Weekend Review: Ice Cream Cake, Horses, & A Standing Workstation

This week brought a good mix of call shifts (thankfully mostly uneventful), catching up with friends, and errand-running; I'm finally starting to feel on top of things, which is nice for a change. I'm halfway through my thoracic surgery rotation and am really enjoying it. And my mom arrives in a week for a little road trip to southern Alberta, which will be a nice way to end the year (in July I'll be starting PGY-3 -- time flies!). Here are a few things I've appreciated in the past week:

1. wellness day -- Best thing this week!
   
2. cake -- We had ice cream cake on Friday to celebrate our fifth-year resident's graduation. It featured a dolphin because she's going to Florida for her fellowship and I didn't know how to draw a manatee on the post-it note the DQ cashier handed me (n.b.: plan out the cake design before you get to DQ).
   
3. wanderlust -- Last weekend friends who'd just returned from Iceland showed us a slideshow that -- within the first three photos -- had me sold on planning a visit. Also, how had I never heard of Icelandic horses? They're delightful.

   

   like Li'l Sebastian; or Justin Bieber circa 2010 (source)

4. honey -- I'd actually never bought honey until this week -- I don't know why; it's the best.

   

   with coffee + hot chocolate   #postcall

5. standing desk -- Been taking advantage of my kitchen counter being the perfect height to work on...although I suppose I don't really need extra standing while on a surgical rotation; surgeons pretty much invented the standing workstation.