sTrEsSeD...

sooo just when I thought I couldn't be any more stressed... haha

Some guy told me the other night that I should enjoy being in school while I can because after this I'll be out in the "real world." Whatever that means... I mean for real, a 40-hour work week is looking REALLY good right about now. Considering I'm putting in around 70 hours of school and work now (only getting paid for like 20 of those hours), plus studying... bring on the "real world" baby!

Anyway, school is hard, work is frustrating, wedding planning is challenging but fun, I think I have made myself sick.... or maybe it was the patient who coughed up something on me the other day. Anyway... I had to take a mental health day today. I don't think I could have made it one more day the way things were going. I had a very nice relaxing day. Ate breakfast with Kyle, got my hair cut, ate lunch with the parental units, took a nap, made a trip to Lowes, did a little studying, met with another florist tonight, ate dinner with Mom, studied some more... ok actually it wasn't exactly relaxing, but it wasn't another crazy day at the hospital, Amen!

Well our invitations came the other day, they are really pretty!! We should be deciding on a florist soon... and a girl at work saved me some stuff from her sister's wedding so that was exciting!

They installed the new CT machine at work the other night. I was like the only one in the whole office who was excited about it. Even the doctor who paid the thousands of dollars for it forgot they were even bringing it that night and he had already forgotten what brand it was!!! OH MY GRACIOUS! But yeah, I felt like such a dork running out to watch the guys unload it and wanting to see the inside and all that jazz. I thought it was pretty cool though, I can't wait to start scanning! :-)

So...
Tomorrow is a new day! "Your mercies are new every morning..."

Injuries, Flowers and Invitations

Well the last few weeks have been extremely busy and stressful so it was nice to finally have a day off. Kyle was recently working on his car and hurt his wrist. He came by my work and I x-rayed it for him and sure enough, there was a small crack so he was supposed to be wearing a brace for a couple of weeks. But the next weekend, we went water skiing and tubing with our college class at church and he was determined to use his wrist. We had fun trying to water ski but Kyle hurt his wrist again and I have some pretty nasty bruises on my arms and legs. I would post pics but it really is quite bad looking, you might would get kinda nauseated.



In wedding news, my Mom and I met with a florist on Friday and planned out everything we want. We are getting a quote from her hopefully by Wednesday. We are going to look at a few more places but we were pretty happy with what we saw at the first place. I'll keep our plans a secret just in case we decide to change something, but the flowers will be beautiful.



We also ordered our invitations today. Our wedding director works for a printing company so we got our invitations for 1/2 price, can't beat that. I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out, simple but elegant.



Life is pretty good right now. School is crazy hard but I was able to cut back on some of my work hours so hopefully I'll be a little less stressed and have more time to study. Clinicals are quite challenging since a lot of the work is thrown onto me and I leave most days tired and frazzled. But last Friday the President of the hospital actually stopped by and said people have been telling him I'm doing really well so that made me feel a lot better. I really enjoy working with the patients. Some days are very sad but I know its worth it when a patient comes in sick, tired and angry and they leave smiling and wanting to hug me. It always reminds me that's why I chose this field and that I really am making a difference. It sounds so cliche but it's true, there's no better feeling.



I hope everyone had a great Labor Day!!