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School has been pretty crazy for the last little while, which is why I haven’t been posting as often. We just have so many midterms I am constantly studying for something.

Hockey is distracting, especially since Sens games start at 4 PM. Usually I get most of my work done between 4 and 7 PM! Yesterday was good wasn’t it, Sens and Canucks win!

We did venipuncture again today at school. Two pokes each, once with a regular needle and once with a butterfly needle. I did pretty poorly on my first one, to be honest. I didn’t have the cotton swabs close enough to me and I got really flustered while I tried to reach them and forgot about releasing the tourniquet and stuff. Poor Lesley. The second one went a lot better. I wish we could practice more often than once a semester, because it sure is going to be scary with our first patients!! I took a tourniquet home to practice with because I often get my gloves pinched in it and that would probably not instill confidence in a patient. :/

Heh wordpress doesn’t like the work “venipuncture” or “instill”. I am spelling them correctly I think??

Last weekend Scott, Rosemarie and I had dinner with our first cousin-once-removed and our second cousins. My grandma introduced us over email as her niece Julie a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t make the connection that Julie is my dad’s cousin until Julie asked about him!! Duhhhhh. ANYWAY they live out in Maple Ridge so it was a pretty long trek to get there, but I’m glad we went! Their family was very friendly and nice, and their house is very beautiful, and the meal was delicious!!! We had an awesome roast beef dinner with potatoes and asparagus and strawberry salad and croissants and more! With cheesecake for dessert. Lovely.

It was also nice seeing another part of B.C. Their house had a great view. Even when we got off the bus in Port Coquitlam it felt like we were in a whole new city. The mountains were a lot closer!! Scott joked that we were now in Alberta.

I should have taken some pictures. I don’t know why I didn’t. Hopefully we stay in touch and maybe we’ll see them again this summer.

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1. OK this is really a hypothetical question, I have not gotten any job offers, but it’s just something that I’ve been thinking about. So I am studying nuclear medicine technology right now, which is basically training us to be nuclear medicine technologists that work in hospitals. That’s fine. But sometimes our teachers tell us about other job possibilities like radiation safety officer, or central pharmacy worker, or something at BC Cancer, for example. Would accepting a job in something different like that be a good idea? As a first job? What if the job might not last forever? I worry about what would happen if I did something like work for a central pharmacy for a while, but then the job ends, and then I would have been several years out of date with things like working with patients etc. etc. and I wonder if it would be very difficult to get another job after that. Is that realistic? Are other types of jobs a good or bad idea? In the overall life career sense, I guess.

2. How do you decide when you can afford something, like going on a trip? I mean, if you are putting money in savings, and gradually accumulating money, how do you decide if you should do something fun or not? We don’t really have any specific savings goals at the moment since we don’t need a car or a house here, and are socking away money for the future… but then decisions need to be made like ‘can we really afford to go on three vacations this year’ or something like that and I have no idea. Any advice?

Anyway I would love it if you left me a comment with anything about these topics that you know something about or have thought about before. Or if you have no idea either.

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Well that sucks. Some company has bought jornakat.com so I guess even if I did want it back I can’t have it. Hopefully most of my old readers have switched over to this site anyway by now.

We made margaritas last night. It seemed like a good way to use up the cheap tequila someone left at our house a while ago. They were yummy and much better than drinking pop, which I seem to have lost the taste for.

I did my shift at the Open House yesterday. Before I went I was worried that people were going to ask me hard questions that I wouldn’t be able to answer, but actually once I was there I really wished people would ask ANYTHING AT ALL instead of just staring at us. It was awkward. Lesley and I ran a little booth where we had a Geiger-Muller counter and a tripad with two drops of hidden radioactivity that people could try and find.

It wasn’t very busy so instead I just ate all the treats they had got to bribe us into volunteering, and chatted with the second years and teachers, which was good. I finally found out for sure that yes we will be working full time, 5 days a week over the summer.

Well I should get back to work on my essay now. Need to get some more work done before our epic 1+ hour bus ride to my grandmas’ nieces’ cousins’ daughters’ moms’ (ok I exaggerate slightly) house for dinner tonight.

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We had a nice Easter dinner with Rosemarie and Rob on Monday night. Rosemarie came over in the afternoon so we could have some sister-time while Scott was at work. Gotta squeeze in as much sister-time before she leaves!! By the way, have I mentioned that she’s going to FIJI FOR A WHOLE YEAR ON EXCHANGE???????!!!! SO jealous, although hopefully Scott and I will be able to visit her at some point so that is pretty exciting. She has started up her own blog so check that out: http://threepiece.wordpress.com/

Anyway back to last Monday.

Rosemarie and I made a tourtiere (French Canadian meat pie). It was actually extremely simple to make, and very tasty. Pie dinners are so tasty.

We also had salad, mashed potatoes, peas and gravvvvvy. Om nom nom.

Rob made us a nice fruity dessert. I liked the strawberry sauce a lot.

We played some Dominion, but that game kind of annoys me. Why are the rules so vague?? I always have this feeling like we are not playing the game correctly. We also played a couple games of cribbage with my new crib board that I found in the mail room. Scott thinks I’m gross for taking it, but I think it’s ok!!!

I had a big midterm yesterday and had a lot of work due this week so I’ve been studying all week. Very boring. We have today off though because BCIT is having an Open House. I have to go in tomorrow for two hours to help out. I plan on getting a big chunk on one of my papers that is due in a couple weeks today, but so far I’ve just been procrastinating. Oops.

I got volunteered to make a poster for the Open House about nuclear medicine heart imaging. I didn’t have a lot of time to spend on it due to midterm, so I just kept it extremely extremely basic. Does the poster explain anything new to you? Scott coloured in the letters for me while watching hockey.

Speaking of hockey, my dream of a Canucks-Senators final is not off to a great start. :/ I will continue to believe it could actually happen though, until one of the teams gets knocked out.

Ok really I should do something productive now. This is a busy busy weekend so I should not be wasting precious time.

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Today feels like a Friday. My Wednesdays always feel like Fridays because of the way our schedule is set up, but today feels especially end-of-week-ish because it’s sunny and I’m home early and I don’t have any homework and we’re going out to have a BBQ and see a band tonight. Nice.

The band is Current Swell, who I have never heard of before. But he (they?) seem(s) to sound very Jack Johnson-esque.

Maybe I’ll be able to test out my camera a bit tonight. Better than just taking pictures of myself with the fish-eye setting. VERY FLATTERING.

Two more midterms done. Both went pretty well.