Wildfires and Cooler Weather

Everytime I turn on my TV to watch a show, the only thing that's on the tube is "SoCal Wildfire Updates." LA has been plagued with blazing flames and up to 70mph winds that are making it spread. Luckily, I haven't seen any effects of the fires and it hasn't impacted my life or my part of the city at all yet. The fires aren't close to me, so no worries! I'm hoping it hasn't impacted anybody at work, but I'm sure that it has. I go back to work tomorrow so I'm sure I'll be hearing about it. They've closed off parts of the freeways due to the heavy smoke and many people have had to evacuate their homes while the LAFD fight off the flames. Yesterday, Jason and I went up to Griffith Observatory at Sunset. The pictures that I've posted I took lastnight. You can see a little bit of the smoke from the fires in the right-upper part of the picture above (the smokier color mixed in with the sunset). California sunsets are the best!! They are so pretty and colorful.. and the backdrops couldn't get any better.

The weather has been cooling off and I'm actually curled up in a blanket right now. It's really cool in my apartment in the morning and late night, but it warms up to almost hot as the afternoon rolls around.

Amanda texted me lastnight and asked me if I had seen Natalie Portman around the hospital, supposedly she visits 3x a week to cuddle with the sick kids. I haven't seen her, but will be keeping my eyes peeled now. I hear celebs tend to frequent the hospital, but I have yet to see anyone famous at work yet. I do enjoy seeing the therapy dogs though, they are so cute and we get so many of them visiting our floor! The kids love the dogs and they get their pictures taken with them. I love them too (sometimes more than the kids do, haha).

3 of my best friends; Rachel, Nicole, and Lindsay (all SLU nursing students) are coming to visit me at the end of January, I'm sooo excited. I really miss them so I'm looking forward to their visit.

It's a little weird that all of my friends are so spread out everywhere now. Amanda is teaching her own 3rd grade class in Kansas City, MO. Molly is living in downtown Chicago venturing through her first year of Law School at DePaul. Rachel Holmgren is living with her boyfriend (Ned) in Chicago, working as a secretary in a medical clinic and doing her own online projects on the side. Rachel and Lindsay are working at St. Johns hospital in STL (Rachel in the PICU and Linds in Labor&Deliv). Nicole just got a new job at Children's Hospital St.Louis in the neurology unit. Mal is working towards her accounting degree in Evansville, IN. Then of course, I still have a lot of friends that are still at SLU enjoying the college life. (I can't wait to go back and visit SLU sometime this year and see some of my friends and DG's!).