Every day I have been checking the website at New England Baptist Hospital for the position they said they would post in "late September" for their new grad RN program. Since nothing still has been posted, I decided to call them and the woman told me that they are actually postponing the program until Spring (rather than Winter). I guess I have to check back around January. Bummer since I was really hoping on this one!
I talked to someone last week from Mt. Auburn Hospital across the river and she said that they will hopefully be posting new grad position in late Fall (like October-ish). So, I am of course going to look into that one, and in the meantime just keep on looking and applying to what I can.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
An Eventful Saturday
On Friday night, Brian got a text from a friend named Chuck, who he worked with at Servite for 2 years. Chuck went to Boston College for his master's and then moved to CA to teach at Servite and is now back on the East Coast working with his dad. He texted Brian letting him know that he was going to be in town to go to the BC football game and that we could join him for a tail gate before. We looked up tickets online and they were $60 each, so we decided that we would just stop by and say hi before the game (which was at noon).
So, we headed to BC and met up with Chuck and his girlfriend, Paige (who is a RN from Florida, met Chuck in CA while working at UCLA and now is attending school in NY to be a nurse anesthetist). Chuck gave us a little tour of the campus and then we met some of his old roommates and friends from his BC days. We also ended up buying tickets from some guy for $50, so then we went to the game and sat in the nosebleed section with Chuck and Paige. It was fun even though they lost to Virginia Tech. We joined the same people for a little bit after the game for more tailgating, but then decided to head home to relax and freshen up before heading out again.
So we went home for a light snack and relaxed a little. Around 5:30 we left to head downtown to meet Dan & Angel for dinner - we met Angel last week when Tiffany was here, since she stayed with them her last night in Boston. Dan & Angel moved here from So Cal as well and they were also recently married, so we had a lot to talk about. They are some of the nicest people we have met and we had such a nice dinner with them in the South End at Gaslight Brasserie du Coin, french cuisine. The food was amazing!!
It was so fun to have something to do...to have plans! haha. We had such a fun Saturday!! :)
So, we headed to BC and met up with Chuck and his girlfriend, Paige (who is a RN from Florida, met Chuck in CA while working at UCLA and now is attending school in NY to be a nurse anesthetist). Chuck gave us a little tour of the campus and then we met some of his old roommates and friends from his BC days. We also ended up buying tickets from some guy for $50, so then we went to the game and sat in the nosebleed section with Chuck and Paige. It was fun even though they lost to Virginia Tech. We joined the same people for a little bit after the game for more tailgating, but then decided to head home to relax and freshen up before heading out again.
So we went home for a light snack and relaxed a little. Around 5:30 we left to head downtown to meet Dan & Angel for dinner - we met Angel last week when Tiffany was here, since she stayed with them her last night in Boston. Dan & Angel moved here from So Cal as well and they were also recently married, so we had a lot to talk about. They are some of the nicest people we have met and we had such a nice dinner with them in the South End at Gaslight Brasserie du Coin, french cuisine. The food was amazing!!
It was so fun to have something to do...to have plans! haha. We had such a fun Saturday!! :)
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Orange County
Today we were getting ready to leave Trader Joe's and as we were finishing bagging up our groceries the man behind us in line was beginning to check out. Since he was buying alcohol, the cashier checked his ID -California. The cashier then said that he just got back from there (CA) yesterday, so the customer asked where abouts in CA he was visiting, to which the cashier said Orange County. The customer then said "Oh, that's where I'm from" and I, grabbing my bag of groceries off the counter, said "Us too!" Small world! I, of course, immediately wanted to become friends with these people, but instead we went our separate ways. What a coincidence though!!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
First House Guest, Tiffany!
Last week my friend Tiffany from Nursing school came to visit us. We "picked" her up (via the subway) on Wednesday night and she stayed with us till Friday evening. It was so exciting having her here!!!
So, we began walking back toward the train stop, which was basically "downtown" of Natick. Now we were walking against the traffic, which looked like one lane of the 91 Fwy on a Friday heading East, but they aren't used to that out here, so it was pretty bad. A lot of people would stop us from their cars and ask us what happened up ahead. We just told them there was some kind of accident or something. One man even honked right at us as I was basically standing in front of his car - it startled me! These 2 Austrailian boys also stopped us for details and then asked us if they should turn around or continue (it sounded so much nicer when he said it, with his accent). We explained that we didn't know the area (and they replied that they didn't either), so Tiff and I both suggested "abandoning that route and trying another". They then Thanked us and told us we have nice teeth! I am not sure I have had the compliment before. :)
We decided to call a cab once we were back in town and we eventually made it to the Lookout Farm. Arriving there was almost like finding a buried treasure! It was quite a journey getting there and we were so happy to be in the right spot. We paid our entrance fee ($8/pp) and then took the little train into the orchards. Tiff and I filled up our bags and wandered around the farm, tasting a few pieces here and there (Sometimes the fruit would fall right into your hand if you touch it, but then you flip it over and it is not looking so good. You either pay for that piece (for about $2) or throw it on the ground and let it rot...or you eat it :) Which is what we did (each with 1 piece of fruit). We had fun picking, but there really wasn't much to pick. Everything was blocked off or already picked, but we found enough to fill our bags. We then weighed our bags - mine was about 6.8 lbs, and at $2.50/lb, it was about $17!!! I probably only had about 5 apples, 3 pears, and 3 peaches...not a whole lot, but it weighed a lot (the apples were pretty giant). I had visualized the whole thing being different. I thought you could just go to an orchard, fill up some bags and pay like $2.50 PER bag - I was expecting to come home with a ton of fruit for cheap (shouldn't it at least be cheaper than the store?!). I also thought the picking would take more time, but we were probably only there for about 2 hrs max (although this outing took the entire day). Needless to say, I probably won't go apple picking again - just too expensive! I could have bought cheaper ORGANIC apples just down the street. And then we have to still add in our travel expenses - ha! So, Tiff and I decided that those were some of the most expensive pieces of fruit ever! :)
We took the taxi back to our train stop and got on the Inbound side, opposite of where we were dropped off. One was supposed to arrive at 5:21. We asked a girl if we were in the right spot and she said yes, she was also heading into Boston, but when a trained pulled up on the OTHER side of the tracks at 5:21 we were a little confused and concerned. So after the train was gone, I went to ask some other people waiting. They explained that we needed to be on the other side, but no one knew why - it just changes sides in the middle of the day. Odd. So, we missed our train, again. Thankfully the next train was only about 50 minutes from then (rather than 5 hrs), so we went to the post office to mail some postcards and then stopped at a cute ice cream shop, but ate some homemade minestrone. We also checked out the local library and a sporting goods store to kill time. Just as it started to sprinkle, we made it on the train.
We went home to drop off our combined 13 lbs of fruit and then went to a local restaurant for dinner with Brian too. We had Thai food and while we were eating, it started pouring rain - of course we forgot our umbrella, but we luckily left when it wasn't too bad. We went back home and Tiff and I made an apple crisp, did some yoga while it was baking and then the 3 of us enjoyed the crisp with some vanilla ice cream. After we made a frozen cheesecake thing, which was really good (we ate some for breakfast on Friday).
What a fun time it was! It was so nice having a girlfriend from back home to hang out, chat, and bake with. :) I thoroughly enjoyed her company! Side note: Thursday was my first day out of the house without Brian.
Now for some pictures! :)
Thursday: Apple Picking
On Thursday we decided to head to Natick, MA to go apple picking. I looked up the directions before leaving and then we made our way to the train station. The directions weren't very clear on where the exact pickup location was, but we eventually found it because we say a train stopped there. So, we walked over there, just missing the train, and then looked at the schedule posted to see when the next one would be arriving. Apparently, the train we JUST missed was the only train going through that stop all morning and the next one wasn't for 5 more hours!!! Thankfully Tiffany had the internet on her phone, so she looked up the directions again to re-route us. We eventually made it to the train station that would take us where we were going. We got to Natick and were supposed to take a bus, but a man at the stop told us we missed the bus by about 10 minutes and the next one would be there for about an hour. So, we just decided to walk - it was about 1.5 -2 miles away I think and we enjoyed it. There was a ton of traffic going in our direction, so it was actually probably better that we didn't take the bus or a taxi since we would have just been sitting in it. We eventually turn onto Pleasant St, where the orchard is, and up ahead is some kind of fire. All the fire trucks/ambulances were zooming passed us. We asked a lady out on her lawn if there was an orchard down the street and she said "OOH, you know what? You guys are on the wrong Pleasant Street" - go figure! She explained to us that we are on the wrong side of town and that it's quite a ways away from where we needed to be, which was Pleasant St in SOUTH Natick.So, we began walking back toward the train stop, which was basically "downtown" of Natick. Now we were walking against the traffic, which looked like one lane of the 91 Fwy on a Friday heading East, but they aren't used to that out here, so it was pretty bad. A lot of people would stop us from their cars and ask us what happened up ahead. We just told them there was some kind of accident or something. One man even honked right at us as I was basically standing in front of his car - it startled me! These 2 Austrailian boys also stopped us for details and then asked us if they should turn around or continue (it sounded so much nicer when he said it, with his accent). We explained that we didn't know the area (and they replied that they didn't either), so Tiff and I both suggested "abandoning that route and trying another". They then Thanked us and told us we have nice teeth! I am not sure I have had the compliment before. :)
We decided to call a cab once we were back in town and we eventually made it to the Lookout Farm. Arriving there was almost like finding a buried treasure! It was quite a journey getting there and we were so happy to be in the right spot. We paid our entrance fee ($8/pp) and then took the little train into the orchards. Tiff and I filled up our bags and wandered around the farm, tasting a few pieces here and there (Sometimes the fruit would fall right into your hand if you touch it, but then you flip it over and it is not looking so good. You either pay for that piece (for about $2) or throw it on the ground and let it rot...or you eat it :) Which is what we did (each with 1 piece of fruit). We had fun picking, but there really wasn't much to pick. Everything was blocked off or already picked, but we found enough to fill our bags. We then weighed our bags - mine was about 6.8 lbs, and at $2.50/lb, it was about $17!!! I probably only had about 5 apples, 3 pears, and 3 peaches...not a whole lot, but it weighed a lot (the apples were pretty giant). I had visualized the whole thing being different. I thought you could just go to an orchard, fill up some bags and pay like $2.50 PER bag - I was expecting to come home with a ton of fruit for cheap (shouldn't it at least be cheaper than the store?!). I also thought the picking would take more time, but we were probably only there for about 2 hrs max (although this outing took the entire day). Needless to say, I probably won't go apple picking again - just too expensive! I could have bought cheaper ORGANIC apples just down the street. And then we have to still add in our travel expenses - ha! So, Tiff and I decided that those were some of the most expensive pieces of fruit ever! :)
We took the taxi back to our train stop and got on the Inbound side, opposite of where we were dropped off. One was supposed to arrive at 5:21. We asked a girl if we were in the right spot and she said yes, she was also heading into Boston, but when a trained pulled up on the OTHER side of the tracks at 5:21 we were a little confused and concerned. So after the train was gone, I went to ask some other people waiting. They explained that we needed to be on the other side, but no one knew why - it just changes sides in the middle of the day. Odd. So, we missed our train, again. Thankfully the next train was only about 50 minutes from then (rather than 5 hrs), so we went to the post office to mail some postcards and then stopped at a cute ice cream shop, but ate some homemade minestrone. We also checked out the local library and a sporting goods store to kill time. Just as it started to sprinkle, we made it on the train.
We went home to drop off our combined 13 lbs of fruit and then went to a local restaurant for dinner with Brian too. We had Thai food and while we were eating, it started pouring rain - of course we forgot our umbrella, but we luckily left when it wasn't too bad. We went back home and Tiff and I made an apple crisp, did some yoga while it was baking and then the 3 of us enjoyed the crisp with some vanilla ice cream. After we made a frozen cheesecake thing, which was really good (we ate some for breakfast on Friday).
Friday: Downtown Boston
We slept in a little and then eventually got ready and headed into Boston. First we dropped Tiff's luggage off to her friend, Angel, who works down there (since Tiff was going to be staying with her that night). We had lunch at Quincy Market, where Tiff got some Clam Chowda. :) Then we walked around a little, stopped in some stores, and walked into the North End. We went to Mike's Pastries and got a cannoli, which was AMAZINGLY delicious! (Just like everyone says). After we just walked around, exploring parts of the Freedom Trail and then we went back to meet Angel and then Tiff left me.
Brian and I had tickets to a speaker at BC that night, but we weren't too interested in going (we got the free tickets because we didn't think anything would be on our agenda). The speaker was the nun that the movie "Dead Man Walking" was based on. We thought about going, but we were pretty exhausted. Tiff and I walked about 8 miles on Thursday and another 6 on Friday, according to her pedometer, so I was ready to just lounge on the couch.
Brian and I had tickets to a speaker at BC that night, but we weren't too interested in going (we got the free tickets because we didn't think anything would be on our agenda). The speaker was the nun that the movie "Dead Man Walking" was based on. We thought about going, but we were pretty exhausted. Tiff and I walked about 8 miles on Thursday and another 6 on Friday, according to her pedometer, so I was ready to just lounge on the couch.
What a fun time it was! It was so nice having a girlfriend from back home to hang out, chat, and bake with. :) I thoroughly enjoyed her company! Side note: Thursday was my first day out of the house without Brian.
Now for some pictures! :)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Our most recent visitor
This was our most recent (and not-so-welcome) visitor:
A house centipede! We saw the first one about a week ago and have since seen 2 more (smaller) ones since then. I think they are getting in through the heater vent. They are pretty fast little guys, but Brian's good at killing them thankfully. I just don't like these things.
A house centipede! We saw the first one about a week ago and have since seen 2 more (smaller) ones since then. I think they are getting in through the heater vent. They are pretty fast little guys, but Brian's good at killing them thankfully. I just don't like these things.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Zoo Day
Saturday we went to the Franklin Park Zoo. We were going to go on my birthday, but adults get in for the childrens' price on the first Saturday of the month so we waited a few days. Although the zoo is only about 5 miles away, it took us about an hour to get there, having to take 2 buses. We got to see a whole different side/area of town that we hadn't yet, so that was nice.
The zoo is really nice and spacious, unlike the zoos that I am used to seeing. It's beautiful and we had a fun time, not to mention it was a gorgeous day!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Making Dinner
Here are some more dinners we have made together recently:
Broccoli, pinto beans and cheese baked potato
Spinach Rice Cakes with Marinara Sauce - YUMMY!
Different (healthy) Vegetable Bean Soup (leek, zucchini, carrot juice, celery, beans, cashews, onions). Took us 3 hours to make and fed us for a week!
Healthy Eggplant Parmesan for my Birthday dinner at home - Very good!
Of course we would be happy to give you the recipes for any of these that you might want to try. Just let me know! All of the ones I have posted have been great, but I will let you know when we come across something we didn't really care too much for. :)
Broccoli, pinto beans and cheese baked potato
Spinach Rice Cakes with Marinara Sauce - YUMMY!
Different (healthy) Vegetable Bean Soup (leek, zucchini, carrot juice, celery, beans, cashews, onions). Took us 3 hours to make and fed us for a week!
Healthy Eggplant Parmesan for my Birthday dinner at home - Very good!Of course we would be happy to give you the recipes for any of these that you might want to try. Just let me know! All of the ones I have posted have been great, but I will let you know when we come across something we didn't really care too much for. :)
Friday, September 3, 2010
Random Interesting Findings
Brian and I recently bought these at Bed Bath & Beyond and they seem pretty cool. I couldn't really tell you if they work or not though, but they keep your toothbrush covered. I wish they made more colors, but for now I think this is it. They seem nice, but it says to replace them every 3 months, so it might be better to just invest in a good sterilizer instead.Also, while we were shopping there we ran across this:
It is a Kapoosh Universal Knife block - slotless! You can use any knife and put it anywhere you want! You can arrange knives in a heart if you wanted to! haha. It is pretty neat - we had fun playing with the sample in the store. It would be really useful for someone who doesn't have a knife block set and just has a bunch of loose knives in a drawer. It's really inexpensive too! I think it's about $30!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Boston Birthday
My first Boston Birthday was lovely! Brian made me pancakes along with a delicious glass of fresh sqeezed orange juice! Then we headed to Revere Beach.
We walked around the beach for a while
then we ate at Kelly's (Roast Beef). Brian got a "Reuben" sandwich (corned beef with sauerkraut)
and I tried the roast beef sandwich, which was very yummy.
Afterwards, we headed to the Museum of Science and stayed there until closing.
Life size black bear
Comparing hand prints with T-Rex
Brian next to the humerus bone of a Brachiosaurus!
What a great birthday!!! Thanks Brian! :)
We walked around the beach for a while
then we ate at Kelly's (Roast Beef). Brian got a "Reuben" sandwich (corned beef with sauerkraut)
and I tried the roast beef sandwich, which was very yummy.
Afterwards, we headed to the Museum of Science and stayed there until closing.
Life size black bear
Comparing hand prints with T-Rex
Brian next to the humerus bone of a Brachiosaurus!Then we went home for dinner and dessert. Brian made me heart shaped brownies and I opened my cards!
Ending the night with a lovely serenade! :D
Ending the night with a lovely serenade! :D
Sunday, August 29, 2010
A Day Downtown
Today we decided to have lunch at the Quincy Market.
It's pretty pricey, but so many options!!! Afterwards, we went over to the Aquarium.
Right now they have 80 penguins as their big attraction.
They had a couple sharks and we enjoyed watching them swim by with their evil look.
They had lots of cool fish, some really big ones too, but the pictures didn't really come out. We had fun though. After the aquarium we headed into the North End for an early birthday dinner.
Ate dinner at Al Dente and tried their famous Spinach Crepe appetizer, which was so amazing!!!!
After dinner we walked around the "Feast of St. Anthony Celebration" that is celebrated in the North End every year, the last weekend of August. Lots of food stands and things to buy.
It's pretty pricey, but so many options!!! Afterwards, we went over to the Aquarium.
Right now they have 80 penguins as their big attraction.
They had a couple sharks and we enjoyed watching them swim by with their evil look.They had lots of cool fish, some really big ones too, but the pictures didn't really come out. We had fun though. After the aquarium we headed into the North End for an early birthday dinner.
Ate dinner at Al Dente and tried their famous Spinach Crepe appetizer, which was so amazing!!!!
After dinner we walked around the "Feast of St. Anthony Celebration" that is celebrated in the North End every year, the last weekend of August. Lots of food stands and things to buy.
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