If anyone is interested in seeing....this is me and 4 members of my 10 person care group at our clinical in Wabasha. Sooi, Laci, Mel, and Nina are the coolest.  

This is what happens when all you do is study....I lost all desire to do laundry, take a shower, or match my clothes. heehee. Check out the sock :) the white ones all ran out :) 

I am Free, really free my friend

Okay, so I have been studying non stop basically since the semester started, but more spefically, without stopping since sat. morning.....I have gotten 9 hours of sleep for three days, but now my finals are done and we'll see if it all paid off!!!!!!! Yes indeed my friends, they are done. I have NOTHING to do tonight, and that never happens. I am doing things like laundry which I have not done in like three weeks! Well, the past three weeks have been non stop projects and paper and presentations and tests, and whooooo, now it's done :) One month off!!! YAY! I love you allllllll!

Blog for Brita

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITA!!! Today is Brita's b-day and she is 21 years old, whoo hoo. I miss ya girl and I hope I see you lots on break. I also hope you're not studying all day for finals like me! See ya soon, have an awesome day!

Ginger....AKA: Hinhair Lopez 

Ginger I love you!

Yesterday my Grandma Erickson's dog Ginger died and I am quite sad :( We got Ginger for my Grandma when she was just a baby around 10 years ago I believe. Gingie was my fav. dog ever. Gran, I'm sorry you lost her, we love you and many people will miss her!

Heather, Katie, me, Cara, and Brita. It's good to have the friends home! 

We are a very happy family, heehee. We tried to not smile, we got pretty good at it by the 20th try :) 

BREAK!!

Hallo, how are you, I am fine thanks. Ok, things are better than I last time I wrote. The weekend was still hard with the paper writing and such, but a nice break form non stop studying. Now it's on to the 500 projects due all at the same time it seems. All I have to do after I get done working here in a bit is go turn my paper in and then do nothing all night! I love it. Then I'm going home tomorrow and staying till Sunday. I have to do homework and such, but it'll be nice to be home and eat turkey and mashed potatoes. We might go to a movie tonight for the heck of it...that's me and the roomies...whom by the way are very cool. Last night Kelsey came in our room and we were all weird and jumping around. Why do we get hyper when we're going to bed. Heather and I stayed up for a while as we usually do when we go to bed at the same time, fun fun, sad.....no roomie next year. We'll learn morse code to talk through the walls. Mom and Pa and Gav came on Friday!! We went the the Family Diner, it was yummmy, and my five day headache went away that night and it hasnt come back. Thanks fam.! Kelsey I spent the weekend studying and eating Quiznos/Subway (YUM) it just doesn't get old. We also rented Mean Girls, it's funny. Last night I talked to a long lost friend :) and watched part of a movie and did math. Goodbye to the worst week of my life and this one is already way better. OOooofffffdahh. Also, Megan.....tear....no lefse this year.....the sadness....Yum, I haven't had paper since Christmas!!!! Well, I think I shall go since I'm almost OUTTA HERE! yay. No one asked me questions today at work! So I didn't have to thinkg! Fun, although one girl asked me what grade I got in the class and then everyone's heads like flew over to me as if they were jsut dying to know...I hate telling people my grades! jeesh. Okay see ya all later :) Bye!

Shoot me now.....heehee, not literally

Have you ever felt like you're sick even though physiology wise you are not? Well that's how I feel. Like I don't have the flu or even a cold, but that's kinda how it feels. I think it's just like a true state of exhustion. This is a depressing blog I think, but it's my life so you get to read it. Wow, I just think that the nursing program is crazy, I have never been pushed so hard in my entire life, I wonder if it is even possible to get everything done that I need to get done. I try not to get stressed out because I try to take eveything in stride ya know, but when everything comes at you at once and you have to plan out everything by the minute it gets to crazy! It's hard to get through when you know you don't get a break until Christmas break which is like four weeks away or something. Whew. Deep breath. I am so excited for that though, this semester is going pretty fast I must say. I still kinda feel like I don't know anything but I think I'm doing ok overall with classes. I just scheduled for next semester and I won't have any Tuesday classes, fun huh. Although I forsee that day being a sleep in till noon kinda day. heehee. I also am trying to get into a class where we watch a bunch of movies about people with physical and psyciatric problems like Forrest Gump and stuff like that and write about them, it looks the most fun outta the choices I have anyway. Clinical this week was pretty good. I worked with a man this time and he was really sweet and kinda goofy, so it was fun. He didn't need a whole lot of things done, but the day went fast somehow anyway. That night we got back at about 10:00pm and I stayed up till 5 am studying for the patho. test the day!!!! It worked out though. God gave me energy to stay up thankfully. I think I did good on it, but I am paying for the sleep deprivation. Someday it'll be worth it I think and I'll be able to sleep normally. Last night was weird cuz Heather was home for the night to see her brother 's band concert (GO CMP!) so I was all alone in my room, it's weird and also bad cuz then I just watch tv and stay up way unnecessarily late...did I spell that right? But last night was also nice cuz it was just me and Kels for a while and we don't get to talk much anymore, so she came with me and got groceries and then actually paid for them because I realized I had no checks, thanks Kels, how nice of you to buy them for me, expecting nothing in return, just kiddin'.....Then we went to Culver's and it was yummy cuz they had broccoli cheese, which is a fav. even though it need more broccoli in it. Then Casey came back from hanging out with the little girl she is in a prgram with called big/little sister. You can tell the little girl loves being with Casey! I know this is getting long, so I'm sure Brita's getting all mad...hehehhee jk. But too bad, I hardly ever write, so when I do it gets long. Plus, I know that I will not be able to concentrate on reading my text book for my next class so I'm just gonna have to go unprepared and I'm at work, so there's nothing else to do but play on the computer. Lately at work people have actaully been asking for help, so for the first time I actually feel like I'm doing my job as a tutor, and I've been able to help people so that's fun. No one is ever here right now usually, so I got the place to myself. Tonight I am starting my wonderful paper about probably some ICU unit and then I am putting jammies on and watching ER, and it's a new one! Then I am being lazy all night before my long weekend of paper researching/writing in some crazy A-somthing or other format I've never heard of...what happened to MLA? I know that one! Jeesh. I should buy icecream...phish food, yummy. I shoudln't, but I probably will. I wanna say HI to my cuzzin Megan cuz I miss her and I hope you're doing ok and I love ya! Also, Jamey, if you read this, your website is very cool....oh my cuzzin Jamey made his first webpage 100% by himself for the target webpage, how cool is that? And "hi" to everyone else who reads my blogs. I hope I see ya all soon. I'll be home for thanksgiving if I make it until then...................
.......long pause......okkkkkkk bye!

Casey and I do not get along. MUAHAH. I am winning cuz I'm the better ninja, clearly. Um, actually I am just having fun using this new add pictures to my blog function. BYE! 

This is us stalling from homework with silly string, fun fun. I love my roomies 

This is for you Megan

Ok, so, My cousin Megan is harrasing me to write in this because she is bored with my lack of updates, but here the thing, I have nothing great to say so this will only increase her boredom, but I'll do it anyway. I am supposed to be writing SOAP notes right now, which have to do with nursing, which I absolutely despise because I usually despise doing things that I do not understand how to do, so I feel like I am crapping my way through it, yet somehow I manganed to do well on the last one which just made me laugh. Well since the last time I wrote I went to the Women of Faith conference in St. Paul, this was two weekends ago. It was absolutley wonderful and I am so glad I went. There were 18,000 women, wow. The speakers were all amazing, the singers were all amazing, and most amazing was God's prescence there. I am so going next year. Then this past weekend was also awesome. My cousin's Kellie, Jill and I decided to be adventurous and go to a concert in St. Paul. I decided many moons ago that I needed to go to the Relient K concert (christian punk/pop) so eventually Kellie and Jilll decided they could come with me, yay. I ordered tickets and figured out how to get there----due to directional wisdom from my big cousin Jamey. We never really got lost in a serious way so it was all good. We got there with time to spare and even got close parking. We stood for like 4 hours in there but it was so fun. I most liked other people's hair in my face and random sweaty boys jumping into us, but hey, it was all fun. The first two bands were deece, but Relient K was soooo awesome, mmm I love em. Then we drove back and Jill kept me awake by talkig to me while Kellie slacked off and slept in the back.....is this getting too detailed...hmm..oh well. Then we came back here and watched part of a movie and went to church in Winona the next morning. In between all of that during these past two weeks I have been doing homework and stuyding. However....like two nights ago, on a school night, I actually watched a movie, this is a first for me. It was way fun. My clinical was super fun yesterday, my patient and I had lots of fun, maybe too much, but we were sneaky and walked further than we were supposed to get cookies from the nursing home wing, heehee, oh well. I also legally can give some meds now, so I did that....they make you check three times to make sure it's right plus you have to check their name band, I started to feel quite stupid doing this since I only had one patient, it's like okkkk let's check for the 100th time to make sure you are who you were 5 minutes ago when I checked. Hmmm..... I also dropped a pill and then we had to call pharmacy to get more, MY BA'AD. OOOPssssiessss. So yeh, that was a good clinical day for once, she gave me cupcakes too. OK, I must go write my notes and get ready for labs tomorrow...eeee...muscles shots, yikes. I'll see ya all soon I hope if I dont' die from exhaustion first, this is such a killer. I'm hoping to go to bed and wake up 25 yrs old. BYE!
XOXOXO (love you CWMP)

hola

Hi, i am just testing to see if this works....

Yummmm, chocolate

I bought chocolate cuz I couldn't stand my homework without it, I think that is somehow just wrong....but sometimes necessary. SO...I am taking a small break from the reading right now. Megan, I would like to address the comment on your Oct. 15th blog which states that I have issues. I am deeply offended and had I read it earlier I would not have come to your party. HHEHEHEH, jk, I know I have issues but so do you, understandable as well. Speaking of her party, was weekend was wonderfully wonderful. I did zero homework whatsoever and didn't really even think about it, of course I pay for that now! The day I got home my fam. and I went to Culver's for supper and saw a bunch of peeps we know and that was really fun cuz we were hyperish, well at least I was. My fam. makes me laugh to the point where I am usually the one sitting there laughing after everyone else has stopped, heehee. Then on Friday I went shopping with myself and bought pants and things like that which were greatly needed. Then I went to Noodles with Kels and Heather (HUT) and I got macaroni and cheese which is fun cuz you get to mix the cheese in yourself, trust me, it's fun. Then we went to a movie called "Shall we Dance" and it was sooooogoooood and there was even a jazz band there before the movie right in the theatre up by the screen with people ballroom dancing for us, and we each got a rose...how cool is that.....Chateau gets points from me. On Sat. my mom and I froze to death at Gavin's football game, but it was fun to see in play, way to hit hard Gavin and good job being that guy on in the front kinda on the end umm yeh..I dont' know that name, but he's excellent. whoot whoot! We actually left early and went to look for shoes for me, but I'm a hopeless cause and we didn't get any, but we went to the mall and had Arby's yumyum. My mom's the coolest. Then...my friend Christopher and I went to Applebees and talked forever and that was also way fun, and we went to Walmart too, just for the heck of it and looked at things like cameras and ties. THENNnnnn I went to church the next morning and Chris came too and that was cool to have him visit and meet the fam. Then we all went to the mall and ate as usuall. Then Chris and I went to the Christian Book Store and got him a bible that is very cute :) not that that matters :) Then he had to go to work so I went home and then to Megan's b-day party which was also fun and had a keg of rootbeer, funnnnnyyyyyyyyy. Gavin and I decided to like hike down this massive hill/woods in her backyard...she lives in the country....it was super fun but we almost fell like 100 times and I officially ruined my only brown shoes, but I still wear them. Then I had to leave early to come back here and do stupid school things, but on the way my exhust pipes fell apart, so Pa and uncle Rick came and sorta kinda fixed it for the moment and I took the van back here to escuela. It was quite the event. Brice and Gavin and I had to hang out on the street for a while while we waited during which Brice proceed to do backflips into the weeds. fun times. And now I am here, and it's hard! I had my first hospital thang today and it was good. I'll tell ya details sometime, cuz this break just got really long and I need to go back!!!! BAD!! heheh, K, miss ya all and have a good day. Jesus loves you :) and so do I :) bye!

Wow. all I can say is wow.

Ok, so now it works after it already told me it wouldn't. This whole blogging system is a little shifty if you ask me, they need to work out the little kinks in their system. Clearly they need better management. Yeh I don't know what I'm talking about, but hey I'm happy now cuz it worked. And check it ouuuuttt, four blogs in one day. yipyip.
PS: Today in lab I got to put eyedrops in a dummy and the dummy has a permanent grin on it's face and it's not really a normal kinda grin, it's a "i'm a psycho killer evil kinda grin" so yes, even though he's not alive, I don't like to be that close to his scary smile. eeeee. heheheh. I think when they manufacter the dummies, they should consider just making them look more normal, minus the serial killer look.

Grr

Okay, I quit. I just wrote a super long one and it deleted. I think I am done with the whole blogging thing now since I just told my whole life story and then it say ERRORRRRRR and deletes it. PUH, whatev. I'm done. BYE

OK it worked

Hi again, I am sittin here at work thinking that I'd rather not read my health assessment stuff. Well, I am very excited about this weekend/week, it's still not like I dont' have massive amounts of things to do, cuz I do, but I dont' have any tests!!! Basically I have been studying for tests for 2 solid weeks and I get about 1-4 hours of sleep a night....okay well the one hour night was only once, and there were like two times I got like 6 hours, but yeh, somehow I'm doing fine though with that...I do the nap thing a lil' bit when I can fit it in. Everyone still wants to change their majors, but I think we'll all stick it out. It's been a tough couple of weeks, but God and the cool people He puts in my life get me through it. Speaking of God, I got to see Him working in the most amazing ways lately, wowwee!!!!! Um..................oh I know, last night I got groceries like normal people do, after like two weeks of having no food, that was fun, and I was bad and bought french fries. Also, I think I might get to do things with other humans this weekend after like 2 weeks of mostly being antisocial, not by choice. It's sad, the woman who vacuumes the study room asked me why I'm always in there...jeeeshhh, to study! Today Kelsey made us cinnamon rolls for breakfast, how cool is that, big time excitement there. It was fun, while we waited for them to be done, Heather decided to randomly lay on the floor, so I did too (cuz I wanna be just like her, heheh, jk) and so Kelsey also felt the need. We laid there and sang songs till the cinnamon rolls were done. I think we were all tired and delirious, but yeh, fun times. Well, Brita tells me that my blogs are too long so I guess I have to wrap this up or she'll be angry, and I wouldnt' wanna make PRECIOUS Brita angry, cuz she gets scary...Just kidding Brita, I wuv you and I know you secretly love reading my long blogs, in fact you probably print them out and frame them, can't blame ya. hehehehehhehe. Ok, what else can I do for 2 hours, I cannot read this book of death right now! LOVEEEEEE and God bless! <3 Brianna

Testing testing 1,2,3

Hi, last time I tried this on my work computer it didn't work...so this is my test entry, heheh. bye

My liver is cold

Last time I attempted to update this, it got deleted, so I have not done it for awhile cuz it angrified me. Brr, it's really cold where I am...where am I you ask, well...I am in the area by the Smoug in Kryzco, hahah that makes no sense to you unless you go to WSU, sorry. But yeh, I am here and I'm cold and drinking pop. I hate to fill this all with school info. but that is a huge chunk of my life so here ya go. This has been a crazy week for school, I studied basically all last weekend and all this week for 2 different tests. I did not sleep on Tuesday...so basically Tuesday and Wednesday turned into one long day. Have you ever not slept before? It's the weirdest thing...but it had to be done if I wanted to do well, and somehow it turned out that I did do well, so it was worth it. I did good on both my tests, but kinda bad on a quiz, but that's ok. This week in skills lab we did urine samples (on ourselves) hehehe, throat cultures on each other, and took each other's blood sugar. I'd actually done the blood sugar before, but not on someone else. It's fun though. Laci said I did an excellent job throat culturing here, heehee, and I have no prob. with people doing it to me because I have excellent control of my gag reflex, hahah, you are so not interested in this, hehehe. But I owe that to my mom who always taught us how to not be a wussy with the whole throat culture deal. Wow, I think I devoted too many sentences to that. MUAHAH. Also, my blood glucose is fine, in case anyone was worried. Then in assessment lab we did abdomen things and once again I had a major laughing problem, seriously I cannot help it, but when you laugh your stomach muscles get tight, so poor Laci can't do what we're supposed to do because I'm a laugher, it tickles!!!!!!! man. So yeh, we felt for each other's livers and what not, my liver is appox. 6 inches, funfun. I hope my weird constant mentioning of the human body does not freak you out, it's just what interests me, so that's what you get to here about, HAHAMAUAHAHHAHAHA. Hmm...I get to go home this weekend. I am so excited; I have not been home since Aug. 29th....to my house that is. That's like a month and 10 days. That's a record. Tuition is due today, I am lucky this semseter cuz papa and ma are paying my part, I'll owe them later though. Hmm....what else do I have to say???? Heather and I couldn't sleep last night after awhile so she read me a children's book she has for her class while I colored, how fun! She shall be an excellent teacher. We are going to work in the same towns and go out for coffee on our lunch breaks, ehehheheheeheheh, actually I don't like coffee, but it'd be fun. I went to Megan's play, she did a good job, even though she had to be a "hussy", however, I did not like the parts where she dies, it was too real looking! But good job Megan, you die well. Well I am stugging for things to say for once...so I think I will go and run a few laps around the building to warm up, just kidding. Have a scrumtrilescent day (ask brice or gavin what that means) and I shall see you later! Sincerely, Brianna

Nothing

Okay Megan, look I updated it. MUAHAHAH

Apple computers are wack

Hello, I am sitting here in the critical thinking computer lab in which I work. So it's pretty cool cuz I'm getting paid to sit here write now and write in my blog, which I deserve anyway, being that my writing is so brilliant, I should be paid for my time spent doing it. heehehe, just kiddin obviously. So yeh, it took me since last January to discover that this old computer that I sit by everyday at work has the internet on it....apple computers are so weird, I guess you just have to get used to them. I had my 3rd clinical today. The resident I work with is so cute and today she was way more fun than last week because she had hurt herself and was in pain. But today she was all jolly and gave me homemade pickles, heehee, that her daughter brought her. They were gross, but I ate them anyway, cuz it's not like I could be "No, I dont' want your nasty pickles!" I'm just not a fan of those kinda pickles that taste like cucumbers. So yeh, we mostly just talked because by the time we get there she's up and ready, which is quite a contrast to the first resident I was assigned to. It's kinda funny because she has some memory loss, so she'll tell me the same thing over and over and I have to keep responding as if I never heard her say it before because she's so excited about it. She got new earings that she won and so she kept getting this really excited look on her face and then tell me all about them, heehee, it's fun, I like it there a lot. I also got a hug from one of the old men in the alzheimer's unit. He just kinda walked over and hugged me, they're pretty funny, they sing a lot too. Oh, also, this really cute old man just kinda walked all around today blowing into his harmonica, he played it for us and for the fish in the aquarium, heehee, sorry, I have lots of nursing home stories. I have more but I'll spare you for now. Well that has been my day so far and now I'm here in the empty computer lab thinking about how I should take my homework out.
Have a splendid Tuesday :)

Oh and one more thing.....

It some how slipped my mind not to mention anything about my uncle Rick!!! Due to an anonymus tip.....It has been brought to my attention that I need to dedicate a blog to him. Well my uncle Rick likes to give me pigs as many of you may know. I now have four pigs from Rick. The first pig made no sense, because I was like....why are you giving me this pig? He explained to me that it was for my "collection" but I never had a collection.....he just decided that I did which is pretty funny if you ask me. So, my uncle started me a pig collection. It's actually quite exciting, because each pig is really differnt and usually pretty weird and I never know when to expect a new one. The first one is pretty normal, it's a little small rubber one with it's nose turned up in the air and it's cute. The second one that I got was actaully wrapped and given to me for Christmas...its is the ugliest...it's this super heavy metal pig painted with white paint with rust spots all over it, but it makes me laugh the most just because it's so gross and peeling apart and that I got it for Christmas, heehee. It's also a bank. Then the third one I got is probably the coolest...it's a little circular brown pig with three legs. It's called a good luck pig...appartenly the fact that it has three legs is lucky? So yeh I think that one is pretty cool. I cannot remember for sure, but one of my pigs might be from a differnt country where Rick visited.....but maybe not, I can't remember. The fourth pig is crazy. It's from Menards and I think it's actually supposed to be a lawn ornament. It's super big and fat. But I love it because it's got it's head up with a huge grin on it's face. The story behind that is my favorite...because I was at work in the kitchen and there's a hole in the wall so we can see out into the front of the store.....so I glanced out there and there stood Rick, starting back at me, proudly holding up the pig for everyone to see. So I had no choice but to go out there and get the pig with the entire restaurant starting at me while he and my cousin laugh at me. So then I had to explain to everyone who was the guy that gave me the pig and why. But it was really funny and I am honored to get pigs from my uncle. Rick is my mom's big brother and he used to give me birthday spankings which scared me, but now I am over it, heehee. He is also a grown man that giggles, which is funny. He calls me Braana which is better than BreeeAAAAAna. So there is my tribute to Rick...not to be confused with my dad Rick. You are a super cool uncle and thanks for my collection?! heheheh.

Whooooooo

Hi everybody. I haven't written in here forever as you can see. My life is extremely busy which is why I usually don't time to write anything. School is hard and it's a lot of work and I'm always behind, but everyone in nursing feels the same. But, I'm slowly getting through it day by day. We started clinicals now and my group is at a nursing home in Wabasha. So, we get leave Winona at 5 in the morning to go there on Tuesdays.....so tonight I will be in bed early!!!! Today was not good, I didn't get enough sleep and basically did the whole struggling to keep my eyes open thing for 2 of my classes. I'm kinda excited to go the nursing home tomorrow, the lady I help out with is really sweet and nice and likes to tell me about her watermelon fields back home, heehee. I actually got a new resident assigned to me because my first one refused help and refused to get up before 11, and we leave the place at 11...soooooo...yeh. that doesn't really work. But so far I havent' had to do much since I don't know how to do much, but we learned vital signs this week, so I may be doing that tomorrow for real. If you ever want your blood pressure checked, just let me know, heheh, it's fun. Labs are pretty fun, they are a nice break from lecture. Last week we had to do this whole stomach feeling thing with a partner to learn how to feel for stuff and I couldn't stop laughing because it tickled so bad....so yeh...I was not a good partner to have :) I just got back from the fall retreat in Wisconsin with Intersarvity Christian Fellowship that I go to here. It was really fun and awesome weather. I got to sing to God a lot which is my fav. thing to do and I also got to climb this super huge tower and jump off on a rip cord, whewwww, it was pretty high. Casey, one of my roomates did it with me so it was way more fun jumping with her. We were like...woooow, that was sooo cool!!! So I got no homework done this weekend whatsoever, but it was worth it. So now I am gonna be psycho studyer this week, it's just the way it's gonna be! But it's okay cuz the main reason I'm here. Here's a cool verse that I like: Have I not commmanded you? Do not be terrified; Do not be discouraged, for the Lord you God will be with you whereever you go. Joshua 1:9. I love that!
K, I gotta go do the whole eating thing cuz it's time and I'm hungreeeeeee. I should make chicken. And then I'm doing homework till fall asleep!!!!!!!!! Thank you and goodnight and if you feel like calling me or emailing me you should cuz it would be fun. Bye! <3 Brianna

I love to read/Tribute to cousins

I'm sorry, this is gonna sound whiney, but I have to read all day long. This weekend I have to read 9 chapters in various text books...that like 2.5 hours for each so that's about 22.5 hours at least...so I was gonna try to do like 12 hrs of it today...i'm still on chapter one so I should be done by 1:00am, yeh right. I'm trying to learn to be a skimmer, but it's hard cuz I feel like I'm missing stuff! Besides all that I am all alone this weekend and it's weird cuz it's so quiet. So I cleaned everything...this helps with the stalling process. I am in charge of feeding Kelsey's fish, I feel so responsible, heehee. I also watered the flowers/plants, this is how exciting I am today, heehee. I also talked to Kellie this morning and I miss her!!! She is my little cousin who is awesome at school and gymnastics and everything else. Have I ever mentioned how much I love all my cuzzins, well I really do, I am very lucky. Ok, I need more slack time, so here are my cuzzin's names in order of age, heehee. Jamey-23, Megan-20, Ryan-17, Kellie-15, Jill-12, Alexandra-10, Sam-6, Grant-2, Jensen-2, and Issac (who is no longer with us but we love him so much). I would like to point out to Megan that I am most definitely bigger and wiser. Also, no matter how big Jamey gets we will remember how he used to play "school" with us and give us pretend math assignments, heehee, and now he works for Target and does things with their website, I can't explain it well, but just know that he is very gifted!! Ryan is just lovely and knows more words than I do, he is also the curse of elvis-and only he understands this, Jill needs help in more ways than one....jpin' Jill, I love ya girl, please come over so I can braid your hair! teehee. Alexandra is one of the nicest people I know and gets big too fast cuz I thought she was still 2. Sam has more energy than anyone I've ever met in my entire existance on earth and sometimes I am afraid for my life when I am around him, but I call him Samantha and he calls me Brian, so yes, despite our age differences, we have inside jokes. Grant is adorable and is a genius child because he spells and reads and knows letter sounds and all that, it's amazing. Jensen is also very adorable and so sweet and is talking and getting hyper now. It's amazing how fast they grow, which makes me feel older. Well, that could have been boring for you, but hey, you read it anyway, ha! Okay I just pushed my reading time back about a half hour, oh well if you're up till 1 you might as well be up till 2. Love ya alls! Adios and go play outside for me!
Also I went to Breathe last night which is a worhip service outside by the big lake, it was awesome! Also, has anyone realized what a beautiful town Winona is? Well it is, come see it when you visit me, winkwink.

My Gran

This blog is for my gran so everyone knows that she is cool. She thinks she is a boring senior citizen, but this is not true. She is very interesting!!!! She is also very young and beautiful!!!! She IMs me and emails me and I think that way fun, she even has a blog. She also plays gameboy and watches Days of of Lives everysinge day. She is very good at picking up dog logs, teehee, and making everyone really good food even if she doesn't feel like it. She is also the greatest person I know at making turkey. She is forced to wash lots of underwear also. Sometimes she comes to visit and she alllwaays brings us donuts ever since we were little which was like the highlight of the day. She has the amazing talant of catching flies in her hand and she does many faces such as the beaver and bird face and will do them on cue, heehee. She also likes to shout out RALLLPPHHH when she burps, which she is not afriad to do, and she just makes us all laugh. She is a wonderful grandma and we all love her very much......so gran, I hope you have a wonderful day!!!
XOXOXOO
PS: my gran is coming to visit me when the leaves change in winona!!!!

Oof Dah

Well hello. It's almost 5, I had great plans to be done with a lot by now, but that didn't happen. So, I have been in school now for approx. 2 weeks and it's interesting. One second I am like wow, I can't believe I'm doing this, shoot me now, why did I wanna be a nurse again? But then like 2 seconds later I'm like, man I'm so excited to learn all this and actually get to help people someday. Today in one of my classes the teacher was talking to us as if we were already accomplished nurses fully established in our practice.....so yeh, we had no clue what she was talking about the whole time. My friend next to me started kinda crying, yeh, that's how fun it was. But I figure, it's just new, so we'll get it eventually, it's just a lot at once. I told her that to try to help, but it didn't help......I suck at caring for people!! I quit now!!! just kidding, she's a worrier. Ok, so I few minutes ago I looked at all I have to read this week and next and forever and I decided here and now that I will become an elementary education teacher like Heather because then I get to read fun books...but then I realized I would have to do parent teacher conferences....so that won't work. I am so kidding by the way. But seriously this stuff is overwhelming. However, I do know that the first thing I say to a patient is "Hello Mr. (insert name here), I am Brianna. I am a nursing student and I'm here to help care for you today." I dont' think I can say it like that, it sounds fake. I'll be like Heyyyyyyyaaa, wut up, you look sick, sorry, I know nothing....let me get a nurse. hehehe, jk. After class was fun today. I went to the gym so now I feel more alive and awake, then I ate lunch and I felt very domestic because I actually cooked a potato, yep. Alsooooo......I learned that there is a purpose to microwave safe dishes...... well so I learned something. Then I was FORCED to watch Passions with Kelsey....I was like who can watch this, it's so stupid. But it made me laugh a lot. My favorite part was when they got bit by snakes and the evil man had the "antidote" and he chucked it at the groud so they couldn't save themselves, but of course, Mr. whatever does this amazing 5 mile leap and grabs it at the last second to save everyone from snakes. Jeeeesh. Then I finish the second cd of six of the Gilmore Girls first season on DVD. I used to have a bad attitude about this show, you can even ask Cara (megan, that's my FRIEND cara), but now I think it's funny and addicting. Man, I've done so much since I wrote last...um....I'm in 5 classes all with pretty much the same name....which makes it hard to remember what you are doing and where, but I'll get the hang of it. There are 60 of us nursing students and my group of 10 goes to Wabasha for clinicals in a few weeks, which I think is very random. Turns out they are thinking they'll never actually have 10 patients at one time, so our group has to split up...hmmm... But it's been good here so far. I like my roomies and we have fun. The highlight of my week is that I'm getting my brakes put in on my bike, thanks to Ma and Pa, no more foot dragging, yay. MMMmkay, I am now going to go read, I really will. I hope you all have a good day and your in my thoughts and prayers! adios.

I am way behing in my writitng

Hello, man, I haven't written in this for a while....so it's Wednesday and I wanna write about last Sat, so bare with me, heehee. So, it was my last day of work for the summer and I was on buns. This means I crank up neck up towards a screen all day to see what goes on which bun. Do not be fooled by the seemily simplicity, only a trained professional can do something like this. Anyhoo, Scott (a manager) walked by with flower and said they were for me!!!! I was like no way. So, yeh, I left my bun station heehee, and unrapped em and they were from my friend Chris! So I was super excited. He said they were for me because I'm leaving and all. So I was very touched cuz I thought that was pretty thoughtful. Then people kept asking me all day what that was about. Then, I wanted to get done early and just as I'm about to leave, Bob makes me stay so he can go smoke, yum yum :/ So, yeh then Chris and I went to Applebees and he got bloody steak...barf. But I learned that A-bee's mashed potatoes are super good. Then we were gonng go iceskating, but this is the second failed attempt at that, so I think we are not meant to ice skate, but we'll see. So we went bowling and he beat me, but it was a fluke. MUHAHAHA. Jk. So that was just a fun last day. Then on Sun. my last day home we had a par-tay for my gran and gramps 50th wedding anniversary. It was really fun and lots of people came, but then I had to leave at the end of it to come here to Winona. I did not cry even once this time, so I was excited about that. Now I am here and it's nonstop action so if you think I hate you cuz I don't talk to you as much it's just not true!!!! I havent' stopped doing things since I got here. But I think tonight I get to relax a lil' bit. I bought scrubs today, I feel kinda nurse like in them. I have to go eat pizza now with all the nursing students by the lake. Adios and I hope you all have a wonderful dayyyy! <3 Brianna

My teeth hurt

So, yesterday I was talking to Kellie about teeth and she brought to my attention that maybe I should consider wearing my retainers again after we determinded they are moving a bit. I figure since my parents paid so much to get them straight, and I like them straight, that I should wear my retainer again. So, yeh, I did that last night, and now my teeth are killing me, which just confirms that they have moved. Jeesh, I got my braces off in 1998, ya'd think they'd be good to go. So, I've done a lot since that last time I wrote. Um, I am now under liability to help you if you are among the following: choking, not breathing, lacking a pulse...and such things cuz I got CPR certified for school, not that I would have just stood and stared at you before I took the class. It took forever, but it was good. I dummies were pretty cool. We named our child one lil' Billy. Baby dummy's faces came off and when we were done we toseed them in a bin, so that was morbid, in a face plastic faces in a pile sorta way. Also, I had an enjoyable experience with all my CPR stuff flying off the top of my car (who would put my stuff on the top of my car?? heehee) So, yeh, I was the confused looking girl off the side of the road in the ditch trying to find my breathing mask amongst other things. Don't worry though I found it all. I went to Winona yesterday and brought the remainder of my stuff. It was fun; Kellie and Jill, my super cool cuzzins (Megan you are also cool) came too and it was fun to show them my new place. Casey, one of my room mates was there too and she wanted to show us how the cable thingy in the wall is loose, while showing us the cable thingy proceeded to fall back into the depths of the hole in the wall never to be seen again, so some random guy from the cable company has to come fix it, luckily we dont' have to pay. I'm not sure why I'm telling you this. I guess it was kinda amusing. By the way school books are such a croc, so we're fighting the system and getting them online, muahah.
Oh, I have a thing to say. Ok.....hmmm....lets say to go to Target and you get 7 clothing things to try on, but you get up there and the "rule" is that you can only take 6 in. So, you must leave one item out...try on everything else...then put all your regular clothes back on just to go out and get the single shirt you had to leave out.....well yeh...I was so annoyed by that tonight that I lied and said I had 6 things insted of 7, this is not a big deal but is that not the dumbest rule ever? Who really cares how many you have in there....they dont' even count to see if you come out with the same amount. This is just one example of the stupidy of the human race. Maybe there's a good reason, if you know it, you can tell me, but I'll still think the rule is stupid.
My cuzzin Megan came over a couple days ago and we made cookies, colored, watched the olymics, and such. It's fun when she comes over cuz I don't see her much, yet I see her more when we both leave for school, go figure. Also, she loves to go to London for a month on a moment notice!
My fam. and I went to one of my fav. restaurants tonight...Famous Daves, and usually when I go there I leave feeling like I'm dying cuz I eat too much, but this time I was perfectly find, so I was excited about that. Then me and ma when to Cold Stone which she calls Cold River or Stone River or something because she confuses the name with other clothes shopping place....so I told her she's not allowed to say it anymore cuz she messes it up so bad, heehee, but it's all in good fun, JK momma, love ya dog....oh no you di'nt..you don't knnnnoooow me! Also, she cannot say Erberts and Gerberts. She pronounces it "Eeberts and Geeberts, which just make me cringe, heeheeeee. But I'll give her a break cuz she's only been there like twice.
Well I think by now you've stopped reading this cause it got too long, but hey I had a lot of days to make up for. Also, today at work, a box of ranch fell on my head and it hurt...lawsuittttt!!!!!!
And I'd also like to say that Paul Hamm really deserves the gold he got because the guy who claims he should have won cuz they messed up his start value made a mistake on p-bars that was later caught that puts him in 4th place, so he needs to be nice and go home and stop whining, cuz Paully is the winner!!
Have a wonderful day and I probably will be at school the next time I type on here. Bye y'all!

Not a huge fan of the word blog, but by the looks of it I have one anyway

Hi, some people have these dealies so I thought to myself....I should too just for fun and what not. This way if anyone happens to want to know what I am doing, even if it is just trival everydayness, I figure now they can know. Usually I would just tell you person to person the exciting stories of my day, but I'm leaving the 29th for skooo, so this way I can type to you all.
Maybe it will be more fun for me to type than for you to read, but that's ok, cuz I need more opportunies like this to distract myself from studying. But for those of you who don't know....I'm just going to be starting my junior year at WSU and will be in the nursing program learning to feed jello to people who are otherwise unable to do so. JUST PLAYIN', whooot whoot. I get white scrubs, and all I can think of is how well blood would show up on that, so why make them white....seriously. Okay, I'll keep this first one short, but here's a fun fact....I just asked my brother to go get me advil, and he brought down two advils on a little fancy plate with a little shot glass of water with one ice cube and a little apple slice on the side....how cute is that....points for you Brice, you have truly outdone yourself. (GOULET!!)

Love to y'all. Thank you and goodnight! :)