Jinxed: Gashed Heads and Broken Fingers

Last night at worked, I jinxed myself. I was the headguarding last night. I was talking to a few of my lifeguards and I mentioned that I hoped someone would gash their leg open, so I could use some first aid skills. (For those of you who don't know yet, I'm kind of a first aid freak, and start to intch to use my skills when I haven't used them in a while.) Well, my hope came true, except that instead of a gashed open leg, I treated a gashed open head, which was cool, but way more dangerous than a leg. Some kid smacke his head on the diving board, and split it open. He had a good 2 inch long gash right on the top of his head. It was pretty awesome! Luckily he had no other head, neck, or back injury, because that would not have been so awesome. After I finished treating him, along with my ER Nurse Rochelle, I was called to the front counter to look at a coworker's finger. This coworker was playing basketball, and got hit in the finger really hard. I examined it and determined that I would be very surprised if it were not broken. About an hour or two later, I found out he went to the doctor, his finger was broke, and he now has to see a specialist for it. Basically I had to send two people to the emergency room last night! Is it weird I get a thrill out of this kind of stuff?

I'm Freaking Out!

Jeff comes home in 10 days! It is hard to think it has really been 2 years. I started thinking about these past two years. While Jeff has been gone, so many of the girls in our highschool friend group have gotten married, one of them is pregnant, some of the boys are still on missions, and alot of my friends are all moved out to other places. I'm kind of the old maid who is still sitting around here living my life. But you know what? I've had alot of great things happen over these past two years, which will be saved for another blog. :)

Update On My LIfe!

Wow, I have not posted in a while. I've been kind of busy with a new semester and everything starting.

My class schedule this semester:
1. Health and Human Relations
2. Personal Resiliency
3. Eating Disorders and Body Image
4. Middle Childhood
5. Family Studies

My work schedule:
1. Lifeguard
2. Headguard
3. Supervise
4. Specialty Instructor
5. Scout Merit Badge Instructor
6. Swim Lesson Instructor (only once in a while)

I have 15 more days to have this sick to my stomach nervous feeling!

I'm officially starting to get serious about my training for my triathalon!

I had a sick eye last week, but it is almost better.

I love when I get to sleep in!

Pool Adventures!

Sometimes, I absolutely love work! Especially when my cool friends are there! Tonight the moon was supposed to be the biggest and brightest moon of the year! I was the supervisor at work tonight, and a few of us decided to take a small field trip to the outdoor pools, climb to the top of the white platform, and look at the awesome moon! We had so much fun! It was freezing and the pools were creepy all covered in snow! Here is a photo journal of our adventure. And I admit I stole these pictures from Natalie my sister and Emily Hackett!

I almost jumped of the platform, when I realized the pool is filled with snow and ice. Ouch!
Natalie was a frozen little lifeguard!

We ice-skated on the outdoor rec pool! I think Emily is the next Michelle Kwan!

Don't we look sooooooo cold?

This is our movie poster shoot!

Here is the fabulous moon, taken from the white platform.

Natalie and Amanda's glamor photo shoot!

The whole gang! Emily, Rochell, Me, Amanda, Natalie, and Ryan, our security guard, took the picture for us.

Amanda doing the Gene Kelly pose.

The poor little frozen lifeguard was so cold when she made her snow angel, but she did such a good job!

Eskimos getting ready to head out in the bitter winter night air!

We are going to be models for 7-Eleven hot chocolate!

Certified!

Today was my last day of Safety School. I successfully passed my LGI final, and I am now a certified instructor! I am so happy!

Safety School!

Hello Everybody! I've had quite the first week of 2009! I have been at safety school all week to get my Lifeguard Instructor (LGI) certification. With this certification I can teach an certify lifeguard training classes, cpr and aed for the profressional rescuer classes, oxygen administration classes, and guard start classes. For the past 8 months my boss has been preparing me for this LGI class by having me help out in cpr/aed classes. I have really enjoyed it and am excited about receiving my certification! My LGI class has been really intense, but so much fun at the same time. We are all given teaching assignments to learn how to teach to a class. Yesterday I tought passive submerged rescue, which is where you have to go down to the bottom of the pool and bring a victim up to the surface. It has always been my hardest skill since I took my lifeguard class 5 years ago, but teaching it really was not bad! It wasn't as scary to teach as I thought it would be! Today I had the assignment to teach adult CPR, rescue breathing, and conscious and unconscious choking. I love teaching CPR, so I was really excited about getting this skill. Let me tell you about the coolest part of my lesson today: When you are doing CPR, your chest compression rate needs to be at a rate of 100 per minute. What this means is that if you do straight compressions for one whole minute, you should get in exactly 100 compressions. There is a myth going around that if you do compressions to the beat of the song "Stayin' Alive," you will get exactly 100. I tried this out a few months ago, and found it to be true! So, during my class today, I had another student in my class do straight compressions on a manicin, while I played the song on my ipod speakers. Everyone was supposed to count compressions for a minute, but they were all laughing way too hard! One of the trainers teaching us ran out the door to the water safey instructor training class next door to the the head of American Red Cross Health and Safety courses, to come an watch. It was a hit! But now, I can't get the dang song out of my head!

One of the craziest parts of this class has been how I have pretty much been living with 2 of my bosses and 2 of my coworkers this entire week. Our class is from 9:00am to usually 5:00pm each day. We all car pool together, because Safety School is being held at the South Davis Rec center. It's been like a whole week vacation. Tomorrow is the last day of safety school, and because of all the time I've spent with my 2 bosses and coworkers, its going to be really strange to be away from them.

Long story short, LGI is way cool, and thanks to my boss for getting me into the class!

Goodbye 2008, Bring on 2009!

Happy New Year! I decided to do a little work and put together a slide show of my year, 2008, in review. I had a fun year, with a lot of growing and getting to know myself better. I've made a lot of new friends, and had some fun adventures with my family. The only problem I am having is getting my slide show uploaded onto my blog. Can anyone help me out?