Time out at the bottom of the pool

Thats the best analogy I could come up with for today. To explain; There is three "quizzes" coming up in school. No one knows what to expect and one of the "quizzes" is worth 20% :/ not cool especially when you have no idea what is even really going to be on the test. Some people might be like well thats the point, well when you have over 500 pages of text and 4 power points to go through and you have been told by the teacher that there will only be about 45 questions.... how the hell do you weigh that :/
So today it more or less hit me, I have been studying hard and making tons of notes on all three quizzes but it still feels like I don't know enough, so it was as if I was swimming and someone handed me a 100 pound brick. I sunk. I freaked out. Not a happy feeling, I hate feeling like that.
Continued to breath (thanks mom) and calmed myself down.
Also went for a run tonight after getting partially stressed again at about 10 ish. Ran my best time yet, I was stoked, made me feel MUCH better! 2.2km's in 20 mins, yay me! I tried looking up my old time I posted on facebook but couldn't find it. I'm pretty sure it used to be like 1km in 20 mins... maybe im wrong. I'm only getting to run maybe twice a week. I want to bump it up more but finding time is well hard to do.

So for the last little while I have been doing 30 days of hair, just means that everyday is a new hair style. It keeps me from getting into the same routine of ponytail everyday. I have been mostly getting my ideas off of pinterest, some I like, some I don't. I post the daily picture on my instagram

This was a fishtail... I think, it was hard with my length of hair

bed head

Didn't like this one... to far out of my comfort zone

This one is cool, i've done this a few times now. After a shower I put a headband around my head and wrap my hair around it and then sleep with it on.

I did treat myself to an outting on sunday for a few hours with a new friend from residence. Her name is Rachel and we had a good time at the Bow Museum. It was a cool place.

These were our wicked drinks at supper

This has been my last few days... I actually thought today was thursday. I never went out this weekend besides on sunday so it has really thrown my internal calendar :/

Only 9 days until I go home and get a visit!!!!

No EtOH for this ♀, ↑ studying needed

Learning a new language as of lately, it's the medical language, and boy is it hard. Some of the words/abreviations are easy and straight forward

n - normal

OD - Once a day

BP - Blood Pressure

Dr. - Doctor

e - exhalation

FYI - for your information

ect

But there are the ones that make no sense at all or that are just hard to remember because they don't come up in everyday conversations.

FOB - (no it doesn't mean fresh off the boat) foot of bed, foreign object body

Hgb - Hemoglobin

NARD - no apparent respiratory distress

HTN - hypertension 

Br/s - breath sounds

c(with line overtop) - mean "with"

s(with line overtop) - means "without"

ex)

"...with a "prn ABG for SOB" ordered and with a continuous pulse oximeter and ECG."

Taken from Clinical Assessment in Respiratory Care, Fifth Edition, Case Study 3, pg 402

Three weeks ago if you would have read me that I would have looked at you sideways and wondered what language, if not turning into an Alien. But tonight when I read that I only had to look up one abbreviation. Yay me! For those of you that want to know what that says

"... with a ""needed" "Arterial Blood Gas" for "Shortness of Breath"" ordered with a continuous pulse oximeter (machine to measure the saturation of oxygen in your blood) and "Electrocardiogram" (measures the electrical activity of the heart)."

I have started learning medical terminology as well, Electrocardiogram is an example. Electro - electric, cardio - means heart, gram - drawing.
These are still pretty hard for me, so feel free to quiz or ask me questions on it. Getting quized on it is the way I learn best.

Went to the student run store today, picked up some pulled pork and a big loaf of bread for $5!! Pulled pork is awesome and will probably last me at least 5 meals.

mmmhhhmmmmmm

Used my new food to make me lunch. I also have to say I LOVE living by myself and not having to worry about cooking for anyone else. I eat what I want, how much I want, and as weird of things together as I want. Point in case here, two pieces of pulled pork buns and then I felt like PB&J so one slice of that. mhhhmm good lunch!

After returning from the store at lunch I also found out the hard way that my key card to get into my room got deactivated :( . This isn't the first time :( No idea why it keeps happening

View from my jail cell. :D The leaves are turning! I want to photoshoot by the river soon!! Any takers on doing a photo walk here in Calgary?

Two Steppin

Tonight was a small night out with some of the RT girls. Went to Cowboys much like The Pump or Whiskeys in Regina and Outlaws in Stoon except wayyyy bigger.

Things learned:

• The Charlie Sheen guy that was at West was also at Cowboys, probably because it was ladies night
• People in Calgary really know how to two step and many different ways
• Guys that can dance have better pick of the crowd
• You don't even have to know how to dance well but have confidence while doing it and you are golden
• Ladies night was okay, they don't let the guys in till about 10:30/11 ish and then when they do the guys all go on the top floor and look down at all the girls on the main floor. This is creepy. This is not an auction, again I repeat this is creepy.

I'll try and remeber to post a picture or two tomorrow... Tomorrows post will probably be something like reasons why not to go out on ladies night number one class at 10 am :/

Next morning:

So note to self champagne and your brain don't like one another. I only have three drinks all night so was not drunk but holy lick does my brain hurt today :( ahh well

Dreams were intense last night, something along the lines of I was living with a cult type community and I wanted to leave but no one was responding to my help text messages lol super messed up

As I said here are some pictures from yesterday

Yesterday was the first day I wore my scrubs to class. Also doing my hair different for 30days, this si a fishtail braid.

Quick trick, duct tape to hem. Lol if my mom reads this it actually works. I bought these jeans before moving to Calgary and in all of the crazyness of moving there wasn't time to hem my new pants. Normally I just roll them up but I decided to try this. It worked!

Ally and I in the limo

Czar, Brittney, Brittney, Lauren, Jenna, Morgan, Kelsey

Randomness

So I never got a entry together last night, ended up studying with another girl in the program and then went to Denny's for a bit after working on my video for HLTH 201.

Theres the video, :/ I procrastinated making it. I hate seeing myself on film and in pictures :| But this was an assignment so had to be done. Again Thanks to Ryan Benoit.. stole the video off of Vimeo and chopped in some parts of his video to this one. Also yes that is Gangnam Style by PSY.. I like it and not afraid to admit it :D

This is a picture of the street across from rez. This was the second week I was living here.... Turns out someone was stabbed :| so not cool, heard rumours it was just gang related... ya JUST. The orange pillions are the blood dropplets I think :/

One day I heard what I swore to be an ice cream truck.... I ignored it. Then the next week I heard it again, I looked out and saw it! Ice cream truck!!!

Picture of my agenda last week. It was taken on thursday so that's why friday was yet to be filled in. Its like this every week thus far :/

Study group tonight, quiz next week in 212... more or less freaking out.

I wanted to try and see if I could catch a ride to Edmonton this weekend and watch drifting but I think I'll just stay here and study for the exam and get ahead on readings :| so not more fun then drifting but gotta do what I gotta do :/

Also 16 days until I'm home for a visit!!! yay!!

walk walk walk walk walk walk walk

That was my weekend... walking. haha This will be long, i'm forewarning you.
Chris came in friday early morning, Alex and I went to pick him up from the airport. Spent most of the day at Chinook mall, watched a Five Year Engagement, and just hung out. Saturday we woke up early and walked downtown, then around The Core Mall, then Stephen Ave, we checked out the Olympic Park where they were setting up for the live performers that happened later that night, figured out the trains and went to the zoo, we went to Calgary Tower for supper, then checked out the live performers, sunday we hung out, watched the game, went and got groceries, and just chilled out.

Chinook mall
Was cool, I hadn't been around the entire mall yet since moving here. Checked out a bunch of places and found some clothes for Vik and Ethan.

Five Year Engagement
It was an okay movie, had it's funny parts but I wouldn't pay to watch it or watch it again.

Walking downtown
Hasn't been the first time that i've walked downtown from school, it's really not that bad. I wanted to show Chris this green park type thing but when we got to the one entrance there were about 5 drunks yelling and fighting.... we decided not to stop.

Core Mall
Checked out Devian Gardens and did a quick walk through the mall. I was also not the brightest and wore my stupid walmart flip flops and they were already giving me blisters from the walk from school to downtown so I picked up bandaids. To make them stay I had to use a lot :/ my feet looked stupid all day :/

Stephen Ave
Bought a case and screen protector, i'm worried about my phone turffing it off of my bed and smashing :/ this case should suck up some of the impack. Not a lot of vendors which sucked but whatever

Olympic Park
Was pretty cool, it was more like sleeping park lol. There were I think 4 people spread out all over the place that were sleeping on the grass. The park was also busy, they were setting up for the live performances taking place that (sat) night.

Zoo
I haven't been to the Zoo in forever, saw a lot of animals. Tons of walking and I swear at one point in the afternoon all of the animals were sleeping.

Calgary Tower
The food is soooo good here. I also asked for one of the half circle tables to we could eat and look out the windows. That was the best.

The live performances
Some were so weird, the cloud was super cool. check out pictures

Setting up

Chris under the light bulb cloud

My face looks stupid but Chris did a good job with this photo with just my point and shoot

Pulling strands

Platform out in the middle of the little lake thing... one of the performances

Ferrari Ruckus at the art show

Front view

This person rang a old school school bell then read out something.  believe the table next to there was a place where I think you could get them to say anything you wanted without knowing who said what

...live art...

again...

Random crap you see when living in rez....

Awesome guy on Stephen Ave

Most packed i've ever seen the train

This kids afro was awesome

I lol'ed. This was in a parking lot when getting off the train at the Chinook stop

Tons of Domo and Hello Kitty at this toy store

My second hand awesome pink purse had reached it's life span. The one handle was being held on by just a few fibers... wasn't safe to put my camera in anymore :(

Kayla wanted black leggings and I found this jacket... another had to buy. Saw tons of other cute stuff but couldnt pass this up.

Lol Chris and I joking around in the kids store

Zebra at the Zoo

Butterfly garden

Calgary Tower

About to step on the glass

Molten Lava!!

Has everyone played this game as a kid? The game were you pretend the floor is lava and you can't walk on it, you have to reach for everything and or throw pillows on the ground and use them as stepping stones. I loved it! Sometimes I am reminded of this game as I am being lazy and reaching off of my bed for something off of my desk. My bed is roughly 3.5 ish feet off the ground. I have to practically jump to get on it. This makes the lava game that much more adult, when I'm reaching off my bed and if I fail at the game of not falling off when reaching for something I am falling about 4ft onto straight concrete :| . I haven't fallen... yet! I'm sure there will be a blog post about it the time it does happen though so don't worry. I will share my embarrassment.

Much like this

Except I can't put my hand on the ground to support myself

So my burn is healing well! You can see the before photo there, but it is healing up nice now! I've been dilligent and putting a band-aid with Polysporin on every night. 

Excuse the randomness today, I forgot to write about things yesterday I jotted down and then today has been more or less just random things going on.

We had mentor meetings today for the first time. They were pretty cool, you are in a small group with second year students and a teacher, you talk about what you need help with (general) like should I memorize the text books or mostly go off of the slide but supplement with the text. The later is what they said to go with. On the way home I stopped on in the bakery/meat shop the students run. SAIT offers buchery courses as well as culinary and pastery courses and they sell what the students make in the store. Its right next to my building but only open from 11-3 so it's hard to remeber to pop in there. So today I did, and I picked up a few goodies :D

Pork chops an a very delicious chocolate truffle!

I don't know what pork chops normally cost but I thought 4$ is a good price! Especially when I don't have to go anywhere expect next door to get it. 

Here is my early morning organized chaos. I woke up about 7 thank to mr/ms 6:20am alarm upstairs :/

I don't have class on thursdays till 10 :/ ohh well I got some stuff done

and I finished the post and still forgot to write about the missed stuff yesterday. lol nap time soon! So on my jot downs yesterday it became clear that I actually don't mind as much as I originally thought being older then the average in my class. We were in lab doing role play activities assessing or interviewing "patients". I like all the life experience I've had, when it came to role playing talking to a child I related how I would want to talk to my niece or what would and wouldn't work with trying to ask them questions and such. It is also very helpful to pull from last life guarding/junior life guarding with these role plays, granted we played a lot more dead people or almost dead people in those courses. But getting into character and taking it serious and knowing when to break a scenario and talk about what is going well and what isn't. Also a big part of doing role playing is to have confidence and to not be afraid to act out the part, yes you can laugh at the funny stuff but everyone has to role play and the more real you make it the more the person will get out of it.

Also thus far Juanita has been the teacher that is most like my style of learning. I also am really interested to know how she got the jobs she did. Her stories are interesting and I think I would like to do some of the jobs she has done. She's funny but gets the point across.

Scrubs!!

Yay! So my scrubs finally came in! I was so excited I tried it all on again, ya whatever call me lame, I am super stoked!

I know I don't look very happy in the bottom one, but I am! I will explain...

Whoever installed the shower curtain rob was out to lunch the day he/she put them in. They are wayyyyyyy to high and then the shower curtain doesn't reach the bottom. Well I wasn't paying attention while I was showering and when I got out of the shower I almost needed an ark. :/ I flooded a good chunk of the bathroom, the entrance and part of the kitchen. I was sooo not impressed because I had just finished laundry and now I needed to use 6! towels (bath sized) to clean it all up, plus the mats :/ I don't have anywhere to hang all those towels to dry so back down to the laundry room for me. The bottom picture was right after I finished dropping the towels off in the washer. I wasn't a happy camper. But I do love my scrubs!

By product of my flooding... this is out my front door :/ ... opps

When I applied to live in residence this year I didn't know what to expect. I wanted a roommate but wasn't sure who i'd be paired with. Well SAIT Tower people you picked good! My roommate and I get along great! We are completely different people with different tastes but we get along swimmingly. Note just one example

We let each other know normally where we are just incase we need something or if the other person is sleeping. This is a note I came back to from doing laundry. I had told her a friend and I were going to play ping pong while we were waiting for our laundry to finish. I = Ping Pong Master.... but not really lol

The clouds in the sky were really pink tonight. This is a picture from the basement/sub basement where the rec/laundry room is.