It's been awhile!

I didn't realize that I hadn't updated my blog in awhile. So I apologize for being so behind. Well I wish there was something to update but really nothing has been going on that is worth writing about.
We are quite busy these days and it is about to get busier. Clinical starts on Monday.....the dreaded clinical...I am not so impressed with where I am placed this term only because I am an employee at the unit I am doing my clinical placement on. We are in acute care at the hospital and I am on the orthopedic surgical floor, so it should be a very challenging and informative placement. I look forward to it.....terrified at the same time.
Another exciting thing is that we get to do a week long psychiatry placement as well. We don't get to be in the psychiatry unit at the hospital though, instead we are at a long term care facility (it is a hospital) but it is mostly geriatric psychiatry. I wish we could do our rotation in the hospital but with the amount of nursing students they are churning through both the PN and RN programs, we do not get placements there.
Today as well I went with my friend to get our Student badges, the health region requires that we as students wear the badges that they give us and not the ones that we could just get at the school. I was so worried about my picture that I made the poor guy in the photo ID place take my picture more than once to ensure that the picture was good...anyone who has seen my school student ID might know why I was so insistant on the picture looking good.
But anyways with papers to write, I should close for now.
So all I have to say is let the games begin and hopefully I do not get too stressed out.

Amusing...I think.

I have lately thought Andy Warhol's work is quite interesting. This one above is one of his art pieces. He uses bright colors and catchy little saying. Many celebrities have had their portraits made into Andy Warhol art pieces. They are different, which is why they are interesting.

Anyways nothing new is going on these days, just busy with school and I cannot believe it is already October. One month into the school year and already we are preparing for midterms. That is what happens when you are in a program with a compacted semester. The midterms come quickly and they shouldn't be that bad. Well since I am not really saying anything important, I am going to save my blog for another day when I have something conductive or intelligent to say.

Self-Explanatory.

I saw this sign and it made me chuckle....

though it should say "Parking for Student Nurses Only!"

It's monday, but I feel like the week should be over already.

I am searching for motivation right now, so if anyone sees motivation,

could they send it my way?

Slacking in the blog department!

So I realized I hadn't blogged in awhile but this is probably due to school starting. Even my time on facebook has substantially decreased as well.
Well to update you on the happenings around here there is quite a bit going on.

Point 1- All the students at the college are flustered in their first few weeks of school, trying to figure everything out and get organized. Usually this is not a hard task but our schools web system is down. So I should right now be pouring over readings or writing papers but since the web system is down, we have no way of accessing our information for our courses that we need. It has been down since Sunday and is quite an inconvienence for some of us whose content for courses is on there. I should have printed out what I needed on Saturday when I could retrieve it all, but I figured in a few days it'll all still be there....little did I know the whole system would crash.

Point 2- We still haven't moved, the appliances for the house still have not arrived (though I have the fridge), but the rest of the appliances are a no show. They said by this thursday some of them should be here and well that's tomorrow, the rest are coming the week after....we'll see, I may be too pessimistic to believe them.

Point 3- Wal-mart's Grocery section opens tomorrow! Yay! Actually I am being sarcastic and am not as excited as the two women I overheard while walking through the store today. They were on their cellphones talking to their friends telling them the exciting news that Wal-mart's Grocery department will be open for business tomorrow! I mean I was shocked that people actually do that...(I know I didn't call anyone and tell them that)

Point 4-We are getting some exciting music groups to the city. The blue man group is touring through Canada and gracing us with their presence and as well Weird Al Yankovic! I don't find this at all exciting because honesty these are the type of performers that probably couldn't get booked in the bigger venue facilities in the major cities, so they are gracing us with their presence. Weird Al does a version of Green Day's "American Idiot", his is however calling it "Canadian Idiot"....how does someone make money off of these songs? Seriously! but I will probably buy his album because I sang along to his songs "Amish Paradise" and "Phony Calls"....do you remember those ones?

Point 5- It is starting to get cold out. We are suppose to get frost tonight. It's suppose to go down to minus two but I always remember that it never snows here until Halloween, so we are safe at least for a few weeks.

Today was the last day of summer

So today was officially the last day of my summer. Tomorrow is the start of year 2 as a nursing student. I am excited about returning, but at the same time it is terrifying because it is a demanding course load. Minus the psychology class that I took over summer thank goodness!! I didn't enjoy my psychology class all that much due to the fact that it was well....boring and the material was dry. So I do not need that in an already busy semester.

But I do however get to take exciting classes such as mental health and community care...should be interesting. I will let you know in the future if I am still as enthusiastic tomorrow as I am today about going back....we'll see.

But I spent my last few days of summer really not doing much. I watched quite possibly the worst movies ever....right Ashley? We started with The prince and me 2.....I do not recommend this movie....it was terrible acting. Then we watched Are we done yet?....a sequel to the movie- Are we there yet?....it wasn't too bad, it was funny but I will never watch this movie again. Then I watched Georgia Rule(s)? I think it's called. It's quite possibly the worst movie I have ever watched....I never have liked Lindsay Lohan's acting except for the parent trap because that is quite possibly my most favorite movie of all time. So I spent the weekend watching movies and staying up late....a great way to start the new semester.

Anyways that is all for now :)

Last friday in August

So I have run out of things to blog about. I haven't however run out of boxes to unpack...lately my unpacking days have consisted of me staring at the boxes and just pretending they don't exist...I lived without the contents of those boxes for a few years, so do I really need everything that is inside of them now? So I mostly just sit in the middle of the floor, staring at boxes wondering what do I do with them? I have been rather unmovitated to unpack this last week.

I took my CPR-HCP yesterday. It was quite possibly the longest day of my life but don't worry if anything should happen to you, I am qualified to use an AED. So we got to play with the practice ones and shock our dummies who were our patients, it was fun. Though no real electricity actually ran through the lines of the diffibrilators unfortunately. So its not like the dummies jumped or anything. The machines just told us the shocks had been delievered. So we breezed through the day and it wasn't so bad, I didn't know any of the girls who took it with me either, so it was a long day.

So I officially have 5 more days of summer until school is back in....how should I spend my last 5 days of summer? I just don't know.

The blog vs. facebook addicts.

So it seems lately that I am the only one who updates their blog....almost everyday....but I check blogs quite often and I think I have figured out why people don't blog as much as they use to. It is because of facebook. Everyone is on facebook and blogs are becoming the way of the past, some might say old technology to keep up to date with people's lives. I enjoy reading other people's blogs but my biggest pet peeve (as far as internet related) is that people tell you they got a blog and then don't update it often.

So to let people know....who aren't on facebook....what you can do on facebook, let me tell you. You can find almost anyone you knew from way back in the first grade at school. Or you can find people who you went to school with or graduated with. You can find people you work with, people you went to post-secondary with or you can find your friends. I even found extended family members on facebook and as well some of my friends parent's on facebook.

You can keep in touch via the wall, the super wall, the poke, or the messaging (which is just like email). You can draw graffiti if they have a graffiti wall, you can send post-it-notes to your friends. You can play with magnetic poetry if they have that on their wall. You can send people fish, flowers, or plants. You can send free gifts, you can send gifts you have to buy for a $1.00 a piece. You can participate in many activities such as food fights, pets, pirates, zombies, poker, etc. You can join clubs that range from everything like what it was like to be a child in the 80's or to help your friends achieve some kind of internet stardom or celebrity or you can join just nonsense clubs.

You can do quiz's that will leave links on your note page, you can write notes about random stuff...kind of like a blog.. You can hug people, or if you choose to you can hit people....you can Instant message on facebook now. You can create photo albums to share with your friends and you can have as many pictures as you would like. You can even post videos. You can rate your friends and have top friends lists. You can write in their honesty boxes about how you really feel about them. You can tell people how you are feeling that day. You can even have a human pet! You can ask people questions and they can answer, you can tell people what kind of mood you are in. You can support causes, you can countdown to important events. You can tell your friends what you like, you can tell them all the places you've visited.

I mean look at all the stuff you can do on facebook.....it's outrageous. It's like it's own little world over there. So now I understand fully why people waste so much time on facebook instead of blogging. But to my loyal blog readers, I will continue to blog because I like to write and I haven't figured out how to write on facebook using the "note" application yet. So until that day comes, my blog will flourish and grow.
p.s.->I am in no way promoting facebook by the writing of this blog.... :)