quietdarkness, I know this will get you fired up, it did me...

Borrowed and directly quoted from Mihow....

"The Mayor of Randolph, Iowa has offered a 5 dollar bounty for any feral cat that is brought to him alive. An action I find mindblowlingly deplorable. Why not take every five dollar bounty and pay someone to come and do this properly and humanely?

Please join Murray and me and write to the Mayor of Iowa. Let him know that this is a terrible idea.

107 S Main St Randolph, Iowa, 51649

712-625-2601

randolphcity@iowatelecom.net

Mayor: Vance Trively

Even if you are (what CNN so irresponsibly refers to as) a “cat hater” then pretend this is about dogs, hippos, whatever the crap. Members of a community cannot take matters such as this into their own hands. I can’t even imagine what kind of abuse these cats are going to experience, let alone what they could do to the kids looking to make some money."

What a douchebag.

Without further ado, my first doll in over a year. I finally had enough time off to finish her last night. I don't like her hair that much. That was always my worst part about dolling, that and SHOES... but I guess it will come back with time.



Base by Mariiii.

Ok so this comment came up in one of the nursing communities I'm in, and it kind of irked me. Actually it more than 'kind of' irked me, it bothered me. A LOT.

I graduated from my hometown college back in 1997 with a Diploma in Nursing. I've been working almost constantly since a year after I graduated, mostly all hospital nursing with a year or two of long term care thrown in there, but in almost every situation I was a charge nurse with more responsibilities than your average bear.

What is the difference in perception between a nurse that has a Diploma or ADN, or a nurse that has her BSN to an 'outside the field' person? Do I, as a Diploma trained nurse, seem or appear less trained to you just because I don't have BSN behind my RN?

When I was going to school, it was well known on the floors when we were going to clinical that the nursing students from my school were better trained, more ready to work, and able to do more than the BScN students that were at our level or even a semester or two above. When it came to hiring, we were hired more often because of our last set of clinicals compared to the university - we had more experience on the floor.

I have heard many times since coming across the border to work that Canadian nurses seem to be better trained than those schooled in the US - and quite frankly, from being witness to several clinical sessions while I was working at the hospital in Great Bend, if my clinicals were as easy as those were when people were 2 weeks from graduating, my graduating class would have been a whole lot bigger!

So - I'm throwing it out to the general public, meaning YOU. What is your opinion of degree nurses versus diploma nurses?

I just had a foot fall asleep. And it took 10 minutes to fully 'wake up'. That was pleasant. Really. It was. *cries*

I bet $25 on last weekend's football... whatever you call it. It wasn't really a pool, it was one of those things where you write your name in a square and if the point totals match up, you win.

Anyways. I spent $15 (3 squares) on the $5/square board, and $20 (2 squares) on the $10/square board. And tonight, the security guard in charge of it all says "Hey, congratulations." I won ALL THREE THINGS! $225 bucks in my hands :)

Nate is going to be told I lost ROFLMAO

Yes. I have a pituitary adenoma. No, they do not believe it is cancerous - but still - tumor in the brain *sighs*

I start my Bromocriptine tomorrow. I take a half a pill a day for a week, increase to half a pill twice a day for two weeks after that, then get blood work done at the end of 3 weeks to see if it has dropped my prolactin level any. If it hasn't made a significant difference, we step it up from there.

89% Barack Obama
89% Bill Richardson
87% Hillary Clinton
83% John Edwards
82% Chris Dodd
71% Joe Biden
69% Dennis Kucinich
66% Mike Gravel
56% Rudy Giuliani
49% John McCain
45% Mitt Romney
38% Mike Huckabee
30% Tom Tancredo
30% Fred Thompson
27% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

It surprised me a little, because I would vote for Hilary if I could... but I guess it was close.

It's coming up on 11pm here, and since I'm at work in a lull, I decided to pop in and give my New Year's Eve greeting while I knew I still had time.

Most of you I know are already at least 2 hours into 2008 anyways, so I'm actually late - damn Alaskan time zone anyways!

Hope 2008 brings you everything you have hoped for, and more.

Lotsa love to you from me :)

Dear Flu Bug:

I know I haven't been spending much time with you. You're probably feeling neglected. But did you really have to make yourself known twice in a week? I haven't missed you that much.
Pepto Pink kisses.....

No love for you,
Kirsten

I will let all of you know that I completely forgot to mail my Christmas cards.

They are sitting, nicely addressed, and enveloped, on my dining room table.

So, you will be receiving Christmas cards after Christmas. Because I rock like that.

Oh Jessica... DARLING.....

Also, from one of the comments at YouTube... those of you who were ANTM watchers... is that Heather in the blue dress after 0:37?????

Your Christmas tree, that is :)

We got ours put up today. It still needs a few finishing touches *bows, candy canes, etc* and I ran out of garland at the bottom, so I'll need to buy another skein of that, but all in all, it is done :)

We did it today so Nate could see it before he had to leave.

Here it is



Tree and most decorations from Wal~Mart, few decorations from Joann's.

I was sitting in Wally World today waiting for my Christmas tree to be brought in from the dang shipping containers, and it was taking a really long time. And just as my tree was coming in, they announced overhead that there were laptop computers on special sale for $388. I ignored that annoucement because I figured it was an Acer or some other cheap WalMart version of a laptop. They came back on a few minutes later, and announced that they still HAD those computers, and that they were HP.

I ran to the display. They were selling HP Mobile Student Entertainment Bundles, which are the HP dv6409wm laptops. I got one. I'm currently typing on my LAPTOP in my LIVINGROOM LOL

Now I just need to figure out how to transfer all my goodies from the desktop to this one.

JOY!

So I'm at work. On Thanksgiving night. We have 4 patients. There are 3 of us - myself as charge, Julie, who has all 4 patients, and Theresa, our CNA. We're babysitting 2 of our patients - they just never seem to go away. The other two are legitimately ill.

I've already done my 12 hour chart checks. There are no new MARs to check for tonight. I've gone through all the records to make sure we have careplans in place and all the areas are filled out. I've shopped online for my potential Christmas tree, at Target, which means I'll have to get it shipped in. I've read my Bloglines feed reader, cleared out my LJ friends page, and looked at digiscrap stuff.

I'm totally and completely farking bored, and it's only 10 til 10 LOL.

And the computers here are blocked from certain areas of the net, so I can't even play a good game or two while I'm here. *sighs*

*giggles*

To my fellow American friends, Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you are all blessed with a wonderful year ahead, and have all your loved ones with you to share the day.

I have to go back to work tonight, and tomorrow will be filled with shopping and preparing for my father-in-law's arrival next week.

Blessings to you all *hugs*