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Fall break was this past weekend and I will say: it was beyond overdue. The weekend prior, I briefly went home to visit my brother who was in from Seattle, but that wasn’t long enough of a break. This weekend was full of time well spent, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have a schedule. Friday night, my boyfriend and I visited my house to spend time with my mom. This was done the best possible way we know how: eating food on the couch while watching Grey’s Anatomy. Mom and I were five episodes behind on the last season… so obviously we binged all five of those episodes including the two-hour season finale. All this while my dad was blissfully socializing with some old friends at a retirement party. Saturday morning my boyfriend and I went to First Watch for a delicious pancake breakfast. I always enjoy going there when I’m around and it’s never gotten old in all 21 years that I’ve been going. Mom and Dad had taken us there since the siblings and I were just babies, but I remember be...

Tomorrow night I will be live tweeting to the newest episode of “Grey’s Anatomy'' airing at 9 p.m. EST. It is hard to believe that this show has 17 seasons! Can you name another TV drama that has lasted that long? Boy have we gone through a roller coaster of emotions with this one. We’ve seen characters die tragically, suddenly, somewhat horrifically, and in heartbreaking ways. We’ve seen actors and their characters come and go. And we’ve watched individuals grow as doctors and as people. Dr. Meredith Grey, the main character of the show, was a legacy doctor in her mother’s shadow. She threw up after treating a patient for the first time and got lost in the hospital! Now she’s an award winning Chief of general surgery, a mother, and a strong leader. This show was born only four years after me. It’s crazy that it is nearly the length of my lifetime! While I only started watching it seven years ago- that is when I was the apparent appropriate age to view the content according t...