It Seems Like a Fine Day for an Update!

It's been a while, so here's an update of my boring life:

1. I have been trucking along at my job, made the 11 month mark yesterday! Woohoo!!! Country Store free for almost a year! I can now say that I will have done every job possible as of this Saturday. Work the Floor, Pass Meds, Activities, act as the Director and the last one I will start on Saturday: Cook, ugh! Shoot me! I only have 2 weeks left there as a full time employee. I will be cutting down to 2 days a week due to the fact that I am....
2. Starting Nursing School!!! 2 weeks from today!!! Am I scared? That would be an understatement! I'm terrified! I am so not ready to hit the books, my year an a half break from school was wonderful!!! Although it did take me several months to get that feeling of "Time to Study" off of my brain. Now it's time to put it back in there, that is if my brain has any room left in it. With starting I have to finish checking things off of my list like:
3. Being CPR re-certified! Which I did, with my mom, on Sunday. It was just the two of us and we had a lot of fun. It's amazing what can change in the few years since I took the class the last time. 
4. CPR isn't the only thing I had to do. I needed to obtain immunization records of MMR (check!) and get a stupid Varicella shot (even though I've already had the Chicken Pox) because I had found a loop hole!!! It was either get a titer (a blood test proving immunity to MMR and the Pox) or just get the immunization. I choose the later and oh boy did I pay for it!
5. When I got my immunizations, (yes, plural) they told me my Tetanus/Diphtheria was due in a year and a half, and well since I was there I should just get that one since I hadn't had the booster that contained the Pertussis vaccine in it. So I walked into the room to get my shots and there were two women in there and they were like, "We're gonna give you your shots at the same time!" I was ecstatic since I hate shots and I only had to do it once, not twice! I was told the TDaP wouldn't hurt, but my arm would more than likely be sore later, but the Varicella would hurt upon injection and then be fine after it was done. Uh, in my case, let's reverse that!  The Varicella didn't hurt at all, but the TDaP hurt like a bitch!!! I think the girl that did that was training cuz she took forever to give it then commentated on it by saying "It's squirting". I got this shot on July 17th and yesterday (August 6th) was the first day I no longer could see the bruise at the injection site. Not to mention my arm killed for like 2 weeks and I couldn't lift any of my residents on my left side for a week. Then a few days after my shots, the injection site of the Varicella swelled up like a balloon and I got several pox on my body, one that is just finally going away. I still need to get the booster for that one in 10 days. Oh joy! I've never had reactions to immunizations like this before. I guess in my old age, my body can't take it.
6. I also need to have two TB (tuberculosis) tests done. I already  have one done thanks to work! So I need to go get another one. That one's not so bad, so I'm not too worried about that one giving me any grief.
7. Uniforms. As a Nursing Student you need to have a very specific type of scrubs for clinical. Specific brand, specific style and specific color. Oh except you can have any type of white pants (shrugs shoulders). The top and matching pants have to be the lovely wine color which I've heard that once you are done with school you will never wear again. Well I still wear my CNA clinical scrubs so we'll see how sick I get of them. I actually lucked out in this category as normally each piece will cost you anywhere from 20-25 bucks a pop. Well a uniform store closed down here in Spring and 2 weeks ago had brought all their leftover inventory out of storage and sold it for $6 a piece. I found all that I needed. I have 3 shirts and 3 pants and I paid a whopping total of $36 for them!!! I wasn't paying attention to one of the shirts I got and I don't really like the pocket placements on it, so I think I'll see if someone wants to buy that one off of me. But I'm still happy that I got 3 sets for less than the price of 1. Winning!!!
8. Today I am buying my books. It will put a nice dent in my credit card and savings account. But I am fine with this because in my program you buy most of your books 1st semester and one or two for each of the other 3 semesters. So my biggest book bill will be now! 
9. On a non-school note, I was able to go Up North to Hayward this month!!! We did get stranded, as is the tradition. It was on the island this year. It started storming and we only had canoes, a kayak and one boat with a motor. So we had to go deep into the woods of the island and try to take shelter from the storm. It was a great memory to add to the vacation books. I also had fun swimming, sitting at campfires, shopping, eating tons of ice cream and just hanging out with my cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, brothers, nieces and nephews. Successful vacation? I think so!

   

   Kissing the frog I caught, hoping he turns into a handsome prince. He didn't.

   As my time as a Nurse in Limbo comes to an end, I will be having to change my blog name, so we'll see what my brain comes up with.