Known Knowns

It’s been a long time, I know. I was actually thinking about deleting knownknowns but Mom convinced me otherwise, and told me that I just needed to write a quick message letting people know that I’m here but not as often as I used to be. So, there. That.

I am currently preparing for my med surg II final on Friday, and I’ve already lost a significant amount of sleep over it, not to imagine the inordinate amount of karma I’ve been trying to bank. For example, a kid came to my door trying to sell me a newspaper subscription for some college fund he’s a part of. I don’t need the newspaper, so I wrote the kid a personal check for half the amount that I would have paid for the newspaper. Normally, I slam the door on these people. (Not literally, but I don’t have any problem telling anyone “no,” especially with an 80 lb. German Shepherd standing behind me.) Anyway, I guess it’s not really karma if you tell people. Oh well. I feel kind of weird about it anyway because the kid begged me to take back the check and sign up for a newspaper instead. It was strange. I even told him that I didn’t care if he just bought beer ( don’t…I just told him he needed to “pay it forward.) Not sure why I feel weird about it. Oh well.
What else has been going on in my life?

I’ve been watching the primaries with feigned interest. Okay, real, true interest. Okay, I stay up until 1:30am watching to find out who won Indiana a couple weeks ago. Okay, I tried to convince my Mom to name her new cat “Barack.”

I’ve been going to school, and I’m down to 212 days which means I’ve reached the “final six months.”

Roland is good. He’s been eating poop tonight. I can smell it on his breath. Some things never change. Including my lazy ass cats.

And finally, I’m the team leader for a team in the WOMAN challenge, which encourages women to make healthy lifestyle changes including being more physically active. This doesn’t mean you have to run a friggin’ marathon. It just means you park your car father away from work, or take the stairs instead of the elevator one day. Seriously. It’s way low key. You set your own goal (and if you’re me, the goal is nice and low) and try to make it on 5/7 days. I even got a pedometer for ten bucks at target. If you want to join, let me know. We’re Team Ranch Dressing, and we’re taking over the world.

That’s all from now. I can’t promise how much I’ll post. I’ve got a big internship starting in June that is going to be very, very time consuming for most of the summer (especially since I have a class on top of the full 40 hour a week thing.) But I’m definitely still reading, and commenting when I can, and I’m definitely still posting on my nursing school blog, too. So please keep in touch.