Monday, March 29, 2010

Keeping me sane

So as most everyone knows I am on the last leg of my grad school. In November I graduate from Anesthesia school and take my boards and luckily I have a job lined up at Einstein for when I'm done. Anyway, as much as I like school and enjoy what I'm doing it is extremely time consuming and often stressful. I'm supposed to be putting in 20+ hours of studying in addition to my clinical hours and call. So unfortunately a lot of other things fall to the wayside. I try to balance my time between school and studying with everything else including: family, friends, working out, wedding stuff, house stuff, and a little time for myself. Recently I haven't been able to keep up with the house stuff and it has started to stress me out. I felt like everytime I turned around something else needed to be done and I'd have to choose between studying and cleaning. It started really wearing on me, I'd have to leave the house to study because if I stayed at home I'd just clean and not get any studying done.
Sunday I was on-call and I asked Quoc to help me out. He is usually so busy with work, working out, and all of his other extra curricular activities. When I called home from call Quoc said he didn't get to anything he was too busy. I was a little bummed but what can you do.
When I came home though I found out Quoc was a liar. The only time I was really happy that he lied. Haha. The whole house was not only cleaned, he tried to install the new doorknob (there was a problem with the fit), install the molding strips upstairs, put away our xmas stuff (finally), put together the deck chairs, cleaned the grill, cleaned the bathroom, installed the curtain pull backs, and much more. Oh and he burned the cd I wanted. It must have taken him the entire day to do everything. It felt like such a weight off my back (especially because his parents are coming in this weekend) I was able to focus on studying and getting my stuff done. I know it sounds a little silly but Quoc does know how to keep me level and help me out when I need a hand. He knows when I reach my breaking point and he goes above and beyond to make things better.

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