I Called It, Another Blog

I declare this the easiest shift (well there's 1 hour left of it) of my life. You may all think I never work hard because I only blog when I have time on my hands, but it's really not that often.
I have only 2 patients, we all do and they're so darn easy. The hours are dragging by. I suppose I have a bit less than an hour, but it feels like a lifettime. I dunno how many times I've checked facebook and email, too many to count.

Today was short, cuz I worked, but I woke up at 9:30. Chris pounced into the room and attacked me to wake me up. He had a ridiculous amount of energy and I did not. For some reason he gets up at like 8:30 or something. Perhaps he likes his alone time before I wake up, but then he misses me so much that he has to come wake me up. I got him to give me a back rub, heehee. Then I had some cereal while I put in my 2-cents worth on Chris' resume/cover letter as he updated them. He's applied for another job at Mayo, we'll see what happens.

I then went to work out as Chris left for b-ball. I worked out harder than usual. I ran on the tredmill for 16 mins and walked for 14 mins, alternating. Then I did a bunch of weight machines. I hope I'm sore in the am so I know I did some hard work! I got home in time to see Chris as he runs to the shower and changes into his fancy business clothes and thens runs out about 15 mins later for work. He got done at 5p, but here I sat at work, so I haven't seen him in a while. He told me he's going to my parent's tonight to get some help from daddy with his car. I love that he can just go over there and feel comfortable, that always makes me happy. There's nothing more I could hope for then my husband and parents being comfortable with eachother, yay yip yay.

Chris and I have been examining our future in depth lately and we've come to realize we just don't know what'll happen and we just have to wait and see for a lot of things. Although it's hard to not know what'll happen, it's also been good because it forces us to really rely on God and let him know we trust Him. It's very peaceful to just be able to say, ok, whatever you want God and just being able to know he'll take care of us. I feel so very blessed everyday to have God in my life and to be with my amazing husband. I also feel so blessed to have the family that I do and the friends too. To have a place to live, a job, food to eat, and to be safe and have a healthy family.

I'm excited that I have Sat, Sun, and Mon off. Tomorrow I shall work out and clean my home! Then I will hope that I can find someone to hang out with cuz my dear husband works at Culver's all night. Who wants to hang out with me??? Heehee. Sunday we'll finally be back in the 3-year old room, we've missed like a month with my weird weekend schedule lately. Monday, my baby brother leaves for Mexico with his friend Andrew and his family, along with some other friends. I'm so excited for him that he gets to fly for the first time. Then later in the week my Mom leaves with her sister Jodi and Grandma for a 4 day trip to Washington DC, just for fun.

Well, I guess I'm down to a half hour now.......hope it goes fast.

Bye friends.

I am Bubsy

I feel like I don't know what has happened in the past few weeks, so if I leave you out, I'm sorry!

Um..well tonight I'm at work. It seems I only blog on my evening shift and here I am at work in the evening. I'll be here tomorrow too, so you'll probably get another blog then as well.

It's been nice to not feel quite so cold lately! I ran outside one day, but then the next day it snowed, but we're getting there.

Oh, it's coming back to me now, I know what I did!

I was in Heather's wedding! Heather got married on the 15th, so it's almost been 2 wks! The rehersal was good and the dinner was very good, at Valentino's! On the morning of the wedding I went to pick Heather up from her parent's house and we went and got our hair done! Heather looked beautiful! Then we went to church and had some food and got dressed. Kelsey and Casey were a huge help with everything. Eventually we did pictures and it was long, but good. Then the actual wedding came and it was just lovely. Heather looked so pretty and the service was very nice. The reception was fun. I felt special sitting next to the bride. It was fun to see some highschool friends there: Elizabeth, Greg, Katie, and Meghan! Yip yip! Eventually Heather and Eric were off to the cities for a few days. Now we have them back and Chris and I got to hang out with them on Tuesday night. We played a game at their new place and then had ice cream at Culver's. It's a miracle we found a night we were all free!

Monday night was also a friend night. Jeff and Kelsey met Chris and I at Applebees and we all got a chance to catch up a bit. Kelsey brought ultrasound pics and the baby looks so cute! yay! It was mucho fun.

Oh what else....I've been working and Chris has been schooling/internshipping/working. He's got just this week of classes and then it's on to "spring" trimester which lasts until late June. Then he's got one class in late summer and three classes from Sept-Dec. and then he's DONE!

Easter seemed fun for my fam. I had to work, but did get to see the Hemmer side that night, but missed out on the Erickson side, poo. Oh well, I think they had fun without me, heehee.

It's been a good week, I've made some progress in the new job looking area, I shall update you if that progresses any furthur.

This past Tuesday and Wednesday I spent from 7a to 4p in class, called Orthopedics II. It's all filled with speakers discussing things pertinent to ortho nurses. It was actually really really good with perfect topics and good speakers. But it was long and I got sleepy a lot. I had it with 3 other nurses from my floor so that was nice!

Well, I think I'm out of things to say. I'm sure I missed a lot!

I'm sure you'll hear from me soon!

PS: my post-op patient today is hilarious, he like shouted my name when I entered the room like we were old friends. He's from the south, but he sounds Australian and he calls me "Bubsy" "Bubs" "Mum" "Hun" and so forth. I have never been called Bubsy (Bub-See) before, it's funny. He told me he's the happiest person in the hospital, I think he may be right. Wowee!

Break Blog

I'm on my break. I feel like people are sick of me blogging, hahaha. I almost feel annoying, like I'm blogging too much, haahaa. I guess I'm just sitting here on my break doing nothing, so I thought I'd write something.

Today I'm back on my floor. It's a wonderful day actually. I have one patient in the OR and the other 2 are pleasent. I had an awesome nursing student this morning who did pretty much everything for one of my patients and the other has a lot of medical issues, but with only her to really concentrate on, it's a nice day! I'm hoping my post-op doesn't come back right before I wanna go home!

Yesterday after work was fun. I made supper for Chris and I and we got to go on a walk, outside! It wasn't as frozen-tundra-ish as it usually is, so we could enjoy it. But now there are giant puddles everywhere!

Then we went to Mom and Dad's again to watch Idol, whoop! Then the 4 of us played rummy and Chris won, of course. I got dead last.

Tomorrow is Heather's rehersal and Saturday is the wedding! Then on Sunday, it's Gavin's b-day, 17 already! Wowee. I get to see the fam and amazingly enough, I do not work!

MMMkay, I better go back to work. 2.75 hours left!

Bye bye.

Stents, Angina, Stress Tests, whatev.

Here I am on Francis 4C, cardiac unit. My patients are as easy as can be, on my unit, the minutes would be flying by with great speed, but I have had nothing to do since like 9:00. All my patients walk around and are just fine for now, so yeh, I'm very bored. I'm hoping very very much that I get to go back to ortho at 11:00. I'm only supposed to be here until then, but it can change.

I just had a nice couple days off. I dunno what I did.

Well yesterday I got to have lunch with Heather! We went to Noodles. I realized this was my last time hanging out with a non-married Hut! Wowee. I got my dress back, altered and ready to wear, and Hut's wedding is in, holy crap, 3 days??? really, yeh, wow.

I watched idol last night with Mom and Dad while Chris was in school, my favs are David Cook, Brooke White, and Jason Castro.

Jeesh, this unit has so much beeping going on. The patients have heart monitors on, which I'm not qualified to read, and so I can see a computer in front of me showing all their heart rhythms and it beeps a lot.

Ugh, so slow! Oh well, I guess I'll go wander around some more.

Bye friends.

Daylight's Saving Sunday

Yep, another new blog.

It's Sunday and I'm at work. It's a super good day. I had 3 patients and am now down to 2! Better than yesterday's 4....

I went to bed an hour early last night, so I didn't loose an hour of sleep, but I still only got my 6-ish hours of sleep, so I was not very rested, haahaa.

Coming to work this am was much more pleasant, for one thing, I had less patients, and for another thing, the nurses before me got a lots of things done, which is always nice (thanks Anne!!!! PS: Anne, if you're reading this tonight, I hope your night is good and goes fast!)

I'm on the B side (as opposed to the G side) and I'm likin' it. It's much smaller and calmer, somewhat like when I worked on Alfred insted of Joseph, ok too much detail.

I'm sittin' here watching my patients and covering for another nurse while she's on break. I get to go eat in 32 minutes.

Well, I gotta go give some Potassium. Have a wonderful week!

For My Faithful Readers....

Today was a surprising day, but yesterday was fun too, as was Thursday.....

Thursday was sa-weet cuz Mom and I went to the movie Definiely, Maybe, it was better then I thought it would be, I liked it! I did not like the other 3 ladies in the theatre. They were at least 32-33ish years old and they giggled, no cackled at random moments, very very loudly. My mom said they must have had something to "drink". I would imagine so, for grown women to be so immautre.

Friday was fun, Chris and I asked Jeff and Kelsey if they wanted to have lunch with us, so we all went to Tinns. After that we went over to their place for a bit and saw the almost finished baby's room! So cute! I love it! Now I just wanna see the baby in there! Later, Chris and I decided to stay in and watch a movie at home, not something we do often. But, we borrowed "A Beautiful Mind" from Mom and Dad so Chris could see it. It's such a good movie! So that was fun just hanging out at home free of charge. We also played rummy and he keeps beating me.

Today was also sa-weet. I went to work, prepared for shift one of two 12 hour shifts, but lo and behold, I got to leave and never come back at 11:30, so that's 8 hours of paid time off I took today! Yip yip! I was very surprised. Chris and I worked out and ate out at Erbs. Later he had to go to work and I got to join Mom, Dad, Gavin, and Gran and Gramps E. at Mr. Pizza, the new one! It's very nice there. Then we all went to Mom and Dad's and I hung out with Gran and Mom, cutting cheese (literally for a noodle salad) and Dad and Grandpa fiddled/fixed the new bathroom sink. Mom and Dad are re-doing the "kid's bathroom" it's gonna be so pretty.

Now I am home and trying to focus on the fact that I will loose an hour of sleep and must plan accordingly. I am now going to read a devotion from my book, read a bit of my bible, then perhaps hop in bed and watch episodes of Gilmore that I've seen 100 times.

My little heart is crushed right now and I feel all the more desparate for new job. I have now realized that I will miss out this year on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, therefore, I will miss out on seeing my family. I dunno what to do, yeh I can get through it, obviously, I've done it now for almost 2 years, but I just despise it! I cannot spend my life missing out on family stuff, so I gotta figure something out before I have kids of my own and have to miss their holidays too. Argh. I am grateful that I'm not a patient and grateful to work every-other holiday, but still, it's very very hard. And tomorrow I miss seeing Great Grandpa, who is now 95 yrs old!

Well, I better get going. Have a peaceful Sunday. I hope your heart if full of God's peace!!!
Love.

History in the Making

Hello earthlings.

An update you want? I thought so. Well, an upate you shall have, in chronlogical order.

Friday: worked, blah blah, don't remember what else.

Saturday: Went shopping with Mom for a bit at Target and had a fun time with her. Then Kellie, Jill, Dora, and I had an adventure. We decided to go to Newt's, a little restaurant in Rochester claiming the best burgers around. I had never been there and the girls had been there once or something. It's downtown and you have to like walk down an alley and up a creepy, rickety set of ghetto steps. The place is teeny tiny and the whole town has also come to try to eat fit in there. We were never greeted by anyone, we just stood in line with the others. The deal there, so I've heard, is that you just sit when there's an open table. So, we waited. Then, when we were almost next to sit, this hostess girl walks to the back of the line, right past us and starts taking people's names down. Finally, we were like, "um, is that a list we're supposed to be on? We've been here like 20 minutes before all these people" And she was like "um, yeh, you're supposed to be on the list" and preceded to write our name down at the BOTTOM of the list, AFTER all the people who came AFTER us. So we were like, "um, we were sorta here first, can you write our name first since no one approached us to get our names?" And, she was, of course, super confused and just said, "um um um, no, but I"ll see what I can do." W-O-W. So yeh, we probably waited like 40 minutes after all but like one family went in ahead of us. However, we decided we were not in a hurry and to just be peaceful about it. Once we finally got to sit, it was very yummy and fun. But wow, what an unorganized place! Insanity! I decided if I worked there, I would whip it into shape. After that we went to the downtown Barnes & Noble, the cool one that used to be the Chateau Theatres back in the day. It was a fun night!

Sunday: Chris and I had 6 kids in Sunday school, it was pretty fun, they didn't kill each other. Then we went up to Lake Elmo to be at the 1st couple hours of my cousins Grant (6) and Alexandra's (14) birthday party. Everyone in the fam. was there and it was a ton of fun, but hard to leave early.

Megan 24, Alex 14, Brianna 24.

The Erickson Side Girls. (Jensen, 5)

Why did we leave the party early you ask? Well, Mom, Dad, Chris, Me, Brice, Jenny, and Gavin had a Timberwolves game to catch! Mom found $12 dollar seats for us and they were really great seats! In my opinon! It was a lot of fun, I had never been to an NBA game before! The sonics beat us in overtime by 5 pts. It was great to see Brice and Jenny and all do something together like that.

Chris and I squished in the back, but it was cozy!

Da Game

Chris, Me, Dad, Jen, Brice, Gav (Mom took pic)

I can't remember what else I've done this week, Kid's Hope, had supper with Bish, watched idol with Mom and Dad, hung out with my dearest husband, worked yesterday and today, have the next 2 days off, work the weekend, and before ya know it, it's Heather's wedding on the 15th!

And that my friends has been a weekly update by Brianna M. Lewis.