True Confession Thursday (again on a Friday :))

My feet HURT and... gulp... I have officially worn support hose (eek)!!!!

I've been at this new internship at a local hospital for just two weeks now and my feet are killing me!! My clinical instructor told me to wear comfortable shoes but this is just crazy. I thought I could get by on wearing my tennis shoes which really aren't that old or worn out...um WRONG!

So of course I told my mom and we just HAD to go shoe shopping to get something more suitable for my toesies (especially my little toe on the left foot). We went to a scrubs/uniform store where we had recently bought new super cool (if there is such a thing) scrubs. I ended up picking out a pair of black "nurse" shoes that came highly recommended by the sales lady and a pair of support hose since my calves have been killing me recently.

My new kicks ;)

And on Monday I put on my gear complete with the new shoes and the support hose and made my trek into work. I don't know why I thought I could wear a brand new pair of shoes for 9 hours straight with no break at all because now my feet hurt even more and have blisters! Literally today everytime I was alone with a co-worker (not as creepy as I just made that sound) all I could think about is how they can stand for 9 hours with their feet not hurting, they must have super feet or something.

Anyway I'm jealous of my co-worker's feet and the fact that they don't have to wear support hose. I'm glad it's the weakend so I can let my feet relax and we'll try this again on Monday.

On a completely differenct note, Stephen's brother is coming into town from Germany tomorrow. I haven't seen him in two years since he allowed Stephen and I to stay with him and his partner for 3 weeks while we were touring Europe. He's staying for 3 weeks and it should be a good time. We're all excited!

Randy (Stephen's big bro), Me and Stephen in Trier in the summer of 2008.

Everyone enjoy the weekend!

Back to School Shopping

Well, this year at this back to school time, it feels weird that my "back to school" lists don't contain the essentials I've needed to survive graduate school for the past 2 years including: 3 inch binders, highlighters, post-its, pens, pencils, etc...

Instead, my back to school list included the following:

• New scrubs for rehab and acute care internships
• Unattractive but comfortable shoes also for above internships and potentially the job I get next year
• New lunch box

I'm liking theis from Target

Also...TGIF!!!!!

Here we go Again! Rants and Raves

Rave:
1 day down

Rant:
39 to go

Is it bad that I'm already counting down the days to the end of my second clinical internship when I've only had orientation and haven't even met my clinical instructor yet?

I think NOT!

Rave:
I am, however, excited about this experience. It is in the acute care field at a local hospital and I've heard from several good friends that they actually enjoyed the acute care setting more than they ever thought they would. I'm still anxious to meet my clinical instructor and to see what it really is like to be a physical therapist in the hospitals in acute care.

Rave:
Apparently several of my classmates are potentially in the same building as I am for this rotation, I do know for a fact, that one of my good friends, Nikki (check out her cute blog here), is there because we spent today in orientation together! It makes the day go by much better when you've got a good friend with you.

Nikki and Me

Rant:
Parking at a busy hospital...enough said.

All in all I'm excited to get this one going!