Coffee makes everything better.

I've turned into a coffee-drinking monster. Seriously! I drink at least 2 cups of coffee a day - at work, it's even worse because we have a flavored coffee machine in the break room. But I was a wreck earlier in the week, when I ran out of creamer and didn't have time to go to the grocery store until Thursday. I had to go to Starbucks before lab in the afternoon on Wednesday, and didn't even get to have coffee Thursday morning before going to the adult day care to volunteer. So I made up for it by have a grande mocha frap while grocery shopping, and making a pot of coffee at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon >.<

But it's just so darn good, I can't help myself... I'm chugging away at my first 2 cups of the day right now.

So here's to an end of a great week. I'm very pleased at how this week went, in retrospect.

• Monday was the math exam which had to be passed with a 90% or better - I got a 92%.
  
• Lab on Tuesday was lead by a substitute (which we later found out, was the real instructor of the course, but she's on maternity leave - our current lab instructor is HER sub!), who is lovely and almost made me want to grab her by the feet and beg her to stay.
  
• Wednesday, our real lab instructor redeemed himself. I like him now, and look forward to the rest of lab (ESPECIALLY clinicals in June!).
  
• On Thursday, a classmate and I spent the greater part of the morning at an adult day care a few miles from my house. It was interesting... let's just leave it at that.
• I was in the best mood on Friday. I worked, and had the pleasure of spending the day with my favorite coworker. She's in LVN school right now, and plans to dive right into RN school when she's done in December. Some of my favorite nurses worked on my wing too, so it was a nice day. I also FINALLY got to eat lunch with my favorite Amy, the unit clerk, who I hardly ever see anymore because I work one day a week. And, Gil, my fav physician, is working in the inpatient center with us this month, and EVERY Friday, he orders pizza from one of the authentic pizza joints down the street for the unit. It rocks.

I'm eying the breast cancer special edition stethoscope by Littman, big time. It's a nice in-between of baby pink and bright pink. I'm going to do some research as far as finding pediatric and neonate attachments for the Classic II SE in general, but I really want that stethoscope. For a variety of reasons, actually: we all know what my favorite color is; people will be less-inclined to use a pink stethoscope that's just lying around; I doubt every other nurse on the unit will have a pink stethoscope, therefore, I will be able to spot it from a mile away. And that's IF I ever put it down for a minute and misplace it. I want to get it soon, even though it's sold out right now. The sprague stethoscopes we got from school are double lumen, with that nasty metal clamp in the middle that keeps the two lumens nice and attached - that ALWAYS gets stuck on my hair, I hate it. Littmans are single lumen, which means NO metal clamp to get stuck in my hair!

Here's a good visual for you: bright blue (think Smurf blue) school uniform scrubs, and a pretty pink stethoscope. That's me!

Though, at this point, I'm contemplating cutting my hair off again. And this time, I mean COMPLETELY off. As in, semi-long side bangs in the front, maybe some shaggy detail on top to add volume, and spike in the back. I am tired of putting my hair up all day. I don't care if my hair will look more or less the same every day with such a short hair cut, at least it'll look like I tried if I do it. I got super annoyed with my hair yesterday morning when all I did was blowdry my bangs to the side after I put on make up and put it back with a hair clip. Boring. So yeah, I'll keep you all posted - haven't found the right hair style yet.