On New Year's Eve...

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. --Brooks Atkinson

Hope you enjoy your night wherever you are!

12...

12/12/12...a lucky day.

It just might be. I bought some lotto tickets, since this kind of day won't come around for another 100 or so years.

Might as well enjoy it while it's here! A beautiful day here in RehabLand.

For all our veterans today

Thank you for your service and for all those who have paid the ultimate price...because freedom is not free.

Just maybe...

These guys can get us a clock with the correct time or that rascally quantum computer I was always hearing about as a kid on every sci-fi show out there.

Happy Nobel Prize season all!

Back to work....

Almost here, halfway done

The Paralympic Games will be held in London this year. There is inspiration at every turn. Even more exciting, Oscar Pistorius will run with South Africa in the London Olympics.

Looks like 2012 is going to continue to be a heck of a year!

A lifetime later

A killer confesses to a crime that changed childhood in much of urban and suburban America.

I cannot even imagine...

Happy New Year 2012

May your greatest worry be how to use your spare time,
and may your year be filled with cherished old friends and interesting new ones.

Need a resolution for 2012?

I looked at what my previous resolutions were (yes, I keep track right here on ye olde blog) and surprisingly, the Resolution Randomizer was still active and so I gave it a whirl.

Why make up resolutions you won't keep? I might get something that could stick. Here's what I got.

I, RehabRN, hereby resolve to...

Never try drinking coffee in the refrigerator. 
 (No chance, I left Mickey D's lifetimes ago...)

Try to avoid thinking in front of my boss.
(I already do this one...although I'm a horrendous poker face as Mitch, my training cohort, tells me)

Talk about sharing absurd stories in my car.
(Another tough one...what will I do on that car trip through New Mexico this year?)

Justify my love of eating breakfast with my family.
(Bubba loves breakfast, so this is a slam dunk!)

Abstain from managing my money in the office.
(I usually do this at home, anyway.  One I can actually do!)

Finally stop hiding staplers in the break room.
(Now EVERYONE knows...ugh!)

Stop kissing butt in the morning.
(Check. Even better reason to be surly to the Slug!)

Finally stop thinking in the bathroom.
(Not sure this will ever happen...remember me and Winston from that bathroom reading post?)

Consider singing Neil Diamond outside. 
(Great! Now Sweet Caroline keeps going through my head…)


I'm ready, Twenty twelve. Come on down!

And for all my people in the Hotel (and every other hospital) I pray that all your patients be wonderful today and sleep at the right times.

See you next year, friends.