season opener

This site at Dillions today makes me soooo happy!
I look forward to one of these in my stocking every year!

Today I was more "house-hold" productive than ever...clinicals all day...then grocery shopping..then mowing the backyard and then mowing the front yard...making Birkey style rice. yummy!



Amazing what all can get done to avoid homework! Ha!

NON-

I got a NON-flattering and NON-fixable hole in my favorite jeans!

STINK!

Pumpkin Party

Yeah for pumpkins, parties, fun, food, and friends!

falling GPA

Yikes I hate microbiology and it hates me as evident by my scores this exam! Prof just thought he would throw that section in "for fun"! I still don't see it in the study guide. grrrr I hate that! My dislike for microbiology stems back to an undergrad class at 7am in a stinky lab where the crazy prof would say "morning microbiologist" and I would always respond "I am a (soon-to-be-) nurse" He never liked the nursing students. Well I take that back...he seemed to enjoy torchering us.

Do people even look at GPAs anymore? It is my last year at school...my goal is to not focus on the numbers anyway... it is not about the numbers..its about the knowledge. AMEN.

If I am speaking honestly..my gpa can only fall..... (i know i know...I heard a lot of people throw up at little right then, but it matters to me...or it used to matter to me....remember I have a new goal!)

Thanks for all your prayers during the rough spots. I made it through and frankly I am not looking back!

Now it is time to celebrate the pumpkins and pumpkin season!!! Yippee

prayer please

thanks for all volunteering to help me post videos! HA! maybe you all don't know how to do it either!

I have a major exam for my master's program this Friday. I have to pass it to graduate and I would rather not go through it again! (if I can help it!) Imagine writing essays for 6 hours on unknown graduate nursing topics. Sounds like a day of fun for sure. blah

Sunday an online "quiz" is due.

Monday a professor is coming to evaluate me in the clinical setting. No way to be prepared for that! Silent judge.

Wednesday I have a midterm.

I don't think I could handle much more....i know.

don't vote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpCyDA4kYA


P.S. Someday someone will have to teach me how to post things as video until then...enjoy the links!

October already!

Wow... I can't not blog on the first day of October. I love this month...the cool weather... the changing leaves (as long as I don't have to rake them!)...and most of all pumpkins!!!!!
Yummy! I have already started the pumpkin pie baking and soon to make the pumpkin bread. This time of year the cravings for such treats are overwhelming.

Hard not to get overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge to know and learn in the medical field. I think Nurse Practitioners are great but I am right now somewhat disappointed in my education. I have a year to go so hopefully it will get better and better. Maybe is just disappointment in myself and the vast amount of learning I have yet to go. I felt similar feelings after I just started as a brand new nurse. The school and only semi prepare you for the real world challenges ahead.

My beef right now: You come to the health care provider and complain of a sore throat....do you want to hear about nursing theorists or controversial issues in the healthcare or abstract comcepts ......no you don't...but that is what my professors are testing me over right now...in the form of a 6 hour essay test....you come because you hurt and you want a cure...you want antibiotics...which you really probably don't need cause it is just a virus...but I will give you a script because that is what makes you happy and "what you pay for" Crazy medical world!