12/31/25

Today was New Years Eve, but I still was working. I stayed at Nana's last night and didn't even set an alarm, but I woke up at around 8 AM. I got up, made some mac and cheese, ate that entire box, and then watched the last two episodes of Freaks and Geeks. I took a break from this show for some reason, maybe to make it last longer. I think it might be my favorite show. But those episodes were really good. After I finished that I left for work. On my way there, I listened to "It's Just Another New Years Eve" by Barry Manilow. I've listened to that song for the past three years now on New Years Eve. It's a pretty great song.

Work was not as bad this time as it was yesterday. Except I think Cali may have had some beef with me today. This first thing she said to me was, "Why does your hair look like that?" She said it looked like I got shocked with static. Then I was waiting for her to take someone in a bed, and a nurse asked me to discharge a patient while I was waiting, so I did, because I'm nice. And ended up waiting for me and seemed mad. Then when we got back to the break room, she took her stuff and migrated to who-knows-where, probably to get away from me. Also, she kept judging how I did things, like how I moved the bed into the dialysis room, like girl. Anyways, there wasn't really anything crazy today, but the hospital was just so full. I heard that St. Francis started sending people here, the ER was just packed. My mom wasn't here when I got here, but she got here a little later because she got called in. She was only here for a bit I think, but she got me a Dr. Pepper from the doctor's lounge. I had to do several requests helping Jaime move beds and that wasn't too fun. I also saw and talked to Riley, Janell's friend who now works in ultrasound. There was some German chocolate cake in the break room, so I ate a couple of slices of that throughout the day. I'd ended up doing 24 transports by the end of the day (22 on the phone, but I'm counting a lab sample and the discharge that didn't get put in). At least I didn't get a migraine today. The last couple hours were slow again luckily. I played Survev.io and watched the new Slushy Noobz Minecraft video.

I went home as soon as I could and talked to my dad and laid down. I only had an hour before midnight and the new year. I watched some of the stuff on the news but didn't really see the ball drop. My dad and I did end up going outside and I shot my shotgun twice for the new year at midnight. We also heard some other shots and fireworks. And that was about it, after we were done listening outside, we came in and I ate a meal that they had brought from June's to me. Yeah, the family had a get-together at June's for my grandma's birthday. I kind of wish I could've gone to that. But the food they brought for me was good, there was salmon, bread, and brussels sprouts. I ate that, drank some sparkling, and watched Death Note, and fell asleep watching that in the chair.

        

New Years really wasn't that great this year. It seems like in previous years, I was more reflective and optimistic about starting a new year. Now it just feels like tomorrow just gonna be another day, which is true, but still. It could've been worse, I could have been one of the people in the hospital for the night. But today was alright all things considered. 5/10.

12/30/25

Today was not too great. I woke up early, at 5 AM or so and watched Death Note some. I took like a week break or so from it but now I'm back I guess. I'm almost done with it. I watched that maybe for a couple hours. I didn't really do too much this morning. I tried cleaning up the basement a bit because it looked pretty awful. Then at 11:30 or so, I left to go to work.

I was working a 10.5 hour shift, starting at noon and going until 10:30 PM. And it was a pretty awful shift. I remember when I first started, I worked a couple of 12 hour shifts while training, and those really didn't seem that bad, the time seemed to go by fast. Today felt like it went sooo slow. And I was actually crazy busy, usually that makes it go by faster. It was me, Cali, and Jaime here today. I hadn't worked with Cali in months because I think she only works mornings and I only worked evenings. So I worked with them some, because they refuse to take beds by themselves. I don't think those beds are that hard with just one person, they just take a little extra work. After about an hour there, my mom texted me if I wanted lunch because she was also working today and she gets lunches for free. So she met me in the lobby and we went down to the cafeteria to get some food. She got me a sandwich, some peanut butter oat things, and a Dr. Pepper. She had to leave soon after because she had to charge her phone and then do scheduling things, and I was planning on staying in the cafeteria and eating some, but I got a request right after I sat down, so I put my food in the fridge and did that. I had a little break to eat my sandwich, but for a long time, I had back to back to back to back requests. And I also started getting a crazy migraine that got worse and worse through the whole night. And that was basically it, it was hell for like, 5 hours straight because the requests would never end. I drank my Witch's Brew Alani that I brought and that may have made it worse, and then I took an Excedrin, which may have also made it worse, because those two things added a lot of caffeine to my system. When there was about an hour left, I ate my peanut butter oat thing which was pretty good, and then left at 10:30. Hallelujah. In total, 30 requests. DAMN. Then I left and went to Nana's to sleep.

At Nana's, I don't think I did too much. I still had my migraine, so I just laid down on that black and white fluffy rug that I put upstairs. I actually really like that rug, it's nice to lay on. Then I fell asleep.

Today sucked, but I guess it could've been worse. I could have hit and killed someone with my car on the way home or something. 2/10.

12/29/25

Today I actually don't remember what I did up until Janell and I left for town. We left a little after 1 PM and went to Dr. Gibbons office first. We didn't have an appointment this time, but we were going to pick out new glasses because I hadn't used my insurance this year and I feel like I kind of need a pair. Janell just wanted a new pair I guess, but she'd already used insurance on contacts. So we were in there for a while and we both ended up finding a pair. I feel like mine should have been free, but they added these stupid charges like a "material charge" and anti-glare and it ended up being $50.

After that I think we ended up going to Burger King because Janell really wanted to try their vegan burger for some reason. So I got a double bacon cheeseburger meal from there. That was actually pretty good, we don't go to Burger King much anymore.

After Burger King, we went to Dollar Tree because Janell wanted to buy some more of those stupid Doorables that she got the other day. So we went there and she opened those. I think she got two Sebastians and Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

I made Janell go to the mall after that because I kind of wanted to look for some stuff. I was gonna go to Vintage Stock and look for some CDs, mainly Pink Floyd, because I love them right now and don't have any CDs of them, and I don't want a digipak and that's all that Barnes and Noble has for them. And I actually found two different CDs in jewel cases, "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals". I ended up getting "Animals" because the other one looked yellowed or something. Then I also found a REM album and "Deluxe" by Better Than Ezra, and I liked those albums and they were cheaper so I got them, too. So that was a good little $19 haul.

We went home after that and my mom and Janell got started cooking dinner, they were going to be making the fish that Buddy gave us. I went out and went squirrel hunting because I still hadn't gotten one this year. And I actually ended up getting one after being out there for about twenty-five minutes or so. I had to make my way down to the creek from behind the chicken coop and that's where I found one. I took kind of a cheap shot at it and hit it in the guts. Almost every shot I take at a squirrel misses, so I didn't even aim for the head. I kind of wish I would've though, even if it would have missed. This shot didn't instantly kill it, it fell from the tree, then grabbed back on towards the trunk, and then fell when I walked over. It actually fell into the water of the creek and still looked alive, so I shot its head. It was kind of sad. But I brought it up and started skinning it. I got it started, but had to get my mom to help me get the skin off of the legs and head. So we got that done. The fish that they made was really good, they also made brussels sprouts and French fries.

        

And I honestly can't remember what I did for the rest of the night. But today was really good, I got my CDs and I got a squirrel. 7/10.

12/24/25

Today was Christmas Eve, even though it didn't really feel like it too much. I would say mainly because of the weather, it was actually hot today. Like, humid and 70 degrees. But anyways, I woke up really early today at around 5 AM and I started cleaning my room upstairs because I had to sleep up there instead of downstairs because Myra and Addie stayed over with Janell last night. So I got all my clothes picked up off my floor and my room started looking nicer. I ate some leftover sushi from last night and stayed up for awhile. Janell and them ended up leaving at probably 10 AM because they were meeting someone to go get breakfast or something. I think I fell back asleep for an hour or so while watching the Until Dawn Slushy Noobz video. I actually can't remember if I feel asleep or not, but Janell got home again around noon, and then she said she was going to town again, so I went with her this time.

We were going to go look for some stocking stuffers and presents for mom and dad, so we went to Hobby Lobby first and found some stuff. We got my dad these shotgun shell coasters that Janell thought he had to have and this toilet paper holder that was a chicken. I also got Janell a little squishy gummy bear thing she wanted. Then we went to Dollar Tree and picked out a bunch of little stocking stuffers. I think we got them a car freshener, some sparkling drinks, hand wipes, and some other stuff I can't think of. We also went to Five Below and the other Dollar Tree in Cape because Janell wanted to find some Doorables for some reason. So she got some and opened them, and then we went home.

At home I don't think I did too much, but my dad was really cleaning the windows. I picked up some, played some Fallout 4, my mom got home, and then her and Janell started making the charcuterie board that we'd eat later tonight. That's kind of a tradition I guess we do now. A really new tradition, I think last year was the first time we did that, eating a charcuterie board on Christmas Eve. But once my mom got home, it was about time to go to the candlelight service at church at 5 PM, so we got ready and went to that.

It was pretty busy at the church, most of the pews were filled. It was a pretty good service, I was just so tired for some reason. I fell asleep about three times during the sermon. I had to scrape the wax off of my candle to keep myself awake. But we sang some good songs and I love that service. Afterwards, we didn't stick around too long because it was so busy the hallway was starting to back-up.

So we went home and opened our stockings first which had the candy that Janell and I picked out in TJ Maxx that one day, so I got some peach rings. Then we ate the charcuterie board and it was pretty good. There was deer sausage, some good cheese, crackers, pepperoni, salami, and garlic cheese. Then we opened our main presents and it was pretty surprising. I'll list off some of what I got. A shaver, a box of Cuban cigars, a pin, some smart lightbulbs and outlets, Blade Runner 2049 in 4K, a nice new phone case, a car windshield cover, some silicone spatulas, Croc slippers, a 3DS charger, and the final big present was the big Lego DeLorean set. I really didn't know what to think of that, because I knew that was an expensive set, but I really like it. The presents I got from Janell were a pack of Dalmatian playing cards, a Star Wars blind box, a Harry Potter book, cologne, and a Lego Harry Potter greenhouse. So that was awesome and I would say I got some really good presents.

After we got done opening all of those, Janell and I went out and smoked one of the cigars that she got from Miami that was cherry flavored. Cigars really aren't my thing, but it was kind of fun. Then I ended up talking to my dad for a long while when he was looking at his guns, and he kind of ended up giving me one. He was showing me this Stevens Model 94 that belonged to his dad and he asked if I liked it, and I actually really did. So that was really cool, too. Then Janell and I talked to dad some, Janell and I watched a Bob's Burger episode, and I fell asleep at about 12:30.

So that was my Christmas Eve. I would say it was actually really good even though it still didn't feel much like Christmas. 8/10 day.

12/5/25

Today I had my big clinical, and it was the last one. I also made sure that I would not be late to this one, like my Wednesday one. But this one was at 7 am, unlike my 1 pm Wednesday one. Anyways, I woke up earlier than my alarms and I got up at 4 am. But I couldn't fall back asleep, so I got up. It ended up being alright though, even though I only got 3.5 hours of sleep. I got up, instantly played a round of Fortnite, made an instant coffee in the microwave, watched some YouTube (Christmas PopularMMOs videos, very nostalgic), did some stretches in the living room to try and wake up a bit more, and then played some Roblox. And that was actually pretty fun, I played this Raising Cane's game, I don't know, this was just a good start to my morning. Then I drank a mini Alani and left to go to the Lutheran Home.

I got to the place and got out after sitting in my car for a bit listening to If We Make it Through December. I walked in on time, we went back to the conference room after meeting in the lobby, we turned in our goals, and then we got assigned our patients. I was still with Coryden, and we got assigned room 316, which were two old ladies. Everyone was at breakfast, so we helped with that first. I helped this one guy eat, he was pretty nice. It took forever though, I felt like his Froot Loops were never-ending. And then his sausage, bacon, and eggs. After that, I went to our room and introduced myself to one of the ladies, but she was trying to relax in bed. So I left and found Coryden, and then we ended up giving someone a shower. And not just anyone, we got to give the 110 year old a shower. And she was mostly independent. But that was kind of a weird experience to say the least. It was about what I expected, but it was just weird. But she didn't mind being bathed by two guys, so that's fine. We got all of that done, that probably took at least 45 minutes. Then we just kinda helped out around. We went to lunch at 10:45 or so, and that was just sitting in my car eating a beef stick and drinking another mini Alani.

little bathroom break

Coryden and I came back in after half an hour and checked back up on our people. I really don't know what else we did. Our ladies were either sleeping or didn't really want to be bothered. Coryden was kind of overstimulating me again. He kept going back into their room to check on one of them, and she'd tell him the same story about how her brother, sister-in-law, and nephew came to visit and they gave her a chocolate bar. I heard that story about four times. We helped with lunch some, Coryden was going crazy making water, and I ended up talking to Breanna a lot, like for an hour. But that was pretty nice, we talked about high school, nursing, just random stuff. We had a meeting in the break room for our little debrief conference, and we were probably in there for over an hour because everyone had to explain what all they did and if we met our goals. And we had to sign some papers and stuff. After that, we went back out and helped some more. Then they actually said we could leave early, it was like 2 pm at this point. One of the patients was having a dressing change and some people were staying to watch that, so I stayed too, and we watched that. It was actually pretty crazy. This lady had like, a whole slice of her abdomen off of her. Then I left after that. And I made sure to not back into any cars like I may have done a couple of weeks ago.

After that was done I guess I went home and I really don't remember what I did. Probably just watched YouTube and played games or something. But then we had to get ready because we were going to the Finch's for a little pre-Christmas get-together. Janell got home right before we left, so I went with her there. We didn't think she was going to be able to go because she was supposed to have a social thing with her sorority, but I guess that was cancelled.

So we went to Rach's and it was actually a fun little night. The only kids were Emma, Matthew, and Leah because I guess Micah was sick. And Leland wasn't there either, which honestly, I was fine with. He's a little much sometimes. Too nonchalant. But it was fun, we ate a good meal. My mom brought pulled pork, barbeque sauce, and buns so we had really good pulled pork sandwiches. There were also these quesadilla things that tasted kind of like Imo's Pizza, but they had beans and stuff in them. They were good. There were deviled eggs and salad stuff, but I of course had none of that. I did have sweet tea that wasn't very sweet, though. Then we just talked for a while, I talked to Molly, Carrie, Daniel, Rach, really everyone. I told them how I left TKE, told them about work, about clinical today, everything. The kids were crazy, they're all into 67. Even Emma. But anyways, after we talked for a while, Janell and I went outside with Leah, Matthew, and Emma and we threw a football around even though it was dark. They did find a light-up soccer ball that worked a bit better in the dark. I was putting all of my effort into kicking that ball around. Then we went back in and played Loaded Questions for a while, that was fun. One of the questions was "what is something impressive that you've made" and I said cranberry Christmas cake because I made that last week, and then my dad came in and said, "You made that!" Like dad, they were supposed to guess, and they never would've guessed that. So that was a thing. Then Janell left to go back to her dorm and I had to stay until my mom and dad decided to leave probably 45 minutes after Janell left.

Then we went home and didn't do much else. I tried watching Die Hard but didn't really get into it. I'll watch it later once break starts, because I do want to watch it.

So that was my day, it was actually pretty good. 7/10.

12/3/25

Today did not start great, because I woke up to all of my alarms, but pretty instantly went back to sleep. And I finally woke up at 12:53 pm. And my clinical was at 1 pm. So I ran out the door without doing anything except changing into my SEMO scrubs. Luckily my stethoscope and all of that was already in my car. And Chateau, where clinical was, was about fifteen minutes away.

I made it there at 1:10 pm, ten minutes late. But I went in, signed in, and found them, and Ms. Tripoli was not happy. She's already the strict army teacher, so I kind of expected this. She gave this big spiel about how they just had a meeting this week about how next semester they're going to be changing the rules to if you're even one minutes tardy, you'll have consequences and eventually could get kicked from the program. She said she thought I was in a ditch somewhere. Like damn, can a man not sleep in until 1 pm and then be ten minutes late anymore? Just kidding, I should not have been late and I deserved that talk. After that it was smooth sailing. It was still another hour before I got to assess my person though. And luckily, the person advising my assessment was Stephanie and not Ms. Tripoli. And I didn't even really assess the lady at all. My person was this 95-year-old lady who had a fractured elbow. She really was the sweetest thing, a big talker, but her neighbor was in there visiting her, so we didn't want to take much time. So I asked her a couple of questions, I listened to her heart and lung sounds, tested her grip strength and eyes, and that was about it. Then we just listened to her talk. So that was easy. Also, before all of this, there was a patient with a heart murmur and we got to listen to that, so that was cool. Then we took a picture and that was the end of the clinical. I also checked my Spotify Wrapped afterwards, so here's that.

      

After that, I went and filled up with gas and then went to some stores. I started at Teen Challenge but didn't find anything that caught my eye. Then I realized I should probably get Janell some stuff because she's getting me stuff for Christmas. I really have no idea what she likes, I'm really bad at picking out gifts. I went to Five Below and got some Japanese and Christmas candy, a Wicked: For Good poster, and a Bob's Burgers keychain blind box. Hopefully she gets Kuchi, because when we were watching the show during the summer she liked him. Then I went to Target and got her a Moriah Elizabeth plush blind box because I got her one for her birthday and this one was different. I need to find some better stuff though.

Then I left town and went to Nana's. My dad was here when I first got here, and I guess he was just checking to see if the temperature and everything was fine for the house. The house is really only heated from a couple of propane heaters, he says those are the most efficient, but I feel like I've been getting more frequent headaches when I'm there. I might be getting monoxide poisoned, because the house does smell like burnt gas now. But whatever. We talked for a bit, but once he left I really didn't do much here, I played a round of Fortnite, started rewatching Stampy's quest series on YouTube on my TV. I love that series. Then I ate some bread, pepperoni, and provolone. Then I left to work out.

I went to HealthPoint at about 7:40 pm and this was not a good workout. I just felt totally fatigued. I did a couple of machines and I felt nauseous and weak. It was not fun. So I lowered the weight, finished up, and was out of there in an hour.

I went back to Nana's, took a shower, relaxed, and went to bed. That was my day.

So not a great day, but not the worst. I got some shopping done at least. 4/10.

12/2/25

Today I woke up at around 11 am, tried looking over the altered elimination slideshow since that's what our quiz in patho was going to be about today, didn't get much done, warmed up some rice from last night and ate it, got ready, and left to go to class.

It had snowed a little bit last night, so it was cool to see some snow on the ground. The roads were completely clear though. I was kind of hoping we wouldn't have class, but no, we did. And class was boring. We took the quiz and then took the HESI for that class, which I did not do great on. Almost all of the questions were about lab results and stuff, it was weird. I got a 58 on it, but it's an assignment grade, so it really doesn't matter. And I didn't get the lowest score, so I don't care. I can do remediation and up it some.

I left and went to Nana's where I played one round of the new Fortnite season, and I won the one game that I played. Pretty cool. Then I finished Blade Runner that I started last night and warmed up some chili to eat. Then I went to work at 6.

Work was same old same old. I think I had around eight or nine transports, nothing significant. I sat in that big recliner in the ICU waiting room again for a bit, that might be a new thing I start doing. I also stole an orange Jell-o thing from the patient fridge before I left and ate that at home. It honestly wasn't great tasting.

Then I went back to Nana's, played Fortnite, did nothing productive, watched YouTube, and then went to bed pretty late, going on 4 am. And that will have a negative impact on my next day (you'll see).

So that was my day. I liked seeing the snow, 4/10.

12/1/25

Today was the first day of December, but I really did not do anything memorable today. I didn't even leave the house because I didn't have class. Our class was kind of online today, we had to answer forum questions that people asked on our group PowerPoint projects. So I got up early, at 9 am to plan on doing that, but no questions had really been asked yet, so I went to bed until 11 am, then I got up and worked on some. I was actually doing the majority of answering questions at around noon. We were supposed to be doing this from 9 am to 1 pm, so I actually was putting in work.

I really don't remember what I did for the rest of the day. I watched YouTube, tried downloading a torrent of the Sims 4 update so I could get that done, but with a VPN it was going to take like, all day to download a 17 gb update. So I just redownloaded an up-to-date DLC unlocker and played my real version, and that somehow worked. So I can play the Sims again.

I went outside some today and played with the dogs and Orange Man. My dad was up in the woods doing something and my mom was at work until 4 pm. And then she went to my grandma's afterwards, so I was alone most of the day.

Once my mom got home, she made salmon cakes and mac and cheese, so that was good. Then I watched another Stranger Things episode and started season two. My mom set up her little Christmas tree that she really wanted from Menards downstairs, and that thing is crazy. It's this fiberoptic tree that has super bright flashing lights, it would not have been my choice of tree, but she really likes it, so that's all that matters. I tried studying but couldn't really get much done.

I ended up watching Blade Runner and making rice Hamburger Helper. I went outside for a bit to find that it was snowing at around midnight. The first snow was on the first of December. I fell asleep while watching the movie, but then woke up at 2 am and moved to the bed downstairs to sleep for the rest of the night.

So that was my day, really boring. 3/10.

11/30/25

Today was the last day of November and a pretty good start to the Christmas season I would say. I think I woke up at around 9:30 am, and I think I just laid around until it was time to leave for church, so I got up and got ready for that. My mom also made me a coffee, so that was good.

When we first got to church, one of the ladies, I think a Heise, asked if I could help them get a ladder, so we went looking for it, but they couldn't find it. So that was fun. The service was alright, it was the first day of advent. I always like going during the advent season because they light a new candle each week and it's a little countdown to Christmas. I really can't get on with Pastor Rick's sermons, they are never that great for me. I feel like they are always kind of generic and they don't really have a theme. At least he isn't forgetting who I am anymore.

After church, we stayed to put up decorations, because they were doing that this Sunday. I also like doing this because this is kind of a tradition for us, we help with this every year. The Heise lady was the person in charge of this and she takes that job very seriously. I had to help fluff one of the trees in the fellowship hall area under their guidance. Then I went and did my decoration that I do every year, which are the trees up by the altar. My mom and dad were working on the big tree in front of the sanctuary area like they do every year, too. August Hanks also showed up to help. This is really the only time I see him anymore. Janell showed up, too, after I had to convince her to come and help. She got there after 11, and then around 12, we ate lunch.

The lunch at the church was not great. My mom brought deviled eggs, which I'm not a fan of. Really, all I ate were chips, a piece of ham, and desserts. The desserts were good, there was carrot cake, brownies, and German chocolate cake. And I ate part of Janell's donut.

Janell and I left when we were done eating and went home. She said she had a lot of homework to get done, but she wasn't working on it. I didn't really do much at home, either. I took a nap for a bit, like 15 minutes, played Deadshot.io, watched YouTube, that kind of stuff. I did get a little homework done I think. But I didn't really have much. I got my group slideshow thing done yesterday.

At around 4 pm, we started getting ready to leave to go to the Christmas parade in Cape. Janell did not want to go, she wanted to sleep, so she didn't go. Last year it took me convincing everyone to go to the parade, at least this year, my mom and dad kind of wanted to go. And I still wanted to go. This is another thing that helps put you in the Christmas spirit more.

The parade was pretty good. The theme was Charlie Brown Christmas, which I liked because I love Peanuts. We got there a little before 5, at like 4:40, and it got to us at around 5:10. I like how when it starts, it's still light, but it gets dark like, right as it starts. Jennifer and David were also there, and they found us and sat behind us. We were in front of that old theater that's now a boutique. The lady next to me was in this see-through tent thing that kind of blocked my view. About ten people told her she was smart, but it seemed kind of isolating being in there. Even if it kept you warm. I liked sitting out in my chair with a coat and blanket on. Anyways, it started with the runners, I guess they were running a 5K or something. Then the parade started. There were several bands from different high schools, some firetrucks with dalmatians, lots of other service vehicles like tow trucks and stuff that were all decorated with lights, there were motorcycles, a car like the one from Christmas Vacation, a DeLorean (that was cool), corvettes, and floats. So it was pretty cool. And we got a lot of candy. My mom was going a bit crazy over the candy, she kept getting up to pick up candy from the road. But it was a good parade.

Afterwards, I said I kind of want something to eat, so we were going to go to Culver's, but they were super busy, so we went to Arby's instead and ended up going in. It took a while to order because they were also kind of busy, but we did, and it was pretty good. I got chicken and fries and my parents got roast beef sandwiches. I made a homemade Baja Blast for my drink with Powerade, Mountain Dew, and Sprite. Someone came up to my mom and told her she liked her Snoopy hoodie, which was nice.

After we ate, we went home and I didn't do too much else. We talked to Janell some and then I think I watched Stranger Things since I've been trying to rewatch from the beginning since Janell and I watched the first part of season five last Wednesday night. Then I started playing the Sims 4, which I hadn't played in a few months, and I was kind of enjoying it. Then I took a break and decided to update it, which was a mistake. Because after I updated, I learned that Anadius, the guy who made the Sims 4 Updater application, has permanently quit. So I couldn't run my cracked version of the game because that version couldn't update to the new version. So that sucked. And that was basically the end of my night. The end of November.

So today was a pretty good little Christmassy day. 6/10.

11/17/25

Today I had two exams in my fundamental and assessment lectures. So I got up at around 6:45 am and studied my fundamental stuff until I had to leave at 8:30.

hair was a little crazy this morning

My first exam, I did not do good on. I thought it wouldn't be too bad, it was over stuff like communication, teaching, and death, and I went over all of that yesterday and today. But the questions were just so hard for me, and I got a 67%. I'm really hoping they'll go through and give us some points back because that's actually failing. My exam average now for this class is a 76%, so I need at least that on the final now. Dammit. I mainly feel bad for my mom because she was just thinking how I was doing better and taking things more serious with my pharm exam grade, and now this. After the exam Mrs. Hall talked some about clinicals and then a guy came in who was offering a NA job at his place, and then we were out of class. CJ was asking what I got on the exam and I was like, "Not the best but not the worst," but I think I literally was the worst.

After class I went to the library for a bit to study for my next exam, but I couldn't study very well there. My allergies were just really bad, my nose was running like crazy. I saw the other Bronson and talked to him for a second, so that was interesting. Then I left and went to my car to study. Janell didn't want to buy me lunch, so I was fasting this morning. In my car, I studied for a while and then ended up falling asleep for about 20 minutes and that scared me because I thought I slept through the exam. It was perfect sleeping condition though, the sun was shining on me, I was tired, I wish I could have kept sleeping. Then I actually went to Grauel, the English building, to study for another half hour. They had cookies in there so I also had a chocolate cookie.

I walked into this exam and the room was absolutely packed. That was because there was another class in here taking their HESI thing. So there were two cohorts in this room and I came in after everyone else already found a seat. So I was just wandering around for a bit looking for a place to sit. I ended up having to sit next to Carleigh (I think that's her name). There were also some internet issues, I don't know if it's because there were so many people on it at once, or what, but I could not even get on Canvas. Eventually I decided to be smart and connect to a random guest Wi-Fi instead of SEMO's and I got through and started the exam. Once I saw the questions on this exam, I was pretty confident because I actually recognized the stuff from studying. So I went through it pretty fast and ended up getting a 92%. So I was happy with that. We could leave right after we finished for this one, and people were really talking about how hard this exam was. Like, I don't know how they could think this exam was hard and the first one was easy, I have no idea.

After that, I went to Nana's and played Fortnite for a little break. I really didn't do anything else the rest of the day, I never left Nana's. My mom came by and brought me a free small fry that I ordered and she picked up, as well as a full thing of delicious Sam's Club sushi and a giant loaf of Cuban bread. So thank you mom. I also did some work around Nana's. I cleaned off the side porch and sweep it off, so that's something. Then I went in and took a nap for a couple of hours. When I woke up, I ate some more, watched YouTube, and played quite a bit of Metro Last Light. It's been almost a year since I started it, so I kind of want to finish it. I love Metro. I also made some pancakes because I was really craving them.

That was basically my day. Failed an exam, that was awful. Did well on an exam, that's good. Then a lazy rest of the day. 3.5/10.

11/16/25

Today I did not do much, so I'll write this super fast. I got up and went to church with my parents even though I only got a few hours of sleep last night. Church was alright, nothing too crazy.

After church I went home and was home for the rest of the day. I had a ton of assignments due, so I started on those. My mom had made roast, so that was a good meal. I got a couple of dosage calc assignments done, did a musculoskeletal assignment, then took a break to build some of the hotel Lego set. I also played some Deadshot. Then I did some more assignments. I had a kind of big patho thing that I got done and did the references for our pharm TikTok assignment. I also skipped chapter and didn't respond to Grant when he asked why I missed it.

For dinner, my mom made this wild rice soup, and that was really good. Then I realized I have two exams tomorrow, so I studied for those and my mom helped some. That was basically my day.

2/10, super boring day.

11/12/25

Today was my head-to-toe check-off day, so I set alarms to wake up early and practice, but I didn't really get up early. My time to be there was 11:30, and I don't think I left until the very latest that I could. I didn't even practice that morning.

I got changed into my SEMO nurse clothes and left Nana's to go to Crisp Hall. I felt pretty confident about it at first, but when I actually got there, I was kind of nervous. I'd be doing my assessment on CJ and Mrs. Burk would be grading us. So I went up to Crisp and CJ was already there and that Stephanie student teacher girl was there, and they were both outside of the assessment lab. CJ flipped a coin for who should go first, I called tails, and it was tails. So I had to go first. I feel like I would've done better going second, but whatever. Eventually Mrs. Burk came out to get us and we went in.

I started my assessment on him and I felt kind of confident again. I washed my hands, confirmed the identity, did all the essential things that will fail you if you forget them, and went on. I went through the head and face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, back, chest, heart, arms, abdomen, legs, and then finished. Afterwards, she showed me my score, and it was an 85/100. I honestly thought I would've done better, but then CJ started doing his and I realized I did forget some stuff. I forgot to test the sensitivities of the arms and legs, I didn't ask about bowel movements, just some stuff like that. I don't know what CJ got, but his felt a little fuller than mine. CJ was saying some funny things, he really liked the word 'such'. He'd say things like, "We'll check with the bell to listen for murmurs and such." I don't know, it was kind of funny to me. But we both passed, so it doesn't really matter what I got. They also had brownies afterward that we could eat.

Afterwards, I went to McDonald's and got a small fry, and then went back to Nana's. I just played Fortnite some here, watched the new Slushy Noobz nursing home Roblox video (great video), and then my mom got there. She was dropping some stuff off, like that glass table and some blankets that she'd washed. We also cleaned the bathroom out. So she was there for 45 minutes or so. Once she left, I made some mac and cheese, played Fortnite, and then started Deathly Hallows: Part II, the last movie in my two week long Harry Potter marathon. It was kind of sad, I really liked watching these movies for the first time. And this movie was pretty good. Half-way through, my dad showed up and he'd been on the phone with me earlier and was getting me stuff from McDonald's. I only ordered a Dr. Pepper for free from the app, but he'd gotten an extra McFlurry for free somehow, so I got that, too. He came in and showed me some stuff downstairs, like the heater, and then we tried putting my car windshield sprayer on, because he got another one to see if it'd work. And it didn't really, it was spraying too low. So he's going to return that again, and I ordered a pack off of Amazon. Then he gave me a McDonald's apple pie and he left, and I went to finished my movie. It was a good movie, I wish it established after the battle a bit before jumping to 19 years later. Like, they really didn't do anything about Fred's, Remus's or Tonk's death. After the movie, I got a shower, and then finally started studying for my pharmacology exam tomorrow. Yes, I have that tomorrow, and I just started studying at about 11 pm. But I did some hardcore studying for about two hours and then went to bed at 1 am.

So today was kind of boring, but I passed the check-off, watched Slushy Noobz and Harry Potter, and played Fortnite. So 4/10.

11/11/25

Today I did not do much. I didn't have patho class for some reason, maybe Veteran's Day, I don't know. So I stayed at home. I really can't even remember what I did. I know I was out with the animals some. But my mom got home at around 3 pm, and I practiced my head-to-toe assessment that I'd have to do tomorrow on her. She also brought me an Arby's Reuben, so that was yummy.

I had work still, so I went to that at 6 pm, and it was alright. It went by fast enough, I had nine transports total. My first one was from dialysis to IRF, which I had never been to, so I asked the people at dialysis, and it's inpatient rehabilitation on the fourth floor, so I got that done. I had another weird request later on that said MRI to neuro, so I went down to the second floor MRI and no one was there, so I went to the basement MRI on the B elevator to look there. I had just been there for the first time earlier in my shift because Tyler said they were using that MRI machine. Some janitor guy asked what I was doing and I said I had a request from MRI, and he said there wasn't anyone down here. So I went back up to the second floor MRI and this lady found me and asked what I was doing. I said I had a request and we tried knocking on the door. After a minute or so, someone opened it and it was this Colombian guy who said he was repairing the system. So then we went to see if the request meant CT instead of MRI, so we went to the CT people (Stan and some girls) and they said no. So I called ER because the request was actually put in by them, and they said the patient I was looking for was there. So it was ER the whole time and they put in MRI instead of ER. Wow. But other than that, it was a quick shift. They also had little pastry things, so I took one of those from the breakroom.

I went to McDonald's afterwards and got a free four piece nugget, but they actually gave me six. So that was awesome. Maybe because I was nice to them, always be nice to service workers. Then I drove to Nana's and on my way, I saw the northern lights. My dad had sent me a picture earlier when I was at work, and I actually went outside at work to look, but I didn't see them. But on my way to Nana's, there they were. And they were very visible, the other time they were here, a year ago or so, you could really only see them through the camera with Apple's night mode. So that was really cool. I didn't do much at Nana's, I think I just watched YouTube and played Fortnite until going to bed.

So today was boring, I didn't do anything much until work. But the auroras were cool and my extra nuggets were good. 4/10.

11/7/25

I'm writing this several days after, so I may miss some details. But today was my retake of my two check-off skills, so I set alarms for 6 am, but I really didn't get up until 8 am or so. I was pretty confident on them, so I really didn't study or anything. I ate half of a pumpkin fry pie that my mom got me from her Amish trip yesterday for my breakfast. My time to be there today was 9:45, so I got up and got ready and left at around 9 am.

pumpkin fry pie, mmm

Once I got to Crisp, I read over my rubric for a couple of minutes, went to the bathroom, and then it was basically time. So I went up to the lab and did them. I did trach suctioning first I think, and I passed that. At least this time they told if you passed right after you did it. Both Mrs. Stinnett and Mrs. Hall were watching this time. And then I did trach care and I also passed that. The only criticism they had was that the cannula didn't fall all the way into the fake solution, part of it was sticking out. But I passed both of them, that's all that matters.

me after my check-offs. you could tell i was stressed because my
face is flushed and i was really hot afterwards

Apparently my sister was going to go see the cats again today, so I was planning on staying in town. I don't know if I talked about this yesterday, but Janell's been really wanting a cat for her house she's going to be moving into next semester, and she went to the Humane Society and found a cat named Joker that she likes (but she wants to name it Dory for some reason). So I kind of wanted to go to. So I did some stuff to waste time.

I first was going to go to HealthPoint, but their parking lot was basically full and I didn't want to work out when it was busy. So I went to Teen Challenge next and looked around for a bit. I ended up getting a book, Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King. I hadn't just bought a physical book to read in a while. I was reading 1984 earlier this semester and I want to finish that, but I was really craving a physical book.

So I went to the park and read several chapters of that in my car. It was an alright book. It was the first fantasy book King wrote I guess. The part I read was just describing the characters. There's a whole royal family and this evil wizard guy, Flagg. So I read that for maybe an hour.

Then I went to the UC to get food. I was going to get Janell to get me something but I think she was still at home studying or something. I snuck past the lady and used a ticket that Janell got me that they didn't take last time to get a beef burrito with queso and chips. So that was delicious. I saw Gavin in there but didn't say anything to him.

my burrito

After that I went to Walmart and all I got was a box of rice Hamburger Helper. Then I went down one of those county roads out past Walmart because I wanted to just drive around. I would say that we were about in the prime of fall right now, so all the trees and stuff were colorful. I drove for maybe 30 minutes, and it was really nice. I was going on some crazy gravel roads at one point. I ended up going to Gordonville and then to Jackson.

autumn trees

In Jackson I filled up with gas, but it stopped filling up when my car was at 3/4 tank for some reason. Then I went to Teen Challenge in Jackson, and they had some cool stuff, lots of shirts, but I didn't end up getting anything.

After that I drove back to Cape, got a small fry, and sat in the Banterra parking lot until Janell made her way over. Then we went to the Humane Society.

The Humane Society had moved to a new spot since the last time I'd been there, it was a bit of a bigger building. We went in and went to the cat room. There were a ton of cats in there, either lined up in cages on the wall or in separate rooms. She showed me the one she was interested in, I looked at some cute ones like one named Danny Devito. I got Rhea Perlman, Danny Devito's roommate, out, and she scrambled away from me and went under the cages. So Janell was freaking out, but we eventually got her out. I also liked this older cat that was really fluffy. There was a room called the Zen Room with a bunch of kittens in there, and they were anything but zen. They were crazy, but there was this one with a backwards tail that I really liked. So this was a fun trip here, I don't know how long we were here, maybe an hour.

danny devito

Afterwards I went with Janell to get Peace Love Energy, but I didn't get anything. Then she dropped me off and I went home.

At home I got some of my online quizzes for assessment done, which my mom made me study like crazy for beforehand. But I think I passed all of them, all of the questions were easily lookup-able. Then I scheduled an academic advising appointment for Monday because I realized I should have already had that scheduled a week or so ago. And then I watched the Family Fight episode of Always Sunny and then watched Order of the Phoenix. I've still been watching all the Harry Potter movies and enjoying them. And I think it was almost 3 am before I went to bed.

So that was my day, it was pretty good. Passed my check-offs, got to see cats, watched a movie, read a book. 6/10 day. Maybe 5.5/10.