Archive for October, 2006

October 31, 2006 | Filed under: un-vlogged

And I have to say this is the first one I’ve ever not intentionally ignored! Okay:

1. Grab the nearest book. If you are currently reading something, that’ll be fine too.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your Blog along with these instructions.

5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet I know that is what you were thinking!

“It drives us, for lack of a better term, coo coo. And part of the reason we struggle is because there is no hard-and-fast clarity about what qualifies as cool. It needs to be original, but only semi-original: It would be legitimately inventive (and kind of “out there”) to casually walk around with a petrified orangutan under your arm for no apparent reason, but this would only seem cool to a select class of performance artist. A better choice would be a t-shirt featuring the cast of After M*A*S*H.”

Ironic that the paragraph pertains to the definition of cool (see rule #5 above)

October 27, 2006 | Filed under: hello, nurse!

Click Le Pic for Le Quick(time)!
Click here for Flash at Le blip.tv!

I’ve been absent. I needed some grieve-time. Thanks so much for all the warm wishes and kind condolences–they did not go unnoticed, although they may have gone unanswered.I’m back now. Feeling a little more together and less weepyshakey. I feel more like myself, but still a little “off”. I have been working a great deal to save $$ for the house that we’re supposedly purchasing–we’ve been burned before so I won’t believe it until someone hands us the keys. And even then I may not believe it until our first propane bill. Perhaps we can forgo paying for heat if we just set up a yurt in the yard. Have I mentioned the yard? Anyways, the extra work is a nice distraction. Being on vacation is even nicer. 12 hospital-free days. Ahhh…some peace.

The underlying story of this video will have little meaning to non-L&D-nurse-types, so I won’t get into it (Dawn, you just wouldn’t believe me if I told you…or perhaps you would) but suffice it to say that it shouldn’t have happened.

Backround Beeping provided by :
GE / Corometrics Fetal Monitor Model 118
Philips/HP Viridia CMS M1176A or something that looks a heck of a lot like it.

 

October 8, 2006 | Filed under: loves

Quicktime Here

and Flash available here.

Today was Miss Maisie’s last day on Earth. She was a terrific friend who would never think to ask for anything from you but the other half of your sandwich. She loved noogies and red licorice. She was warm and soft and always there for me.

I miss her terribly already and it hasn’t even been a whole day.

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, loves, misadventures

Play Quicktime

or Flash via blip.tv!

Sometimes you have to know when to call in the professionals. This is one of those times.

(I do realize that I am, in fact, a professional myself. It doesn’t mean that I get taken seriously or that my health advice ever gets followed. Hey nurses: feel free to add to the public shaming but don’t be too hard on him…oh, nevermind. Be as harsh as you want!)

Aside: this is the first video shot entirely on my new cell phone. It actually looks better than I expected, but it sounds like hell.

[prozac]