"A drink of hope comes from Love."
I love this qoute.
The truth in it sparkles like diamonds
in a world with too much gravel.
Dad and I love you soooo much!
friendship is where the heart is
Hi!!!!
Rebekah and I are having our own quiet little party here at 1:34am. ( I'm online, she's watching a Seinfeld DVD. ) Everyone else, including Joel, Sarah, and their kiddos, konked. Looking forward to your first post from Nanny's.
Hola!
Today was nerve-wracking. I had a bunch of stuff due, and had to give a Physical Assessment demonstration on the musculoskeletal system in front of my professor this morning. Basically I had to learn all the joints and Range of Motion movements and demonstrate how to assess for normalcy. I also had to learn how to do a basic neurological exam, but I didn't have to demonstrate that to my instructor because we ran out of time. We wear our long white lab coats to do our assessment demos to help us feel professional and it usually works, but if it doesn't I get into my acting mode and I pretend to be Dr. Dana Scully from The X-Files. That gives me a lot of confidence. I did that when we had to assess the abdomen about a month ago and my partner said she was really impressed with my professionality (is that a word?)- huge ego boost there. I stayed up till about 3:30am last night doing clinical paperwork and studying for the assessment demo, so I was going on about 2.5-3.0 hours of sleep today. Fortunately I was pumping with adrenaline for the first part of the morning (the demo) but I crashed around 11:45 in my Nutrition Theory class. I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and let me tell you it was lovely. I was so deep under though that when my alarm went off around 3pm I didn't completely know what day or time it was and when I saw the level of sunlight I panicked because I thought I had overslept and missed a clinical or something really important like that. School's almost out though, my very last final, Nutrition, is ridiculously late- May 15, but I don't start work at the hospital until the 21st so at least I have a few days to relax. I have been thinking lately that I might want to teach at a college someday. They're practically begging us to become nursing instructors, and I've always told myself that I wanted to be a college professor someday, so maybe I will.
I am very excited about the job I got for this summer- I'll be working as a nurse extern (like an intern only you get paid
) on the women's health ward at a nearby hospital. It's so near my house I'm actually going to buy a bicycle and ride it to work every day instead of driving. We'll soon be short on cars here anyways because Rebekah will be getting her license this summer and Josh will be learning to drive. Plus a bike will cut down on the money I spend on gas, and give me some good exercise.
I have a new hobby which I have become particularly engrossed with- tracking baby names and their popularity and trends. I was always interested in names, particularly because I am bound and determined to give my children individual and strong names, but lately I have begun to dig a little deeper and am intrugued by what I am finding. I am also continually surprised at the people around me who are naming their new babies extremely popular names because they "just liked the name" without even checking the fact that there were about 23,000 other little girls named Emily that year, or 25,000 other little Jacobs. Nor do they wonder whether their son named "Angel" (which was #32 in 2005 by the way) will regret his parent's choice when he submits his resume for a competitive business internship or law school. Anyways, it's extremely interesting. Another interesting thing is how popular movies and TV shows, not to mention celebrities affect the trends. Right now for girls Sydney (main character on Alias), Kate (Kate Winslet, Kate Bosworth, Cate Blanchett), Angelina (Jolie), Mariah (Carrey), Alyssa (Milano) and Trinity (The Matrix) are all very hot, to name a few. For boys Elijah (Wood), Logan (X-Men), Liam (Neeson) and Hayden (Christenson) have risen steadily with the popularity of their namesake's and movie character's exposure. Well, maybe I'll write more on names later, as I could write a whole lot, but for now I must go to bed and bid you adieu.