What a week!
My brain is exhausted...literally.
This week I started what some say is my second job simulataneously (Clay sometimes says it's my 3rd because I've been doing Digifi stuff, and sometimes says it's my 4th because I've been trying to sort out the whole thatgadgetgirl stuff which is another long story). INTENSE I tells ya! For all those who don't know or who aren't on my Facebook (since I deleted my MYSPACE since I am hardly on there)I started a job this week as a health care aide at a ukranian nursing home a few blocks from my house. This place is even more massive than it looks from the outside. It's absolutely huge and my brain is swimming with info.....of which none I can disclose of course. I can say though, that the pay is really good (I get an extra $1.75/hr when I work night shift) and that it is one of the clinical placements for my nursing program at school...so you can anticipate that I was really happy to get hired on there. There was a group of us who were hired on. We are only casual though (which I can completely understand because they6 wouldn't want us in there to replace people, only to ditch the hours once school starts, but there are lots of hours to pick up since people are either sick, or booking vacation days all the time). I had a really strict trainer...and the inservice was very much like the labs we attend at school so it was really great. In comparison to other nursing home I have been employed at, they are 150 times better. They really care about you being properly educated on all the things you need to know before you really get out there and take the reigns. I went through 32 hours of training this week, and all of it was extremely valuable to my career. So, all I can say (after downing 2 shots of tequila)is that I am glad that they did call me...even if they called 2 months after I applied there.
Today is my bro's 36th birthday. I am a bit melancholy (hence the drinking) because I miss him a ton. He's done some pretty jerky things, but I love him to pieces and on this day, I have found out, yet again, thnat he cannot come and visit me next month. Yes, J_dotz can insert "I told ya so" right here. I miss my family a ton. The last 6 months for me has been really tough. There hasn't been a day that I haven't been massively depressed....and I'm pretty good at putting on a happy front. I miss my family like crazy. Super crazy. Even though I knew in the back of my mind that there was a huge possibility that he wouldn't be able to follow through with it, I still had that hope...you know? Now that my dad and him have gone into business together (building houses) and they bought a lot, nthe rest of the summer is devoted into building the house...so he does have a good excuse. It doiesn't mean that it doesn't make me sad...because it does, but it's out of my control.
The stress of school is getting to me...hence I ended up dropping my summer classes this week because I seriously need a break before the killer semester starts in September. I need to re-certify my first aide and cpr in the next couple of weeks, plus get all my immunizations up to date, etc. etc.
I should go since peeps are arriving....
Have a great Friday night!
This week I started what some say is my second job simulataneously (Clay sometimes says it's my 3rd because I've been doing Digifi stuff, and sometimes says it's my 4th because I've been trying to sort out the whole thatgadgetgirl stuff which is another long story). INTENSE I tells ya! For all those who don't know or who aren't on my Facebook (since I deleted my MYSPACE since I am hardly on there)I started a job this week as a health care aide at a ukranian nursing home a few blocks from my house. This place is even more massive than it looks from the outside. It's absolutely huge and my brain is swimming with info.....of which none I can disclose of course. I can say though, that the pay is really good (I get an extra $1.75/hr when I work night shift) and that it is one of the clinical placements for my nursing program at school...so you can anticipate that I was really happy to get hired on there. There was a group of us who were hired on. We are only casual though (which I can completely understand because they6 wouldn't want us in there to replace people, only to ditch the hours once school starts, but there are lots of hours to pick up since people are either sick, or booking vacation days all the time). I had a really strict trainer...and the inservice was very much like the labs we attend at school so it was really great. In comparison to other nursing home I have been employed at, they are 150 times better. They really care about you being properly educated on all the things you need to know before you really get out there and take the reigns. I went through 32 hours of training this week, and all of it was extremely valuable to my career. So, all I can say (after downing 2 shots of tequila)is that I am glad that they did call me...even if they called 2 months after I applied there.
Today is my bro's 36th birthday. I am a bit melancholy (hence the drinking) because I miss him a ton. He's done some pretty jerky things, but I love him to pieces and on this day, I have found out, yet again, thnat he cannot come and visit me next month. Yes, J_dotz can insert "I told ya so" right here. I miss my family a ton. The last 6 months for me has been really tough. There hasn't been a day that I haven't been massively depressed....and I'm pretty good at putting on a happy front. I miss my family like crazy. Super crazy. Even though I knew in the back of my mind that there was a huge possibility that he wouldn't be able to follow through with it, I still had that hope...you know? Now that my dad and him have gone into business together (building houses) and they bought a lot, nthe rest of the summer is devoted into building the house...so he does have a good excuse. It doiesn't mean that it doesn't make me sad...because it does, but it's out of my control.
The stress of school is getting to me...hence I ended up dropping my summer classes this week because I seriously need a break before the killer semester starts in September. I need to re-certify my first aide and cpr in the next couple of weeks, plus get all my immunizations up to date, etc. etc.
I should go since peeps are arriving....
Have a great Friday night!