My events of working Saturday, 29MAR08:
0445: alarm goes off....Patton licks the mini blinds. I spray him with the water bottle, hit the snooze button, and try and roll over. patton continues to lick the mini blinds. I throw a pillow at him.
0450: Eventually just get up because I realize I won't be able to get much more sleep.
0500: shower and cup of coffee
0530: eat breakfast in front of tv
0545: leave for work
0610: get up on my floor and get my uniform ready in the locker room
06:20: go meet up with the night charge and think about assignments (but, I have a nurse who's on charge nurse orientation...so i'll let her do the assignments)
0630: help the orientee hear report from the night charge, mark off the code cart, do narc checks, and make sure all the nurses and corpsman are getting together and preparing for report
0700-0900: watch the orientee put in a few orders, check on a couple patients, check on staff, sit around.....surf ebay......contemplate calling tanya on 5 east and prank calling her....
1000: go over to 5 west and see brit who's also working
1015: go over to 5 east and see tanya who's also working
1100: sit on the counter and swing my legs and then look over and catch eye's with ADM Mike Mullen! (he's the former CNO and now the Chairman of the JCS--the joint chiefs of staff!) I jump off the counter and look at everyone at the nurses station to get up! I was NOT NOT NOT told about this visit! The nurses station looked messy, I had been SITTING on the counter in my uniform (thank God I wasn't stuffing my face like I normally am...), and didn't really call attention on deck. He's pretty laid back, so he was very pleasant, but I was the most senior person at work that morning and I felt like such a dope! Normally, they tell you about important visits like that and usually they don't come on a Saturday! When he turned, I swatted HN Walling (she used to work on our floor and was now escorting the Admiral) and said "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME HE WAS COMING???" Apparently, she had told one of our corpsman and they didn't realize the importance....sheesh. So, now I have two of his coins! :) Anyway, this mess all calms down and I go back to sitting around....
1300: go with tanya down to the ICU to see LTJG Chromiak! (i haven't seen her since she got back from Kuwait)
1430: talk on the phone with my mom and tape up my fingers with medical tape
1500: go see tanya on 5 east again and help her with training records. she demands I take the tape off my fingers since the tips are indeed purple...
1600: i don't remember what i was doing here. probably sending tons of text messages
1700: educate the corpsmen about oxygen devices and quiz them on situations
1730: educate the nurses on the zoll defibrillator and quiz them on situations
1800: teach the orientee on how to use standard orders on the computer
1810: go get water and beat my head on the machine.....time is passing too slowly. i want something to do.....
1830: bitch about having to be at work
1835: talk about how I can't wait for ens brown to get there....
1840: ens brown gets there and says I can go! :)
Then, I ran home and got ready and headed to Georgetown for the night with friends. Good times. We were only down to a single digit census, so I had nothing to do. I probably could have left the orientee, but there was a situation she was afraid I might need to be there for (I would have been scared too if I were on orientation) so she felt better if I stayed, but she knew how to do a lot of the charge nurse duties.
Yesterday, I got to go see the cherry blossoms and paddleboat around the tidal basin after church! See the pics on facebook.
Today, I got special lib. Thank God. I haven't had it since last summer and I have been SOO tired, so I came home and slept some more. This afternoon I saw Stop-Loss. That would be a whole other entry. There's no black and white to war. That's all I will say about it now.
Now, thinking about heading to Kuwait this summer and long term plans for my navy career. It's a fine navy day!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Everyword is nonsense, but I understand it all. - Counting Crows, Anna Begins
I could watch this commercial over and over and still laugh....
Everyone needs a good laugh :)
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Spend the day being lazy, just being nature's friend. - Alabama, Mountain Music
I can't get off my butt. Someone needs to come get me off the couch. I at least managed to go work out and then shower. Now. I'm stuck. I'm just watching the CMT country music awards rerun. Country music always gets me in the mood for summer.
I really have nothing to talk about. Nothing do to. I'm taking today to sit. I was up at work Mon-Wed and then I work Fri-Sun. This is the only day I get to do this.
Soooo...
"I sing songs about Texas. Sing them often as if they were some old lover..."
CMT keeps taunting me by showing commercials for Texas. It makes me sigh and think about being back in the good ole republic of tejas. Yes, we're a strange state. Our state stone is the petrified palmwood. Did you get that? Our state STONE is actually petrified wood. Hmm. In Lubbock, more than 3 unrelated people couldn't live together. It was considered a whore house. It was also a dry county. I did have fun driving out to the strip though. Here's a commercial about a funny law in Texas:
Here's another good video:
Sigh. Can't wait to get stationed in Corpus. That would be such a beautiful station. I miss the Texas sunsets...and I'd have the beach. And a dog! haha. Ahhh. And then, when the day comes and I retire, I'll buy some land and live out in the country. I'm kinda mad that I didn't take advantage of all the Texas country singers that would come to Lubbock when I was there. I wish I could go back and listen to them all.
Nothing is really happening right now. I'm working a lot, volunteering, hanging out with friends or my small group, trying to get into dc, and starting on deployment paperwork. After some work with Senior Chief down in contingency and my department head, I have found out I am finally on the list for Kuwait this summer. It'll be a great experience if I do indeed deploy. We'll see. I'm preparing, but I don't want to get too excited yet.
I really have nothing to talk about. Nothing do to. I'm taking today to sit. I was up at work Mon-Wed and then I work Fri-Sun. This is the only day I get to do this.
Soooo...
"I sing songs about Texas. Sing them often as if they were some old lover..."
CMT keeps taunting me by showing commercials for Texas. It makes me sigh and think about being back in the good ole republic of tejas. Yes, we're a strange state. Our state stone is the petrified palmwood. Did you get that? Our state STONE is actually petrified wood. Hmm. In Lubbock, more than 3 unrelated people couldn't live together. It was considered a whore house. It was also a dry county. I did have fun driving out to the strip though. Here's a commercial about a funny law in Texas:
Here's another good video:
Sigh. Can't wait to get stationed in Corpus. That would be such a beautiful station. I miss the Texas sunsets...and I'd have the beach. And a dog! haha. Ahhh. And then, when the day comes and I retire, I'll buy some land and live out in the country. I'm kinda mad that I didn't take advantage of all the Texas country singers that would come to Lubbock when I was there. I wish I could go back and listen to them all.
Nothing is really happening right now. I'm working a lot, volunteering, hanging out with friends or my small group, trying to get into dc, and starting on deployment paperwork. After some work with Senior Chief down in contingency and my department head, I have found out I am finally on the list for Kuwait this summer. It'll be a great experience if I do indeed deploy. We'll see. I'm preparing, but I don't want to get too excited yet.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Is there a tumor in your humor? - Robbie Williams, Supreme
Okay, fun entry today! I need it after a very stressful weekend at work.
Shortisms:
-Damn whoever thought up daylight savings time!! We had to work Sat/Sun and got one less hour in our already short night of sleep. Boo.
-One thing I can talk to my corspmen about is cars. We love talking about fun project cars, etc. I showed them some pics from the rx-7 I helped with in college. Then, we played on autotrader to look up possible projects. It's great to dream. Some day I want to do that again. It was a blast. Maybe I could get ahold of a skyline in Japan (if I ever get to go).
-We finally have a local bar to go to. It's about 1 min from my apt. We know the bartender pretty well already. He was a marine and then a navy seal. He's pretty cool. Cheaper drinks than DC! I can go in sweats after work and not feel like a loser. This is pleasing.
-I love the girls in my small group at church. I just wish I could get together with them more often. Time goes too fast.
-Liberty ski closes on the 16! BOOOOOO.....my snowboarding season is coming to a close and I'm very sad. I haven't had a lot of time in the last week or so to go and I have a free lift ticket. I'm gonna try and go tomorrow.
-Girls night tonight out in Dupont Circle!! "Only nurses bar hop on a Monday night"~Brit. We really NEVER go out much anymore. Now that I'm getting to know the newer nurses on my floor better, we try and get out more often. I def don't drink as much as I used to. That's a good thing. I was a little nuts when I first moved here. I think it was all the freedom.
-I want to go country dancing. I'm thinking soon we need to plan a trip to Cancun Cantina! Before that, I'll settle for two stepping with Tanya in my living room.
-Cookies and beer are taking a toll on my belly. :) I just polished off the homemade cookies I had in my cookie jar. Now, maybe I'll be better since I don't have them sitting there. Gotta get back to downing all my water like I used to.
-I love our interns at the hospital. I just have to say that. They're so great. I just love navy doc's in general. So much better than the ones I encountered in nursing school.
-Any food you put out at work will be gone in about 30 min.
-I love the metro ride to and from work. It's only two stops, but it's peaceful when I have my ipod on and a nice, calm walk to the station.
-This weekend: received 2 wedding invitations. 1 save the date magnet. Found out one friend got engaged and another is shopping for a ring. It's beginning to feel that I actually am going to be the last single person from my friends back home. Thankfully, a lot of my navy friends are. We tear it up! No settling down for navy nurses!
-I love my pleasantly confused old patients! One of them keeps calling on his call bell and then complaining to the male nurses and corpsmen that answer it that he's wanting some pretty women to come help him. haha. So, I went in (since he's a falls risk) and walked him from the bathroom to his bed. He was like "OH. HI." and I told him I wanted him to escort me back to his side of the room, so he put his arm out and did just that. When we got back by his bed, he pointed at me and said to his family "Look what I found when I came out of the bathroom!!!" and then proceeded to introduce me 3 different times during the 5 minutes it took for me to rehook him up to his IV. He and his roommate are sooooo hilarious. They're just these old Navy guys that swap war stories and talk about "the good old days on the ship" and crack jokes. I almost want to make sure whichever nursing home one of them goes to, that they will take the other one. It's like puppies. You can't separate them!
-We almost had a "britney" showdown on Friday with a psych patient. I was kinda bummed when I didn't get to see the psych techs do a take down on her and she agreed to go in the ambulance peacefully. As I said...it was an interesting weekend at work. When is it not, though?
-We get a new round of interns on our floor starting today. This could be interesting.
-One good thing about working at a hospital if you're hungover. IV's. One of my corpsmen didn't think he was working Sunday, and had a fun night Sat night...but they changed the schedule and he didn't know, so he came in on about 1 hour of sleep. Poor guy.
-The mcdonalds on base opens at 0530 :)
That's my short, but sweet update for now. Must go enjoy the day off.
Shortisms:
-Damn whoever thought up daylight savings time!! We had to work Sat/Sun and got one less hour in our already short night of sleep. Boo.
-One thing I can talk to my corspmen about is cars. We love talking about fun project cars, etc. I showed them some pics from the rx-7 I helped with in college. Then, we played on autotrader to look up possible projects. It's great to dream. Some day I want to do that again. It was a blast. Maybe I could get ahold of a skyline in Japan (if I ever get to go).
-We finally have a local bar to go to. It's about 1 min from my apt. We know the bartender pretty well already. He was a marine and then a navy seal. He's pretty cool. Cheaper drinks than DC! I can go in sweats after work and not feel like a loser. This is pleasing.
-I love the girls in my small group at church. I just wish I could get together with them more often. Time goes too fast.
-Liberty ski closes on the 16! BOOOOOO.....my snowboarding season is coming to a close and I'm very sad. I haven't had a lot of time in the last week or so to go and I have a free lift ticket. I'm gonna try and go tomorrow.
-Girls night tonight out in Dupont Circle!! "Only nurses bar hop on a Monday night"~Brit. We really NEVER go out much anymore. Now that I'm getting to know the newer nurses on my floor better, we try and get out more often. I def don't drink as much as I used to. That's a good thing. I was a little nuts when I first moved here. I think it was all the freedom.
-I want to go country dancing. I'm thinking soon we need to plan a trip to Cancun Cantina! Before that, I'll settle for two stepping with Tanya in my living room.
-Cookies and beer are taking a toll on my belly. :) I just polished off the homemade cookies I had in my cookie jar. Now, maybe I'll be better since I don't have them sitting there. Gotta get back to downing all my water like I used to.
-I love our interns at the hospital. I just have to say that. They're so great. I just love navy doc's in general. So much better than the ones I encountered in nursing school.
-Any food you put out at work will be gone in about 30 min.
-I love the metro ride to and from work. It's only two stops, but it's peaceful when I have my ipod on and a nice, calm walk to the station.
-This weekend: received 2 wedding invitations. 1 save the date magnet. Found out one friend got engaged and another is shopping for a ring. It's beginning to feel that I actually am going to be the last single person from my friends back home. Thankfully, a lot of my navy friends are. We tear it up! No settling down for navy nurses!
-I love my pleasantly confused old patients! One of them keeps calling on his call bell and then complaining to the male nurses and corpsmen that answer it that he's wanting some pretty women to come help him. haha. So, I went in (since he's a falls risk) and walked him from the bathroom to his bed. He was like "OH. HI." and I told him I wanted him to escort me back to his side of the room, so he put his arm out and did just that. When we got back by his bed, he pointed at me and said to his family "Look what I found when I came out of the bathroom!!!" and then proceeded to introduce me 3 different times during the 5 minutes it took for me to rehook him up to his IV. He and his roommate are sooooo hilarious. They're just these old Navy guys that swap war stories and talk about "the good old days on the ship" and crack jokes. I almost want to make sure whichever nursing home one of them goes to, that they will take the other one. It's like puppies. You can't separate them!
-We almost had a "britney" showdown on Friday with a psych patient. I was kinda bummed when I didn't get to see the psych techs do a take down on her and she agreed to go in the ambulance peacefully. As I said...it was an interesting weekend at work. When is it not, though?
-We get a new round of interns on our floor starting today. This could be interesting.
-One good thing about working at a hospital if you're hungover. IV's. One of my corpsmen didn't think he was working Sunday, and had a fun night Sat night...but they changed the schedule and he didn't know, so he came in on about 1 hour of sleep. Poor guy.
-The mcdonalds on base opens at 0530 :)
That's my short, but sweet update for now. Must go enjoy the day off.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Every simple act of mercy, every step to kingdom come, all the hope in every heart, will speak what love has done. - The Judds, Testify To Love
My whole world and all my previous values and thoughts are being twisted. I don't know what to do with all of this. I'm being moved beyond anything I could ever imagine and I'm seeing the world and God in a totally different way. I can't explain it and in reality I didn't ask for it. I asked for help finding a mate....and this whole pandora's box opened in which my faith is being tried and my mind is a whirl.
In the still, small voice He has, He's telling me that this lonely, painful time is necessary. I was on the verge of jumping into a marriage. It was broken. I became broken. It's scary looking back and seeing how close I was to doing something that may not have been God's plan for me. For us. I see so many friends getting married (I think there's only about 2 people from my nursing school class that is are not married or engaged). I want that love badly. I want to be in their shoes, but God's telling me to slow down and really look at myself and my life. Would I rather jump into something I feel is right at the time and I feel all the goosebumps and lovey-dovey feelings, or do I want to wait (forever how long this may be!) for the man that God has specially chosen for me and in the time being, be formed into a wonderful bride?
I will have to chose the second. It is painful and hard to be single, (especially when you know you're far from the thoughts of your previous loves) but it will all be worth it when I finally get to my wedding day and I know that I am a strong woman of God and I'm marrying a strong man of God who will not give me empty promises or tell me "I'm too much to handle".
I'm reading this amazing book, Captivating. (Thank you Shelley for mentioning it!) It talks about how relationships often get to a point, where the man feels he is going too deep into a woman's world and she requires too much and they stop and say "I'm not going there. This is all you will get from me. You're too much work."
When the book got to this, I stopped. For years, I have often thought that there was something wrong of me. This was said by all of my past loves. I knew at the time these things were said, that I was really reaching out. I felt a form of them leaving, and I got scared. Women fear abandonment more than anything and when they start to feel it, they pull on tighter and cling too much. My problem was that I loved so much that I was scared to death to let go, because they were all I had. Now, I need to learn to put all my love into Christ, and then I won't lean so much on men to emotionally fill my void in my heart.
Another chapter started mentioning Hosea (chapter 2):
"you will call me 'my husband';
you will no longer call me 'my master.
But, when God wins her back, their relationship is changed. It's better than it was before. She sees him as a love and not just "The king of kings".
It couldn't be more black and white. This year has been troubling. For me, but also a close friend. It's amazing that we're experiencing this together. I've often said that we should be single at the same time! Now, we're not planning to go guy watching at clubs, but grow in our spiritual relationships. This is a great time, and although my heart aches (most days and nights), I know it is all going to be better in the end.
You're all thinking.....very churchy message. Yes, it is. How strange. Seriously. I don't know what's happening to me. I've never been one to run around and talk about all this stuff so openly. But, these things that are being shown to me just make me stop in amazement. It's like my mind and heart are being read and the answers given to me, just like that! It's a daily struggle, because there are so many things from before that I still want to do and still do. I haven't cut out beer or going out with friends or anything crazy. I still listen to "secular" music. I will cut my hair again. haha. It's not like I'm going off into the amish country, but I am letting my heart be healed.
In the still, small voice He has, He's telling me that this lonely, painful time is necessary. I was on the verge of jumping into a marriage. It was broken. I became broken. It's scary looking back and seeing how close I was to doing something that may not have been God's plan for me. For us. I see so many friends getting married (I think there's only about 2 people from my nursing school class that is are not married or engaged). I want that love badly. I want to be in their shoes, but God's telling me to slow down and really look at myself and my life. Would I rather jump into something I feel is right at the time and I feel all the goosebumps and lovey-dovey feelings, or do I want to wait (forever how long this may be!) for the man that God has specially chosen for me and in the time being, be formed into a wonderful bride?
I will have to chose the second. It is painful and hard to be single, (especially when you know you're far from the thoughts of your previous loves) but it will all be worth it when I finally get to my wedding day and I know that I am a strong woman of God and I'm marrying a strong man of God who will not give me empty promises or tell me "I'm too much to handle".
I'm reading this amazing book, Captivating. (Thank you Shelley for mentioning it!) It talks about how relationships often get to a point, where the man feels he is going too deep into a woman's world and she requires too much and they stop and say "I'm not going there. This is all you will get from me. You're too much work."
When the book got to this, I stopped. For years, I have often thought that there was something wrong of me. This was said by all of my past loves. I knew at the time these things were said, that I was really reaching out. I felt a form of them leaving, and I got scared. Women fear abandonment more than anything and when they start to feel it, they pull on tighter and cling too much. My problem was that I loved so much that I was scared to death to let go, because they were all I had. Now, I need to learn to put all my love into Christ, and then I won't lean so much on men to emotionally fill my void in my heart.
Another chapter started mentioning Hosea (chapter 2):
6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will say,
'I will go back to my husband as at first,
for then I was better off than now.'
8 She has not acknowledged that I was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,
who lavished on her the silver and gold—
which they used for Baal.
14 "Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor [a] a door of hope.
There she will sing [b] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
"you will call me 'my husband';
you will no longer call me 'my master.
But, when God wins her back, their relationship is changed. It's better than it was before. She sees him as a love and not just "The king of kings".
It couldn't be more black and white. This year has been troubling. For me, but also a close friend. It's amazing that we're experiencing this together. I've often said that we should be single at the same time! Now, we're not planning to go guy watching at clubs, but grow in our spiritual relationships. This is a great time, and although my heart aches (most days and nights), I know it is all going to be better in the end.
You're all thinking.....very churchy message. Yes, it is. How strange. Seriously. I don't know what's happening to me. I've never been one to run around and talk about all this stuff so openly. But, these things that are being shown to me just make me stop in amazement. It's like my mind and heart are being read and the answers given to me, just like that! It's a daily struggle, because there are so many things from before that I still want to do and still do. I haven't cut out beer or going out with friends or anything crazy. I still listen to "secular" music. I will cut my hair again. haha. It's not like I'm going off into the amish country, but I am letting my heart be healed.
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