OK, well this is my third attempt at writing this blog, the first time it didnt' go through and the second time I deleted it by accident. Wow. I wrote a lot about school and Christmas break, but now that I've written it twice I dunno if I have the determination to do it again. Have you ever written a long email to someone and it deletes or your email logs out, yeh, this is what that feels like, grrr. Oh well. Well.....I have started my second semester of nursing. I don't see it being any easier than the first, but it's not supposed to be easy. Two more girls have dropped out in addition tot the three that dropped out last semester! One is my friend Laci, so I'm bummed, but it's what she wants, so it's ok, but she will be missed! I have kinda been a little slacky this week, but I don't feel the pressure yet to get goin', but it'll come, I know it will, so I'm enjoying these less crazy weeks while I can. This year in clinical, we're only going to the hospital for two weeks, but the other times will be spent at people's homes, working with families, so that will be really different, but interesting. I'm interested to see what my fam. will be like. I'm pretty excited, cuz next week I get to put an IV in one of my classmates hands in lab. I am secretly hoping I get the guy in our group cuz he has bigger veins, heehee, jk. I hope I do my mother proud and get the IV in my first time! Well I'll do my best and if I fail miserably I think she'll still like me. My mom is an IV pro I must point out. Let her put in your IV, she gets it every time! heehee. Well I messed around with the IV bags and stuff today and I think I'm understanding it better, there's so many clamps and tubes and bags, and I know it's not that hard, but I just need to do it more, however, I only squirted saline into the air one time! :) yay. Hmmm...well all my classes are basically the same, just version two of first semester classes, but we now have a class called research.....our teachers are trying to make us excited about this class. They are like, "we hope you can discover the joy in researching as we do!" whatev. No one is joyful about researching. I do not wake up and think, man, I cannot wait to reasearch. But hey, I'll do it. I have not started work yet in the computer lab, but it starts on my b-day, the 31st! for those of you who do not know or sorta kinda forgot :) Christmas break was very lovely and relaxing. I only had to actually use my brain once, when I filled out my application to the Summer III program at Mayo for this summer. My family and I went to a really pretty lodge in WI for I think four days. It had an awesome indoor water park (I still love that kinda thing) with lots of water slides, whooo hoo. We also went skiing one day! My dear sweet mother is so kind to go on the easier hills with me so that was very fun, it was a nice place. I was fine and content on these hills, but of course, my dad drags me to the hills of death. At first I thought I was going to die, but I refuse to be so scared of a hill with white fluffy stuff on it, so I did it over and over till I wasn't like shaking of fear :) Things were going great and I conquered my hill fear, then my brothers convinced me to go on a "fun" hill they found that was like shut down for the night so it was all dark and in the woods...ok it was pretty, but, it was not as easy as they described it and due to it not being wide enough I had to like shimmy down sideways and make bird-like tracts in then snow. Okay, I'm pretty sure it was not shimmying, but I wanted to say that. I still like my brothers though, they just didn't know that what was a "fun" hill for them is a flash back of death in Colorado for me! heehee. We also spent time hangin' in the lodge playin' fun games, my fam. is the best :) I'm glad we can still go on vacations! funnesss. I got to see lots of friends over break and that was all very fun of course. I also got to see the process of our family room's big change. My daddy build a fire place made of stones and mortar with his own two hands and put wood up on the wall for a "lodgey" look. It's very pretty. The carpet's comin' in soon and then it will be painted, it's way cool, I'm excited. That room has never been changed and we've lived there like 17 years give or take. Well I am terrified that this will be deleted for the third time! So, I shall go and prepare to watch ER! Whoooooo. Love ya all! Have a wonderful day/night! Love, Brianna M. Hememr
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