This weekend has been uneventful, but great. Tracy had to work, but since there were so few patients, he's been able to just bring his pager home during the day, so it's almost like a day off. Last night I went with him to turn his pager back in, and then we went to the fishy store (we're about to start up a salt water reef tank) and out to dinner at BJs. It was a nice date night to ourselves, which we haven't really gotten to have for awhile. Hopefully he'll get a little time off today too, because today is his 24-hour shift, and I'm sure he'd rather relax a bit before he has to stay there all night.
The big fat reason I'm so ready for NEXT weekend is that it's finally going to be Daytona Beach weekend!!! We got the hotel on the beach reserved and have absolutely no official plans except to eat dinner Saturday night at some sort of oceanside restaurant. If anyone has ever been to Daytona, feel free to give suggestions on what we should do.
Two days after I get back from our Daytona adventure, I get to fly home for Thanksgiving! I'm getting really excited about this, especially since I don't have to take any tests or anything while I'm home this time. When I come back from this trip, I'll have a mere 5 days of my internship left.
So what will I do after my internship is done, you ask? Well, coincidentally, I got an email this week. I applied with Sylvan Learning here way back in June, and they chose this week to finally email me and tell me they have a part-time position open for a certified teacher for reading and a little math. I have an interview with them this week. Still not sure I want to do anything resembling teaching, but if I were to teach at all, this would be more up my alley, with just a few kids at a time and not the full responsibilities of a classroom teacher and such. Whether I take this job or not, I plan to work somewhere else as well in order to save up as much money as possible before graduate school. I probably won't start anything full-time until January though, as I still have to study and take my GRE, and I want time to go home for Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, I may get to go to Wyoming for a few days and visit Tracy's family! Yay high five do a little dance :)
In other news, this week I'm going to a supper club meeting with the Junior Medical Guild, which is basically just going out to dinner somewhere new in Gainesville with a group of girls. They're going to the Flying Biscuit Cafe, which is a breakfast place. I don't know anyone yet, so cross your fingers that they're nice!
Cooking update: This week I cooked the aromatic and ever-popular Chicken Tortilla Soup, as well as Penne a la Betsy, a Pioneer Woman special. Both were a hit with the gentlemen I'm currently entertaining (that's Jonathan and Tracy for all you forgetful people), and it's really funny to me right now to see the leftovers get eaten before I can get to them, and to be asked "Hey... uh... is there any more of that soup stuff?" It's not that I was a crappy cook before, but I'm finally getting a few really decent recipes. I like that when Tracy takes the first bite of that pasta recipe, he immediately says "Wow, this is really good!" and actually seems like he means it. I mean, the kid tends to not get excited about food (ANY food) the way I do, and he sure never ate leftovers before this. Now I come home and the first thing out of his mouth is, "I ate a big bowl of the soup while you were gone." Maybe it's just the girly domestic side of me, but I really enjoy cooking things that people look forward to and request. Next week, I won't be cooking too much since we're leaving early Friday for the beach, but I do plan to cook another batch of the Chicken Tortilla Soup (per request of the boyssss), and I'm going to try out a very simple Pioneer Woman recipe for Sesame Noodles.
I realize my blog posts are pretty much always some sort of countdown/to-do list/here's-what-I'm-excited-about rambling rather than my thoughts on important subjects or focusing on one particular topic, and I apologize for that. I just rarely have a particular topic I've been contemplating that gives me enough motivation to write about it. Instead, my head contains a mash-up of school, cooking, Tracy, friends, my family, Oklahoma, the beach, and downtime. Perhaps if you have a subject you're just dying to hear my opinions on (ha), you could comment and tell me what you'd like to hear. Ok the end.
No comments:
Post a Comment