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[Wednesday | 24th December 2008 | 6:00am] |
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Had a bit of a scare yesterday night. I had just woken up and got in the shower. Maybe 8 minutes into the shower, the edges of my field of vision started to get darker and my hearing became muffled. I started to feel nauseous, too. I felt like I was gonna black out so I got out of the shower and called my husband. I decided to call in to work too (which I've never done in my 1.5 years of working there) and they told me that staffing was critical and there would be only 2 nurses for 18 patients... AND I wouldn't get my holiday pay. So, I felt obligated to go anyway, I didn't want to leave my co-workers with 9 patients each (we're only supposed to go up to 6 patients per nurse). My husband decided that he would drive me. Maybe 5 minutes after we left the house, nursing office called me to tell me that my floor was down to 13 patients and they decided to give me an LCD (low census day) so I could stay home. :) Thank GOD for that. I was still feeling nauseous.
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[Sunday | 30th November 2008 | 9:30pm] |
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man, I feel horrible. I have a cold or something. Alternating runny/stuffy nose, chills, cough, fatigue...the list goes on. I just feel like crap! My head feels all stuffy. I hope I feel somewhat better before I go to work tomorrow. :(
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[Monday | 24th November 2008 | 1:13pm] |
Well, we’re finally moved in. :) Just have to finish unpacking everything. It’s so nice to finally have our own house! |
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[Sunday | 9th November 2008 | 7:06pm] |
Well, we bought a refrigerator tonight :) and a dishwasher...and a stand for the tv
here's the fridge: 
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[Friday | 7th November 2008 | 10:37pm] |
We closed on the house yesterday! :D Now we can start moving in. YAY! |
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[Saturday | 27th September 2008 | 11:02pm] |
We decided Friday morning to put an offer on the house. We were told that another offer had been made. This house is bank-owned, so it’s closed on the weekends. If we had waited any longer to put in the offer, we probably wouldn’t have had a chance at getting the house. Sooo I’m REALLY hoping that things work out for us. |
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[Monday | 22nd September 2008 | 11:04am] |
well, my husband and I have been looking at tons of houses lately. We viewed around 15 houses over the weekend. There were a few that we liked. Viewed one for a second time on Sunday (it was dark out by the time we saw the house on Saturday, so we couldn’t see the backyard). We really like this house. It needs some work – mainly remodeling. Nothing that needs to be done right away. I’m really hoping that this is the right house for us! It’s really exciting :) |
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[Monday | 18th August 2008 | 9:29am] |
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Things are going well @ work. I'm on my own now. They're keeping me at 4 patients for now. After August 30th, I'll go up to 6 patients. My patients last night were nice. One of them gave me a hug when I went in to tell her goodbye. All 4 of them said I was wonderful. :) It's really nice to hear that.
I started an IV last night, by myself, for the first time. Got it on the first try. After I got it in & flushed it w/ saline, my patient was like "wow, you're wonderful!". I asked her if it hurt at all and she said "not at all, you're a miracle worker!". lol :) I was so relieved that I managed to get the IV started, but it's great that she didn't even feel it! It was a weird feeling afterwards..that I actually started an IV.. I was a little paranoid about it going sub-q, but it was infusing just fine. I'm too critical of myself! I'm proud of myself though. Of course, I didn't mention that she's the first patient I've ever started an IV on by myself. ;)
Life is good right now. Things aren't going as quickly as I'd like them to, but I'm happy with how my life is going right now. I'm just anxious to get my own house. David and I found 2 houses that we'd like to check out soon. Our goal is to buy a house before the end of this year (as long as we find the right house).. :) Also, maybe a couple months after we move into the new house, I'd like to start a family! It's all so exciting :)
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[Tuesday | 5th August 2008 | 10:22pm] |
One of 4 new blood parrot cichlids that I recently got :)
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[Saturday | 24th May 2008 | 8:49am] |
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Wow. I'm nervous/scared as hell but excited at the same time. My first day of orientation was yesterday. I'm now a "Nurse Intern". My pay rate goes up to almost $20/hr now and I'm considered full-time. The pay rate will go even higher once I get my nursing license.
One good thing was that my friend from school was in orientation with me, because she'll also be a Nurse Intern on the midnight shift but on a different floor! :)
I start my clinical orientation on the unit next Tuesday. I'll be working M-F, but my shifts are only 8 hours which is nice! I start the midnight shift on June 23rd :)
My birthday (June 30th) falls on a Monday this year, so I bet I'll have to work on my birthday. This night shift will be a real adjustment for me. I've never worked a midnight shift before. I usually stay up really late when I have the time, but I want to be a morning person. I like mornings.
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[Monday | 28th April 2008 | 3:13pm] |
there has to be over 300 eggs!
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[Friday | 25th April 2008 | 8:40pm] |
omg.. my very last day of clinical was yesterday. My last day of class is the 30th. I graduate in 6 days! YAY :D I can’t believe I made it. |
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[Saturday | 1st March 2008 | 7:32pm] |
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My husband surprised the hell out of me today.. I got home from work and was on my computer checking myspace & stuff. I went to my email and kinda yelled "what the hell?!?" when I seen 2 emails from flickr regarding my..newly purchased 2 YEAR PRO MEMBERSHIP :D OMG I was like "why did you do this????" and he was laughing at me. heh... I guess he was watching me as I went to my email, so he could see my reaction. I think it was super duper sweet of him :D I just can't believe it's for TWO years! woo
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[Monday | 19th November 2007 | 9:16pm] |
I got an email from Schmap.com saying that 2 of my photos from the detroit zoo have been short-listed for publication in the fourth edition of their Schmap Detroit guide. I think that's pretty cool :D I don't get money for it or anything, but I think it's awesome that they want to use my photos. I guess they found them through Flickr. Cooool :D
Here are the 2 photos that they want to use:
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| Baby squirrels |
[Tuesday | 21st August 2007 | 1:34am] |
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Such a sad thing happened yesterday. :( There is a squirrel nest in the tree in front of our house. We believe either 2 black squirrels, or a black and a brown squirrel live in it. Well, they had some babies in the nest (I know for a fact that they were older than 5 weeks.. maybe 10 weeks old?). Anyway, during the bad weather yesterday (lots and lots of rain), 3 of the babies fell from the nest and onto the pavement. They fell pretty far, but were still alive. ( Read more... ) UPDATE: 8/23 - Just found out that 2 of the squirrels died, but one survived :( At least one was able to make it.
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[Wednesday | 18th July 2007 | 12:08pm] |
Damn it. I didn't know what time tickets went on sale, so when I got on to buy tickets.. they only had 1 main floor ticket left (which I had no idea that it was the last one until I changed the quantity to 2 tickets and it said there were non available... so I changed it back to 1 ticket and it also said none were available) This fucking sucks. :( After that, I had it set up to purchase some tickets in M5 - row D seats 514 and 515.. but i couldn't get ahold of my husband to see what he thought of it.. By the time I got ahold of him, the tickets had expired so I ended up with: M5 ROW DD Seats 505 and 506. :( I am realllllly hoping that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) idiorhythmic can get me some better seats. I've never been to a Bjork concert before - I was really hoping to get really good seats. :(
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[Sunday | 15th July 2007 | 1:37pm] |
OMG! Bjork is doing a concert in Detroit on September 11th!!!!! I was thinking about going to the virgin festival in Toronto, because Bjork would be there... but THIS is like 10 times better!! This concert is much closer and will be just Bjork. :)
wow, I'm so excited! I'm going to jump on the chance to buy those tickets! The only problem is, the concert is on a Tuesday. Hopefully I get a Thursday/Friday clinical rotation.. or this won't work out :(
Bjork Returns to North America This Fall
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[Wednesday | 27th June 2007 | 9:28pm] |
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IKEA's website reminds me so much of "The Sims". LoL.. I think that's one reason why I like it so much :)
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| 1 year wedding anniversary |
[Sunday | 24th June 2007 | 1:58pm] |
Today is my 1 year anniversary w/ David :) I can't believe it's already been 1 year! It went by so fast. :) He gave me some anniversary/birthday presents today (my birthday is the 30th). and.....OMGOMGOMG he bought me a canon digital rebel xti !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-O
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