Big news, bros: I bought a new car!! Let me tell you how I arrived at this (rather hasty) decision. As you may or may not known, I've been driving my dear departed grandma's 1996 Chevy Lumina since 2006, when I moved in with her and basically took over driving duties. After she died, we transferred the car into my name. Seeing as my grandma ( Read more... )

Hello all! How's everything going? I can't believe my one-year employee evaluation is coming up. The time has gone by ridiculously fast. I had to do this huge packet of paperwork for the evaluation, like grading myself 1 to 5 on all these different criteria, and outlining career goals for the next year, and listing all my continuing education hours ( Read more... )

It's been another huge gap between entries! I guess whenever I get some free time I want to spend it either eating, sleeping, or going out, so the ol' lj has paid the price ( Read more... )

I had my first two solo day shifts this weekend. Saturday was fine, very calm, everything went well, and I was able to leave on time. Sunday, on the other hand, was a complete clusterfuck. My patient from Saturday who had been perfectly stable all day was starting to get worse and had to be started on sedation and blood pressure medication, and I ( Read more... )

I got a laptop! It's an HP Mini and it's ADORABLE. My priorities in terms of specs were (1) cuteness; (2) smallness; (3) everything else. Thus my brother picked out this one for me. I was checking my account balances on Saturday and I noticed that my massive $1,900 federal refund had been deposited, so we went to Best Buy. It was only like $320! ( Read more... )

Today I was feeling sort of depressed, so I do what I always do when I feel sort of depressed- spend money. I know it's not a terribly therapeutic pastime, but I kind of have more money than I know what to do with right now so I didn't feel too bad about it. I bought "Watchmen" at Borders because Rob picked it this month for book club, and even ( Read more... )

I'm going to steal Kristen's new year's meme because I'm too lazy to come up with anything on my own ( Read more... )

HI! I feel like I haven't posted in about a year. It's been so long that I don't even remember what I've told you or not told you since I last updated... Anyway, things are going swimmingly. I'm really liking my job. As I've said before, it's the first time I've had a job where I'm not constantly checking the time and thinking to myself "Ugh, I can ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's been so long since my last entry- work is really picking up, so I haven't had much free time. Also I still don't have cable or internet. One of these days, I swear... Anyway, everything is going well. Despite the fact that four out of my first five patients have died (not on my shift, thank God), I'm really enjoying work. The ( Read more... )

Hi! Wow, so much has happened since my last entry! I still don't have internet (or cable) at home, so I'm posting to you from my mom's house, but as soon as I get my first paycheck that will be addressed. My first two weeks at work have gone great. The first week was all orientation and computer training, which was not always the most interesting, ( Read more... )