I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Archive for the year 2007
Single-Bed Machine Knit Sock Pattern
As I mentioned, I’ve been working on coming up with a pattern for socks I can make on my knitting machine without a ribber. Here’s the result!
Download it here: Single-Bed Machine Knit Sock Pattern
Posted: December 27th, 2007 under Knitting.
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My Latest Obsession
With nursing school behind me, I’ve finally found time to set up the hand-me-down knitting machine my mom gave me some 20+ years ago and start figuring out how to use it. As always, when I find something new to do, it takes my life completely over for a while, so knitting is pretty much [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2007 under Knitting, My Life.
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My Warmfuzzy for Today
I just found this in my school e-mail inbox, from the student body president:
Briefly in other news, I’d like to announce the November student of the Month. Congratulations to Ruth R! Ruth is graduating in a few days and we’re glad we could recognize her before she leaves us.
Here are a couple of the nominations:
“She [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under My Life.
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Senior Year Survey
I just dropped in at MySpace for the first time in months, and rediscovered this old post there. It made me smile, so I thought I’d copy it over here, since I haven’t written anything recently.
Senior Year Survey
Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2007 under My Life.
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Sometimes I Amaze Myself.
I’ve spent the past 3 1/2 years attending nursing school in downtown Portland, competing for parking with the hospital and numerous medical complexes, shopping district, restaurants and coffee shops, local residents, and of course my fellow students. I’ve gotten pretty good at parallel parking as a result, but this morning I accomplished a parking feat [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2007 under My Life.
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Evening at Home
A long day at practicum… I decide to ignore the huge writing assignment looming over me and spend the evening goofing off. I’ve been trying to learn how to knit socks. It’s a coping mechanism for dealing with my ever-advancing case of senioritis. I pull out my sock project and the cryptic unillustrated completely impossible [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under Knitting, My Life.
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Great Aunt Hilda - 1922
Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse
I won’t be the first nurse in my family. Great Aunt Hilda, on my mom’s side, was a nurse (shown here in her graduation photo), and so was Grandma Edwards, on my dad’s side. My cousin Deb (on my mom’s side) is also a nurse. My brother Jon is a [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2007 under My Life.
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