Flood Waters

Today I'm listening to:  "Whether You Fall" by Tracy Bonham

So I think tonight will be the first night I finally sleep in my new apartment!  Thank you so much to all of the people who keep asking (and asking and asking ;) ) -- it's great!  I just haven't spent much time there.... it's very difficult to explain to those of you who aren't vampires, but with the amount I was working the last two weeks I simply haven't done anything but eat, sleep, work, wash my scrubs, and repeat.  I don't have many daylight hours to get everything moved over to my new place, and I usually don't feel like moving boxes at 2 in the morning... weird I know.  I also don't have my blackout curtains yet (hurry up target.com!!)... I do really want to be there though, so with this chunk of 5 days off I've been moving more stuff (in the pouring rain I might add) over there and trying to get settled.

I came home from Joshua Tree yesterday morning- love friends!- and went to the grocery store to get some supplies.  I'm glad I picked Von's because guess who was there?? Oh just Kevin Nealon. nbd. HA.  I saw him and thought to myself, "wow that guy looks a lot like Kevin Nealon, but it can't be him, right?" Then I thought, "well, this is California, so it very likely is him."  I told him I was a big fan of him on Weeds (only one of my FAVORITE shows!) and he was very nice, just in town for the Bob Hope Classic Golf tournament, and then we chatted about all the rain.  Yep I was super excited.  He is hilarious and brilliant.

Anyway, then I went to my new apartment and threw a load of laundry in the washer and jumped in the shower.  I got ready for a while and came out to the kitchen to find about 2 inches of water flooding the whole kitchen. Nice. I called the main office and some very nice guys came and cleaned it up with a shop-vac and told me they would come tomorrow to do my carpets and fix the washer.  I was glad that they got it taken care of so quickly, but thought it was kind of funny that this exact same thing happened with my dishwasher in the last place I lived in Laramie.  Must be some kind of new apartment curse for me.  Oh well, it's all fixed now, so no harm done!

I have seen Avatar twice now- I really do love it!  I want my whole world to glow and to be that connected with nature.  Watching the movie a few thoughts kept running through my mind: 1. What kind of accent is Sam Worthington covering up?? (I was right- it is Australian and very attractive ;) ) and 2. I really hope that people catch the HUGE drifts about the environment and the destroying of other cultures that are being thrown at them.  With a movie that has this much success hopefully at least a few more people will be enlightened about the evil things that people do for money.  As a very proud tree-hugger (literally) I grew up watching "Ferngully"  http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/  and it's impossible to not see the similarities between the two movies.  Even more so with "Pochontas," and though I don't like that movie nearly as much, I think it's pretty funny... http://www.saltypopcorn.com/images/avatar-pocahontas1.jpg

I worked 7 out of 10 nights over the last week and a half and I'm really enjoying these days off, but if work had their way I would be working every night this week.  They call me every day to try and get me to come in, and honestly I would go in and help out (I've already worked one overtime shift) but I have to be able to live my life!  I haven't gotten anything done in the past few weeks and I need a chance to actually breathe and to be awake during the daylight hours!!  I know the census is high and I will try and help out as much as possible over the next few months, but this can't come at the expense of my sanity.  So much happens every single night at work that I don't feel there is any way I can possibly express myself enough or vent enough to make it all okay.  I am building my confidence and the staff on my floor are SO *amazing* I know I would be totally lost without them, but this doesn't really change the basic fact that I continue to feel inescapably overwhelmed almost every single night.  I know this is normal though, and the harder I work and the more I learn the better this will all get!

Well I need to do some more shopping (I only have two towels... it became quite clear why this is a big problem when my apartment filled with water) today and pay some bills too.  Oh the joys of being grown-up!

m.

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