9 hours of consecutive textbook reading is just wrong.  And unfortunately I'm not even half done. 

Wow. School is intense. On the agenda for next week: start clinicals at assisted living facility, read 24 chapters & complete outcomes, watch 1 video, read a few journal articles, 1 oral presentation of a journal article, SCCANS breakfast on Wednesday morning, learn how to take vital signs, find time to eat, sleep and breathe.

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Week 1 of nursing school complete.  I'm alive, and hopefully can stay this way the rest of the quarter.  TONS of group work (bleh).  But I guess it's about time I became socialized. 
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Scott & I are going to the Puyallup Fair today with 3 of our friends.  There are a few special things about the fair.  First of all it just reminds me of growing up in the country.  Going to the Tillamook County Fair every summer was a really big deal for my family.  Everyone would meet up there, friends, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.  ( Read more... )

I'm so happy because I get to bake something today.  It's been a long time and I miss it so much, but because of the whole eating healthier thing I've been good to not keep big batches of baked goods around the house.  But today is a special occasion, Ramona's birthday, and I have the privilege of baking her cake.  She requested a yellow cake ( Read more... )

Exactly 1 week before school starts and I've only read about 3 of the 20 assigned chapters, and need to get to the school library to watch the 5 videos on reserve.  Procrastination is not an option anymore, there's just too much to do.  Falling behind could be fatal.  After reviewing my syllabi it looks like I'll be reading a lot (10-15 chapters), ( Read more... )

Scott comes home from his 5 day family camping trip today. Yay!  This was my weekend to work, so I couldn't go, and that totally bummed me out.  But I made some money, and that's very important right now.  I'm buying my enormous stack of school books tomorrow... about 20 of them.  Medical books are not cheap.  Good news is I got my grant, and they' ( Read more... )

Choose 1:

a. time
b. money

When I have nothing to do, nothing gets done ( Read more... )

I can't believe I WANT to go back to work when I don't have to.  And even harder to believe is that I volunteered to work tomorrow morning at 7am.  Love my job, sometimes hate my work ethic.  Or hate my mom for being such a workaholic role model.  Anyways, back to the hospital tomorrow for a guest appearance on my home floor. *YAY* I stopped by the ( Read more... )