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Hey guess what I start clinical work in a hospital TOMORROW!!! And am I ready? No way! But I guess there's no better way to get ready than to dive right in eh? Still, I'm a little bit freaked out. I suddenly can't remember anything I learned last semester :S My only consolation is that I will have my group buddies with me. And also that I will look legit in my scrubs :). Anywho, I'm so excited to finally learn to work with real people and not just the plastic manikins we've been using in lab. I guess this is when I'll figure out if this whole nursing thing is for me or not :).

Anyways, that's all, I gotta go to sleep now so I can get up crazy early tomorrow morning.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic start to the new year!

The Semester is OVER!...For REAL!

So I just finished my last final, which means I'm officially done with my first semester of nursing school, which is very exciting. Here are some things I've learned this semester:

1. D7 is the coolest. Ever. You know who you are.

2. Disneyland is awesome, but it might be a bad idea to go before your final :) Totally worth it though.

3. It's a good idea to read the book, but apparently it doesn't help improve your test scores.

4. It's okay to get a B. Sorta.... :)

5. Sometimes waking up at 5 in the morning requires a minimum of 3 separate alarms.

6. Pharmacology fascinates me, but I'm sooooooo glad that class is over.

7. I can do clinicals. I didn't think I could, but so far so good :)

8. Nursing lab is super awesome, and you should be jealous of all the cool stuff we learn.

9. I know how to give shots. It's cool. Be jealous.

10. Peppermint Hot Chocolate is sooooooooooooo good, especially at Disneyland.

11. Dr. Who is AWESOME.

12. Pocahontas should have picked Kocoum. He's way hotter than John Smith and that other dude from the second movie combined. You know, as far as cartoon characters go...

13. The Help is awesome. Both as a book and as a movie. Soooooo good. Go read it right now. For serious.

14. Boiled eggs are a great snack and are available at the cafe at my school for around 50cents. It's pretty great.

15. My brain is officially fried from school, so I can't think of anything else.

So yeah most of that had nothing to do with school, but it's all important stuff. Sorta. :)

Have a lovely Christmas break!

The Semester is OVER!...Almost.

So besides one more final a week from now, I'm done with my first semester of nursing school. It's very exciting stuff. To celebrate being almost finished, three of my fellow nursing students and I went to Disneyland. It was awesome. (See above photo, this was in front of Small World. For more photos, see facebook). We went up Friday after our nursing concepts final, went to the park on Saturday, ran around the park getting into all sorts of shenanigans for 17 hours, then came back Sunday afternoon. It was pretty much epic sauce. Even though we only had one day at the park, one of our buddies knows everything about Disneyland, so she planned it out so we could hit all the best rides and shows, so we got everything important in, sometimes twice :) And it was especially cool because everything was all decked out for the holidays.

The only problem is that after spending a weekend in the most magical place on earth, it's a little hard to come back to reality and make myself study for my last final :P But luckily I only have to make my brain work for one more week, and then I will have three weeks to be lazy and make it nice and empty again before the next semester starts up!

Tests

So I am in my last few weeks of the semester and I feel like I am being bombarded with tests. This is always a part of the end of school, but I feel like this semester has some extra ones thrown in there, which is silly. And it's kind of bad timing because my brain has decided that it's pretty much done with this whole school thing and it doesn't really want to work anymore, it just wants some sleep and quality TV time. So it's a little hard to get it to buckle down and study and all that jazz. Which is a little frustrating for my gut, which is the part that suffers if I get a bad test grade, but whatevs. But in a few weeks, it'll all be over for a few weeks. Then it will start all over again :P. But in about 18 months I will be done with college! This freaks me out a little, but I'm excited.

In other news, I just finished the Count of Monte Cristo about two weeks ago, and it was pretty great. Soooooo much better than the movie.

So basically this post was pointless, I just thought I'd throw it out there. Now I'm gonna go watch Enchanted :)

Peace!

Procrastination

So I am supposed to be studying right now. So of course I am on my computer blog stalking and looking at facebook. So I figured, as long as I am procrastinating, why not blog about it? So here I am :)

Ummmm since last I posted I haven't done much other than school, school, and ....school :) (See facebook for pictures). And when I'm not in school I am studying or watching TV, so as you can see, my life is super duper exciting :) But I'll try to think of things I've been doing for you, let's see:

1. Watching Psych season 6!! Woooo!

2. Buying books, namely: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, the entire collected works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories by Washington Irving, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickins, and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. (Thanks Bethany!!). And now I will read them, so that will be fun.

3. Watching movies with my nursing homies while we study, make T-shirts, and just chillax and recover from school, namely Cars 2, Toy Story 3, and Finding Neverland, cause we are 12 :)

4. Reading the Old Testament, and taking an OT institute class with my Dad, which is pretty awesome sauce :)

5. Playing through all of the hymns in the LDS hymnbook. (I broke number 100 yesterday, woot!) Just for fun, I feel bad for my family's ears though, I'm not real great at the piano, but I'm getting a little better :)

6. Watching waaaaaay too much Hulu and Netflix, definitely gonna cut back on that this week.

7. Trying to exercise, I decided I want to get to where I can run 6 miles without stopping, so far I can do half a mile....so we'll see how that goes :)

8. Having the song Party Rock stuck in my head all the time for no apparent reason....

So yeah, that's about it I think, I should probably go study now, peace out homies!

I'm a nurse...almost

So as many or all of you know I started nursing school this semester! This picture is of my learning community (a group of 10 girls that I spend all day every day with, and all of them are absolutely amaazing), and my FOR (Faculty of Record, Martha, basically our boss, who is awesome). This picture was from our last day of doing our health education project at a preschool, which was way fun. I'm seriously way lucky to be in this group, it's definitely the best one :)

So yeah, nursing school is pretty great, it's also totally overwhelming at first, but we get used to it, until we get weeks like next week get thrown at us where we have an exam and two competencies (practical exams). Woot! But it's all good, because one of the competencies is on injections, so now we are all official needle wielders, which makes us official nurses! We did our first injections last Tuesday and totally rocked them. I lucked out and got an awesome partner so when she stuck me it didn't hurt, and she was not a wimp so sticking her was no big deal :) (She's the one in the middle of the front row of the picture). So after all our competencies and stuff, we will be allowed to do some of our skills on actual patients in a long term care facility! Woohoo! It will be legit, and a little nerve racking, but it's all good.

School isn't all fun and games and sticking each other with needles though, it's also a lot of studying and not a lot of sleep and being at school for a long time every day and feeling stressed and behind on studying all the time. But luckily we have our learning groups to lean on for support, so at least we don't have to go it alone :)

So yeah, that's pretty much been my life for the last seven weeks, and it'll be my life for the next two years, so that's kind of exciting. And then I'll be a nurse for real!! And I'll get to clean up poop and puke and blood for the rest of my life, which will be gross, but probably worth it. :)

Trekkie

So my inner nerd has been especially prevalent lately. I don't know if it's because I'm in school all the time, or because they put all the Star Trek episodes on netflix, or if I just am letting me be me a little more often, but either way it's fun to be a nerd. For instance, I recently got way too excited about Klingon instructional videos on youtube. I also bought a set of Star Trek cups at Bookmans, and was tempted to buy the Star Wars set also. I also found Star Wars: Jedi Knights of the Old Republic, the PC game, which I have conquered twice a few years ago, and decided to play it again. I was also recently heartbroken when I discovered that Atomic Comics closed. It was a blow. I also just read Jane Slayre, and I like Zombies. I also just found a list of 50 nerdy things to do before you die, hello new bucket list! Also, I currently spend all of my time studying pharmacology or nursing theory. Woot. So yeah, that's the nerdy stuff I've been up to lately, I feel like there's more but I can't think of anything, cause I'm sleepy. That is all. Peace.

P.S. Go listen to White and Nerdy by Weird Al, it speaks the words of my soul :)

P.P.S. Also I just took a quiz to see how nerdy I am, and I got: Supreme Nerd. Yessssss! I scored higher on the nerd scale than 93% of the people who took the test. Find out how nerdy you are! http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php