Feels like Groundhog Day...

Maybe only a little, but basically I wake up and it's the same day over and over again. I've been working my new job for 5 weeks now and it's going really well. I have performed 32 out of 32 attempted venipunctures and have only had one QNS (quantity not sufficient). It wasn't 100% my fault as she had only one vein I could use and it was small and she wanted a small needle and I got it in the vein but the flow was so slow that I had to pull the needle out when it took 10 min. to get only 300 grams of blood. Most people donate the full 565 gm (that includes the wt of the bag and anticoagulant) in approx. 6 minutes or so. Anyway, it sucks when that happens because you feel like you wasted the donor's time and the blood can't be used for anything. Research might do something with it but it's definitely not enough to use for a patient.

Anyway, work is going well. I'm still in training for the actual day-to-day job responsibilities and in September I'll start charge nurse training. I'll still be full time (more or less) but will plan to spend 1 day a week at my other job. Hopefully there will be one shift/week for me but if not I'll be at the blood center instead. I won't go down to part time until sometime in October or November. That'll be kind of nice since it's good to earn the extra money but, good lord, could I use a weekday for some life maintenance.

The thing is that I get up between 5 and 5:30 in the morning and leave the house between 6:30 and 6:50 depending on what time I have to be at work. By the time I get home, work out, make dinner, walk the dog, clean up the kitchen and/or do other chores then shower, it's close to 9 pm and that's bedtime anyway. It's hard to find time to sit down and send an email and when I do get on my computer these days it's been spent communicating with my financial planner and trying to set up online pymts for my student loans. I have stuff I want to do and friends with whom I want to check in and I'm so tired and feel like I have so little time that not enough gets done. Saturdays are spent going to the market and taking the dog on long walks and then taking a big family nap in the afternoon. I feel like I could just sleep the day away. By Sunday, I have my tennis clinic and then we do chores around the house or visit with friends and before you know it it's Sunday night and time to get ready for the work week ahead. Which is what I'm doing right now. Which means I need to be finished with this and go make lunches for Michael and me for tomorrow. And so it begins again...