I’m sure you have all heard of the band Bush. If not, you must have lived under a rock or not been born in the mid 90’s. Anyway. The lead singer was, Gavin Rossdale. Bush had a few albums and they were quite popular about 10+ years ago. Haven’t heard much from them since. I digress.

Gavin Rossdale married Gwen Stefani a few years back, they have babies now, blah blah. Recently Gavin decided to embark on a solo career. Good for him, right? There was a lot of talk on radio stations etc. What I kept/keep hearing is Love Remains the Same” by Gwen Stefani’s husband, Gavin Rossdale. It makes me so angry! When did he suddenly lose his fame and have to fly on his wife’s coattails?

In fact, I head two Milwaukee radio peeps talking about how upset he got when people brought up him being married to Gwen when they were interviewing him to talk about his new album. Gee, I wonder why. Maybe because all you assholes introduce him as Gwen Stefani’s husband? I dunno, not sure why it makes me so angry but I would be pissed if I had lost my identity and was just someone’s wife. WTF? The man was famous before or around the same time as his wife. It is not like she made him famous or something. Why can’t they say, “Here is (insert song title) by Gavin Rossdale, former lead singer of Bush.” I guess that would make more sense to someone like myself.

The song is pretty good, btw. I enjoy it. And now you can take a moment and enjoy a picture of the handsome Gavin Rossdale.

As you all know, I’m a nurse extern right now. Basically, I do all the work a licensed RN does (with a few restrictions for liability reasons and because of our special patient population), but under the supervision of an RN. I don’t want to brag about how I’m doing, but I have been pretty much on my own since the 3rd week or so. Both of my preceptors think I am doing a wonderful job and they trust me to care for my patients, ask for help, and ask questions as necessary (I usually have 2-3 of my own patients).

Well, I just got sent an email and in said email, someone said, “Is this job your doing going to end in fall, go through school, or be permanent?” Uhm? The job I’m doing? WTF? I’m sorry but this is not just some ‘job’ I’m doing, this is my career and of course it is permanent. I am not going to school to get my BSN to see if it’s something I may like doing. Duh! Who would do that?

My externship has been a wonderful learning opportunity for me. I guess it just struck a nerve. I felt as though the comment was condescending. Like this was some silly job taking up my time this summer. Granted, I may not work at the same facility when I graduate, but this ‘job’ I’m doing, being a nurse, it’s a pretty permanent thing. I LOVE my career (even though it is just beginning)!!

Okay, so I needed some new clothes for my job, right? Well, I placed the order, online, Wednesday night. I went ahead and paid extra for 2 day air figuring I would get my package by Monday at the latest. I called today because I have yet to receive any sort of notice that my order was shipped. The man on the phone told me it was 2-3 day service. I said, “That is not what your site says.” Anyway, he proceeds to tell me I placed the order on the 5th and it takes 24 hrs. to process the order. I get that, but then you should not promise 2 day air if it will take at least 3 days to actually get your product. Am I wrong here? Not to mention I paid an extra six dollars and guess when I should get my package? Yeah, by fucking Wednesday!! I am PISSED! I emailed and tried to cancel my order but that is most likely not going to happen. I want to ship ALL my shit back but then I will lose all the shipping I paid plus the cost to ship the items back. What a piece of shit Allheart.com is. Yeah, that’s right, I am blasting them on my site.

Like I said, I will never order from them again. I have never had a problem with them before but this pisses me right off!! I even said to the guy, “How can you say it takes 2 days and it is actually going to take a week.” He said, “It’s 2-3 days and we have to process the order, blah blah.” I said, “Well you shouldn’t advertise 2 day air and it take a week to get to the customer.” He says, “That isn’t a week, you should have it by Wednesday.” I said, “Yeah, and the order was placed on Thursday, that is basically a week.” I told him that it was ridiculous that I paid extra for 2 day and it will take a week for me to receive my order. He wasn’t getting it and he said that Thursday was the latest I should get it. UGH!! What a fucking rocket scientist. Wow, that is seven days and last I checked, a week is seven days.

Have you ever had to share a dryer with people that were not related? Well, this is a first for me and I have hated every single minute of it!! I cannot wait until I graduate, buy a house, and get married. That way, if someone leaves a piece of fucking gum in the dryer, I can yell at them and make them clean it!

Obviously I was not happy to find that someone dried a piece of gum in the dryer. I’m sure it got all over their clothes, but I wasn’t about to share that lovely experience so I ended up cleaning it all out. Fun! Who does that? Like you couldn’t smell or see that shit when you took your clothes out the dryer. Hey, I’ll just leave that in there so everyone has fresh smelling clothes. Sorry, I don’t want my clothes smelling like Winterfresh and having burnt, sticky shit all over them. Call me crazy if you want, but I’m a believer in cleaning up after yourself when you’re sharing a space of any sort.

But, putting a patient with chronic, stage 4 kidney failure on 600 meds is probably not a good plan.

I am exaggerating a little, but my patient is on at least 20 medications right now. This person has CHF and chronic renal failure. Yeah, how are most drugs excreted? You guessed it, through the kidney. It just drives me bonkers that they put people on so much medication. Doctors don’t seem to want to take the time to check all the meds and they just keep giving more and more.

On a happy note, it is Friday and Penelope and I are going out tonight!! In all actuality, I am looking forward to starting my new clinical next Monday. I just like to complain about all the stupid shit that people do.

I was watching a show, on MTV (I’m lame, I know) and the guy on the show does gay porn and claims that he’s straight? Is that really a possibility? I just think that if you’re having sex, paid or not, with someone of the same sex, that sort of makes you gay. Am I wrong on this? Can you imagine being his girlfriend and finding out THAT secret? He was actually on the show because he wanted to tell his friends and family back home.

His mother must be so proud!! He even said to his one friend, “I fuck guys for a living.” Again, how proud his mother must be.

I just returned home from Crapplebees and yes, it was crap food! I tried something new and was disappointed. Per usual.

I ordered some new mac n’ cheese thing with chicken. Sounded good and pasta reheats well, so I went for it. When it came to the table, I almost flipped my shit. The pasta was floating atop a pond of grease! I am not even kidding. It was the sickest thing I have ever seen in my life! I almost asked her to take it back because I was NOT going to eat something that disgusting. It looked like someone put a pound of cheese food on pasta, nuked it, and then tried to stir it up. Instead of making her take it back, I ate some of it. The taste was okay, but I could not get past the pond o’ grease. I used my napkin to dab some of it up, but it was not enough. I ate the chicken and a few bites of the pasta, but that was all I could muster. I brought it home and I’m not sure why. I don’t think I can bring myself to eat it. I should probably drink some Drano. You know, to be proactive in the clogging of my arteries.

If I never write again it is because I had an MI in my sleep due to the cloggage of my arteries! Yeah, wish I was kidding. I will be avoiding that particular dish FOREVER!

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Do NOT get the mac n’ cheese with chicken bowl at Applebees. You and your heart will thank me.

I have not been posting daily and then..BLAM 100 posts in one night. Okay, so that was an exaggeration. I had an appointment with some man to come and look at the apartment this evening and guess what, he is late. Guessing he won’t show up. UGH! Glad I waste my time for these fools. I should have guessed by the conversation we had last night

Me: This is Tracy, you called about the apartment in J-town.

Man: On Scuba Lane?

Me: No, on Diver Blvd.

(Long pause)

Man: Oh the ones for $610?

Me: Yup.

(Long pause)

Man: Do you still have one available?

Me: Yes, one lower.

(Long pause)

Man: When is that available?

Okay, sick of writing, but the gist of it was that the man was mentally challenged. I had to tell him what time worked for him because he was just sitting on the phone with me silent. Actually, I was calling you to tell you that you have wasted your time, the ad was fake,  and there really isn’t an apartment for rent. And I offered up a showing on an apartment that is not available. I enjoy messing with people and wasting my time. You know, because I have nothing better to do.

Some people!

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!