Hmmm....

Well, I haven't written in a while. That's because I didn't really know what to write about. I never told you about the New Year's Eve overnight for the youth. It was a lot of fun. We had about 30 kids come and most of them stayed up all night...including Derek. I did get 3 hours of sleep though, which was nice. There were a bunch of rooms with things going on, games, video games, etc. The room with all of the couches had the big screen tv in it and movies. And the light was off, so I went in there and slept through two movies. But besides that, it was a great night, we played euchre, apples to apples, mafia, winkum, and other fun games. I really enjoy hanging out with the jr. high and high school kids. I even felt like I was in high school again because I spent the whole night drinking soda and eating junk food. So I had that sick feeling all night that reminded me of high school.

Since then, I've just been working a lot! This week was so physically exhausting I can't even describe it. I did staff relief for the Cardiac dietitian while she was in London. (Is everyone else as jealous as I am?) Anyways, that's one of the busiest floors in the hospital and I had other meetings and committments to deal with this week too so I didn't have nearly enough time to do what I needed to do, but I did it anyways!! It was really rewarding though, I educated a lot of patients who were really motivated to make changes, so we really made a connection. (Most of the time I spend a long time telling them how to eat even though I know they won't make any changes whatsoever!) So anyways, I had a busy, busy, exhausting week.

Now I'm in the process of thinking about where to apply and when. There are some really great opportunities available right now in the area, including one as the sole dietitian at an inpatient and outpatient eating disorder unit. I'm terrified because I don't feel qualified or prepared for any of them, but I'm going to have to take a huge leap of faith! I know it will all work out, I just know it's not going to be easy!! Right now as an intern, I'm in my comfort zone. Unfortunately, that's not going to last much longer!