recipie for adventure: take some life, add chocolate, and many-many tacos

this past saturday marked my last time as a day shift nurse.

this wednesday will mark  my first shift on nights.

it's going to be an adventure, and that's about all i know.  i hate going into a situation with expectations because they're almost always wrong and then my Type A personality goes "honk!"

but if i can always go in to a situation knowing there's an adventure just waiting to be found, everything is tolerable whether good or bad..

as far as this adventure is concerned, i have embarked on the journey of transformation- i have left the day shift nurse behind, and shall henceforth be known as "Hey, night nurse." 

basically, i have 2 days/nights to turn my whole life on its ear.

like i said- an adventure.

i'm kinda excited about where this one goes.  first of all, never have i ever pulled an all-nighter before.  for those who have seen me during those close calls...well...i hope i stay coherent and not endanger anyone around me.  as a preventative measure, i am staying up tonight- hopefully 'til at least 3 am, so that i will not go into neurogenic shock wednesday night.  

so far, it's off to a wonderful start :)  my roommate decided that giving in to my 9 pm brownie craving was smart so we booked it over to kroger's and wound up getting brownies.  but not until after we got everything we might need for tacos tomorrow (the first thing i saw in there).  i'd already put together a bookcase and gotten some blackout curtains for the window in my room.

Bunny Trail: on a completely side note, this building has the oddest windows.  the one in my room is 34.5" by 28."  not kidding.  to make the curtain-ing project even more intriguing is the fact that the window is actually right in the corner of the room, so there's no way to get a curtain rod to go beyond the edge of the window...because there's a wall there.  once i figure out what on earth to do, i'll keep interested parties updated on the trivial matters of my life such as this.

anyway, brownies plus ice cream and this, the third, episode of House, have carried me to 12:30… the roomie is about to hit the pillow, and i'm doing some hardcore thinking of how to choke another 3 hours of consciousness of out myself.  this may or may not happen well...any ideas?... anybody still awake?...

in other news, i re-learned why church families might be the coolest thing ever thought up.  while i absolutely love(d) almost everything about my day shift, i had a really stressful week.  because of how life works, when once thing goes off, so does the whole kitten caboodle, so i stoically fought my way through all 7 days of the week and was an emotional tropical storm-approaching-hurricane by sunday.    but then i was surrounded by people who had no idea, but i could tell them and then become okay. 

it's been another 10 minutes.  i'm having difficulty picturing myself sober-like within a short amount of time :)   ha ha-House just made a sarcastic joke! 

scrapbooking is an option...if i can trust myself to hold the right end of the exact-o knife. prob not. 

but i absolutely love going through all these old photos. so many memories that are treasures.  i can't wait to get these up on the wall so i can see them every day.  a picture or two greatly shortens both time and miles, both of which separate me from many people and places i miss :)

I AM SO FREAKIN' EXCITED ABOUT TACOS TOMORROW!!

my brain is toasting.  i have nothing horribly important to blog about at the moment, but it is now 12:46, and if the night shift so damages my mind that not another intelligent thought is formed by it, then all 7 of you will be able to point to the moment this tragedy occurred and say, "i knew here back when she was smart." 

i'm going to cut things (paper, cardboard, fingers, fun stuff) with sharp objects as i bombard my senses with auditory and visual entertainment. 

can't wait for wednesday!...

can't wait for TACOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!