Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night.   JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥   FAVORITES  Breakfast ~  What is your favorite quote? I love so many quotes, it is very hard to choose!  And my favorite quotes change depending on the day or my mood or what is going on in my life. Some of my current favs are:  Lunch ~  What's you favorite line from any movie? I love Princess Bride (probably because I can remember a lot of the lines!  My favorite is when Miracle Max says, “Shut up witch” and Valerie counters with “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife”.  I’m not sure why I like it because it is really disrespectful, but it always makes me...

I am finding that it is very bittersweet to arrive at the end of a semester.  This week I taught the final lecture for the fundamental students and they will take their final exam next week.  After seeing the same students day after day, sharing experiences both in class and in clinicals, and getting to know each of them personally it is hard to know that they will be moving on to bigger and better things.  I will miss them in the fundamentals class.  However, I recently found that I will get to teach them again next sememster in their pharmacology class, YEA!  And, I will get these same students in their 6th semester for their Maternal/Newborn class.  So, it isn't like I'm never going to see them again.  It is just that they were just babies in the world of nursing when they started my class 15 weeks ago, and now they have some great knowledge and skills and are ready to embark on the next challenge. It is a little frightening to be starting a new c...

Monday my good friend and co-worker, Sue, was there. She was teaching the Pharm class for that day.  She asked me to team teach with her, not because she needed help but she said that she just wanted me to be with her!  She is so cute!  So, I attended the class with the goal to pick up fabulous teaching strategies that Sue uses.  She is a fantastic teacher and it was great to watch her teach.  She is so animated!  We had lunch together at the Training Table which is right next door to Eagle Gate.  What a fun time we had! That night Kalel and Rae joined me for another sleepover.  I declared that we were going to have a movie night so we all got PJ's on and climbed into my bed and watched "The Princess Bride".  Kalel declared that it was a great movie!  Even Rae liked it and quietly watched it until the end.  Score one for a fun grandma!  Of course it was an easy win because everyone knows how great that movie is! Kalel i...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night.   JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥   Breakfast ~  If you had to enter a competition for the "Most Uselessly Unique Talent", what would your talent be? Singing a statement.  I have a unique talent of turning any sentence into a song cue that I absolutely have to sing (disclaimer:  the song never makes sense). Lunch ~  What do you think is the best feeling in the world?   A great big hug! Dinner ~   Can you comfortably eat in a restaurant by yourself? Go to a movie?   Back in my younger days I would have never gone anywhere by myself, but now that I am much older and wiser I guess I have m...

Monday was my last day in San Diego.  Tasha was quite upset because she got called into work for a few hours because we had planned on spending the whole day together.  Through her tears she expressed some frustrations with her work, that she felt that she really wanted to get to know her clients, to help them with medical problems.  She stated that she knew people always felt good after she massaged them, but she felt that she wanted to do more than just relaxation massages.  She wanted to see her clients more than once and to really get to know them.  As she was talking I got a bit of inspiration and remarked that it sounded like what she really wanted to do was physical therapy.  It was as if a light bulb turned on inside her!  The tears stopped immediately and I could see the wheels turning as she started processing the thought of helping people through physical therapy. We decided to utilize information on the internet to explore options in th...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night.   JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:  ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥  Breakfast ~  Who was your hero when you were a child, and what did you do to be like them? I remember thinking that my 6 th grade teacher, Mrs. Bodrero was the most wonderful lady on the planet.  She was pretty, she was smart, she was sweet, and she kept our class under control.  I think her example was one of the biggest reasons I thought about becoming a teacher.  Several times in my life when I have done something noteworthy she has sent me a congratulatory note.  It means a ton to me.   Lunch ~  What do you think the most ultimate gift of the world is? ...