Because I am bored and I was reading my facebook notes...

I posted this on facebook last fall. It made me happy to read it today, so I thought I would share.

1. I have a Wii. With Mario Kart. I am very bad at Mario Kart. I run into the walls. I also have a Wii Fit board. I am considered unbalanced. Probably true. I beat Tiffany at Mario Kart, but not on the fit board. she is more balanced.
2. I read a lot. My mom says I am an emotional reader in ways that people are emotional eaters. Does this make sense to anyone?
3. I am turning into my mother. Which is okay, cause my mom is cool.
4. I have gotten very good at chest compressions in the past two months. Which is not especially a good thing.
5. I love the idea of living in Alaska. Someday I will travel nurse there and stay for a while. Feel free to come visit me.
6. My favorite places in the world: 1. Axtell/Hillcrest (aka grandparents). 2. Paradise Valley Nature Reserve (waterfall beats ocean any day). I wish there was something like it here 3. Florida. Hate the place, but a lot of my favorite people are there.4. My couch with a good book. even better, at home where mom is cooking while I sit on the couch.
7. I just bought a new car. A 2009 Hyundai elantra. I love it like mad, but I still kind of miss my old grandma car. A lot of good memories happened in that car.
8. There are squirrels that live in our ceiling. I listen to them a lot, and am thinking about naming them. The one that keeps running into the duct work I think I shall name crash.
9. I watch a lot of Sci Fi, which is kind of funny. I was very sad when they canceled Starga te:Atlantis.
10. Some people thrift store shop for clothes or furniture. I buy books. I have more books than I have room for, which is sad. Because I totally plan on buying more (such as the one that is in the mail right now that I bought cause I felt sorry for myself cause I was sick and I had to go to work. That is the kind of excuse I use to buy books)
11. I feel guilty when they call and ask me to work extra. Even if I already have plans, and I say no, I still feel guilty. I need to get over this soon, since they tend to call a lot.
12. I have lived/am living with the best group of roommates ever. They were an answer to my mother's prayer that Corrie make good friends at college. They make me happy. Keep me grounded. God is good.
13. I love my job. I complain about it a lot, but I really do love it. I wouldn't want to do anything else, even be a waitress in Alaska, which was my backup plan throughout college.
14. Calling and bugging my brother is high up on my list of favorite things to do. It is a game to see how long I can make him talk to me before he finds an excuse to hang up.
15. I am very proud of the e-mails I write, especially to my grandparents. They make people laugh.
16. I am the only person in my family with red hair. I have been to family reunions, no red hair. It does appear in the beards of various brothers/uncles/cousins. On the same note, my mother has always been very opposed to me dyeing my hair. I did it, and she didn't notice for 4 days. I told her she is no longer allowed to comment.
17. My birthday is my favorite day of the year. My apartment will be turning green sometime in the next couple of weeks. Everyone should celebrate it. ( and no, chelsie, it is not just about beer and greed.)
18. I love Africa. I am planning on going back. Maybe this year, if I can find a good trip. Anyone know of any good medical missions to Africa?
19. I love school. I am planning on starting my master's soon, for no other reason than I want to take advanced pathophysiology.
20. In my opinion no one who graduates from nursing school has any clue whatsoever how to be a nurse. I have been doing this job for 6 months, and I still feel clueless. Slightly less clueless, it is true, but still clueless.
21. My dad thinks I should be able to write a book since I read so many. I tell him it is not quite the same thing. He doesn't believe me. Maybe some day I will give in and write a good mystery involving a nurse who solves the crime and gets the guy.
22. I am a greenbay Packers fan. Thanks to my roomie from WI. It helps that their team color is green.
23. I love being the baby of my family. I am spoiled, I freely admit it, and it is nice. Very nice.
24. When I am bored at work I sit and look at house through www.frontdoor.com I picked out my dream house on Roosevelt road, College Hill, Wichita. I really want a house. With a library. And a dog. Lots of windows. Laundry room where I don't have to use quarters. Ahhh... dream big.
25. Freshman seminar I called myself Chatterbox Corrie. My prof laughed at that, because up until that point I had said, well, nothing. But I do chatter. a lot. My dad tells me, Corrie, your mouth runneth over. I eventually started talking in class too, so my prof believed me. I discovered it was faster to give the right answer and move on than wait for anyone else to talk ( I have not yet decided if that is a good attitude to have, but honestly, 4 hours of HR a day called for that attitude).
26. (cause I like going over) I think I like the person I have become. That makes me happy.

Thoughts a year later: I have been doing this job for 18months and I am starting to feel like I have got it. I desperately want a house, to the extent I am not sure about going to Alaska anymore. They have stopped calling and asking me to work extra, and started calling and asking me to stay home. I am done saying yes. I am now living alone, thanks to people getting married all the time, but I still have the best group of friends. I still enjoy my job.

I do like the person I have become. It is official. And that does make me happy.

MY HAIR IS GREEN!!!

Well, not really. It is red, rather bright. Sometimes curly. always frizzy.

When I was little I hated my red hair. Probably due to the fact that everyone made a big deal about it, probably because I was the only person in my family to have red hair. All my uncles/brother/dad have dark brown hair, and red beards. That is me, I match their beards. When I was five I had the eye doctor convinced I was color blind because I insisted that my hair was GREEN, not red. My grandpa still comments on my green hair.
Today I read 2 articles about redheads. My grandma sent me one, and I found one in the new york times health blog. Redheads make up only 2% of the population. It is a recessive gene, so both parents have to have it (I have been at family reunions for both sides of the family... tons of people and I am still the only redhead). Our pigment clings to the hair follicle tightly, which is why it is very hard to dye red hair. I should know, I have tried to go brown twice, and not even my mom noticed.


Of course, it is also the most asked for color in hair salons, and it is the hardest to achieve. Normally you can tell the difference between a natural and a not.

What I found interesting about the second article in the New York Times is that there is now evidence that redheads are resistant to anesthesia, which means in procedures if we are given the amount of meds normal patients are given it is less effective. We hurt more at the dentist because Novocain is not as strong in our system. I have also read, not today, that redheads bleed more. Combine with bleeding more and hurting more, Doctors are told to keep an especially close eye on us when we are giving birth, as we are more inclined for complications.

Oh joy.

I find genetics fascinating. I have heard of patients refuse medications because it is a blood pressure med designed specifically for African Americans. There is no difference, I am trying to discriminate, give me the stuff you give everyone else. Yet it is proven to be more effective. The way the body works, and is formed, is amazing. The fact that we have the technology and knowledge to find out how people are wired different and give them different treatments, incredible,

And trust me, I will have no problem using my hair color as an excuse for more pain meds if I ever need too.

(just found another article about how we need more general anesthesia as well.