3 posts tagged “new year”

        Tonight I am beside myself with glee. 

        For the first time in all my coffee-drinking years a barista spelled my name correctly without me telling her how it was spelled.  They always spell my nickname wrong – it’s spelled with a k, they usually spell it with a c.  And the times when I spell out my name so they can write it correctly they call out my name wrong.

        I’m really a Seattle’s Best Coffee drinker, but tonight I’m soooo loving Starbucks.

In the year 2008 I promise to do more.

I promise to . . . read more, listen more, study more, yet play more.

I promise to . . . travel more, party more, feel more, be nicer and love more.

I promise . . . 

        to dream more

            be more

                live more.

(And I'm not one to break my promises.)

      The early fireworks display around QC was amazing if not a little bitin (as should be expected from New Year’s Eve teasers).  But I was not out in the open air to enjoy it.  I was on my last OB duty looking out the window of the ICU, taking a short break before going back to monitor a toxic patient who went into cardiopulmonary arrest as she was undergoing a cesarian section.  I shake my head and repeatedly say “Yes, this is my life”.

       I ended up not volunteering at the Trauma Center today.  I'm sure I'll regret this eventually but right now I'm back at home in the province enjoying my grandma's high-speed internet.  I'm waiting for family to arrive for dinner and maybe a few drinks, a few firecrackers, then sleep.   I find myself wanting nothing more then to watch ER re-runs and rethinking New Year's resolutions during the commercials. 

       Well, tomorrow is a new day.

       A new year.

      To everyone: A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!