trying to blog at work is hard

so i have some down time again at work. when does this happen? rarely i assure you. today has been a good day, but i had a hard time waking up. the reason i had a hard time waking up was b/c i went to a bible study last night and promised myself (and eric) that we would leave precisely at 2100. well 9 came and wentand i was having too good of a time to leave. so we didn't leave until 2130 and then i didn't get to sleep until 2230. that's late for me. way late. cuz i wake up at 0530 and need 8 hours of sleep. so this mronign i couldn't wake up unil 0601- and that's late for me b/c i leave the housat 0630. so i had to take a shower, eat breakfast, get dressed, and psych myself up for the day in 1/2 hour (oh, by the way, sorry to all who aren't military time savy. but that is how we operate at the hospital, and my digital watch is set to mil time, so my mind starts to think in it. then when i awnt to write that i actually left a house at 9:30pm i really think 2130. plus it takes a lot longer to type 9:30pm than it does 2130. so if you intend to read my blog and hear about time sensitive details, you will need to cope with the miliatry time) anyway, it was a late night and a lat emorning. nonetheless, work has been good. not too busy, obviously b/ ci am blogging. something really annoying at work today: i have to use a finger print scanner to get into the dispenser that holds allt he medications in the hospital. i went climbing 2 weekends ago near las vegas and now, just now, are the tips of my fingers peeling. and peeling so bad that my fingerprints are indistinguishable. so instead of being able to use my cool little FBI-wanna-be finger print scanner to get out my super high authorization drugs, i have to type out my ID number and password. it takes twice as long. talk about a drag! :) i have a nursing student with me today. it's so hard to teach a student. b/c you still have the same amount of patients, but also have to explain everythign you are doing, and let them do parts of it (and it always takes longer when you don't know what you are doing -aka student-) but i was a student once, i totally understand what a drag it is to have to follow around some nurse that just talks the whole day and you nearly fall asleep standing up. i was there once. not long ago actually. but now i udnerstand the nurse's side of it where it is super hard and slightly annoying to have to explain all things, plus do your job to your managers satsifaction and take on the extra responsibilty of explaining all things. sometimes the studnets are fun though cuz you can talk the whole day about everythign except being a nurse. but sometimes they do things like start IVs right before they have to leave the floor and leav eyou with blood everywhere and having to finish taping up the IV. that happend a couple of weeks ago. i still haven't forgiven the student whoe did that to me. and i saw him this mroning waiting to come on shift outside our break room. i didn't say hi. i guess that was mean of me, but geez, don't leave a nurse with half an IV!

the bible study last night was good. we talked about 1 peter 3- about husbands and wives. we got some good conversation going. i come from arkansas right, where everyone is on this john eldredge craze. i love john eldredge(i feel like i am spelling that wrong...) he's got great things to say, and writes with such passion that it is infectious and you get super excited to be a christian and god's child. but sometimes, in places like arkansas, john eldredge and other christian writers become christian pop culture. everybody reads them and raves about them b/c evryone else does and that is what is cool. ppl in utah have yet to discover the coolness of john eldredge. few of them have heard of him and if they have heard of him they stil haven't read much of his books. so i gave my new friend natalie 3 boosk last night: journey of desire, captivating, and waking the dead. waking the dead is his best book in my opinion. but we were talking about the differences in men and women of course, i could add my input from reading captivating and waking the dead. it was fun to talk about that kind of thing again. we are building great relationships with our new bible study. that is why i was writing bout being a fringer. i have had lots of opportunities to be a fringer in the past few weeks. meeting new ppl always gives you opportunity to be a fringer. last night i actually participated a lot in our conversations- thus ussuring me past the outermost fringe.i may even get to hang out with a few of the girls this weekend, which definitely means i won't be a fringer anymore.

speaking of this weekend, esther, my friend from fayettefville, arkansas is coming to visit me! she'll be here from saturday until tuesday. i am so excited to show someone around my new home, and all my new favorite haunts. we will probably go skiing/snowboarding (i snow board as it is easier on my knees than skiing is) yes, it's still snowing enough in utah to go skiing. whohoo! i love living in utah for the outdoors. i am going to take esther to the mountains and go rock climbing, maybe hiking unless the snow is too deep and then we will go snowshoeing instead. we will go out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants. it'll be such a good time. plus esther is a wonderful woman- deep and passionate and with so much to offer. i look forward to our conversations.

before esther comes, i am going to finish watching the rest of LOTR return of the king. we rented the extended version and it's so good. i've seen it before of course, but it is one of those movies you can always watch. i get so excited about it--i almost wish i could live in a time like that. where it seems that y ou are fighting against an enemy that you can see and know when you have achieved a clear victory b/c he lies dead at your feet. salt lake is much like LOTR- except in a spiritual sense. it is hard to make out exactly what or who your enemy is- he takes the form of fear, loneliness, depression, oppression, and darkness. you fight with a sword of truth, lightness, godliness, and yes there are victories and sometimes you feel you have broken through the enemy lines. but most of the time you feel as though y ou are fighting just to breathe. this is whole new blog though, and i think i hear one of my patient's IV pumps beeping... i'll have to continue later.