27 Today

Today I turned 27. I thought that turning 25 felt old but actually turning 27 I don't feel old. I think that when I turn 30, it may hit me that I am old but for now I will just enjoy being 27. I did have a really good birthday, spent sometime with my family which was good. We also had a cake which was a good suprise. I didn't think that I would get a cake this year but my family suprises me sometimes.

This year my birthday happens to fall during reading week which is nice, I get a holiday during my birthday....but I guess I will have to start my papers soon anyways to get them out of the way. The much dreaded clinical rotation starts next monday. 3 more rotations to go, we'll see how this one goes first.

Unwritten

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I like this song, It's called Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.

We're all kind of made of blank pages
and we don't know what is to come. Kind of like an empty book waiting to be written...

Starbucks expedition.

So we have a new starbucks here in town and I was so excited when we got it. Everyone was excited because on the southside, there is only the starbucks in the safeway and well they don't make very good coffee...(sorry if anyone I know works there.)
The new starbucks is 1 of 6 starbucks in town here. I was thrilled because they have my favorite drinks and a drive-through. I don't like to get out of my car when the temperature dips as low as it did today or on any other day for that matter.
So my first few times through the drive-through (2 times)...were actually really good experiences. I ordered my drink (venti upside-down, one shot espresso with caramel through-out, caramel machiatto.) and they got it right. The second time it was a white mocha.
Well my next few times through the drive-through (such as today...) were not thrilling experiences. I ordered white chocolate mocha's, fairly straight forward, not all that complicated to make. The first time I ordered it, it tasted like black coffee, but she did call it a white chocolate mocha, it was just very weak in the milk department. The next few times after that my venti has been half full of white chocolate mocha and the rest filled with cream....half full coffee for like $5.45? I think not!!!
So today I figured ok, it was a two time mistake and they'll get it right. So it is like freezing cold outside, luxury of the drive-through at my disposal and I get my mocha. I drive onto the road to discover the weight of the cup is a bit off, it doesn't feel heavy enough to have any coffee in it. So I take a sip, nothing but whip cream comes out, generally in the first sip, you get some coffee, but not a lot, so I take another sip, full of whip cream again.
By now I am like halfway to the north side and completely upset, so while driving 60km's an hour on an icy busy road, I take the lid off the coffee....now I know what your thinking, that I probably spilled my coffee all over the inside of my nice creamy beige car...well no actually I shoved my finger into the venti cup to discover that my finger tip reaches the coffee level. I put the lid on and am now even more upset, so I drink the few sips of coffee that are in the bottom of the cup.
I will not be returning to the luxury of a starbucks drive-through anytime soon. Instead I will trudge through the snow and the horrible wind and go to my favorite starbucks in chapters because they seem to always get my coffee made right....I may too go complain to the other starbucks and see if I can score a free coffee for the hardship of having half filled venti mocha's.

Time again for IPOD SHUFFLE

These are fun, so I figured I would do a new one that I took from someones facebook notes. Here we go:
Directions:1. Put your iPod, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU WOULD SAY?You loved me when- BDA

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?Somebody told me- The Killers

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? Santa Monica- Theory of a deadman

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? Feel it- Black eyed peas

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE PURPOSE?Dance floor anthem- Good Charlotte

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Ghosts- Nick Lachey

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Shades of blue- Ashley angel parker

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? If I were- Hoobastank

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? Storm- Lifehouse

WHAT IS 2 + 2?We believe- Red hot chili peppers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIE?21st century- Red hot chili peppers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? The adventure- Angels and Airwaves

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? Will the future blame us- Our Lady Peace

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP?Nobody’s home- Avril Lavigne

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Sexy back- Justin Timberlake & timberland

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Victims of love- Good Charlotte

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Stay- Rex Goudie

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Them vs. You vs. Me- Finger Eleven

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Change your mind- The Killers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Comatose- Skillet

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? Get out alive- Three days Grace

2008..the last 15 days

Welcome to 2008...though I probably should have said that sooner...maybe...I mean after all January is half over. What is new you might be asking, well I have started back at school. Already I can tell that my classes this term will be difficult, mostly because there's the history of nursing, the ethics of nursing etc....mostly boring stuff. But we do have a maternity/pediatrics class that manage to keep my attention...most of the time.

I have been placed for clinical, though I am not thrilled about being back in long-term again, I worked so hard to get out of long-term care, it's just a really depressing atmosphere. They are short for placements because there are over 400 nursing students here. We compete for spots with the RN program and they get priority for clinical placements for whatever reason. So some of us have been shuffled back to long term care where our skills will go un-used. We also get to do a week in the SPHERE lab...with the creepy dummy I had talked about in an earlier post. It's a mortifying experience and you get nervous because people watch you...lot's of people.

But anyways since the long-term care is in a hospital like setting, hopefully, maybe something exciting will happen. I want to use my skills I am learning and unfortunately in long-term care no one has IV medications or needs sutures or staples removed or has big gashing wounds in their bodies which require dressing changes. Hence my love for the hospital and all the goryness that comes along with it. I get to do a rotation on pediatrics as well, which I wish I would have gotten my rotation on maternity because there is only one PN job on pediatrics and a grad nurse from last year just took the position, so I don't foresee it opening anytime soon.

I am really excited because they have opened a "float" position between labor and delivery and maternity. It is filled right now, but the prospects of them opening more positions for the PN's is in the future. I had decided one place I would like to work is maternity, which is why I am disappointed not getting placed there.

If I do decide to go onto get my Bachelors of Nursing I think I would want to work somewhere fast paced and intense, being a PN doesn't give you much in the fast pace category. I don't know, maybe I might work in a doctors office for now, It's something normal. I like the idea of regular hours.

Bloggerific

So I was told that I don't update my blog, so I figured I better update it so that people continue to read it...I don't actually know if anyone does read my blog, but if you do keep checking back I will update it...it just may take me awhile.

Well christmas is just two more sleeps away. I finished my christmas shopping today which was a huge relief because I only really had one complicated person to shop for and in all honesty I never had ever had problems shopping for this person before. But now that is out of the way I feel much relief and can continue the quest to wrap the presents...yes it is almost christmas eve and I have not wrapped my presents. They will get wrapped tomorrow, I plan to wrap all night if I have too.

Today I had a lot of fun, Ashley came over and made a gingerbread train with the kids and then we went out to look at the christmas lights with my family...which in turn caused the kiddo's to basically fall asleep. So while my parents went out with Nathan to eat, we stayed at their house and made a gingerbread tree and then were going to start the second gingerbread tree but it did not come with any candy even though the pictures on the box show otherwise. So tomorrow we will accomplish the second gingerbread tree. It was a treat for her since she had never made a gingerbread "anything" in her life before. I will make ashley sick of gingerbread before christmas is done...haha

It was really fun actually, our tree was crooked and looked like it was about to fall over, so hopefully by tomorrow morning it will still be standing.

So other than that, there is not to much to report. We are still moving all our stuff over to the house, I am in somewhat disbelief over how much stuff we have. Kids are not easy to pack up and move. We have somehow accumulated a lot of stuff over the last three years and seriously I haven't even started moving the majority of their toys yet.

Anyways until I post again, here's a thought that Tay told me today. Just because the outside of a house isn't decorated, doesn't mean the inside isn't. Basically what he was getting at was don't judge the outside because what is inside might suprise you. Smart little guy, he amazes me.

Schools out for the winter.

So exams are done, textbooks will be shut and put away to be forgotten about for at least one month. I am finally done my exams for the semester and what a huge relief that is. I can finally have time to just sit back, relax and enjoy my life for a change.

School can be stressful, but finals are even more stressful. We just completed four finals (some had five finals) in two days. Studying for them was easy and good at the same time. It is so good to be done.

Plus now it gives me a bit of time to the things that I really would like to do for a change.

Anyways that is about all I have to say today, the snow is melting so it may be a nice weekend here. We'll see, I wish the snow would stick together so we could build a snowman but this snow won't stick.