So I started off all gung ho on this blog...and then forgot about it for a while! In the future i'll try not to forget...no promises though!
On a happy note tomorrow begins breast cancer awareness month! Is it bad that i'm excited to wear cute stuff with pink ribbons, pink ribbon scrub caps, pink ribbon scrub tops, and to dye pink streaks in my hair? What I mean is...is it insensitive to people who actually have breast cancer for me (having no personal ties to the disease) to wear my pink? It's really in support of my patient's and friends who have had breast cancer and are currently battling breast cancer. I think it probably comforts a patient coming in for a mastectomy to see the monotony of the surgical scrubs broken up by a bright pink ribbon scrub hat...but maybe i'm crazy! I think i'm just too worried about offending somebody...but who cares really....i'll be sporting pink all month long and i'll be super cute doing it!
On a ridiculous note my hospital "went live" with CPOE...computerized physician order entry...aka Crap and Piss On Everyone! The docs HATE it...and so does everybody else!!! They can't or won't figure out how to write their orders and then even when they write the stupid orders we can't figure out where to look in the stupid computers to find the orders...stupid stupid stupid!!! The worst part is that our failing team morale has taken a nosedive from low to nonexistent!!! The docs being pissy makes everybody else pissy! One of my favorite docs to work with made me cry last week! Let me say that prior to this I had only been made cry by one doctor one time...who was out of line and embarassed and humiliated me...crying because a physician was mean to me is NOT a regular occurence! I was sick...and really should have gone home, but i would have felt guilty leaving by trainee to fly solo with difficult cases. So...long story short I missed that the doc hadn't signed the consent form for the surgery...he for some reason had gone back to his office...my trainee caught this mistake as we were about to take the patient. So we had to find said doc and made him come back from his office (why he left is a whole nother ball of inappropriateness!!!) He is one of the sweetest, most mild mannered, never yells at anybody, and good looking docs in our OR. He comes in and begins to ream me a new one for making him come back from his ofcfice (was he going to perform surgery from there?) and why didn't i tell him that he didn't sign the consent form (oh is it not ok for me to make one mistake? by the way i don't make many! and did he not look at the consent form himself?) so this went on until i got all teary eyed spun around and stammered out an OKAY...and ran away like a scared little kid...real professional and adult of me! ok...so i guess i'm not quite over that incident...but he's always so nice...and i totally didn't expect it!
the update on the shankopotami...they have begun breeding and the disease appears to be spreading rapidly...so many have been exhiled to the island that it is now sinking!!! I really....really can NOT believe the amount of stupidity running around in the world! I made myself my very own "REALLY!" button to flash whenever i simply cannot believe something...my button also says"is that so" in small letters...a phrase approriate for many situations! I will now include a short scenario in which the really button was necessary. I was on call at our sister hospital and worked from 0630 all day until 0100 the next morning. At 0510 my phone rings...the call nurse at the other hospital isn't answering her phone for a pseudoemergency case that is supposed to start at 0500. My first thought was are you f*cking kidding me...but instead i muttered out "is that so...i'm on my way." I brushed my teeth and sleep-drove to the hospital. Blah Blah Blah....worked for an hour and a half until the other nurse was finally contacted...she said her phone never rang...funny...i called her myself and left a rather nasty voicemail! she gets there and says "Are you happy now?" all i could think was REALLY?!?! because by the way i was with a patient and wasn't going to let my anger get the best of me infront of the poor guy who was scared to death!!! After going home and sleeping I sent her to the island. 
But really...life is good! We bought a new boat and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! it's freaking huge compared to our old boat and it rides so smooth and i'm not afraid that i'm going to fall out constantly! AND somebosy's coming saturday to buy our old boat! woohoo it'll be nice to have some cash in the bank again!!! we're hoping to make a bahamas trip with some friends soon!
I actually played housewife this weekend and cooked like crazy! I made stuffed french toast...it was FANTASTIC! Cooked some other stuff (blueberry muffins, miniquiches, torteloni) but the best was my favorite new recipe....it's called fourty cloves and a chicken! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/40-cloves-and-a-chicken-recipe/index.html
I added a half cup of chicken broth to the bottom of the pan and it was seriously delicious...the breasts did get pretty dry. But the best part about this was toasting up some french bread and dipping it in the sauce left in the pan!!! This i will definetely be making again!

So this is probably really just a long rant/ramble about nothing and everything...but that's ok!