Too Funny

Check this link out..... My mom sent it to me and it is the funniest thing....

.http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=65147a6c7ad82893ae3b565G06122716

Christmas Eve @ the Simpson's with Connor, Jacquie (John's sister) and Maura.

John and I after graduation .

This is me reciting the Nurse's Prayer.

Christmas

Wow, everything has finally come together at last.

1. Graduation was awesome and everything went off without a hitch. Thursday afternoon at the luncheon, I was extremely nervous, but as the night progressed, I calmed down a lot.
2. The days leading up to Christmas have been a very stressful time. I just felt that I needed to catch up on everything that I have missed this past year. I've cleaned the house, cooked, cooked, and cooked some more. Then with the holidays, my stress level has just escalated.

*Melis, I will be posting pictures of graduation and the holidays real soon.

Ahhh, and on a side note, my second cousin just delivered twin boys on 12/20/06. The pictures of them are adorable! They were 3.7 lbs and 3.9 lbs. Too cute...

The Final Count Down....

Wow, tomorrow is finally the big day! It has been an emotional rollercoaster for me throughout the whole year and the days leading up to graduation. Today at practice, I bawled over who knows what... People made me laugh and then I didn't quite know if I was laughing or crying. I'm very nervous for tomorrow because I feel that things will not run smoothly. We're disorganized and I just feel out of control. I have to speak the nurse's prayer at graduation and my stomach is just in a high knot over that alone! (After tomorrow, I will post pictures if I can remember how to do it)

Other than that, things are going quite well. John just got home from a short business trip to NYC and all went well up there for him. I'm super excited for Christmas and even more excited for our trip to the Dominican! Can't wait!

Bears

Tonight, DDMP is treating clients to a Hershey Bears game. The guys got a box and everything. This in turn means that I must entertain the wifes of the clients. I am a little sceptical about doing this being that they are probably much older than myself. All in all, I am excited to go and just get out of the house.

I did almost burn the kitchen down the other day. I was melting chocolate on the stove and ran upstairs to throw in a load of wash. There was an awful smell coming from the kitchen so I raced downstairs to find the kitchen filled with smoke. I quickly took the pan into the garage and opened all the doors and windows. Eventhough I lit tons of candles to take the smell away, it was still obvious what had happened. I felt like such an idiot. Although it wouldn't have been the first time the fire trucks came to my house ....

1 Week!

Wow, I can't believe that I graduate in 1 week! This year seemed to fly by....

I had a really rough day at clinical today, to the point where I said I didn't want to be a nurse anymore. I felt ashamed saying it, but just the way that places are run is very frustrating to me. I feel that in a long term care facility, no one truely cares for the patients. The healthcare workers do the bare minimum to get by and leave for the day. My favorite patient went to the hospital for sepsis and mersa. My heart just goes out to him. I can't even begin to image what it would be like to live in a long term care facility having only a few outfits, barely any family visits, little contact with the outside world, and having to depend on someone 24/7 to do anything, include using the restroom. In one way I am discussted and in another, I feel that I am making a difference; even if it is for 1 person.

Today after clinical, I went to John's new office. It is extremely nice and very roomy. This is only his second day there and he is loving it. I'm not sure how long it will take him to miss the other half of DDMP, but I'm sure those guys are chatting up a storm everyday on the phone.