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You guys are a tough crowd. Maybe I should pride myself on keeping up le blogging when the going’s tough!
Just wanted to say I’m still here! Barely surviving school and personal stuff at the moment. Meaning all free time is spent sleeping, planning the next session of sleep and/or thinking about sleep.
Maybe I’ll have some spectacular blogging material next week during the holiday. Hoping to have some good photos by then.
Sidenote: While typing “spectacular”, I started to write “spanktacular”. Would you rather have spectacular or spanktacular? I’m leaning towards the latter. And if saying spanktacular three times in one post doesn’t rile up a respone I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL! YOU PEOPLE ARE IMPOSSIBLE!

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I may be exhausted but I’m still blogging. No promises on how great my blogging will be. I’m running on empty guys. As I said on Facebook, week 4 of the AT program must be when the exhaustion sets in. I’ve been really careful about sleep because a) I have a two-hour roundtrip commute everyday and b) I tend to get hopeless and depressed if I do not get enough sleep. There are only so many times you can promise yourself, when the alarm goes off at 6 AM, that you’re SO getting 10 WHOLE hours of sleep tonight before your self starts to catch on and starts asking WHERE THOSE 10 HOURS WENT in the most painful way possible. And then starts critiquing your run-on sentences. whew.

But this week has been great. And not just because I told a joke before our exam Monday and everyone laughed and I felt loved and spent the ENTIRE time I was taking my exam thinking, “They like me, they REALLY do, this is SOO great.” So I thought I’d share what I know with you guys, in case you need any of the services I can provide (in a non-street-walker way).

Things I know how to do and may be doing in clinical next week:
Urinary catheterization
Wound care
Head-to-Toe Assessment
Restraints
Teaching use of crutches, wheelchair and walker
Bed Bath
Perineal Care

Things I’ve read about how to do but hopefully won’t do by myself anytime soon:
Enemas (woo, party time)
Injections
Medicine Calculation/Administration
and much, much more than cannot be currently elicited from my poor, overworked mind.

First exam was Monday, did well, confirming the fact that I’m NOT due to be kicked out of the program THIS week at least. Next week is another Pathophysiology exam, and we all know how Pathophys. feels about me so I can’t guarantee no kicking out. Feelings mutual, pathophys., feelings mutual. Friday is the second Fundamentals Exam. I would type out my schedule just to shock you and convince you that this is HARD, but I think you guys get that. Especially from all the sweet comments on the last entry. I’m back to being too busy to worry about boys (HA! except for you-know-who). Okay so how about I’m too busy to worry about being single? Never too busy to admire.

Off to collapse into bed. There better stinkin’ be coffee between waking up and going to class tomorrow. I might be a grump tomorrow.

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PS. TWICE in class I’ve muttered something under my breath that has embarassed me exceedingly. Embarassing things to do with my privacy preference during, ahem, bathroom practices or just my bathroom practices. MORTIFYING. I’m hoping all of my classmates read the “no judging” clause in my contract.

Since I love posting pictures.. 3 years ago today I was celebrating my dear friends Randi and Tim’s wedding! Here we are; me, Randi and Katie. Seems like just yesterday!

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2nd edit: The anxiety has now moved to my digestive system. EEK. I am pulling it together. Plus I just got $75 worth of Starbucks giftcards and loads of chocolate. YAY!

edit: I replied to all the comments ya’ll left as a comment on the last post. Make sense? If not, click on the comments from the last post (for those of you blog-challenged).

I’ve been thinking a lot about music and it’s transporting qualities. All this thinking and transporting has made me start listing the most influential albums in my life. As excited as I am to share these with you, I’m really hoping you will reciprocate and either leave a comment or post on your own blog about your most influential albums and the stories behind them. Think of it as a last blogging hurrah (I do a lot of “last hurrahs” I’m finding) before fully immersing myself into nursing school. Plus talking about music and musical taste tells you so much about a person. Let’s get to know each other better, come on now.

1. Abbey Road by the Beatles

As I said before in another post, getting into the Beatles and Abbey Road was, perhaps, the ONLY cool thing I did before everyone else did. I don’t have psychic music abilities like my dear BFF, who totally gets into musicians like 6 months to a year before they get big. 95% of the music in my itunes/ipod is from C, whereas I’m thinking like 1% in hers is from my recommendation. Anyway. Abbey Road transports me back to when I was 12 and just learning about longing and yearning and all those desperate words of teenagedom, or tweenagedom. Remember when everything was so dramatic? When that boy found out you liked him because that other boy told him in the locker room and then the boy you liked said, “YUCK” or something to that extent, which you heard about from other boy and then promptly ran into the bathroom to cry? That VERY sentence reeks of middle school. Anyway, Abbey Road reminds me of young love. It’s so dreamlike, I loved listening to it on summer nights (especially since “Sun King” has little cricket sounds in the background) and imagining my first kiss. Listening to that album still calms me down and always makes me smile. That album was my first love. And, I believe it was the best introduction to the Beatles.
I wasn’t expecting to write so much about just one album. This may be a series. ha.

2. Twentythree places by Matt Wertz

Most of you know I have the teensiest of crushes on MW (we’re on an initials-calling basis). Most of you know that “teensiest” is a gross understatement. I can’t help it. I went to his concert in Siloam Springs and he talked about “The Sound of Music”. HELLO! How about THAT destiny! Obviously mentioning TSoM is to me what using a pick-up line is to other women. Moving past the obsession, I bought his album after that concert and listened to it ALL THE TIME. My favorite thing though, was listening to it while on a drive with Kate on the backroads of Siloam Springs. All felt right with the world on those drives. And it was.

3. Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap

So I had a REALLY tough time when I moved to D.C. For about six months things were awful, like the most awful time of my life awful. I flew down to JBU for a wedding and homecoming and stayed with my wonderful friends Corrie and Brandon. They introduced me to Imogen and oh my, was it love at first listen. Learning her music helped me learned to love living in Virginia by myself. It will ALWAYS, ALWAYS remind me of VA in autumn. I can’t even describe to you how much I love this album. BTW I’m totally twitter friends with Imogen.

4. Thinks of Her by Andy Davis

This album represents my FAVORITE time in D.C., the time when I was with C. It reminds me of the two of us, bundled up on the metro, listening to our respective ipods yet both listening to this album. We had such wonderful adventures and explorations and wanderings and it seemed like this album was the soundtrack to that special time. It always felt appropriate to start playing this album once I was on the metro, which was a lot those days, because I didn’t have a car. Those Nashville Boys (Dave Barnes, Matt Wertz, Andy Davis) write some dang good lyrics. I hope someday someone will use words like they have written to describe their love for me. Sappy I know, but dang, they’re good.

5. Messiah by George Frideric Handel (performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra)

that’s not the picture of the album I have but oh well.

First of all, Christmas is NOT Christmas in our household without Handel’s Messiah. Again, they are not really words to express what this piece of music means to me. It is the most beautiful music I’ve ever experienced written about the most profound event to ever occur to mankind. Honestly, I cannot listen to it without tearing up. It’s heavenly and it’s what I imagine heaven to be like. When I read the verses this music is based on I always hear the notes in my head. It’s my favorite version of the Christmas story. I could seriously write about this forever. AHHH!

Okay, I’m done, for now. What are a couple of your favorite albums and why?

I will say that I got over the freaking out earlier this week only to be faced with some classmates at a little get-together bent on bringing my freaking-out to Defcon 5. Seriously people? I thought we were going to get to KNOW each other at this time, NOT SCARE the complete poop out of one another. I seriously almost cried at the get-together from the stress of thinking about all of the stress. You know what though? I CAN TOTALLY DO THIS! And I WILL. If all I do for the next year is study and sleep I’ll be fine. But I really do need my sleep. Please let me have sleep. Okay.

One more “free” day.

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I think I will be taken really seriously as a blogger with this theme! I’m interested to know what you guys think so far? Of the three themes I’ve tried what do you like best? Are you even paying attention? HELLO?

Lately I’ve been sleeping inordinately long amounts of time. We’re talking teenager-long here. I’m almost too ashamed to say how much time I spend asleep every night. So I will say more than 9 hours and (sometimes) less than 12 hours. I can’t decide if this is good or bad. It could be good because I’m totally stocking up on sleep now, doing it while I can because come May 18th there ain’t gonna be nights of plentiful sleep. The bad thing is, my body is going to be SHOCKED the night of May 18th, as in I should have been training my body to be living on less sleep than usual.
And caffeine isn’t going to help because I’ve been consuming a lot of that lately too. I should be cutting it out so it’s SUPER potent when I consume it to stay awake for school, but no. Which reminds me, Starbucks gift-cards are ALWAYS welcome. You know, in case you’re worried that I won’t be able to stay awake during the drive from Lansing to Liberty. Starbucks caffeine always works.

So I’m not so much being proactive here. EEK. BUT I HAVE started the second chapter of my nursing book. TAKE THAT!

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You’re not very fun.  In fact, you are really hard work.  Unknowable hard work.  Guess I should learn some CSS?  And this whole limit on photo file sizes, yeah, not a fan.  

In other news, I found the cure to boredom!!  sleep!  

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