My work day…

was really hard today… for various reasons. During lunch I decided to go out and buy myself some flowers… some nice minature daisies and some purple flower (I’m horrible with the names of flowers… I know about 4). Anyway, the $3.19 spent on some flowers for my office brightened my afternoon considerably.

On the way back to the train, I passed a homeless man. He is there everyday therefore I suspect I usually pass him everyday. Today I gave him $5. Gandhi & Mother Teresa this does not make me. It’s so hard to decide on a daily basis what to do…9x out of 10 I’ll just pass by the homeless… not because I don’t care..but because I can’t help every one. And the one time I bought breakfast for a homeless man… a homeless woman saw me and then yelled at me for a block and a half because I didn’t buy her something also. Ugh..

My friend didn’t stop by the office yesterday or today. Why oh Why do I get myself in such a tizzie over a man with a girlfriend???????????? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…

Maybe I should contact the producers of the Bridget Jones’ movies?????? The new one could be “Leslie R: Past the Edge of Reason” At least I’ll be wealthy when I sell my life story.

Ok… done for now. Much cleaning to do & maybe some laundry (do you ever feel sometimes like all you do is laundry? I’m single and I can’t believe the amount of laundry I do)

Have a good evening/day/afternoon/morning/etc…

Too much of a good thing…

is too much of a good thing.

I had the fine opportunity to meet two different friends for two different meals. First I met an old co-worker for lunch in Center City. We went to El Vez on 13th & Sansom. Chips, salsa made w/ cactus & crab meat, an amazing pot of tortilla soup, and finally the mahi-mahi tacos… I didn’t think I could eat anymore today. But no… tonight I drove to KOP to meet another friend for dessert and coffee at the Cheesecake Factory (disclaimer… it wasn’t our first choice…but the original coffeeshop we were going to go to closed at 8pm… which is ridiculously early!). So, when in Rome.. order food like the Romans… so, I ordered a piece of white chocolate raspberry truffle and ate all of it.

I’m feeling very piggish tonight… Oink, Oink..Oink…

In other news…
1. Very sad about Barbaro. The thing I loved about the vet treating him… he never sugarcoated Barbaro’s condition. Every step of the way…he gave the good w/ the bad.
2. I have amazing friends. I’m very blessed. The people I hung out today & this evening with are two VERY different people… they probably wouldn’t have more than one polite conversation with each other…and I think that’s why I like them so much…because they are different. Does that make sense? Probably not… I’m lapsing into a food coma…
3. Patiently waiting for 10pm… so, I can rewind my videotape (not cool enough to have TIVO) to watch tonight’s episode of “24″. My Monday evening pleasure.
4. Book recommendation: I was flying somewhere and a guy next to me was reading this book.. so, I wrote the title down and finally bought it a few weeks ago. The title is “Polio: An American Story” by David Oshinsky. Totally interesting… story tells about the formation of the March of Dimes.. the race to find a vaccine… etc.. Not at all a boring.

Ok.. that’s it.

Sunday.

I’m working at the hospital today.  It’s almost Noon… only about 4.5 more hours to go.  I just got back to the office.  I was meeting with a man and his son-in-law.  The man’s wife is probably not going to live much longer.  They were married for 50 years, have 6 kids, and 14 grandkids!!!  The man was sad…but at the same time he had this look of “yea… we had a good life…”  Scenes like this are sometimes sad for me…but mostly they are full of joy.  I’m always happy to see people who have lived a full life and have loved ones around them when they die.  The man actually was interested in my story.  So, I told him.  He said that we all have “autobiographies to write”…  so, maybe I’ll write mine someday.

So… I took the NET test last Saturday morning.  This is the first step for going into nursing school.  I have been thinking about it for the last couple of years…  I’ve given myself a March 1st deadline to decide.  I’m more worried about the debt than anything else.  I’m almost debt free now… $60K is a lot of debt for school.

I’m having an “ugly day” today.  I look alright… I saw one of my friends ( she is a nurse and she is working today) and she said that I looked good and it looks like I have lost weight… (no… it’s the pants… one of my co-workers calls them my “skinny pants”).  Anyway, blah, blah, blah… same stuff, different day. 

So… the quirky guy from work said that he would ask me out for coffee.  Honestly, it would be nice to have coffee w/ him… and actually sit across from him at a normal table instead of my work desk….but on the other hand, I don’t know if I could stand it because of the whole girlfriend issue.  He really is someone I could fall quite easily for.  So..here’s hoping that he has terrible habit… like he picks his nose or something (but… be honest… don’t we ALL do that in private?)…  Heck… he volunteers at a homeless shelter..so, he can’t be all that bad… even if he does pick his nose.

Ok.. I need to stop this little treatise because I just got paged and have to visit a patient.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Life on a Monday…

My work day is almost over…26 more minutes.  Thankfully, Mondays usually go by pretty fast.

Superbowl:  Chicago vs Indianapolis.  Very excited about these two teams meeting.  I’ve been a Bears fan for as long as I can remember…but Peyton Manning is my favorite player.  I was on the edge of my seat for most of the Indy-NE game last night.  Such a great game.  I turned it off for a bit when the Colts were losing 21-3.  It was just too painful to watch.

Nothing else too overly exciting to report from my weekend.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

My brain is so fried…

that i’m having trouble reading the side of my wendy’s cup.

i think it’s almost time to go home.

My jealously issues…

So, I’m jealous of a woman I never met and it makes me sad. There is someone at work who I’m pretty fond of….Well, everytime he comes in the office we sit and chat for a few minutes (or more than a few minutes)….when he leaves the office… my co-workers and I comment.. “my, I hope his girlfriend knows how lucky she is to be with him.”

It would be really easy to fall for him… he’s handsome, intelligent, quirky, and just a little bit mysterious… so, I guess on the one hand … I’m glad that I’ve always known that he has a girlfriend… but, on the other hand…. sometimes I wish he was single and that “out-there-in-left-field” dream that he could be attracted to me would be true.

Often when I write about my stupid single issues… it seems just that..stupid and without merit.

Maybe one day… it will be different.

UGH.

Just a Tuesday…

Here’s what I’m dealing with..

1.  on my last legs of clean clothing.  need to do laundry.

2.  my suitcase is still sitting in the middle of my floor.  i’ve been home since 1/1/07.  everyday as i step over it, i think “hmm.. i really should put this thing away.”  i’ll get right on that.

3.  the first 4 hours of “24″.  Jack Bauer is back.  Very wounded and I think the most human since the series started. 

4.  my christmas tree is STILL up.  i’m making progress.. at least the ornaments are off (well… mostly.. still need to take off the glass ornaments and wrap them up). 

5.  I need new music to listen to…  all the songs on my ipod seem just old.  Does anyone have some suggestions..  I like all music… minus rap. 

Ok.. that’s about it for now.

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Damn those sour balls..

I think I’ve eaten a pound of cherry sour balls…

in less than one day.

Why oh Why did I keep them in my desk drawer?

Why I didn’t go to a college with a football team

1.  NCAAs:  March Madness.  So…  I’m sure Boise thinks that they should have a chance at being number 1!  I sure do.  Will a playoff system happen in college football?  Yea..  and Burger King is considered a health food.

2.  Ray Meyer

OK…. so that’s all I can think of at the moment.  Yes, I didn’t choose my colleges based on their academic rankings.  I made my choices based on the excellence of their basketball team (at the time… 1989).  My choices were:  Indiana, Purdue, DePaul, Illinois Wesleyan (yes… NCAA division III champs a heck of a lot of times). 

Ouch!!!

41-14… Ohio State goes down in flames.

(full disclosure.. I am NOT an OSU fan).