birthday -...

A letter to spring break

Dear Spring Break, It's been fun knowing you. You, along with winter break, summer break and all holiday breaks, will soon become a thing of the past for me. I wish you wouldn't end but just as all...

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and...

he said

"my legs feel heavy" what do you mean "my legs just feel heavy" mine do too, sir. mine do too.

On being missed

During third year of medical school, we do these things called "clerkships" - 6 or 12 weeks of immersing yourself in a specialty, waking up when the sun is still sleeping, leaving long after the...

Dear life, please slow down

I went to talk to my advisor this past Friday about my fourth year schedule and residency applications. You. Guys. I am graduating in just over a year and I'll have an M.D. behind my name and...

Peek into my yarn basket

Hi friends, I'm sharing the contents of my yarn basket and some projects over at One Sheepish Girl today! I've been studying and working non-stop in clinics for the past several weeks so I...

One of my very favorite things to hear from a patient is how much I care. Empathy cannot be taught in school. It's something you either are or are not. It's like the first bite of perfectly made...

Grateful

Two half days out of the week, I work at the free clinic in town providing care to patients without insurance. They don't have frivolous money but they are also not homeless. They are patients who...

I will

stop standing pigeon-toed because I'm pretty sure it's causing me to get premature osteoarthritis in my knees. take chances and say yes to things more often because even though it's not the kind of...

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."-Nora Ephron

In the hardest of heart times, I am lucky to have my person. A Meredith to my Christina.February 3, 2013, I really hate you.

Easy like Sunday morning

Dutch baby (recipe at the end) Leftovers French press Favorite Studying, always Pieces of a wool throw Dutch baby, or German pancake 2 eggs1/2 cup flour1/2 cup milkpinch of salt1 1/2 Tbsp unsalted...

One of those (great) days

Today was so good. Today was a day that I can look back on and say hey, I. Love. My. Job. Working 10 hours on a Sunday doesn't sound so great and I really didn't want to go into the hospital this...

A ramble on lately

Life has been very busy and very tiring lately. When I was younger and went to volunteer in hospitals or visit family/friends in the hospital, I always remember patients complaining how their...

An Italian pizza

I read somewhere that the pizza in Italy is different from the pizza in America. That they put strange toppings on their pizza. So I tried to make an Italian pizza. That was a lie. I didn't try to...

The laziest weekend

This weekend. Let's talk about it. Crocheted lots of little pink squares. Messed up after knitting 10 rows of a scarf. Washed dishes. Multiple times. Cleaned months of clothes strewn on the floor....

29 before 30: Number 20

20. Donate my hair to Locks of Love (again) I have this magic hair. It grows like a weed and if I style it, it will stay in that style until the next time I wash my hair. Girls in high school...

Christmas day

Christmas is my favorite. A hodgepodge of mostly unedited, uncropped, unretouched photos.(Except for lighting)Because I don't have time.

One day I took some photos

One day I picked up my camera and took some photos.

Prudent Baby

These kinds of things always surprise me: Friday I was mentioned on the Prudent Baby blog. Thank you Jaime and Jacinda!

Facts of life

Fact: I wanted to be an English teacher before I wanted to be a doctor. My aunt used to be a teacher before she had three adorable little boys and became a stay-at-home mom. I adored my aunt like...

Pasta carbonara

I followed this recipe exactly. Except that mine probably had three times the amount of peas. Not on purpose though; I just have butter fingers and spilled half the bag in the pot.

Resolutions

1. Ace Step 2 2. Stress less 3. Read more 4. Restart yoga 5. Try new foods 6. Spend less money 7. Wear big girl boots 8. Think less, do more