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Entries Tagged as 'My Life'

On Perfect Weekends, Childhood Dreams, and Radishes

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

So I had this weekend off - ALL weekend!! AND, Mary is feeling much much better! She’s actually eating and keeping most of the food down. I have no response to her poop comment in my last post, at least not one that I want everyone to see. PLUS, the weather was perfect! Nice […]

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Tags: My Life · Trips, Hiking, and the Outdoors

It’s going

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

You know when people ask you “How’s it going?” and you answer “Good”, or “OK”, or that one answer that really annoys me and that I find myself using “It’s going”?  Do you ever wonder what they’re asking?  I mean, if you think about it, it’s a pretty ambiguous question… how’s it going?
How’s what going?  […]

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Tags: My Life · Nursing

I love my job

March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s exhausting, it’s exhilerating, it’s frustrating, it’s rewarding, it’s unpredictable, it’s scary, it can be humorous, it can be heartbreaking, sometimes it’s smelly…
It’s going to take me a while to get used to it, and it’s going to take a long time to get good at it, but there’s no question about it, I love […]

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Tags: My Life · Nursing

In case you’re wondering

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

…why I haven’t posted in a while, well, it’s because I got my first paycheck on Friday, and that should explain it all!!
It was a great week, I learned a lot. Like I mentioned in the last post it was a bit of a baptism by fire experience to have a code before I had […]

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Tags: My Life · Nursing

If the scrubs fit…

March 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I spent a lot of time today looking at my ID badge and marveling over the fact that it reads: Registered Nurse, Emergency Dept. I still can’t get over it. Who’d have thought, after all the years I spent being part of and traversing the world of lab rats, physics addicts, and math […]

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Tags: My Life · Nursing