A Lost Bet

My boss likes to make bets. So far I have been smart enough to either decline to take part in his bets, or only accept if I know I cannot lose. Also, my boss likes to cheat, he will deny this, but he does! So yesterday at work my boss was asking me about a dance I was supposed to attend for a friends birthday but was unable to. The theme of the dance was Super Heroes. I was saying how my friends and I were finding it hard to think of super heroes to dress up as. My boss then told me he could think of tons! He said to me "I bet you that I can name at least 50 super heroes off the top of my head by the end of today!" He said if he the lost the bet, he would wear a Santa costume to work the day that he worked closest to Christmas, and I would have to do the same if I lost the bet. Well I was totally in, I mean seriously who knows 50 super heroes off the top of their head, and the idea of seeing my boss in a Santa suite was just way too good to pass up! So the bet began. He was able to think of 20 right away...I was starting to get nervous! Within 30 minutes he had listed 62 freakin super heroes!! I had no idea my boss was a comic book geek! So I had lost the bet. I was now to wear a Santa suite to work! Not going to happen! So I did the only thing I thought I could to lessen my sentence...I offered to work New Year's Eve (the busiest freaking day of the year in the pharmacy) in exchange for only having to wear a Santa hat to work. My boss obliged. Crap! Now I have to work New Years Eve!

My Life

Ok, so I was starting to get hate mail from people who read my blog because it has been a few weeks since I last updated! Yeesh! Sorry I really don't have anything interesting to say but here goes. The last few weeks have been filled with the usual stress. School being at the top of the list. I had a rather silly paper due yesterday and that consumed my time because it was very difficult for me to write. I had to identify something on a medical ward of a hospital that I had just been working on and say why I thought it needed to be changed. Then I had to apply a crazy "Theoretical Model Of Change" to the item and work it through. I know, retarded, don't have to tell me that they are wasting our time! :) I have been finding myself so consumed with school lately that I have been very irritable and negative! I know people have noticed! Don't lie! So I am trying to stay positive and to have more of a social life. Last week I went over to my friend Darla's house, ON A SCHOOL NIGHT, and hung out with her and another friend Kim. All we did was watch some T.V., drink some Cosmopolitan's, and go over ideas for our papers, but it was great! It was a total stress release to go and do something other than school work for a change. The three of us have decided that for our own sanity, we must attempt to do this on a regular basis or we are going to go insane. So I am going to try and bring more balance to my life in the coming months to better handle the stressful life of a nursing student.
I was also struck this past week during a sermon at my church. The pastor was talking about how if we perceived things in our lives as "chance" or "Divine intervention". He mentioned things like the people we work with or go to school with, and do we think those people were put with us by chance, or by Divine intervention. That really got me thinking about things, and I am certain that God put people like Darla, Kim, Tanja, Erin, etc in my nursing class with me for a reason. He even put people in there that I don't particularly like for a reason too and I need to pay more attention to God's nudges in my life and his voice. I have been convicted about a lot of these things lately. Especially I think because of my lack of Church attendance due to my heavy work load at school. I have a lot of work to do still, but I think being aware of it is a good thing. I am glad that I was made aware of the fact that I need a social life and that I am not leading a very balanced life and could go nuts if things don't change!
Ok, so there yah go! A very long winded, but honest look at what is going on with me right now!

Through to the other side...for now

Well, it has been a couple of weeks from H-E-double hockey sticks :) I have been living a solitary life of studying for exams, writing papers, and prepping for patient care! But I am happy to say, that even though I never thought it would happen, I have made it through to the other side in one piece, minus a few cracks and chips, and I think I am still mostly sane. Although I am sure some would debate it. But I feel completely exhausted and I still have two days of clinical left tomorrow and Friday for this rotation. Then I fully intend to not even so much as LOOK at a nursing text book, binder, or study card for the ENTIRE Thanksgiving weekend. Take that nursing program! But I have my good reasons other than pure exhaustion. My best friend Heidi is coming home from Winnipeg on Friday, I am picking her up at the airport at 3pm! I can hardly contain my excitement. She has been gone for almost 2 months! Its been sucky! As well, my very good friend Karyn and her lovely husband Duane are coming down from Calgary for the festivities and I can't wait to spend time with them too! So looking ahead to this weekend is the only think keeping me from going completely nuts right now, because I see a light at the end of the tunnel of this very long week and I am RUNNING at it!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


This is my best friend Heidi in her finest hour, wearing a towel on her head in the middle of Caeser's Casino in Lake Tahoe, on a trip that we took together last summer. Aint she purdy!?