The Scoop

As of yesterday I am halfway done with my preceptorship in the NICU! Five down five more to go. I absolutely love the NICU. I have been reintroduced full force to the politics involved in nursing and forgot how much I "loved" them..... NOT. The politics are rediculous!!!!! But what do you do.... it is all part of the job. Mikie is working crazy long hours and is super busy! So much for working 4 tens. I don't even remember the last time we spent a whole day together hopefully life will slow down here pretty soon, however I believe it is just going to become a new kind of busy. I hopefully will be taking my board exam in June then I will be on the prowl for a job.... apparently not an easy task. We have Debi's family reunion the end of July up by Ely. Then we have a month worth of weddings in August! and to add to the chaos, now that school is almost over we are both anxious to start our family!!!! So to all who are wondering yes we are officially trying. I don't know who is more excited mikie, me or the littlest aunts to be. Gracie called me last wednesday just to ask if I was pregnant yet!!! The week before she had a dream we had a baby boy!!!!! (hoping this is great intuition) Then on Saturday I talked to her and brianna and they had made stuff for "baby tooty" (don't worry we will never rely on Gracie to name our little munchkins).They also love telling the old man- my dad- that he is going to be a grandpa!!!! We laugh, because my dad is so not ready to be grandpa..... well dad, Suck it up because hopefully it will be sooner rather than later! So to sum it all up graduation is just around the corner, Mikie is exhausted and needs a vacation, and with the prospects of hopefully having our home grow by two feet life is great! We are doing very well and looking forward to the next chapter in our lives!!!!

Love the Drunken Nights I will Never Remember with Friends I will Never Forget!!!

After two long years we have come to the end of the road! All that stands between us and graduation is 120 hours of on the floor experience!!! I will be working in the neonatal intensive care unit at the highest risk hospital in Las Vegas! I am a little terrified of the area, but am very excited for the learning experience of a life time. I have been done with the school part of school for a week and have loved having some free time. I finally figured out how to Digi Scrap and I am ADDICTED!!!! All of these pages came from our end of nursing school celebration! We went to margaritaville to let lose with the friends who have become family over the last two years! We know more about one another than we ever wanted to, we can finish one another's sentences, know what one another is thinking, and how to get one another through the rough times. We have learned together, grown together, changed together, ganged up and fought back together, cried together, and laughed together. We always have one anothers backs. I can't imagine not having each other to get through nursing school. We all did it, but we did it together! And to our families that have been so incredible, we are back! We are ready to take back our roles as wives, husbands, parents, sons, daughters and now nurses. We are all so lucky to have such great support systems...They have all risen above and beyond to keep life from literally falling apart at the seams! Thank you, thank you and thank you again! Congratulations nursing class of 2008!!!!!!

I am unofficially, officially done with NURSING SCHOOL!!!!

So our hellacious final was yesterday afternoon!!!!! I am officially, unofficially finished with nursing school!!!!!!!!!!! I still have to do my preceptorship which consists of 120 hours of on the floor experience, and I have one other blow off class that doesn't meet again until the 1st of may!!! So a few of us went to the bar after the final but the real party is on Saturday night. We will be going to margaritaville to get our drink on and boogey the night away. I will post more pictures sometime next week

Sometimes All a Girl Needs....

Is a hot new hair cut and a sexy new pair of shoes!!!!! On Saturday I had 8 and 1/2 inches cut off of my hair! It was time for something new. It is taking some getting used to but I love it. Kristen did a fabulous job as always! Then my friend Alisha and I went shopping on friday morning to find dresses for graduation and a random girl in the shoe department pointed out these shoes! Now normally these are shoes that I would never in a million years even dream of trying on, but they looked so cute on her. I couldn't quit thinking about them, and how much fun they would be for post final party. Mikie and I went back to the mall saturday night and I thought I would see if they had them in my size, this is a rare occassion, but low and behold they did!!! It had to be a sign right. So I tried them on and absolutely loved them!!!!!!I feel like a brand new person who would have thought I would be a snake skin red heeled stilletoe woman!

Laundry Mishaps

Okay so laundry is probably one of my least favorite household chores!!!!! I have ruined so many articles of clothing with bleach, for some reson even with the dispenser I end up ruining either the pants that I have on or dragging my husbands hoodie through the cup bleach dispenser attached to the washer and we aren't just talking a little corner we are talking splotches all over the place, but this one has to be my favorite. I came home from clinicals last friday and as a good nursing student strip down in the garage before I even come in the house because I don't want to bring in whatever has attached itself to me. I make my way from the garage to the hall were the laundry closet is.... I throw my WHITE scrubs..... yes I know white is a horrible color for school uniforms...... into the washer and start it. I shower, don't think anything about it and of coarse don't bother to even put them in the dryer, because that is how much I love to do the laundry. On saturday I come home from clinical and mikie is doing laundry. He goes to throw the stuff that he rewashed from the day before, my uniform in the dryer and says, "hey babe did you know there was a red towel in the washer with your uniform?" You guessed it my UGLY WHITE UNIFORM is now baby pink.....LOL. Needless to say I am officially fired from doing the laundry!!!!!!!! I put the now pink uniform next to my white one notice how the drawstring on the pants is still white!!!!!! OOOOPPPPPS needless to say I won't be wearing these to the hospital anymore!!!!

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