Ultimate Coffee Date: November 2017

Hi everyone! What’s been going in your life? Pull up a chair and come catch up on life with me for the Ultimate Coffee Date!

Ultimate Coffee Date: November 2017

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…I got paid my first $10 from Achievemint about a month ago! (Find out more about it here!) Yes, progress is slow (I’m sure it’d be faster if I were a runner–there aren’t very many apps out there that track lifting, unfortunately), but getting randomly paid to just live my regular life is pretty cool too. If you use my link to sign up, we each get 250 points, so hooray for a jumpstart of sorts?

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…I apparently made unprecedented history by getting to cover one of the Rutgers football games as a resident! (They’ve never let a resident do this before. :O!) I covered the homecoming game against Purdue and we won!! :D

That weekend was actually probably the toughest one I’ve had in terms of sleep (or lack thereof). I was actually banned from the hospital for violating work hours (even though I was voluntarily doing so). I was trying to make sure I’d be there for one of my pregnant patients since she’s been following with me since we first found out she was pregnant. I’d promised that I would do everything in my power to be there for her and the aforementioned ban almost ruined that, but I managed to convince them to let me come back on the grounds of providing continuity care for my patient!

…Then I covered a 12 hour Friday night shift…and the football game on Saturday. When I finally got home that evening, I slept for 13 hours straight. I think Muffin thought I’d died so she was pretty ecstatic when I woke up and wouldn’t stop following me around. <3 I’ve since finished off all the delivery requirements for graduation! (Not that it matters, because I’m sure I’ll end up having to catch at least a couple more babies before I finish residency.)

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…I joined the Rutgers Ballroom Dancing Club about a month ago and it’s been a lot of fun! I took an introductory course about 7 years ago but hadn’t done anything else with it until recently, but it’s been a really great way to destress (along with salsa)!

I think it might be fun to eventually possibly try competing so I’ve been looking into ballroom dancing dresses and they’re so darn pretty (and expensive)! *-* My parents are currently chillin’ in the motherland though, so I’m hoping they’ll be able to find something for a significantly cheaper price over there! :P

^Those are two I found that I really like. *-*

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…I recently finally got a haircut (what what)! This is a big deal only because I haven’t cut my hair in almost 2 years, mainly due to lack of time. Ponytails were starting to hurt my head though so I figured enough was enough!

My hair feels so much lighter now! I kept wanting to flip my hair around like I was in a hair commercial, hahaha. I made an appointment for a couple hours after one of my night shifts ended so I actually nodded off at least 4 times during my haircut. (So so glad he didn’t accidentally cut a huge chunk of my hair off as a result of that!)

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…I’m actually back in Lewisburg right now! I learned how to take the front wheel off my mountain bike yesterday morning so I brought it with me and am hoping to check out some of the nearby trails if the weather decides to cooperate with me!

See past ultimate coffee dates here!

(Link-up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner!)

• Have you picked up any new hobbies recently?
• What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleeping?
• Do you change up your hairstyle often? How often do you get haircuts?