“Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.”

~Paul Carvel

Tru dat, Paul.

Is constantly coming up on MySpace. Quite frankly, it has become the expected.

UGH!! How annoying!

Said the insane nursing student.

As nursing students, we are all pretty neurotic and I will admit that. However, some girls are extremely neurotic and maybe a tad on the psychotic end of the spectrum. Today in patho, our teacher asked if we wanted to switch our test date from the 11th to the 13th. Most of the class was in agreement that this would be okay. All except the one neurotic, psychotic girl sitting a few seats away from me. At first she claimed she, “Just wanted to get it over with!” A few  moments later I hear her say, “It just isn’t fair..” I really could not hear the rest of it so I asked the girl next to me what her malfunction was. Apparently she was all pissed because the people who are not taking Women and Children this semester get “an extra day to study” because they get done with classes a few hours before we do. Uhm,  they do not get an entire day AND she chose her schedule! Seriously?

Something most of us learned in elementary, life is not always going to be fair. Geesh, she is a grown ass woman bitching about how it just won’t be fair. I have no idea where she plans on working when she is a nurse, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say, everything will not be fair there either.  Get over it! Adapt, grow, learn, change, and just be an adult for shit sake!

When a person withdraws from a drug that causes physical dependence, they have what is called abstinence syndrome. If you watch the show Intervention you may know what some of the symptoms are. Not pleasant to say the least.

One symptom is “gooseflesh” and that is where the term cold turkey came from. Another symptom is kicking movements because of the muscle pain and spasms, hence the term “kicking the habit.”

And now you know.

I know this person and it does not matter what the situation is, it is never their fault. Said person has the most negative attitude of anyone I have ever met. Now, I know that we all have our days and life gets stressful, but you have got to roll with the punches! I cannot imagine never owning up to anything I have done wrong, constantly blaming every one else, and just being a total downer ALL the freakin’ time. It seems like this person was a little coddled throughout life and now is ill- equipped to deal with and sort of adversity. I dunno. Kind of sad. I guess some folks just do not know how to deal with stress or bad days.

Honestly, just move on with it. Tomorrow is a new day, right?

That is all that I have to say.

“Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.”

~Unknown

See, and people laugh at me when I say, “Hey, I’m just being realistic.” Pessimism can be equated to realism in some instances and I am obviously not the only person who thinks so. Life is not always rainbows and butterflies and more often than not, the truth hurts.

Morphine was named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Probably because of the euphoric effect this drug can have. That and it is used for all kinds of stuff, not just to get high

A fun fact brought to you by: Richard A. Lehne, the writer of my awesome pharmacology book titled Pharmacology For Nursing Care (6th edition, btw). Wow, I am a serious dork!

Pens! I just found the most perfect pens EVER!! I am somewhat of a pen whore. What can I say, I like having several different pens in my collection.

I purchased the most perfect writing instrument last night, the Pilot Precise P-700 Gel Roller pen. Writing with these pens is pure heaven, ya’ll! I used to hate gel ink because it gets all leaky n’ stuff, but not my Pilot pens. Another company, who’s name I won’t mention, makes pretty pens but the ink leaks all over your paper. I am way too OCD to have pen leaks all over the place.

I will be hiding these pens from my boyfriend because he will steal them, I just know it! We both have some sort of pen freakishness going on. He likes the company that makes leaky pens and I know once he tries my Pilot beauties he will want them.

Sorry. That was probably the most boring drivel you have ever heard in your life!

PS A good ol’ Bic mechanical pencil also melts my heart!! I loves me some Bic pencils. You have got to have fine point in whatever you are writing with! Medium is for sloppy folks

Or maybe just Fond du Lac, WI.

Today Monkey and I went to EAA. Wow, that place is awesome! I am going to take him back when the snow is all gone and they have displays outside. If you like aviation, that is the place to go. They even had little games for the kids to play! We had a good time and probably could have spent a few more hours there but we were hungry.

We stopped at Crapplebee’s in Fond du Lac to eat because Monkey had won a free kids meal at school. We finally got seated and our waiter seemed fine. He took our order promptly and we got our food in a reasonable amount of time. Of course when we got our food, it was all wrong. Monkey ordered a kids chicken tender meal and I ordered a wrap. When it came, Monkey got an adult portioned chicken strip meal and my wrap was a salad? I told the lady that I ordered a wrap so they basically just dumped the salad into a tortilla and called it good. I’m cool with that. Monkey ended up getting his adult portion for the kid price. Then our dessert was sort of jacked up. He didn’t bring the wrong stuff, it just took him too long to bring half of my dessert and the spoons we needed to eat our dessert. Not the best service that’s for sure.

While waiting for our food, I saw something rather interesting. A lady sitting across from us was wearing fur lined Crocs with no socks? Uhm, I know they had fur lining but it is winter. In Wisconsin. Her oddities did not stop there, she also put two packets of Sweet N’ Low in her Sprite! I was totally sicked out by that. Sprite is pretty sweet all on its own and if you want that nasty artificial taste, get some diet soda. I guess she was just an odd duck.

On the way home, we had to stop and get gas. I pull up and went to insert my debit card to pay at the pump. Much to my dismay, it was covered in duct tape. Apparently they have had several drive offs and pay at the pump is not available during business hours. WTF? I had to go inside to pay and guess what? The two people in front of me were tools. Straight off the Snap-On truck! The first girl clearly could not work the credit card machine. I think she had to try 3x to make it work. The next lady could NOT figure out which pump was hers. It was quite obnoxious. It took her 5min to figure that out and then she did it. She wrote a freakin’ check to pay for her gas. Who in the hell pays by check for anything these days? Even the cashier rolled his eyes at her!

Needless to say, while in Fond  du Lac, I felt like I had walked into another dimension. It was just weird there today. I used to live there and I don’t remember it being so… different. Hmm? Maybe it was just an off day or something.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

Today is Friday and I could not be happier. I have a very exciting weekend planned with Monkey.

Tomorrow we are going to the EAA museum up in Osh Kosh. We have never been and Monkey loves planes. It was his idea to go of course. He asked me right away on Monday if we could go this weekend so of course we are going. He doesn’t ask all that often to do something that specific.

Sunday will be filled with fun things such as, grocery shopping, laundry, and of course homework. Oh and a meeting for football next year.

Have a great weekend! I am off to FCP II lab where I get to learn/practice wound care. Luckily it will be on a fake man or woman. I don’t think I could handle seeing and smelling a real wound at 9am. Actually, I would be sicked out at any hour of the day.