20140929
only on a psych rotation will i find myself constantly using "psych" terms to describe my thoughts/ behaviour etc. at least the weird dreams have stopped.
no idea how i'm going to survive another 14 hour shift on saturday. :| ugh. i have wednesday off, but it's going to be a pretty busy and tiring day again with 2 interviews and at least 4.5 hours of driving (clayton - wonthaggi - traralgon - clayton) and then dinner and marriage prep #3 with pastor.
so exhausted.
11:26 pm
so far my favourite practice is the one in neerim south. it's new and neerim south seems like a nice place to stay. everywhere you look you see rolling hills. except that the nearest coles is in warragul haha.
we were almost going to get the #02-431 bto, but then someone beat us to it. at first i was really annoyed, but then i figure it was probably just God saying no. we've applied for the sept bto, our last chance to be eligible for a bto. if we don't get it... too bad, we'll just stay in melbourne forever. ;p
completely agree with kevin. but oh well, if you want to burn a bridge, go right ahead and burn it. if i could do it again i would do it differently. what bothers me is that it hasn't even happened yet and i would like to do it differently, but it's still kind of too late.
worked the most exhausting 14 hour cover shift today. really wanted to collapse at the end of it, i've never been this happy to see the night person! and i handed over at 10pm when they started at 9pm too. thankful that i managed to have lunch though.
have been in a situational crisis of sorts this week, with exhaustion from work and driving up and down, stress from interviews, and the cat being ridiculous and peeing
everywhere. j has been the best - driving me to my interviews, helping me clean my house, reminding me that i love the cat and can't throw him away. LOVE YOU.
12:12 am
20140923
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maybe i should stop counting down because it's stressing me out and i am breaking out into these tiny pimples that i never have (anymore). zzz.
have been offered 4 interviews so far (out of 10 applications) and am wondering if i should apply to more practices. :| haven't heard back about the dip obs job either, ugh.
work has been really boring. other than the reg making me do the review today. D: she nearly made me do another one, but thankfully the patient was having an ACAS assessment. hopefully she won't make me do it tomorrow. D: or maybe i'll be busy when they come to do reviews, ha.
the cat has been peeing everywhere. FOR NO APPARENT REASON. makes me want to throttle him. j says maybe he has a UTI. i've cleaned and washed his litter tray area so hopefully he just goes back and pees there when i'm gone the next 2 days, sigh. maybe he's just acting out because i'm always not around.
we started playing tiny tower again. :3 because candy crush was too difficult and the chocolates etc. were too annoying.
it was really warm today - and by warm i mean 26 degrees. ;p went for a walk outside at lunch time and it was quite hot under the sun. wore a skirt without tights to work today, the first time since summer! :D too bad it's going to get a bit colder again the next few days.
tomorrow is hdb flat selection day. there are still 5 units left, all on the 2nd storey. j's parents will go check them out and decide for us.
11:17 pm
20140917
yay day off tomorrow! finally i can sleep in and not wake up to an alarm! although to be honest i'm not very likely to sleep past 9 anyway haha.
had the best cover shift today. didn't get any jobs (or even any sick patients) handed over at the start of the shift, and then didn't get paged till 7+. went down to ED to write up a neuro patient's med chart, and then did a med onc admission even though i think the onc cover person was meant to do it - i didn't really mind because i think i should do some medicine every so often while i'm in psych. put in a cannula and wrote up some PRN meds. told the night resident i had nothing to handover and then came home.
submitted 3 GP applications last night and did another 6 while on cover this evening. have one more for now - if i don't get interviewed by many (or any) of them then i'll have to apply to the practices that are further away, eg. sale, bairnsdale, lakes entrance, maffra, heyfield. :| hopefully not. will do the last one tomorrow and also my cover letter for the dip obs job.
took me ages to find a park this morning, so much so that when i walked back to my car tonight i walked for such a long time that i thought my car had been stolen. -.- i seriously need to get to work earlier, the spots are all being filled up earlier these days. for some unknown reason.
the photobook arrived! :D it's a bit small, but not bad for $10 i reckon. ;p the original price was $100 + $10 express shipping, but with the groupon offer it was $25 and because we were given $40 credit from our gopro purchase, we only had to pay the $10 shipping (DHL). one of the photos didn't go all the way to the edge, but other than that i think it looks good. but when we print the other one we'll probably make it bigger.
got another job offer from qld. it's a sunshine coast hospital, and the name of the person looks familiar.... nambour maybe? :D but unfortunately i had to decline, sigh.
planning to make macarons tomorrow! and maybe drive back to melb. though if i want do that i should probably sleep now and set an alarm, hmm.
12:07 am
20140915
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making strawberry ice cream, but am not particularly impressed by the flavour. oh well. :|
we were meant to have our photoshoot on sat but i have developed my first ever cold sore. :( :( :( it is hideous and i don't know how i am going to survive at work until it clears up. :( thankfully though, j bought the antiviral cream and delivered it to me. :) so blessed. the instructions say apply 5 times a day for 4 days but since i got it this morning i've used it maybe 8 times? haha. i just really want it to go away. but anyway. photoshoot postponed till 18 oct. hopefully the make up person can do it.
so sian about applying for jobs YET AGAIN. it seems like that is all i ever do. -.- this year alone i have applied for at least 7 different jobs, and now that i have gotten into the GP training programme i still need to apply to the individual practices, ugh. plus interview with each one that wants to interview me. superrr sian.
was on call yesterday so i had to stay in geelong in case i had to go to work. drove back from clayton in the morning, didn't get called in for an 8am start, so i went to the point lonsdale market. wasn't particularly good, i miss the eumundi market and the bundy market! sigh.
wonder when i will ever get to go back to qld. really miss the sunny tropical weather. even the summer storms. the other morning when i woke up it seemed to be raining really heavily, and for a moment it brought me back to maroochydore. but as it turned out, it wasn't really raining that heavily.
have been having really strange and vivid dreams since i started psych.
our engagement photobook is arriving tomorrow!!! :D i am really excited to see it. too bad i have to work till 10pm.
there is a lemon tree in the front yard of one of the houses i walk past every day on the way to work. i'm not sure that the house is actually occupied, even though there's a car in the porch. there are beautiful lemons on that tree and several just lying on the ground. every day i am so tempted to grab a few. they're only going to be wasted, after all. :| or maybe i should actually go up to the door and see if anyone's in haha.
need more motivation to start my applicationssss. :(
8:49 pm
20140911
week 2 of psych-
my aged psych list is exploding. :( plus most of them are long stayers = A LOT of bowels to keep track of. sigh.
had my day off yesterday and went back to clayton. ended up having peri peri for lunch in uni with daniel! then sam (the make up lady) came to do the trial. much better than the sg one in terms of the make up. did not expect her to be ang moh.
went out for dinner with j to celebrate 99 days to our wedding. we were going to use the entertainment card at Mr Hive Kitchen & Bar but j lost the card. :( so we paid full price (25% off would have meant saving around $30). other than the prawns, the food wasn't great though.
really want some sorbet. everyone please return me my ice cream jars so i can make some ice cream.
annoying assumptions:
i'm sure both your parents are paying a lot for the wedding. errr, no?
realised that i should really do some research about some of the GP clinics before the info session on sat (and particularly before the match opens on mon), so i made a table. found a clinic that is like 40 mins from mmc. !!! but there wasn't much info there, i suppose it might be a small clinic. i guess the other things to take into account would be the hours (some clinics don't require any after hours/ weekend shifts at all, while some open till 7pm every day and some even have clinics on sat and sun PLUS you have to do your own ward rounds in the hospitals). all the info is making making my head spin.
the photobook is arriving soon!
9:47 pm
20140908
101 days.
spring has been nice - no more of that biting cold, but still lots of rain and cloudy days.
submitted our engagement photobook for printing yesterday! it was a groupon thing - we only paid $9.95 (for the mandatory express shipping) for a $99.95 book. think the offer was $24 or something but we had some free credit from the gopro groupon. :D hope it turns out alright.
bought the cat another harness and leash because i couldn't find the ones i already had.
we've gone for 2 sessions of marriage prep with pastor so far. terrifying (not the class, just me), and there are still maybe 3 to go. :|
bought j a car polisher for his birthday (even though it's only september) and he polished both our cars. he got me a waffle maker but it might be out of stock, hmm.
hope i manage to find a place that will clean my gown for not very much money and that won't take too long to do it. D:
one month to the beach house (and bringing the cat to church after).
i need a holiday. would love to have a free weekend to fly up to the sunshine coast, but there are no free weekends. D:
and, 101 days to the wedding and i still have no idea what's going on. :| help!
11:08 pm