The Cupcakes

The penguin cupcakes!

Slightly menacing

There is an odd smell on the air.  It took me awhile to figure out what the smell smells like, but I got it.  I first got a whiff as I was leaving work.  I figured it was something industrial from the hospital.  When I got home I could still smell it on the air, so I stopped.  It seemed so familiar but so out of place in nature.  I finally figured out what it the smell reminded me of: it smells like electricity, like a hot-glue gun heating up and the glue melting.  Isn't that weird?  I've never smelled that in nature before.  There are severe storm warnings in the state and surrounding states.  Somehow this smell on the wind seems bad.  Maybe there really is a storm brewing....

fat-igued

I am tired.  It's rainy and gray out...good sleeping weather.  Later gators.

Quotes o' the Night

Call bell rings...
Me: "How can your nurse help you?"
Patient's wife: "My husband is having a seizure"
    In the background husband yells "No I'm not!"
Patient's wife: "Yes, you are honey."
Me: "I'll send your nurse in."

Me: "They put a catheter in you, sir"
Patient: "That's nice, but I don't really need a carpenter."  (he was hard of hearing)

ER Doctor:  "Her tooth to tattoo ratio is not looking good.  When you have more tattoos than teeth, you know you have problems."

back on it

Back on the old job horse tonight.  I had a work nightmare today, complete with needy family members, critical patients, un-triaged patients, pediatric patients and a kindergarten tour through all my patient rooms when things were getting serious.  I guarantee when I went into nursing I never thought I would have nightmares about it.  I wonder if people in other professions have nightmares regarding their work?  Sanitation workers?  Lawyers?  Interior designers?  Hmmmmm....

Also, I am going to start replacing the word dollar, cent, money, etc. with the word treasure.  It sounds more magical....as in "What?  Those shoes cost 67 treasures?!".  Sounds good.

This and that

Tonight I went over to a friend's house and we made penguin cupcakes...they turned out really cute...white marshmallow for the tummies, yellow starbursts cut in half for the beaks, mini M&M's for the eyes, chocolate wafers for the wings...I will post some pictures when I get some.  The only problem was making the chocolate icing black...we added green and blue and the penguins turned out forest-green...but they look black from a distance. 

Thank goodness for friends when you can't be home with family for holidays.  I think it is best to either make plans to be with friends or just ignore the holiday entirely...holidays can get too lonely otherwise. 

Went and saw the movie Hanna last night, reminded me of a Quentin Tarantino film, grindhouse style....it was too violent to be PG-13 although the acting was good and it was entertaining. 

I am going to read the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell...about hunting man.  Somehow we got on the topic of talking about it last night after the movie.  I wonder how I would do running in the woods trying to avoid being caught...probably pretty bad.  Apparently there is this show called Man Hunt or something of the kind where these people have to make it to a certain checkpoint without getting caught by this man who is tracking them on horseback...I want to see it.

; )

Little kid as I was drawing blood:  "Look, mom!  I'm doing really well!"

Patient: "I hurt down there"
Me: "Where down there?  Your knee?  Use your words."
Patient: "I hurt in my vagina."
Me:  "Good job."

Patient calls me into his room and says: "I just want some company"
Me: "Sorry, I'd love to stay and chat but I have four other patients I need to go see."
Patient: "Tell them you have a handsome young man to visit with" (he was old and ugly and had 4 teeth)
Me: "Ha ha, I really need to go"
Patient: "How about 2 minutes?"
Me: "Ok..."   .....awkwardly stand there in silence.....after about 45 seconds...
Patient: "So...is this tv HD?"

Me to crying 7-year old after a shot: "Would a popsicle help?"
Patient (in-between sobs): "Kind of!"

Patient: "I called the ambulance because I ran out of Nyquil"

Me answering telephone in ER: "Emergency room, how can I help you"
Person on phone: "Did you just call me? (club music in background)
Me: "Um, no"
Person: "Are you sure?  Someone at this number just called me"
Me: "No sir, no one called you from this number"
Person: "Is this Mercedes?"
Me: "No, this is a nurse, you called the emergency room"
Person: "Did I just see you at the club?"
Me: "Again, no, goodbye"

Patient: "Once, when I was in a coma, I had a dream.  What does that mean?"
Me: "I have no idea"

ER nurse optimism, 2 nurses standing over a body brought in:
Nurse 1: "I wonder what he had for dinner"
Nurse 2: "Sweet potatoes and chicken by the looks of it"
Nurse 1: "At least he had a good last meal!"