"The vervain keeps me out of her head, but maybe that's not my target."
My newest addiction? Vampire Diaries. I am in loveeeee with Ian Somerhalder! He is so gorgeous. I would like to thank my suitemate Ashleigh for getting me hooked!
Hot vampires aside, obviously I'm taking a break from the Grey's Anatomy. I just haven't had the time to write in awhile with school. I wrote three papers yesterday. Sure, I've had the assignment for forever, but I procrastinate and did all three in one day. School can be over any time now.
I spent the weekend with Alyssa. We went shopping in Cincinnati and saw the new movie, 'You Again'. HIlarious. The movie itself was almost as funny as when Alyssa fell down the stairs in the theater! The mall in Cincy was awesome. And I got a pair of jeans that are actually long enough! Yay!
Tonight, though, was soo much fun. We had a toga party down in the lobby of my building. I went with my suitemates and dang were there some amazing dancers there. Also, our togas were awesome :)
This week has been like the week from hell up until today. Didn't go to my first two classes and then turned my paper in for the third and got to leave! Then watched some SNL with my suitemates and went to the toga party! Tonight definitely made up for the stress of Monday and Tuesday.
Only two more days until the weekend! And I cannot wait! Going home for my little cousin's birthday. Well, that's all for now.
"In your case, dying really isn't the best revenge."
Season 2 Episode 12. It's Christmas-time! Meredith and George wake up to find Izzie decorating the house and seriously, it looks like the North Pole threw up in there. Izzie is obviously in love with the holidays; Meredith and George, not so much. But they go along with it because Izzie had recently caught Alex sleeping with Olivia while they were together. Ouch!
Addison wants to catalogue-shop with Derek that night after work, but he just isn't in a Christmas-mood.
Justin, a young boy who needs a heart transplant, gets the care of Burke (obviously) and Cristina. He doesn't want the new heart and he is definitely not into the holidays. Burke asks Cristina about Christmas and she tells him that she is Jewish. And boy is he shocked. The day consists of the two of them having a philosophical battle about faith.
Alex has failed his practical. Meaning, if he doesn't pass this time, he's out. So, Meredith decides to help him out. Cristina finds them in a hallway and then Meredith passes Alex off to her. Eventually George finds Alex trying to give Cristina an exam and freaks out. The cat's out of the bag again. George replaces Cristina and she goes off to do some doctoring.
Izzie is assigned to Dr. Shepherd's service and watches him operate on a man who fell off his ladder decorating the house for Christmas. He and his family are way into the holidays, but Derek just isn't feeling it. He spends the surgery bashing the holidays and Mr. Epstein wakes up a totally different person. Izzie suggests that, because Dr. Shepherd spent the entire surgery being a scrooge he infected the patient's attitude. She tells Dr. Shepherd that he's the one who says there's a lot about the brain that they don't know. They go into surgery again, this time with Christmas carols playing in the O.R. and Mr. Epstein wakes up smiling.
Meredith is with Bailey, called in to help on her surgeries. Then sent to get her a strawberry milkshake to fight the nausea that she felt from her pregnancy. Bailey is supposed to operate on a woman with ulcers all day, but they keep pushing the surgery back for emergencies. George is assigned to this patient and is annoyed by the volume of her family. No wonder she has ulcers. Until the woman starts vomiting blood and has become an emergency herself. They get the bleeding under control and in the waiting room when the woman's mother starts complaining to Dr. Bailey, George yells at them. They have less to say now and Bailey apologizes- basically saying, 'interns, what're you gonna do?'.
Cristina gets pissed when Justin's mother keeps trying to force Christmas and happiness onto him and takes the Christmas tree in the room down. She talks to Justin, who isn't adjusting well to his new heart, telling him that he should decide to live. And wouldn't you know it, he stabilizes.
When Izzie finds out that her friends have been helping Alex study she is definitely not happy. Meredith justifies the situation by calling him 'Dirty Uncle Sal'- the one you invite because he's family, even though no one likes him. The four of them (Cristina, George, Mer and Izzie are arguing about this in the hallway). She tells them that they are all she's got, so she's gonna help her 'family'. Instead of making fun of him, Izzie helps him. She starts crying because she obviously is still upset with him.
In the end, Derek confesses to Addison that Meredith wasn't just a fling.
Meredith comes home to find Izzie laying under the Christmas tree and joins her. As does George and then Doc. It's actually one of my favorite endings.
Music:
'The Christmas Song' -Nat King Cole
'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' -Lou Rawls
'This Christmastime' -Mascott
'Back Door Santa' -Jet
'Christmas After All' -Maria Taylor
'Here Comes Your Ride' -Holidays on Ice
'Latke Clan' -The LeeVees
'Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming' -Catie Curtis
'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear' -Sixpence None the Richer
Quotes:
MEREDITH: "Enough with the ego, you big baby! I gave up a surgery for this! Now. Like I said, it hurts here, and here, and back here. Oh, and this morning? I noticed my poop was a funny grayish color."
MEREDITH: "There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what fate hands you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, clothe you, and take care of you until you're ready to go out into the world. There you find your own tribe."
MIRANDA: "Do not kick me!" GEORGE: "Excuse me?" MIRANDA: "Are you kicking me under the table, O'Malley?" GEORGE: "No..." MIRANDA: "Than clearly I wasn't talking to you."
MEREDITH: "We know he cheated on you. That's why we let you turn the house into Santa's Freaking Village. We're not big on holidays. We're trying to be supportive, because you're having a hard time. But right now, Alex is having a harder time." IZZIE: "Why should anybody care what kind of time Alex is having!?"
MEREDITH: "Because he's Dirty Uncle Sal!....Dirty Uncle Sal. The one who embarrasses everyone at holidays and family reunions and who can't be left alone with the teenage girls, but you have to invite him anyway. Look... I have a mother who doesn't recognize me and as far as family goes, you guys are it. So I know you're pissed at Alex, but maybe... maybe you could try and help him anyway. Like, in the spirit of this holiday you keep shoving down everybody's throats."
CRISTINA: "I am a 55 year old man. I'm nauseous and I can't stop throwing up." ALEX: "Forget it, alright. I didn't ask for anybody's help." CRISTINA: "Look, evil spawn, you can nurse your pride -- the key word being nurse -- or you can pass your test and be a doctor. Up to you." ALEX: "Any abdominal pain?" CRISTINA: "Yes, from my giant fat belly all the way to my back. Oh, and I'm drunk. Hiccup. Hiccup."
PRESTON: "You aren't in the Christmas spirit." CRISTINA: "I'm Jewish." PRESTON: "Seriously?"
ALEX: "Why are you helping me after what I did?" IZZIE: "'Cause it's what Jesus would freaking do!"
Tomorrow is the day!! Season 7 is almost here!!!!!!!!
"Is Meredith the only one who doesn't know the size of this thing?"
Season 1 Episode 5. I missed an episode yesterday because the internet at school sucks, so this is 1 of 2 for today.
Adulthood. That is the theme of this episode. From the 'Meredith Grey monologue' at the beginning and end and all of the drama in between.
Meredith is having a problem with exhaustion between taking care of her mother and the stress and long hours of being an intern. While assisting Dr. Burke, she squeezes the patients heart and realizes that she 'popped' her glove (her fingernail poked through). The patient is fine so Meredith doesn't say anything.
George assists Bailey and Dr. Webber on Mrs. Drake's surgery. Mrs. Drake seems to like George, so he gets to prep her for surgery. During the surgery, which is supposedly because she's a smoker (even though she says she quit cold turkey years before) is not as easy as it seems when they find an old towel from her last surgery at Seattle Grace under Mrs. Drake's lung-the reason she was having difficulty breathing. Duh! Bailey sends Cristina to find out who the surgeon was for the initial surgery. Guess who?! Preston Burke. Cristina tells Bailey and Bailey tells Cristina to keep quiet about it.
Meredith and Burke's heart patient, Mrs. Patterson, crashes and Meredith confesses that she popped a glove and possibly nicked the heart in front of the patient's husband. Can you say lawsuit? It ends up that it wasn't Meredith's fault at all, but actually occurred because of the patient's recent major weight loss.
The hospital is abuzz with the party happening later that night at Meredith's. The party that Izzie is throwing for her boyfriend who is coming into town. It started out small, and then progressed to just about everyone in the hospital (minus Alex). Meredith seems to be the only person who is unaware of the party.
Alex is treating a man who says he feels like he has samurai swords stabbing him in the back. He knows the patient is an addict, but Shepherd forces him to treat him anyways.
Cristina and Burke start to get a little friendly in this episode. Coffee anyone?
Meredith goes to the nursing home so her mother can sign her power of attorney and all of her other personal things over to Meredith, but when she gets there Ellis isn't lucid enough to do it. Meredith, not happy at all, goes home to find her house crawling with hospital staff. She's pissed for about a minute and then decides to drink tequila from the bottle and dance on the table with Cristina and George.
Izzie, who has been on discharges all day, has one more patient to sign out. Except before she is able to do that, he (being Alex's pain med addict) falls and hits his head on the floor. Sub-dural hematoma.
Hank, Izzie's definitely good-looking boyfriend, shows up at Mer's a bit confused. He finds Meredith, Cristina and George playing strip-something and asks where Izzie is. Of course she's still at the hospital. Hank goes to find her and is not happy that she has invited so many people. He wanted to spend time with her. She wanted him to meet her friends, and he didn't have a problem meeting her friends when she was a model. When he still doesn't understand that the hospital is her life now, she breaks up with him and just goes back into the hospital.
Meredith, clearly drunk, is dancing outside her house.
The next day when Izzie comes home, Meredith and George are in the living room with empty alcohol bottles everywhere. Izzie takes a drink of one-not George or Meredith's! At work, Meredith is called into the chief's office with the people from legal. They say that even though the patient didn't crash from her mistake she is still a liability. Burke speaks up about the towel and gets Meredith off the hook. It took him five years to speak up; Meredith spoke up soon enough to save the woman. He said that there should be no fear of retribution for surgeons or interns in this kind of situation.
Music:
'Wake Up' -The Ditty Bops
'Tiger, My Friend' -Psapp
'Money Girl' -Dee
'Evil' -Interpol
'The Edge of the Ocean' -Ivy
'Sparkle Me' -The Buffseeds
Quotes:
GEORGE: "Do you even know who’s that was?" IZZIE: "I’m hoping it was yours." GEORGE: "Nope."
IZZIE: "Holy Mother of Destruction." MEREDITH: "You missed Doctor Palooza." IZZIE: "Apparently you didn't." MEREDITH: "I should probably never speak to you again."
DEREK: "You know, in some states, you could get arrested for that... So you blew me off for a bottle of tequila? Tequila's no good for you. It doesn't call, doesn't write, not nearly as much fun to wake up to." MEREDITH: "Take me for a ride, Derek."
HANK: "Is, uh, Izzie Stevens..." CRISTINA: "You must be Hank... he's very large and hockey-like. No, Izzie's not here right now." GEORGE: "You and Izzie will give birth to very tall blonde people. Kind of like Barbies." HANK: "Izzie said she was going to be at home, she didn't say there was gonna be a party." MEREDITH: "Which pisses both of us off. Would you like some tequila? It helps." HANK: "When do you think she’s gonna get here?" MEREDITH: "Don’t know. But we’re low on ice, Hank." HANK: "I’m serious." MEREDITH: "So am I. We’re interns, Hank. Hospital owns us. It’s what we do."
GEORGE: "Full house." CRISTINA: "Royal flush. Get naked, baby boy!"
MEREDITH: "We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?"
IZZIE: "Hank just needs to realize that doctors can have fun. We're not all workaholics with God complexes."
CRISTINA: "We ARE workaholics with God complexes."
MEREDITH: "It's my party and I'll get drunk if I want to."
BAILEY: "Something careless this way comes."
CRISTINA: "The bigger the party, the less time for bad sex with the hockey player. " IZZIE: "Would you stop saying that? " CRISTINA: "Ok " IZZIE: "Hank and I have great sex." CRISTINA: "Mm hmmm" IZZIE: "All the time." CRISTINA: "Mmm " IZZIE: "In fact, we'll probably have sex after the party, or during the party." GEORGE: "As long as you clear it with Meredith."
"I think I speak for every woman here when I say, dump her. Dump Yang and marry me."
Season 3 Episode 25. Season finale here!! Lots going on at Seattle Grace! It's wedding day. The announcement for chief is to be made. The last episode ends as the chief finds Adele laying on the bathroom floor, blood spreading all around her. He finds out that she is pregnant.
Cristina's bridesmaids-Meredith, Izzie and Callie- get paged in during her bachelorette party and Meredith tells Cristina, who didn't get paged, that she needs her to go down that aisle.
The fourth mountain climber (the one that the others said was dead) is brought in with an axe in his head.
The woman who may be giving her babies to Joe and Walter is admitted for surgery for an aortic dissection and Burke must go into surgery despite the fact that it is his wedding day.
George is assigned to Shepherd and Sloan to help with the fourth climber, Meredith is assigned to the chief's wife, Izzie is assigned to the aortic dissection with Burke. Alex spends his day, yet again, with Addison.
The chief stays with Adele all day, contrary to her belief, leaving only to make the announcement about chief. The baby is still alive but it's heartbeat is weak.
Callie and George decide to try and have a baby. After Callie goes on this weird little rant about wanting to have a baby.
Ava's husband comes to get her and Alex is definitely jealous, but he's Alex and he can't tell her how he feels.
Once Derek gets into surgery he realizes that the axe didn't go in by accident. When he confronts the others they lawyer up right away. One of them finally admits to what happened at the end- he had fallen and they thought he would die no matter what so he put the axe in his head to put him out of his misery. And he says that he would do it again.
Mamma Burke helps Cristina get ready for the wedding and shaves off her eyebrows. Cristina 'demands' that Bailey let her cut because she lost her eyebrows to become a Burke.
Burke practices his wedding vows for Addison and Izzie, among numerous other women in the OR, and they all seem to melt at his words. And lemme tell ya, I melt a little every time I hear them, too.
Izzie is still fighting her feelings for George and in the end confesses them to him right before the wedding.
The chief meets with the candidates for chief throughout the episode and one by one we find out who he chose. Not Sloan, not Addison, not Burke. Richard chooses Derek. Derek says Richard should keep the job, he has learned from his mistakes and should have a chance to do everything all over again.
Intern-exam scores come in as everyone is getting ready in the locker room. It seems that everyone has passed (even Meredith who had to take it a second time after not writing a single word the first)! Derek comes in and Izzie and Cristina rush off to the church. Derek tells Meredith that if she doesn't want to be in the relationship anymore she should break up with him, because he can't break up with her. He loves her, but she keeps leaving him and coming back when it pleases her. Meredith can't give him an answer because Cristina getting married is supposed to be a signal to her that she can do it too, so she just says that she has to get the the church.
Once everyone is there, Alex sits next to Addison. When he starts flirting with her, she snaps at him a little and tells him to stop flirting with her and go get Ava, the one he really loves. Alex leaves and we find all the girls getting ready to walk down the aisle at the back of the church.
Izzie asks about George, Callie still suspicious of her, because she cannot see him in the church. That's because he's still at the hospital. He didn't pass his exam. He goes to Bailey, who isn't chosen for chief resident (Callie is!). She tells George that he can either quit or start his intern year over. George never makes it to the wedding.
Adele is rushed into surgery and has a miscarriage. But the good thing that comes from this is that the chief and Adele get back together. Yay!
Cristina is ready to go down the aisle when she realizes that she scrubbed her vows off when she scrubbed in for surgery. She has a freakout as the processional music starts and Meredith has to talk her down. While she's doing this, Derek starts to go back and then Burke goes instead. Everyone watches him walk back down the aisle and he pauses before going through the door. When he does, Cristina tells him to go back up there and she'd be right behind him.
He tells her that if he really loved her, he wouldn't be making her go through all this. She says 'I really think I want this.' And he says, 'I really wish you knew.'
Music:
'Roboxula' -The Jealous Girlfriends 'Falling or Flying -Grace Potter 'Hold You in My Arms' -Ray LaMontagne 'Eulogy' -The Hereafter 'Explosions' -The Mary Onettes 'Keep Breathing' -Ingrid Michaelson
Quotes:
MEREDITH: "No matter what, you walking down that aisle today. I need you to go down that aisle." CRISTINA: "Is the toilet paper cutting off your circulation?" MEREDITH: "You marrying Burke, it´s a sign. Sign that people like you and me ... can do this. Be healthy, be happy. You marrying Burke restores my faith in... me." CRISTINA: "Ohhhh I get it. My wedding is about you." MEREDITH: "Yes."
ADDISON: "I need this job, Richard. I need it more than the others." RICHARD: "Addison..." ADDISON: "No, I need a reason to stay here. I need a reason to get up every morning. I need to get up and not care if it's raining or that I'm 39 and alone." RICHARD: "That's why. If you need a job to get a new life you even need a new job or a new life.
CHRISTINA: "I am wearing the dress. I'm ready. And, and maybe I didn't want to before. But I want to now. I really think I want this." PRESTON: "I really wish you didn’t think. I wish that you knew."
MARK: "I was an excellent best man." DEREK: [to Burke] "Worst case scenario, I sleep with your wife in 10 years."
IZZIE: "I am an optimist. I am a fool. I am not sure. Because I'm your best friend, because I love you, if what you want is to be with Callie then I will do everything in my power to support you and help you make your marriage work. But because I'm your best friend, because I love you, I also have to say... that I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you. I can't promise a future, I can't promise perfection, because we're us, I'm me and you're you. no one knows what will happen. But in my heart, I am sure. I'm in love with you George. And I hope you're in love with me too."
CRISTINA: "Did you pass?" MEREDITH: "You bet your married booty I did."
ADDISON: "You want Ava." ALEX: "She's not Ava anymore. She's Rebecca and I barely know her." ADDISON: "Look at me. Look at me! You suck. To me, you suck. I kind of hate you. But Alex, you do not get unlimited chances to have the things we want. And this I know. Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could change your life. No matter what her name is, she'll always be Ava to you."
CRISTINA: "Meredith, please say something, say something! I... I don't know. Say what I would say you if you were me." MEREDITH: "Okay." CRISTINA: "Good." MEREDITH: "Got it." CRISTINA: "Good. Go." MEREDITH: "Stop whining. This is your wedding day. You will got on that aisle. You will get married! If I have to kick your ass every step of the way to get you there. You will walk down the aisle and you will get married. Do you hear me Cristina? We need this. We need you to get your happy ending." CRISTINA: "Okay, I´m ready."
PRESTON: "I'm up there waiting for you to come down the aisle and... I know you don't want to come. If I loved you, I wouldn't be up there waiting for you. I would be letting you go."
CRISTINA: "He's gone." MEREDITH: "I... I don't think he's gone. Uh... his stuff is still here." CRISTINA: "No. No. His trumpet isn't here. His entire Eugene Foote collection, vinyls and CD's. His grandmother's picture was by the bed. His lucky scrub cap was hanging on the door. He's gone. I'm.. I'm free. Damn it. Damn it, damn it! Oh God, get this off me! Take this off, take this off! I can't... Help me, help me, help me!"
