October 31th, 2023
Happy Halloween! This is just a short placeholder-like entry, because I'm very tired and busy, but I don't want to neglect my site.
First of all, all this liquid I've accidentally poured on my keyboard is finally taking it's toll. Shift key is very hard to press and I tried to repair it with contact spray, but it only works for a couple of days. Writing isn't fun anymore these days and I'm saving up for a new mechanical keyboard, preferrably with brown switches.
Don't know when I'll be able to buy myself a new keyboard, though, because my car is also acting up and I don't know the cause and if it's going to be costly or not. It's even more irritating, considering I need it to drive to my advanced training! It's almost impossible to travel there without a car. I'm praying I can get this issue fixed soon, because else the following two weeks will be rough.
While Knödel and I were visiting my friend Neit, my parents also needed to take Randi to an emergency vet, because, as it turned out, she developed an abscess from one of the injections she got for her other abscess. Terrible. The new abscess was also drained and my parents were instructed to disinfect it regularly. Fortunately, she's already doing better, and at least her mouth abscess is barely visible by now.
Our trip to Neit was great, though! I'll either update this blog entry or make a new entry where I talk about it, but as I've stated before, I can barely keep my eyes open lol. I actually wanted to celebrate Halloween with another friend of mine, but I had to cancel it, because I'm too tired, the weather hasn't been too good, and because of my car.
October 27th, 2023
So many things have happened! And once more I don't know how to bring my thoughts to a written form.
I had to call in sick on Monday and Tuesday, because I've caught a cold (I'm still sneezing and coughing, but it's already better). And I think I dodged a big huge bazooka bullet? The whole weekend I nursed a patient with beginning dementia; somebody who was mostly orientated, but had severe issues regulating and controlling his impulses and emotions. I didn't have any problem with him, but I heard that he threw around glass bottles and wanted to attack the other patient in his room, and that he threatened to smash in the windows during one of my shifts.
On Monday, he lost it again, and bit my colleague so hard she had to undergo surgery. I feel extremely sorry for her and I can't help but be horrified that this could have been me, too. This Summer I was attacked by a different patient and I now have scars on my wrist and on my lip from this assault. Since then, I'm wary and very much afraid of people who've lost their temper. Absolutely terrifying.
On my actual day off, my parents, uncle and I visited my grandparents' grave. I don't know what the cemetary gardeners planted, but those plants grew so much that we couldn't see their tombstone anymore LOL. We had to remove some plants (and probably some weeds) so that you could see it again. I love this cemetary as it's the second largest in my hometown and because there's sooo much to see? For example, if I remember it right, there are some old mariners' graves near my maternal grandparents' grave. Some months ago I stopped by and was fascinated, that there are still some century old graves.
And on this cemetery, there's so much nature to see. I'm not often there and I already had three separate encounters with frogs. Once, a frog jumped up my mom's pant leg, then, there was a frog on my grandparents' tombstone, and during last time I saw a frog behind another nearby grave.
The frog, a small friend!! And doesn't the fly agaric look delicious? :P
Thursday and Friday I had to work again. Today, I had to care for 18 or 19 patients on my own, whereas we were three people who looked after them yesterday. What I had to do today was barely managable, to say the least, because it's actually workload for 2 or 3 people. I'm drained, but I won't work at my ward again until the mid of November, because I'll attend a training and will have my holidays soon. So it's ok, but I still feel dissatisfied, because I most likely couldn't bring every one of my patients the attention they deserve. Unfortunately, there's also another Covid outbreak again and I needed to care for a covid room at work.
Safety first! That's what I need to wear in isolation rooms at work.
I play much Starfield and (as usual) Sims 4 right now. I finally engaged in some mods like reshade (plus its presets) and other graphic mods. They actually improved my in-game graphics a ton. At this point I also wonder if I should make a Sims shrine, because there's so much I can show and have to say about that game lol.
On a more positive note, I'll meet up with two of my friends soon. I can't wait to spend the time with them, although it will probably rain the whole time we're together. But I got my waterproof hiking boots and my new winter jacket- so what can go wrong? :) I will probably report about my trip when I'm back home next week.
October 23th, 2023
An edit from my previous entry. After working every day and still having to entertain others on my days off, I've crashed for a bit. I'm embarrassed, but what can you do?
On Wednesday, I said goodbye to my niece who will go to Canada for a year. I'm excited to hear about everything she experiences there, and I'd die to visit her, but I'll probably won't get enough days off. My brother and his family will visit her and I wish I could join them, but it's most likely not possible.
I'm also angry, that our latest "surgical party" was at work last Friday and I could only attend for about half an hour, because I had other obligations.
Almost every party I want to attend is when I'm at work or I have other stuff to do. It sucks.
The music was rather good and my colleague managed to get me to the dancefloor! I wish I could've staid there the whole evening, because I felt rather comfortable.
I also proposed, that a Halloween party might be cool! We also had a rather... dress-up-ish party this time, but I didn't feel the theme at all. Spooky or campy Halloween stuff is what I'd love to see!
This entry will be longer, as I'm editing an entry from October 20th and adding my current experiences and thoughts.
I feel somewhat ashamed, because I spent pretty much money for new clothes. I'm still waiting for some new belts for my new pants and a winter jacket.
It's already so cold outside, so I hope this new jacket will fit and keep me warm. And I hope it will arrive soon, because a friend and I will visit a mutual friend next weekend. If it doesn't rain too much, we will probably be outside most of the time and I don't want to freeze. :]
October 15th, 2023
Thankfully, I won't have to work until Monday.
I went to my hometown yesterday, because I needed to solve some stuff concerning my health insurance at my doctor's office. Everything went well, we ate at a Korean restaurant (I thought it was all great, but my parents are obviously kind of picky eaters when it comes to that cuisine) and I went to buy 2 new pants and a Halloween costume!!
It's not really a Halloween costume, as it's only a huge knife and a red cape, but I'll wear it with my fursuit and it will be fine.
I'm manifesting good weather for Halloween! Else I won't go, of course.
October 10th, 2023
I'm writing this entry while I'm waiting for Sims 4 to start. It always takes a long time, because of all of the mods I've downloaded.
I feel like both nothing and many things happened the past few days. I worked mostly uneventful night shifts the past few days. One of the days I even got to go home half an hour into my shift, because there was absolutely no reason to tend to about 20 patients, most of which can care for themselves. Most of the time, we have over 40 patients who need lots and lots of care. It was very surprising for us to have nice shifts for once. :)
Three of my friends and I will travel to Sweden in February for a convention. I've never been to Sweden (or this convention) before and I'm very excited already! I even had the luck to get a hotel room at the venue- something, that has so far always been denied for me.
Then, we'll meet again at a convention in our hometown (I talked about it in last month's blog) again in September. We'll probably even celebrate my birthday, as it's the last day of the convention. We already booked a hotel room not too far away from the congress centre. Last year we had to walk quite a lot to the subway station and then ride on it for about 10 minutes, which proved difficult to us, given that the subway doesn't drive at night during weekdays. At least, we will have a nice and rather cheap hotel room in walking distance from the convention.
There's also something I want to talk about. I've been to my psychiatrist today and he and I both knew that the med I'm taking can't be delivered for the next few months. We developed a plan where I'd have to stop my current med and then take an older med I was prescribed again. I prepared for the worst and went through town, with a prescription of my old med, to look for any pharmacy that still has it in store. I'm very lucky that I only needed to go to two pharmacies until I found one that had one last packing of my med. Of course I took it, but I think it's a total catastrophy, that I have to go on a hunt for a medicament in an economically very developed country.
I'm off from work until Sunday and I'm so grateful for it. The last shifts were good, but being able to tend to your hobbies at home is better. This week, my parents and I will visit my hometown again. I need to visit my doctor's office again to solve some stuff concerning my health insurance, and then we'll eat at a nice Korean restaurant. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Ok, I have to play Sims now. Lately I've been very much into building houses there again, and that's what I'll do now! :]
October 4th, 2023
Hey, nothing much to report here!
I finally have some days off and went to see one of my favorite bands, The Sisters of Mercy, with my friend. I believe, Andrew Eldritch can't really sing anymore, and that's why his voice was extremely disbalanced, but alas.
They're still one of my favorite bands and I had a great time there. The entire time we sat on a sofa and still had a pretty good view of the stage. They even played a song I was very surprised to hear!
We had a good view, but everything was obscured by heavy use of fog machines!