The holiday season. It's supposed to be a time for gathering together with your friends and family, for sharing the things that make you happy. Giving thanks and looking forward to a bright new year.It's not Meredith's first winter on the island, not by a long shot. She's coming up on two years now and the snow's just a reminder of that, of ( Read more... )

Dated October 24, 2009:
The day after Cristina's arrival, Meredith brings back breakfast in bed and the two talk about the island, Meredith's life without her and what Cristina's supposed to do next.

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George had never really traveled before, outside of family vacations to Grand Canyon or Disneyland and forced camping trips (or, as George liked to think of them, a Beginner's Guide to Hell) with the O'Malley men. Any time he might have had to travel after college was lost in the haze of med school, and then he kissed any free time goodbye once he ( Read more... )

Meredith's not a big fan of her birthday, less so than usual today, although she honestly doesn't care much about turning thirty. A year's a year and the only thing this birthday means to her is another way of marking how long she's been away from Seattle, which would suck enough even if she were in a better mood ( Read more... )

Cristina is a person with plans. She makes plans, and she acts according to them. They're not always awfully detailed -- at first, they're often nothing more than an end goal, and the route to getting there is devised as she goes along. So it might be more accurate to say that Cristina is a person with goals. Very clear, very specific goals, which ( Read more... )