Happy Christmas!

Seeing Double? We presented Carter to my dad last night at my aunts house so now I can finally post pictures of him! He and Sophie love each other and we had a very nice christmas this morning. My mom has been playing with her video camera and I really like my stereo that you can play the Ipod through. My parents liked the camping stuff I got them as well.

Fleas Navidad

The dogs got little neckers that say fleas navidad and I thought they were really cute. Sophie got one that says merry christmas. They have been helping us get ready for the holidays. I hope everyone has a happy Christmas and a safe and happy new year.





























My aunt Sharon made those wonderful soldiers out of flower pots and pom-poms. They're so cute!

More Sophie

Here are some more pictures of Sophie. She's enjoying her toys and eating really well, and getting use to the animals too. I write my exam for med surg tomorrow..yey fractures! Wish me luck.

X Ring and New Arrival

There were a lot of good things going on this weekend. To start we had our x ring ceremony which was amazing. I think every university should have a ceremony for their rings. My favorite part was when they took the pews into the building. Usually this ceremony takes place in the church, and it is good luck to tap your ring on the pew. However, there was no room this year so they had the ceremony in the new athletic center. They took two pews in so we could tap our rings on the way out.





























I came home from the ceremony to find a new little furball waiting for me. I call her Sophie Xavier Whyte in honour of our x ring ceremony that took place the same day. We just call her Sophie for short though. She's part Siamese and part Himalayan. Here are some pictures of her.

Power Out!

So on Friday we took some clothes to crossroads, but the power was out at the school so I took some pictures of my instructors, who were all huddled in Shelia's office because she had windows and thus lights. Also a picture of John and Brenda in his office.



























The girls did a presentation and told me not to blog this, but they don't read my blog so I'm going to put the pictures up anyway.

Yikes! Update Time

I really am turning into Marianne with this blogging! I went to blog the halloween pictures ages ago and they didn't load properly so I gave up for a later date. Now I have more pictures to put up and so you're getting a double post...Halloween and Pub Crawl....I mean...the nursing society NANDA approved community recreational assessment!

Halloween was a lot of fun. We went to Scott's cousin's party which was a blast. Among the commoners there was a mad scientist who was making concautions and getting people to drink them. It looked like baking soda and...something...not sure what.


















We had our nanda approved pubcrawl this past friday. For those of you who don't know (non nursing type) NANDA is a something something that approves all nursing diagnosises. My rough guess (and I'm lazy tonight and can't be bothered to pull out the book to find out) is that it stands for national association of nursing diagnosis approval. Okay it actually stands for North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. I looked it up. oops. Anyway we made a nursing diagnosis on the back of our shirts and really had a good time. I had to work the next day, but that was okay. I added seaview to my list of places to be.


















On more news, we had to put louie down last night. We found him hiding under a table, as if he was doing so to die without inturruption or else was in pain. So we took him and put him down. This was sad, but we couldn't have him suffer. He was a good cat and we enjoyed the short time we had with him

I am enjoying my clinical rotation right now, critical care. I have seen every tube possible go in someone's body, and was really able to use the information that I learned about sepsis, pancreatitis and other crazy things that make the body go wonky. I watched a bp go from 158/70 one hour to 60 systolic with the doppler the next. wowzers. I am sad to see that this rotation is ending because I've really enjoyed it.

PS: This is the first time I was ever able to make the pictures fit without wanting to throw the computer out the window...

Happy Halloween

The animals wanted to wish everyone happy halloween. The dogs had their neckers on for the occation, and Lou dressed as a boy scout, complete with tent! He hid from the trick-or-treat people.