late night in seattle

Hello, this weekend i am in seattle. We (sarah a. and I) came to visit our good friend christine. Sarah and i were quite tired on sat, explination will follow. Sarah is attending school at BYU Idaho (aka ricks), she took a shuttle down to SLC fri evening while i worked. Sarah then went out on a date and was sup to meet me at my apt at midnight, she arrived at 0330 am (due to some construction and confusion)we then stayed up and talked till my boyfriend ben came and picked us up at 0630 to take us to the airport. We were anticipated to leave at 0800 but becuase my sister-in-law loves me and let us use a buddy pass we were standby. Our flight was delayed till 1245pm and we then got 2 hrs of sleep in the plane. We arrived in seattle to meet christine at the airport. We drove to a little scandinavian(sp?) town Poulsbo where we are staying and checked into ouw hotel. We went shopping and then out to dinner to meet christines boyfriend (we approve). We attempted to find a place to dance but ended up just walking around and then just going back to our hotel to crash. 80) sarah and i made it almost 48 hrs on 2hrs of sleep!!! Sunday we went to church, met christines family(pets included - and there are many) and then hung out and watched some movies sarah had missed while on her mission. Today we are going to make the trip back to ut after some breakfast and some shopping. 80) i love my friends and i forgot how much fun i have while i am with them. -- photos will follow soon-

oh i also bought some crazy fun shoes that i call my minni mouse shoes, you'll see what i mean.

done with the first round of tests is over and this is kinda what my brain feels 80)

my brain on tests

A.S. !!!!

Ok I am excited!! at the end of this semester i will have my official Associates Degree in Science. All that really means to me is that i never have to take another math class again. WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO only this semester of math to finish it out.

I love my job

Nothing very significant happened last night at work, just the same old stuff. This morning while reporting to the next nurse on shift i couldn't help but feel she just did not really want to be at work today (this is not the first time i have felt this from this person). When she first began working at our hospital she was happier and usually smiled when she came in, that has stopped. This just made me realize how important it is to love what you do. Granted that not every day i wake up wanting to go into work but when i am there i love what i do, i arrive happy and ready to start my next 12 hr adventure. To me the day you do not enjoy what you are doing is the day you need to look for a new job especially in my line of work. I know our surgical floor can run you ragged and leave you exhausted but that is our floor and you have to really be ready for it cause it never slows down. I guess i just wish that every one who came into work would at least smile because if i don't see a smile i interpret into something i did/didn't do. I know i don't effect every one and not every one is all smiles when coming into work but it is something that i feed on 80) I need smiles just like i need my sunshine 80)

BURRRRRRRR

Holy crap I am freezing! It is a balmy 5 degrees here in Ogden this a.m. and I am hating it. At this point in time i am only warm covered in about 3 blankets or in the bath tub, other than that i am cold. I usually like the winters here but this one is packing a lot more bite and not so much snow. 80) love ya'll

Bob Marley

so i know the song is old school, but it helps me get through weekends like the one i just had. 80)

Bob Marley-Three Little Birds

Code Blue!

That is what i heard a lot of this weekend. As most of you know i am a nurse at a hospital in Ogden and i have been working at this hospital just over a year now. In the initial year of employment i never had a code blue on one of my shifts (a code blue is when one of your patients stops breathing or there heart stops, you prob know this from tv shows). Anyway... so yeah none in a whole year, then this weekend came. While i was about to leave work sat am after my night shift a co workers patient stops breating and we have to give her some medication to counter-act the narcotics that she had taken. She recovered and is fine but i stayed at work 3.5 hours longer making that an almost 15hour shift. Then today one of my little old lady patients was doing fine and two minutes later her heart decided to stop. She was a full code (means do everything possible to bring her back) so we had to shock her and tube her (put a tube down her throat into her lungs to make her breath). In the end i am exhausted and I dont think there is any adrenaline left in my body. 80) They were both good learning experiances, i was just wish they would not of been in the same weekend that my spring semester starts. - i am gonna go catch some zzzzzz's now before i go to math-

HAPPY 2007!!!!

Hello! I hope that everyone had a wonderful new year. I got to ring in 2007 with some of my fellow nurses and doctors while working 80) it was a short celebration and more of a brake from the busy night, but it was nice. I brought in some Martinelles (sparkling apple cider) so we could toast to the year.
My christmas was wonerful, i spent a week in Davis, Ca with my grandma. We ate our christmas dinner at IHOP. Grandma had the swedish pancakes and i had some wheat pancakes and egg. Durring the week we just spen time together, watched some movies and of course ate at some of our traditional spots.