New Beginnings!

Happy New Year's Eve!!

Can you believe that today is the LAST DAY OF 2013?!?!

I can't. It just flew by like that. Time is a very interesting thing. It's very relative. Sometimes it seems like it flies by and sometimes it seems like an eternity, but of course, time is constant. I guess it's all about how you percieve it. If you are distracted and busy, then of course, time flies by. But if you are bored or going through tough times, then time seems to stop.

For me, time is simutaneously too slow and too fast. Too fast when I'm working because I never seem to have enough time with each patient. Too slow when I'm off work because there's nothing interesting happening here to distract me from watching the minuets tick by. But whether I think time is too fast or too slow, it's ticking by, one minuet at a time. And after midnight tonight, it's going to be a whole NEW year.

I feel like I can never say this enough but I just got used to writing 2013 and now I'm going to have to write 2014 on my prescriptions. Knowing me and my history, I'm probably going to be writing 2013 for a few months before I catch on an write 2014. My prescriptions will be a whole year off for a few months before I can get in the mindset that the new year has rolled around.

This year will be the first year I won't be home to count down with my family. I always get a little sad during New Year's countdown. My family his gathered around me and we are watching the ball drop and that typical New Year's song is playing on TV, I think back to the whole year and think "Gosh, another year older, another year gone, and what have I accomplished with my life?" For some reason, that always makes me sad when I realize that time has passed and I haven't done anything super significant.

At the end of the year, I do like to recap the year and recall all the good/bad times I've had to help myself feel like this year has been worth living. In the past, it's been very difficult because I don't keep any form of good/consistent diary, but this year will be different. Google calendar has helped me organize my schedule like never before. I can just browse through my Google calendar and be reminded of all my activies this year. How wonderful is that? :)

Here's the highlights of 2013!

January: I jump started this year by working at various private practices, moonlighting on the side of my residency. I met my friend Will and we became very close. We ate out together all the time and even went hiking together too. He's shown me many good hiking sites around LA and we had a blast together. I had my first date with Matt and the dating saga with him begins here.

February: Relationship with Matt continues to escalate. I get even closer to Will. I even reconnect with Francisco and meet his GF. I find out that her GF is almost a mirror image of me (personality wise). I get my interview call from the VA that I'm working for now.

March: You came to visit me this month! And of course, we had great memories there! I remember trying to cordinate with Sophie on getting custody of you. That was fun... Shelly got married!! And my HK aunt arrived in the states. Relationship with Matt continues...

April: I finally got a chance to see my HK Aunt. I went to Universal with her and that's how I ended up getting my annual pass. And so the many many visits to Universal begins...

May: I turned another year older. And to celebrate being older, I paid for a nice dinner for my family (plus relatives) to enjoy, without me. I have my appointment with surgery. I graduated this month from residency. YAY! It would have been really nice...if I didn't have to keep working for another month.

June:  I attended Nano's graduation and spent the whole day with her! Broke up with Matt. Started things with my BF. Went up to Portland to see him. Started paper work for my job now. Ended things at residency and my break begins!

July: Took my "Sister/Brother" annual road trip up to SF to visit you. Then went to Portland right after that trip. Then went straight into surgery, where I had to take two weeks to recover. What a month!

August: Recovering from surgery and starting my new job here. A lot of changes. Moving my whole life to a new place out in the middle of nowhere. Kinda scary.

September: Jonas came back to the states! Yay! We went to the One Republic/Sarah Barellis concert. Had the best chicken tortilla soup ever! And that grocery store/bakery/deli place was awesome! I went to Portland again!

October: Seattle for the conference! Nice city, don't know if there's too much to do though. And that's coming from me and I live in the middle of nowhere lol

November: Found out news that Danny's mom passed away. :(

December: You turn another year older! Just a lot of Christmas festivities at work, but being really lonely here by myself. My BF finally came to visit me here! It was a boring trip haha.

So that sums up the year...wow, crazy. In a blink of an eye, it's over. Say goodbye to 2013 and Hello to 2014! I guess I should stop thinking about it as sad that something is over but I should be happy that something new is about to begin. It's all just the type of mindset you adopt.

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This past weekend my BF came to visit. He spent like 90% of the time sleeping. I can understand that he's tired. I mean, he worked Monday, got up really early to go to the airport and come back down on Tuesday. Then his parents packed him in a car and they drove for 5 hours to go wine tasting and visit relatives. He drove the whole time too! And then he drove back down 5 hours. Didn't go to sleep until 2am. Then woke up at 6am to drive 3 hours over here to see me. Of course he was exhausted when he showed up on saturday.

I had made plans to go to Mexico with my tech, so as soon as he came, we drove out to the Mexican border and walked around. She showed us this really good taco stand (the food was REALLY GOOD) and then we came back. We came back around 1ish, my BF just slept the rest of the day. I just did my own thing. Watched TV, caught up on emails/work. While I was watching TV/hanging out by myself, the REAL APLINE came! She got delivered to me! So happy to have her join the family! She's so cute!!! Then when he finally woke up, we went to dinner. And that was it!

Sunday we woke up early to go hiking. Then we ate lunch, he wanted to sleep some more. But I made him actually stay awake and go to the mall with me. We walked around, but it was very boring. Ate some more and finally decided on watching a movie. Ended up watching The Hobbit 2. I haven't even seen the Hobbit 1 yet. But doesn't matter, because Orlando Bloom was in this one, so it made it very worthwhile to watch. The only thing I was interested in was this love triangle story that Orland Bloom was involved with. Then it was dinner time, we ate dinner and that was it. We went to sleep early.

Every meal we ate was pretty much Mexican. I realize that it's the only worthwhile food eating here. Everything else is fast food or not worth mentioning.

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I miss you! Hope you are doing ok! I see on your calendar that you are starting something today and it might take 4-5 days. Good luck! *big hugs*