musings from a couch potato

top ten things that get me through the week (in no particular order)

10. house

9. diet pepsi

8. seeing my golden girls and sisses

7. making my sister guffaw

6. thinking of all the calories burned pushing preggies on stretchers

5. elective exercise (vs the ultimate duty workout)

4. post duty days

3. dreamless sleep

2. talking to mom on the phone

1. prayer and the promise of a new day

i really should be studying for a quiz tomorrow but i need to de-stress and i figured that throwing my thoughts into the cybergalaxy is the way to do it. i’m postduty, my duty was benign, i got my needed sleep but my nerves are still frazzled. it’s been like this for more than a month now. i’ve changed my phone’s message alert tone 3x this week, looking for that perfect zen tone. i dread receiving text messages and phone calls, thinking i’ve been decked another patient or that i wasn’t able to carry out orders for my patients before going home. i’ve been the crankiest i’ve ever been towards my patients and am certifiably turning into a horribel witch. and being the true couch potato that i am, one of the purest joys of my week, that incredible series house, has just ended its season on axn. que horror!

after all this ranting, i have yet to face another day of charting one million pregnant patients. drats…