The Fifth Marauder

mrssnuffles

It has been a review-free day. For the past 2 weeks, I have been trying to read my saunders book as fast as I can. I'm done with med-surg and pharma, the 2 subjects i have had the most difficulty with in nursing. So today is my dad's birthday, I woke up later than usual, and grabbed a non-nursing book, there's a boy in the girls' bathroom. It's a book from the children's books genre, written by Louis Sachar, the same person who wrote Holes. I just found the book lying around here in the apartment and I think it was from one of the residents at the nursing home my dad works at, and the lady gave him that book because it was one of her faves. Or something like that. Anyway I finished reading it in less than an hour. It was about the same length as a sweet valley kids book. I liked it. It almost made me cry, but then again I am such a sap so I cry at the slightest provocation. Hahaha. It was refreshing to read something that does not have assessment, symptoms, drugs, nursing interventions, etc etc on it. I'm just glad that reviewing and nursing has not ruined my love for reading. Anyway I finished the book in time to get ready for my dad's birthday lunch at some japanese resto. Food was good, we got free dessert (green tea mochi balls yum) and in an hour, we will be doing the laundry and preparing for dad's birthday dinner (just yellow cupcakes with chocolate icing and pancit hehehe). It looks like I won't be getting any rebyuwing done until later tonight.

Funny, I just noticed that the paragraph above looked like bullets but placed side by side and separated by a period so that it'll resemble a paragraph. Dem you plurk. hahahaha. Anyway the good news is that the ground hogs are waking up from their hibernated states and that means winter is almost over. Whee. I can  take the garbage out in my slippers in a few days or so. It's been a hassle having to wear a hat, snow boots, pants, and a heavy coat whenever it's time to empty the trashbins here in the apartment.

I think I'm getting tired of the bum life. I know that even if I did pass the NCLEX (which I am planning to take around late Feb or early March), I would still have to find an employer willing to sponsor me, and then join the uber long queue of nurses waiting for their green cards. Hay. When will the waiting end? I am getting impatient already. Anyway, there's plenty of time to worry about that. Chelle did tell me to take it one day at a time. Maybe if I waited long enough I will wake up one day and I would be bitching about work instead of my unemployed-ness. Hahaha labo I know. For the meantime I think I would be better off doing a few questions on one of my review softwares instead of complaining.

mrssnuffles

I have a short attention span. And one bad habit of mine is that when I start something, I always end up quitting after a week, a month tops and then that something is shoved at the back of my mind, never to be remembered again. I am quite the opposite about books though, but that's entirely a different story. Haha so needless to say my new years' resolutions have a predictable shelf life. So this year, I decided to give the list another name. Who knows, maybe this time it can actually hold till march. Or even later than that.

For the year 2009, I plan to:

• Pass the NCLEX in one take and become a USRN. hahahahaha i wish sige na please
  
• Get used to eating without a spoon. I can never enjoy orange chicken from Panda Express or any rice meal whenever I eat it in the resto because I am used to shoveling both the ulam and kanin on my mouth at the same time.
  
• Lose weight. Yeah yeah this has been on the list since like forever. Although thanks to the sore throat and flu that has been plaguing me for the past few days now, I seem to have been eating less than I usually do. Unfortunately for me, all the weight that I will be losing because of my temporary girly appetite (hehehe), can all be gained back within a day once i return to my normal eating habits.
  
• Read more books. I have 4 unread Palahniuks, 2 Anne Rices (hehehe), 2 Gaimans, 3 Chick lits and a Classic. I left the rest back in BF and I may never see them again
  
• Do less nanay gaming. I know, I know, the DS is such a waste on me. But but but nanay games are easy. And brainless. Waaaah.
  
• Take more pictures. My cousin says pretty pictures are possible with my benq, I just gotta learn how.
• Spend less time on the internet.
  
• Learn the bus and train routes. When the winter season is over. So I can stop feeling like I am Rapunzel. Or Princess Fiona. Hahahaha
  
• Watch other tv channels besides Disney and ABC.

mrssnuffles

I know this entry is a few days late but I have been a little busy "trying" to speed read my saunders book. Anyway I could start this entry by whining about the bad things that has happened to me this year. And believe me, at this point in my life those were all I could remember. I could say that I felt like I was in high school again, in the year 1998 because I still use a dial up internet connection, I don't have a cellphone, I am not allowed to go out whenever I want, and the parents' word was the law. I could say that it sucked leaving half of my life behind (my friends! my second family! almost half of my books and 3/4 of manila wardrobe!). I could say that 2007 was a better year because I partied harder back then and 2008 party-wise was bleh. Oh wait I think I just said all those things here. Hahaha anyway my point is that I am not here to say that 2008 stank. Inspite of all these things, 2008 has been nice to me, because this is the year I graduated from college after n years of studying (hahaha ang magbilang panget!), I took the boards, did a little bit of asskicking (81% baby hahaha I know it's not that great when you compare it to the topnotchers' scores but still this grade really exceeded my expectations because I was totally thinking that I'm going to fail), became a registered nurse, became a nintendo ds owner, had numerous parties, huling hirits, and despedidas thrown in my honor, had a change of address, and was able to visit 2 other US states (Michigan and Wisconsin). So yep, I did have a great time in 2008, all the good stuff just kinda happened at the middle of the year and eventually ran out near the end.

Good haul this christmas by the way, I got 50$ from the parents, 50$ from my 3rd family (hahaha), a new study desk, a 25$ gift certificate from gap. Oh and 20$ more from father because he thinks that I "fixed" his broken fone. He just forgot to charge it that's all. Hahahahaha.

Well 2009 has been a bit of a downer for me. Hahaha the past 4 days anyway. Whatever. Happy new year to all of us, may it be more awesome and kick ass than the previous one.

mrssnuffles

I can't believe it I actually got something that was on  my christmas list! Haha I checked my status on the CGFNS website yesterday and it says there that they are done evaluating my credentials and copies of the report has been mailed to the Illinois Board of Nursing and to me. So technically I still don't have the report and it's going to arrive through snail mail in 1-2 weeks' time but hey at least something's happening with my usrn application. Finally. Now is the time wherein I am going to give myself a mental kick for not taking my self-review seriously for the past 2 months. I have acquired a couple of review softwares before I left Manila last September but some of them refused to work. Maybe it's because the software is not vista compatible. Or maybe it's because it's just copied. Hahaha. Demmet I should have bought one of them 20-in-1 (parang game cartridge lang hahaha) cds in front of PRC. Here's to hoping that a kind stranger would somehow stumble upon this blog entry and would gladly share his or her vista compatible resources with me. Hahahaha.

Anyway christmas was almost a non-event for us. Father was not feeling well and mother is sort of in a bad mood because of uh, sister issues. But i still enjoyed our noche buena at 12 mn because all I had to eat during our usual dinner time was a bowl of cheerios and milk.

Happy holidays everyone!

mrssnuffles

I went on a walk this morning. I have been on house arrest for two weeks and I am getting really really bored here at home so i decided to do it eventhough the ground is covered with 2 inches of accumulated snow. Besides it's 35 degrees out and father did tell me to take advantage of the nice weather and took advantage of it I did. I hiked over to a christmas tree farm near our apartment, a 15 minute walk away. Today it took me twice as much time because walking on the snow is hard. It's a bit similar to walking on beach except it's really cold and a bit more difficult as my fugly black snow boots and winter coat weighed about 2 pounds each, and I weigh quite a lot without my winter gear to begin with so my legs were feeling sore by the time i got home. Well the hike was worth it. I took pictures of the real live snow covered christmas trees and as much as i wanted to post them here to make this blog entry a bit more interesting, I won't because they suck. My camwhore pics were worse though because i look like a boy in a black penis mascot costume. No kidding. I was wearing a black beanie and my coat was black as well that's why. And i realized earlier today that people here tuck their pants inside their boots power ranger style not because it looks good that way but to prevent the hems from getting wet from the snow. I had to do the same thing because i was sweeping the ground with the bottoms of my pants and I didn't want to at first because my boots were ugly but it's either change my pants or  get frostbitten.


Anyway, it's December and i have been seeing snow for the past 2 weeks. That means christmas is a few weeks away. I am not expecting to get great gifts this year because my parents are the king and queen of kuripot lanI (hehehe) and we're in tipid mode because I dunno we always are for as long as I can remember. Hahahahaha. Well i decided to make a christmas list anyway because I have nothing better to do and dreams are free. Aside from money, all I want for christmas are the following:

1. My CES report. Demmet CGFNS cough it up already!
2. An external hard drive. Because I'm running out of hard disk space
3. More RAM. To speed things up a bit. I currently have 512mb on this baby and it wouldn't hurt to make it 1GB at least hehehe
4. DSL. Because like what I've said before my parents are kuripot so they don't see a need for me to get a faster internet connection since I can do basic things with our dial up one. Blech.
5. Guitar Hero guitar grip for my DS
6. Wii. But only because of the Wii Fit. Hehehe
7. Philosophy Microdermabrasion kit
8. Kerastase oleo relax. I can't find this product anywhere here
9. Any form of skin whitening product. Because I have stubborn blemishes on my face and a t-shirt tan on my arms.
10. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I know I don't have the time (nor the attention span) to read non-nursing books nowadays but I would still love to get this one
11. A nude pink lip gloss from Lancome
12. Urban Decay Primer Potion
13. The winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood that I was wearing on my plurk user pic.
14. Baby blue or light gray Uggs.


Yoohoo calling Santa! hehehe