Adventures

Merry Christmas Week everyone! I have been in Mountain View for the past week (already?!), waiting to see where I needed to be and when.  I needed to stay just in case I started orientation last week or the beginning of this week.  I was offered another travel position at Stanford ( !!!! ) to work on their surgical ambulatory care unit and ambulatory transfusion and infusion center!  I'm very excited for several reasons:  1.  I love this area and still have so many things left to see/do.  2.  I love the girls I met my first week at Stanford in October and we are having so much fun getting to see and do things together.  3.  I love working at Stanford.  4.  I love the area (did I already mention that?)!  It worked out so well!  I was taking a gamble by not accepting a poorly paying job in LA (have absolutely no desire to go there) Wednesday night, said I would "think about it," while I waited to hear back on the Stanford ...

I've been getting questions about what's going on now and people send me questions wondering where I am, my address, etc.  Well, more waiting and I'm homeless!  I'm currently in Mountain View, California, staying with one of my friends that I met while working at Stanford, who is also a travel nurse.  I'm just hanging out here while I wait for word on the next job, just in case I need to be somewhere this week or next for orientation.  I will probably wait through Thursday and then make plans to get back home for Christmas if I don't hear anything.  I should probably be more stressed than I am, or, maybe not.  I am not worried as of yet and am enjoying the time off and the Lord has been very provident so far, so I don't feel the need to worry too much!  I do have brief moments of "okay . . . I kinda need a job . . . " but, for the most part, I'm just enjoying getting to hang out with these girls, be in the beautiful bay, and go do fun things (w...

Wow . . . where does the time go?  As soon as I get used to a place and begin to enjoy it, it's time to move on and start over!  I was very reluctant to begin work in Sacramento because it wasn't "the Bay" and my friends were still in the Bay and I'm here.  As it turns out, we've been able to get together a few times and have had a wonderful time (because we all miss each other, so we really make the best of it) each time we get together.  So, getting together with them has made this assignment much better than I feared it might be.  The people I work with have all been so much fun and so helpful. Sacramento has been very hard in a different way, though.  As you may have read in my previous posts, there is a very high population of homeless here and this hospital sees many.  It has been a very difficult reality check and has reminded me of how broken the world is.  I have wanted to scream because of the injustice (and not by the hospital, by any...

My friend, Angela, asked me to post pictures of where I live a while ago.  These are my extravagant accommodations!  They are "free" to me and I don't spend much time here.  I am only here for another 2 weeks or so and I have done much better about keeping this place tidier! I brought the quilt coverlet for when I have to provide my bedding. Decided to use it in the hotel too! : )  I do miss having a house to make more of a "home" and having a place to have people over.  But, for the time being, this keeps me warm and dry.  I look forward to a 3-month assignment so I can have a one bedroom apartment (some day)!