Trainwreck
So my first week is almost over, tomorrow is Friday and thank goodness! Cardiology clinic is a big hurry up and wait type of place, and let me say that is so exhausting to me! It's only been 4 days now and I'm already ready to move on to my next site. But I was told that I will be there indefinitely. I have seen the schedule though the rest of this month and I'm on it, so I've got to make it that far at least. I have definitely mastered EKGs and that's it so far. I got to assist with removing steri-strips, and that was so exciting let me tell you. I'm kidding, it was awful. I take vital signs and perform EKGs all day, I can just feel my skills decaying a little more everyday. I miss the exciting stuff from acute care, but unfortunately its just not in the cards for me right now. Maybe when Josh comes home in December I will be able to move up to a critical care unit at the hospital. But I almost don't see the point because he's gone again 8 months after he comes home so it's almost not worth it to take a job that I can't keep when he's at sea, and I'm not going to put the kids in some shady night-time care just so I can work. I'll stay home with them before I would do that. I don't need to work that bad. It will be nice when I get my first check next Thursday, though, I haven't drawn a paycheck in almost 5 years now! The last time I had a paying job was in Sept of 2003, that makes me sound really old. But I wouldn't trade my time with the kids for anything.
So there is now a pizza place within walking distance of our house, so I think I'm just going to give up and get fat. We ate there tonight and not only do they have good pizza but they also have fried mushrooms. Oh well, I've been skinny all my life so at least I have lots of pictures of me thin. It's been fun. I really need to exercise more but I don't know when I am suppsed to do it. I get up at 5:15, let the dogs out, shower and get dressed, pack my lunch and do any dishes or launry that didn't get finished the night before, wake the kids at 6, feed them breakfast, feed the dogs and the bird, then it's upstairs to brush teeth and hair and out the door by 7 to drop them off and be at work by 8. I leave work between 4:30 and 5, pick up the kids and I'm lucky to be home by 5:30, when I clean up any messes the dogs made and then cook dinner. Hopefully dinner is ready and eaten in time for me to spend some time with the boys playing a game, do a craft or something of the sort, then it's off to the shower and bed by hopefully 8:30 or 9, at which time I then do the dinner dishes or laundry, whichever is more pressing. I iron my scrubs for the next day and if I have time watch a little tv or surf the internet for a few moments before dragging my weary body to bed. We tried taking the dogs for a walk a couple of times, but I can't balance two kids and dogs, and the dogs don't like to go for walks without each other. They both act like idiots by themselves now, they pull the leash until I am ready to just let them go and hope they don't find their way home. If they are together they are angels, but apart demons. But there is definitely no time in there to go for a run or do pilates, that is if I had someone to watch the kids for me while I did it, not that I do. I already get so little time with them I can't send them off for any other reason. They are going to either start kerate or soccer sometime in the next couple of months. I want them to do karate but I think they are leaning toward soccer. What they probably will end up doing is playing soccer and then after the season is over starting karate. I'm really not looking forward to somewhere else that we have to be at a certain time, but I know they would love it.
So there is now a pizza place within walking distance of our house, so I think I'm just going to give up and get fat. We ate there tonight and not only do they have good pizza but they also have fried mushrooms. Oh well, I've been skinny all my life so at least I have lots of pictures of me thin. It's been fun. I really need to exercise more but I don't know when I am suppsed to do it. I get up at 5:15, let the dogs out, shower and get dressed, pack my lunch and do any dishes or launry that didn't get finished the night before, wake the kids at 6, feed them breakfast, feed the dogs and the bird, then it's upstairs to brush teeth and hair and out the door by 7 to drop them off and be at work by 8. I leave work between 4:30 and 5, pick up the kids and I'm lucky to be home by 5:30, when I clean up any messes the dogs made and then cook dinner. Hopefully dinner is ready and eaten in time for me to spend some time with the boys playing a game, do a craft or something of the sort, then it's off to the shower and bed by hopefully 8:30 or 9, at which time I then do the dinner dishes or laundry, whichever is more pressing. I iron my scrubs for the next day and if I have time watch a little tv or surf the internet for a few moments before dragging my weary body to bed. We tried taking the dogs for a walk a couple of times, but I can't balance two kids and dogs, and the dogs don't like to go for walks without each other. They both act like idiots by themselves now, they pull the leash until I am ready to just let them go and hope they don't find their way home. If they are together they are angels, but apart demons. But there is definitely no time in there to go for a run or do pilates, that is if I had someone to watch the kids for me while I did it, not that I do. I already get so little time with them I can't send them off for any other reason. They are going to either start kerate or soccer sometime in the next couple of months. I want them to do karate but I think they are leaning toward soccer. What they probably will end up doing is playing soccer and then after the season is over starting karate. I'm really not looking forward to somewhere else that we have to be at a certain time, but I know they would love it.