L'aventure américaine

I'm afraid to say it, but my life currently revolves around bowel movements. You might think that this is common to all nurses, but I believe that the time that I spend cleaning up/helping enhance/facilitating bowel movements is much more than most. In the past week, I have spent around 13 hours repeatedly cleaning up bowel movements (that I caused, of course, with an enema). I have emptied several white buckets of more bowel movements. I have flushed away my own.* And lastly, I have recently switched Odie's dog food because of some unfortunate bowel movements (especially unfortunate when they greeted me after a 14 hour day of work) and thus I have been closely watching his bowel movements to make sure that his food agrees with him. It has come in all different shapes and sizes. Gross, you say? Nah... It's just poo. *I have started saving the water from my shower that is used while waiting for the water to get hot, it goes in a bucket, which I use to flush the toile...

I have worried that I'm old before my time quite often, but an incident yesterday solidified it. You see, it's true that I go to bed at 9pm. I sometimes drink warm milk and honey before I go to sleep. I regularly do crossword puzzles and thoroughly enjoy puzzles. My closest companion is my dog who often climbs onto my lap. I only buy shoes that are comfortable and bras that offer good support. However, yesterday, I found myself going 55mph in a 65mph zone for no reason. I was going under the speed limit for no reason . I committed one of my pet peeves and now I'm very afraid that my senior citizen neighbors are wearing off on me. Well, it's 6pm: a good hour past my dinner time. Must go eat some prunes and pudding.

Well, I'm thirteen days into 2010 and I've already burst out laughing, burst into tears and eaten so much that I thought I would burst multiple times. My good friend, Kristi, came to visit me here in Phoenix last week and it was a marvelous time. We had grand intentions about exploring great restaurants and buying good shoes and tasting wines (or something like that). Instead, we purchased four different kinds of cheese, drank several bottles of wine, and spent most of our time hiking around Phoenix and lazing in the hot tub (my first time). It was wonderful to giggle and share stories and be so comfortable with a friend from home. It was hard to say goodbye. However, her visit made me realize what a fun place I'm in. Whether it was sitting on my balcony in 70 degree whether or only spending $5.58 for 6 grapefruits, 2 tangelos and a heaping bag of greens, I came to appreciate some of the perks of sunny Arizona. On another note, I've been trying to brace myself for...

A new year has begun and this one will be rockin'. I celebrated in style last night in a totally different fashion than my last new year's party. This one was much trendier in downtown Phoenix with martinis and absinthe and bathrooms that were so hip that I couldn't figure out where they were. However, the people were fun, the food was good, and the drinks were plentiful. It was a good night and an excellent way to ring in the new year. And today, I sluggishly cleaned my apartment and put the Christmas decorations away. And here are the photos of this clean apartment with all of its sparse furnishings. 2010 commence!