Salsa adventures

I'm not going to say any names here, but the brand of salsa I bought at the store the other night almost ruined the uptown adventure at Kori's new place Saturday night. 

Nevermind. There's the name. 

I hate you Joe T Garcia.

What do you do with a new apartment in uptown with no furniture? You bring over some sleeping bags and go out to the bars. Anticipating our needs like a good sister, I went out and got some chips, salsa, goldfish, and wine to have on hand for the slumber party. So what's the problem?

I'll show you the problem.

TRY. HARDER.

This is starting to get ridiculous. There are 4 or 5 more videos after this, but let's get straight to the point.

Let them eat chips.

For the record, it wasn't even that good. You really dropped the ball on this one, Joe T. That's what I get for trying to buy local.

After all that we slept the slumber of manual laborers, and we rewarded ourselves in the morning with Breadwinners for breakfast and shopping at Northpark. Granted, that was the plan before the distressing salsa incident, but shopping dates are better when they're well-earned, obviously.

On a completely unrelated note, I hate to complain, but I'm going to.

1. I'm in New Braunfels for capstone. Random, right? The syllabus says unit placements are based on GPA, so I thought "well they must be sending me there to do pediatrics like I pref'd because there aren't any preceptors in Austin." Except today I discovered that I'm dumb, and the children's hospital that I thought was in NB is actually in San Antonio. So why am I being sent to random NB for capstone?!

2. I strained something in my leg in the back of my knee. This happened literally the day my foot started feeling better. Typical. 

3. Whine whine whine, complain complain complain.

4. Dell Children's is hiring zero new grads. The two spots I mentioned last time are going to internal hires. And with that, my dreams to stay in Austin after graduation have been shattered. (dramatic, isn't it?)

5. ...So I applied to Cook Children's today since none of the other children's hospitals I've applied to have even started scheduling interviews yet. They've already emailed me to say all their GN (graduate nurse) spots have been filled.

Not to mention that the PICU, according to Kori's manager, would be a no-go regardless. Siblings can't work in the same unit because we would steal narcotics (because, you know, co-workers and friends couldn't do that. Only blood relatives).

I'm glad it's spring break so all I have to do is sit here watching 900 re-runs of J&K+8 and look forward to Thursday when Andrew is coming to visit me in Austin. I'll be driving back tomorrow to clean the apartment and such before that happens. In the meantime I'm trying to warm up to the idea of living in Dallas if I get a job at Children's - Kori has been trying to win me over by pointing out fun facts like the close proximity of not one, but two Whole Foods stores near uptown, and the pizza place down the street apparently will deliver to you if you're at the wine bar a few doors down. 

But really, I just want a job. Whoever keeps saying "they always need nurses" was not referring to pediatric nurses. Or maybe they weren't referring to new grads. Or new grads that want to be pediatric nurses. Bummer. We'll see what happens.

Thursday Thursday Thursday! Get here.