something told me to check the mail as i came home from work today. maybe its because Im waiting on checks. inside my mailbox was a key with a note that said i have mail waiting for me in 17B....17B is a larger mailbox. i thought , well i guess my checks are here...but to my surprise it was not my checks! it was a little brown box from ohio! my aunt and uncle sent me a little present. mark and i were excited to find some kitched towels (mapine's (sp??)) they are so cute with pumpkins and ghosts! and some fall ones too! we dont have any so its nice to have these, might have to use then even after halloween!!! (thank you aunt lucy! ) i read the know she left me and it said she hasnt read anything lately which is a reminder to me that i need to blog which ive been thinking about needing to do a lot lately . things have been kind of crazy ....heres the update youve been waiting for!

orientation at work was soooo boring, just sat in a cold room everyday listening to people talk abotu stuff im sure they really dont care about...like safety control and poison control blablabla
then i started precpting. the first day i jsut shadowed this woman Dee ann just watched what she did, it was kind of a calm day, she only had 2 patients. then the next day and every time ive worked since i precepted with Somer and i absolutely love her! shes young and fun and such an incredible nurse i hope to grown and be as intelligent in nursing as she is. i have been learning a lot. like computer charting which idont know how ill ever get the hang of it but i guess i will. some days it gets so crazy because we can get admits frm the ER at anytime, or people from the floor or icu....so you have people coming and going . and we dont get a tech most of the time so we do our own primary care which kind of sucks because ithought my butt wiping days were over but at the same time it really gives you a chance to get to know yoru patient and be at there bedside more than just med tosses. im learnng a lot about medications..i feel like ive learned more these past few days than ever in school clinicals.

good news! I PASSED NCLEX!!! taking it was so weird. they do everything but ask you to strip before entering the exam. they took my pic and fingerprints three separate times. then you go in and people are around you but not taking the same exam, some are taking gre or other grad school exams ...everyone is sitting against the wall and every cubicle has a camera peering over you! its creepy. but i took it and was done in 110 questions which was about an hour for me. all my friends were done after 75 so once it hit queston 76 i started to panic a bit but i just calmed down, read the questions and it paid off! i found out 2 days later that i passed after paying 7.00 to the website that offers the exam...and then my number showed up on the ohio BON website! Getting things to transfer to ky has been hard though because in ky ou need 120 hours of training to be a RN so i have what is called a provisional license and thehours start from the day they issued it so basically im starting fresh even though ive been working for a few weeks....but its okay its more training before im on my own...only downside is i get a paycut until then.

other than that mark and i moved into our apt! its so cute! I love it! we need a lot of things but that will come in time. we both jsut recovered from the swine flu and had to miss a few days of work but were much better now. swine flu is nothing to be messed with, definitely the sickest i have felt. and i know ill be sick a lot because as a new grad i have a immature immune system and will get everything, sure the mono doesnt help!

well ill blog more with some cute patients stories! now i have to go to bed
dad and peggy adn grandparents and aunt are in hopkinsville and im off to see them in the AM! yay!!

love you aunt lucy and uncle keith!