Workin' for a livin'

Thought I'd post a little work update since I will have been at my new job 6 months in a couple of weeks.

First of all, I can't believe that it's been six months already. It has gone so fast that my head is spinning. I am still feeling "new" but not as "green" if you know what I mean. What I mean is...that in situations at work, while giving anesthesia, I am calmer within myself and I have more confidence in my abilities to recognize potential problems. That's why I don't feel as "green". But I still feel "new" in that six months is a drop in the proverbial bucket when it comes to anesthesia experience. There is still so much to learn. I have yet to do a heart case or a small baby case. I am still happy to wait for those experiences until I've been working a little longer.

I am feeling like I fit in at work also. I mean, no one has put anything nasty in my coffee while I'm not looking or anything like that. And there have been a few newer hires since me so I'm not the new kid anymore. I'm looking forward to a particular new hire that is coming this Fall because he's a new grad and that means that the focus will be off me! They will be watching how he's doing and forget all about me. Ha Ha Ha

Another thing that's cool is that I am becoming known for having cool music on my ipod. I've had a few OR nurses ask me to play my ipod during surgery to keep everyone happy. I have to give Chelsie credit since a lot of the music is stuff she turned me on to.

Well, that's it in a nut shell. Work is going well and I haven't been fired yet so thats good too.

More cabin stuff

Well, first, I would like to indroduce Jasper's girlfriend Polina! She's a lovely girl from Russia who is going to school at Boise State and getting her Masters degree in Neuro-Biology while teaching Anatomy and Physiology. She's fun to be with and we have enjoyed getting to know her. Jasper brought her to the cabin for the 4th of July and we could not have had a better time.

Here they are at Uncle John's fire pit on the 4th waiting for fireworks.












And on the four-wheeler on the property surrounding our cabin.

Kevin is hard at work while I snap photos...and here are some wild flowers that were so abundant this year.

Oh yeah, and the wild strawberries that you can find if you look hard enough! They are so sweet but you have to find a lot of them to equal one strawberry of normal size.

Yeah! It worked!

My computer is trying to make me believe I'm crazy...like that old movie with that blonde actress where her husband is trying to make her think she's insane so he can get rid of her and be with another woman...so he plays tricks on her like placing an object on the table and waits for her to see it...then he takes it away and when she asks about it, he claims she must be "seeing things" etc...never believes her... Ok, well my computer isn't that sophisticated but it IS trying to make me insane by hiding my pictures and only opening files with numbers instead of pictures...but I was too smart for it! 

I found my pictures in another file named "phone pics" under another heading. Ha Ha Ha. OK, the elk in that picture (if you click on the picture it will get huge and you can get a better look) are babies...can I get an AaaWWWWW? They couldn't follow their mothers over the fence so their "mothers" left them. Just left them for dead...well, they DID come back at the end of the day. But what self-respecting cow does that? It was so cool to see them up close. They hung out in a small stand of trees all day waiting for their mothers. In the evening, the cows came back after going to the spa and generally being selfish while their babies wondered if they would ever see their mama again...yeah it was cute. The mothers called to their babies and the babies answered and came out of the trees and nursed like there was no tomorrow...and who knows with these dumb cows, there may not be.

Busy summer

SO busy in fact, that I haven't had time to post. I tried to post last week when I had a few minutes, but my pictures wouldn't open up in the blog window. I tried a lot of different things but no go. I had a ton of cool pics from the 4th of July at the cabin. I will keep trying though. We had another cool weekend up at the cabin this past weekend also. 

We saw some elk on the property, and I snapped a picture of some of them...the wild strawberries are on up there. I have a pic of them... I'll keep working on the picture angle. I've come to rely on the picture thing because it's so much better to show people what you are talking about than to try to describe things. Or I'm lazy.