FIRST MONTH OFF ORIENTATION

So I've been off orientation for about a month and a half now and let me tell you I have learned sooooooo much it's insane. The night shifts that I have worked off orientation have been fine, not overwhelming, slow pace, and kind of boring. My first week back on days was quite the opposite. Last week was the week my arms fell off from being pulled in 100 different directions, my feet became numb because they were being stood on for 12 solid hours, and my brain went KABOOM from all of the information being absorbed...it was a great week...HA NOT!!!

I do think that this week definitely taught me about what nurses really go through on a daily basis. I guess the days that I had worked before were busy but this past week was a whole other meaning of that "busy" word.

Oh A.D.D moment...so I found out this past week that I'm getting a puppy for Xmas!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! she's a long haired black and tan miniature dachshund. I'm going to name her Sally because I figured we should keep the charlie brown theme going on in our family. Eli's dog's name is Linus and he said that if they get another dog they'd name it Lucy...I liked the name sally and she's my favorite Peanut's character, so there you go...

This past weekend was amazing I got to visit all my pals up in Cedar Falls, stay in the double wide trailer I had missed so much...ha, not, I got to see my wonderfully prego friend Jamie and her newlywed apartment. We made these really great cookies, they were pumpkin oatmeal and they were delicious. I got to spoil her a little with some baby stuff, she finds out the sex of the baby today actually :). On Saturday I headed up to no where Iowa and went to my nursing school friend Tesia's wedding, it was so great. I also got to spend some quality time with a few of my other nursing school friends. I love those times when you get together with friends and it's as if you never left each other; you just start up right where you left off. I missed them a ton and it def. made me realize that I need to be a better friend to Tesia who I love and miss and she only lives an hour away. Anyways it was so great to see them all and have fun dancing and swapping new nursing stories and experiences. It's weird how we all have these new lives but are still experiencing what it feels like to be new nurses in new cities.

Then to end the weekend I got to hang with my parents and then they told me I was getting a puppy...THE END :)