Birthdays Coming From EVERYWHERE!!!!

Well this just happens to be the day to be born on! 3 Very important people to me have birthdays on this very special day!!!First there is this very special Lady! She's my mommy!!!! Her age well we won't say! ; -) But I love her lots and lots!!!! She brought me into this world, so that right there would make her pretty neat but she also put up with a lot from me! And then go figure i go and leave her for Cincinnati!!! I miss her but hopefully will get to see her soon, and I know those that are in MN will treat her right, give her lots of hugs and love and such!!!

Then....There is this little bundle of JOY! Haha I guess she's not really little anymore but she's my cousin and apparently 1 of 3 of my mini me's we've spent lots of time together most of which she will never remember!!! I rocked her for hours when she was in her "coloick (sp?) phase! She is so much fun to be around so sweet! And i just ADORE this picture of her with my little brother, it just says so much about him, and well she just looks so content!!! I love you Brigs Happy 9th Birthday!!!!!

And then...
There is my best friend from Cincinnati Christina!!! It's her birthday 2 it took me like 15 times asking her when her birthday was and going...oh yea thats my mom and my cousins birthday to remember that it was her birthday on that day!!! Sorry!!! I get to go see her later today I'm super excited we are going to eat dinner and such!!!! She has made living in Cincinnati so much better so I'm very happy to have in her my life!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE you and will see you soon!!!!

A Pickle...

IN A BAG...I know i could hardely believe my eyes. At clinical on Friday one of the PCA's offered me one of my favorite foods in rare form...

Yup folks thats a pickle in a bag...and not just any pickle a GIANT pickle!!! I had to save it to bring it home and take a picture. I still have some of it it was "rich" if thats a word for a pickle and could only eat half of it.

Aside from my exciting gift of the PICKLE on friday my day was rather stressful. I am on my mental health rotation, and this week i had 2 patients. Thursday went wonderfully i discharged one a teenager who just needed a swift kick to the butt and a middle aged alcoholic who was rather pleasant, just well going through with withdrawals. But friday i got a new patient a 45 year old woman with a history of drug abuse, sexual abuse as a child and prostitution, cutting, and suicide attempts she was in for suicidal ideation(had a plan). Well she also had borderline personality disorder...look it up! but in short imagine a teenager, a very needy one that is very manipulative with bipolar but instead of the ups and downs lasting a couple of weeks or days they last for hours sometimes minutes. Needless to say life suckers....just exhausting patients, so at the end of the day all i wanted to do was scream, and shake this woman....but i know she was sick, but still it's hard, and medicine doesnt' help them, and she couldn't get antianxieties b/c of being a drug addict....errrrr but other than that i LOVE this mental health unit, and actually would like to work in psych ...more specifically i think i want to work in adolecent psych!!!!!

Friday night i stayed home, took a nap, worked on my resume, bc i have a job interview this week, and went to bed early.

Saturday i worked all day, but at the end of my shift my friend megan came i hadn't seen her in forever so we got to chat for a little bit. Then I went to my friend Christina's and we got to go shopping, I got a few things nothing exciting well okay a little a jacket for my job interview for 10$ very cute, and then a blue stripped shirt also maybe for my interview we'll see how i feel on wed. And then a dress to wear this friday for Christina's birthday outing it's cute but i'm not sure i want to keep it, maybe i'll post a picture this week and you can all give your 2 sense!!! AFter shopping we went and rented a movie..."Sydney White...and the 7 dorks" it was very cute a spoof on snow white with amanda bynes I like her so i thought the movie was funny...We also got chipotle for dinner yum yum in my tummy!!!!!

Today i checked out a new church, it was okay but i don't think i want to drive that far (1/2 hour) for something that was just "okay". I took a nap when i got home it was glorious. And then headed to a new panera, i like to mix it up! it is currently filled with adolecent boys who apparently just got out of a swim meet all of their hair is wet and has the same "look" to it. But I should probably start studying for that big test i have on tuesday. Wish me luck!!!!!

Here is a fun picture i took of the pickle!!!! YOu know you want one!!!!!

A Cincinnati Snow Day!!!!

Okay so the snow day was really yesterday...but i didn't get out and couldn't get my computer to down load the "snow" pictures!!!!

The prediction of snow started as early as Sunday night which sends the whole city in to a tizzy!!! They don't know what to do with this white stuff called snow....and they certainly don't know how to drive in it!!!!

Well Monday morning several schools were delayed i looked outside and could not figure out for the life of me why they were delayed....as it turns out it was just too cold to send those little kiddies off to the bus stop that early now try not to fall over laughing but it was 13 degrees! Can you believe it 2 hour delays and even some cancellations because it was just too cold to go outside...

Well the snow was supposed to start that evening (monday) and it did by around 7pm our night instructor was sure to make sure we were out in pleanty of time so we didn't have to drive in it...It didn't start sticking till probably around 10 o'clock that night...and although its crazy i coudlnt' help but secretly wish for snow day on tuesday.

NOtice you can still see the grass

On tuesday i woke up around 2:00 in the morning i had fallen asleep with the T.V. on ooops!!! But i stayed awake long enough to find out that school for me was not yet cancelled you have to understand this can take up to 1/2 hour because of the endless list of schools they have to go through for northern Kentucky as well as western Indianna and Southern Ohio known as the tri state area...WEll school had not yet been cancelled

I will say that there was also a wintery mix so ice is probable cause... but really the road weren't bad

WEll I wake up at 7:15 am like a good little girl but before i fully wake myself up i check one more time just incase school might be cancelled...and well folks i see it after struggling to keep my little baby eyelids open..."The Christ School of Nursing" but you see i'm a little anal and thats not enough so i got up and was gonna go check the internet when i decided to check my phone and my good friend had sent me a message saying that school was cancelled and to enjoy my snow day...so back to bed I went until almost 11:00 what a wonderful morning....

I was a little worried i woudn't make it up the steep

drive way but my little civic pulled through

I did have to go to work so my "day off" with all that snow was not as productive as it should ahve been! but aww well...I aint complaining.

YOu'll never guess what was uttered at work that night as it began to flurry just flurry mind you I said "oh it's snowing again" and someone said "oh no" and i said "what it's just a little snow." and he said "but we have to drive" crazy ohio people!!!

This was yesterday while i a was trying to make my crappy computer work...Yea for snow days and hot chocholate!!!!! In my favorite starbucks mug!!!! (thanks nate)

I see Dead People...

Okay so maybe not such a good play on words but i did check out some human bodies this weekend...I had seen Body Worlds back when it was in the twin cities...and my good friend Rachel (pictured below) asked me if i wanted to go the exhibit with her aunt and uncle i jumped at the chance b/c well it's just that cool!!!! The exhibit was different than Body Worlds same movie but differen poses and not so much stuff a lot smaller than Body Worlds...so in the end i think I would recommend that one!Waitin in line for the imax movie!!! The big ol' sign!

You can't take pictures inside but this is a poster outside... yup folks their real...and oops i touched one...oh yea and I chewed gum the whole time i was in the exhibit...and i didn't get arrested!!!! ;)

New scrubs!

Well it's been over a month...I ain't dead just crazy busy!!!!

In this months time I have since arrived back in Cincinnati, had a birthday, we went to dinner and hung out it was quite a blast as you can tell from the pictures below!!! Two of my best girlfriends from school

...went to Winter RetreatMe and Kari the the two Nurses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My mom and baby sister suprised me!!!! It was wonderful!!!!!!

Last weekend I got to spend the weekend with my other good girlfriend from school!!!!

We went shopping...and celebrated my birthday twice....she got me cheesecake and put fun HAPPY BIRTHDAY candles on it....she couldn't make it to dinner and such the weekend or two before that...but then....We went to her mama's and then had lunch and another birthday cake...they were just tooo sweet to me!!!!



But this week was my first week on the Mental Health Unit...I loved it!!! Not to mention i got to wear "REAL" scrubs!!!! I've included a picture...I owe a big thank you to all of my aunties who got them for me for my birthday!!!! They are extreamly comfortable!!!!! Yes i get to wear my PJ's to work...What could be better!!!!!

My special scrub top...for Valentines day!!!!!

OH the fun cuteness i get to have...yea no white!!!!!!!