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Name: Melissa
Birthday: 1/17/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: In no particular order: Spending quality time with friends and family, exploring the world, finding cute independantly owned coffeeshops, playing football, reading, God, finding cool ways to raise money and awareness for charity, running, eating, laughing, randomness
Expertise: Yay for pediatric nursing! I'm far from an expert but hopefully one day I will be :)
Occupation: Medical
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
12/20/2002
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| Wow. What a week. Rowena's bday, Audrey's birthday, LATE ride (we finished up the 25th mile with a beautiful sunrise  ), parent's anniversary, GH Summerfest fireworks with the GBN friends, Rachelle's bday with my night shift ladies, Zos' Summer Bash...all with a midterm due, final due, and Manuel in town for less than 48 hours. Well worth it all but I'm EXHAUSTED and playing catch up with school and tri training. I can't believe summer school is done in a little over 2 weeks and fall sem starts in a little over a month. I can't believe the tri is a month from Wed. Crazy how this summer is just flying by! I feel like time just moves faster the older I get.
Work is getting to me lately. The overtime and short staffed days are wearing us all down I think...but lately the whole emotional thing is getting to me. I think as nurses, no matter how we "get used" to seeing what we see, we still carry it with us. I've had the best families and kids lately and as I've gotten to know them, I just feel so much. SO sad for them and their situation, SO frustrated that the nicest people are dealt the worst cards. But it's humbling knowing I can only do so much myself, but that prayer will help the most.
This whole summer has been humbling. Work. Training for the tri. Group work with people in my online classes. Learning SO MUCH from family and friends. Manuel even farther away. I'm literally in the same place i was a few months ago...sitting in a coffee shop studying and thinking about all these random things...but I think I'm in a better place (ooo get it?! haha) than I was a few months ago. It think I'm finally learning to let go....I'm happy 
I'll leave you with my favorite picture from LATE ride...
 P.S. I can now do 16 laps nonstop in the pool! Time to start practicing in Lake Michigan! Who's in?
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| This past week I fully experienced Murphy's law :( I finally get the 4th of July off in years, get up early to go work out...only to discover I had a flat tire. So I start calling places to see if any place is open and of course I spend an hour doing this only to find out that Sears is the only place open. So I drive over there and they tell me they can just repair it for $20...and of course they find a nail in it just an inch short of the repair zone and I have to buy a new tire.
Then, four days later, I go out on my day off to run errands...after just the first stop I try to start my car and can't get the key to turn in the ignition...I wiggle the wheel and the wheel locks up...I couldn't press on the break, or shift gears or anything. I spent an hour fighting with my steering wheel and asking strangers to try too (yeah I was that desperate haha) before calling my dad. He drove out here and tried and we finally called AAA. An hour and a half later the tow truck came...he tried and couldn't get it to work but then told us he didn't have the proper equipment to tow us since we couldn't shift the gears in neutral. So we had to call AAA again and wait for tow truck number 2. Sigh. At that point I had been sitting in the parking lot for 3 hours. We waited another half hour for this other guy who took the car and sped off...and then left it in the corner of the parking lot that the service center shared with another store. And of course by the time we got there, it was closed and I had to leave my car. All that for a locked steering wheel :(
I'm getting the details for another wedding I'm standing up
in...sigh...I need to start working some overtime. I mean I'm so
honored to stand up in this one and I really love the girl and of
course would do anything for her wedding...but right now I'm estimating
the tab at well over $1000 with the flight, dress, hair, make up,
alterations, and hotel. That's almost one mortgage payment :( But oh
well my best friends only get married once, right?
In happy news, I can officially swim 10 laps freestyle nonstop in the pool :) Yay for swimming lessons! And LATE ride is this weekend! :)
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| Monday: Swam 0.5 mile, 3 mile run
Tuesday: 26 mile bike ride along the lake (so pretty!)
Wednesday: Woke up at 4:30 am to do stuff for school I forgot about then worked 16 hours
Thursday: Swam 0.5 mile, 3 mile run
My body hates me haha...I'm in full force training mode (officially less than 2 months till the tri...scary!) and I've been putting in a lot of overtime the last few weeks to help pay for a trip to....Seattle!!! Waaaahoooo!!!
So for training I decided to try to avoid coffee. But today I just discovered Trader Joe's espresso cookies with dark chocolate chunks...oh no...dangerous...haha
Life is good right now :) Don't have it all, but I have enough :)
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| Who accidentally closes the trunk on their OWN finger?! Leave it to me, the biggest klutz in the world. Don't know how it happened but I felt really stupid haha
Cycling class was INSANE today. I had my doubts when I walked in and saw old men and middle aged women, with an older woman instructor but oh man...seriously the hardest cycling class I've ever been to. So humbling haha I'm getting a few pointers from a swimming coach on Friday...super nervous...
I've only been in summer school a few days and I'm already feeling overwhelmed. About my two online non-science classes haha I think it's just the whole first week anxiety...plus the fact that I'm working extra this week...and the fact that it takes me twice as long as it used to to get myself to focus. FYI, these 3 credits are costing me $3016. Eep.
K...back to trying to be productive...so I can take a "Family Guy" break at 6:30 haha
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| I love my friends. They are the most loving, supportive, funniest people ever. I am so thankful for them, especially now that I don't have the chance to really talk to the rest of my family (in Thailand right now I think?) and Manuel (in Phoenix and super busy).
I love Chicago. Today was another Chicago fun day :) The Bike Chicago Rally and a concert in Millenium Park :) I have a list of must dos...all on weekdays of course. But what I'm REALLY looking forward to is the Windy City Rubber Duck Derby on Aug 8...they race 20,000 rubber ducks in the Chicago River for charity. I'm thinking about sponsoring a duck too...the prizes are pretty awesome. Who's in?
I love training for the triathalon. It is VERY discouraging, especially the swimming part but I will hopefully get there? Today though I was all annoyed b/c my goggles broke...while I was mid swim! How does that even happen?! Anyway, I started taking a cycling class at the gym and it KICKED MY BUTT. But I'm determined to be just as fit as those old ladies! haha
Boo for school starting next week!
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