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Scott and I went out on Saturday morning for hot chocolate and waffles at Leonidas near Waterfront station. They are participating in the Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival, which runs until February 14th.

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Scott had “Raspberry Cheesecake” hot chocolate which was white chocolate with raspberry cheesecake ripple, and I had “Frozen Noisette” which was melted praline blended into frozen yogurt, topped with a shot of melted chocolate, and finished with crushed hazelnuts. AKA pure deliciousness.

I really liked mine. I always burn my mouth on hot drinks and have to wait ten hours for a drink to cool down before I can drink it, so I actually really really liked that this one was lukewarm. The perfect hot chocolate for me!! Lol. Plus it was also just really tasty. I love praline and hazelnuts and milk chocolate!! I would totally order it again.

Scott liked his, but maybe not as much as his pistachio hot chocolate he had last year.

We also had waffles, to complete our mega sugary breakfast. Scott had his with maple syrup and I had mine with chocolate sauce. It was interesting how different our waffles tasted, Scott’s was ultra sweet but mine tasted savoury! I’m assuming the waffles were the same…. so the chocolate sauce must have had some salt in it. I devoured mine.

We then buzzed and twitched our way home… mega sugar high. I <3 the Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival!!!

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I resolved to take a picture of my dinner every day in 2013 and post the pictures here on my blog every second Monday. Here is the second set! Again, let me know if you want any recipes or info about any of my meals.

january 13, 2013 – vegetarian chilli

january 14, 2013 – daal and homemade jalapeno cheddar bread

january 15, 2013 – mushroom moussaka

more dinner pics after the jump…

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  1. Listening to the 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 countdown!!
  2. About to eat a cheese empanada from the Peruvian restaurant near the hospital!
  3. Applying moisturizer to my hands every 2 minutes.
  4. Resting my tired legs from a busy week of running back and forth all day long with a lead apron on at work.
  5. Drinking a homemade pink lemonade bubble tea. :D

Life is nice at the moment.

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So.. I went to Whistler this weekend. Twice.

I was only planning on going skeletoning on Saturday, but it ended up being such a good session I HAD TO GO BACK for the Sunday session as well. There were people driving back and forth each day so I came home in between the sessions. BOO for spending like 6 hours in the car for approx 6.5 minutes of sliding. YAY for getting to slide from Junior start a bunch more times. And YAY for breaking 120 km/hr for the first time!

It’s kind of funny because I don’t actually care how fast I go this year. Last year I was all about going as fast as possible, but this year I just wanted to move up starting positions, which I already did. I don’t really want to go super fast, I just want to have clean runs with no bumps or smashes. But I have been consistently creaming all the guys in speeds. I was the only one who went broke 120 km/hr the whole weekend. :D :D :D

My next skeleton goal is to meet the land requirements for the BC team by next season. I will have to train over the summer because at the moment I am probably far from it.

In other news: Clinical is still going quite well. I have a lot of homework to do this weekend. My printer is a hunk of junk that likes to shred up papers inside of it. There are only 45 more days until we go to L.A., and 49 more days until ULTIMATE-SISTER-TIME-IN-FIJI!!!

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We’ve had below freezing weather for the past week. The other morning there was black ice everywhere. My bus skidded up to my stop, then later slid half way down a block on the hill towards work. The bus made a lot of weird noises, and then the driver had to reverse back up the hill so he could make the right turn. Terrifying! I was gripping on to the edges of my seat.

I’ve had a pretty good first week of work. My first impressions of the hospital are really good, I feel like I fit in and I like the way the department is run (so far). However I think this has a lot to do with working with a very nice tech all week. We’ll see what my opinion is after working with a scary/mean tech.

I already posted about this on Facebook but it still makes me laugh. So there is a nuc med test called a “gastric emptying test”. Basically we make some scrambled eggs in the microwave with some radioactivity mixed in with it. Then the patient eats it, and we take short pictures every 15-30 minutes for a couple hours so we can watch the passage of the food from the stomach through the intestines. We make a graph of how long it takes for the food to empty out of the stomach into the intestines and this gives the doctors some information about how that persons stomach motility is.

ANYWAY, I was reading through this nuclear medicine manual that I guess is pretty dated, because it suggested this for doing a gastric emptying test:

In vivo labeled chicken liver: 99mTc-sulfur colloid injected in wing vein of live chicken. Chicken killed, liver removed and cooked. Fed to patient as solid-phase marker.

There are a number of things about this that makes me chuckle.

  1. LIVE CHICKEN? At the hospital? PS I have actually had this confirmed that they really used to do this.
  2. INJECTING INTO WING VEIN? OMG injecting humans is hard enough!!
  3. LIVER REMOVED AND COOKED? Hahahahhahaha brb, making some radioactive chicken pâté!

from nourishnetwork.com

I am 50% glad I don’t have to do this and 50% sad that I don’t have to do this. Hahahaha.