Superfast Blog…No time for Pictures

I have 7 and a half minutes to spare. That’s quite a lot for me at the moment. So I thought I might just fit in a quick blog.

In a nutshell, placement was getting a bit difficult. Mainly because I was really tired. Really really tired. More than that even. Long days are tiring. Pretty much all day is either travelling to work, at work or travelling home again. Quick shower and sorting stuff out for the next day and it’s bedtime. I think it would be fine as a job because there wouldn’t be essays, case studies, looking up medication stuff and other bits and pieces taking up the days off.

Anyway, I had five days off in a row and went to Bo Peep again. This time we took Leah. It was fab. It was fun. It was very very sunny. It was exactly what I needed. Taking Leah made me have to relax and not try to acheive lots in the way of academic work. I read a few articles from Nursing Standard whilsy sunbathing outside the caravan or by the stream or in the park. I enjoyed it. And we took bikes so there was lots of exercise leading to lots of happy hormones and plenty of sleep. After big take away dinners. I can’t wait to go again. Photos here.

Placement has been fine since. I’m doing nights this week. Three shifts in a row. 7pm til 7.30am. I’ve really enjoyed it. I did a handover which was a bit stressy and I felt like an idiot but ultimately fine. I did the whole of an admission because there’s less staff so basically the nurse was doing medication and dealing with other things and the healthcare assistant was sorting out all the practical stuff like drinks and beds and the like. I got to watch a depot and draw up a depot. If I’m very unlucky, then tonight I may get to administer a depot. The less said right now the better. On nights, I’ve come home at 8am, slept from 8.30 til 11.30, got up and showered, and returned to bed at 4 for another couple of hours. It’s worked well. I feel relatively human.

In the awake bit from 12 til aout 3, I’ve done all sorts of bits of work. It’s really coming together now. I can see the end in sight. All is hopeful.

On Monday I’m spending a long day with the crisis and home treatment team which I’m really looking forward to. Then six more day shifts over two weeks and it’s all done. Bye bye placement. It will be good to have a fortnight off but I’ll miss it.

Right, quick coffee with the Poole’s before bed!

♥ ~ Leah got a new do ~ ♥

 

Mini Sarah???

An old friend came to see me on Monday. Sarah Dunn. She brought a small person with her. The little redhead is called Sophie and Sarah made her all by herself. Well almost. She had some help from Mike. Who I’ve never met. But I’m sure is very lovely. They’re in the process of making another small person. I think he or she is about two thirds ready.

Sophie is lovely. Very sweet. She liked the biscuits I made way better than the organic ones that mummy gives her with grape juice instead of sugar. Mine were positively brimming with sugar. And chocolate. And they were very very colourful. Yum.

I gave her a bunny. She left me a soiled nappy. I guess that makes us even stevens.

 

New Cookie Cutters + Cookie Dough = More Cookies

Cookie Cutters. Ebay. About 69p each. I bought six. And got a large postage discount. Today, I am expecting guests. Important guests. One of the guests is not only expected but expecting. So I made a tray of cookies using two of my new cutters. Boy and Girl. Edible children. Yummy chocolate children. And a couple of cutters I already had. A star and a heart. I also made a special cookie for Leah using my new rabbit cookie cutter. It’s like my old one. A bit. Well, quite a lot.

I made a round one for Emma. It’s in the bread bin. I’m not going to tell her. Kind of a test to see if she reads my blog. Her loss if she doesn’t.

I should be writing an essay and completing a case study but I’m far too tired.

Fantastic Bunny Phone :-)

I got this fantastic phone from the antique shop at Hatton Countryworld. It was a lovely outing. While Cousin Linda was here. The bunny sits next to my bed. Unconnected to any telephone system. It does work though. I just love it. It cost £14. I don’t know where it originally came from. Or how much it would’ve cost. I should probably message the owner of this photo I found on flickr and ask where she bought hers. Emma bought this one. Also £14. It sits next to the television in the lounge.

Crispy Duck

This was the first half of our tea last night. Me and Emma shared a quarter of crispy duck. It was lovely. We sat together and talked while we ate. This was followed by breaded chicken, chips and fried onions, also shared. Yum yum.

Mister Incontinence

Apparently, rabbits do two kinds of poo – a tasty edible version and a not-so-tasty and not-so-edible version. Except the first one isn’t really poo. The food is digested twice. After the first stage, the result is a caecotroph. It’s still full of goodness. The rabbit eats this and it goes through the second stage of digestion. All well and good. Except it looks a bit gross watching them munch their way through something that just came out of the rear end.

Even more so in the case of Archie. He appears to be slightly incontinent right now. This might pass. Some bunnies pee all over the place for a while after being neutered. Although Archie is a fairly old bunny, he’s only just been neutered. We’re really really hoping that it stops within a couple of week or so.

This picture was taken when I was feeling more than a little frustrated. Goodold Archie jumped on to the chair, frightening the life out of Moses who had been curled up snug on the cushion. He sat for a few seconds, peed, pood then sat in his own wee and began to eat his poo. Close up photo here. Pretty gross really.

Good job he’s got such a fantastic nature. He really is lovely. He’s quite like Oscar used to was.

Waiting for Rain

This was the sight from my back door the other day. I thought it was beautiful. Stunning in fact. Ten minutes later it was raining so hard that the water was boucing back up a few centimetres. It was the day that a month’s rain fell. Whatever day that was. The photo doesn’t quite capture the contrast between the sky and the green of the trees. It made me feel lucky.

This morning I went to church. The worship was one of those times where it starts off with me basically apologising and ends up with God saying something lovely. I am struggling with being a Christian at the moment. No huge spiritual crisis. I’m just knackered. All the time. I can’t be bothered with anything. I feel happy and secure in God. I just feel uneasy that I don’t ever want to pray or read the bible or go to church. During what feels like tiny amounts of time off, I want to sleep. And watch telly. And play mindless puzzle games on the laptop. Which is basically what I’m doing. I don’t think there’s anything majorly wrong. But I do feel like I’m drifting. Anyway, today I dragged myself to church. I took some homework in case the sermon was boring. And during the worship, I talked to God. One of the guys playing a musical instrument had a t-shirt on with a logo something like this. I thought that kind of summed up how I feel as a Christian right now. Falling. To cut a long story short, a passage from the bible came to mind “The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms” and I remembered I’m not falling anywhere. I’m being held. It was a warm, cozy, secure few minutes. I remembered that I don’t hold it all together. I forget that sometimes. I start thinking that my own good behaviour, reading the bible and praying in some way protects me. And makes me a better Christian. And more of a worthwhile person. Which it doesn’t at all. Not saying it’s great or anything that I’m too knackered to care. It’s just not a life or death issue. In the big scheme of things, it’s really quite a minor problem that I’m sure will get sorted out in good time.

The sermon wasn’t boring by the way. In fact it was very very interesting. And freeing. And kind of fitted with my experience during the worship.

I am this very moment going to do a small amount of exercise followed by a bath or shower followed by a short television programme followed by bed. I have five shifts over the next seven days, each 12 and a half hours long. 5.30am alarm. 7am start. 7.30pm finish. 8pm home. 10pm bed. It’s gonna flippin kill me. Really it is. But in ten days time I have 4 days off in a row. Me and Emma and Leah are going to Bo Peep for the weekend. We’ve been before. In fact, we’ve been twice. I can’t wait.

I also blogged here today.

Mmmmm……Fridge Raiders

From Mattersons. I like. Not worth 97p in my humble opinion. But very much worth half that. Which is what I paid in asda. Because they are on offer. They come in various flavours. I tried tikka. Me and Jeanette shared a bag of chinese spare rib. Emma had roast. And let me try one. All three were good.

Cookie head. Cookie smile.

I made cookies the other day. Tesco cookie mix for 75p or thereabouts. They turned out pretty well I think. Three were wrapped up for Barry. Jeanette and Leah came round. They each had one. And one was saved for Emma. I think she enjoyed it. I think she had fun. She took a photo of herself with a cookie smile. Or beard. Or something??? And she took a picture of a cookie head Lindsey. I’m glad she enjoyed it. I’m glad she had fun.