SI-- WEEK FORTY TWO

You guys! You are all too nice. So many of you reached out to me this week with words of encouragement after hearing about my long house. It actually made me a little nervous to hear how many of you read my blog. yikes. I thought it was just my Mom and Grandparents...

This week was soooooo much better than last week. We didn't have any weekend 24hr calls - so therefore our patient list didn't suddenly grow by 10-14 patients - so then our mornings didn't have to start so early to have everyone seen by 8:30am. THEN, on top of that goodness, my supervising resident volunteered to work Saturday by herself so the rest of us could take the day off. I already had a scheduled day off this week, so I ended up with two full days to myself. Some of you may be giggling because most of the normal world has two days off every week -- it's call the weekend. But in my world, it's a good month if you get ONE "golden weekend" (a consecutive Saturday/Sunday off) and it's not unusual to work 7-9 days straight before a day out of the hospital. It's just a new normal around here..

So how did I spend my time off? With a mix of active + lazy + friends + family + planning + relaxing. I celebrated at two different baby showers, T and I did some shopping for our cruise, I worked on some paperwork for when I'm a doctor next month (crazy!), got caught in a rain shower, ate some delicious food, played Pickle Ball with a friend and got caught up on a few things around the house. It was nice to have some down time to reflect on the last four years. Because, wow! We're almost through this stage of the game. That's incredible. I'm going to try to make myself sit down and write a post or two summarizing this journey.

T's dinner @ Dixie Quicks

Finally, a few fun things to announce (sorry dad, no grandkids yet!):

+ T got a promotion at work! For a while now he's been working a mixture of personal and business clients. He has always preferred working with small businesses and now his entire job will be with business accounts as a Business Specialist! He is also excited that he will stay at his current location because he really enjoys his coworkers. 

+ This is a sad time of year in our neighborhood because many good friends start packing up their townhouses and prepare to move on to their "real jobs". Our next door neighbors are one of the families moving this year, and this week I was stoked to find out that one of my favorite people in the whole world is buying their place. I'm already dreaming of more dinner parties and BBQs (T says I'm not allowed to be a creeper). I think learning Morse Code is totally legit..

+ I have a new favorite flavor of ice cream that is totally old news, but ya'll, its so good. And while we are chatting about food, this salad is my new favorite dinner-overnight-at-the-hosptial meal:

The countdown is on! 18 days until the hooding ceremony and 19 until commencement. Not gonna lie I'm worn out from this month but, at the same time, I feel pretty invincible knowing that it all ends with a bang in a couple weeks! Now it's early to bed for me tonight.. Have a great week! Love you all!

xo,

Krista