Here we go again!

More snow falling. Just got rid of most of the last go 'round.



No school AGAIN!


Pay not attention to Sassy peeing. She thinks this is fun! I have Nick well trained too. As soon as I call him to come in, he runs like hell in the other direction. He will return when he's good and ready!

The shortest update you'll ever want

Just a brief note to update you on my first hospital clinical yesterday (finally!) All was well, I got over my high anxiety and got on with the business of the day. With 10 minutes left before I needed to be back in the classroom for a post-clinical conference, my day unravelled.

All I will say is that it involved a bed bath (given by me) some fecal incontinence (not me), cleaning it all up (me) and an NG tube, known to some as the "nose hose", falling out and on the ground (not me), which had to be reinserted (thankfully, not by or in me.)

Yes, that is all I will say. No, there will NOT be pictures.

You're welcome.

I need sedation!

Killed my first patient...

alright, maybe they were just neonatal plants, but still!



My only excuse is that school hasn't left me enough brain cells to remember to check on them everyday.



I have watered them, an some of the cabbages and celery have rebounded, but I fear the broccoli are DOA.

Then there was this





impeding my progress toward the building where the little guys were basking in their artificial light. Even after a solid night of rain, I still have thick snow on the ground and on Steve the Shed's roof! Go figure.

There is the possibility that it might snow again tonight, but nothing like the East Coast is experiencing. But I hope it doesn't cancel my "first" clinical again. Otherwise, I might have to pull 12 hour shifts in the hospital as a student in order to get my required hours in!!

Schoool's out for summer.....

Okay, not really, but it was closed today and will be again tomorrow for those with Saturday classes. I don't have class tomorrow, but would have had my first clinical experience at the hospital. Now I don't know when it will happen. The patients were spared for another day!



When I woke up this morning, it hadn't even rained, even though it was predicted that the winter weather would arrive between 3 and 5 AM. It started raining about 8 AM. That wouldn't have been a problem except Stud Muffin came down with the flu yesterday afternoon and it was much worse this morning. We HAD to go to the doctor.

(See the light bar in the window above the porch railing? That is where my seedlings are growing!)

By the time we got out of the clinic, the snow was thick on the ground and it made for a very scary trip home. The longest 10 mile drive of my life! In spite of the window defroster, the windshield iced up and I had to peer through bands of ice. I couldn't see the edge of the roadway and was worried that the tires would fall into the shoulder and we would end up in a ditch, or creek, or hay field. I am nothing if not resourceful, so I drove down the middle of the highway all the way home!! I say, screw the drivers coming in the other direction!! I'm a rebel that way.



The dogs think this is really neat, except that they can't find any toys in the yard.

I'm lookin', I'm lookin'...

A ball was finally located and lots of romping occurred accompanied by some good-natured arguing.



By the time we got home, the snow had drifted up against the garage doors. I had to drive up and over a big hump of ice and snow to park inside. So after I got Studly settled back in bed, I got out the tractor to try and "plow' the driveway. Not an easy task, at least not for me. Since the front bucket doesn't pivot like a snowplow, I had a heck of a time turning around and finding a place to dump snow. The box blade in back was handy, but again, with no place to exit the driveway to dump the contents, it quickly build up to the point of stopping the back tires! It took me about an hour, but I finally cleared most of the drive. Whew!

More freezing rain and snow coming tonight.

In sad news, my neighbor couldn't stop his truck in the snow storm and ran over his dog, Dixie, killing her. If any of you are experiencing this nasty weather, just stay home. It's nasty out there!

As promised

Okay, so I didn't actually promise, but since I know you are all holding your breath waiting for a picture of my little seedlings, here it is.



Aren't they cute?? Getting so grown up!!

I took my first nursing test yesterday, and I got a 92! Out of 100! Or maybe a 94, but I think a 92! The official scores haven't been posted, but we very quickly went over the answers before they took the test papers back, and I think I got a 92! Did I say I got a 92?? Have I slept lately?? One of the great mysteries of life.

Oh, somebody posted this funny on the school discussion forum.

For nursing students:
1. Wake up!!
2. Survive
3. Go to bed!

Should be a t-shirt or something, don't ya think?

It's cute, but not as good as this shirt I saw at the uniform store:

"You can't scare me, I'm a nurse!"

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Haha! I think I'm punch drunk, but since we are getting slammed with some scary winter weather over the next two days, school has been cancelled (including my clinicals) so I have time to rest and catch up on my reading.

Just checking in

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First off, let me just say that I have a sleeping-pill hangover today. I mean... all day long. I am still waiting to wake up! I took a pill last night after over a week without an uninterrupted night of sleep. I kept waking up in the middle of the night (no doubt "working" on my school work) and HAD to get out of bed for an hour or more before I could go back to sleep.

So, I took the pill and have been sleepwalking all day. Unfortunately, I have my first nursing school exam tomorrow morning. It covers something more than 1/3 of the textbook and needless to say...I'm freakin' out, man!! But, I will make through.

I was going to take a picture on my little vegetable seedlings when I watered them this morning, but I forgot to take the camera with me to the shop. See the above explanation for my goofy behavior. The good news is that the seedlings are getting their first "real" leaves and looking pretty happy. Still no Rosemary yet.

I have my first "clinical" on Saturday at the hospital. I hope I don't kill my first patient! But really... can you drown having a bed bath?? We are expecting an ice storm on Friday, so Stud Muffin has volunteered to drive me uptown in order to be there by 6:30 AM. Then he gets to come back and retrieve me at 2 PM. What a good husband!

Dinner planning still needs some help. I am learning that even when my class schedule has me home by early afternoon, the reality is I will probably still be on campus with tutoring and lab practice until quite late. Then I couldn't care less what is for dinner as long as it is fast and easy. Studly cooked steaks the other night and that was wonderful! My first home-cooked meal that I didn't have to cook! Whoo hoo! Let's everybody cheer loudly so he is encouraged to cook more meals!!

I guess that is about all I have to report. The daily schedule is: drink coffee, go to school, study until it is time to pretend to sleep, get up, go back to sleep, then repeat the whole thing. Boring, but it is what it is. Have a good one!

Seeds, glorious seeds!

Just popping in to publicly thank Judy at My Freezer is Full for the wonderful giveaway she had a while back, that I actually won!! Thank you, thank you, Judy!!



I received my package yesterday with a collection of Emergency Survival Seeds from Hometownseeds.com. This is so awesome!! There are 16 packets of non-hybrid seeds... everything from corn to lettuce, chard, beets, peppers, and squash! It even came with a multi-page planting guide and instructions, which you can't read in the photo above cuz I'm a bad photographer.



I can't wait to plant these and see what these varieties look and taste like!! I'm not sure if I won because she randomly drew my name, or because she felt sorry that I was going bald studying for finals last month. I don't care how I won. I'm just excited that I did!!



My little seedlings are growing right along. The cabbage and broccoli are up, but there is no sign of the celery or rosemary yet. I didn't expect them all to sprout at the same time, so I am not surprised or disappointed.



Seedlings make me happy, especially when there is snow on the ground.



You know what else makes me happy?? Homemade French Toast for Sunday breakfast! Yummmy!



You wanna know what I don't like? When my husband offers to make me an ice cream sundae with a little chocolate sauce (my request, I'm on a diet, you know) and he hands me this:



Smart-a$$.