GLEE.

So many of us have fallen in love with Fox's new show Glee and I'm not gonna lie.... as a past choir/ acapella group girl and as a girl who just loves singing, music and musicals.... this show is sooo freaking good. It takes me back to high school and think about what I wanted to make out of high school, what my passions were/are, what kind of person I was in high school and what kind of person I am now. Honestly when the lead girl sings... I get CHILLS. I am sooo like drawn into her emotions and her voice... hahahahaha yeah, I LOVE IT!!

I'm also loving Private Practice, Grey's and House more and more because now that I am working... I pay wayyyy more attention to the medical sides of these shows because I realized that I can actually learn some stuff! Aside from the fact that these shows are totally unrealistic and do not show the different roles in health care accurately... you can totally test and use your knowledge during those 45 minutes.

Okkkkkk I gg. bye.

22!

So I wanted to blog about my birthday and it's quite overdue since it's pretty much been a week since the date but OH WELL! :) So I already shared about my eyelashes (which I'm still loooooooving) but the other major highlight of my birthday was MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!! You've probably seen it on facebook already or if not I've probably personally showed pictures to you because I am that obsessed with it. Well, what can I say.... it was the epitome of the perfect Andrea birthday cake :)

4 layers of heavenly, delicious, light colossal chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing. And look how accurately detailed the font is. LOVE IT! SO did not want to cut it.

It was basically something from my DREAMS. When it was delivered to my apartment, I literally stood there in shock and I swear I was unable to breathe for a couple seconds because I was SO AMAZED. Thank you MOMMY for ordering such an amazing amazing custom-made birthday cake for me!! I'm sad she wasn't there to share it with me... :( Well, I definitely ate her share of the cake for her HAHA. Anyways, the picture is my desktop and on my aim, msn, twitter, facebook, gchat.... HAHAHA I just can't get enough of it. Sighhhh. Teeheee.
All in all, my first Vancity birthday was pretty awesome. A lot of nurses were able to make it out to high tea and it was really fun seeing everyone dressed in normal clothes and not super tired. High tea was yummy but nothing extremely special. I do want to go back and try out this famous chocolate buffet though!! Thank you to all the girls who came out to celebrate with me. I hope we have many more fun times in Vancouver together!! The weather was perfect that weekend and it was perfect.

I LOVED my dinner with Ivy at Goldfish (one of my new favorite restaurants in Vancouver). Jack, Ivy's friend works in the kitchen at Goldfish so we got special treats and extra special treatment.... the finale birthday dessert platter was AMAZING (for a lack of a better word.... i need a thesaurus haha). Anyways, the fried banana in cinnamon sugar and coffee cheesecake was .... exquisite.
I felt so spoiled haha. And all my friends definitely made me feel really really really special. Thank you so much Terrie for sending me the Coach keychain..... haha I think I was close to tears you beezy, I was soooo surprised, it so made my day! I LOVE YOUUUU. I loved all my little gifts this year, everybody was so thoughtful! Thank you for all the texts, tweets, phone calls, fb messages, emails and cards! <3


Well, after that special princess day, life has resumed back to normal with work and studying! I just finished my set on Cardiology and it was a tough set. Cardiology and respiratory are my weaknesses... and they scare me. I don't know if asking for more shifts is more scary or beneficial to me haha. I'm bad at facing my fears... maybe being on the NRT will help me overcome this? Anyways everyday I'm starting to learn that nursing is so much more than a job... and being a nurse is so much more than a title.. it's like a lifestyle. Anyways... enough deep thoughts. Today I wanted to slack in yoga because it's that time of the month and I'm in PAIN but the instructor paid soooo much attention to me and kept pushing me so I was like GRRARRR. Good thing there was a treat in the fridge for me to reward myself with when I came home :) That is all.


Current countdown:
12 more days X____X

Birthday update #1.

Today is my official 22nd birthday! :D :D The day's not over so I'm not going to do my full and complete update YET but I'd like to blog about something spiffy. This year, I treated myself to a visit to an eyelash extension as my birthday gift to myself. I had been thinking about it for a bit after seeing advertisements in the Japanese magazines but when I saw my friend Bonnie with her new long and gorgeous lashes, my hesitation was blown away and I decided this would be something fun to do for myself instead of buying myself something! So I booked my appointment at Noir Lash Lounge in Yaletown - Vancouver's one and only lash-only bar salon and went in the day before my birthday to get them done. The place is suuuuuuuuuper cute, and set up in a very trendy with a vintage an relaxing atmosphere. The girl doing my lashes was pretty funny in beezy way and I loved it haha. When she asked me what I wanted, I basically told her that I have pretty long lashes already but I just wanted to make them thicker and look more full. So 1 hour and 15 minutes later, these were the results:









Pretty natural looking I would say, right?!! I was really happy with the results although I wasn't used to it at first.. I thought they were a little too un-natural but today (1 day post) - I think they are perfect! Nobody at work last night said anything about them so I'm happy because that means they look really NATURAL! I'm so happy I did this and I would advocate EVERY GIRL to try this! Regardless of whether you don't have many lashes or you have pretty full ones already, I like it and I think it's worth it
I was told that as a first-timer, mine would last up to three weeks. For regular lash-lovers, they can last 4-6 weeks! Hmm but I'm not sure I'm THAT high maintenance haha. And it cost $60 which is a regular and decent price for this service but I'm still deciding whether or not it's actually WORTH it. Definitely for important events - weddings, birthdays... but yeah not for everyday :P I'm not THAT princess.

Ok, heading out to my little bday dinner at Goldfish now :) More birthday updates later

xo

Fall.

Well, summer is officially over and all the little kiddies have returned to school and I think for the most of us that are now graduated and are not going back to school... it's so bittersweet. As much as I couldn't wait to get out of Mac and move on to bigger and better things, when I actually kind of miss going back to school. This time of last year, I would have been going to my classes, catching up with all my friends about their summers and trying to enjoy the last of the warm weather. But this year, it's like I'm at the bottom rung of a new ladder. Living in a new place, making new friends, adjusting to work life, adjusting to REAL life of bills... bills... and bills... this is bittersweet as well haha. I miss my friends, sigh.

Other than that, my weekend was really no weekend at all as I spent the whole weekend in a course but it was good learning so I'm really glad I took it. The clock is ticking so I really gotta get my shit together! Booooo... and Wednesday is validation day where we do like a mini-osce type thing. Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh kill me now.

Other than that, I don't have much to update on......

GOSSIP GIRL TONIGHT!

Current Song:
Whatcha Say- Jason Derulo

Update!

Wow, I haven't blogged in awhile. SORRY! I've been soooooo busy with work, adjusting to the new place, getting to know my roomates... life has been kind of crazy. Well, mostly work is just crazy. I just finished a set of 3 days and I just want to say that 3 12 hour shifts in a row SUCK. Especially when they are all weekdays. Especially especially weekdays after a LONG WEEKEND. It's like all hell breaks loose.... I have had the three busiest days of my life in the hospital. The good thing is that I learned A LOT. So many skills and just learning more about what nursing is really about. It was pretty overwhelming but I think the past three days have been good preparation for the future. Yay for NPWs and insertion of NG tubes!

Anyways... enough nursing stuff. I've been hanging out with one of my new roomates Ivy a lot! I think we stayed up until 230am talking the first couple nights I moved in. She's Taiwanese and basically an ESL student here to learn English but I think her English is really good for a fob hahaha. She's realllllllly cute because she's soooooo fobby but I love it obviously so we get along SUPER SUPER well. We have started to cook dinner together and now because of her, I am eating more nutritious and yummier foods. Yay! My other roomate, Tina is also super friendly and nice and super artsy/creative and fashion driven in a very unique way. She reminds me of my friend Melody.... because she sews EVERYTHING and makes tons of stuff. She literally has a closet stocked with fabrics, ribbon, sewing machine, threads....EVERYTHING! Anyways, they're really nice and I love the apartment. Sighs.

Well I'm super busy this weekend, got lots of stuff to prepare for and things to study for validation day :(

More updates later..... I'm too sleeeeeeepy.