February 2012
13 posts
MPS society fundraising :) →
Hey guys, please can you have a look at my new blog and pass it on to others? It’s to raise money for a charity that supports people with a group of diseases called MPS.
Please have a click and a read, then venture over to my just giving page :)
Thanks guys :)
One random night shift is annoying. But hell, £120...
I've lost 6 lbs in a month
I’d be inpressed if I tried…
But then, I’m doing 30+ miles a week on the bike
and if I’m at work I barely eat cause I just don’t get a chance.. Might eat on the way home but I’m running around way too much to sit around and eat, yesterday was the first time I had a break in weeks :p
Wouldn’t mind but I don’t wanna loose weight, I like being 11...
Just did 30 miles on the bike
In 2 hours 20 minutes, quiet happy with it since the first 12 miles where with a head wind, and up hills, at least from Otley onwards I had hills to go down and some form of tail wind for the most of it
But I don’t think I could have gone much further, by the time I got to burn bridge on the way home I could barely be arsed to cycle up the last hill (which in terms of everything else I rode...
50 hour weeks
So the past couple weeks I’ve been working around 50 hours, I’ve done this before, around 40 hours nursing and the rest topped up at asda, in fact at one point I was closer to 70 hours.
The difference with this is the mental stregnth it takes to learn about new illness’ I’ve not encountered before and being able to respond to them in a short period. To do this when...
I just ripped apart my computer so I couldn't put...
It’s been sat doing nothing for years… Proud that I paid for it, but it’s a waste of space now :(
urgh
Fucking night shifts have upset my sleep pattern and now I can’t sleep. FFS
Might go see my gp if this happens next time…
I wouldn’t mind by my head fucking hurts and I wanna sleep!
Just finished my first batch of nights
Did them as over time so I’ve stuffed my sleep pattern up no end…
But yeah, they ain’t bad, it’s just a bit vulnerable since you know that there isn’t the usual level of staff around at the time so yeah, less guidance if you come across something you’re unsure of
Found a letter
Yesterday I was clearing out my box of stuff and came across a letter from someone I went out with a few years ago and it really made me sad yet smile.
Basically we wrote it when things weren’t going to well and what was annoying us and it really made me wonder at how much I’ve grown up, I was upset because of the memories it brought back, but laughed at how sad I was that I...
January 2012
20 posts
Decided when I do Lands End to John O'Groats I'm...
Two good causes I think? I can’t decided which one so I decided on both
Today I did 24 miles
In two hours 15 minutes at something like an average of 13.9 mile an hours (I can’t remember, think it was that, we where using my Dad’s computer)
Yesterday I did 10 miles in about 40 minutes, but that was just a flat out attempt.
I’ve noticed I’m starting to feel healthier, I’ve also started leading a bit more this time, which means my dad isn’t doing 25% of...
Just been on the bike
Only did about 15 miles, but I went as fast as i could up each hill so I got shattered really quickly…
Hoping to do about 30 miles next week, then I’m going to actually start paying more attention to my training and start thinking about what I’m doing
Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up? Am I...
Rent a van for less than £200 :P
Cheaper then the train and more direct
:p
I remember why I hate hill training
And I just looked at the train prices for Lands End to John O’groats, it’s gonna cost us £160 each way, and getting back is going to be 19 hours on the train! Fook!
Rail card is in order I think
Went on my new bike today
And because this is me, within a ten mile bike ride I could already work out things that needed changing.
First thing I noticed was that I ran out of gears way to fast for a road bike, so I think a new cassette is in order, but I’m going to hold off on that for a while.
I also noticed that when I’m just pedaling along with my hands on the bar I’m comfortable, but then when I...
I'm shattered
Hoping Steph doesn’t wanna watch Stargazers, just so I can watch it whilst she does her maths and then I can go to bed :)
Urgh early tomorrow… 7:15 I’m due in! I want sleep!
Why am I stuipidly busy? If I’m not sorting things out around the flat I’m trying to do some training.
At least it’s my graduation on Friday, I’ll finally have the peice of paper...
Nearly finished the "A Song of Ice and Fire"...
Or what’s been finished so far anyway…
But yeah, Game of Thrones.. That one was interesting, it wasn’t completely political, the last half of book 3 was annoyingly so… Books shouldn’t do politics when you have to remember about 30 names and places, and how they’re involved.
But yeah, at least this book only has one person who talks about politics, the rest...
Hourly ward rounds? →
I don’t see this as a bad thing, it helps with patient contact.
I just think it would be difficult in reality, as the report says, there isn’t the staff, and it could easily just turn into a chore that needs to be completed.. And I would get really pissed off at someone coming up to me every hour and asking about my needs.. If I’m sat in the lounge I would probably tell the...
Just had one of those realisation moments
You know, the one’s that make you go “Oh shit” but in a good way?
Then I made it more manly by farting
So day off
I actually have more days off then working, I still don’t get how that makes me better off :s
But yeah, finished my first week as a Staff Nurse, it’s a strange, the amount of responsibility I have, I’m not having to get my worked looked over (although I am on things I’m not sure about) And if I do it, I don’t need to counter sign it.
I’m starting having to...
So tired
Why did I choose a career with 7 am starts xD
well, I guess because tomorrow I get a 12pm start :D
Well first shift went well :)
It’s just weird getting sunk in as a nurse…
Tomorrow I start my first real job
Loads of people have asked if I’m nervous or not, and no not really, I have spent the past three years nursing, okay, now I am going to be accountable for my own actions, I’ve got no-one to fall back on if I screw up. But that isn’t even true, if I’m not sure of something I know the team I’m working with will help me make decisions. Even after doing this job for forty...
December 2011
17 posts
Urgh, hate house work
But on the bright side I’ve got most of it done, just the last of the washing that needs to get dried and then I can iron it….
Urgh, dunno if I can be bothered with having a new years party… But I know I can’t be bothered going into town… I can’t stand busy pubs at the best of times… Nevermind when the whole of Harrogate decides to go out
Had a really nice Christmas this year :)
The look on Steph’s face when she opened her present was ace, she really liked her watch.
And I got my Decanter and Tumblers, really happy with them, might post a picture later, but I think this year has been one of the best in a long time, I didn’t feel miserable and Scroogish :p
yrgh still hungover from Wednesday
Now I know why I don’t drink cider
I always manage to cook way too much rice!
The large glass of wine probably doesn’t help….
And save it, and make chicken fried rice out of it tomorrow!
Had such a good night last night :)
And now I’m looking for my new bike to start my training on for Lands end to John O’Groats.
Well I’m about to spend rediculous amounts of money
Just watched a show on the if hard copies of books...
I never liked ebooks.. But now I’ve just downloaded one for my BlackBerry… I think this was counter preductive…
New Xbox 360 Dash
Okay, so I just discovered that 360 have updated their dash..
What can I say, you get blitzed by adverts on the home page (does that mean live membership is reduced?)
But they’ve finally sorted out hte Kinect comands, so now even though the screens are a bit harder to get around (although everything you really need to play your game is on the first screen) it does mean I can be really gay...
I wanna go for a randomly long cruise on my bike
But there are many problems to this.
It’s winter
But it would be nice just to get a way for a day and spend some time in a different town or city or something…
Can’t wait to start my new job, have a bit of money and free time, going to go see my friends who’ve moved a way and what not
9 shifts left at Asda
Then I get the week running up to Christmas off, and the week after, then I start my new job in the new year :)
Well, only on one computer now
Still using multipul screens like :P
It’s strange being back on windows XP.. But really wanna play Carmageddon.
This is my arguement against the fact that video games make people violent.
This game is the most brutal game I’ve ever played, 10X worse then GTA which ever number you pick.
The whole point of the game is to run people over so you can race longer… Not exactly a...
Fell asleep on the sofa last night
Was watching TV, and shut my eye’s for a bit when I turned the TV off, remembering thinking “I can’t rest here too long or I’ll fall asleep”
Next thing about 3 o’clock in the morning my girlfriend woke up and was confused that I wasn’t in bed, and came and woke me up…
Was strangly a nice feeling :)
Somethings wrong when you're on four computers
I needed the CD burners damnit!
And still not got enough time to do what I needed to before work.. Damn :(
And now it sounds like it’s hailing :(
Moaning
Today someone moaned at me because they couldn’t be bothered to into the store to get some change to pay for the parking, so they said they where going to another supermarket.
I said fine, you’ll have to do the same there, they need a pound for the trolley.
She stopped, turned around and walked to the store…
I’ll either have a complaint, or she realised something
Dear Hannah;: I feel like I’m gonna get left... →
hannah-cottenham:
I feel like I’m gonna get left behind and forgotten about now that I work 9-5 in Manchester. All my friends have time to do stuff like go on trips to the seaside and fun things like that. But now I’m in Manchester I just don’t have the free time. I’ve got a grown up life and my friends haven’t got…
Ya get used to it, I spent the past 18 months pretty much working 7 days...