What song do you love that everyone else hates?

How embarrassing to even admit this but I have always loved the song "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie Titanic.  didn't even like the movie that much.  But I can't help it, I really like the song.  I know it is whiney and obnoxious.  Still like it.  What is your most embarrassing fav song?

Wrapping up the year in nursing school

Well, the light is definitely bright at the end of the tunnel but there is still soooooooo much to do before the year is over!  I finished clinicals last week.  That turned out well over all.  I was very discouraged by my med/surg clinical at the beginning of the semester because it was sooooooo boring and I thought my instructor was going to be really difficult.  But by the end of the semester I found myself figuring out things to do and actually be productive on my thursday nights and I came to really appreciate my instructor.  She had an air of aloofness about her but she was a good instructor.  She balanced throwing us to the wolves with micromanaging us really well.  On my last night the nurse I was following around wrote that I was "to be trusted" on my evaluation.  That's pretty high praise!

OB was difficult as you can see above.  My last day there I was in L&D and saw all the things go wrong with hospital maternity care that possibly could and still have everyone at the end say, "All that matters is a healthy baby!"  It is hard to describe what happened that day because when I write it down it sounds, well, typical.  And in some ways it was.  But when  typical leaves me crying and unable to sleep for 24 hours, something just ain't right.  I still think L&D is a likely place for me to end up after graduation but I'm more open to other options than I was before.  I know that I could make a difference for the families I care for, I'm just not sure how much "typical" my heart can take.  On a high note, when I was talking to my instructor about what happened she said I was by far the best student she's ever had.  I love affirmation!!!!!!

Still lots to get done, 2 projects to present next week, research assignments, an 8 essay take home final, and of course regular finals!  Then when all that's done I'm signed up for a 2 week intensive medical spanish class.  Oy Vey!  One day at a time.  Remember the elephant!

Oh the irony

How in the world is it possible that a person who is a bit of a birth junkie, who has delivered two babies of her own with out drugs, has read many many books on the subject, is seriously considering a career as a midwife, has looked forward to her OB clinical since before nursing school started, has test grades of 98, 96,90, & 95 in her OB lecture, how is it that this same person can get through an ENTIRE OB clinical and never get to see a vaginal delivery.  How How How?????!!!!!!!

So Teri and Sarah thank you for letting me be your doula because with out you two I would have never seen a delivery EVER!!!!!!

(I'm a little frustrated and disillusioned with L&D nursing and this is my quick attempt to get it out before carpool driving!)

I found a week!!!! A whole week!

So I thought that the last module (which is like four written assignments and a quiz) for my internet class on The Aging Adult was due next thursday.  BUT Its not!!!  Yippee!!!  It is due the next week!!!  So I have a moment to tell my blog friends my happy happy news.  You really have no idea how happy.  AND I got one of the assignments DONE before I realized my mistake so now I'm ahead (a little).  Before I start on either the research assignment due Thursday (definitely this thursday) or my OB care plan which is due Wednesday or to study for my OB test which is Tuesday.  You can begin to see why not having a major project due this week would be a HUGE relief.  (Happy dance happy dance!)  But all will be preceded by lunch because it is pointless to try to focus on an assignment when you are thinking about food!

Rumors of a recession are greatly exagerrated

AT least if the stimulus package I pumped into the economy last week has anything to say about it.  I've now lost about 13 pounds.  I am .6 pounds from my Weight Watchers goal weight.  I'm running like a fool, about 15 miles a week or more.  You've seen my measurements so I've changed my shape pretty dramatically.  All this adds up to the fact that my clothes were looking a little ridiculous.  I had a few things that were really tight before that look good now but almost nothing to wear to church.  So my mom and I went shopping.  I stimulated the economy to the best of my ability.  Man, was it fun to have to ask my mom to get me a size 4 because those darn size 6s were just too big!  I got two new pairs of jeans 

(on sale at Macy's whoo-hoo) Levi's size 6 petite and they don't need to be shortened!  Love it.  I got a couple outfits at White House Black Market for church.(I had a gift card there from Christmas that i was saving for just such an occassion).  It really was a lot of fun.

I still have this nagging fear that all the weight is just going to magically appear back on my thighs.  I think part of it is that I've got some new habits for eating so it doesn't seem like i am following the plan as much because it has gotten easier to do without thinking about it so much.  I also don't get a ravenously hungry anymore which makes me think I must have over eaten at the last meal.  However, the scale keeps showing lower numbers each week so I really think it m

ust just be in my head.  On Sunday I took the girls to IHOP for breakfast and ordered a spinach 

and mushroom omelet made with egg beaters without hollandaise sauce.  I only ate half of it and at one pancake from my stack of 3.  It really wasn't hard because honestly, as hokey as it sounds that old Weight Watchers saying is true for me.  Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.  Some goopy hollandaise and a plate load of syrup and butter just wasn't even close to being worth it! 

Seen in the neighborhood

So my neighbor got her drivers license in November.  We've known her since we moved in 5 years ago and have watched her grow up into this teenager!  I guess it happens to all little girls eventually.  Anyway, she's had a few run ins between stationary objects and her car...the side of the garage, etc.  So Wednesday was trash day.  On the curb next to the household trash at her house was the BUMPER TO HER CAR!  All smashed up but good!  Now that is an inspired parenting move.  Want to shame your teenager?  Put the bumper to the car out on the street for the trash men to pick up!  I laughed all the way to school!

Easter Pics!!!

Easter pictures!  My girlies are on top all decked out in their Easter finery.  It is hard to believe that just last year they had matching dresses from The Children's Place that included just a little bit of petticoat under neath and this year one is wearing fashions from the Hannah Montana line!  It was a very nice day.