Happy New Year! It’s Blog Post #56 and the first of 2020. Thank you to everyone who purchased Nursing: The Funny Side of the Bedside. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it… but you won’t.

I received a great message from someone who said “it wasn’t the ‘joke book’ I was expecting… in a good way. It actually had some seriousness to it which was really great.” That was nice to hear as I never intended for it to be a joke book despite the name… and all the jokes. Funny.

New Year’s Resolution Failure

In January of 2018, I set a goal of learning to speak Spanish fluently in two years. So where am I now? Well, I don’t speak Spanish fluently. That’s for sure. I failed in my quest and did not reach my goal. So, now what?

It’s not a time to give up. It’s time to get back to work. The truth is my Spanish has come a long way. It’s just time for some new strategies. I have joined a Meet Up group to exchange English for Spanish and will do that once a week. I will continue listening to Spanish Podcasts every day. I will watch Spanish shows/ movies on Netflix when I get the chance. The point is that I can’t give up… just because I suck.

Words of Wisdom

1. Just because you haven’t reached a goal or been able to accomplish something you hoped, doesn’t mean you can’t try a new strategy or increase your efforts and get it done anyway.

2. Watch the new Star Wars movie… once. It wasn’t very good. When I heard they were going to make three new Star Wars movies, I thought they might be good and make up for the three horrible prequels that were inexplicably made. There was A New Hope. I was wrong.  Thank ‘The Force’ they aren’t making any more.

2. Eating healthier is good for you and a very popular new year’s resolution. Someone recently said to me, “I hope you’ll have the heart to leave animals off your plate this year.”

”No, but I’ll get them off my plate as soon as I can.”

3. “Hazlo o no lo hagas. No lo intentes.”

It’s time for the ending jokes. Remember, these aren’t really real. It’s a ridiculous imagination meeting a lot of creative weird. Enjoy.

My wife and I bought a brand new 80” OLED 3D 8K VR TV. The first time we watched hockey on it, they announced that a viewer had won a 50” HD TV. My wife and I both looked at each other. Why don’t they make the prize a cassette walkman, or a dishwasher-sized outhouse, or Maple Leaf tickets, or a green dress (but not a real green dress), or a videotape of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? What’s the person supposed to do with this mini TV?

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This requires a little knowledge of the Spanish language or click on the movie name.

I was searching for a Spanish movie to watch when I came across one called “Bread”. I started watching, but it was in English and all about Captain Hook.

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Announcement: I’m excited to say that I have secured an interview with the author of Nursing: The Funny Side of the Bedside. Look for the full interview in an upcoming Blog Post.