Psych

As of last week I am all finished with my adult health classes (and I passed my finals, woo!), which means I get to move on to Psychiatric/mental health classes. I'm still not sure how I feel about this, I don't really feel like psych is going to be my thing but you never know till you try it right? And even if I don't like it it's okay because I just need to get through it and then I'll get to go to pediatrics (working with kids) and OB (pregos and babies!) next year :). Also I'm pretty thrilled that after this rotation I will only have a YEAR of college left. Where did the time go?????? I really can't believe I'm almost done with my Junior year in college, it's freaking me out. But really it's not that big of a deal because I might just jump back in and get my Master's shortly after I get my license, but I still haven't decided on that one yet, we'll see. But either way at least I'll have some sort of degree and I can finally get a job as an RN, which will be exciting :)

While we're talking about psych, let's talk about how Psych is coming back tonight!! The show's been on hiatus for a while and the new episode is airing tonight and I'm going over to my buddy's house to watch it and I'm pretty excited. It's probably the best way to kick off a psych rotation ever :)

Man I've missed these guys!

Runnnnnnnnnnn

Okay, so (CHEESE), I decided I'm going to run 6 miles some day, so I gotta start now so maybe i'll be there in about 6 months. So my friends from nursing school said I should blog about it so everyone would know I'm going to run, and then I'd have to do it. So I started a blog about running. So now I have to put it up here so everyone will know and so I won't chicken out. So here's the link: http://runbonsterrun.blogspot.com/2012/02/so-this-one-time.html but feel free to not read it because it will be horribly boring :)

That is all, happy Thursday!

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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!