Thursday, November 02, 2006

No plot, so what!

I, like my mother, am indulging myself with the challenge of creating a fabulous romance novel in 30 days. I use the term fabulous very loosely, but the saying the truth is more interesting than fiction, in this case, is entirely lost on me. Romance has not been in the air for quite some time. Only ashes from recent forest fires. Not the same as smoldering passions. In my novel, I will be adding dashes from excerpts of my own life, with a splash from family and friends just for good measure. Sometimes the reality you create is more endearing and pleasant than the one you find yourself surrounded by. For example, sitting here at a nurses station, while construction is being done to upgrade the rooms, and the doctors are mumbling about themselves, and the social workers are socializing, and the call lights are calling, and the rattling of iv poles being pushed around the unit in endless circles, well, it is nice to retreat to a place where an alterego is unknowingly about to chance upon her knight in shining armour.
It does help, too, to have the influences of nyquil enticing my thoughts.
I do stop and peak into my patients rooms to ensure their safety, and can't help but wish I had their "prison sentence" of having to remain confined to a room, with nothing but a phone, a tv and my bed for entertainment. Ah, bed. To sleep, perchance to dream. But alas, another set of rounds...safety first!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

OK, here I go!

It's funny how you have so many thing to say, but once you get a blank screen, everything else goes blank. Then what do you do? You blog. Whatever that means. What does blog mean? Does it stand for something? Blatant La-la-la On Google? Bold Liturgies On Gab? I'm sure someone knows, and I could easily ask my research librarian mother, she pretty much does have all the right answers, but sometimes I think it best to just not know for sure and give way to the imagination.
With this blog (big lougies of gold?) I hope to make my readers laugh, wonder and speculate. I hope to help others gain some insight into the solemnity, as well as humor that life daily, if not hourly, dishes up. My patients routinely remind me how lucky I am, I will try to pass on this awareness. Because it really is good to be me!