Some crochet, some school, some pictures
Jul. 24th, 2009 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hillarygayleCourtney wants a shawl, so I decided to crochet one for her. It started out like this
But she had asked that it not have many "big holes" in it (i.e., she wanted it to be warmer than big lace). So I went and found a different pattern, and now we have this:
It's a solid half-moon of extended double crochet (edc) with standard increases, but then at the bottom it's going to have 7 really big panels of a lace pattern called "strawberry lace". As I put it to Q, I'm slogging through this boring-as-grass-growing shawl, all this repetition of edc after edc just to get to the lace at the bottom. ^o^ Sometimes the things that are most boring are the ones that look most striking when you're finished with them.
Speaking of things I am finished with...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HAVE FINISHED WITH CLINICALS.
Today was the last day of straight-up clinicals. Next week we have our final (exam & presentations) for nursing research as well as our preceptorship weeks. Then on August 6, I graduate with a BSN. I'm scheduling my NCLEX exam for licensure, looking for a job, planning our pinning ceremony and just generally being ecstatic that THIS IS ALMOST OVER. This has been the most difficult sustained thing I have ever done. It has been the most rewarding. It will be the most beneficial. BUT HOLY COW.
So relieved.
Looking for ER jobs. I've applied to NEA Baptist for an ER position there, but looking back I realize it was PRN and they usually want a nurse who's been through an orientation already for a PRN position. There's a PRN ER position at St. Bernards if you look on their internal site, but when you go to their commercial website that opening does not appear. There is an overnight opening on one of the 2 floors in the hospital I think I could work on: 2 North (orthopedics). The other possibility is 4 East (wherestarry_midnight's mom works) but there's no opening there. I'm REALLY hanging in there for an ER position. If not ER, then ICU would be my next choice. Floor nursing is not on my radar, but I'll do it if I have to. There are more floor positions than anything else, but y'all, I am NOT capable of taking 6 patients! I don't know that I ever will be!
I haven't been journaling much, but I've been taking a lot of photos. I can snap a picture or 2 faster than I can write something, so I've been clicking away. I love photography, even if it is just with my iPhone camera. <3 Some of these are from our weekend in Hardy (taken with my nice camera) and some of them are from elsewhere. Lots of pics of food, babies, and dragonflies (or damselflies, as I believe these are)!
Back: Cookies & Cream cupcakes
Front: Banana pudding cupcakes
Both from Brown Sugar Baking Company, Rivermarket, Little Rock, AR
Very good, but too creamy for mine & Bryan's taste. The creamy overbalanced the spicy.
These are my favorite of the dragon/damselflies on Spring River.
Nephew!
Beautiful expression on her face here. Don't know if Ashley will like it because she looks a bit boyish; she's wearing Ganon's shirt.
Also, 3 years ago today I spent the whole day in labor! And blogged about it. Happy birthday to the Cute Overlord, Ganon Hoyt!
But she had asked that it not have many "big holes" in it (i.e., she wanted it to be warmer than big lace). So I went and found a different pattern, and now we have this:
It's a solid half-moon of extended double crochet (edc) with standard increases, but then at the bottom it's going to have 7 really big panels of a lace pattern called "strawberry lace". As I put it to Q, I'm slogging through this boring-as-grass-growing shawl, all this repetition of edc after edc just to get to the lace at the bottom. ^o^ Sometimes the things that are most boring are the ones that look most striking when you're finished with them.
Speaking of things I am finished with...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HAVE FINISHED WITH CLINICALS.
Today was the last day of straight-up clinicals. Next week we have our final (exam & presentations) for nursing research as well as our preceptorship weeks. Then on August 6, I graduate with a BSN. I'm scheduling my NCLEX exam for licensure, looking for a job, planning our pinning ceremony and just generally being ecstatic that THIS IS ALMOST OVER. This has been the most difficult sustained thing I have ever done. It has been the most rewarding. It will be the most beneficial. BUT HOLY COW.
So relieved.
Looking for ER jobs. I've applied to NEA Baptist for an ER position there, but looking back I realize it was PRN and they usually want a nurse who's been through an orientation already for a PRN position. There's a PRN ER position at St. Bernards if you look on their internal site, but when you go to their commercial website that opening does not appear. There is an overnight opening on one of the 2 floors in the hospital I think I could work on: 2 North (orthopedics). The other possibility is 4 East (where
starry_midnight's mom works) but there's no opening there. I'm REALLY hanging in there for an ER position. If not ER, then ICU would be my next choice. Floor nursing is not on my radar, but I'll do it if I have to. There are more floor positions than anything else, but y'all, I am NOT capable of taking 6 patients! I don't know that I ever will be!I haven't been journaling much, but I've been taking a lot of photos. I can snap a picture or 2 faster than I can write something, so I've been clicking away. I love photography, even if it is just with my iPhone camera. <3 Some of these are from our weekend in Hardy (taken with my nice camera) and some of them are from elsewhere. Lots of pics of food, babies, and dragonflies (or damselflies, as I believe these are)!
Back: Cookies & Cream cupcakesFront: Banana pudding cupcakes
Both from Brown Sugar Baking Company, Rivermarket, Little Rock, AR
Very good, but too creamy for mine & Bryan's taste. The creamy overbalanced the spicy. These are my favorite of the dragon/damselflies on Spring River. Nephew! Beautiful expression on her face here. Don't know if Ashley will like it because she looks a bit boyish; she's wearing Ganon's shirt. Also, 3 years ago today I spent the whole day in labor! And blogged about it. Happy birthday to the Cute Overlord, Ganon Hoyt!
