Nursing School Project

I was invited to a nursing honors society earlier this semester; for my membership, I must complete a capstone project. I (and several of my classmates) chose March of Dimes. We will be participating in a local walk on May 3rd. Until then, we are fundraising. 

If you have already donated to my team (ACM Nursing), I would like to say a most sincere thank you! 

If you have not and would like to donate now, please visit my personal page marchforbabies.org/kelleywagner and click "Donate Now". Even $1 will put us closer to our goal!

Thank you in advance for your support and generosity!!

Bob-isms {2}

We went to a wedding yesterday; Bob rode with me... actually, I wouldn't have gotten there without him. He was my navigator (and a very good one!). We got there just fine (only missed one road ... but we were able to turn around within sight of it). We had a little  more trouble on the way home, but it turned out fine. So on the way back:

Bob, Me: *riding along, saying nothing*
Bob: What did timber do?
Me: *thinking "who on earth is Timber?"* What?
Bob: That sign said "timber wanted"!
Me: *still don't get it* ........... *finally get it*
Bob: You'll never see one of those signs the same again!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The wedding was great! Beautiful couple; I'm so happy for them! My friend caught the bouquet, and there was a tag on it that said "hand this to the person on your left".... I was on her left :) One of my favorite moments: the bride started singing to her groom while she was still out of sight! It was on absolutely gorgeous day! First time I've seen 70 degree weather all year!

Bob-isms {1}

Mom: *walks in kitchen*
Bob: *standing in kitchen eating a Bob cookie*
Mom: You're suppose to be doing your school.... You know that's the second cookie you've eaten this morning.
Bob: I know. I had a rough day . . . . . . . . . . last week.
Mom, Karissa, Kelley: *start laughing*
Kaitlyn: How do you come up with that stuff so fast?!
Bob: Well, I was going to say 'yesterday' but yesterday really wasn't that bad so I had to come up with something else. *grinning*

 ~ ~ ~

The first kid that Karissa started babysitting called Kaleb "Bob"; the "endearment" stuck. He doesn't mind when we call him "Bob" but he still only lets Karissa's little kids call him "Bobby". These little kids are also very particular to "bob cookies"... which are chocolate no-bake cookies that only Kaleb makes.
There's never a dull moment when Bob is around. This past weekend, he was away at a friend's and our house was so quiet. He keeps us laughing with his quick, Wagner wit.

My week in a Vine

Click upper left corner for sound!!

My Room - part 2

The finished product!! 

This is where I study...

...And this is where I sleep!

I love it!! Very very comfy :) 

It does move a little when Katrina's on the top bunk but it's not awful and I'm already getting used to it. 

It used to be that I couldn't keep Kayah off my bed... now she won't come near it. She doesn't handle change well! I picked her up and put her on my bed a couple times and that's the only reason she's in the pictures :)

My Room - part 1

Katrina and I are changing our room. We have a bunk bed right now; however, instead of the beds lying parallel over top one another, they fit together perpendicularly.... 

(This isn't my bed... Photo credit: Google. It looks just like my bed except the drawers have different knobs and the wheels are a little different... besides that it's identical.)

Except I pulled my bed out from underneath and put it against the wall on the other side of the room.  Katrina used to play underneath her bed... when she was younger.

That eliminated pretty much all extra floor space we had.

Thus, we are redoing our room. It's been the same for the past 10 years. 

Our new bed will also be a bunk bed however the lower bed will be a futon ... that will be mine :)

This was my bed before. 

(  It's not always this disastrous but I was studying for finals at the time this picture was taken.  

Looks like I was reviewing fluids and electrolytes at that moment... must have been why I was frustrated enough to take a break and snap a picture!)

This is my bed (and Katrina's too, actually) right now. 

I'll post a picture of the final product when it's done :)

"Spring" Break x2

This is not my photo... however, it does look a good bit like this in my area. We've had spurts of bad weather this winter and most of them have come on school days. 

All together, out of a total of 13 days of class I was suppose to have had so far this semester, I've had 4. 

It's like spring break in January... yet there's still so much to do... which, I guess, I just like spring break! 

Also, I love my instructor. She is probably the most fair person in academia. 

Family

Christmas 2013 Wagner Family Photo

Back (L-R): Tim, Dad, Kaleb, Kent, Brayden, Tammy 

Middle: Khara, Katrina, Mom, Kaitlyn, Karissa, Me

Front: Zoey, Timmy, Ava, Leilah 

Missing: Abbey

~ ~ ~ 

F!NALS

Nothing like nursing school finals...

My Life

:: Seems like I can no longer "fall asleep"...I just pass out ::

Based On A True Story

Most of my favorite movies are ones that are based on true stories. Granted, these types often have a high degree of dramatization added; however, a great deal of the story line is true and sometimes very moving. 

The following movies rank among my all time favorites :) 

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Full Movie      

Probably one of the best biopics ever! The Story of Benjamin Carson... From a Detroit schoolboy to lauded neurosurgeon. 

I had no intentions of entering the medical field before I saw this movie. After I saw the movie, I read all of the books Dr. Carson had authored.... I've tried so many times to summarize this movie and failed every single time. Just watch and be inspired!!!

The Greatest Game Ever Played

Trailer      Full Movie

I had never heard the name Francis Ouimet or ever liked/half-way-understood the game of golf before watching The Greatest Game... It's another underdog story.... but who ever gets tired of those - especially when they're real! 

Eight Below

Full Movie

Eight sled dogs are left in Antartica and somehow find a way to survive... and their handler who is desperate to get back to them. I am totally an animal person so this made it to the top of my oh-my-word-I-totally-love-it movie list :) 

Knute Rockne: All American

Trailer

Knute Rockne was a Notre Dame football coach. Honestly, I don't remember much about him because Ronald Reagan was cast as one of Rockne's best football players and (because Reagan is a personal hero of mine) I remember the movie mostly for him... I think he played a guy named George but everyone called him "Gip" or "the Gipper"

Secretariat

Trailer

A housewife out of her element... in the field of horse racing. The odds are against her... and her horse. 

If there is a particular type of animal movie I adore... it's horse movies!

Dreamer

Trailer

Three generations of horse racers, a race horse with a broken leg, a little girl with a big dream... you put the rest of the puzzle together! 

I believe this one his highly fictionalized. The horse was real (though I don't think they used it's real name... the real horse is referenced in the movie though)... I don't believe the little girl's part of the story is real but I'm not positive about that.



Sheffy

In high school, I read the book on which this story is based. Both the book and the movie are fantastic. The book of course has more detail but the movie was actually pretty accurate (from what I remember).

Soul Surfer

Trailer

Ever heard of Hawaiian surfer Bethany Hamilton whose arm was bitten off by a shark? This is her biopic.

(*personal note* I like the story behind this movie but I don't 100% recommend due to clothing issues)

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

This is a series of movies based on a deaf woman working at the FBI. The woman (Sue Thomas) is real; however, the stories that comprise each episode are absolutely fictionalized. Some of my family's favorites! 

Daniel Boone

We haven't watched these in a long time, but they used to be some of my favorites. Obviously, Daniel Boone was real, but, again, the stories are simple fiction.... right down to the number of kids he had. 

Glory Road

Trailer

Story about an underdog basketball coach... Also, essentially, how the first black basketball players got their start. Great story but I can't recommend this 100% due to some language. 

The Mighty Macs

Trailer

The story of a girls basketball team from a Catholic School and their never-back-down coach. 

Awesome Marylanders

Did you know these people were from Maryland?!?

Dr. Ben Carson 

{neurosurgeon}

 

Tom Clancy

{author}

Sylvester Stallone

{actor}

Michael Phelps

{Olympic swimmer}

Katie Ledecky

{Olympic swimmer}

Babe Ruth 

{baseball player}

Johns Hopkins

{businessman, philanthropist}

Francis Scott Key

{writer of the national anthem}

Harriet Tubman

{leader in the underground railroad}

Spiro T. Agnew

{39th Vice President of the United States}

Others Include:

David Hasselhoff (actor)

Thurgood Marshall (first African-American Justice on the Supreme Court)

Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets)

Benjamin Banneker (mathematician, writer, inventor, astronomer, publisher)

~

And every state has their black sheep.... ours just happen to include Johns Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator Samuel J. Mudd ... these, of course, would fall under the "non-awesome" section.

Finally ... It's Summertime

I love summer Sunday afternoons when you can lay in the grass or sit on the deck and just soak up the sun!

I've been waiting for summer for what seems like ages...

...it's finally here!!

It's also a bonus not to have to worry about what's due next week! I have enjoyed my summer break more than I thought I would!!

{one week}

One week left...

studying, 

tests, 

studying, 

projects, 

studying, 

evaluations, 

studying, 

finals 

~

Tired Already?

How can I be so tired the week after spring break?

Momma said there'll be days like this...

... there'll be days like this, my Momma said.

Just Studying...

This is just my regular studying for my weekly tests.... nothing unusual. Don't know what I'm going to do when it comes to finals!

This week have a test on Oxygen and Nutrition and another one on medication dosages and calculations. 

I'm also suppose to have a skills evaluation this week and will probably be starting clinicals in long-term care.

...oh, and all that is just for Nursing 120. I also have medical terminology 110, and I have a bunch of stuff due for that this week but I did it all last week so I'm kinda worked ahead a little :) Between Friday and Saturday, I did 6 quizzes and 2 tests for medical terminology as well as a research paper on Lumbar Punctures. I also did 2 case studies yesterday but those were for nursing not medical terminology. 

Most people call me crazy when I tell them I enjoy this...

:)

:: being a nursing student ::

I took a break from studying the other day and started looking at funny things about being a nursing student and these are some of the things I ran across...

 

R/T = related to

Actually, a lot of this probably will not make sense to a non-nursing student. Like this one... 

... but I get a kick out of them anyway! 

...And yes - that break I was taking when I found these lasted way too long -_-