Thanks

Things to Be Thankful For

Summer 2024

• Samu’s side eye - even under sedation
• Raina’s Disney PW to watch Percy Jackson
• Impromptu choc chip cookie making
• Park walk w Christine
• Boardwalk runs
• Boardwalk walks w Ma/Pa
• Stop Making Sense on big screen!
• Walking 15 mins home after seeing the Talking Heads
• Meeting Brother Tom @Chips soup kitchen
• “The white ones are the worst”
• Yume radiant at signing for her second book
• Karolina random run-in on Ocean Ave!
• City Hall brides photo shoot on a beautiful Friday 
• Col BK bridge, promenade walk
• Eating vietnamese food sitting on plastic stools in the street, an awning attached to our servers car hood providing shade
• Decorative plant on car engine
• Full on crying during Tuesday (the movie) 
• JLD and Director Q&A
• Ginger at C’s
• Aunt Carol
• B and the Belmar boys hanging
• Mets game w Eric/Edwina - winning in the 9th!
• Getting right on LIRR
• Stalking Busy Philips who happened to be walking past in Chelsea
• Wawa with Dorothy
• 408 naps
• Dropping half and half to Trish
• Alien baby and carousel rides
• Culture Espresso chocolate chip cookies
• Relationships encased in glass
• Lorene's JJ High School Superlative royalty post 
• phone free AMs
• BK Bridge view from the Q
• Not 1000 degree weather
• No post-work headache
• Dreaming about IKEA backpacks and not about work
• My Pa living his best life in Indiana
• My mom getting to be in a pool for 4 hours
• Col in London and France while I discover I have in my possession John's underpants
• Handsome podcast
• "Is this everything you dreamed?" I ask B as I normalize my vein valves before work to prep for pulling on my compression stockings
• Runs in the rain

Spring 2024

• BMT renewal done (scam)
• Yankee game w Betsy - delicious chicken sandwich
• John D meetup in Mad Square Park for Euros handoff
• Dena/Raina meetup @ Ladybird
• Dena asking if I still live w Trish and realizing I forgot to tell her I got married a couple years ago
• BK half cheering! Yay B, Danny, Karolina!
• My cowbell injury sustained during cheering has finally healed
• Cramming in Mulaney special w B in between work shifts
• Illinoise w B, Bri, Molly. "Oh, I guess they aren't going to talk."
• Miser play in Prospect park in rain w Nicole 
• Ruby/Hanna skatepark
• “I shouldn’t have brought it up”
• Stewarts w Highland Fitzs
• Pick up Ma/Pa Port Washington
• Not killing us all w my driving
• LIRR trains from Grand Central
• CSS/Slyfox w Tiffany
• Patients: BM, Z, SD

Summer 2022 - Nursing Year 5 

• Amy's Thai
• Future Islands at Brooklyn Steel
• Picking out wedding rings in approximately 8 minutes 
• Phoebe Bridgers at Prospect Park (outside paying customer zone) with Molly, Bri, and B and Dennis sandwiches
• The Breakers Brunch with the Fitzs and McCormicks
• Jamie call 
• Ocean City 
• Drive down with Pa
• Bikes!
• Run 5
• Beach House at Kings and 15 minute walk home
• Venue scouting w/ B on the hottest day of the year - Pig Beach, Royal Palms, Three's Brewing, Lucky 13, Covenhoven
• Marriage License pickup - Ghostbusters HQ
• Norma's w/ Mom after dress altering
• Brendan Bday - baguettes in Fort Green Park, Fleet Foxes at Forest Hills, meeting the guy from out neighborhood telling us his favorite sandwich place
• Wedding Stuff
• Breaking work printer to make invites
• Facetime with MEB and T on shoe advice
• Card printing project working
• Writing cards
• T and Gladys putting up with my breakdown
• Yume! up for driving us around
• Col tacos
• Trader Joe's and Juniors run with B and T
• Lunch with Mikey at DDub
• The Fitz Fam Windsor Terrace Airbnb working out
• T buying my entire family pizza even though she wanted to bounce for her solo DDub drink
• Danny spending hundreds of dollars on beer from the bodega because we didn't plan ahead
• Leanie doing my nails because my manicure already peeled off
• Lorene Facetime on earring choices
• Annie doing my hair
• Col making B&E handkerchief dreams come true at last minute
• Edwina! 
• Yume! Bringing snacks
• Kerrissa! bringing lavender while still wearing her retainers and only one contact
• Mr Hawkins! and Doc!
• Skyping with Ila on way to church
• Seeing Michele McCormick for the first time in my life and yelling to her our the window and her being so excited
• Annie touch ups pre ceremony
• Hanna, Ruby, Abbey pre-ceremony and Trish's pep talk
• Kerry singing and my mom losing it in the back of the church
• Walking with my Mama and Pa 
• Emmy and Dawn singing

Spring 2022 - Nursing Year 4 

• Night in with pizza, wine, music 
• Hanna and Ruby Birthday Party 
• A Man Named Ove
• Colbert! w B
• War on Drugs with Cassie and Danny
• Normal People
• Station 11
• Paul Mescal
• Fr. Larry
• Spiderman for Bri's Bday
• Otway breakfast
• Finally seeing Mary Ann after a day of waiting in the hospital
• Cafe Paulette dinner with my beau 
• Book of Mormon w B
• Frank and Peg getting the news
• Pho with the Nguyens
• 408 News
• Picking up Shannon from New Paltz - seeing the hippie kids dress the same
• Florida
• Diner w Mikey 
• Taking 5 naps in one day
• Sundae
• Dinner with Liem, Diem, Homar, Cleo, Arya
• Walk to Chick-Fil-A
• Run every day
• C Facetime
• Amy's Thai, Trish over
• Getting through Pre-cana
• Wapp vacay with T and B
• Surprise Party at Johnsons! 
• Hike Bull Run with T and B
• Dune
• Notary with Trish and C (and Kofi and Hafizah)
• Cyrano @ BAM
• Brunch w Taylor and Ben
• Denali and Burns (and Chris, Des, Amira) ice cream in park
• Easter at Fitz's
• Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Concert
• Vegas and Parks
• Zion rocks! 
• Brewery beer after hours in traffic
• Novelhouse Inn quaintness
• Angel's Landing friend
• Taking everyone else's pictures
• Pizza dinner
• The Narrows
• Buffet breakfast at Ruby's
• Bryce Super 8 and Fairyland
• idk barbecue
• B's first In & Out burger
• Red Rocks
• AFenn baby! 
• Showers and repacking bags on the front porch
• Being home
• Coop, BBG, and park days
• Lorene drop by
• Setting up Frank and Peg's roku
• Sleeping until noon
• Our Flag Means Death
• Trish at BBG
• Being done with group projects
• Getting confirm from Deacon Gerry
• Frankie's still being available
• Kerry/Emmy grad party
• Pasta salad
• Those Rolo chocolate chip cookies Eileen made
• Beach in May with B, T, and C
• Sleeping until 11am
• Running 4.5
• Learning to make stamps
• Early AM to T's to print
• Quality and chill night shift crew

Fall 2021 - Nursing Year 4/Time of COVID-19

• Shakespeare at Boscobel with the Fitz ladies
• Wet vac 37 Gold garage post hurricane
• Mike's Pizza and wine w B
• Hanging with B and Danny at Lloyd's
• Dropping off Annie's fridge in her dorm
• "Oh, you're parents."
• Andy Shauf at Warsaw
• Seeing Busy Philips at Warsaw
• Tomberlin call and repeat song
• Pierogies at Warsaw
• Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar
• Day with Aunts
• Nun Dinner w Casey and Robin
• B carrying the Yankee poster
• Run Po-town Rail Trail
• Dropping into Mrs. Lalor on run around the block
• New Canaan w B, lunch with Bri
• Trish Risbo and Fiona's
• Oniwa drop in to Fiona's! 
• Croton hike with Britteney
• Ma, Pa, Col to Bronx Botanic Garden
• Quiet Acres w/ Ma and Pa
• Mom running into someone she knows at Texas Roudhouse
• Ruby and Hanna over
• DC/Pittsburgh trip
• Mikey fixing the AC in the Family Car
• Running the DC Mall w B
• Hanging with B and Mikey outdoors in the Strip District
• That sandwich that we couldn't say we had
• MEB chili
• MEB and Jesse house! 
• Pirates game
• ice cream post
• Samir's 
• babka
• Car snacks
• Cheesecake Factory with Mikey and B
• Booster! 
• Surviving booster effects
• Quickest DMV trip ever
• Johnsons drop by
• Ed/Betsy drop by
• Train to Cold Spring for chili with Mom
• Getting early treatment for maskne, calling in sick to recover from maskne
• Domestic Partner! 10/28
• Olga meetup
• Martine and Jag Wedding! 
• Hanging with Drew
• Okhee!
• Halah!
• Kayla dance moves!
• Giving B the morning off
• Trick or Treating with Kofi, Lisa, Kesha
• Trish's Rerun costume
• Col, Frank, Peg to Central Park for bday
• Samu's Bday with C, Harvey, T, Cousin Maggie
• Concert in Asbury dive bar
• Portland trip
• Cool Airbnb
• Delicious breakfast sandwich
• Jay! 
• Waterfalls! 
• Goonies Day
• Getting Jay and Mindy drunk for wedding dinner
• Awkward donut line
• Lady hike overnight - where we didn't hike
• G's guitar playing
• Being together for the news :( 
• Pack C and Harvey apt 
• Sylvan Esso with B and Lee
• Thanksgiving breakfast at diner
• Samu shifts
• Celebration burgers at C and Harvey's
• Weathervane with B
• Southampton trip to see McCormick kiddos in new home
• Making Christmas cookies for neighbors
• Cutugno meetup
• Finally getting a positive COVID PCR after being sick for days
• Kerrissa meetup in park (not knowing I had COVID)
• Drop off presents/cookies at 408
• Special Christmas breakfast to C
• Yume's gift
• Christmas Chinese food dinner
• Dennis sandwiches
• Walk with B around park and decide to get married

Summer 2021 - Nursing Year 4/Time of COVID-19

• Dominique Ansel w Gina
• Rafe, Edwina and Crystal Lake
• Wine w/ Cassie and Danny
• Danny sleepover in BK
• Lisa and Kesha engaged! Pizza box sign, gathering, and a very tired Kofi. 
• Run on boardwalk before meeting Ma/Pa in Spring Lake
• Running into Ma/Pa on boardwalk and having to cut my run short, BUT got breakfast
• Visiting 408 fam and kids
• AC weekend at the Sprouse house! 
• B and Samu hangs
• Big sandwiches
• Big cookie
• Breakfast after Margie's Funeral
• Pa giving that random lady a ride home from New Hamburg
• OC
• Driving Pa to OC and hearing all about Irish pop, school days, and Uncle Johnny
• Uncle Bill's
• Manasquan ice cream w B
• Korean dinner w/ Ma, Pa, Tesa
• Columbian Solitaire
• Congo Golf with the girls
• Rockets on the beach
• Fishing with Pa, Tesa, Sean, Mike, Casey
• Tesa treating us to Randazzo's with her biggest fish catch winnings
• E& Bill and kids over and sparklers
• Everyone having to come downstairs for the tornado warning, taking over our beds, and then finally leaving so I could sleep
• Trish BDay beach
• Alice and Randy dinner at Chavela's
• Trish coming to save us socially
• Almost crying at Washington Commons
• Ray's 75th Birthday party and those tasty eats
• Thai Diner w B
• Mikey walk to Promenade
• Mikey and B dinner in Windsor Terrace
• Mike picking up those old women at the beer garden
• Molly hike! 
• Getting prophylactic antibiotics after finding 2 ticks on me
• Denali and Burns Dinner
• Goonies at Prospect Park! With burritos and sleeping bags! 
• Dim Sum w/ Yan
• Ramy at Bellhouse - first indoor event!
• Girls Day Out! LeVain, Highline, the Edge, Shake Shack, Van Gogh
• Meeting Rose Leslie on the street
• Friend of a Farmer with Kerry for her 21st! Best pot pie I have ever had. 
• Brendan's Bday - MoMa, Freeman's, nap
• Maine!
• Sleeping in the car after night shift
• Young's Lobster Pound
• Running every day on the rail trail
• Napping every day
• Cadillac Mountain
• Hoot Dinner and Rummy
• Therapeutic cry after the Manasquan McCormick's left
• The following donuts on road home - Only Doughnut, HiFi, Holy Donut (Belfast donuts were the best) 
• Surviving the 13-hour drive home during a hurricane watch
• Cyclones game w/ B

Spring 2021 - Nursing Year 3/Time of COVID-19

• Visit Raymond and Mary Ann
• Walk w Trish
• Vaccine #2!!!!
• Indian Food with Bridget
• Car inspection taking 10 minutes
• Kerrissa over with cookie mixes
• NJ tour, Wawa
• Beasties book
• Fitz kids rallying around Frank and Peg's COVID care
• Shields house being empty to stay in 
• Having a sleeping bag in trunk
• "Don't Open Door" sign
• family group texts
• Having PPE
• Driving Frank and Peg to Vassar - Martine answering my call about monoclonal antibodies
• Diem Facetime
• Meghan texts
• Mary Ann/Ellen calls
• Mom getting better! 
• Dr. facetime, getting nebulizer from doctor
• Mary Ann call
• Dad getting better! 
• Georgetown cupcakes
• kathi rolls
• Poldark
• Zoom with G and crew - Trish game
• Rachel call
• Jaws at a movie theater! w Stamford Fitz's, B and Mikey
• falafel
• Joe's baby! 
• Guy on street giving us beer after seeing Brendan shovel out a spot to park
• Having a thermometer for when B had night sweats, having an easy testing center down the street
• B getting better! 
• Amira Rose being born! 
• Denali/Burns texts
• Seeing Lalors at Mr. Lalor wake
• Being with Ma, Pa, Mikey, Bri, Col, John, Sean, Dawn, Minh, Chau, Mr. Simonetty at funeral
• Stewart's sundae post funeral
• Aunts et Uncle's
• Day with Frank and Peg - walk Toll Brothers, Marshall's, Adams, seeing Minh and Chau, Minh's salty meat lunch
• BBG w B, walk to Prospect Heights, coffee place
• Frank and Peg's on St. Patrick's Day - green bagels to Mrs. Biasotti, Mr. Simonetty, Mrs. Lalor, taxes done, Pa golf, Ma church, corned beef dinner to Sean's
• Trish vaccine! 
• Annie vaccine! 
• Col vaccine! 
• Shannie vaccine! 
• John and John vaccine! 
• McCormick's vaccine! 
• Cassie vaccine! 
• Trish dropping off coop cheese
• Running into Josh post-incident
• Story about Pop in Irish - trying to ask Frank and Peg to record their stories for us
• Mike Murray vaccine #1!!!!!!
• Angelina catch up call
• Book Blub vaccines! 
• Marco Polo updates
• Pa vaccine!
• Brendan vaccine! 
• Sean vaccine! 
• Run 4
• Foley in successfully! 
• daffodils in park! 
• Special dinner with B @ Honey Badger - "the char is onion", and then Guinness at Fiona's and pepperoni rolls and mozzarella sticks after
• Texting with Bri about special dinner and pepperoni rolls
• Sleepover at Trish's - seeing Zack, Mr. Hawkins, Orlando at 1010, special breakfast
• Popolopen Loop hike with Trish - there were ropes
• arepas
• Maman cookie
• TJ Maxx
• The Emperor of All Maladies
• Selisia texts
• Osinawat email
• Kerry vaccine!
• Dover and Kent trip w B and that cake
• Dover Church!
• Kent Falls, Macedonia hike
• Aunts et Uncles
• PC 10 year reunion zoom!
• Jay's Powerpoint
• Bridget hike Palisades
• Asbury night - Wawa sandwiches and Moneyball
• Run boardwalk
• Fitz Ladies book club over Zoom
• Mike vaccine!
• Maurice vaccine!
• Bluebird and Midwood Flats w B and Kerrissa 
• Bridget going away picnic w/ Latoya, Olga, and Nila
• Somali with Nicole
• Bri's w/ Mikey
• Boat cruise and highline w/ Gina whilst wearing a Holter monitor
• Governors Island Race w/ B
• B's love of Steve McQueen with Towering Inferno movie night

Fall 2020 - Nursing Year 3/Time of COVID-19

• Ma and Pa's Labor Day? 
• Danny and Cassie sleepover - bike to beach, run trail, 408, Wawa
• AM car move - T stop by, Mr Hawkins, Frenchy's
• Rusty Nail and Ox Tavern night out w B - home by 10pm
• C walk in park
• Sleepover Ma and Pa's - rail trail run/walk
• New Paltz Pho, Mohonk, Arrowhead Brewery
• Lunch at Mary Ann's w Mom, Ellen, Ray, Col - dance party w Ellen in kitchen
• Poconos - nachos! fall leaves, drinks at Shenanigans
• Kobra Kai
• Drive to Asbury - breakfast w Frank and Peg, drop by 408
• Nun dinner w B, Tesa and Annelle at Mexican place
• Early voting and free empanada
• Birthday week
• visit 408 w Georgetown cupcakes, duck duck goose
• Hanna and Ruby in teepee
• Sprouse lasagna! Mrs. Fields big cookie! run 4 miles AC boardwalk, Wawa
• Impromptu walk of Larry and Stuart
• Ithaca! Ginger and Simone over, shepherd's pie, gorge hike with Christine, Harvey, Samu, Tyler, Ginger, Simone, Trish and B, Biden win during park lunch, Buttermilk falls, Birthday party 
• Lunch at Papous served by Annie! 
• Mike Murray meetup in park
• Hour Children mock interviews
• Queen's Gambit
• Home to Wapp for Thanksgiving - Thai food lunch, drive home by 9
• Central Park run
• Hudson, Suarez trip w B
• Vaccine #1!!!!

Summer 2020 - Nursing Year 3/Time of COVID-19

• Masked visit to Bri's
• Col's for outdoor hot dogs and chicken frog
• Bowdoin Park with Frank and Peg
• Flatbush march w/ Kerrissa
• Mohan's new baby!
• Last curfew night
• Bronx vigil with Ed and Betsy and fam
• Wyatt Cenac
• Trish drop by
• Molly grammar school graduation video
• Trish sleepover
• First official COVID (-) test! 
• Volunteer at Campaign Against Hunger Food Pantry
• Black Trans demonstration at BK Museum! 
• Walk to C and Harvey's 
• Carvel sundae truck at Prospect Park
• Cousin Maggie dropby
• Juneteenth Run w B and Raina
• Fort Greene Park tacos/beer
• Throwing away my phone and walking all the way back to find it still there
• Soho adventure to Parisi
• Bri's for Mike's Bday
• Masked visit to Johnsons
• Col's for Father's Day
• Danny/Cassie BBQ and mojitos
• Beach! 
• E and Bill's White House sandwiches
• Ray's w Mary Ann and B
• Goob call
• Raina hang in park
• Mr. Simonetty check in
• Minh check in
• Impromptu drive to DC - Iwo Jima, The Accountant, monuments
• Crystal Lake with Rafe, Edwina, Eric, and B
• Beach with Trish and B
• Blueberry picking with Ma, Col, Annie
• Daily Planet lunch
• Lake Taconic
• Winds of Change podcast
• Kerrissa bringing over taco fixins
• Little Fires Everywhere - the book
• Casey dinner w B at Bareburger in Queens
• Sleep in car after night shift as Trish drives us to West Virginia - shooting ranges, BBQ dinner, overlook AM, Trish's amazing breakfast 
• Passing BMT certification
• Emailing with Jeffrey about BMT certification
• Pantry w MEB and Raina
• Not having scabies? 
• Catskills House with McCormicks!
• roll down hill with Hanna and Ruby
• swing w Ruby 
• climbing tree w Ruby
• Upword Brewery
• hill sits on a blanket
• dominoes
• Running highways
• Arnold house trail
• Ma and Pa Fitz stop by
• Amy's Thai Bistro
• Breakfast for dinner
• Letterkenny
• Beach w B - Caracas, Rockaway taco
• Cookie cake to Jacquie!
• Peg at Johnson pool
• Cookie cake to Edwina - 40! 

Spring 2020 - Nursing Year 2/Time of COVID-19

• Pa's bday at Col's - Columbian Solitaire
• Prospect Heights night out
• Early Valentine's lunch with aunts
• Jacquie R getting out
• Erv's
• Sleepover at Sprouse's
• Hannah/Ruby bday
• eating too much cake at Hannah and Ruby's bday
• Visiting Dorothy
• Night out in Brussels w PC Meghan 
• Fireplace and wine in Brugges
• Ila call
• Molly's Bball game and diner
• Ice skating/catch up w Karolina
• Dinner w Yan and GIna
• Superbowl at Harvey and C's
• My first Popeye's chicken sandwich
• Trader Joe's brookie
• Wine w B at Glou + Oscars
• Lunch w Dr. Hannigan in Newburgh
• EOB with Bri and B
• Bri sleepover and borrowing a shirt
• Pork dinner
• Brunch w C, T, and G
• Frank/Peg visit and Vanderbilt w Ma, Col, and John
• Jumping into Prospect 5k
• Fleabag
• Schitt's Creek
• Catherine O'Hara
• Asbury - childhood home vacation with boardwalk runs, breakfast buffets, HBO, pasta, babies! Dorothy, Wegmans
• Anthony's Nose w Bridget and Karolina
• Salmon dinner w Mush and Bridget
• Destroyer concert w B
• Renaissance fair w Nguyens and Mikey - swings and maze with Arya, big pickle, mango, Liem dancing
• Hanging in FL with Frank, Peg and Mikey
• 8 mile FL run
• Bowery Boys
• Making my first poached eggs
• Creating a reading nook
• Not dying when I fell off the stool hanging the shelf
• Prospect Park hike
• repotting plants
• Fitz sibling conf call to extract Frank and Peg from FL
• Getting cleared to work
• Wine and Lucius/Courtney Barnett quarantine IG concert w B
• Making banana bread
• Walk to Runner and Stone
• Croissant breakfast sandwich
• mueslix
• 3 days off in a row
• texts from A2Ds
• eating 1000 cookies at work
• making my patients laugh
• "I miss my family" and heart to hearts with patients
• Good cries
• B reading me Lonesome Dove to go to day sleep for my night shift 
• long walks to Wegmans 
• special breakfasts
• Boggle over skype w Mikey
• Challah French toast
• Easter Fitz Family skype
• Bridget COVID ICU updates
• COVID Kerrissa waves/calls from the street
• Poldark
• Band of Brothers
• Britteney catch up call
• Facetime with Danny and Cassie
• Facetime with Jamie and Patrick
• Special breakfast
• Egg coloring zoom with Stamford Fitz's
• JoJo Rabbit
• Lorene and Edwina zoom (until the ceiling started to flood)
• Facetime with Johnson twins
• Baby Ann and Kurian family zoom
• Moving car for first time in a month to drive to the beach
• You're the Worst finale
• Tiffany Facetime
• Running into Cornell! 
• Katie College Graduation
• Fitz Mothers Day zoom
• Martine Med School Graduation 
• Tiffany and Trish zoom
• First COVID test (5/23)
• Rise of Skywalker
• Macrame 
• Minh call
• Belmar visit to see Dorothy and Dan
• 42 Croyden last visit with aunts, Ray and Jeanne (and babka)
• Trader Joe's brookie
• Prospect Park, Grand Army protest

Fall 2019 - Nursing Year 2

• Drive in! 
• DQ sundaes
• Meggie's 40th
• Mitski with B, Edwina, Eric, Tiffany, Fredican and bar with all after 
• Angelina meetup
• Breakneck with Bridget
• Mets Game with B 
• Raina and Trish over
• Lorene meetup
• Lunch w Yan
• Drinks w Goob
• Surviving weekend at work - first visit to morgue and volcanic ostomy
• Mikey sleepover
• Mikey and Samir breakfast
• Wyndham hike, Kaaterskill waterfall
• Frankie wedding 
• Mike challenging 7 year olds on the dance floor
• My pa educating on mixed drinks
• Hanging with Minh and Chau
• Driving Khiem to pick up his car
• Gracie's diner with Mikey and B
• Olana
• Johnson stop by
• MEB/Nicole sleepover
• Walk LIC to Geenpoint w B
• Owl Parlor w B
• Breakfast w Aunts
• Erv's w Trish and Kerrissa
• Sam over for breakfast
• Walk 11 miles with Karolina
• A2D Gathering! Sam, bridget, Chaya dinner
• Random JHo and Kat visit and having challah to make french toast from A2D gathering night before! 
• Casey Film Festival
• Barcelona/Andorra
• churro w chocolate
• tapas
• protests
• Andorra dreams
• tapas croquettes
• Sean's Halloween Party - Footloose
• Loving show at Baby's All Right 
• Samu's Party
• Lorene meetup during NYC Marathon and Bill DiBlasio walking in 
• Hike Bull Hill run with Bridget and Karolina
• Trish and C over w B - Georgetown cupcakes
• Lunch w Tiffany
• Stamford Fitz dinner at Remo's
• Betsy meetup
• Kerry lunch in Hartford
• Mr. Simonetty driving me to get my car 
• Minh/Chau drop by - late to pick up b from train bc changing Chau's dressing
• Hike Breakneck w B
• Hike Thomas Cole, Blackhead, Black Dome with Catskill Club

Summer 2019 - Nursing Year 2

• Eileen's Communion
• Culinary with Dawn, Shannie, Kerry
• Vanderbilt with Shannie
• Paddleboat with Karolina in Prospect Park
• Chavela's w B
• Meet Gina, Yan at Cafe Luluc
• The National, Courtney Barnett at Prospect Park w B
• DC weekend - IFC for Mikey's Bday, Cheesecake Factory, Clean house w Sissy
• Rushing up to Metropark to drive home to see Mrs. Simonetty in the hospital
• Col helping me move
• 1010 neighbor goodbyes
• Jacquie traveling from Westchester to BK to wash my clothes as I slept on my kitchen floor in between 4 in a row shifts
• Being together with Simonetty's for funeral
• AM run w Annie on boardwalk
• OC bikes, beach, rockets
• Sleeping at Trish's as a refugee during exterminator
• Hartley's, Dora's w Trish and B
• Brendan's Basketball game
• Car wash! 
• Last Black Man in San Francisco in Asbury
• Quality Inn waffles
• Mt Wittenberg! 
• Phoenicia Diner
• Crying all through Dear Evan Hansen with Stamford Fitz's
• Caracas arepas! 
• Drugdealer show w B, Turkey's Nest before and after with Rafe
• Bridget and Mush Dinner
• Babysit for Christine and Harvey
• Trish and C birthday at beach
• Cupcakes for Crum concert at East River with Casey and Brendan
• Going to the Library after concert rained out
• Going to surprise Crumb show in Williamsburg later that night 
• Great Adventure with Katie, Kerry, Annie
• Finally going on King da Ka
• Risbo with Trish and B
• Visiting Jacquie at Nassau
• Boscobel with Fitz ladies
• Getting a puzzle couch
• City day with Annie, Shannon, Kerry - macarons
• Catskills, Mets win, failed hike

Spring 2019 - Nursing Year 1

• New Year's Day at Col's
• Darts w Casey at Murphy's Law
• Remo's w Stamford Fitz's
• Angelina goodbye at LePAin Quotidien
• Annie competition in AC
• Snow on beach, donuts, Wawa w Sprouses in AC
• Martha's Bakery in Ditmars
• Date with Edwina and Eric to MC Escher exhibit
• Betsy's Surprise 40th
• Niece/nephew college tour - Knead with John, Cru with Katie, and Tacobar with Kerry
  
• Jen's for haircut
• Ugly cry with Sissy
• Shannon lunch in Poughkeepsie
• Nun dinner
• Nicole Sleepover w MEB
• Nisha, Bart random meetup
• Frida Kahlo exhibit
• Molly bball game
• Brianna hike
• President's Day Aunts lunch
• Ice skate with Karolina
• Lunch w Carlos
• You're the Worst
• Drive Samir home from Other Half
• Elinor sleepover
• Renaissance Festival with Nguyens
• Walk w Ma and Pa in Fort Pierce
• Disney w Mikey
• Speed scrabble with Mikey and Mom
• Wawa
• Jay call
• How We Die
• Meet Brendan
• Goob meetup
• Martine meetup
• Vegas/UT/FL drive
• Not dying with a sinus infection on flight to Vegas
• Traditional Maggiano's dinner with AFenn and Blake
• Pick up Sam
• S'mores with Fenns
• Drive to Zion
• Narrows
• Watchman
• Angel's Landing
• Parry's Lodge
• Sand dune boarding
• Secret tunnel
• Hot tub
• Dinner with Hannah/Fabian in SLC
• Fly to Jackson for Frank and Peg pickup
• Outback on the road w Frank and Peg
• Lunch at Wawa
• Walk with Brendan in Asbury
• Jeffery catchup
• Tesa benefit dropby 
• Rob Lowe autobiography
• Cookies with Oniwa after Residency
• Brendan to BBG, Kimchi taco
• Kirkwood Party and Brendan dinner at Deux Amis
• London/Geneva/Prague
• Lunch with Alice!
• Montreaux w Rachel and Max + gas station sandwich
• chocolaterie
• Back to the Future 2 w Max and his first girl scout cookie
• Run Geneva - getting yelled at in French
• Meet Angelina in Prague
• gulasch
• Prague Castle
• Solo run to park, tram back to hostel
• Layover in Poland - airport pierogies
• Drive to Livingston Manor
• Diner w Brendan
• Nettie's Pasta
• Vietnamese w Sprouses
• Bridget drinks
• Celebrity IMDB game 
• Nursing school walk w Bridget, Karolina, Jen, and Kelly
• Santigold w Brendan and Lee
• Britteney over
• GOT w Brendan
• Raina at Insa
• DC weekend - Trish and Okhee brunch, Museums, make bookmark, Trish moving back to BK!
• Mountain Man in South Orange with Brendan

Fall 2018 - Nursing, Year 1

• Angelina sleepover and bearing with hanging with a slew of nurses
• Surviving the vortex
• Scheduled cry
• Sleeping 10 hours. And then taking a nap. 
• IHOP w/ Bri and Molly. And getting broccoli. 
• Chinese food with Ma, Pa, Mikey post their Ireland trip
• Walking the Galleria mall, enjoying hitting spots now as an old person that I would have frequented 20 years ago - Aunti Anne's, Hallmark, Hot Topic
• Family car! CDs. Car thinks. 
• Texts with Lorene over how dumb we were in high school
• Harry Potter Broadway $40 tickets 
• Birthday Dinner with Elinor and Col
• Scorpius Malfoy
• Elinor sleepover with cookie/brownie/tea
• Solo time
• Getting someone to cover my shift
• Making it through extended orientation
• Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society
• Community
• Karolina and Bridget driving/hiking/Kmart/TJ Maxx adventure in rain
• That rainbow over Croton Reservoir
• Crazy Rich Asians with Lorene
• Nicole walk, lunch at Berg'n, Photoville in DUMBO
• Introducing myself as Tesa's niece to photographer when I recognized some of the women in her pictures and her responding, "I never think of Sr. Tesa having a family."
• C surprise shower and quality time
• Ginger's pie
• Drive home, clean out car
• Rail Trail run with Marge
• Target and Waffle place in village of Wappingers with Marge
• Indonesian food with an Indonesian
• Meet Johnson twins! And Vietnamese takeout in the maternity ward
• Yan and Gina at Clinton St Baking Company 
• Insomnia with Bridget after work. Finding a parking spot. 
• Georgetown cupcake while sitting on a Soho stoop
• Run around Brothers and Gold
• Girls Day Out Mohonk style! 
• Being around for family friends and tough times
• My nurse pal being on the same hospital floor and checking in
• Catch up with Britteney
• ICU off ventilator followed by bone marrow aspirate
• Fishkill Ridge hike w Trish
• NYE w T and Cousin Maggie

Summer 2018 - Nursing, Year 1 

• Pick up family car from Johnsons, diner w/ Johnsons, reading all of the family book club book at the DMV
• Great Adventure with girls - 19 rides (unnatural for the body and inadvertantly crippled Kerry)
• Kurian's and Samir breakfast, Central Park rocks
• Cornell catchup, Karolina walk to TJ
• Jones Beach meetup w/ Col
• Heroes of Olympus
• City day with girls - IHOP, Strand, lunch w/ Casey
• Phyllis' bbq - too many desserts
• Drive to Johnson's for pancakes, TJ Maxx, Col's
• Car insurance photo inspection on the way to the airport
• Sam here! 
• Pop in on Musky's work, walk to library, Bar Toto
• Rob Haze meetup! 
• Finding the hubcap!
• Breakneck w/ Sam and Karolina in rain! 
• Not getting struck by lightening
• dry clothes
• That chowder, salad and tea in Cold Spring
• Yankee Game
• "helping" Ma and Pa close the pool
• Texts with Oniwa, Miranda
• Pittsburgh!
• Train to DC with YA fiction
• Hiding in the back of Trish's car under a blanket - Jay surprise! 
• Jay and I eating grapes as Trish advises on the democratic process on a conf call in the backseat
• Driving catchups
• Inadvertantly making Jay drive the whole way to Pittsburgh
• Car snacks
• Peanut butter roundels
• Fitting 15 pizzas in the car. Boogie boards out. 
• Pizza
• MEB and JWood
• Nicole home! 
• Loft sleepover
• Wedding AM yoga with MEB
• Breakfast made my ID5 
• Bridges and catchups
• Incline and making fun of Jay
• Marriage! 
• Screwup club
• Robyn's "Dancing On My Own"
• "No Parking This Side 4th Wednesday of the Month April Through October"
• Waiting in line catchups
• Hanging with Samir and Nicole at random breweries
• That ice cream sandwich
• Not running out of gas on the drive back to DC
• The Hate U Give
• Maya with Oniwa and Colleen
• Drive T to bus through J'ouvert setup
• Getting a spot in front of Bridget's building
• Therapeutic Central Park walk/sit, bubble tea talk/sit
• Johnson's pool 
• IHOP with Annie
• Getting laundry done

Spring 2018 - Post NCLEX / Job Decision

• AC with Annie, Sprouse house stopby, Wawa choc milk
• Running into old pals at knife skills class
• Palisades hike with Bridget and Karolina - scramble, swing, waterfall
• Meet BV training crew, Run in Johnson's gym
• Library books!
• Kerry play
• Easter - scavenger, Columbian solitaire, Angelina over
• Drive Tesa down in snow and living
• Roomie dinner w Nikki
• Professor MSK connections
• 3rd Last Day at NYL!, Wine w Bridget
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Tarot, YA on a bus
• Mikey remembering to pick me up
• Cherry Tree 10 Miler - finding JHo and running 4 miles together, Trish sign and her taking my jacket, meeting Trish again along route as I realized I gave her my number along with my jacket, finishing with my number! 
• Trish finding her phone (no thanks to the lady in the tent)
• Ohkee! and Trish for brunch where I talked way too much
• Kurian fam dinner - Tommy prayers and fight song
• Reuniting with 3H plants
• Lunch w Elle
• African American Museum
• Physical taking less than an hour, Edwina lunch meetup, Peter Pan donuts, Rafe surprise! 
• IHOP with Stamford Fitz's
• Molly Day Out: Escape Room ("use your favorite tool"), ice skating, 16 Handles, Plan B Burger
• Col picking me up from Bri's like I am a teen
• Laurie baby! 
• Sprouse kids! and sleepover, Tom dance skills, William's dinosaur dance, Wawa jaunt
• Teenage sitting: Percy show with Molly, Bri, and Shannon, Clue game AND movie with Shannon and Annie, first hamburgers on the grill!, King Kone! "I'm cooking dinner for my family. Ham steaks with a maple syrup reduction", Leo using me like a pirate plank

Winter 2018 - Post Nursing School: NCLEX Prep/ Interviews 

• Sprouse BK sleepover
• Working through the divorce
• Star Wars premiere with Casey
• Star Wars and Diner w old folks - Pa, Ma, T, and Mikey
• New Years Budos Band AKA band of guys who look like all our ex boyfriends. Sam surprise! Rafe surprise! 
• P BDay at Col's
• Remembering Jen Beauharnais (RIP) and feeling lucky I got to partake in a small part of her orbit
• Turkey's Nest reunion w Edwina and Rafe to reflect on Jen and our 20s 
• Surviving a freezing Hunter classroom for HESI review
• Snow day, roommie dinner (MEB and Natalie) at Barboncino, Sam surprise and walk to hang at Chaya's
• MEB and Angelina sleepover/meltdown
• MEB and Nicole tacos/sleepover
• Joining w old pals from parties and shows from our 20s to celebrate Jen
• Kaplan review hodge podge crew
• Ice Skating with Sam and Karolina
• Successful mock interview experience
• Banking coop shifts - Craig surprise!
• Acai bowls with Katie and Annie before Katie ships off to Ireland
• A2D Prom disaster
• Nursing School Graduation - A2D LOVE!, Chaya's fam hauling in the Kosher bagels, standing ovation, nun/rabbi meeting, old school crew with signs (Lorene, Edwina, Eric, Jacquie, Michelle, Christian, Trish), hanging with all the A2D fams
• 13th Step w Bridget, Sam, Seb, Carima and Courtney and skipping Kaplan, Meeting Bri with the Scholastic Crew
• Karolina and Sam walk from Prospect Park to High Line
• Dinner at Ginger and Tyler's
• Adopting Sam's plants
• No sweet streak = 12 days
• Angelina walk and breaking streak
• PC Dinner - MEB, Nicole, Angelina, ALV
• Ginger and Tyler at C and Harvey's
• Painting Sam's bedroom - "goodbye forever"
• Brunch w Susan 
• Johnson dinners
• Free ONS steak dinners
• Laurie 40th steak
• Mr Tchume pickup and death talk
• Mark Klimeks all over again 
• Raina over and walk through BBG
• Coop Meeting - Reggie
• Study w Leora 
• Mush over to study
• Wicked w Casey
• Dinner w MEB and Mikey
• Snafu for Gina's last day, Samir's
• Jumping into a Central Park 4 mile, therapy exchange w Angelina - coffee chop and soup dumplings
• Chalet Girl in lieu of superbowl
• BK Boulders with Nicole
• NYC Mental Health First Aid class
• Victor @ McDonald's 
• Joelle @ Starbucks
• Hustles: BK Brainery and NYL Admin
• MSK Career Day, Lunch with Bridget, Men in Nursing Panel with welcome snickering exchanged with Jeffrey and Cornell
• Nicole sendoff French toast breakfast w MEB
• Meeting Desmond! And hanging with Denali and her parents
• C and Harvey over for no dessert
• Washington Commons with Trish and MEB
• MEB packing and rational support
• Desmond Christening w Tiffany and Edwina
• IKEA self date
• Running into Jasmine
• Study at Cornell's
• Elinor Valentine's sleepover
• Ma and Col lugging junk to BK, brunch at Cheryl's 
• Dinner with Yan and Gina and hang with kids
• Working through cascade: Sam, Nicole, Trish, MEB
• Annual Pres Day date with aunts
• Jumping in Prospect Park 4 miler
• Molly's basketball game
• More ONS free steak
• Haircut from Jen - along with a huge pork dinner with all the works
• Library with Bridget
• Johnsons help with interview prep
• Bellevue panel interview and follow up notes
• Sinai experience with Jeffrey
• UWorld, nursing school pal text exchanges about NCLEX questions
• Package from Brianna!
• Package from Jay! 
• Chat w Laurie day before NCLEX
• NCLEX snacks prepped
• Pep texts from nursing school pals and fam
• Laughing with proctors over our inability to follow instructions at the testing center
• Mentally preparing for 200+ questions, almost breaking into tears when test shut down at 75 - being consumed with gratitude for feeling so much support
• Post NCLEX run home, cleaning apartment, Florida prep, car to Laguardia
• Successful surprise to Frank and Peg in FL!
• Beach, YA fiction, CDs, reading nook
• Jay catch ups

Fall 2017 - Nursing School: Semester 5 

• Nursing school lunch table 
• Deena doing planks during break
• Having support after weird admin interaction
• Outdoor movie in sleeping bag at Prospect Park with Natalie 
• CJohnny and Lorene 80s dance party at Union Hall
• Labor Day Columbian Solitaire
• Drive in - The Big Sick
• Baby Lily
• Breakneck solo
• Yoohoo on a Central Park rock with Sam
• Natalie Bday outing 
• Picking up Kerry for late night BK sleepover
• Heart to Heart with A2Ds
• Hanging with Ron and Sam post-clinical
• Sammy's obsession with MJ
• Random A2D wine outing post lecture
• Backyard with Lorene
• Baby Madeline turns 1! 
• Haircuts at Jen's
• Breakneck with Sam
• Utensil pots thanks to JWood
• Stumbling upon St  John the Divine
• Stumbling upon a new Levain location
• Annie bday milkshakes - "I know we don't know each other all that well, but are you going to eat that brownie?" 
• Tiffany bday - MEB, Natalie, Rafe, Fredican, Thom, Alodie - party like it's 2007
• ER with my fav nurses - 2 IVs! 
• Yoga w MEB - MEB being the best in her class
• Mikey chat
• Sick day sleeping, fluids
• This getting posted the day before I get to see Natasha for the first time since Indonesia! 
• Trish hotel sleepover and gif sharing
• Central Park/Morningside Park run
• Taylor and Ben Wedding weekend
• Making my flight
• Superstore, Brooklyn 99
• Napping on BART
• Reunion! 
• Catch ups in sleeping bags
• Run around Lake Merritt
• Run to Trader Joe's and no line! 
• MEB in another city
• Tacos with JDub, MEB
• Washing machine!
• Trader Joe's peanut butter things
• Eating them even when we weren't 100% sure we were in the right place
• Rehearsal dinner in a Sonoma vineyard + cupcakes + epic toasts
• Stamford ladies reunion
• Stars
• BED! Even with so many pillows.
• AM hike with Tay, MEB, and PC friends
• Breakfast shopping/making
• Alaska sweatshirt
• Nicole in another city!
• Jay navigating - "Oh, by right, I meant left."
• PC ladies having a steamer
• Tim/Rachel reunion
• Tambourine in pocket
• Drinks DURING wedding ceremony
• Oysters
• Tamponade, sliders, fig spread
• Charlie and Tatum dance stylings
• Peanut butter explosion
• Jay barefoot on dancefloor 
• Nicole  - " I love us"
• Ben drumming
• Cigars, bourbon, firepit, donuts
• a) something important b) something else c) see point a
• BED!
• Packing
• MEB - "I just realized this is the guest house of that house". 
• Good hugs goodbye
• There's probably still time to stop...
• Sad goodbye to MEBs and Nicole - even though we were all flying to the same city - on different flights. To different airports. And MEBs was coming to my apartment.  
• Crying at Guardians of the Galaxy 2 
• Soul quenched 
• Ms Olif Bday contact
• Sukkot dinner, feeling blessed
• Sam bday lecture, wine, skee ball with Bridget
• Home visits w/ Nila
• Homework on Samir's deck with dominoes talk in the background
• Mikey and the tiny cookies
• Britteney catch up, C and Harvey's with B and Trish
• Making the 5:27am train to Col's, road trip to RI with Col, Katie's rugby game, cliff walk, lunch 
• Carpool with Chaya, Williamsburg outing with nursing ladies
• Edwina hang
• Randomly running into Ellen at NYL and catching up
• Hanging on the stoop with Mr. Hawkins, Sha, John, Chuck
• Trader Joe PB cups and happy hour wine with Angelina and Britteney
• Teenage sitting! 
• TV shows: What's Happenin', Wonder Woman, Small Wonder
• Observing high school teens in a car ride, pizza and ice cream
• Running the rail trail with fall leaves
• Hike Turkey Mountain
• 3-hour naps
• Professor meetups
• Late night coop shifts
• SIM fiasco text exchange - microwaving pizza rolls
• Dinner at Johnsons - hookup for nurse interview
• A2D Photo 
• PC kids at PC Career Fair
• NYU free hot chocolate w ECornell
• Meetup with Jeffrey and Amy! 
• Getting a call to give blood and heading straight over. And getting a cupcake after. 
• Life changing home visits. Nila: what is the hair dryer for?
• MSK ID - what a pleasant experience
• Angelina and Sam retreat and discovering there is a secret MSK bar
• Heart to Heart clinic with Ellen, Cornell and Annie
• JMac Wedding w Meg, Chip, and Gina
• Fitz Halloween Party - Marty McFly and Doc Brown
• Rob Euell stopby at 37 Gold
• Nurse Leader Interview
• Defining Hope Premiere w Bridget and DeeDee
• Rob Euell and Lorene at weirdo 80s dance party
• Having the marathon # experience without actually having to run a marathon
• Therapeutic BDay Lady Hike
• Coming home to MEB bday decorations - in a flood
• 90s Dance Party with ragtag bunch
• Dressing as hot dog and battling hopefully the final hangover of my life to cheer my # and Helga in the NYC Marathon 
• Bellevue - Neysa, Jhoanna, Angelie, Stewart, Sid, Dave
• Dance Party with Tommy and Alex
• BDay dinner with Gina and Yan - running into Blossom
• MEB roommie
• Sigma Theta Tau induction awkwardness
• Text exchange with A2Ds during Kaplan demo
• Hoot with Pa, Ma, Tesa, Annelle
• Turkey Trot and Diner w Casey, Shannon, Mikey
• Mr Perks giving a look to my stolen John Jay track sweatshirt
• Stranger Things 2
• Leadership Guest Speakers
• Nursing school professor support
• Olga move
• First Saturday w Angelina
• Study w/ Sam and Bridget
• Study w/ Leora
• A2D final Finals and Outing - Deena dad, Jen husband champagne, tears over Seb, dance party, pub trivia

Summer 2017 - Nursing School: Semester 4 

• MEB roommie
• A2D Orientation somehow working out
• Lake St Dive w/ Johnsons and MEB
• Harvey Boat Launch
• JWood surprise! 
• H2H Clinic w/ Helga
• Birthday coordinating with Lisa 
• Out until 4am w Meb, JWood, T
• Sasheer Zamata
• Rob Haze
• Getting up-to-date with GOT
• Park sits and Karolina visit
• Meetup w/ Lurlene
• In traffic on Canal for hours with the best of travel companions - Nicole and MEB
• Spur of the moment stop off in Hamburg
• Embarrassing Brianna at her place of business
• Pittsburgh Sleepover
• Picking up Samir in his red suit
• Predicting the next bar songs 
• Discovering I do not like Stevia
• Afenn Wedding! 
• Catching up with DP and Elle
• Interrogating Kris
• Baby Thea! 
• Bed snuggles with Thea and Hannah
• Fenn family love
• Road trip home with Nicole complete with Amish sighting and Cracker Barrel biscuits 
• Being able to roadtrip up same day to visit my Pa in the ER
• Internship Orientation - "there you go"
• G, Tyler, and baby Samone sleepover
• Drive to OC with Pa
• Telestrations with fam - "strength push down"
• Columbian Solitairre! 
• MANY bikes! 
• Sprouse meetup
• Rachel Bridal Shower
• Nutrition Jeopardy success
• Past OC house tour
• Uncle Bill's
• Baby James
• Mr. Hawkins chats
• Dropping and killing Tyler's phone - and being able to get another within an hour
• Raina and baby Harley
• A2D Outing - Camille and me winning at beer pong
• MEB and JWood news!
• T 40th Bday in Tchume backyard
• Karaoke with Mr. Tchume and Harvey
• Not getting killed at the Trenton train station
• Trish bday day at the beach
• Shadily obtaining clinical schedules
• Older Adult STI Family Feud success!
• ALV in Buffy! 
• Hanging with Cousin Maggie
• Walks home from clinical with nursing gang
• Last day of psych clinical! 
• H2H with A2D ladies
• Shower/Bday with the Burns' 
• Meeting Chris
• Antusse spilling the beans on me being a godmother
• Impromptu Massapequa tour - Irish Grandma's, All American, St Rose
• Retirement Celebration
• A2D Summer Outing
• Summer Break - 12 days!
• Hanging with Casey, Chaya, Sam into wee hours at Sly Fox
• Random beach day with A2Ds
• Donuts with Bridget
• Library, reading a real book
• Choc milk and Hudson train rides
• Dinner with Peg and Frank
• Unplanned 15-mile hike with Johnsons
• Col Bday at Shadows
• Baby James and catching up with the Clarkes on the porch
• Minnewaska "hike" with the girls
• Eclipse at Lake Taconic
• Mommy Minh and Big Daddy Chau
• Goob and GOT talk
• Great Adventure with the girls
• Pizza pawty with PC loves
• BK tour with the aunts
• Hanging with Molly and Stamford Fitz's

Spring 2017 - Nursing School: Semester 3 

• Baby Kofi living with us for a week! 
• Random Office trivia night with Gina and Carlos
• Yan lunch
• Bri's birthday babysit with Molly
• Molly's basketball game
• A2D Internship Panel w/ Susan and Cristin = success! 
• Hanging with Ma and Pa and getting taxes done
• Picking up Eric and Edwina from Poughkeepsie and spending the day at my first karate tournament
• Eric taking home multiple trophies
• Repeatedly singing "You're the BEST! Around!" 
• New Paltz cupcakes
• Valentine's Day with T, Cousin Maggie, and Josie
• Happy hour with the Nursing school kids - then convincing Sam to come
• My first bilateral tubal ligation - and not passing out
• My first birth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing. Chaya and I are proud parents to baby Bella. 
• Alba, along with all mothers, becoming my hero(es)
• Walking from 72nd St to Brooklyn with Jen, Karolina and Sam
• East side playground toys
• Always packing snacks
• Manhattan Bridge
• The front desk guy, Brian, allowing me to use the bathroom of the Brooklyn Heights Marriott 
• Presidents Day hang with the LI aunts w/ sandwiches, tea, and British shows
• Hitching a ride with Tesa up to Wapp Falls to catch Kerry singing at Lourdes
• Dawn getting into a fight at the show
• My first circumcision
• Laughing until my gut hurts over the vomiting at PT story
• Then realizing that's the first time in awhile I've laughed like that
• Social skills practice seems to be working 
• Soup dumplings with Yan
• Random night at Turkey's Nest with Rafe, Samir, Sam and Jon
• Rangers! 
• "What's a B+? Asking for a friend."
• Hep A = oral/rectal
• Baby Lucy
• Running in the rain from Lorene's 
• Alone in Botanic Garden
• Walk to Queens after clinical with Karolina and Sam
• Dr. Seo
• Surprise flowers
• Croissants from the coop
• Getting a rare dispensation for missing a coop swap shift
• Heart to Heart clinics
• Hitching a ride with Tesa to the party
• Karaoke at Sean/Shannon's bday
• A2D outing
• Raymond and Deena
• Master of None season 2
• Dear White People
• Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit
• Gray days
• Nursing Prom
• Taylor Visit - BBG, Smorgasbord, BK Flea, Promenade, Barboncino, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• Big girl niece day out - 10below
• Bronx Botanic Garden w/ Mom and Col
• Mermaid Inn and Symphony Space with Bridget
• Levain
• Vietnamese Dinner w/ Cousin Maggie
• Lunch w/ Mama and Shannie
• Hike w/ Shannie at Bowdoin
• Solving a rubix cube
• Annie's party! 
• Lady hike

Winter 2017 - Nursing School: Semester 2

• Secret Science Club with Krystal
• Meetup with Samir
• Kerry and Shannon sleepover 
• The joy of stumbling upon a new shaved ice place with them and the kindness of the workers
• Shadowhunters
• Lunch with Molly, Sissy, and Bri
• Impromptu Hamilton tour with Shannon
• Pa's bday gathering 
• Rogue One in Cobble Hill w/ T
• Diego Luna
• A visit from my old rockstar roommie, Lauren
• Nursing school chum haircut discounts! 
• Trekking in snow to hang with German Eric and T. Nicole and Samir showing up!
• Chat with Steph in Alabama!
• Nurses giving their time to tell me what they do: Claire, Julie, Katia
• library sting operation
• Britteney sleepover on a work night
• C, T, and Harvey sleepover in Wapp Falls
• Ithaca road trip with C, T, and Harvey to see Ginger, Tyler and Petunia
• Pizza with Pa
• NYC Center for the Aging training
• A2D Graduation and brunch - they did it!
• Bridget coordinating HIPAA training 
• Bike to Manhattan with Nicole looking out for me
• March
• La La Land
• Jumping into run NYC half and veering off to pick up my bike I'd left the day before
• Randomly ending up at Helga's with Latoya and Bridget and celebrating Helga's bday with wine
• Graduation all you can eat sushi with Susan and Victor
• Pizza with Betsy, Ed and Ryan
• Ryan schooling me on dinosaurs
• A Tree Grows in BK tour with Col and Edwina
• Annual meetup with KC and Laurie in Princeton

Fall 2016 - Nursing School: Semester 1 

• "Is your bookbag ready?"
• "I scare chickens"
• clinical group
• Our class baby! 
• Feeling like amputations, vaginas, penises, ostomies, and pressure ulcers are already old hat
• "Find an A2D Who" game 
• "Talks" with my professors
• Medgar Evers library
• cookie dough
• people buying me meals
• Trish getting me that Entenmann's
• picking Katie up from college
• dim sum experience with Yan and the kids, and the kids completely doting on her
• Tuesday night Johnson dinners
• winter lady hikes
• Harvey building that bookcase for me
• Turkey Trot with the kids
• heartbreak
• good cries 
• Ghirardelli brownie mixes
• Class pics and someone other than me suggesting a funny face version
• thinking of old friends and being able to connect no matter how much time passes or life happens

Summer 2016 - Last work days (second time around)

• Afenn visit
• Wedding dress shopping, cupcakes, and skyping with PC crew (Afenn, ALV, Nicole, Jay)
• Morgan O'Flaherty, RIP
• Hanging with Gina and Morgan's friends all day post-wake
• Good-bye, my love
• Pioneer with ALV, Noel
• Katie graduation
• The Roots from a rooftop with the Johnsons
• Making T birthday video with C
• Brunch with the Kurians
• Baby Alex
• Dancing in street with 
• Hang with JAlf, Nicole and ALV! 
• Nicole computer portraits
• Splashwdown for Molly's bday
• Running in the rain to hear Rebirth of Slick performed live
• Jungstarr baby party on a roof
• Sprouse kids
• Going out to get a chocolate cake for the 3-hour meeting I thought I had - and then showing up to find the 3-hr meeting was a decoy for a surprise good-bye gathering. With cake. 
• 2 cakes
• Gift from my team - stethoscope! 
• Outing with Dana, Jason, Paul, and crew
• Casey at outing
• Being able to say the words: "Today is my second last day at NYL." 
• My boss on my last day: "Are you doing anything to celebrate?" Me: "Oh, I fly to Germany in a couple of hours." My boss: confused stare
• Getting taken to the airport
• Germany love: 
• Finding my way from Dusseldorf to Dortmund
• Cozy in the comfort of a language unknown to me
• Dortmund farmer's market and playground
• Walking around in a new world again
• Changing out of work clothes in a Starbucks bathroom into wedding attire
• Walking to a random German city hall in the rain
• Seeing my friend, Hannah, get married
• Watching her get carried through a giant heart
• Walks by windmills with Afenn
• Learning German from Fabian's family
• Texts home 
• Eric's baller Berlin apartment with my own room
• Grit and graffiti
• Wall remnants
• Women who dress like little girls
• The way everything sounds terrible in German "Ich liebe dich" 
• David Hasselhoff records
• Cupcakes at cafes
• Remembering old friends
• Berlin runs
• Beer gardens
• Getting surprised at the airport
• Edwina's bday at MOMA
• Kerry's singing in her play at Lourdes
• Governor's Island run and solo ferry rides
• Day out with Teguh! Brooklyn Bridge, cupcakes, carousel, dinner w PC kids
• Running Yankee stadium again with the Colkin clan
• Getting a laptop as a gift! 
• Kerry on Broadway
• Great Adventure with Katie, Kerry, Katie - Nitro 5 times
• Aunt Phyllis Blessinger, RIP, and connecting with family
• The LI aunts
• Cousin Maggie birthday movie and hookah