8 Months Later...

She post's again!
So, as you can see I have updated my blogs layout (If you saw it before). Its probably a bit too purple and needs a few other colours, but I like it for now. Me update time:
- I have finished my New Grad program and am no longer the newbie
- I have a full time job in Recovery and am really enjoying it
- My Brother got married, I gained a new sister
- I have had another birthday and am now a year older, and hopefully wiser
- I have my first karate tournament in a week and will be aiming for gold
- I still live in the same house as before, but I will be moving out in 2 weeks
- I am going to Europe in August this year!!!! Only 7 more weeks, very exciting
- I finally own a digital camera so I can actually take photos when I'm in Europe
Other than that, I'm still pretty much the same 'me' as before.

Free Bible programs for you computer

Well in the last week was introduced to a free downloadable bible program that looked really good, and called e-sword. For those that may want the bible on their computer here is the link: http://www.e-sword.net/index.html

And then I got interested and looked around for more free downloadable bibles and found a site that is relatively similar, but I prefer this one better and is from bible explorer. And here is the link for those that may want it: http://www.bible-explorer.com/

So I am quite enjoying this program. It has a few different free bible translations, and many commentaries, and other literature. I read pilgrims progress this weekend, and I hadn't actually read the full story. I had only read many different childrens versions and watched a video of it, but the original story has a lot more in it. Anyway, its up to you, if you want it, but I just thought I would share.

Me, Me, its all about me!

BASICS-
Full Name: Kylie-Anne Marie Major
Birthday: Comes around every year in June
Birthplace: Narem. WA
Current Location: Sydney, NSW
Marital Status: Not married
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: ?175cm
Shoe Size: 7-8
Right or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Auzzie, Auzzie, Auzzie, then maybe English
Parents Still Together: yep
Siblings: yep- brother and sister

DO YOU
Color Your Hair: have dont it once, and didn't really like it
Twirl Your Hair: yeah, have been known to do that
Have Tattoos: nope, probably one day though
Have Piercings: nope
Want More Piercings: nope
Like Roller Coasters: yep, especially when with others who dont like them
Wish You Could Live Somewhere Else: yep, eg. back in WA, but have to wait til next year
Like Cleaning: yeah mostly, when I feel like it
Write In Print Or Cursive: whatever I feel like, mostly print lately
Own A Webcam: nope
Own A Laptop: yep
Own A Cellular: (edited: Own a mobile:) yep
Think Your Attractive: guess so
Get Motion Sickness: Nope
Want To Get Married: I guess so, one day
Believe In Yourself: hmm, needs a little improvement here
Get Along With Your Parents: hmm, still to be decided
Play An Instrument: yeah, sort of- need more improvement here too
Like Thunderstorms: yep
Swear: darn friends putting words into my head.. a little lol
Smoke: Only when on fire accidentally
Drink: sure, hope everyone does, dont want any dehydrated people coming through EC
Shower Daily: 98% of the time
Want To Go To College: nope, been there, done that
Know how To Drive: lol, I have a liscence, but- know how to drive?... thats up to you to decide
Cheat On Tests/Homework: nope, dont have any of those any more... in the past it has happened
Believe There Is Life On Other Planets: yep
Read The Newspaper: rarely
Wear Hats: rarely
Believe In Miracles: yep
Do Well In School: hard to know as I'm not in school... in the past I guess so, if I wanted to
Hate Yourself: nope, whats the point of that?
Have An Obsession: not really
Have a Best Friend: yep
Have Close Friends: yep
Care About Looks: it is rated higher than it should
Like Your Handwriting: sure, why not
Collect Anything: stuff...

HAVE YOU EVER
Been In A Fist Fight: not a proper one, but have hit someone
Considered A Life In Crime: not really
Considered Being A Hooker: nope
Lied To Someone: yep, I'm not perfect
Been Used: probably
Used Someone: probably
Been In Love: yep, I love my family and friends
Kicked Someone In The Nuts: tried to, but I was too mad that I missed- go figure
Stolen Anything: yep, not perfect again
Held A Gun: yep, and shot one, and have killed one or two things
Cheated On Someone: nope
Been Cheated On: nope, not that I know of
Been Drunk: nope, no vampire has come by
Passed Out: nearly did once or twice
Been High: yep, but not afraid of hights too much
Smoked A Cigarette: no, but breathed in enough smoke that it has put me off for life
Been Dumped: yeah, although its more complicated than that
Skipped Class: yep, once or twice
Skipped School: I guess you could say that
Made Out With Just A Friend: nope

CURRENTS
Mood: hopeful, excited and greatful
Hair: yep, still have it
Clothing: casual- jeans and shirt
Shoes: bare feet
What You Smell Like: Uhh, nothing really, maybe a mixture of me and my patients
Thing You Smell: fresh air, well as fresh as it gets in Sydney (which isn't much)
CD In Stereo: my CD player isn't working :(, but listening to Hands of Grace ATM on the computer
Thing I Ought To Be Doing: nothing much really, how sad is that

FAVORITES
Color: Blue and purple
Number: dont really have one
Sport: Curently Karate, which I am learning
Animal: Tigers
Drink: water
Soda: lemon
Book: In his steps
Flower: dont really have one- maybe daisies
Place To Be: where I am, can't be in more than one place at a time
Theme Park: Um... whichever is closest is good
Fruit: Banana's

ARE YOU
A Daydreamer: yeah, I guess
Sarcastic: yeah, too much
Angel: I was at a b'day party
Devil: dont think so
Shy: yep, too much
Talkative: there is the rare occasion

I'm Back

I'm Back!!! We'll see how long this lasts...
So everyone, well almost everyone, got a public holiday today except me. I don't actually even know what this public holiday is for, I guess I will find out sooner or later.
For those who don't know, I am working in the surgical/gastro ward- which really isn't as bad as it sounds. It actually quite interesting and have good staff there. And I am only going to be there another 2 weeks before I move again to work in recovery for 3 months. I'm quite excited about that because I really don't know much about recovery, so I will learn a lot there. Also I will have more regular hours, no night duty, and no working on the weekends, yay! I really do like my weekends off so I have some sort of 'normal' routine.
So I have decided to return home/back to WA next year. Deciding the city life is not for me, the country calls my name. The Prodigal Son (edited: Prodigal Daughter) returns. Any single, young farmers out there?? Joking.
Okay now you have been very briefly caught up to date with me at the moment. Not much else to say about me.

Good men do nothing?!

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

- Edmund Burke.

Well I do agree with this statement and I really like it, however I don’t think it is that simple or easy. The hardest thing is deciding what is evil and who are the good men? After watching tears of the sun (a really great movie to watch when you’re sick- only joking), which I really do like, and it has a good point… But… who/ what is evil- is it the people who are fighting for something they believe in, or those just going against the majority of the population, or those who convince others that what they believe is right, something that causes disruption??? Hmm, I did have some good point, but I don’t think I actually made it. Sorry, got a bit distracted. Anyway I like the quote, it is true.

Oh, after talking to a really friendly and talkative lady that was my patient today, she was saying that she isn’t afraid of dying and there isn’t anything to be scared about it really. She believed that death and should not be a no-no subject that people shouldn’t talk about, but it should be talked about more which will take away part of that fear of dying (hmm, maybe I just joined a few dots there, but that was basically it). She also said that she has her funeral already all planned out, and she has booked her cremation and box for her ashes for when she dies. She wants to be buried and she even chose a simple box just so that the worms can have a feast easier- that’s what she said. I don’t think I have met someone that is quite so prepared and laid-back about facing death, which she wasn’t. I really admire her. She also said that once you’re dead you can’t talk anymore and tell people things, which is why she is really talkative- making up for the time when she won’t be able to. I should take a leaf out of her book, because I do agree with what she is saying, but I don’t necessarily practice or apply it to my life.

Choices

Don’t you just love it when you are sick and you have someone who brings you toast and something to drink while you stay in bed where it is nice and warm? The toast is even cut in half or quarters so you don’t have to pick up the whole piece of bread at a time (well if your lazy like me and don’t normally cut it). I’m currently a bit sick, but I don’t have anyone to bring me anything. So feel free to apply. Although hopefully I will be feeling better tomorrow because I have to work. Instead today I had to get my own food and look after myself. Poor me, lol. After house-sitting for people this last weekend and them having a dog to look after, I realized how much I would love to have a dog of my own. The little fluff ball thing that we have at our house does slightly turn me off having a dog, but I still would like one. And there’s also the fact that I have no idea where I will be next year, or the year after. So realistically I can’t be responsible for any pet yet unfortunately.

Anyways nursing is going really well, and I am loving the challenge. The bigger challenge I’m starting to face is having to look to the future and start to decide where I want to go with nursing and where I want to go after the new grad program finishes. Hmm, so many choices- which is good… and bad.

My past week...

So I have finally finished all of my orientation stuff at the hospital, inculding my 6 days working on the ward as I slowly increase my patient load and get more orientated to the ward. And I have learnt HEAPS over the last week. Everything is coming together nicely actually. I now know a fair bit more about the medications that I am giving to my patients (which can be important if you dont want to kill your patients).

Yesterday was my official day working as an RN where I didn't have another RN watching over me and there to help me. Although I was only given 4 people to look after which were supposted to be easy so I didn't get too overwelmed... well one of my patinets decided to break their IV line that was only put in the day before, they vomited every 10 minutes for about an hour, the family came in constantly asking me to give them a wash (which was understandable, but I did have other patients to look after), having to order all these meds for people that had run out of stuff, and new medcations that had just been written up, doing an ECG on the vomiting patient which is not done very commonly on this ward.... blah, blah, blah. Well it was my first day- the AIN that was supposed to be helping me, and hadn't done anything for me, had no right to say at nearly 12 o'clock when I had one patient left to shower, when I asked if she could shower them, "What! you haven't done that yet, what's wrong with you?" That really pissed me off!!!

Anyways, I'm over that now, next time I might work her harder from the start :P

Hmmm, well today I have basically done nothing, which has been really nice, but back to work tomorrow.

Cute lil girl

Now an RN

I am finally working as an RN. And its about time!!! Well actually I have only had 2 days of orientation- all lectures and really boring (thankfully I didn't have to do orientation on tuesday becuase I did that 2 1/2 years ago. Anyway, I have my first day on the ward tomorrow and I am supposed to have 2 of my own patients, but I guess I will ahev to wait and see how that actually turns out. Recent happenings:
-Getting annoyed with cocroaches that lived in my CD player so it didn't actually work- until I took it apart and got rid of all those annoying creatures... now it works, yay.
-Getting a hair cut because it was too long, and to make me look more professional- BUT the hair dresser went crazy with those scissors and cut 2-3 times more than I said, and in a way that I really didn't like. I actually cut a fair bit of it myself the next day, and I do like it better than before, but I dont know if its very straight or well done, but its better than before.
-I bought a bigger box to put my sewing stuff in, rather than the little wooden box I had. So hopefully I will actually start to do more of that.
-Been gardening/weeding a little bit, well its porbably been quite a number of hours. Our overgrown garden now does look a little better.
-Been working and getting annoyed with the other nurses who don't like their nursing job and therefore take it out on others, and get them to do everything (3-4 people in particular). Well that was when I was an AIN just last week, now it should be different- should be.
... And many other things that I can't think of and can't be bothered writing.