| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
| 4:12 pm |
Weekend will consist of: Friday night: Drive to Bremerton, Shower, Bed, Sleepover! Movie watching with BF. (insert whatever here) Saturday: Wake up with BF. Shower. Drive to Parents house. Sleep. Wake up. Work. Sunday: Go back to Parents house. Sleep. Work. Monday: Get off work. Go back to school. Class. Sleep. Class. Sleep. Dinner. Sleep. Homework. Yay. |
| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 |
| 10:46 pm |
Well school is school: Monday and Friday: Dance 915-1020 Psych 1230-135 Tuesday: Nursing Lab/Clinical 7am to 9am Wednesday: Dance 915-1020 Psych 1230-135 Nursing Lecture 145-330 Thursday: Same as Tuesday Work at St. Anthony: give or take an average of 30 hours a week. (NOC shift) Homework/Study Time Whenever I can squeeze it in. Boyfriend/Friend/Family time: Once a week if i'm lucky. If not then most likely one day every other weekend. My own Personal Sanity Time: Only when I'm sleeping or taking a shower. I am so stressed. PLU is nothing like UW or OC. Those colleges were relatively easy compared to PLU. So much work and reading and tests/quizzes/extra curriculars. This is going to be my hardest year yet. I will have to work really hard for my good grades. I will always be supported by those who love me though.. so I know that I can make it through anything. I live for May 2012 when I have my BSN and an immediate job when I graduate. |
| Sunday, August 30th, 2009 |
| 2:24 pm |
Well my 21st birthday was amazing to say the least. I spent it with my one and only and he made it really special for me. Tiffany's heart necklace and a custom cake made by the hotel once we checked into the Paris Las Vegas Hotel was super cute. Our room overlooked the Eiffel tower, the pool, and the fountain show at the Bellagio. We were right in the middle of the strip so we could walk anywhere without it taking forever. If we ever go again we want to stay at Ceasars Palace or the Bellagio. Las Vegas was so much fun. Although the weather on all days was 100+ degrees. We walked up and down the strip to all the cool hotels and gambled at some of them. We both won 50 bucks on a dollar machine but promptly lost it all plus some. Oh well, it was really fun. The show O at the Bellagio (Cirque De Solei) was amazing. I am so glad his mom bought us tickets. I would definitely see it again. Getting "Married" in the Paris chapel was the higlight of the trip. Pix will be on facebook soon. Our next trip will either be to Hawaii or Florida next summer. We are still deciding where to go and what place is better. Any suggestions would be helpful. I have discovered that I really like drinking Cosmopolitians and Lemon drops. They are rather refreshing. I am not a beer person. Beer is gross. I start school in a week and 2 days. Really excited, a tiny bit nervous. Moving into my dorm next weekend. Classes start on Tuesday. I am so glad that I have a single room all to myself. No more Jasmine scenarios. Well off to do my list of errands. |
| Sunday, July 26th, 2009 |
| 2:49 pm |
20 days until las vegas!!! super super excited! i still need a birthday dress. this week: work mon thru fri. 12 hours of overtime. weeknd all alone with joshie. parasailing on sunday. should be a great week. |
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
| 8:59 am |
37 days until las vegas! 61 days until i start nursing school. 8 days until the nordstrom anniversary sale! 23 more days until camping trip with josh and his family. |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 |
| 12:54 am |
I love waking up to chocolate chip pancakes in bed along with a bunch of gorgeous daisy flowers. AND then letting me sleep for another 3 hours. |
| Saturday, June 6th, 2009 |
| 2:31 am |
Overtime pay is good... but having holiday pay and overtime pay on the same paycheck is even better! Life has been busy and wonderful. Working extra hours at the hospital has been stressful but its easy money. A lot has changed in the past couple months. I am going to PLU school of nursing in the fall. I am super excited! A girl that i work with is also going so at least there is one friendly face in the class i already know. Next July I want to go to Haiti on a medical mission trip with one of the nurses i work with. Its for 2 weeks and i would be working in a clinic helping all the people down there have access to medical care. Its fairly cheap... $1000. I could easily make that in one paycheck. I have to get more information about it and see if it is something I would really want to participate in. From the way my coworker was talking about it, I really do want to do it. Tonight Josh and I went to a Brazilian restaurant in Seattle. They had really good food... we tried 17 different types of meat and I can say that I hate rack of lamb. It was disgusting. Never eat rack of lamb! well time for bed. |
| Monday, May 25th, 2009 |
| 3:49 pm |
I always get the weird ones attracted to me. (minus the current one) I got off work and walked out to the parking lot and found a white rose on my window. The only person I could think of it coming from was the weird security guard who once walked me out to my car at 3am so I could get my books and study during work. |
| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 |
| 3:37 pm |
So last night I had to be a one to one sitter for a patient who was on suicide watch. Easiest 12 hour shift ever. We watched 4 hours of Star Trek on the Sci Fi Channel, then he went to sleep while I watched the food network and did my dosage calculations homework. I really like my job. Everyday is something new. I wonder what will be in store for me tonight? I am going in to cover a couple hours since we are understaffed. = Overtime!!! |
| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 |
| 9:02 am |
Work is so much fun. Well not fun per se, but fun enough. Today I got to hook up an EKG machine and run a strip to check for abnormalitities with the electrical firing and such. It was so neat. I put 10 leads on the patient and pushed a button and instantly a heart strip came out. Part of my job is paging doctors. I love the times when I page one super early in the morning at like 2o'clock am. Its funny to wake them up and tell them they have to talk to the nurse cause of something going wrong with their patient. I haven't had the opportunity to mess with the bladder scanner yet, but that is my next task to do when it arises. Seeing how many mL of fluid they have in their bladder sounds exciting. Its not nursing yet, I am on my way to that, but it sure beats flipping burgers at mcdonalds for a job. Guaranteed job security. Everyone needs a CNA to do all the shit work and process labs, xrays, orders, page docs, and clean up shit. Its fun! I dealth with my first prison patient the other day. It's interesting how we treat prison patients. They are not allowed to have any metal on their meal trays, everything has to be plastic and disposable and accounted for when the meal is over and instantly taken out of the room.Going to the bathroom is a fun scenario. They are shackled to the bed. A prison guard who is in the room unshackles them from the bed, shackles both their feet together and then leaves the room for me to deal with. Female patient, male guard doesnt really work. So I have to watch patient walk from bed to bathroom, with bathroom door open, watch her pee, watch her clean herself, watch her wash hands, watch back to bed, guard comes in shackles her back to the bed. It was quite interesting. This job definitely has its interesting moments. |
| Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 |
| 11:26 pm |
50 hour work weeks are ahead of me... Monday thru Friday 8am to 4:30pm training at St. Anthony Hospital. Saturday 2pm to 10pm BHRC Throw in volunteering at Puget Sound Blood Center a couple Saturdays a month. Throw in spend time with family and Josh and Josh's family. = Caffeine drip hanging off my arm. Cool thing is that I will be working with Josh's mom.. well kinda. We will be training and carpooling together and then will have overlapping shifts... Thats kinda cool.. who works with their boyfriends mom? I am excited. Trip to Vegas this summer will be getting booked in about a month. Still planning on going around my birthday... if anyone else wants to go hit me up! All Nursing apps are finally done! Now I can sit back and start the long wait for letters of accceptance or denial. I am pretty sure I have PLU in the bag and SU as well. UW is #1 choice... Hopefully I will get in.. I am a competitive enough applicant. Time to sleep. |
| Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 |
| 11:40 pm |
So Life is pretty good. I got hired by St. Anthony's Hospital in Gig Harbor to be a surgical CNA. Sweet. Working 3 12 hours shifts is going to be pretty sweet. I get 4 glorious days off!! UW school of nursing application almost done. That will be submitted within the next week or so. That will be such a relief to get that done and submitted. Joah ans I are planning a trip to Vegas this summer to celebrate my 21st. We will be staying at Las Vegas Paris cause its the most romantic one. Best place ever to celebrate a 21st birthday!! This quarter grades were excellent. Granted I was only in 2 classes... but at one time working 2 jobs and 2 schools and 2 families.. it was a lot. But I survived, so I can survive anything. I am excited to see what the future holds. |
| Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 |
| 10:12 pm |
I GOT IT!!!!!!!! the job at st. anthony's hopital. i will be a surgical cna... taking out catheters, iv lines, dealing with patients at their loopiest, and getting paid a ton!!! i am SO EXCITED! training starts end of january. its time to buy a tiffany's necklace, coach bag, and whatever else i have been wanting. yayayayayayaya!!! |
| Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 |
| 12:34 pm |
I can hear you now Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk Gotta love how it's somehow all on me All the petty scenes And all the pretty things Say whatever you want 'Cause I can laugh it off. Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk Gotta love how it's somehow all on me All the petty scenes And all the pretty things Say whatever you want 'Cause I can laugh it off. Current Music: jimmy eat world |
| Saturday, October 4th, 2008 |
| 2:23 pm |
First time to have a boy spend the night that the parents actually approve of. yesterday the wisdom teeth came out. all fucking 4 of them. josh drove me to and from my surgery in poulsbo brought me home in my car, took care of me alllll day and then spent the entire night going up and down the stairs getting me all my meds and sleeping with me until i eventually fell alseep myself. having wisdom teeth out isnt too bad after all. i am so lucky to have him in my life. its going to last quite some time. i can already tell. time to pop in another percocet and 800mg motrin. |
| Thursday, September 18th, 2008 |
| 8:16 pm |
So working 6 days a week has pretty much been kicking my ass. the only nice thing about it is I get a nice paycheck every week. here is what fall quarter is going to look like for me: Monday/Wednesdsay/Friday- Starbucks 330am to 10-noon. Take 12:30 ferry to seattle Class at UW from 2:30 to 3:20. Take hopefully 4:20 ferry home, if not then prolly a 6 o'clock ferry if I want to do hw at UW. Get home around 6pm hopefully. Go to bed whenever. Tuesday/Thursday Work CNA from 6am to 2pm. Sleep the rest of the day or do online english homework. Saturday/Sunday Begin Nursing school apps. SLEEP!! Homework. Depending on if I want more money I may pick up a NOC shift at CNA. Spend time with josh. Its going to be a hell of a quarter, But i am prepared and ready!! |
| Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 |
| 12:33 pm |
20th birthday certaintly was the best birthday i've ever had. i woke up to birthday texts and a birthday phone call from Josh... he told me to hurry up and get ready and come over. so i did. Once over at his house he told me what one of my presents was.. he took me to a day spa to have a body wrap. it was so cool.... i was wrapped in seaweed that smelled like peppermint and had my feet and head massaged. then after that we went back to his house where his parents bought me a cake from coldstone that had my name written on it. (i absolutely love his parents) then we just chilled around his house for a couple hours until we took the ferry to seattle to eat at cheesecake factory. once back home again he gave me another present. this time it was a white gold 10 diamond ring. he spent like two months trying to find it and has major insurance on it. and its all mine! i love it. its absolutely perfect. saturday was fun too. my grandparents from kirkland came and visited my house... they met josh... they like him. then later on that night josh and i went to the drive in. it was fun, he has a truck so we brought blankets and layed in the bed of his truck and watched not only the movie but the lovely stars. it was a fantastic birthday weekend! |
| Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 |
| 11:40 pm |
CNA- Certified Naked AssWiper. Ok so it doesn't exactly work but hey. It is 11:45pm at night. I am hopped up on energy drinks and coldstone ice cream after an EXTREMELY long day at CNA hell. Give me some credit. Tomorrow this time I am going to be in much worse shape. Studying tonight till god knows when... school tomorrow morning that I can't skip cause of HUGE test, and then back to CNA hell until 10pm. Then back to starbucks at 6:30am thursday morning until 1pm. DroP Josh off some lunch, then back home to do HOMEWORK. Repeat Friday and Saturday. FUCK! I mean FRICK! Nope, FUCK is more like it! 17 more days until my b-day. At least it is something to look forward to. This one is going to be so much better than the last b-day. Thank god for that. |
| Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
| 11:34 pm |
So the other day... actually it was Thursday I got to go to Starbucks headquarters and take a class. it was a stupid class, but afterwards was not stupid. me and the girl i went with got to go in the corporate offices and stuff in search of the partner store. (we wanted to buy some shirts) we had to have id passes and everything. it was so cool. starbucks has the coolest corporate offices... couches and comfy chairs everywhere, hardwood floors, amazing pictures.. and the coolest thing yet... actuall espresso machines (the ones we use in the stores) in their break rooms. what a cool place to work. howard shultz the ceo of starbucks has his office in that building... we could have seen him! i find that so neat. so in other news... my bday is soon approaching. to prepare for it i need to go and buy a dress cause the bf is taking me to dinner and wants me to dress up. well actually i want to dress up and its a good reason to go and buy a dress. i hate surprises but i have been told that i will have to wake up early to go and make an appointment that he is planning. i have no idea what he is planning but all i know is that this activity is going to take an hour and 20 minutes and i will need to take a shower back at his house afterwards. hmm... any ideas? i started my new job as a cna. its ok. i work in sub acute which means that the patients i deal with will be discharged within a couple weeks. they come to my place after having surgery or something at the hospital but cant go home yet after being discharged from the hospital. i have met some pretty neat people and my coworkers are really nice. its not really hard work, just tiring cause i am constantly moving and giving showers or dealing with residents. it will be worth it cause my director of nursing graduated with a masters degree from uw school of nursing so i am so going to him for a letter of recommendation! josh brings me dinner every night which is really cute cause he helps out the residents while he is waiting for me to take my lunch break. life is stressful right now. going to school monday and wednesday from 8am to 1230 and then working monday tuesday and wednesday at my cna !ob from 2pm to 10pm then on thursday thru sat i have varying shifts at starbucks. sunday is my only day to myself which is mostly filled with studying for tests and homework or doing stuff with josh. all will be a lot better once school is done for the summer. but everything will pay off eventually. |
| Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
| 10:31 am |
So I did it.... Got a job as a CNA. Well right now I am an NAR until I take my certification test. So now I have 2 jobs. monday thru wednesday as a cna from 2pm to 10pm. class monday and wednesday from 8am to 12:30pm. thursday thru saturday work at starbucks. sunday is "regain my sanity day"/homework day/spend time with josh or friends day. i am going to have no life. this summer is going to suck. but i need to do it. all will work out in the end. |
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