A Belated Thanksgiving!

I'd set my 2 week holidays for the end of November, in prepping for a dinner I help organize over in Ireland for my alma mater rowing club. Unfortunately, the dinner fell through due to lack of interest this year (and funds), so we decided to cancel the dinner and I cancelled my trip to Ireland. A shame because I was looking forward to catching up with people, but c'est la vie!

So instead of using my time productively, I went in nearly every day to help my program out with interviews and to talk to the interviewees. I like doing it so I didn't mind, but there went my plans of trying to catch up on some work! Hopefully I can try to put my head down this month and do some study / reading, but it hasn't started out well :).

Then I had a few days at home with the folks for Thanksgiving. I have now realized that Banana Republic, Ann Taylor Loft, and BCBG Maxaria are my ultimate favorite stores and my credit card statements are skewed in those directions :). I figure I deserve it...somehow... ? Although I spent a significant amount of time at home attempting the unsurmountable task of cleaning the house for my parents, we had a nice dinner out at the Cincinnati Marriot hotel for turkey day. Why anyone would choose to cook and clean when they could have an inexpensive fantastic Thanksgiving dinner is beyond me :). So now that I'm nearly done with my 20's, I have a few things to be Thankful for.

1) Of course, the good health and not too many problems in life so far, knock on wood.
2) A stable career which isn't an office job, a career where I can actually help people and feel some satisfaction with on a daily basis (to combat the daily abuses), and a career where it seems I can be successful to the point of recognition in. And of course it helps that it is a financially fulfilling career when compared to most people.
3) I am much happier now than I was this time last year. There's much I can gripe about, but I think I'm used to culture here again and I have a bit more creative time.
4) I passed Step 3 comfortably and never have to do any of those again!!!

Starting December 1st, I'm back in the ER and it didn't take me too long to pick it up again after being on off-service rotations for awhile. There's some times when it's painful, but I'm happy I'm able to truck along quite quickly and so far have been able to clear out the rack, even if I'm the only resident on my side. If I could only do that with my personal projects and my studying ... :).