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It's been an exceptionally quiet day at work, except for a brief time at the beginning where we were getting a whole bunch of STAT orders for two patients... I hope they're ok.
So now's a good time for catching up! I seem to always have to do that, huh? Sometimes I just don't have time at work or feel like it at home and eventually there's too much to remember!
New Years Day was nice. I slept in a little and eventually Kevin came over to pick me up. The plan for the day was drinks and Rock Band. And food. We had our traditional pork roast with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. I forgot the black eye peas at home. Aw. We had a very nice time, anyway! Rock band is always oodles of fun, even if there are occasional negotiations over who gets to sing next or who has to sing the song no one has ever heard before (I do, apparently). Eventually Kevin took me home and I slept.
That weekend happened to be a long weekend for me (I do love my 3 day weekends). On Saturday, Chrysoula and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. It was awesome! I may just have to read or listen to some of the stories now.
I totally can't remember what I did on Sunday. Oh! I slept in and then got up and ran around doing errands before the stores closed. My poor cats needed cat litter.
That first week of January was a normal week at work.
Then I had a two day weekend! Normally, it would have been a 1-day weekend but work had finally scheduled me to finish up my training in order entry and in the small bits of secondary processing I needed to know to work at the other two satellites (there's one in Bellevue and one in Renton). It had been scheduled to be 3 weeks of Tuesday through Friday training, which was fine with me, but then it got changed to 4 weeks of Tuesday through Thursday training. I was prepared to work M-F for the rest of January but now I don't have to. Yay!
I may not always be happy about my 1-day weekends but I do like my 3 day ones and I really really like having Fridays off every once in a while for errands and stuff. My car is in desperate need of an oil change...
I'd been kind of wanting to go out so on Saturday, we all went out to Red Robin for food. Afterward, Kevin and Ray and I went to see Daybreakers. I enjoyed the movie but some parts of the plot were just silly, especially toward the end. It was very very pretty though.
On Sunday, I slept. Seriously, I think I was only awake for a few hours out of the day. I do keep feeling half run down, like I'm coming down with a cold that never quite presents itself, and I think it just really caught up with me then.
The second week of January is when I started my training! The trainer I'm working with likes to leave early so we start at 2 pm every day (well, a little after; I can't park in my parking garage until after 2 pm). Which means I get out of work at 10:30 pm! It's nice to leave early, but I kind of wish I didn't have to get there quite so early. :)
On Thursday, I even went over to CKR's and Kevin and I watched [REC]. I found that watching a spanish movie with subtitles is different for me than watching any-other-language movie with subtitles because I can understand at least a little spanish so I kept trying to make out what they were saying while at the same time reading the subtitles. It was a little distracting at first. Anyway. Some bits of the movie were silly but overall I thought it was interesting (the characters were refreshingly pragmatic about certain aspects of the movie). I'd heard there was a sequel that would build on some of the stuff from the end of the movie and I'm looking forward to that. I thought it was in production but it appears to be done already. Now we'll just see how long it takes before they release it here. It took forever for them to release it here. It was stupid. I can't remember if there's anything about an american remake of the sequel or even their own version of a sequel.
Saturday, Chrysoula and I planned on watching some True Blood and we made it through another two episodes. I believe we only have three left in the season, so woohoo! I'm not quite as interested in slapping everyone upside the head as I was at the beginning of the season. And I'm very happy at plot developments which hopefully mean Eric will be around more. He's a lot more interesting than Bill.
Sunday I had a phone date with Becky! We got a chance to catch up. Then I ran errands and made food and watched TV. Then I took a nap, which probably wasn't the best idea since then I couldn't sleep when I tried to go to bed a few hours later. Heh. Especially since I woke up with a terrible stiffness in my neck, on the left side which is my bad side. I hoped it would relax while I slept but when I got up for work it was still there. About halfway through my shift, it seemed to finally feel better, so I was able to get my workout in tonight when I got home from work. Rowing uses all those muscles! I may use them more than I'm supposed to but it works for me.
I mostly spent my evening at work reading my book. I'm almost done! I think I will go check on dinner and get my book...
So now's a good time for catching up! I seem to always have to do that, huh? Sometimes I just don't have time at work or feel like it at home and eventually there's too much to remember!
New Years Day was nice. I slept in a little and eventually Kevin came over to pick me up. The plan for the day was drinks and Rock Band. And food. We had our traditional pork roast with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. I forgot the black eye peas at home. Aw. We had a very nice time, anyway! Rock band is always oodles of fun, even if there are occasional negotiations over who gets to sing next or who has to sing the song no one has ever heard before (I do, apparently). Eventually Kevin took me home and I slept.
That weekend happened to be a long weekend for me (I do love my 3 day weekends). On Saturday, Chrysoula and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. It was awesome! I may just have to read or listen to some of the stories now.
I totally can't remember what I did on Sunday. Oh! I slept in and then got up and ran around doing errands before the stores closed. My poor cats needed cat litter.
That first week of January was a normal week at work.
Then I had a two day weekend! Normally, it would have been a 1-day weekend but work had finally scheduled me to finish up my training in order entry and in the small bits of secondary processing I needed to know to work at the other two satellites (there's one in Bellevue and one in Renton). It had been scheduled to be 3 weeks of Tuesday through Friday training, which was fine with me, but then it got changed to 4 weeks of Tuesday through Thursday training. I was prepared to work M-F for the rest of January but now I don't have to. Yay!
I may not always be happy about my 1-day weekends but I do like my 3 day ones and I really really like having Fridays off every once in a while for errands and stuff. My car is in desperate need of an oil change...
I'd been kind of wanting to go out so on Saturday, we all went out to Red Robin for food. Afterward, Kevin and Ray and I went to see Daybreakers. I enjoyed the movie but some parts of the plot were just silly, especially toward the end. It was very very pretty though.
On Sunday, I slept. Seriously, I think I was only awake for a few hours out of the day. I do keep feeling half run down, like I'm coming down with a cold that never quite presents itself, and I think it just really caught up with me then.
The second week of January is when I started my training! The trainer I'm working with likes to leave early so we start at 2 pm every day (well, a little after; I can't park in my parking garage until after 2 pm). Which means I get out of work at 10:30 pm! It's nice to leave early, but I kind of wish I didn't have to get there quite so early. :)
On Thursday, I even went over to CKR's and Kevin and I watched [REC]. I found that watching a spanish movie with subtitles is different for me than watching any-other-language movie with subtitles because I can understand at least a little spanish so I kept trying to make out what they were saying while at the same time reading the subtitles. It was a little distracting at first. Anyway. Some bits of the movie were silly but overall I thought it was interesting (the characters were refreshingly pragmatic about certain aspects of the movie). I'd heard there was a sequel that would build on some of the stuff from the end of the movie and I'm looking forward to that. I thought it was in production but it appears to be done already. Now we'll just see how long it takes before they release it here. It took forever for them to release it here. It was stupid. I can't remember if there's anything about an american remake of the sequel or even their own version of a sequel.
Saturday, Chrysoula and I planned on watching some True Blood and we made it through another two episodes. I believe we only have three left in the season, so woohoo! I'm not quite as interested in slapping everyone upside the head as I was at the beginning of the season. And I'm very happy at plot developments which hopefully mean Eric will be around more. He's a lot more interesting than Bill.
Sunday I had a phone date with Becky! We got a chance to catch up. Then I ran errands and made food and watched TV. Then I took a nap, which probably wasn't the best idea since then I couldn't sleep when I tried to go to bed a few hours later. Heh. Especially since I woke up with a terrible stiffness in my neck, on the left side which is my bad side. I hoped it would relax while I slept but when I got up for work it was still there. About halfway through my shift, it seemed to finally feel better, so I was able to get my workout in tonight when I got home from work. Rowing uses all those muscles! I may use them more than I'm supposed to but it works for me.
I mostly spent my evening at work reading my book. I'm almost done! I think I will go check on dinner and get my book...
