Just a few quick random things from me this morning!
Realization: I can eat three egg bites
I’ve only had the actual Starbucks egg bites one time, but since they came in a serving size of two, I had automatically been heating up two for my clinical breakfasts, along with a piece of toast and some fruit.
But this was not keeping me quite full until our lunch break, which is a good six hours after my breakfast.
And then I realized, duh, I could eat three. Ha.
Just because Starbucks serves two at a time, it doesn’t mean I can’t serve myself three. Why did I even think “two egg bites” was some kind of rule?
So I ate three before my last clinical shift, and I am pleased to report that it was smooth sailing until lunch. Yay!
The extra ten grams of protein seemed to do the trick. 🙂
School Inventory: what’s left
Humor me while I list off what I still need to do to graduate:
- Exam 4
- ATI pharmacology exam
- ATI comprehensive exam (4 hours!)
- Remediation bullet points for both ATI exams
- 6 days of clinical (three weekends)
- a concept map presentation on renal disease
- Finish my SDoH project, participate in an online discussion about it, and have a debriefing session about it at school
- Cumulative final exam
So, four exams, some clinical days, and several projects stand between me and graduation.
A whiteboard brain dump from a study session with a friend
The most pressing thing right now: studying for exam #4, which is on Monday.
This will be my very first cap and gown
Yesterday I walked to the college bookstore to pick up my cap and gown for graduation. Since I was homeschooled and didn’t do all the regalia when I graduated (kind of silly to do if you are a class of one!), this will be my first time.
Not everyone in my cohort is bothering to walk for the graduation, but I most certainly am. I can’t miss the chance to wear a cap and gown!
And besides, I have put in so much work to get here, I feel like cheerfully walking across the stage.
I kind of want to try on my cap but I’m gonna make myself wait until I am well and truly done with school. 😉
I bought a Snoopy badge holder from Etsy
We knew this was going to happen sooner or later. 😉
Right now it’s on my school badge, but I will move it to my hospital badge once I graduate.
And that’s all from me for today!
But I want to know: have you ever had a realization (like my Starbucks egg bites one) where a solution was so simple that you laughed at yourself?
Tell us about it. 🙂
Britta
Tuesday 22nd of April 2025
A few months after my oldest was born, our shared little hatchback car couldn't get up the unplowed street to our house. And I had to get out and trudge through the snow with a baby carrier. Plus the passenger seat was all the way forward to accommodate the huge car seat. We went shopping for a new car and kept trying to find one that could fit our car seat and have leg room. For whatever reason, this car seat was huge. And then on an off hand comment, the salesman said he'd throw in a new car seat if we opted for this one car that I liked but wanted more room from. And it was like, DUH. Why am I basing an expensive purchase on a $100 car seat? It'd be cheaper to get a car seat to fit the car we wanted. I was just so in on this sunk cost of a car seat!
Susie
Sunday 20th of April 2025
You have earned the right to walk in graduation. Enjoy every single moment of it!
AFVirginia
Saturday 19th of April 2025
Good luck on the home stretch! I have a random question: do you have any suggestions for gifts for nurse grads? I have a friend who is graduating this month after switching careers and I’m so proud of her! Would love to send something useful/helpful :)
Margaret
Thursday 17th of April 2025
I used to shake a three hole punch over a garbage can to empty it. I then saw someone take the thing off the bottom and I thought of, look how they improved those only to find out what everyone (but me) has always known, they have always been made that way!!
Joan
Thursday 17th of April 2025
Here's one big "duh" that affects our health tremendously. We have the Original Magic Wand (big hand-held vibrator). We've had it for, I don't know how many years. I don't know why we bought it or why we haven't used it in years. Now that we're much older, we discovered it is a Godsend for aches and pains, particularly neck and back muscles. I use it on my hubs every morning, starting at his neck all the way down to his SI joint. If he happens to be grumpy that morning, the vibrating wand literally changes his entire attitude, from grumpy to cheerful, loosens those cramping muscles, and he feels like a "new man", he says.
Why oh why haven't we been using it all this time???