Get out of my head Meredith Grey

(alternate title - will the bar exam ever NOT haunt me?)


There are a few TV shows that I loooove. I'm pretty sure I've blogged before about The Good Wife (sooo good), and I really like Grey's Anatomy. It came close to jumping the shark for a few seasons and I didn't really keep up with it religiously, but this season has been really good.

Things I should be ashamed to admit: I have a Word document of all of my favorite Meredith Grey quotes. Sometimes when I'm feeling very "woe is me" about my life, I feel like ole Mer just GETS ME.  (Except for the McDreamy part. I'd like a McDreamy please.  Maybe I'll pick one up in a bar this weekend... isn't that how all great romances start?)

But anyway, at this point in the season they are preparing to take their oral boards.
When the episode started off with a Meredith Grey voiceover, it was yet again like it wasn't Meredith talking, it was me. Or she was in my head.

"Picture this: You've spent the last five years of your residency training to become a surgeon. 

But those five years suddenly don't matter. The only thing that matters, the only thing between you and the rest of your career, is a test. 

In a random hotel, in a random city, with a random examiner asking you random questions.

 Nervous? You should be."

Yeah, Mer, I get it.

On being an adult

Sometimes being an adult sucks. A lot of the time, actually. But in an effort to look at the positive, I'd like to address the times it doesn't suck.


Best things about being a post-college adult with no significant other or children:

I can have McDonald's for every meal every single day if I choose to do so.

I can buy booze. I can drink said booze whenever I want to (for the most part).

If I don't want to be your friend, I don't have to.

I get to choose what I want to read. And if I don't like it, I can stop reading it.

If I have $100 left at the end of the month and decide I'd rather buy a pair of shoes or overpriced yoga pants than groceries, I can.



What are your favorite things about being an "adult"?
(and of course I use the term in the loosest sense of the word possible, for obvious reasons)

12 weeks!

12 weeks old, 33.2 pounds.
Skinny boy

Two types

There are two types of people in this world...

The person who goes out to dinner and sees a classmate tending bar/waiting tables and thinks "man I am so thankful to have a decent job, even if I hate it sometimes and I think I'm overworked and underpaid."

And there's the person who goes out to dinner and sees a classmate tending bar/waiting tables and thinks "man I am so glad I'm smarter and worked harder than him."

Dirk and Avery

9 weeks!

Dirk is 9 weeks old today! I *think* he's up to 23 pounds. It's hard to get an accurate weight on a wiggly puppy. Maybe I'll re-weigh him after he falls asleep, ha.

I took his cone down yesterday and tried to clean it up and re-tape it, but it didn't even last 12 hours before he managed to knock it off because I had obviously done a crappy job. So at 3 AM last night I was in tears trying to re-tape him.
We will be going to the vet tomorrow for help with a re-tape... there's nothing that looks worse than cropped ears that don't stand (which is precisely why I didn't get Elle's ears done - I was terrified I'd suck at taping and ruin them... not sure why I thought I could figure it out this time). 

That's what they'll look like if I don't keep up with the taping. He's still pretty cute but the ears look pretty goofy.

Other than that he's doing great and cute as can be!

And of course - the only way I can get a good picture is if he's asleep. I let him get up on the couch with me, whoops! Still making him sleep in the crate at night and when I'm gone though, so it's okay.

 

Happy April everyone!