Merry Christmas!!!

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas where ever you are this season! I am spending my Christmas in Salisbury with family and friends. It is a busy day full of love, friends, family, food, gifts etc.

I wanted to share a picture of the snowman my brother and his wife made! They live in Winston Salem, NC and they got close to a foot of snow the other week! Defiantly better than the snowmen I tried to make!!!

Merry Christmas!!!
Jancie

Snowflake

After looking for different patterns and trying out a few, I found a great pattern that made this beautiful snowflake!!! I'm proud of how it turned out!

In my spare time...

Hi all! Just wanted to post an update...

In my spare time I've been crocheting hats! I learned to crochet over the summer at Great Yarns in Raleigh NC. During class I learned the basic stitches and made a washcloth/dishcloth. After I attempted to make a scarf and blanket, I realized those projects take a long time to complete. So....I'm on a hat kick! Here are a few pictures of some hats I've made. I also made a baby hat while at home in Salisbury....but left it there! :-( The pictures are made on the floor since I don't have any models...yet!

Big weekend coming up!

Hey guys...it's been a little bit since I posted! I have a big exciting weekend coming up this weekend. Friday night, my girl friends Liz, Kempton, Kyla and I are going to see New Moon! Liz and I went and bought our tickets today! We're all set...earlier this week we re-watched Twilight since it's been a year!


Tonight is our weekly Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice girls night! It normally happens over a bottle of wine, with girl talk during commercials...always a fun time!

Saturday night, Liz and I (with the help of Momma Schliebe and food network) will be cooking a TURKEY! We're having a big group of friends over for Thanksgiving dinner! The menu has been set and it's looking delicious! I have to work on Thanksgiving day, so I'll be celebrating Thanksgiving early with friends and family this year.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas too around here....I've seen people setting up Christmas tree stands, Santa is ready to take pictures with at Southpoint Mall, Christmas music on the radio, all the decorations are up...but it just doesn't feel like it's that time of year yet...its warm and not even Thanksgiving yet! It will be here soon though!

Jancie

It's November already?!?

Isn't this a good looking Halloween party?!? I'm so thankful for the friends I have here in Chapel Hill. I told one of our friends that was at the party, anytime I'm feeling discouraged, I look at one of the video's that was taken called "The Boot Dance" and I can't help but smile and laugh! This group sure does have fun together!

We had 3 trick or treaters! It was the same three kids from last year too! I remember the mom was carrying one of the kids last year, but this year they were all walking up! I remember one was a ninja, one was a cat and one was something scary with a mask on! Cute! I remember that was the best part of Halloween...going around to friends houses and trick or treating!

Today was suppose to be my first day back to work since my tonsillectomy...but since I am overtime this week and we were low on patients, I was told to stay home. Today, I've spent lots of meaningless time looking online at shoes (Thanks to Oprah!), but also got some CCRN studying done! The cardiac portion on the exam is kicking my tail! It's not quite 6pm...and it feels like I should be putting on my pajamas...day light savings!!!

While eating dinner I heard this story on the news...

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/6332427/

You don't think a tree will fall do you?!?



52 days till Christmas! Have you started shopping?

And the waiting period begins...

This past Wednesday I headed North to DC for a graduate school interview. Last week I got an email saying that I had been granted an interview with Georgetown University's School of Nursing! I was thrilled! I went to Georgetown on Thursday morning cool calm and collected for the interview. Everything was great until I went to do my personal interview. This is when the nerves set in! As I walked down the stairs to the interview room I said a little prayer to be calm and to let everything be ok. I bet the interview didn't last but five minutes or so...but geez was I nervous! My voice was quivering...my hands were visibly shaking...I was a nervous mess! I believe I was so nervous, because I really want this...and I had been thinking about it for so long! After it was over, it was back to calm Jancie! The whole process....faculty presentation, Georgetown tour (patient simulator and cadaver lab!) etc was great....the school defiantly has a great program!

Since I was the first group of applicants to interview, I have to wait until the Holiday's to hear. They take 42 students. Which is more than a lot of NC programs I think. Waiting on this news will be hard!

On a another note...I'm back to work Monday!!! I have recovered from surgery without complications! It's back to the regular routine...no more sleeping in and being lazy! I'm excited to be back...I've missed it!

Sorry to report no DC pictures....camera battery was dead :-(

H1N1...

This morning I received an alarming email from my sister in law about the H1N1 vaccine...

A Washington Redskin cheerleader received the vaccine and had horrible side effects...of course no vaccine is completely safe, but here's the link.

http://a11news.com/2477/h1n1-flu-shot-cripples-cheerleader/

As I emailed this story out to friends, many sent back reply's which sparked my interest to look further into it.

WebMD talks about the swine flu vaccine and compares it to the 1976 swine flu vaccine...

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/is-the-h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-safe

Although the risk is low....Guillian-Barre Syndrome is no bueno! The last I heard, my employer UNC Hospitals was out of the vaccine. Who knows if they will get more and when that will be. Will I be in the line...I don't know.

(Thanks to Kyla for her lovely picture of the pigs from the NC State Fair this year!) You can follow Kyla at http://adventureswithkyla.blogspot.com/