Hold on Baby!

I know, I keep posting about the new year...just bare with me.

When I see patients at work I try to build a relationship... well, in the jam packed 40 mintues of doing this and that I try my best. It seems that a large part of my patients have recently experienced the death of a loved one. I don't know a lot about people dying beacuse the only people that have died in my life have been old people and there were only 3 of those. If you count animals though, I have lived through about 5000 dogs and cats dying due to neighbours who shoot them, but we'll save that for another day. One of my patients* commented that after the new year a lot of terminally ill people pass away. They hold on for that one last Christmas... that one last turkey dinner. It makes perfect sense.

We had an institute party thing Wednesday evening at which I found out that everyone I know in a relationship broke up. All of these break ups happened after the new year. Coincidence? I think not. They all hold on for that one last Christams together... that gift basked from The Body Shop or t-shirt from the GAP. If I was dating someone but planning to end things, I would definitley hold on for the holidays. I just like gifts...what can I say, I like pretty things. My friend Jacquie says that if you make it past New Years you'll probablly break up before Valentines day. The cards are just too descriptive. Can you actually find a card for someone that says "I like you but don't want to spend all my time with you"? ... wait I need to patent that idea, don't steal it. So you either hang on for the holidays and split after new years or kill it off before V-day because the truth of the matter is your relationship really isn't the card that says "I love you with all of my heart... blah blah blah".

I guess the short and sweet of this entry is old people die after new years and so do relationships, OR they'll die before 14 Feb. I commend all of you, whatever your situation, for holding on to that last spark of hope...here's to one last Body Shop gift basket and one last trukey dinner.

*I tried to reserach this so I could hit you all with some cold, hard facts but found only this. I say if you die in January count yourself lucky cause at least you'll get one more of something.