urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie airalie splishsplash15@msn.com airalie 2009-10-02T23:16:30Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:30566 2009-10-02T23:16:30Z 2009-10-02T23:16:30Z Weekend will consist of:<br /><br />Friday night:<br /><br />Drive to Bremerton, Shower, Bed, Sleepover! Movie watching with BF. (insert whatever here)<br /><br />Saturday:<br />Wake up with BF. Shower. Drive to Parents house. Sleep. Wake up. Work.<br /><br />Sunday:<br />Go back to Parents house. Sleep. Work.<br /><br />Monday:<br />Get off work. Go back to school. Class. Sleep. Class. Sleep. Dinner. Sleep. Homework.<br /><br />Yay. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:30232 2009-09-17T05:53:06Z 2009-09-17T05:53:06Z Well school is school:<br /><br />Monday and Friday:<br />Dance 915-1020<br />Psych 1230-135<br /><br />Tuesday:<br />Nursing Lab/Clinical 7am to 9am<br /><br />Wednesday:<br />Dance 915-1020<br />Psych 1230-135<br />Nursing Lecture 145-330<br /><br />Thursday:<br />Same as Tuesday<br /><br /><br />Work at St. Anthony:<br />give or take an average of 30 hours a week. (NOC shift)<br /><br />Homework/Study Time<br />Whenever I can squeeze it in.<br /><br />Boyfriend/Friend/Family time:<br />Once a week if i'm lucky. If not then most likely one day every other weekend.<br /><br />My own Personal Sanity Time:<br />Only when I'm sleeping or taking a shower.<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:30191 2009-08-30T21:29:33Z 2009-08-30T21:29:33Z 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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Well off to do my list of errands. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:29781 2009-07-26T21:51:55Z 2009-07-26T21:51:55Z 20 days until las vegas!!! super super excited!<br /><br />i still need a birthday dress.<br /><br />this week:<br />work mon thru fri. 12 hours of overtime.<br />weeknd all alone with joshie.<br />parasailing on sunday.<br />should be a great week. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:29449 2009-07-09T16:02:00Z 2009-07-09T16:02:00Z 37 days until las vegas!<br /><br />61 days until i start nursing school.<br /><br />8 days until the nordstrom anniversary sale!<br /><br />23 more days until camping trip with josh and his family. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:29435 2009-06-29T07:56:30Z 2009-06-29T07:56:30Z I love waking up to chocolate chip pancakes in bed along with a bunch of gorgeous daisy flowers.<br /><br />AND <br /><br />then letting me sleep for another 3 hours. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:29122 2009-06-06T09:37:51Z 2009-06-06T09:37:51Z Overtime pay is good... but having holiday pay and overtime pay on the same paycheck is even better! <br /><br />Life has been busy and wonderful. Working extra hours at the hospital has been stressful but its easy money. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />well time for bed. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:28717 2009-05-25T22:53:10Z 2009-05-25T22:53:10Z I always get the weird ones attracted to me. (minus the current one)<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:28478 2009-04-14T22:41:21Z 2009-04-14T22:41:21Z 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. <br /><br />I wonder what will be in store for me tonight? I am going in to cover a couple hours since we are understaffed. = Overtime!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:28199 2009-04-08T16:13:32Z 2009-04-08T16:13:32Z Work is so much fun. Well not fun per se, but fun enough.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:27974 2009-01-28T07:32:58Z 2009-01-28T07:32:58Z 50 hour work weeks are ahead of me...<br /><br />Monday thru Friday 8am to 4:30pm training at St. Anthony Hospital.<br />Saturday 2pm to 10pm BHRC<br />Throw in volunteering at Puget Sound Blood Center a couple Saturdays a month.<br />Throw in spend time with family and Josh and Josh's family.<br />=<br />Caffeine drip hanging off my arm.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Time to sleep. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:27824 2008-12-18T07:52:30Z 2008-12-18T07:52:30Z So Life is pretty good. <br /><br />I got hired by St. Anthony's Hospital in Gig Harbor to be a surgical CNA. Sweet.<br />Working 3 12 hours shifts is going to be pretty sweet. I get 4 glorious days off!!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!! <br /><br />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.<br /><br />I am excited to see what the future holds. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:27562 2008-12-11T06:18:42Z 2008-12-11T06:18:42Z I GOT IT!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><br />the job at st. anthony's hopital.<br /><br />i will be a surgical cna...<br /><br />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.<br /><br />its time to buy a tiffany's necklace, coach bag, and whatever else i have been wanting.<br /><br />yayayayayayaya!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:27166 2008-11-02T20:35:48Z 2008-11-02T20:35:48Z jimmy eat world I can hear you now<br />Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk<br />Gotta love how it's somehow all on me<br />All the petty scenes<br />And all the pretty things<br />Say whatever you want<br />'Cause I can laugh it off.<br /><br />Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk<br />Gotta love how it's somehow all on me<br />All the petty scenes<br />And all the pretty things<br />Say whatever you want<br />'Cause I can laugh it off. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:27008 2008-10-04T21:30:40Z 2008-10-04T21:30:40Z First time to have a boy spend the night that the parents actually approve of.<br /><br />yesterday the wisdom teeth came out. all fucking 4 of them.<br />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. <br /><br />i am so lucky to have him in my life. its going to last quite some time. i can already tell.<br /><br />time to pop in another percocet and 800mg motrin. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:26767 2008-09-19T03:22:11Z 2008-09-19T03:22:11Z 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.<br /><br />here is what fall quarter is going to look like for me:<br />Monday/Wednesdsay/Friday- <br />Starbucks 330am to 10-noon.<br />Take 12:30 ferry to seattle<br />Class at UW from 2:30 to 3:20.<br />Take hopefully 4:20 ferry home, if not then prolly a 6 o'clock ferry if I want to do hw at UW.<br />Get home around 6pm hopefully.<br />Go to bed whenever.<br /><br />Tuesday/Thursday<br />Work CNA from 6am to 2pm.<br />Sleep the rest of the day or do online english homework.<br /><br />Saturday/Sunday<br />Begin Nursing school apps.<br />SLEEP!!<br />Homework.<br />Depending on if I want more money I may pick up a NOC shift at CNA.<br />Spend time with josh.<br /><br />Its going to be a hell of a quarter, But i am prepared and ready!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:26562 2008-08-19T19:34:17Z 2008-08-19T19:34:17Z 20th birthday certaintly was the best birthday i've ever had.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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)<br /><br />then we just chilled around his house for a couple hours until we took the ferry to seattle to eat at cheesecake factory.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />it was a fantastic birthday weekend! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:26300 2008-07-30T06:47:31Z 2008-07-30T06:47:31Z CNA- Certified Naked AssWiper.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />FUCK! I mean FRICK!<br /><br />Nope, FUCK is more like it!<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:26041 2008-07-19T06:48:19Z 2008-07-19T06:48:19Z 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.<br /><br />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?<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:25645 2008-06-28T17:53:32Z 2008-06-28T17:53:32Z So I did it....<br /><br />Got a job as a CNA.<br />Well right now I am an NAR until I take my certification test.<br />So now I have 2 jobs.<br /><br />monday thru wednesday as a cna from 2pm to 10pm.<br />class monday and wednesday from 8am to 12:30pm.<br />thursday thru saturday work at starbucks.<br />sunday is "regain my sanity day"/homework day/spend time with josh or friends day.<br /><br />i am going to have no life.<br />this summer is going to suck.<br /><br />but i need to do it. <br />all will work out in the end. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:25564 2008-06-22T06:30:54Z 2008-06-22T06:30:54Z "can i get a triple tall ristretto soy milk, vanilla, with whip cream, latte macchiato style with the shots over the whip?<br /><br />good lord people, what happened to the normal mocha?<br /><br />today was absolutely crazy at work. i was on register for the majority of the day ringing in horribly complicated drinks like that. but i love it.<br /><br />so going to disneyland this summer actually is beginning to take shape, i hope. maybe not this summer, but sometime in september when josh has a week off from work and before i go back to school for my 2 last classes.. nutrition and english 102. my parents agreed on the trip as long as i pay for it. but thats what jobs are for! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:25330 2008-06-11T06:01:52Z 2008-06-11T06:01:52Z Random crap:<br /><br />1. Starbucks is so much fun!! One of my really good elementary school friends works with me.<br /> <br />2. I have learned to not let people step all over me and take advantage of me. Airlie is standing up for herself now. She is not going to let coworkers or boys walk all over her. <br /><br />3. This quarter is almost over. Yay for a nearly 4.0 gpa this quarter while taking math, anatomy/physiology and nursing assistant class. 24 credits = piece of cake.<br /><br />4. Being a cna is a lot of work, but it is so rewarding to make a difference in residents lives. Today this one older lady reached out for my hand and called me pretty and skinny and asked me to wheel her to the dining room. I also had a resident who let me practice on her even though she doesnt like students working on her.<br /><br />5. if i ever have a bad day, i know that I can always hand lotion to josh for him to massage my hands and feet and i will always find red licorice in my drawer in his room waiting for me. <br /><br />6. its fun having a constantly busy schedule. it makes me feel productive.<br /><br />7. Being accepted into the boyfriends family is so nice. I love going over there without josh there and just talking to his parents or brother. I love walking upstairs and laying on his bed and watching his huge tv and just knowing that i am welcome and accepted in the house like i am part of their family.<br /><br />8. This summer is going to be busy. I want to get a job as a cna at the veterans home and i am going to continue to work at starbucks while doing my last quarter at oc before i get my aa degree. its going to be a busy and fun summer. <br /><br />9. "this time is the last time, be here, here now, this time is the last time, you've got to get away, oh i get lost in the thought of losing you, you've got to get away, now its a dream but it must be true" is still my favorite phrase <br /><br />10. 20th birthday plans? yep already in the making. i really want to take a trip someplace. like go to disneyland or something before everyone leaves for college again and there is no time to do anything. it would be fun to take a huge group of us. <br /><br />11. my life is good right now, i have no complaints. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:25061 2008-05-19T00:48:34Z 2008-05-19T00:48:34Z I am done with Haselwood Auto! No more Toyota! No more Honda! (not that I was allowed to work there anyways) Now I am allowed to walk into Honda and give Josh lunch or something without being yelled at for being there. If anyone wants a job there are a couple openings for coffee girls. The new toyota store is done so there will be three coffee stands on the hill... Honda, Toyota, and Jeep. <br /><br />I start Starbucks sometime this week. I dont know the exact date yet. I am so excited. One of my friends from sixth grade also got hired there so I am even more excited now that I know someone. Bring on the free coffee! the discount! and working for a fortune 500 company!<br /><br />It is going to be nice having a couple days off from work. I can do things that I want to do.<br /><br />I start clinicals this week. It should be terrifying and excitng all at the same time. Hopefully by the end of this class I will have a job offer as a CNA. I work part time at Starbucks and I figure I could work part time as a CNA. Double the money I would be getting. Its not like I have time to spend it anyways. I am too busy either working or at school or doing homework.<br /><br />Yesterday was an amazing beautiful day. Josh and I went to Viking Fest in Poulsbo and then to Kitsap Lake. My face is a little red, but it was worth it. It was a cute day. <br /><br />May 16th 2008.<br /><br />"its so good, its like angels dancing on my tongue." urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:24725 2008-04-30T19:56:07Z 2008-04-30T19:56:07Z I am so excited for the year to come. <br /><br />I had an interview at a bank in Bremerton today. I am fairly sure I got the job cause the manager said I was in his top three choices... they are hiring three people. Yay for that. I will be leaving my job at Toyota hopefully within the next 6 weeks or so, I will be there long enough to work at the superstore for like a couple weeks or so which is going to be hectic and fun at the same time.<br /><br />In a matter of a couple months I will have my AA degree and a CNA license. Its going to be really nice not having to freak out about any classes and stuff. During the summer I have to finish the anatomy series, take a humanities and english class and then I am done with OC. In the fall I have to take a nutrition class at UW, which will be nice cause I can be a "commuter" student for a quarter. All I have to do is fill out a returning student application, pay 50 bucks and I am a part time UW student for a quarter. After fall quarter I think I am going to take a phlebotomy class at OC just so I can have "certified phlebotomist" on my resume. Then spring and summer I can do whatever the hell I want to do. I am thinking I will work part time as a bank teller and then get a CNA job someplace for part time. That way I can make some extra money while also getting the required CNA hours that UW school of nursing requires to apply to their program.<br /><br />Its going to be nice living at home for another year or so. I can save money and just work full time. Its not like I am going to be home much anyways. Like right now, I pretty much go home to sleep and do laundry. Most of the time I am either at work, school, or doing stuff with Josh or friends. I love my life right now, its pretty much stress free and fun, but I am so ready for my life to start. I guess I should just enjoy my youth years now, cause pretty soon they are going to be gone. May as well make the best of them! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:airalie:24555 2008-04-13T18:24:32Z 2008-04-13T18:24:32Z I caved. I bought the ugly croc shoes. <br /><br />They may be ugly but are they sure comfortable. <br /><br />It was a good investment.<br /><br /><br />So what did I do to enjoy the beautiul weather yesterday? I went shopping in Seattle with Josh and Rosie. It was fun. I got some Nike shox, ugly croc shoes, a necklace, shirt, and sunglasses. <br /><br />It was a good day.