Beautiful weather makes my soul sing.

It's been a while. I'm not as good about journaling as I used to be because, well, I just don't take the same amount of time to sit in front of the computer as I used to. Now that the weather is nice and I have a man (and of course tons of awesome friends), I don't have the time or desire to stick around inside.

However, I do like to update once in a while, and poor Sleeves wants to know what's going on in my end of the world when we're not chatting online (or so I think), so here we go!

Work has gotten better...not that it was bad, it was just difficult. It's still a definite challenge, but I feel like every time I work I get a little better at what I'm doing. I'm not sure how it will be when I get up to my unit since I'll be seeing different acuity levels and pts then what I've been training with on the telemetry unit, but I'll deal. It's show time (i.e., I'll be on my own) when I start up on the good old 8B on the 19th, so we'll see what happens! Being the tough cookie I am, I have faith that whatever happens, I'll be fine. As long as I don't make my patients any worse during my shift, I'm cool with whatever happens. I'm going to sign up to work nights only after this first month. I've discovered that nights are something that I really enjoy and actually have the energy to do. Plus, I feel like it allows me to work more slowly and thoroughly and spend more quality time with my patients than during the day time (and let's face it, I get paid more).

In other news, Jason and I had a very nice Easter sunday. We started out by taking his momma's convertible BMW Z3 to Sky Meadows and took a glorious hike in the beautiful weather. I forgot to put on sunscreen, so I got a pretty nasty burn on my shoulders...oh well. We then went to my parents' house for a bbq, which was delish.

Soheil and Nicki's bday celebration this past weekend was really fun. We started out by doing a bbq ( I love those, can you tell?) at Alicia and Mike's place and then went to the classic Patriot's Cafe for some karaoke. The guys all went up and did a fantastic rendition of "Baby Got Back," and I was able to do a Whitney Houston number for all the crowd to adore. haha. Yesterday, Jason and I took a trip into old town Alexandria after having brunch with my dad. Man, what a great afternoon and evening that turned out to be! We walked around the water front, took some pictures, and then strode around old town and stopped in a couple unique little shops. We ate sushi for dinner and then went to this cool movie theater (you can drink alcohol in there) and saw Clash of the Titans.

A brief review of the movie: I love Greek mythology, so I knew going in that I would enjoy the plot line. The action and special effects were totally awesome. Liam Nissen did not, however, play a large role as Zeus...he was really more in the background, popping into the action a couple of times. However, he did absolutely zero ass-kicking, which I was disappointed in. The Zeus he played was more of the fatherly role, not the lightning bolt-throwing Zeus. Oh well, he was still good. Perseus did most of the ass kicking, which was very fun to watch. The actor who played Haides kicked a lot of ass, too! So, at least there were asses being handed to their respective owners throughout the movie. The other thing I was less than impressed with was the neat and quick fashion in which the loose/problematic items were tied up in the end. The Cracken literally showed up in the last 10 minutes of the film to annihilate Argos. Anyway, overall I would give the movie a B+. I liked it well enough on the big screen, but I probably wouldn't buy it.


I've taken lots of pictures lately that I need to upload. I went to yoga this week once and plan to go again today. I really want to pick up piano and dance classes...the only problem is my irregular schedule. I may try to get Jason to teach me the piano basics, since he took it when he was younger. As for dance, not quite sure how to work that. I'll think about it.