Valentines Day

Okay so Valentines Day is my least favorite holiday of the entire year! In fact I don't know that I have really acknowledged the holiday in the five years that we have been together. However, Mikie is always so good about spoiling me on this holiday I decided I should probably return the favor. Both of us have been incredibly busy lately Mikie got home at 10:30 the night before valentines day and he left at 6:00 the next morning but he still managed time to spoil me with roses. I woke up to them at 7:00. Such a sweet heart. So it took me all day to come up with something a little creative. I decided to blow up balloons (30 to be exact) boy was I light headed afterwards. I wrote little sayings on them and filled up the living room. I found a valentines table cloth and covered the coffee table and set up a picnic for dinner. Kind of cheesy but it was fun!!!! Not to bad for spur of the moment creativity!!!!!!! Here are a couple of pictures!!!!!

You Know You are a Nurse When...

1. The front of your scrubs reads "Nurses... here to save your ass, not kiss it!"
2. You occasionally park in the space with the "physicians only" sign... and knock it over.
3. You believe some patients are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4. You recognize that you can't cure stupid.
5. You own at least three pens with the names of prescription medications on them.
6. You believe there's a special place in hell for the inventor of the call light.
7. You believe that saying "it can't get any worse" causes it to get worse just to show you it can.
8. You wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom.
9. You believe that any job where you can drive to work in your pajamas is a cool one.
10. You consider a tongue depressor an eating utensil.
11. Eating microwave popcorn out of a clean bedpan is perfectly natural.
12. You've been exposed to so many x-rays that you consider it a form of birth
control.
13. You've ever heard a patient with a nose ring, a brow-ring, and twelve earrings say "I'm afraid of shots."
14. You've ever placed a bet on someone's blood alcohol level.
15. You've told a confused patient that your name is that of a coworker and to call if they need help.
16. Your bladder can expand to the size of a winnebago's water tank.
17. You have seen more penises than any prostitute could dream of.
18. You believe that not all patients are annoying...some are unconscious.
19. Your family and friends refuse to watch medical sitcoms with you because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and pointing out upside down x-rays.
20. You don't get excited about blood, unless it's your own.
21. You've sworn to have "do not resuscitate" tattooed on your chest. Soon.
22. Discussing dismemberment over agourmet meal is perfectly normal to you.
23. Your idea of fine dining is anywhere you can sit down to eat.
24. Your idea of a good time is a cardiac arrest at shift change.
25. You believe in the aerial spraying of prozac.
26. You believe that "shallow gene pool" should be a recognized diagnosis.
27. You believe that the government should require permits to reproduce.
28. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall anyone who utters the phrase
"Wow, it's really quiet, isn't it?"
29. You have ever wanted to write a book entitled..........."Suicide: getting it
right the first time."
30. You have ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and say "I have no
idea how that got stuck in there."
31. You have ever had to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably

If your going through Hell

The alarm goes off at 5:30 in the morning my response.... I throw my pillow over my head and repeat this is not my life it is all a bad dream by 6:00 Mikie is up and on his way out the door the dog's are pounding on their cages because they have to pee. Then it is off to the showers where I lay in the bottom of it as I shampoo my hair and do all of the showering necessities because all my body wants to do is sleep. I grab something to eat on my way out the door at 7:30 its off to class to set through another grueling lecture or two then its home to study and cram all the information into my tiny brain that I possibly can because tomorrow we are going to be quized on the information we learned today. But don't forget to prep for tomorrows lecture because that same quiz could be over material you have never even heard of yet. Oh wait you also have homework that is do by midnight and lab is tomarrow did you do your prep assignments cuz if your aren't prepared thats 3% off your grade, have you started your papers yet they are due next week and what about the other class you have to take that you never think about you actually had homework to do for that class this week Its not done either. Oh crap its 6:00 what are we having for dinner.... do I have a husband? is he coming home tonight? The phone rings.... hey babe its me I will be late probably tenish again sorry I may be even later. Poor husband but in my head I'm thinking oh good that gives me a little more time to do homework. Mikie gets home at 10:00 we eat dinner, definantly not good for the arteries.... especially since it is fast food again. So with the arteries clogging we lay ourselves down to sleep at about midnight. But do you think my brain will stop working no.... I am thinking about the stuff I have read trying to process, what I have to do tomarrow, How am I going to fit in running errands and paying bills cause neither one of us have the time....... Again I say this is not my life it is all a bad dream.... somebody please pinch me or put me out of my misery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Exhausted and Overwhelmed!

So it has been a while since I have posted anything so just to bring everyone up to date here goes nothin'. The semester has started up yet again. However, we are on the countdown to graduation (and possibly losing my sanity). We started two weeks ago and there honestly hasn't been one tear free day yet..... but I can do this, sleep is over rated anyway right!!!!!!! Anyway so I only have 32 days (8 Wks) of class left then I go into my preceptorship (hopefully Labor and Delivery). If the next eight weeks don't kill me life will be grand...I only have 8 papers, 2 presentations, 2 care plans and 6 more tests to go in this short period of time...Cake walk right LOL. For those who I have not yet talked to My pinning ceremony is on Friday, May 16, 2008 and the actual graduation ceremony is on Monday, May 19th. I will be sending out announcements and all of that fun stuff in April. We are doing well (minus my emotional instability) Mikie started working four tens so he now has friday, satruday and sunday off.... One day he might actually get all three days off.... but for now he has been working his overtime on friday's so he still gets two days a week off... He is doing very well entertaining himself while my head is burried in a book (well okay its more like a mountain of books and a swarm of papers....oh who are we kidding my front room looks like something blew up).....I'm so lucky to have such a supportive and understanding husband. Nothing to exciting going on. I am in ICU tomarrow for clinical's and a little nervous about that. Not a fan of the ICU....so wish me luck! GO PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!