This past week was the week of the misfit patient. I have 2 patients who were on a 1:1 status meaning they had such bad dementia that they had to be supervised at all times. SO MUCH FUN!!! One of those 1:1 patients needed to be in isolation because of the flu. That one decided to pull out her IV not 1 but 2 times. and she was a bitter, scratcher, and spitter outer of any medications. I also had a bunch of patients who were just dead weight to move around and in turn killed my back and feet.

Putting aside the misfits this was my last week on orientation. I should have started my first day as an independent RN today but I was put on call!!! That's what I get for being a Newbie, o well I can now spend my day blogging and having coffee and a bagel at my new favorite place. It's Brewster's coffee and Big Apple bagels. When I first visited Brewster's I saw this display cooler with GINORMOUS mounds of something that was absolutely mesmerizing. I thought at first they had to be ice cream but NOOOOOOOOOOO, it was something much better, They were big mounds of homemade cream cheese!!! Amazing.

ANY WHO, hopefully I don't have to go to work today and I can just chill out drinking coffee and looking at huge mounds of cream cheese.

One can only dream right?!

Kitchen Update

This is how I installed the utensil hanging racks, pretty comfortable if I do say so myself!

My beautiful magnetic knife holder and my butcher block

So I hung two tracks underneath my cabinets that hold hooks which hold my utensils. I also bought those 2 white cup things that hold more utensils. I love my new organized kitchen!!

KERI, BAYLOR AND BRODY

This week I got to speak with my wonderful friend Keri. Anyone who knows me has heard me talk and talk and talk and talk about my friend Keri and her 2 beautiful, insane boys Baylor and Brody. I miss them a ton and hate not being within an hour of their house. I have had so many great memories with those 3; I just think about them all the time.

I have known Keri since highschool and she had just met this boy Lonnie, they started dating and wham, boom, pow they got married and had babies. :) That's the really short version but you don't need the details. I was so excited to meet the first baby. I knew I wanted to be a part of his life when he was born. Baylor was born when I was away at college and when I would come home for breaks I always ventured up to Lisbon to visit. I remember the first time I heard him laugh, I think he was laughing at my laugh but we just went back and forth laughing at eachother on the living room floor. I remember going to the pool with them and playing with tuberware and imitating the choo choo as it went by every 5 mins. I remember when I was babysitting him with his gma Kris Kris and we read the BUGGIE book. Baylor was very enthusiastic about the BUGGIE and when we tried to get him to say BERKLEY he would just yell BUGGIE. I took what I could get :) He then was able to say Berkie and thats who I stayed. I love that name. Especially now that Brody is in the picture and calls me that too. I haven't been able to get as close to Brody as I would have liked but I still love to visit him and hear his laugh and get hugs and kisses from him.

Those boys teach me so much about the joys of life, how to play bubble baseball, how to catch rollie pollies and more than I ever wanted to know about Dinosaurs. There so creative and smart and I miss just being with them watching a show about tractors or playing in the park.

I can't wait to see them again, I know they are growing into such great young men, and with a mother like Keri they are going to be the most creative, polite, considerate, God fearing gentleman the world has seen.

WELL HELLO JAMES ARTHER!!!

This week my mom came to visit Mon, Tues, and Wed. We had a blast; we hung up all of my IKEA buys from about a month ago so now my kitchen is uber organized and very posh if I do say so myself. We went shopping and found dresses for the upcoming wedding of one of my cousins Ryan and his fiance Angie. They get married on Oct. 3rd here in Lincoln. I'm super stoked for that weekend because Eli and Katie get to come out and see my apartment and I just love spending time with my whole family. I always love the conversations our family has when we get together; there is always so much insight on God, Music, Movies, Politics, and futures plans we're praying for. I learn something new from each of them every single time we get together.

ANYWAYS BACK TO MY MOM

After we shopped and channeled our inner Bob Vila and drilled a bunch of holes in my walls (some used and some now mysteriously hidden) we ventured out to the James Arther winery. Wine tasting has become something that our family really enjoys and I can honestly tell you that this winery trumps them all. It's on beautiful land with amazing trails that take you throughout the vineyard and up to the top of a hill to unveil these majestic views of the countryside. However the best part was the actual wine tasting. I can with out a doubt say that there wasn't a wine we tasted that I didn't like. They were all ooooooooo so good. Plus she gave us practically a half a glass for each wine, so we felt amazazazing. No truthfully we were totally fine but it was soooooo much fun. After we tasted the wine and bought them out of their entire stock, we took our picnic of grill salmon, baguette, Nebraska Cheddar, and an apple up to the top of the hill and sat on swings and had a wonderful lunch with a beautiful view.

I can't tell you how much that visit from my mom meant to me. I love her so much and she is truly my best friend. I miss both of my parents a ton and was really starting to get homesick. My parents don't know this but I would often cry after I would get off the phone with them. Recently I have just felt really lonely and to have her around to hang out with and do stuff with meant the world to me.


LOVE YOU MOM!!!

Catch up

So I haven't blogged in a long time so I thought I would catch everyone up on all the knew happenings and thoughts that have been going on in my life. (like you all care but whatev's)

I have been working night shift for the past few weeks and I have really hated every minute of it. It was so hard to adjust to the new sleeping schedule and it was just really boring. I also had a few encounters with a not so nice employee of mine. I about exploded at her for attacking my family that she knew of here in Lincoln. The kicker is that she knew they were my relatives before she decided to vomit nastiness about my family all over me. I rotate working the day and night shift so hopefully the nights that I work won't be with this particular cohort of mine. :)

Moving on at quite a fast pace me and my cousin Kim when to a Beth Moore simulcast at a local church here in Lincoln and it was absolutely amazing. She talked about Psalms 37:1-9 with a focus on vs. 4 which says "delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart" The whole weekend she talked about desires and what they are and how in God's perfect timing those desires will present themselves in our lives. The most challenging question about this weekend should be a relatively simple question but me and Kim found it to be a very challenging one. WHAT ARE OUR TRUE DESIRES? that simple but "O" so difficult. We had never really sat down and meditated on what are desires for our lives are and then questioned the fact that HOW DO WE KNOW THERE GOD'S DESIRES FOR OUR LIVES? I have been thinking a lot about these questions and praying for those desires to be God's same desires. I have also been praying for patience during the waiting period. God definitely spoke to me that weekend and it was a well over due wake up call.

That same weekend after the Beth Moore conference I went over to Kim's and got to babysit her 3 kids. I'm pretty sure their more mature than I am but they are such a joy. We played a rigorous game of 4 square and boy o boy did I clean up that game. It was the Mullet team (me) vs. the Animal team (Haleigh, Hannah, and AJ) They all have a favorite animal so it was me against a Horse, Wolf, and a Panther. The Mullet team came from the t-shirt I was sporting that day that has a picture of a man with a fuzzy mullet with the caption..."business in the front, party in the back" absolutely hysterical. My friend Keri so kindly gave the shirt to me and I wear it proudly, especially back in my trailer living days. I had an blast and can't wait to do it again!!!