Early night

My clinical instructor let us go home early tonight! This is a good thing because I need to study for the psych nursing quiz that I have first thing in the morning. I guess I should probably get started on that now. :/

Just one more week of clinicals and one more week of classes after this week for the quarter. Then I'll have a few weeks off. Yay!

Tis the season

This used to be my favorite time of year. Thanksgiving, my birthday, Christmas. However, over the past few years I have really started dreading it. Now, I can pretty much say it is my least favorite time of year. :( Hopefully someday that will change again.

Braces

This morning I took my oldest to the Orthodontist, this time not just for a consultation! She got a few brackets put on her top teeth. She has to go back to get spacers put in and her top molar brackets put on. Some time later, after her teeth do some adjusting, she will get the bottom ones put on.

She will also be getting a palate expander because the top of her mouth is too narrow, which has been causing her issues with crowding and ultimately the reason several of her baby teeth have not yet fallen out and the permanent teeth grown in. Which means a trip to the dentist to have 6 baby teeth pulled! Oh joy! She's already complaining about her teeth hurting. Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow should be fun for her. Looks like lots of mashed potatoes in her future! Oh, I remember those days. Not fun!

Here are some pics from her appointment:

Why do I bother?

I have had a headache all afternoon. I tried taking a nap earlier, but as soon as I was about to drift off my son got home from school. Then, I had just gotten back to almost sleep and my younger daughter got home. She, of course, came immediately into my room and wanted me to sign her assignment book (something that is required daily to make sure parents are making sure kids do their homework). I told her that I had a really bad headache and to wait until I got up. This child, however, is not like me in the procrastination department. She wants to make sure she gets all of her things done ASAP, even if that means waking mom up. >:(

So, after finally falling asleep for approximately 5 minutes, my aforementioned daughter comes busting back into my room saying that Bella puked in her crate. UGGHHH! I told her to clean it up and headed back to try to sleep. A couple minutes later, she comes back in saying that she "can't do it". So I told her to leave it and I'd get it when I got up. I just drifted off once again and my alarm went off to go pick up my oldest daughter.

So, I still have my headache and my on and off "nap" only made me feel worse and, quite frankly, kinda cranky!! Hmmph! I think I'ma have to call it a night early tonight.

Well, isn't that just great?!

So, my oldest daughter chipped her front tooth several years ago. The bottom half of that tooth is made up of the same stuff as fillings. It's a temporary fix. Eventually she will have to have it capped. Once that happens, it won't be noticable that it is not her real tooth. However, as of now, until her teeth are fully grown in and braces are done, she will have to deal with the filling.

A couple of years ago, she bit into a sucker, and popped that filling off her tooth and it had to be redone. Tonight, my younger daughter was...wait for it, wait for iiiitt...twirling around a metal baseball bat (seriously? yes.) and hit her sister in the mouth. Well, guess what happened. Yep, it came off again. Sigh.

Blah

Feeling :'(

The hills are alive...

My oldest daughter was in The Sound of Music at school last night and tonight. The kids all did a very good job. Of course, there were a few kids that could have done better :o but for the most part, it went well. Here is a picture of her in costume after the performance tonight:



And a short video my SIL took of her singing with the other nuns:

Untitled from Lora S on Vimeo.

Emails and IM

I am really frustrated with my email/IM situation right now. I am attempting to move all of my emails to 1 main email account and completely ditch my old email address that I've had since 1999. I wanted to switch to something easier to tell people, that does not require a long explanation each time I give out my email, and perhaps looks a little more professional.

Well, this has seemed to cause me more stress than I think it was really worth. The new email does not work the same way with my IM client of choice. Before, my email and chat were all connected. If I signed into IM, I was also signed into my email and could have notifications of new emails pop up if I chose. I could click an icon and immediately get to my inbox. It was all so easy and all in one place.

After switching over, I now have to have two different IM clients open in order to have all of this available to me at the same time. On top of that, when I first signed up with the new email on my old IM, I left out the . in the middle of the email address, thinking it was not that big of a deal. Well, for some reason, even though I received the verification email and verified it, it still kept saying that my email was not verified. Very annoying.

So, I signed up, once again. This time using the dot. I only sent out requests to a couple of my contacts, because I am still trying to decide if I'm going to stick with this, or just go back and use the old email, at least for IM purposes.

Early day

Tomorrow is going to suck! I am on to my L&D clinicals now, and I have to drive 40 minutes, park in a lot across from the hospital, ride a shuttle to the hospital, and meet in the lobby at 6:30 am. So, I guess that puts me leaving the house by around 5:30 am. :( UGH! Hate me some early days!

On a side note, on my way out from dinner at Red Robin with my grandma tonight, she says: "Well, I enjoyed that, but it was a big one". Yeeeah, I had to bite my tongue...

Yuck

So, a friend told me today to try a home remedy for my cough that I've had for the past few days. It's called a hot toddy. It is hot tea, honey, lemon juice and a shot of bourbon whiskey. I am drinking it right now because, at this point, I'm willing to try almost anything. I am so sore whenever I cough! It makes my whole body hurt. I can tell you one thing...this is some nasty crap. I sure hope it helps!

Siiick!

I have been miserable all weekend. I have been coughing crazy hard. My head and chest both hurt every time. I've been chugging cough syrup, but it doesn't really seem to help. I woke myself up coughing several times last night too. :( Ugh,I just want to feel better! On top of that, I already had to go pick up my oldest daughter from school because apparently she was "swallowing puke on the bus" because she "didn't have a bag". Nice.

Hello Weekend!

Well, I finished up my pediatric rotation at Children's Hospital today. Next week, I'll be in labor and delivery. Hopefully I'll get more experience than I did in the LPN L&D rotation. I am so glad this week is over! I am starting my weekend now because the reflection journal paper I thought was due tomorrow for psych nursing is actually not due until next week! Bonus!

Wellll....

It wasn't really what I was hoping for tonight with the adolescent group, though I would say it wasn't anything unexpected. They are definitely a group of troubled kids.

The fun part of working with the kids was that we got gym time. There were only 5 on the unit, and pretty much all but one basically just sat around talking the whole hour instead of playing basketball or kicking a soccer ball around. So, there was an LPN, another student from my school (who is in his 6th quarter and working in the psych hospital with his preceptor), my clinical partner, and myself playing...and one kid. Something was wrong with that picture, but whatever. I only got hit in the face with a basketball once and hit in the stomach with a soccer ball once. :/

The other end...

Well I'm on my way to clinical for the evening. I'll be working on the adolescent unit of the psychiatric hospital tonight. Last week I was on the geriatric unit which was very similar to being at a nursing home. Hopefully seeing the other end of the spectrum will be interesting! We shall see.