I Just Learned A New Word

New favorite word:  Mittelschmertz.


Its the pain/twinge that can be felt when ovulation occurs.


Now I just gotta figure out how to use it in conversation.


"The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children." Psalms 115:14 

We Call It Vloging

We have a YouTube Channel now.  Its called White Girls' Diary.  You can find it here.


I think we are really going to have fun with this one.


I have really reached a point where I am all into the technology thing, and I like it.  I like the internet.


"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." Proverbs 17:22

Getting Ready

I'm going to my first Med/Surg 2 clinical today.  We're on the oncology unit.


We visited the unit for orientation last Monday and it was quiet there.  Quiet, like there wasn't a lot of noise.  I'm not sure if I liked it or not.  It was nice because the unit was newly renovated and clean, and people were not running up and down the halls like on the Tele unit.  I think our instructor told us there were 15 beds in the unit and 3 nurses.  There are 7 of us students and one teacher.


There is a bunch, a Bunch, a BUNCH of paperwork for this class, due on Thursdays at noon.


I'm excited though.  I feel like this semester I know more and am more confident going into the clinical area.


Yesterday I realized that this summer is my last summer before I officially become and adult and have to get a real job.  I'm not sure how I feel about this.


"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:14

An Anniversary Not Worth Celebrating

Today is the 38th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.  It allowed abortion to be legal because of a right to privacy.


Since then there have been many new laws restricting and regulating abortion.  

Here is a link to a website that has Virginia abortion laws.  Its biased.  But not my bias.  It is NARAL's website, I figured I'd put it here, so no one would tell me I was skewing the facts with my pro-life antics.


There is a new-ish law about parental notice and consent.  NARAL is obviously upset about it.  I think its a good idea.  But really, people, a 16 year old has to get parental permission to get her ears pierced but should be allowed to make the decision of getting an abortion all by herself?  Come on.

There is a March For Life that usually happens on the anniversary of Roe vs Wade in Washington D.C. every year to protest.  I've been like 5 or 6 times.  I always love going.  They didn't march today though, because they want to march when Congress and the Supreme Court are open, and today is a Saturday, so there you have it.

President Obama talked about the anniversary of Roe vs Wade today, saying "on this anniversary, I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams."  I just think everyone should keep their legs together until they get married.


There is more I could write.  I'm am very passionate about this issue, and I'm not sure why.  I think I just want what is best for the women and for the babies.  I've seen the pain it can bring.  Not that everyone must feel a certain way after an abortion, but there is a chance of that.  There's no going back really.  Only God can heal.  I've also seen God's healing after abortion.  And that is amazing.


"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4:18-19

Failure Is Not An Option

I have a new idiom that I have been using lately.  I'm not sure why I'm using it, other than I think I'm pretty awesome and that I should do things awesome-ly.  


It is:  Go big or go home.


I usually use it in my everyday actions, such as, "I gotta clean up this apartment, go big or go home."  And this usually makes me bring out the vacuum


I use it when I'm questioning myself about asking questions in class, "just ask it," I think,  "go big or go home."


And I use it when I'm try to get up the courage to go to school.  Oh, not because I dread it or anything, just because sometimes I don't know if I can hack it, I love school.  I think to myself "what a wonderful world."  I mean, I think, "you can do it Katie, go big or go home."


You're thinking, is that really the whole point Katie?  No, its not.


My point and the story attached to this blog post it this.


We were taking our first Med/Surg quiz in, you guessed it, Med/Surg 2.  I was a bit worried about this quiz, but I proceeded to take it.  I was breezing though the questions, until one.  It was about blood values, hemoglobin, and altitude.  It was a multiple choice question, I crossed out two of the answers, and was left with 16% and 18%.  I thought it was a trick.  Because a 16 is a high normal, and 18 is out of the range of what is normal.  But go big or go home went though my mind and I picked, 18%.


I aced the quiz.  Bring it on Professor.  I know my stuff.  I read the book.  I'm ready for more.  Maybe I can hack it.


(I'm getting ready to go to the Senior Dance Recital at SU.  I think it'll be fun, but mostly because we got a group of us out for a free cultural event.)


"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

Two Other People's Work, I.E. Not Plagiarism

I aim to make my blog as little quoted as possible, but I just read this and want to share it because it really speaks to me.

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns -- 1/17/11: 

Even though your life seems to be transitional, begin to think of the steps you take as foundational. Don't think that your thoughts, words, and actions are unimportant. What you do now will actually frame and give meaning to your future. Give thought and consider carefully what is happening in you and around you and respond according to the leading of My Spirit, says the Lord. 

Deuteronomy 11:24a Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours.

I feel like this is exactly what I feel like right now.  I get this lady's emails sent to me, and they very often apply directly to my day.  I try and read it when I get to school in the morning before class starts.

And since I already broke my quote "guidelines", I'm going to cite another blog.

I really like this Peaceful Parenting blog, and they posted this one today.  I'm copying the graphic they had here too.  One of the reason some people think that vaccinations are fine/good for their children is because they got all their vaccinations and they turned out okay.  But look at this schedule:

Just something to think about.  I'm skeptical about anything and everything (especially if someone from the government, e.g. the CDC, is telling me to do something).

I'm just saying to be a "good Berean."

"And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Acts 17:10-11

Teetering On OCD

I Lysol-ed the bottom of my shoes when I got home from clinical.  That's not even the crazy part.  The crazy part is this morning before I left for clinical, I got the Lysol out of the closet and put it next to the front door, because I knew I would be coming home from the hospital, and knew I would want to Lysol the soles of my shoes.


I blame Kat.  She told me she did this.  I didn't even think about it before she told me this.


But really.  If you really think about it, it makes sense.


So you walk around the dirty hospital all day, then you walk around your house on the carpet and on the rugs.  The throw rugs in the bathrooms especially scare me.  I'm usually barefoot in the bathroom.


Not that I'm going crazy or OCD about all shoes, just my hospital shoes.


I really shouldn't be that crazy because this semester on Mondays I'm going to the oncology unit, and you can't catch cancer.


"And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Ephesians 6:15