Michigan = THE SUCK

Alright, seriously. It's too f-ing cold. It's not even FAIR. Today I woke up and it was -6 degrees with a wind chill of -25, and I had to go stand outside and wait for the bus. My warmer gloves are in the trunk of my car (in Battle Creek) so my fingers were freezing, my iPod battery died, and the bus was late. Shit. I mean, shit. Can't it be 21 degrees or something?

I'm in that part of the early-semester when my discipline hasn't exactly kicked into gear yet. I had lots of time to get a head start this week, but instead I did a lot of procrastinating. OMG. Why do I do this?? WHY??? It's as if I need the looming doom of an upcoming exam to scare me back into my usual routine of studying constantly every single night and being okay with that. If that be the case, next Friday should do the trick with my first Therapeutics exam. I also have to present a SOAP note for a patient already next Thursday, so uh... I better get back into pharmacy-mode real quick here. o_O

Over winter break Mike and I actually started planning our wedding. We pretty much did nothing last semester because there wasn't a whole lot to do that early, but now that it's 2009 we'd really like to book a reception hall/ceremony site ASAP before some other couple takes the place we want for the date we want. But let me tell you something--weddings are freakin' expensive to the max. It's just nuts. And there are some crazy-weird fees I didn't even think about, like a cake-cutting fee. What the heck?? I have to pay several hundred bucks for a cake and then I have to pay someone to cut it for me?? Despite all the number crunching, it's been exciting to talk about the wedding with Mike, and move forward with things like our budget, the guestlist, and what kind of honeymoon we'd like. It's a little exhilarating to think that it's actually in the works. My wedding.