4 shifts.
4 shifts left on the medical surgical floor.
4 shifts left on the medical surgical floor, and then I change my "About me" and employer and all that business.
Monday after next, I start a brand new job at a new place. It's closer to home. It's clinic hours. It's surgery. I'm excited. :)
I will miss the people I work with very dearly. They are my friends, work family, and a good support system. I am hoping to find the same kind of people at my new job. I will not miss the cranky old people and their crazy families who think our hospital is the Marriott hotel and the nurses and aides are waitresses and housekeepers and their family member is the only person we're assigned to care for that day. I'm tired of being given retarded tasks to make our cares look good on paper, but tanks our actual bedside care if we do all of it. Sorry, but I'm going to take care of my patient before I chart IVPB stop times (when it's documented how long the med runs) and I'm not staying 2 extra hours after my shift is over. It's not the 1800s and I have a life to get home to after work. Sorry. Nursing Executive Who Sits Behind A Desk All Day can kiss my rear end until she does our job for a week with all the BS she thinks we should be doing and then harp on patient satisfaction. Those people don't give a crap about patient satisfaction or safety. It's all about the dollar signs.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Whatever.
Outpatient surgery is my new gig. And I am SUPER PUMPED about it.
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In other news, I went to the eye doctor today. I hadn't been in a couple years, and needed to get a check up anyway. I also wanted to use my vision benefits from my current job before I lose it. I used my flex spending card while I still have it, too. Found out my eyes are healthy, and my glasses prescription hasn't changed much at all in the past 2 years! I was excited to hear it, because my prescription had changed a lot between the previous 2 appointments while I was in college. I got some new glasses, just to get them since I had it covered by insurance. I got some cute Vera Bradley frames. During the exam, they dilated my pupils, so driving home was interesting. My next vision goal is to get prescription sunglasses. Hopefully those can be covered under insurance with my new job :) That would be pretty awesome.
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"so it's over, this time I know it's gone"
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011
17 magazine
Yesterday was my sweet little sister Ruby's birthday. She turned seven! I can't believe that child is already seven years old. It makes me feel old. I went home yesterday for her birthday. We had cake and presents and lots of family.
I also got my hair done. My cousin does the best hair. She put the blond highlights back in, which I am thoroughly enjoying. :)
Today is, so far, the ideal rainy day (sort of). I'm on stand by from work, so I'm getting some cleaning done since I can't really do anything else. It's quiet and relaxing. The "sort of" part of that is that Corey is home sick today from work. He feels like it is a sinus infection. No fever, but he feels really crummy.
Now I'm just waiting on that phone call saying, "Get your butt to work!"
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"I say, if you're asking me, love is sacred, love is sweet"
I also got my hair done. My cousin does the best hair. She put the blond highlights back in, which I am thoroughly enjoying. :)
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| I look a little creepy, but you can at least see the highlights. |
Today is, so far, the ideal rainy day (sort of). I'm on stand by from work, so I'm getting some cleaning done since I can't really do anything else. It's quiet and relaxing. The "sort of" part of that is that Corey is home sick today from work. He feels like it is a sinus infection. No fever, but he feels really crummy.
Now I'm just waiting on that phone call saying, "Get your butt to work!"
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"I say, if you're asking me, love is sacred, love is sweet"
Friday, October 14, 2011
workin' for a livin'
Things lately have been borderline good and bad. I'll only list off and talk about the good things, though. I never meant this blog to be a place where I complain about life.
1. Well, Corey got a new car. New to him. It's a 2008 Mitsubishi Galant. Certainly an upgrade from his truck. He feels so great now having a reliable mode of transportation. I have to say I'm jealous of the reliable transportation bit. My car has been iffy for a long time, and I'm hoping it's my turn soon to get a new car.
2. I upgraded to iOS 5. It is totally awesome. I like the new notifications. I LOVE iCloud. My favorite feature of iCloud is syncing my calendar. That is such a beautiful thing. iMessage is really fun. Corey and I message each other across the apartment from my iPhone to his iPad. I just love everything about it. Now if I could only pair it with a new iPhone 4s with the awesome camera and Siri. Wouldn't I love having a personal assistant to talk to and control my iPhone that way? I'm way jealous of the folks getting that phone today.
3. Work is still good and bad. Good thing is, I'm starting to get to precept new nurses, so I make more money and have better days at work. Love that. Bad thing is, more nurses keep leaving, so we're more short-staffed. That sucks majorly. I'm scheduled to take the nurse preceptor class in January, though, so maybe I'll be assigned a regular orientee and keep that bigger hourly wage on a regular basis. That would be fabulous. And my clinical ladder bonus is coming up in January. That will be a down payment on a new car for me. I hope so, anyway.
I've had more and more days in between posting lately. I'm not sure why (too busy? unmotivated? boring life?), but I am going to attempt to be more consistent. I'll find some piece of new to discuss at least briefly.
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"some days won't end ever, some days pass on by"
1. Well, Corey got a new car. New to him. It's a 2008 Mitsubishi Galant. Certainly an upgrade from his truck. He feels so great now having a reliable mode of transportation. I have to say I'm jealous of the reliable transportation bit. My car has been iffy for a long time, and I'm hoping it's my turn soon to get a new car.
2. I upgraded to iOS 5. It is totally awesome. I like the new notifications. I LOVE iCloud. My favorite feature of iCloud is syncing my calendar. That is such a beautiful thing. iMessage is really fun. Corey and I message each other across the apartment from my iPhone to his iPad. I just love everything about it. Now if I could only pair it with a new iPhone 4s with the awesome camera and Siri. Wouldn't I love having a personal assistant to talk to and control my iPhone that way? I'm way jealous of the folks getting that phone today.
3. Work is still good and bad. Good thing is, I'm starting to get to precept new nurses, so I make more money and have better days at work. Love that. Bad thing is, more nurses keep leaving, so we're more short-staffed. That sucks majorly. I'm scheduled to take the nurse preceptor class in January, though, so maybe I'll be assigned a regular orientee and keep that bigger hourly wage on a regular basis. That would be fabulous. And my clinical ladder bonus is coming up in January. That will be a down payment on a new car for me. I hope so, anyway.
I've had more and more days in between posting lately. I'm not sure why (too busy? unmotivated? boring life?), but I am going to attempt to be more consistent. I'll find some piece of new to discuss at least briefly.
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"some days won't end ever, some days pass on by"
Friday, September 30, 2011
help!
I'm considering making a new blog within this one. Kind of like a serial newspaper article.
I'll have to figure out how to embed it within one of these pages.
I want it to be loosely based on my adventures at work. Because of privacy issues, all names will be changed, and certain details will be dramatized and changed to make it unlikely that one could figure out which patient I was talking about.
I guess it will be kind of like a soap opera. In blog form.
I'll have to figure out just how much I can muddle the facts to make it not a HIPAA violation to post the stories.
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"you know I need someone"
I'll have to figure out how to embed it within one of these pages.
I want it to be loosely based on my adventures at work. Because of privacy issues, all names will be changed, and certain details will be dramatized and changed to make it unlikely that one could figure out which patient I was talking about.
I guess it will be kind of like a soap opera. In blog form.
I'll have to figure out just how much I can muddle the facts to make it not a HIPAA violation to post the stories.
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"you know I need someone"
Thursday, September 29, 2011
all i ask of you
I have had a boring life the past couple of weeks. [although somehow this post became a novel, so I will break it up in the middle with a picture of Corey and Abigail]
Corey got a new gun. He traded his old pistol for a different one. He is very happy with it. I think we will go to the gun range and shoot it tomorrow, since we are both off of work :)
Work has been same old, same old. I am not necessarily complaining about that, because I would rather it be boring than be interesting because something bad happened to a patient. Boring days are good days for the patients.
I had an orientee with me this week. I have never had one before. I've just precepted students in the past. She was at the point where she was taking a portion of our patient group by herself, so all I really had to do was check up on her and answer questions and help her with tasks so she stayed caught up. She reminded me what it was like to be a new grad. She had all the knowledge, it just takes longer when you're brand new to bring it all out at the right times. She was doing great though. And she got a lot of skill experience this week, since she had a busy little group of patients. Lots of IV starts and even dropping an NG tube. She was great and smart and I hope I get to have her assigned with me again.
Some nurses do not like having students and orientees. I like it. It's like having a friend with you all day. It's good to have someone to talk to. And it brings out the nerdy "I would be a teacher in another life" me. I love teaching. When I was the membership educator of my college sorority, it was the time of my life. I love sharing knowledge about things I am passionate about. I like to see that other people who just "like" what they are learning become passionate and love it like I do. I feel that way about my sorority and I feel that way about nursing. I also like being able to teach new graduate nurses that they actually are smart, they do know what they are doing, and they will be amazing nurses.
Some nurses (namely the ones who don't like taking students) do not possess the compassion, patience, and encouraging manner required to effectively guide new nurses into the work force. That is unfortunate. The new grads we have at our hospital are bright, caring people who need to be nurtured, not put down. I recently saw one new graduate with a preceptor who made her feel like she was completely incompetent. It was uncalled for and that nurse got a different job, which I am grateful for, because the orientee got a better preceptor. She got a preceptor who I had a lot when I first started, so I know she's in excellent hands. There was a lot of damage control to be done there.
I feel like I had a really unintended soap box speech there. Sorry, blog. You know how I can get on a tangent.
A good thing that happened this week (on Monday) was getting my hands blessed again by Sister Anita at work. I am lucky to work at a Christian hospital that adds loving and serving people like Jesus to the already compassionate, serving nature of our job as nurses. It reminds me to see people through the eyes of Jesus and realize that even the most cantankerous patient is a child of God who is in a very vulnerable part of life and needs compassionate care like anyone else. I think working for God at work makes me a better nurse. I will always carry these ideals with me no matter what organization I am getting paid by.
This has become a terribly long post.
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"say you love me"
Corey got a new gun. He traded his old pistol for a different one. He is very happy with it. I think we will go to the gun range and shoot it tomorrow, since we are both off of work :)
Work has been same old, same old. I am not necessarily complaining about that, because I would rather it be boring than be interesting because something bad happened to a patient. Boring days are good days for the patients.
I had an orientee with me this week. I have never had one before. I've just precepted students in the past. She was at the point where she was taking a portion of our patient group by herself, so all I really had to do was check up on her and answer questions and help her with tasks so she stayed caught up. She reminded me what it was like to be a new grad. She had all the knowledge, it just takes longer when you're brand new to bring it all out at the right times. She was doing great though. And she got a lot of skill experience this week, since she had a busy little group of patients. Lots of IV starts and even dropping an NG tube. She was great and smart and I hope I get to have her assigned with me again.
Some nurses do not like having students and orientees. I like it. It's like having a friend with you all day. It's good to have someone to talk to. And it brings out the nerdy "I would be a teacher in another life" me. I love teaching. When I was the membership educator of my college sorority, it was the time of my life. I love sharing knowledge about things I am passionate about. I like to see that other people who just "like" what they are learning become passionate and love it like I do. I feel that way about my sorority and I feel that way about nursing. I also like being able to teach new graduate nurses that they actually are smart, they do know what they are doing, and they will be amazing nurses.
Some nurses (namely the ones who don't like taking students) do not possess the compassion, patience, and encouraging manner required to effectively guide new nurses into the work force. That is unfortunate. The new grads we have at our hospital are bright, caring people who need to be nurtured, not put down. I recently saw one new graduate with a preceptor who made her feel like she was completely incompetent. It was uncalled for and that nurse got a different job, which I am grateful for, because the orientee got a better preceptor. She got a preceptor who I had a lot when I first started, so I know she's in excellent hands. There was a lot of damage control to be done there.
I feel like I had a really unintended soap box speech there. Sorry, blog. You know how I can get on a tangent.
A good thing that happened this week (on Monday) was getting my hands blessed again by Sister Anita at work. I am lucky to work at a Christian hospital that adds loving and serving people like Jesus to the already compassionate, serving nature of our job as nurses. It reminds me to see people through the eyes of Jesus and realize that even the most cantankerous patient is a child of God who is in a very vulnerable part of life and needs compassionate care like anyone else. I think working for God at work makes me a better nurse. I will always carry these ideals with me no matter what organization I am getting paid by.
This has become a terribly long post.
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"say you love me"
Friday, September 23, 2011
resistance
Well, I never came up with anything good to talk about, but I figured I could ramble for a while like usual and that would make a passable blog post.
Last night I think my flu shot caught up with me and I had the "flu like symptoms" that can occur after getting the vaccine. I had a low grade fever, headache, and I puked. Yummy. Felt like crap and didn't get to sleep until 2, so I called in before I went to bed. Still felt crappy when I woke up, so I felt a little justified. I always feel guilty calling in, because I know they are always short nurses.
Despite still feeling a little weak-stomached, I am trying to make a good dinner tonight for Corey. He has had some crummy days at work, and today had to work from 8am-7pm. Yuck. I would not trade him jobs. Nope. No thank you.
I am making barbecue boneless pork ribs (thank you, Sam's Club; and thank you, Corey for getting us that membership <3) with macaroni and cheese and green beans (or "fine French beans" as the packaging says; I got apparently the industrial size bag of frozen green beans).
I am going to have to learn how to shop better at Sam's. I think I got way too much food, and it didn't help that I was hungry when I went. I feel like I got enough food to last the winter. I'll figure this out someday.
Dinner is done, so now I wait. I wish they let him out of work on time :(
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"take us away from here, protect us from further harm"
Last night I think my flu shot caught up with me and I had the "flu like symptoms" that can occur after getting the vaccine. I had a low grade fever, headache, and I puked. Yummy. Felt like crap and didn't get to sleep until 2, so I called in before I went to bed. Still felt crappy when I woke up, so I felt a little justified. I always feel guilty calling in, because I know they are always short nurses.
Despite still feeling a little weak-stomached, I am trying to make a good dinner tonight for Corey. He has had some crummy days at work, and today had to work from 8am-7pm. Yuck. I would not trade him jobs. Nope. No thank you.
I am making barbecue boneless pork ribs (thank you, Sam's Club; and thank you, Corey for getting us that membership <3) with macaroni and cheese and green beans (or "fine French beans" as the packaging says; I got apparently the industrial size bag of frozen green beans).
I am going to have to learn how to shop better at Sam's. I think I got way too much food, and it didn't help that I was hungry when I went. I feel like I got enough food to last the winter. I'll figure this out someday.
Dinner is done, so now I wait. I wish they let him out of work on time :(
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"take us away from here, protect us from further harm"
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
mrs. robinson
There are a couple parts to this post today.
I'll start with work last week. Holy shitake mushrooms Batman. Turns out the hospital doesn't care too much about outrageous nurse-patient ratios when it comes to hiring enough people to staff the floors. Thursday on telemetry each nurse had 8 patients. They are only supposed to have 5 each. Seriously?? We had 7 patients a piece that day with the charge taking a full group. This is getting absurd. Even more absurd is that on the next schedule everyone is going on maternity leave or going to new jobs entirely, so we are even more barebones staffed. And no one is being hired who can replace these positions. A slew of new grads were hired but they all just started orientation and will be on it for the next 2-3 months. Only a couple of experienced nurses were hired. Let's just say the people who are leaving the floor are certainly not regretting it at this point.
The next things for today are much more positive in nature. :)
The past few days I have been off of work and since Corey works 9 hours every day, I am home alone a lot. Which leaves me pretty bored most of the time. I am mostly unmotivated in keeping busy with household chores, so I have to find little projects and things to do to occupy myself.
Yesterday, I went to Ulta Beauty (which I had been planning on doing for a while) to look at nail polish. I had been itching to get some pink or purple glitter polish and maybe another muted pink color. I left with just that. I wanted a solid color polish that was infused with very fine shimmery glitter. I don't like the clear glitter polishes, because I think they look silly. I ended up getting OPI nail lacquer in "It's My Year" from the Miss Universe collection. It is the most perfect shade of royal purple that in the light shines with the finest gold glitter.
I love it especially since it doesn't take 1,000,000 coats to get it to look right. You can do it in one or maybe two to get it a little darker.
The other color, which I haven't worn yet, so I don't have a picture is OPI "Sparrow Me The Drama" from the Pirates of the Caribbean collection, I guess for the new movie. I picked it because it is a muted lighter pink.
So my nail polish adventure came to a close and now I've started another day of general boredom. I have been obsessive with my use of StumbleUpon! (see my Links page) and today I found Nutella Mug Cake. Which really just tastes like chocolate cake.
I think the Nutella just adds more chocolate flavor and some moisture to the cake. Since you make this in the microwave, it is pretty prone to drying out, which I can tell while I'm eating it. It is good, but make sure to put some chocolate sauce swirl or chocolate chips, too to make it more moist. Good for a quick microwave treat.
I have actually found a lot of really cool stuff stumbling, so I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to find new things on the internet and try them out!
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"heaven holds a place for those who pray"
I'll start with work last week. Holy shitake mushrooms Batman. Turns out the hospital doesn't care too much about outrageous nurse-patient ratios when it comes to hiring enough people to staff the floors. Thursday on telemetry each nurse had 8 patients. They are only supposed to have 5 each. Seriously?? We had 7 patients a piece that day with the charge taking a full group. This is getting absurd. Even more absurd is that on the next schedule everyone is going on maternity leave or going to new jobs entirely, so we are even more barebones staffed. And no one is being hired who can replace these positions. A slew of new grads were hired but they all just started orientation and will be on it for the next 2-3 months. Only a couple of experienced nurses were hired. Let's just say the people who are leaving the floor are certainly not regretting it at this point.
The next things for today are much more positive in nature. :)
The past few days I have been off of work and since Corey works 9 hours every day, I am home alone a lot. Which leaves me pretty bored most of the time. I am mostly unmotivated in keeping busy with household chores, so I have to find little projects and things to do to occupy myself.
Yesterday, I went to Ulta Beauty (which I had been planning on doing for a while) to look at nail polish. I had been itching to get some pink or purple glitter polish and maybe another muted pink color. I left with just that. I wanted a solid color polish that was infused with very fine shimmery glitter. I don't like the clear glitter polishes, because I think they look silly. I ended up getting OPI nail lacquer in "It's My Year" from the Miss Universe collection. It is the most perfect shade of royal purple that in the light shines with the finest gold glitter.
I love it especially since it doesn't take 1,000,000 coats to get it to look right. You can do it in one or maybe two to get it a little darker.
The other color, which I haven't worn yet, so I don't have a picture is OPI "Sparrow Me The Drama" from the Pirates of the Caribbean collection, I guess for the new movie. I picked it because it is a muted lighter pink.
So my nail polish adventure came to a close and now I've started another day of general boredom. I have been obsessive with my use of StumbleUpon! (see my Links page) and today I found Nutella Mug Cake. Which really just tastes like chocolate cake.
I think the Nutella just adds more chocolate flavor and some moisture to the cake. Since you make this in the microwave, it is pretty prone to drying out, which I can tell while I'm eating it. It is good, but make sure to put some chocolate sauce swirl or chocolate chips, too to make it more moist. Good for a quick microwave treat.
I have actually found a lot of really cool stuff stumbling, so I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to find new things on the internet and try them out!
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"heaven holds a place for those who pray"
Monday, August 22, 2011
viva la vida
I've just come off working the worst weekend ever. Like holy crap.
Saturday got to a grand start when we were 2 nurses short on the floor. Meaning the charge nurse, Tina, took a full group of 6 patients and the rest of us took 7 (normal max is 6). And it wasn't a quiet weekend. All the crazy shit that could happen happened and everyone's unnecessarily overbearing family was there, too. Just to add fuel to the flames. They ended up calling in an admit-discharge (unheard of on the weekend) who was a huge blessing. Because of her, everything that needed to be done got done and I got to go home with a sliver of my sanity. Which I lost on Sunday. I got a whole new group where everyone was confused and incontinent. One was even combative and had to be moved to where he could have one on one attention. I got one immediately back (of course another bedrest total care), but she was the sweetest of the bunch and I was glad to have her.
Although, my Sunday ended splendidly. I got a surprise friendly face around 6:40pm. Corey drove up after work to see me and take me out to dinner at Mimi's Cafe. I was so happy to see him there after the weekend I had! My day was suddenly brighter and my patients and their families slightly less horrifying.
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Today has been good so far. I've mostly just been relaxing, but I was productive in getting Abigail a bath. She hated it of course, but at least now she is clean and smells good.
This has clearly tired her out for the time being. After the torture of being de-shedded, bathed, brushed and made to relax outside on the porch to dry off, I guess she deserves a little nap. :)
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"be my vision, my sword and shield"
Saturday got to a grand start when we were 2 nurses short on the floor. Meaning the charge nurse, Tina, took a full group of 6 patients and the rest of us took 7 (normal max is 6). And it wasn't a quiet weekend. All the crazy shit that could happen happened and everyone's unnecessarily overbearing family was there, too. Just to add fuel to the flames. They ended up calling in an admit-discharge (unheard of on the weekend) who was a huge blessing. Because of her, everything that needed to be done got done and I got to go home with a sliver of my sanity. Which I lost on Sunday. I got a whole new group where everyone was confused and incontinent. One was even combative and had to be moved to where he could have one on one attention. I got one immediately back (of course another bedrest total care), but she was the sweetest of the bunch and I was glad to have her.
Although, my Sunday ended splendidly. I got a surprise friendly face around 6:40pm. Corey drove up after work to see me and take me out to dinner at Mimi's Cafe. I was so happy to see him there after the weekend I had! My day was suddenly brighter and my patients and their families slightly less horrifying.
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Today has been good so far. I've mostly just been relaxing, but I was productive in getting Abigail a bath. She hated it of course, but at least now she is clean and smells good.
This has clearly tired her out for the time being. After the torture of being de-shedded, bathed, brushed and made to relax outside on the porch to dry off, I guess she deserves a little nap. :)
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"be my vision, my sword and shield"
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
moves like jagger
I love retail therapy.
I got some toys today courtesy of Corey :) He got me a much needed new screen protector for my phone and some new shoes!! I have wanted the shoes for a while. They are for work: Reebok ZigTech. In fun lime green. The following is just a picture from the website. Mine are silver in the main body of the shoe with lime green on the Reebok logo and the zig zag sole.
I got some obscenely neon socks to match them. Fab, I know. :)
I also had to get a new phone case today. My old one was too soft and didn't fit my phone snugly. It sat on the edge of my screen protector pushing it up off the screen around the edges every time I gripped the phone or really did anything. Thank you Best Buy associate for selling me a crappy case telling me it was a great one. So far the new one fixes the issues I had with the old one. I elected to spend my money at the Verizon store for that.
The new screen protector that I got is a Zagg invisible shield. It's what I had before, but that crappy phone case ruined it. I'm going to have Corey professionally install it so I should have a much better result this time. :)
It was fun both of us having the same day off together! He's back to work tomorrow, but I get a couple more days. Thank goodness. I may need it for when I'm back at the hospital all weekend. I'm afraid my good day being floated to telemetry may owe me some crappy days on med-surg.
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"when you're with me, I'll make you believe"
I got some toys today courtesy of Corey :) He got me a much needed new screen protector for my phone and some new shoes!! I have wanted the shoes for a while. They are for work: Reebok ZigTech. In fun lime green. The following is just a picture from the website. Mine are silver in the main body of the shoe with lime green on the Reebok logo and the zig zag sole.
I got some obscenely neon socks to match them. Fab, I know. :)
I also had to get a new phone case today. My old one was too soft and didn't fit my phone snugly. It sat on the edge of my screen protector pushing it up off the screen around the edges every time I gripped the phone or really did anything. Thank you Best Buy associate for selling me a crappy case telling me it was a great one. So far the new one fixes the issues I had with the old one. I elected to spend my money at the Verizon store for that.
The new screen protector that I got is a Zagg invisible shield. It's what I had before, but that crappy phone case ruined it. I'm going to have Corey professionally install it so I should have a much better result this time. :)
It was fun both of us having the same day off together! He's back to work tomorrow, but I get a couple more days. Thank goodness. I may need it for when I'm back at the hospital all weekend. I'm afraid my good day being floated to telemetry may owe me some crappy days on med-surg.
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"when you're with me, I'll make you believe"
Monday, August 15, 2011
clocks
Today started out great.
I got that lovely 5am call from work putting me on stand by. I got a few extra hours of sleep and snuggles, and then got called back in at 9:15. The unfortunate thing about coming in late from being on stand by is that you get all the new admissions. Which on day shift can be catastrophic depending on the type of patients you get. Fortunately, the Force was with me and I got a great group of post-op patients that made the day not so bad. I hope to get that same group tomorrow. They are fab.
Yesterday, I went grocery shopping without being budget conscious. It was wonderful. I got a ton of delicious food like black grapes, Nutella, OJ, butternut squash soup, Chai tea, Triscuit crackers, and lots of other yummies. It was my most satisfying shopping trip in quite some time. I'm eating Triscuits with Nutella as I type this. I just had to talk about that. For no particular reason.
I had a little something to talk about, but I'm afraid it's not really appropriate for this outlet. I will only say this: Be careful of sharing financial responsibilities with anyone. Including a close friend. I am talking specifically about sharing a residence and payments for it. If you can afford it, I recommend living alone. And don't be charitable when someone can't hold up their end of the bargain. Never say, "oh it's okay this time," because people will only take advantage of you from then on.
Live and learn, I suppose.
I can't wait for Corey to come home. I think he had an exciting day, too.
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"cursed missed opportunities"
I got that lovely 5am call from work putting me on stand by. I got a few extra hours of sleep and snuggles, and then got called back in at 9:15. The unfortunate thing about coming in late from being on stand by is that you get all the new admissions. Which on day shift can be catastrophic depending on the type of patients you get. Fortunately, the Force was with me and I got a great group of post-op patients that made the day not so bad. I hope to get that same group tomorrow. They are fab.
Yesterday, I went grocery shopping without being budget conscious. It was wonderful. I got a ton of delicious food like black grapes, Nutella, OJ, butternut squash soup, Chai tea, Triscuit crackers, and lots of other yummies. It was my most satisfying shopping trip in quite some time. I'm eating Triscuits with Nutella as I type this. I just had to talk about that. For no particular reason.
I had a little something to talk about, but I'm afraid it's not really appropriate for this outlet. I will only say this: Be careful of sharing financial responsibilities with anyone. Including a close friend. I am talking specifically about sharing a residence and payments for it. If you can afford it, I recommend living alone. And don't be charitable when someone can't hold up their end of the bargain. Never say, "oh it's okay this time," because people will only take advantage of you from then on.
Live and learn, I suppose.
I can't wait for Corey to come home. I think he had an exciting day, too.
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"cursed missed opportunities"
Saturday, August 13, 2011
moving to mars
What a long few days at work. I'm hoping this is a good and relaxing weekend. I am back at work Monday and Tuesday, but then I have 3 more days off, so I can hopefully manage that.
This feels like it's going to be a post with several random topics in it.
The next one being Coldplay's announcement of their new album, "Mylo Xyloto." There are a few songs on it that are already available, and I have to say, I'm excited. Although, I am always excited to hear new music from them.
Next small random topic: My parents will be here today to move my sister into her new apartment for the school year! I think I am charged with entertaining Ruby for the day and maybe going swimming. Hard work, I know. Should be a very good day.
Moving right along... Corey is officially back from training for his job. He goes to work today, I think, as a regular employee not on orientation. Exciting! I think he is excited. I think this is a job he will really be good at and enjoy.
Last night to celebrate Corey being back, and for me to wind down after a tough week at work, we ate at the Olive Garden. It's my fake Italian guilty pleasure and I love it. Of course since I was in a post-work-must-enjoy-myself mood, I made sure we had an appetizer, wine, good entrees and dessert. Ran up the bill pretty good, but I thought it was worth it. I'm eating my left over tiramisu right now. Yum! Some breakfast, lol.
I'm sure I'll post something more coherent this weekend when I'm feeling more inspired, but I think that is it for this Saturday morning.
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"one day we'll be living in the stars"
This feels like it's going to be a post with several random topics in it.
The next one being Coldplay's announcement of their new album, "Mylo Xyloto." There are a few songs on it that are already available, and I have to say, I'm excited. Although, I am always excited to hear new music from them.
Next small random topic: My parents will be here today to move my sister into her new apartment for the school year! I think I am charged with entertaining Ruby for the day and maybe going swimming. Hard work, I know. Should be a very good day.
Moving right along... Corey is officially back from training for his job. He goes to work today, I think, as a regular employee not on orientation. Exciting! I think he is excited. I think this is a job he will really be good at and enjoy.
Last night to celebrate Corey being back, and for me to wind down after a tough week at work, we ate at the Olive Garden. It's my fake Italian guilty pleasure and I love it. Of course since I was in a post-work-must-enjoy-myself mood, I made sure we had an appetizer, wine, good entrees and dessert. Ran up the bill pretty good, but I thought it was worth it. I'm eating my left over tiramisu right now. Yum! Some breakfast, lol.
I'm sure I'll post something more coherent this weekend when I'm feeling more inspired, but I think that is it for this Saturday morning.
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"one day we'll be living in the stars"
Monday, May 23, 2011
born this way
^^For the one in my life who is fascinated by QR codes.
Lady Gaga's album came out today. I haven't bought it yet. But I want to. We'll see. [EDIT: Corey got it for me!!! Yayyy!!!!!]
So I was scheduled as admit/discharge nurse from 11-7 today, but called off for low census. Usually I would welcome getting called off, but I kind of wanted to go to work today. The days I wish I could stay home, there is a full floor, but the days I'd just as soon go, there are not enough patients for me to be there. Sad day.
"i'm beautiful in my way, because God makes no mistakes"
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