I am so over this week. Not this technical week - since it is only Tuesday after all - but this work week, which started for me on Saturday and ends tomorrow at 7:30pm. 4 days of 12 hour shifts and 1 day of 12 hour babysitting is apparently too much for my fragile little self to handle. Yes, agreeing to babysit on my one day off was stupid, but I have been watching these kids for 4 years now and so I can't say no. I never say no. I got up in the dark and came home after dark every day this week. I know this is a normal American thing to do...and I am fortunate to have a stable job in this insane economy...and I should just shut up, check my bank account and be thankful....but the ADJUSTING. IS. HARD.

Anyways. Enough whining. I can't even handle myself lately.

I started reading the Twilight books - yes, the young adult vampire books. Because I am a sucker for a mystical fiction series? Because I miss the excitement of brand new, unexplored Harry Potter books? I don't know. I finished the first book today, and it was...pretty decent. It took a long time to get started, and I am a little creeped out by the description of the main character Edward (stone cold, pale as death, yet inexplicably mesmerizing and radiant? One sentence describes him as having 'pale lavender eyelids'. Uh...not my kind of guy). But of course I will get the rest of the books soon, because by the end I was caught up in the drama and basically, I just want to know if he's going to bite her (the mesmerized female main character), kill her, or let her stay a human. And I might as well read 4 books in the process. This is why I graduated from college, right, to pleasure read? Right. If you know what happens to Bella and Edward, don't tell me. I am sure if I get impatient I will Google it.

In other news, we are going on a cruise! In March! Which will hopefully be right at my winter breakdown point, when I absolutely cannot take one more day of Chicago mush and slush, and so what could be better than going to the Gulf of Mexico with some of my best friends and drinking my weight in margaritas (luckily, I think alcohol poisoning is out of my price range, so that's a bonus). I cannot wait. AND, our cruise leaves from New Orleans which is a city near and dear to my heart, so we'll get to spend a night there before we go! It's all very exciting and yay and wish it was next week-ish, especially since my last week has sucked so much (one of my patients DIED, yes, coded during a procedure and couldn't be revived so this wasn't a stellar week in my orientation experience. Ugh...adding to the frustrations.

The Tiredness is hitting me hard right now, so I think I need to give in to that. In 22 hours, I will be done with this ridiculous five day stretch and then maybe I will feel like more of a person instead,