Dude...
Jan. 28th, 2009 | 04:02 pm
location: Couch
mood:
energetic
music: Colbie Caillat
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It's Been Too Long
Jan. 27th, 2009 | 01:45 pm
location: Couch
mood:
excited
We did venture out for a little bit to the store after spending a hefty amount of time cracking out the car. The roads weren't too bad as long as you were driving slow. Since Jeremy and I both grew up in areas that saw some pretty hefty snowfall, this weather is kind of nostalgic. We talked about some of our memories of winters past. I remember shoveling out the driveway and being rewarded with hot cocoa when we were done. I also remember making forts out of the snow drifts that would pile up along the end of the lawn after the snow plows would come through. I think that was my favorite thing about the snow. Making underground tunnels in the snow was so much fun. Except when they collapsed, which they tended to do.
I really do like the snow. Ice and me are not really on speaking terms.
And now I've found out that I have no class on Wednesday and Jeremy has no work either. Let the snow days continue into a marathon!
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To Sum It Up
Jan. 3rd, 2009 | 10:57 am
location: Couch
mood:
content
music: The Fray-"You found me"
Had my first patient die on me this week. It wasn't a surprise. His blood pressure was 50/30 the entire night before I came in to work and he was maxed out on medication. When it finally did happen it happened fast. His heart rate went from 70 to 20 to 0 in a matter of minutes. My nurse and I cleaned up the body, removed the tubes and IVs and got him ready for the family to view. It was a large Hispanic family and there must have been at least three generations of them in that little hospital room.
I wasn't sure how seeing someone die would affect me. I've seen dead bodies before, but never watched someone die. I was surprisingly unaffected. I teared up and got sad watching the family mourn their loss, but other than that I just did what I had to do. Maybe its because I'm a Christian and I don't see death as the end, or maybe it's something else, but I found I could handle it without much trouble.
I liked Karen's idea of taking stock of the past year, so I ripped off her idea with a twist.
In 2008 I:
-Watched Jeremy graduate with his Master's degree
-Entered nursing school
-Celebrated five years of marriage
-Rediscovered the joy of reading for fun
-Moved into a new apartment (in the same apartment complex)
-Bought a new car
-Watched my Mom go in and out of the hospital
-Celebrated birthday number 1, 2, 6 and 5 of my nieces and nephews
-Got my RPSGT
In 2009 I am looking forward to:
-Graduating school
-Working as a nurse
-Getting pregnant
-Moving to a new apartment in a new complex
-Celebrating six years of marriage
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Have A Holly Jolly Christmas
Dec. 25th, 2008 | 12:31 pm
location: Da couch
mood:
excited
music: Wii Sports
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Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec. 11th, 2008 | 04:32 pm
location: Couch (Pooka's leaning on me :)
mood:
content
music: BNL & Sarah McLachlan-"God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"
I got some much needed cleaning done around the apartment today since I had no homework or studying to worry about. Today was the first time I've vacuumed since we moved to the new place. That is how busy I've been.
Got my christmas shopping done for Jeremy. Now I just need to buy something for my parents and my sisters. I usually just buy one gift for each family to share since its cheaper. I will definitely be going with cheap this year since money will be a little tight till I go back to work full time. I was going to bake stuff for people and send it in these cute tins I bought on sale after Christmas last year, but the tins are not really made for shipping, so I would need to get another package to ship them inside of. Plus with the cost of shipping and baking ingredients I figure it will be cheaper overall to just buy something online and ship it. Maybe I can use those tins next year. Gotta use the tins.
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I'm Open to Suggestions
Dec. 8th, 2008 | 01:58 pm
location: Bed
music: Fountains of Wayne-"Valley Winter Song"
On a different and unrelated note, Jeremy and I are still trying to decide on a first name for our baby if it is a boy. If its a girl, we have the name Cloey Ann picked out. Jeremy likes the name Cloey and the name Ann comes from my grandmother on my father's side that was an awesome woman. She died when I was in high school and Jeremy never got to meet her. I think they would have gotten along great if they had known each other. She was one of those rare people that are incredible strong and yet don't detest weakness in other people. I still miss her quite a bit.
So that is the name if we have a girl. If we have a boy we thought about going with the name Joseph Drey. We would like to continue on with the informal tradition that Jeremy has in his family of naming the first son with the initials JD. Jeremy's dad is Jerry Don and Jeremy is Jeremy Dan. So we need a first name starting with a J. We're kinda wishy washy on Joseph and not sure we really want to stick with it. The middle name will definitely be Drey. I know, most of America doesn't like that name. But they can suck it up. I like it, and I'm the one whose screaming this child out, so whether people like it or not that is what it is going to be. If anyone has any suggestions for a boy's name starting with J I am open to hearing them. We've already looked on websites and stuff for ideas but haven't found something we both really like. I know we still have plenty of time to pick one (see previous post with baby countdown), but it doesn't hurt to be proactive.
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Have A Very Merry Turkey Day
Nov. 24th, 2008 | 01:47 pm
location: Couch
mood:
happy
music: Dona nobis pacem
Time for a dose of that good old holiday spirit. What better way then with a meme?
1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
I guess both, though I swing more towards the dark side of hot chocolate. Definitely with whip cream.
2. Letter to Santa?
I don't remember ever writing one. Even as a kid.
3. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree?
He wraps them up nicely. I have him well-trained.
4. Colored lights on your tree/house or white?
We have some red lights on the tree and some white lights. We don't bother decorating the outside of the partment.
5. Do you hang mistletoe?
Not since the time it tried to hang me.
6. When do you put your decorations up?
Pretty darn close to Thanksgiving. Usually the day after.
7. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
This is a really hard one. I simply cannot pick a favorite. I love sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey, ham, mixed vegetables with white sauce, and the list goes on. Can you tell it is close to lunch time?
8. Favorite holiday memory as a child:
My brother and I crawling out of our rooms at night to sneak under the tree and shake our presents.
9. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
This is kind of sad but I don't remember. Whatever happened was not some big traumatic thing for me.
10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Usually we open one because I have no self control when it comes to wrapped gifts.
11. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Ornaments. Lights. Red and silver. No tinsel or anything Pooka could eat and choke on.
12. Can you ice skate?
Pfft. Let's just say I've fallen on double-bladed skates.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I can't really say just one. I've gotten a lot of great books over the years.
14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Jeremy has off work! It is great to see family and friends.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Vanilla pudding pie. Yummm. I should make one this year.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Going around and looking at houses decorated with christmas lights.
17. What tops your tree?
Nothing yet. We haven't found anything we like well enough.
18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
There is something to be said about both.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Traditional-Dona nobis pacem Contemporary-"Song for a Winter Night" by Gordon Lightfoot
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
The cherry ones are yum. The others are yuck.
Since I may not post again before Thanksgiving, I hope everyone has a good one. Lots of love to you all.
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Could You Tell Me About That Bowel Movement One More Time
Nov. 22nd, 2008 | 05:34 pm
location: Couch
mood:
tired
Today was my first day of psychiatric clinicals. I was on the geriatric ward, which are mostly the patients with some form of dementia. A paranoid schizophrenic thrown in here or there, but mostly Alzheimers and friends. The patients were all very sweet, I had no problems, I got a lot of hugs when I left. It was not a bad day. It was just really boring. The only thing we wil get to do with these patients on this rotation is talk to them. We don't give any meds, do any assessments, dress any wounds, etc. All we get to do is talk to them. For 12 hours. Remember, these are patients with dementia. Do you know how many times I heard the same story about so and so's puppy and the time they drank from the toilet? I bet you can guess that it was more than once. And then there was the lady who had dementia nad diarrhea. That is one awful combination. I lost count of the times she told me about her loose bowel movements and missing the toilet.
I'm actually laughing to myself as I type this, because the day was bad in a funny kind of way and not the kind of way that anybody should be truly upset about. I'm going back tommorrow for another eight hours. It won't be so bad knowing that after tommorrow my thanksgiving break officially starts.
On a similar but different note, I think dementia is the scariest thing in the world. By the end of Stage 4 Alzheimer's, these poor people do not even recognize their loved ones. It is like every second of every day is completely new and scary to them. What kind of hell is that to live in? Give me cancer anyday over that.
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Lazy Monday
Nov. 17th, 2008 | 01:26 pm
location: Couch
mood:
tired
music: Jason Mraz-"I'm Yours"
Today I bit the bullet and got my hair cut. I'm not going to post a picture for two reasons. One, I'm too lazy to go through downloading the picture off the digital camera and all that jazz. Two, its nothing spectacular. It''s a little shorter, with refreshed layers, but nothing too different from styles of the past. If you've seen me after a hair cut before, than chances are you can imagine what I look like now.
I just think it's kind of wierd because I love the feeling of having my hair played with. I try to get Jeremy to play with it when I can. I like it when friends style my hair. I just really don't like sitting in a chair with a stranger and getting my hair chopped off. I also hate the whole decision-making aspect of getting my hair cut. As much as I agonize over the right style for my face shape, they end up looking similar no matter what. Today I just told the stylist to do whatever she wanted basically, since she couldn't make it any worse. It turned out just fine. I think she might have ripped out a little too much hair with her giant curling brush, but it will eventually grow back.
I think I need a nap. Brain not working well.
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Seize the cheeseburger
Oct. 24th, 2008 | 10:44 am
location: J's desk
mood:
content
music: Stampeding dogs
Today is a moving day for some friends of ours. I will be there to help, for all the good it will do them :) Hopefully they are taking a lot of lamps with them. I'm happy and excited for them that they are moving to a better place, but it is kind of sad to be left behind. Jeremy and I have until the end of May left on our lease and then we will be moving out of here as well. By then I will be working as a nurse and we can afford a nicer place. We will be moving to a different apartment in the Village, one that has not been flooded and damaged, and that will be a break from our neighbors upstairs that run dog races in their apartment during the day (I swear).
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50%
Oct. 10th, 2008 | 11:53 am
mood:
excited
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Wednesday Morning
Oct. 8th, 2008 | 08:42 am
location: Couch
mood:
excited
music: Gavin Rossdale-"Love Remains the Same" (love the song, hate the video)
I just finished studying for a final that I have today. Pray for me. This one is going to be a ball-buster.
I found out last weekish that I got accepted into the Integris Nurse Externship program. It means that I get to be paired with an RN over Christmas break, help out with their patients, and get paid while I do it. It won't be as much money as I make at the sleep lab, but since I will be working full time it will be more money coming in. Hopefully I can even work a daytime schedule and spend all my nights at home during that time. I still need to call and set up my schedule. At least I got my first choice as far as nursing area I wanted to do my externship in. I will be working in the ICU at Southwest Medical Center. I was hoping for Baptist since it's closer, but I can't afford to be too choosy.
Tis the season for pumpkin picking. The place we went last year was pretty good, so if I can remember where it was we might go there again. Anyone else up for rummaging through the pumpkin patches?
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Get back, you foul temptress!
Sep. 30th, 2008 | 04:53 pm
location: Ze Bed
mood:
content
There will be not cutting out of the chocolate though. Don't care if it has caffeine or not. Some things are nonnegotiable.
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Baby Bomb
Sep. 19th, 2008 | 04:00 pm
mood:
tired
I'm 26 years old and I have never been pregnant. This is really not a big honking deal, especially in today's world where a lot more people are waiting until they are older to have kids, or just deciding they ain't gonna have them. I have several friends who are married and don't have kids either. 28 has always been when I said I would like to try to start having kids. It's not too young or old. It's just nice, like medium porridge. Jeremy and I have decided that six months after I graduate from nursing school, which happens March 13, we are going to start trying to have a baby. We want to have some time when neither one of us are in school to enjoy our evenings togather sans homework before adding a baby to the mix. If everything goes as planned, I should pop out a kid when I'm around 28. As long as there are no fertility snaffoos we can't foresee.
All these baby thoughts are popping up since I finished my obstetrics clinical last weekend. I got to hold, feed, and care for the babies while the parents were resting and take care of the babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I got to spend a lot of time with one baby in particular who was in DHS custody after being taken away from her mom, who had tested positive for methamphetamines. It was so sad because she was in the nursery without anyone coming to visit her. She was such a sweet baby too, with a great temperament. As far as I could tell she was not going through withdrawal from the drugs either, which is pretty surprising. Needless to say that the baby ticker inside me that has previously been almost dormant has sprung to life. In honor of this occassion, I have created a countdown until Jeremy and I start trying to have a baby. If you would like to check on the countdown, just click the link below.
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Psst! Pass It On
Aug. 29th, 2008 | 07:29 pm
location: Couch
mood:
happy
music: Nada
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Ringworm- Sounds like a horror film
Aug. 11th, 2008 | 09:38 pm
location: Bed
music: Colbie Caillat- "Realize"
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Episode 2: Return of the Yaris
Aug. 9th, 2008 | 11:12 pm
mood:
content
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My Name Gets An Acronym
Jul. 28th, 2008 | 10:37 am
location: Nook
mood:
excited
Jeremy's parents are in town and we both have the day free. I think we are going to go harass them to see if they are ready to do anything.
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42 Days later
Jul. 24th, 2008 | 04:53 pm
location: Nook
mood:
chipper
music: The Afters-"Beautiful Words"
I'm going to increase my hours at the sleep center some over my break, but not up to full time. There is a bunch of reading and other stuff I will need to get on top of for the fall. I should find out next week whether I passed my RPSGT exam I took last month. Don't ask me why it takes so long to score a computerized test. I couldn't tell you.
Jeremy and I made pizza for dinner last night. It was a lot of fun. I haven't made pizza since I lived at home with my parents, and Jeremy said he had never made it before. We didn't get all fancy. Just pillsbury crust, store bought sauce and grated cheese with pepperoni. It was good, even after I left it in the oven a few minutes too many. In the future I think I'll try making a stuffed crust pizza. You can never have too much cheese.
Today all I did was housework. It was freakily refreshing. I haven't had time to devote a chunk of the day to it in so long and some things were piling up. Jeremy is good about doing stuff around the house, but he only has so much time too. Cleaning is usually cathartic for me, especially scrubbing with antibacterial stuff. The only thing left on my todo list now is bathing Pooka. She is 2 weeks over due and she is a stinky girl.
We saw the new Batman movie last night. Just like the title promises, it is dark. If you are feeling down, I would not suggest seeing it until you perk up a bit. The acting was good and it beat the hell out of fluorescent lighting and villians on rollerblades. Heath Ledger is creepy as the Joker. He'll make anyone believe in personality disorders. Christian Bale acts well as usual, but gives all the good lines to Morgan Freeman. Did I mention it is a long movie? Cuz it is. Like nearly 3 hours long. To sum up: good movie, worth seeing, just make sure you have the emotional reserves to be pummeled for 3 hours.
