and a magical holiday was had by all

Or so I like to believe.  As I posted earlier, I went to B's the weekend before Christmas and stayed until Tuesday and then I came back to the apartment and went to work on Wednesday after which I played with Kitty (MJ) and went to dinner with my friend C on Wednesday night and then on Thursday I slept in an then drove home to my parents' house.  I got to see many of my family and friends even though I was only home for about 4 days so that was nice...  What isn't nice is coming back to work.  Not to mention coming back and having to work evenings but still be there during the day a little to get crap done outside of the work you do for 8 hours in the evening.  might not be so bad if I wasn't trying to work evenings but stay on a schedule like I'm working days... b/c next week, guess what, I'm working days again.  Not my favorite but not the worst possible thing either I guess.

Anyway, I'm trying to get applications around for PGY2 programs and I have to say, it really stresses me out.  Now, many of you may be thinking -- gosh, this lady gets stressed out about a lot of things... and this is probably true.  I guess maybe I work better under stress so my natural survival instinct is to just be stressed... I'm not sure.  What I do know is that the older I get the more I notice my stress.  I don't like it.  I think it is because I now have sometimes when I'm not stressed.  There are actually times when I'm calm and happy.  I think this is healthy but it does make the times when I'm not more noticeable.

It's almost new years and I'm excited to be spending another one with B.  He is super.  Last year at this time we were in Florida at his parents' condo which was a lot of fun.  This year we'll be spending the weekend at home but I think we may go out for dinner and potentially see a movie as well.  Then just relax at the apartment and wait for the big ball to drop :-)  I love having time to just relax with him and I'm really glad that he's going to be around for his next rotation.  I know that I'm going to be very busy with both PGY1 interviews with my current residency and PGY2 stuff for next year but it is just better when I know I get to go home to a not empty apartment.

Ok, off to do something productive now.