That time of year again!

MANIFEST!
Unfortunately as a Student Nurse I am required to complete 4 full weeks of Mental Health Nursing and I am smack bang right in the middle of it!
Fortunately I have a presentation back at Uni today and therefore have the day off from Placement!!
Here's hoping my groups presentation is one of the firsts up so I can FLEEEEEEE and catch a train to Melbourne while it's still early
<3 Much love to all the cosplayers, I'll be going as Olivier Milla Armstrong but have to wait till tomorrow to cosplay
(It'd be interesting trying to explain Schizophrenia when dressed up haha)

No love for the Student Nurses

I don't think I can whinge about this enough, nothing burns my cheese more then a disorganised, late Teacher who has to be hunted down to attend a meeting s/he organised. UNLESS it is Terry* who has to be hunted down for a meeting s/he organised to tell us that the "lucky" few of us that will be attending Clinicals 2.5hrs away in a rural (Large) town, during the handful of weeks classes are still on and assignments are due, WITH the added bonus of a whole 2 days clinical to travel back to give a 10minute presentation with a group that we have to meet up with somehow prior to this presentation.

Confused yet?

Here's the skinny:
Clinical placement will be 2.5hrs away by car or a minimum 3.5 via train.
Group presentations will not be granted extensions
We have to find our own way back to give a 10minute demonstration during our 3rd week, they can't push it back until the 4th week is over
We have to liaise with a group of students who get to work on the assignment in classes that we are expected to keep up with in our own time.

And the cherry on the cake??
Some lucky buggers get to work 13hour days on placement and as usual we don't get any financial support for travel, food or accommodation.
*Terry is a gender neutral name :D
*whinge whinge whinge*

Sudden Potato Syndrome

It doesn't exist according to Google but I propose that it become a recognised health problem around the globe.
Symptoms involve:
- Sudden weather changes to near freezing
- Hibernation like sleeping habits
- Requiring a heart-attack inducing amount of caffeine just to start the day
- Enough sugar to kill a dozen diabetics
- Unusual layering habits in an attempt to avoid frostbite
- Unexplained naps
- Inexcusable laziness
- Over consumption of fast foods that are warmer than a sandwich and easier to 'make' for dinner than a can of soup.


To quote the mighty Shakespeare from Measure for Measure;
"I'll pray a thousand prayers for your death"
Or to paraphrase Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory:
Oh, Winter thou art a heartless bitch.

Things they say in honesty but should be lies or How to start a degree

Before you even begin the awe inspiring new year at the adults learning facility known as University you may be required to attend an educational day that tells you how long you will be allowed to grace their halls and how much money you will have to fork out once you have a job in the 'real' world.

My own such experience was full of sunshine and laughter a day that should be noted in my memory bank as the day they weren't joking.

As the second eldest child in a family that hadn't attended a university in well over 2 decades it was nerve racking and exciting. My older sister whom we shall call "Sissy" because I thought it sounded endearing and not offensive, had to defer her own first year due to the financial costs related to University.

I'm sure you understand those silly little habits we tend to have of sleeping and food that cut into time and money.As such I was determined that with my ever impressive bank balance, enough to last 1 year provided I still worked as a casual, I would not fall prey to the demons Billius Maximus and Foodicus Price-Go-Uppity.

But back to the 'jokes' they told us at the educational event...

To begin I recall a speech from students in their last year of study who with a broad smile on their face told us to "Say goodbye to your friends and family while you still can. You may as well be dead for the next X number of years." Naturally we laughed at this amusing little joke as their grins broadened.
In short I will end with this fact: I live with my best-friend, the boyfriend that is, and my best-female-friend   lives but a mere one hours train ride away and I ran into her by accident; which means I was in the Capital city and just texted to see where she was so I could find her and this was more then a month ago now. I think I need more friends >.<

Dying in bed or how to lie down with a sinus infection.

Technically it's probably not a sinus infection but as the Boyfriend pointed out, "You're not supposed to be in that much pain with a common cold", Which in the back of my mind registers as logic; Too much logic and I just go back to cringing as the pressure builds up to a monstrous amount and I take what has to be enough paracetamol and ibuprofen to make even the craziest drug dependent person question my sanity.

If you've ever experienced the pain associated with your sinuses attempting to blow out your eyeballs you'd understand. Just to make the experience more fun I am determined to clean the house and have a monumental veggie garden planted in time. In time for what you ask? Well in time to grow dear readers. As any well googled gardener knows snow peas are fricken expensive at the supermarket BUT can be grow just about anywhere in the good old land of Oz provided you have some sort of trellis like trellis to assist the early growth and at least 6hrs of sunlight a day.

I do love me some snow peas, thus fueling my desire to have a garden based solely around growing them. Logic dictates I should have researched first but no dear readers that would be logical and we can't have logic. Most people read trellis and understand that means the plant will be tall, I skipped that part and went straight to how soon I could be devouring the little green pods of awesome. I just hope the landlady doesn't mind next time she visits and I have a garden in our miniscule backyard.

Fingers crossed something actually grows.

You're Application Has Been Approved

I'm going to be AWOL for a short time again, Yes almost a month in between posts is a short time, as our rental application was approved this morning at 1000hrs.


I'm so excited I can't think of where to start packing. We can have the keys by the end of the week!!
Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong.

Hallelujah! or Houston We Have a Camera

After many torturous weeks within in which I have attempted to save money to buy Boyfriend a camera to replace the one I killed in Ecuador (See previous blog), He celebrated his 21st birthday and lo and behold was gifted a rather neat little red one. I can only assume the red makes it go faster.
Which brings me back to why I started blogging in the first place.

If anyone actually reads my blog they will know I was inspired by another blog and felt that it would be 'easy' and much more fun then studying to bitch, whinge and moan about the difficulties of being alive in a day and age when you can have a sook about anything and people HAVE to listen.

It had been so frustrating to not burn little baked goods and be unable to share my epic level abilities to master the most basic of recipes. But alas I may be moving very soon, fingers crossed, and will have to learn a whole new oven and anyone who has moved houses as much as I have knows that with great ovens come great responsibilities.

Namely the responsibility to not eat everything you bake and to actually *shudder* share with other people.
I figure one day I'll end up in a cardiac ward myself as a fat old lady who couldn't say no to a slice or cake but I'll be a happy fat, old lady. Perhaps I'll justify it by being an epic grandmotherly type who tries to fatten up everyone around me.
Happy Baking.