Who am I and what have I done with me??

Somehow, some way my inner crafter has popped up and I wonder how long she will stay.  Today, I used a glue gun!  Quite exciting I might add.

 In some ways I think I'm avoiding studying for my CCRN and ATCN.  There is those things and then I am probably avoiding the basement and all the organizing I still have to do.  I have put in 2 days out of 60.  Being put on call for my second job doesn't even give me the working excuse.  I do have the "training for a 10K" excuse though.  The great news is that most people will get handmade gifts this year and I will not be killing the earth by buying new things.  Recycle or reuse.  If you don't believe that there isn't enough crap around, just come look in my basement.  Not so much hoarder style, but definitely a sign of "enough"!

My dollar store wreath that I made with a dollar frame, some dollar store leaves and my glue gun.  I even used one of the vintage buttons I bought from Etsy.  I love buttons.  

On another note:

Sami had her Senior pictures taken today and I have a feeling they are going to be wicked awesome!!  We had a great photographer and with Sami's beauty it was a match!  This picture was taken with my cell phone in the Crown Burger parking lot while we waited for our order.  She still looks super cute!

Reminder to myself:  Only get the fries with fry sauce.  They are my favorite and I'm usually too full to eat the burger. Oh my!

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I VOTED!!

Yeah, I voted. Matt voted too. I voted 2 miles into my 4 mile run. Next time remind me to blow my nose before I get in line. Did you know that the Christ Church (on 33rd, where I voted) has snack machines?? AWESOME! That is almost as great as the Church I took the kids to once in a while that had a coffee cart. Church is looking better and better!

Our voting manual was full of hand written notes and lots of doodles and drawings on candidates. Thanks to my hubby, I've seen a whole new light on voting and politics. We even agree on a few candidates. Of course he studies and reads and makes really informed decisions. I do a little of that and a little of, "Get that idiot out of office, they haven't done anything worthwhile" type of voting approach.

This year was the most I voted on just the person and not the party. Except the Tea Party. I can't believe that someone would admit to be a part of that. If you are not looking at the other side of the story, then you are following a whole bunch of scare tactics and drama queens. I'm that way with every news station and special interest group.

Maybe I can get a job being a "devils advocate" and argue. That would be DREAMY!!

I pre-apologize to everyone that is offended by my disgust with the "Tea Party". It's not personal, it's politics. If you want some great political discussion, watch the comedy channel.

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Crochet

I'm on another crochet extravaganza.

My Christmas challenge this year is to make all if not most gifts a recycled, reused or handmade gift. I am using mostly the things I already have and other things I am buying at Thrift Town. If you haven't been there, it is freaking fantastic!!! It's cleaner and safer then the DI and I have found treasures abundant! I already have ton's of yarn and buckets of craft stuff. I gathered quite a bit when the kids were little and they were always doing things for school, etc. I found some awesome patterns for things I haven't really made before and I could crochet up a STORM!!

So if you are on my Christmas list, don't be surprised by your gift, it will probably be some kind of crocheted cozy that you never knew you needed!! It will be made with love and with supplies that are used, reused, recycled or existing.

Check this out:

This is our Swiffer mop and a crocheted cover for it. It has some netting crocheted into it and Matt tried it out and gave it a two thumbs up!! I need to tweak the pattern a bit, but think about it, I used the yarn and netting I already had and now we just throw it in the washer instead of buying replacements over and over again and throwing them away. I am going to make a couple more to have on hand.

But lets keep this on the down low. Yeah, I have shadows of tree hugger in me but don't forget that awesome princess crown I wear!!!

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FALL RISK

I worked 5 days in a row last week. It included last Wednesday and I worked up through Sunday. I charged for 3 days and the last day was a plethora of patients going out and coming in and the hospital was completely constipated and full. It's a simple math thing that can be so overwhelming that it makes me wonder about who failed their math class. Then there was the incident where someone thought that talking to me about something I said previously in the middle of a busy MICU was a much better idea then in private. I'm still mulling that over that situation. Let it go? Formal complaint? Try a one on one meeting? I have a feeling that her false idea of power will make the decision for me and that is to let it go. The hospital is full of ego's that feel wonderful when they belittle someone in public. Unfortunately in this case I was blindsided and she frankly looked like an idiot.

AMEN.

Glad to get that off my chest. Maybe I can stop bitching and thinking about it.

I blame her.

I fell.

I was still upset and I fell.

I fell OUT of the shower. Not only did I fall on the floor full on and completely out of the shower, I fell out in the middle of my shower. I was trying to adjust the mat in the tub and wham! I was laying on the floor of the bathroom with the bath mat next to me. Mockery? That was a sassy bathmat anyway, so we threw it away in spite.

I didn't know whether I wanted to laugh or to cry so I laughed until I cried and finally revealed my hilarious secret by about 10am at work. My co-worker Terri Michele was having a bad day and I decided I could use my pain and horror to turn it around. It was funny and she put a FALL risk armband on me for the rest of the day. After that my day went pretty great from then out. Of course the rest of my co-workers mocked me and made me laugh until I cried (again) at lunch. Then I enjoyed a less stressful afternoon taking care of my two patients that were actually grateful and kind.

Injuries include bruising and scrapes on my scapula with a matching bruise on my upper arm. I have an odd bruise on my index finger (all left side) and I must have jammed my ring finger because getting on my wedding ring since then has been painful and tight. I can't even imagine what my patients must feel having been in multiple traumas. Can you imagine me in a multiple trauma? Talk about your whine fest!!

I'm not a good hurt person. I don't cry or scream, but I certainly write long winded blogs about my pain and suffering.

By the way, I stood up and got back in the shower - finished my shower and then went to work. I like to think I get that toughness from my dad. He can tear something in his shoulder and then ski 2 more runs. I'm popping ibuprofen to take the edge off and should be well healed within days.

On another note. Do you ever wonder how big the beds get in the hospital?? Well, we were instructed to try out a new Bari (Bariatric) bed for 30 days on our unit. I was charging, so a few of us jumped in and had other nurses take pics and start the rotation.

The girls all in one bed. Me, Jen Q and Britney. Britney likes to play the innocent girl but she jumped in toot sweet!!

Thanks Baylen for taking the picture and Trent for turning on the auto turn. My leg is swung over the bed and the bed sinks on my side and we fall to that side, just to be lifted and sunk to the other side. This isn't even the widest of the Bari beds. They go so wide that I can hardly reach over them.

It's a pet peeve. I think they should tax McDonald's....instead of taking away clove cigarettes and taxing the "sins" to death.

But that's just me.....

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