Damn ding dong man!

So last night i started running and i get half way around my usual starter path and who do i hear....yes the ding dong man. i mean seriously doesn't he know that what he sells contributes to my problem and that i'm out there about to pass out. good thing i wasn't carrying a purse with me running! anyhow i survived my first night and tonight i'm a little sore. unfortunately i couldn't run tonight as i didn't get home from clinical until 10pm and its raining AGAIN. will try to get out tomorrow.

i also have a test tomorrow in my research class...this class just solidifies that i'm not getting a masters degree in nursing any time soon. we are learning how to classify different types of articles, god knows how this will help me take care of a patient. i barely have time to read glamour let alone something of substance:) i'm sure nursing journals will get read as often as my clarinet journals have been. they collect dust on my shelves.

by the way if you haven't figured it out i'm a VERY sarcastic person. its my way of coping with life's craziness.

I Survived

Thank you all for you prayers, it must have worked because i passed both my tests. tonight it was nice to just relax for once. i have another test friday but i still have 3 days before i have to study...LOL! i have to say going back to school at 30 makes you so much more relaxed about things sometimes. paperwork and papers stress me out but for some reason tests don't...go figure.

tonight ira (my husband in case some of you didn't know his name) and i went out to eat with my dad and sister Christie at the Texas Roadhouse. he came down today to watch the college world series and my sister came up to look for apartments near UNMC. she starts PA (physicians assistant) school this fall. all of us girls(my sisters and I) are trying to see who can go to school the longest. so far i'm winning! we all tried to convince my dad that he gets to repeat the funding for round 2 but he wasn't going for it. haha! i have to say both our parents set a good foundation/example for us, it was never an option NOT to go to college. now they just can't get us to stop!

i am going to try to post some family pictures soon if i can find some recent ones.

Pray for me

its 10:30pm and i just got home from sioux city band. Tomorrow (monday) i have two tests, one at 7:45am and one at 1pm. please pray for me during these times as i need all the help i can get! i'm going to now go finish studying for the first test and maybe look at the second tests stuff.

my plan is to take the first test then skip the rest of my morning class and study for the second test at that time! all you nurses out there reading this....please send me all your knowledge telepathically!

Friday!

Thankfully its friday tomorrow. i got my outline done, i have a test tomorrow and two on monday and then finally some reduced stress for awhile. not sure what i'm going to do this weekend, i just hope it doesn't rain. seriously someone is going to have to build an arc if this keeps up.

i've been wanting to start back running now for several weeks, but have just been too tired or it rains/storms. some nights i have been going to bed at 8:30pm which if you know me at all is extremely rare. i am a night owl and like to stay up till midnight or later. but hopefully i get to start jogging and maybe loose some of the billions of pounds i have put back on the last 2 years. sometimes i feel like a yo-yo, gain weight-lose weight. i usually just go with blaming my genetic makeup......or my motto is " i just haven't grown into my height yet" so if i was 5'10" i would be skinny!

Swimvitational & SC Muni Band

Today i started Sioux City Municipal Band below is a picture from last year of me soloing with my clarinet teacher from my undergrad, Dr. Reeves. This weekend i went to the swimvitational at the qwest center and below is a picture of that as well, its suppose to be one of Michael Phelps (an olympic swimmer - he is the one at the farthest edge of the pool walking) but it was taken with my camera phone, so not so great.

A picture of clarinurse is soon to come....stay tuned.

I almost had to be a patient.

Right now i am in my psych rotation at Immanuel Hospital and this week proved to be one hell of a week for me. Not only did i have my clinical paperwork to get done (which is more time consuming than anything) but i have part of a paper to write, my outline for my own paper to do - which is not your one word outline but a sentence outline that basically needs to be so complete you have pretty much wrote your paper, other group projects to work on and three tests that will occur in the next week. Then on top of that i am doing sioux city's summer band thing on sundays again this year which basically means i loose sunday pretty much completely for school work......... oh and i forgot i try to work at my job 10 hrs during the week too.

Needless to say i had a meltdown wednesday night in the car ride home from clinical trying to figure out how i was going to get everything done without having to commited. as the days have progressed since then i have been staying up late to get things done and have gotten a chunk of it done, but its so easy this semester to get stressed out with our schedule being so crazy and so much work to do.

I realize that i should probably not work and that i could get rid of band but those are the things that sometimes keep me sane. i don't have to think when i do them, they don't require an assessment, intervention, outcome plan to be put in place or ask the question what should you do to this patient...because hell if i know some days. i know doesn't that make you feel confident that i may be your nurse someday. i promise i will know more by then:)

well another 1am night i'm going to bed now.

It's clarinurse to the rescue!

After seeing some many people having a blog I decided to join this century. I feel like i have multiple things to get off my chest at times, especially now that I'm in school AGAIN. I think I deserve a medal for the most degrees before I'm 30...okay 31 pretty soon and they don't even relate which makes it all the more funny. That's why Ihave created clarinurse, she's quite the gal - she plays the clarinet and takes vitals all at the same time!!! This is just the beginning.......