Christmas 2011

I got a suprising long weekend for the holiday than originally planned, but didn't find out early enough so that I could've bought tix to go home. Oh well.  So I ended up having Fri to Tuesday off.  I spent Friday grocery shopping for the Christmas dinner and boy were the lines there long and slow.  It seemed like everyone was there with a big basket full of food.  I didn't have that much so I stood in self check out line but the ladies checking out were really slow, it's almost like they didn't know how to use the machine. They kept having the help sign flashing and I think it took them 20min to finish from what I saw but they've  already finished 3/4 then.  Ridiculous.

On Saturday, Christmas Eve, I made the dinner. Menu was Slow cooker turkey, Mexican corn, green bean casserole and mashed potatoes.  Other people brought drinks and desserts.  It was good.  I would have to tweaked the green bean casserole for the next time and make less of mashed potatoes.  The Mexican corn was a keeper and that's the only new recipe for my experiment.  Nonetheless, my first Christmas dinner!


Spent the rest of Saturday chatting and watching TV with the girlfriend that stayed over.  All good times.

Sunday was Christmas and we had breakfast, eggnog waffle, then went to Parkside's service.  Made me realized how much I actually missed going to church.  It felt soothing to be there. There came home and had left over for lunch.

We did make plans to go to Crocker Park on Monday for lunch and shopping but come Monday, just didn't feel like it. I just felt like vegging out so I did for Monday and Tuesday.  It was a lot of time spent on my couch just chilling out and watching TV, saw a few Christmas movies.

Christmas Movies List:
Polar Express
Miracle of 34th Street
Home Alone series

Ca 1 year update

This is just a quick update of life in residency since July, starting my Ca 1 year.  This is the year where I'll start spending my time in the ORs.  It's been good so far, some routine cases and some crazier ones.  Calls have been good, busy during daytimes but question whether surgical teams really know the definition of emergency.  I've had a couple true emergency but most of the cases during weekend calls were not really emergency.  Definitely learned a little about other subspecialty areas that will get more in depth next year.

No complaints overall, enjoying my time being busy at times.  Only wish I could figure out reading daily after being exhausted from work and also squeezing time for exercising and doctors' appts.