If You're Not Laughing...Who Is Laughing Now?

While every one was out enjoying their Halloween party weekend I had the pleasure of working night shift. Now I'm not mad about it because to  be honest I'm not very big into Halloween and dressing up anyway. Call me a fuddy duddy if you want to but I just kind of suck at coming up with costume ideas. Oh- and it's always cold at Halloween time and I can't bring myself to wear a costume at the expense of my warmth. I think the last time I actually dressed up was some time in college. I wore a big warm man's flannel shirt, hot glued popsicle sticks together and held it in front of my face saying "Hi-dee ho neighbor!" every time someone came up to me......No one got it. Have you ever dressed up and no one got who you were? Embarrassing.

Wilson-Home Improvement

Anyway- this weekend of work was a regular old shit show anyway. I mean-not LITERALLY but it definitely put me in the holiday spirit. One patient would be sleeping but when I would tip toe into his room to give him medications with the lights off he would wake up and scream bloody murder followed by yelling some garble that made him sound like a pirate. My heart would stop and I would almost shit my pants. EVERY TIME! So, naturally I would bribe co-workers to go into his room to give him medications so they wouldn't miss out on such a spook-tacular opportunity. I'm pleased to say, he didn't disappoint. Meanwhile, patient B was threatening to spiral in a panic attack for no reason whatsoever. While trying to calm him down and telling him to think happy thoughts he very seriously claimed that if he did that he would "turn into Peter Pan and fly away and that's NOT something that I would want him to do!" Actually-I wouldn't hate seeing Peter Pan in person, and really at that point in the night, I would had given anything to escape to Neverland and get in a fake food fight with a bunch of the lost boys. Seriously. Bangerang!!

I can't say that Sunday night was one of the craziest nights I've ever had as a nurse but after hanging out with Peter Pan and a pirate it left me feeling pretty snarky. So after our morning huddle up with the day shift and our manager reprimanding us for swearing too much in the break room I had to get the F$%K outta there and hit the hay ;)  

On the positive: One of my favorite bands was playing a small show downtown. NEEDTOBREATHE is an amazingly talented band that definitely didn't disappoint last night! After I woke up and got ready my sister B and I headed downtown where we were able to enjoy a few de-stressing beers and dance our butts off to some great music! I only wish every Monday could end that well! #iheartmusic

We are the outsiders ;)

Very much so, thank you :)