After my PM shift tomorrow, I will be off for four days. I have requested for these as I plan to get a hair treatment. A form of R and R for myself. To top it off, I am thinking of getting myself a full body massage at my favourite spa center. While I applaud the masseuse there in relaxing my tense muscles, I find it uncomfortable with the smell of the massage room. I think it needs some spa filters to lose the not-so relaxing smell of the supposedly relaxing room.

After several months of being away from one another, me and my former officemates got together. After seeing the Ironman 2, we headed to a Teriyaki Boy for some tummy fillers. While gratifying our gastronomic cravings, we also filled each other with the latest happenings with our lives. If there is one thing common among us friends, that is our bodies getting wider and wider. We started to think of cutting down on our food intake to lose the unwanted baggage. And if after all the attempts to shake the fats off seem to be futile, will try to pop in the most effective diet pills to get our shapes in shape.

What I enjoy most about my new career is that we could request for day or days off. So long as you can complete the required work hours for a certain cut off, your request could be granted.
I have three days off from my night shift and I will be back on Saturday for the night shift again. After that my request for four days off will follow.
If there is bad side to having a granted long off request that is you’ll be given with a not so good shift after.
Well, you can’t have everything. Better that nothing.

My friend will be flying in from the US to have his check up at our institution where he had his coronary artery bypass graft done in January this year.
He said he bought me some chocolates while he was in Switzerland (I prefer that he surprise me instead of making me so excited about the sweet thing. Anyway, since I do not want to be empty handed upon his return, I was thinking of giving him some mens ties that he could use since he is always in suit of of the time.

My sister’s uncle-in-law (if there is such a term) has called her and asked her to think of a business that she can put up here in the Philippines. He is willing to lend some funds for it that is why my sister asked for my opinion. I immediately told her that she could get a franchise of Siomai House or any food business available for franchising. Since we barely know anything about franchising, I told her to attend a franchise affiliate program to keep her abreast with the in and out of franchising. All we need now is to scout a place to put up the business.

It’s my second day of being a charge nurse, first at night shift. Tasks are more demanding as doing the 24-hour check of the chart making sure that all the doctors’ orders were carried out, medications on the Kardex and the medication sheet are updated, line dues have been changed, diet and attending lists and so much more!
Good thing my preceptor’s schedule was still structured with mine and there’s another senior staff who’s willing to guide me.
There were no attendings who made their rounds when my shift started so I was able to start with my 24-hour check at 10:00 pm. Before the stroke of midnight, the phone rang, on the guy on the other line asked for a roll call of patient, I hesitated because he sounded like the supervisor on duty but yet he introduced himself as the guy from the admitting group asking for a roll call. I started to read patient’s names and as I was about to read the third patient, he passed the phone to someone else whom I recognized the voice as my preceptor when I was still an orientee. I immediately burst their bubble. They were having a shot session at a colleagues house and they have decided to play prank call on me.
They almost got me there!

A supervisor in our institution has made her rounds and before she left our ward, she invited us to join her in a seminar that will allow us to earn dollars. We got excited that we immediately said yes but right after she left, I thought to myself, the offer is too good to be true and there must be a catch to it. I took a raincheck making excuses. My other colleague went to the seminar and true enough it is some form of networking scheme. The nature of work is insurance marketing that requires selling and recruitment of members.

I do not know if it due to lack of sleep or over thinking some things but I am having serious breakouts. I do not want to blame my face creams because I have been using these for over a year already and the reason I stuck to it is because it does not give me any allergic reactions including zits from popping out of my face. On second thought, I have this tendency to develop immunity to the face creams that I have been using for quite a long time. This immunity means that its intended effect will be reversed. So I guess it’s high time for me to scout for some organic face cream that will work for me for the next couple of years.

As I was about to leave the patient’s room, she again raised her concern about obesity and her desire to lose some pounds. She asked me about fat burners that work and to her dismay I did not give her any information about it. I just reinforced my previous health teaching about lifestyle modification. I told her that she has to work her way to becoming physically and emotionally fit.

Knowing that I will not be able to see the Micronesian couple before teir flight tomorrow, I stopped by their room to say gooodbye. The patient has requested to go out on pass to shop more. She wants to get some men’s clothing for his husband and she wants to go to a place wehre they could get cheap bargains. So where else they shoud head for? divisoria!