1 Year of blogging; and completion of front-loading week!

1 Year of Blogging! 

This blog is as much for me as those who occasionally stopping by and seeing what I have to say. I hope that I can continue to use this to filter my thoughts through words without much interference. My goal has never been to be the most popular blog on the web, and I make sure of that by my settings saying they won't be able to google me...so we'll see what happens, but I just let this blog be a good outlet. 

Statistics: 

Pageviews today - 0

Pageviews yesterday - 1

last month - 34

All time history pageviews - 206

Apx 148 total posts in 1 year!

Anyways......here are a few of my favorite posts from the past year:

Favorite "New Music" page: {Submarines}

Closer Look {here}

Beyond Beats and Rhymes {check it out}

Music Mondays - {favorite artist ever} & {here}

Words to {Consider}

Bucket List! {things to do!}

My favorite fur ball every {here}

Saying goodbye to my brother going to college {changes!}

First day of nursing school! {scary}

College swimming through the years {visit}

First Clinical Ever....{exhausted at 5am!}

Happy Christmas {falalalala}

Final training trip {EVER}

Color run is FILLED I CAN'T DO IT :( {boo}

Bittersweet endings {memories to last forver!}

Browse a little, and maybe comment?....haha or not.

Have a good weekend!

 

My dad, who knows me very well, and has a whole lot of wisdom to share to anyone who wants to hear it said to me today, after a frustrating day filled with disappointment and may I use the "f" word "failure" or maybe not end-all-be-all-failure but the feeling of failure.

He said something like this, "remember your goal, and everything else doesn't matter as much, and do everything to accomplish that goal no matter what the set-backs"

I love my dad, my Aunt, and my friends today, even amidst the disappointment. I know I can do this, I just have to take it a day at a time and not let things that I can't change hold me back.

Tomorrow is a new day, and one day closer to Friday!

Disclaimer [If you don't watch or appreciate reality tv...you won't be interested..]

Total Guilty Pleasure that got me to survive my first day of front-loading week....

Bethenny Ever After - Season 3

Note: the views expressed on her show do not express everything I believe, I just appreciate her personality and up-front way of living life.

I have a true appreciation for this woman, and this show saved my 9 hour academic day! {Welcome to 3500!}

I suppose people have their opinions, but I like her openness and personality, who knows if its genuine in the way it's portrayed on tv, but even so I will enjoy the life that she holds on television and let her have her private life to herself. {I'm rooting for her marriage and family, they all need each other!}

In case anyone is confused about nursing student lingo - 

front loading week - 

A week that nursing faculty just want to see what we're really made of. It's the first week of a course where we have class M/W/F from 8am - 5pm with a lunch break, and T/TH - patho as usual. It's a long day to stay focused and on-task for that long. The hardest part; going back to your room and doing the homework and studying to be prepared for the following day. 

This weeks check list:

- Complete Patho prep 

- Patho Quiz

- Pass Med-calc exam

- Finish clinical prep

- Survive!!

- & still learn something and have a {little} fun

Spring Break is coming to a close :(

So I have successfully completed NURS3400 - Nursing Care of the Family, and I have to say I ended well and finish my first class of the semester out on a good note! Now if only there was a way to send my care plan with all these applications I've been doing for CNA positions so these employers can see all these awesome comments that my professor gave me on my work..........well even though that's not an option maybe they'll see that I'm a worthy candidate for the job. 

So this week is going to be a week testing my limits in all my abilities and capacities. This is the doozey class that everyone says is the hardest, most exciting, crazy class EVER. So needless to say I'm scared out of my wits but willing to take it head on. This week my schedule is awful, and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to not take off work at all. 

So here's to a week of new beginnings, increased intensity, and truly starting now until the semester is over seeing what I'm truly made of! 

Real-World-Realities

{Source! Check them out!}

So I realize that apart of growing up and getting older is you apply for jobs and work the rest of your life away. I get it. HOWEVER, the whole applying for jobs and being rejected thing is completely freaking me out. In order to get nursing jobs you need to have experience, well fun fact, I am in nursing school getting "experience" but I have not held one job in the context of a hospital EVER. So Summer 2012 is the time to start I suppose. So for the time being I'm applying to various hospitals in the twin cities area that require a CNA certificate in order to work. I'm hoping the fact that I'm no longer 16, currently in nursing school, and willing to work as many hours as they give me with low pay will seem appealing enough to hire me (and that I am a hard worker and willing to learn as much as possible!). I'm just worried because every job I've ever held was at a pool one, and two most of the time people asked if I was willing to work for them (it's been a pretty sweet life!). So the reality is, I'm applying to most of these jobs blindly, crossing my fingers, and hoping someone is willing to take the chance to hire me. So by the end of this week my goal is to have job applications sent and then be waiting for a response.

Admittedly maybe I'm over-reacting slightly, but it's intimidating. That's all.

House-Sitting + TNC Writing = My weekend!

   

He thinks he's so funny!.....

 

These cats are truly a hoot...even if they are slightly annoying at times, I'm going to miss them when their family returns!

 Finally finished after a long 4 days, but Spring Break has officially started! I am ready :D ... I even get to spend a few more days with these cute kitties (sometimes terrors!) I'm kinda intimidated on future TNC writing starting after spring break because that means I have some efficiency to learn (this one took too long!)!

Oh yeah...in a few weeks, no more babies, replaced knees/hips/shoulders/etc...!

Today I successfully checked in on a patient without my nurse or instructor by my side,
Assisted in holding her baby,
Saw a need,
Figured out an appropriate nursing intervention,
Successfully implemented the intervention,
Left my shift with a happy mama & babe.

Thanks to an awesome nurse, mama, hubby, & babe, all in a days work :)

It was a good clinical shift, I really think that nursing is the job for me!