Pumpkin Spice Latte is Back!!

That sentence is what tells most NYers that the season has changed. Yup. Pumpkin Spice Latte. Soon it will be the Gingerbread Latte (indicating we should start behaving our selves because Santa is checking his list). Time flies and soon we will start all over with the iced lattes again (summer - you get it).

Yes, time flies. Obviously I haven't been on this thing is quite sometime, but life was just whizzing along. Things happened. I moved in with the boy. I got a new job. I quite the new job and in 2 weeks I'll be starting a newer job. Details are pointless and I hate to play catch-up. So here we are in the season of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and knee-high boots. Oh and hats! Love those.

OK some catch-up I suppose would make sense. In May, the Boy and I officially moved in together. To a much bigger apartment than my suffocating studio. He even has his own room in which to keep his Playstation and other Boy things. It's no longer Manhattan, but it's a 10 minute train ride away and it's cute. He loves to cook (which is a step-up from Lean Cusine every night and Slim Fast bars every day) and it's been a surprisingly smooth transition. Even the dog seems happy. Oh - and he's the only straight boyfriend in NY that I know of who suggests we go to the Christmas Tree Shops to look for "apartment things". I love it.

My job - another longish story. I left the ER in search of bigger and better and became a nurse manager. I won't get into all the glitz and glamor of my role. Let's just say - I'll take a cracked chest, multiple trauma any day over sitting at a computer doing chart reviews. So I decided to quit. Some say bold, I say obvious. And in 2 weeks time, I will be working as a nurse again in the Neonatal ICU. Of course I will throw in a few OT ER shifts for fun because I love drunks and traumas.

In world news - The American Girl Doll Company has come out with a limited edition Homeless Girl Doll. Yes. Homeless. Her name is Gwen and she lives in a van with her mom. I kid you not - I read it in the news. They even went as far as to interview a homeless person who said she likes the representation.

WTF? My 17 year old cousin already doesn't want to go to college. Imagine if she had Homeless Gwen growing up. She'd be ditching her room for a used van down in Far Rockaway.

Anyway, I think that's enough catching up for today. I'm going to go drink my Pumpkin Spice Latte now.

Click Here for Gwen - the Homeless American Girl. Did I mention she cost 95 dollars??http://jezebel.com/5367098/the-newest-american-girl-doll-has-a-secret

What I Know I Learned from Reality TV

This is what I know:

1. my dog is a lazy bitch

2. ben and jerry's has the best ice cream

3. drunk homeless people usually say very funny things

4. girls are catty bitches

5. that no matter where you are in the country - "Raising Helen" is on somewhere

6. that smell your pee gets when you eat asparagus? it's a dominant trait - most people have it but not all

7. white tigers are NOT Siberian like everyone thinks - they are just Bengal and they have the recessive trait of being white with blue eyes.

8. that regardless of the color - all tigers have smushy faces that I want to kiss

9. wine cures anxiety

10. i can't drink on the job

11. shoes cure depression much like wine cures anxiety

12. EVERYONE in the world picks their nose. and if they say they don't they're liars. and if they cover their face with their non-dominant hand while "scratching" with the dominant hand - they're digging for gold

13. i like lists

Seriously random, but so was the day.  Life is chill these days and not much going on.