SquidandWhale

I'm currently a women's health care nurse practitioner at a nonprofit, and I love it 85% of the time. 10% of the time I feel like hitting my head against the wall in frustration; 5% of the time I get my heart broken. I like helping people.

This past week in Virginia has been amazeballs--low 80's. It's currently 69º. teehee.

Never started, but I've watched friends and family struggle to quit. Personally, I never started because I loath the smell it leaves in my hair/skin.

I knew going to into college that my goal was to be a nurse practitioner, which would require a BSN and MSN. So yeah, I use my masters.

It doesn't gross me out as much as it makes me empathize for them. I just want to tell them that things can be different, but I understand it's not my place to tell them this. It's not my place to embarrass, degrade, or hurt them. It's only my place to encourage them if they decide to make a change.

I'm good at hammering 8 ft. stakes into the ground (providing it rained the night before).

You can't change without choice or challenge, ergo nothing is accomplished without change.

I had no idea I could friend myself. Yes, + 1! J/K, I'm a terrible friend.

Why in the world would you ever want to unsee that mythical manbeast? He's got the magic. FYI, I think it's harder to find a funny guy with a hot body.

Sometimes I fill my two liter camel back up and carry it around with me all day. I find I'm more likely to meet, or exceed, my water intake requirements if I do it in a way that amuses me.

Depends on my ovulation cycle. Beginning of the month: 5 feet Middle of the month: 1.5 feet End of the month: 50 feet.

My sister and I lived by a simple rule: always be in bed and asleep before 3 AM. If you held to this rule, and you stayed asleep, you'd be okay. This was my personal belief: be in bed before 3 AM and always have a cat sleeping on the bed with you. I don't know the origin of my belief, I just know it's a truth I held dearly…

Melt: Scottish, Irish, Welsh, south-eastern American, south-western American, Spanish. Wither in pain: Jersey, NY (NYC, Long Island, Satan Island, etc), Massachusetts, the side of New Hampshire that speaks like Massholes, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Tolerate: Cape Cod, Maine, old Vermont, the side of New Hampshire that speaks…

I can rollerblade, but find rollerskating difficult in that I can never manage to get where I want to go. I'm terrible at golf. I think playing baseball and softball has conditioned me to swing in a way that is counterintuitive for golf. It's probably just me. I love swimming but I'm extremely doping looking doing it, and…

I'd to join--I need a challenge.

"Sometimes i question your commitment to sparkle motion."

I loved Grease 2...

There's a dead little girl; there's a family out there grieving her, and there are two younger siblings who are going to spend the rest of their lives figuring out how to exist in the world without their sister. In the scope of all that grief and tragedy, I just can't fathom why people feel the need to play the blame game.…

I don't have a problem renting with others--I actually have a renter in my home who pretty much covers my mortgage--but to get it where you can afford it (and this largely depends on the cost of living in your area), you sometimes have to rent with a lot of people. Living with a lot of people, especially if they aren't…

Welfare was an option in college?!? I lived on campus the first year, and rented a townhouse in a sketchy part of the city with my boyfriend and five other people in the consecutive years. Due to the volume of people, and lack of gentrification of the area, it was within my means. I worked 30 hours a week at a coffee shop,…

I had friends over, thus forcing me to the grocery store and costco. Now it looks less bro-tastic:

ARGH, the last time I organized a tubing trip a friend asked if he could bring his girlfriend, which I said fine to. Well, she brought along a girlfriend of her's, and I was fine with that given that it was the first time she'd met any of us. Well, they showed up half an hour late to my house (we were carpooling together),…

I live in Virginia and I'm a nurse practitioner at a nonprofit.

Of course I can.

6 kids...jesus, how do you cope? Edit: I sincerely hope you have a dairy cow to supply all those children with milk, otherwise the cost--my god, the cost!

I hate that. When I lived in DC, there was a woman who'd bring her shepherd cross to the dog park and it would spend the entire time singling out a dog and just bark/nip/chase it even if the other dog wasn't into it. I was looking after my parent's poodle once when the dog started doing it to him, and I could tell by his…

Did you know that in the Congo they believe that cold water makes you ill, and it should therefore be served at room temperature? Learned about it from an expat friend living there--it just fascinated me, and further proved I couldn't hang in there indefinitely due to my love of ice cold water.

If I were a better woman, my fridge wouldn't look like this:

I think it's harder for people I see regularly to identify increments of weight loss, whereas when I run into people I haven't seen in a one - two years, they comment of how good I look/how much weight I've lost, etc.

I had to lose 40 pounds before I went down a size, and that really depends on the manufacture. I almost cried the other day when I tried a pair of Levis (in my current size) and they barely fit. Tired a size larger and they were still tight, meanwhile, clothes from other manufactures fit great in current size! Trying on…