Comfort

today was disappointing.

good thing tomorrow is a new day.

this gives me hope:

Date Night

nursing program

=

a date with my books on a friday night

it's totally worth it!

mind over matter

Every Tuesday and Thursday I have to talk myself into going to my pathophysiology class.

Sometimes I talk myself into it.

Sometimes I don't.

I'm going today! I'm going today! I'm going today!

What do you have to talk yourself into?

someday

someday I will enter this house of the Lord with my eternal companion.

and he will make all the boys who have broken my heart worth it.

someday, just not today.

I can handle it not being today, as long as I know that someday I will.

someday, just not today.

sleep

doesn't this look lovely?

i miss you sleep.

FYI

I love nursing school!

I just thought I'd let you know.

I hope you had a great day.

she's 21 today

That girl in the middle-in the back seat well it's her birthday today! She's 21. And pretty cool! I like her a lot. Really I love her! She's the best and tells me to shut up when I'm being irrational.

Happy Birthday Melissa! I love you.

trinity

{me and my clinical group}

Today was my last day of clinical for the semester.

I really wish I could put up all the pictures I took today of the residents.

I just love them.

I'm going to miss that place.

Getting up at 4:30 wasn't so bad, cause I got to be with these 8 wonderful girls and help such wonderful people! What a blessing it has been.

I just can't wait to be a nurse!

on my mind

Neuroendrocrine

Reproduction

Inflammation

Hemostasis

Stress

Adrenal Axis

(all of the above are on my patho test that I must take tonight and that I have not studied sufficiently for)

What's on your mind?

a coffee bean

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on high. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and in the last she placed coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

In about 20 minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you see?”

“Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take and egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted the rich aroma. The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?”

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity ~ boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its insides became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water. “Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?”

Think of this: Which are you? Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did you have a fluid spirit, but after a dearth or a trial have you become bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May your find enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything – they just make the most of everything that comes their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. Keep your heart soft and may it always have peace.

I met a coffee bean today! She was incredible. I gave her a hug and tried to somehow show her how much her story meant to me. She's the author of a book called Big Al. Go read it. Now. And then do everything in your power to meet this amazing woman.

I hope I grow up to be just like her!

She made me cry.

Also, she said she has a Twinkie or a Ding Dong for breakfast every morning!

Today was a good day!

roller coaster

I love clinical.

But today it was so bad!

I felt like a horrible nurse after.

My clinical instructor told me that as a nurse I will have really bad days and that I will have days worse than today. She gave me a pep talk. And I cried.

Being a nurse is an emotional roller coaster.

Good thing I'm not already an emotional roller coaster.... ;)

who i am

This is how I feel today.

If I live to be a hundred
And never see the seven wonders
That'll be alright
If I don't make it to the big leagues
If I never win a Grammy
I'm gonna be just fine
Cause I know exactly who I am

I am Rosemary's granddaughter
The spitting image of my father
And when the day is done my momma's still my biggest fan
Sometimes I'm clueless and I'm clumsy
But I've got friends that love me
And they know just where I stand
It's all a part of me
And that's who I am

So when I make a big mistake
And when I fall flat on my face
I know I'll be alright
Should my tender heart be broken
I will cry those teardrops knowing
I will be just fine
Cause nothing changes who I am

I am Rosemary's granddaughter
The spitting image of my father
And when the day is done my momma's still my biggest fan
Sometimes I'm clueless and I'm clumsy
But I've got friends that love me
And they know just where I stand
It's all a part of me
And that's who I am

I'm a saint and I'm a sinner
I'm a loser; I'm a winner
I am steady and unstable
I'm young, but I am able

I am Rosemary's granddaughter
The spitting image of my father
And when the day is done my momma's still my biggest fan
Sometimes I'm clueless and I'm clumsy
But I've got friends that love me
And they know where I stand
It's all a part of me
And that's who I am

I am Rosemary's granddaughter
The spitting image of my father
And when the day is done my momma's still my biggest fan
Sometimes I'm clueless and I'm clumsy
But I've got friends that love me
And they know where I stand
It's all a part of me
And that's who I am
That's who I am

How do YOU feel today??