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one word sarcomical sunday

Sarcomical

Here we go again!
For those who are new here, here are the rules:
After you read my responses, copy and paste the entire list into a comment on the original post and replace my answers with yours. You can only use ONE word to answer each item, and I know sometimes you find that painful, but we will all get through it together. Don't break the only rule, or I may be forced to ridicule you and point & laugh.

Hoping for: balance
Just Finished: eating
Jonesing For: blueberries
Most Annoying Brady Bunch Kid: Cindy
Word to Describe Your Personal Sense of Style: colorful
Last Snack: Wheat Thins
Have Never, Ever Tried: snowboarding
Last Clumsy Injury: bruise
Your Environment: dim
Daily Object You'd Like to Throw Into Oncoming Traffic: PAGER
Favorite Kind of Soup: tortilla
Holiday You Don't Typically Celebrate: Memorial
Happy To Have: health
Want To Start: card-making
Need To Start: studying
Last Thing You Purchased: shakes
Color of Your Car Interior: grey
Color of the Wall in the Room You're In: taupe
Days Since Your Last Night Out: one
Number of Rings On Your Fingers: two
How Many Minutes It Takes To Do Your Hair: one
Favorite Outdoor Smell: jasmine
Number of Clocks in Your Home (not on appliances): four
Where You Put Spare Change: counter

::giggle::

Wait til I tell everyone about this! Then I'll feel important with*out* drinking. That'll be weird. -- Homer Simpson, in the one where Ned temporarily moves out of Springfield

keepin' it light

After the Angels' crushing defeat by the Blue Jays last night (9-2), we swung by Target to pick up some tubs to organize the stuff in the garage. But who can resist seeing what's in the dollar spot on your way in? Certainly not me. They have apparently expanded the dollar spot to include things that are $2.50. I found this sweet light for the workroom at the hospital; it plugs right into the computer with a USB cord. The best $2.50 I've spent in a while. Because sometimes things get a little heavy around here.

korean bbq

We experienced Korean barbeque for the first time Thursday night and let me tell you... it was an experience. We met Joe and Liz there for dinner -- Joe was two years ahead of me in the residency. He graduated to years ago and just finished his colorectal fellowship and is about to start private practice in Missouri and they are vacationing here before he starts. They spent Easter with us in 2006 and we went to their wedding last November.

The first good sign about the restaurant was that we were the only Caucasian people there. We went with two good friends, one of whom was Korean. Her husband Joe, me, and Daniel. The only white people there. Dinner was quickly ordered and within minutes all these little dishes appeared at our table. They were the side dishes to the main dish.

The table was an interesting thing; there was a hole in the middle of it where the grilling was going to shortly take place. The marinated meat quickly arrived and the server started to cut it off of the ribs. She used tongs and large scissors and tossed it onto the grill in our table. Each table had a hood over the grill part, but that didn't prevent the people sitting at the table from getting really hot and from getting faces full of smoke. It was great.

Liz was busy adding more meat and flipping the meat that was already on the grill. As each little bite sized peice became ready, she would distribute it to our plates. This is where the little side dishes came in. You could dip the meat in a little sauce and wrap it in a thin slice of daikon radish or thin dough. Then have some lettuce and go back for more!

We finished the meat... how 'bout some chicken? Sure! We got a new grill and were off and running again. We ate *so* much food. When we were done, we had something to cool our stomachs. Cold glass noodles and a pomegranate and cinammon drink. The whole experience was amazing and we smelled like a barbeque when we walked out of there. The combination of flavors was so unique! I'd love to go back, but I'm not sure if I could handle barbequing everything myself...

one word sarcomial sunday (yes, i'm aware that it's friday)

Sarcomical

Did you miss this as much as I think you did?

It's okay to cry a little.

For those who are new here, here are the rules:
After you read my responses, copy and paste the entire list into your comment and replace my answers with yours. You can only use ONE word to answer each item, no matter how much you want to tell us more. We'll figure it out, especially if you choose perfect words. How's that for pressure?

Your Body Feels: wiped
Your Mind Feels: sluggish
The Last Thing You Ate: licorice
Something On Your Desk/Workspace: soda
On Your Chest: wacoal
On Your Legs: scrubs
On Your Feet: socks
Favorite Instrument to Hear: harpischord
Your Last Kiss Happened Here: bedroom
Something You Wish You'd Invented: google
Something You Wish Had Never Been Invented: pitbulls
Favorite Place For a Quiet Afternoon: cafe
Right Now You Should Be: editing
You Hate When People: avoid
You Love When People: heal
When In Doubt, Order the: wine
Band You're Currently Into: Maps
How Many Movies You've Gone to See So Far This Month: zero
Your Favorite Big Brother 8 Houseguest (oh shut up, it's my poll - just put N/A if you must): n/a
Your Least Favorite Big Brother 8 Houseguest: n/a
Your Maternal Grandmother's Name: Edna
Your First Childhood Pet's Name: Bo-bo
The Number of People in Your Family With Red Hair: two
What You're Thinking about Doing After This: relaxing
What You Really WISH You Were Doing After This: sleeping

fridays feast

Feast One Hundred & Fifty Seven

Appetizer
Say there's a book written about your life. Who would you want to narrate the audio version?
Christopher Walken. He's so weird and funny. And a really great actor.

Soup
Take the letters from your favortie kind of nut and write a sentence. (Example: Perhaps every avenue needs understanding today.)
Purple eyelets are never usually taken.

Salad
If you could go back in time and spend one week in another decade, which decade would you choose?
The first time period that comes to mind is the Roaring 20s. Flappers, bootleggers, votes for women (I think). Sounds like a great time!

Main Course
Name a song that brings back memories for you.
That song by Blind Melon. The one where there was a little girl dressed in a bee costume in the video. Can't remember the name. Anyway, I was at the end of high school and saw that video almost every day at my friend's house after school, as we munched on the 12-pack of crunchy tacos from Taco Bell.

Dessert
Do you prefer to wash your hands in cold water or warm water?
That entirely depends on the ambient temperature and on my own temperature. When we lived in New England, I would wait the five minutes for the warm water to get to the sink before washing my hands because I was so cold. But I'm rarely cold here, so usually it doesn't matter. If I've just exercised a ton, it *has* to be cold. The one time I can think of desperately wanting warm water is when we're at Disneyland after dark in the fall winter and it gets pretty chilly.

out of character

I don't usually complain about coming to work and have a fun time in the operating room. But today I'm just not feeling it. I'm vigorously fighting a cold that one of the medical students felt inclined to share and am totally wiped out and much paler than usual. Don't feel up to opening up some guys chest and taking out a lobe of lung. We don't really get sick days like most people get sick days. If you're admitted to the hospital, you can have a sick day.

It's not even noon yet.

brain numb

My brain is totally fried from working a full day and coming straight home to continue to work on a presentation for Thursday. It's time for beddy-bye, but my brain won't shut off. Maybe Dawn's meme will help me. Here goes...

A: Attached or single -- Very happily attached. :-P
B: Best friend -- Not counting the one I married? Yes. :-)
C: Cake or pie -- Cake. Well, let's be honest here. Frosting.
D: Drink of choice -- Any suitably fruity martini will do.
E: Essential item -- iPod. Don't know how I ever operated without it.
F: Favorite color -- Orange. From coral to rust and everything inbetween.
G: Gummi bears or worms -- Usually worms, but Haribo bears beat out anything else gummi.
H: Hometown -- Fresno, California
I: Indulgance -- sleeping in
J: January or July -- July. Janurary is the worst month of the year for me with the let-down of the holidays.
K: Kids -- They're nice from a distance. Perhaps will have one or two of my own someday.
L: Life is incomplete without -- This sounds weird, but it's the first thing that popped into my addled brain... exercise. I love the way I feel during and after, plus the gradual feeling of getting stronger.
M: Marriage date -- December 12, 1998 (bonus: Boston, MA)
N: Number of siblings -- two. Younger brother and younger sister
O: Oranges or apples -- Apples. I love a good orange, but they're hardly portable and I'm constantly running around. Plus I got spoiled on hand-picked oranges because so many of my friends had little orchards on their property as I was growing up. Had a never-ending supply of tree-ripened oranges.
P: Phobias or fears -- My MFing tests coming up in the next year.
Q: Quote -- "Uh, no, you got the wrong number. This is 9-1... 2." -- Chief Wiggum, The Simpsons
R: I think R went to the bathroom...
S: Season -- We don't have seasons here. And I'm totally okay with that.
T: Tagging -- nope. I don't like pressure. Play if you're bored. :-)
U: Unknown fact about me -- Even though I'm Catholic, I have the eating habits of a Jew. Hate lobster, oysters, shellfish of any kind, and pork.
V: Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals -- If we were meant to be vegetarian, God wouldn't have made animals so tasty...
W: Worst habit -- sabotaging my good eating habits because of a little stress at work. I mean, really, it's just plain silly.
X: X-rays or Ultrasounds -- Each have their own usefulness depending on what I'm looking for. I order them routinely, but probably x-rays more often. If I were in the room for every x-ray I ordered, I'd have thyroid cancer by now, I'm sure.
Y: Your favorite food -- chocolate anything
Z: Zodiac -- Sagittarius. I am most definietly a fire sign.

fridays feast

Feast One Hundred & Fifty Six

Appetizer
Describe your laundry routine. Do you have a certain day you do it all, or do you just wash whatever you need for the next day?
1. Put dirty clothes in hamper.
2. Daniel does the laundry.
3. Occasionally put away clean clothes.
4. Wear clothes.
5. Reapeat.
I'm so lucky that Daniel does the laundry. If I'm not super busy with work (80 hrs/wk doesn't leave a lot of time for housework) or have the weekend off, I'll do the laundry, but he usually does it. I don't think he does it on any particular day; just whenever we need things. Because I sweat so much at the gym, he's started doing little loads of my gym clothes every day or every other day. It's nice to have a washer and dryer of our own!

Soup
In your opinion, what age will you be when you'll consider yourself to be truly old?
I'm not really sure. Old isn't so much defined by chronologic age, but more by your state of mind and overall health. I've seen 50 year olds who act like they're in their 70's and 70 year olds who climb Mt. Shasta and are healthier than I am. I hope to continue to exercise and stay healthy well into my 70's, but illness have a nasty way of sneaking up on you. I guess when I get a crystal ball, I'll be better able to answer this question. ;-)

Salad
What is one of your goals? Is it short-term, long-term, or both?
One of my goals is to be a successful parent. Seeing as how I don't currently have any kids and don't plan on getting pregnant soon, it would definitely be a long-term goal.

Main Course
Name something unbelievable you've seen or read lately.
I see all kinds of unbelievable things at the hospital. Like today, I saw a huge mass on this guy's chest. Can't believe he let it get that big!

Dessert
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, how happy are you today?
I'm really tired (4 hours of sleep last night) and I'm super busy today, but that doesn't mean I can't be happy! 9

middle name

I was tagged to do this meme by Jackie. Here's how it works:

1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
2. Players, you must submit one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don't have a middle name, use a middle name you would like to have.
3. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog post containing your own middle name game facts.
4. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each person of your middle name to tag. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they got tagged and to read your blog.

My middle name is SUZANNE

S Sunday or Saturday Daniel has a surprise adventure planned for us. He won't give any details though. :-P

U Usually I'm zonked out by 9:30, no later than 10PM. That's what happens when you have to be at work at 6:15AM.

Z Zombies play a prominent role in our lives. We have the Zombie Survival Guide. We discuss how zombie proof our apartment is. We go over things needed to survive the zombie apocalypse.

A All the medical students I've had so far this year have been very enthusiastic and excited to learn about surgery.

N Napa Rose is our favorite "special occasions" restaurants. It's at the Grand Californian at Disneyland!

N Need 8-10 hours of sleep a night to feel completely rested. That would mean that surgery is the wrong field for me. :-P

E Even though I have enough scrapbooking stuff, I would still like to get some of the newer ribbons (and maybe paper) that is offered by Stampin' Up!

I'm not going to pick seven people to fill this out. If you're bored and wanna do it, go for it. Just let me know so I can see!