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holly

helloholly

About Me

disturbinator. procrastinator. helper. whiner. jokester. curiouser and curiouser. listener. crafter. doer. fibber. kayaker. hipster. hickster. lover. sister. singer. study-er. multi-tasker. dominoes motherfucker-er. cuteoverloader. messier. monday bbq-er. turtle sanctuary designator. bear avoider. old world explorer.

My Interests

going between plus and minus. and learning how to better pick locks.

I'd like to meet:

someone who wants to do my laundry. separating by color is a must.

Music:

i like brian's small record parties very much.

Books:

catching up with my national geographics...

Heroes:

crafty ladies.
russ f.
people who are passionate about something. anything.
people who make this city awesome.

My Blog

my first day as a real nurse.

yesterday was my first day of being a real 'student nurse'  all giddied up in my white and blue uniform with my official looking name tag  and was placed in a 'real' community setting.  my clin...
Posted by holly on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:49:00 PST

four hours of sleep is good, right?

i'm tired. in every way. physically, i was shot up with four vaccines yesterday and am really starting to feel it.  mentally, i'm in the death throes of finals for this semester and am sick of c...
Posted by holly on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:25:00 PST

it’s official.

i got the letter from uwm's school of nursing - i'm in.shocked and utterly surprised, i started bawling. how funny is that?  thanks to you folks who've been providing your faith and support throu...
Posted by holly on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:54:00 PST

death and chemistry.

got a good grade on that chemistry exam i took this evening - i think one of the highest in the class.  i've been absolutely obsessed with getting a good grade for this one, since my last one was...
Posted by holly on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:36:00 PST

blood.

i'm always surprised when they let me give a blood donation.  the whole skin cancer thing and my constant low iron count has especially had me kind of paranoid lately.  but, the vampires kep...
Posted by holly on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:46:00 PST

kurt vonnegut.

kurt vonnegut has died. this strikes me particularly hard, as i always thought there was going to be time for me to meet him in new york i know he wasn't really fond of slapstick but the id...
Posted by holly on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

perfect.

there are a few weeks in an early wisconsin spring when there are warm nights... and the mosquitos, the poison ivy, the ticks and the thorns have not quite arrived.  this was one o...
Posted by holly on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:08:00 PST

subversive helping.

the other night, i went on a red cross fire call where an older lady had left her electric stove on and an accidental fire started. the kitchen was burnt up fairly badly, and the cops wouldn't le...
Posted by holly on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:45:00 PST