Sometimes, it's just good to hear.

I had my 3 month evaluation this morning (yeah, i've worked there for almost 6. We're on the ball). Apparently I don't suck as much as I thought. I've had major confidence issues in this job... more than any other job I've had. But this morning I found out that several of the charge nurses I've worked with said they feel I'm doing very well and I ask really good questions. They also said they feel more comfortable giving me sicker (not THE sickest) patients than some people who have been there longer. She really didn't have anything negative to say except my 2 sick calls. It just felt good to hear that from someone in charge.

I'm still losing weight, but this week has been kind of a funk. I haven't worked out at all. I'm still having deficits every day so I shouldn't GAIN weight, but I'm not sure my loss will be that great. I measured Friday though and I AM losing inches. My size smaller jeans look wonderful, btw. =)

Back to work... I think I need another part time job. We've been really low on patients for about a month now and I've gotten asked to be on call or stay home pretty much everytime I'm scheduled to work. There's also been twice where I've had a mandatory low census, meaning I HAVE to stay home even if I don't want to. We rotate that and I can only have 5 in a year, but I've already had 2 in like 2 weeks. Really, if I could afford to work less I would. But at 24hrs a week, when you call me off for a shift it's half of my week! A quarter of my paycheck! I'm glad Brian is back to work and I'm sure we can "get by" even with me getting called off, but we want to GET AHEAD, not just GET BY. I'm going to see about cross training in a different department so I have the option of more hours, but I'm also considering another part time job. hmm...

Anyway. I hope we have more nice days on my days off. I have an appointment to check out a gym on Thursday and I want to take Lucy for a walk at some point. I have all these great aspirations for my days off but I always just end up sleeping during the day then it's dark. I'm going to try to switch my sleep around sooner during this stretch off so maybe I can enjoy my days off!!!

Peace out, blog friends.