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i've never been more thankful for a friday before. this was my first week of term 3 placement working in MSK (musculoskeletal) and general medicine. while so far it has been interesting, it has also been pretty overwhelming with the crazy number of patients on my preceptor's caseload, the learning i have yet to do in order to function better in this environment, and everything else that comes with this placement being my first level 2 placement (read: more responsibilities and higher expectations. gulp.)

hopefully things will get better as my placement progresses, but until then i'm trying not to feel overwhelmed (although currently failing miserably). i guess it doesn't help that i have a million other things on my mind too - from placement, to wedding planning, to looking for a place to live, to everything else life has been throwing my way as of late, things have been crazy.

and i am exhausted.

airplanes

this song (airplanes - B.O.B. ft. eminem & hayley williams) really caught my attention when i heard it on the radio. not only is the music great, but the lyrics are good (and not all nasty and inappropriate), and i really like hayley williams' voice.

anyway, i found a couple of great covers of this song on youtube that i liked enough to share with you guys. enjoy!


i actually think this girl has an awesome voice and is pretty musical/creative. singing a rap song and somehow making it sound like it was supposed to be that way? i love! i also love the fact that her intro sounds just like backstreet boys' "i want it that way" (bahahaha, AJ). i just wish she didn't look right into the camera as much. it's creepy.


perhaps not as creative as the first cover i posted, but i thought this was a really solid cover overall. also, i'm not sure why this video is cut off, but i can't be bothered to fix it, haha. you can still hear the music though so whatever. :P

and the planning continues

wedding planning really does take over your life the closer it gets to the actual day. lately my weekends at home have been filled with all things wedding related. for example, this weekend we did the following:

- finished registering at our two stores
- gave out a couple more invites
- replied to some RSVPs that came in
- choose and confirmed our wedding cake
- visited waterloo to shoot some footage for our wedding video project

(thanks to nevin for coming out with us despite the awful pit-in-your-stomach feeling waterloo gives past students who once walked its sidewalks and sat in its classrooms. and also thanks to ray, our awesome videographer, for being so awesome and good behind his video camera! i'm looking forward to see how it all turns out!)

oh yah, last night i also updated some stuff on our wedding website and made final decisions re: our bridesmaids dresses which (in my opinion) are looking great!

so now things are slowly starting to come together and i'm getting really excited - exactly two months to go! :)
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for more details and updates, check out our wedding page.

cooking corner: beef soup

i made this for dinner a couple of weeks ago before the heat wave started. it was a chillier day which left me craving for some kind of soup. i had an idea of what kind of soup i wanted, but (as per usual) i didn't really have any clue as to what i was doing even when i was at the store searching for ingredients. i ended up deciding on stewing beef, potatoes, carrots, celery, and mushrooms. (i didn't buy any onions since i already had so many - i bought another bunch without realizing i already had more than a few hanging out at the back of the fridge. oops.)

anyway, when i got home i boiled a pot of water, threw in the stewing beef along with the vegetables once i had finished peeling and chopping them up, and hoped for the best.


^ vegetable remains. not sure why there's a mushroom in there.

hmm on second thought, it might have been better if i had thrown all my food into the pot before adding the water so i knew how much water i would need, but oh well. a few shakes of worchestershire sauce, some salt, and 1.5-2 hours of cooking time and this was my result:


^ my beef soup 1 hr into cooking time.

it actually tasted pretty good and my housemate described it as "delicious" (success!) so i'm glad that things worked out. phew. :)