It's 2026 and we're back! Life and job updates, Sara Steady and The Veronicas

We're back after three months away from nursing so we have a few (great but also not great) nursing and very non-nursing stories and updates for you in this episode

Our girl Sara features alongside The Veronicas as well as another unsung hero we know our nursing family will relate to.

It's so good to be back - we missed you!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

My name is Georgia. I'm one of the co-hosts here on the Vitally Unstable podcast. And I begin today's episode by acknowledging the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners of the lands we record on. I pay my respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. Always was, always will be. It's so sweet. And so like Tom's mum is there being like, it's for their radio show. They make jokes about that Sarah Steady. Gwen's like, who's Sarah? And we're like, oh my god, this is like just the best thing.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Literally.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

We're back, baby.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

We're back on the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

We don't have an intro though because we realised.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

We're not travel nurses.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

We're not CNSs turned travel nurses.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Yeah, we're CNS's turned back to nurses. Well, we were always nurses. Yeah, I guess we were never. Never not nurses. We weren't nurses.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

You're a CNCF. Yeah. And I'm unemployed. No. Well, actually technically I'm unemployed.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

I'm a travel nurse turned unemployed.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Now I turned travel nurse again against her will. Uh we'll get to that.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Welcome back, everyone. Uh, for those who don't know, my name is Tom. I'm one of the hosts here on Vitally Unstable.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

And I'm Georgia, better known as Nurse Sibs.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Yep, and this is our first podcast episode of 2026.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_01 1:41

We're back.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

We're back, baby. Back better than ever, although TBC on the intro.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Yeah, we'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

We'll get there.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

We had a break.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

We had a pretty decent break from the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

So yeah, if you if this is the first episode you're ever listening to, welcome to Vitally Unstable. We love you. Um, we love everyone. We don't discriminate. Um, but yes, we had we so we we we started our podcast last year, we had a break over like Christmas and stuff, and did a whole bunch of stuff which we're gonna fill you in on. And now we're back for like the millionth time.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Yeah, I guess, you know, we were just so busy over that December January sp like space, as kind of we were talking just before we finished, and mentally I didn't want to think about nursing, no offense nursing. Yeah, no, neither did I.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

So we did like, I mean, listen to the last episode, but like we did like a year of travel nursing and we hyped on about how it was gonna be our last travel nursing thing for a while. Um that's true for Tom.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Yeah, it is true for me.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

But um P.S., how have you been, Tom?

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Yeah, look, I've been seen you for a while. We've been pretty good. Uh we've been doing outside of nursing, lots of cardio related stuff, or an Iron Man.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

What did you think I was gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Naughty stuff. Oh lots of like we don't need the listeners don't need tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Um we do and that's about time.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

We're in a relationship anyway, if that wasn't clear.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

But yeah, we we we did a road trip uh after we finished our contract down the east coast, did all the Christmas and New Year's stuff, and then we moved to Brisbane.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Bris Vegas. Yeah, Bris Vegas.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Some people call it the sleepy city of lights. What?

SPEAKER_01 3:35

I think it's pretty at night.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Yeah, it is pretty at night. I don't know if that's part of its name, but um yeah, so we we in our br in our break from the podcast and nursing in general, we had all of December and all of January off and moved to Brisbane, which is amazing, super fun. It was like a very tedious process because we were staying in northern New South Wales where Tom's family lives, and having to drive to Brisbane multiple times to come to inspections, and that sucks. That lost its novelty.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

I think after the first time, yeah, and we did it four or five times.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Four or five times, yeah. Um but alas we got a beautiful house. If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen some of my posts of our cute little house. I love it. Um, and it's just so nice to like have our own space. This is what we missed doing agency nursing for a year was like obviously we're just moving around and we were either in like random travel nursing accommodation or like staying with family or friends, and we just didn't have our own home, so like it's really nice to have that.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Yeah, we did it all ourselves. We rented a truck. Oh, yeah, we did the truck.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Add it to my resume baby.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

You know, it was my first time driving a pretty decent big truck, and I was the supervisor.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Obviously, I coordinated Tom and his best friend, like lifting all the heavy stuff, and like you were the foreman, yeah. But I also tetressed into the back, like I tetressed all the things into the back of the truck like a pro.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Yeah, we thought we had so much very type A.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

It was very tight energy. It was very tight. Um, but yeah, so we moved house, which was like awesome, a little bit stressful. And during this time, obviously, we were applying for jobs because I don't know if you know this, but nursing is a job. Houses cost money. Um, you need to pay for the house with the money from the job, and yes, you need to apply for jobs. So, Tom, do you want to tell our darling listeners a little bit about your job that you got, which is very exciting for you?

SPEAKER_01 5:36

It is exciting, it's a bit of a different space for me, but yeah, I've moved from emergency department nursing into a clinical facilitator role in the medical space in Gen Med, which is different and like kind of I guess you could say a new exciting challenge.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Um The words Gen Med and new exciting challenge in like one sentence, it's just so funny.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

No, genuinely, I have been enjoying this new job a lot. It's very different to anything I'm used to nursing-wise. It's it's hands-off, but also not completely hands-off.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

It's it's obviously got education vibes to it, but it's not completely educational. I've so far I've been enjoying it. I've obviously not been doing it a whole long, but yeah, you know, orientation was orientation was fine. I had to do IMR training for the I don't even know, like fifth or sixth time, and it's a program I've used since. Well you've like only used it. I've only used it. New South Wales Health had it pretty much as soon as I graduated, ages ago.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah, I know Queensland Health, bless them. Like, I love Queensland Health, don't get me wrong. But Sis is behind the times in some ways, and like IMR is is one of them. Uh, but yeah, that's you know, great that you know how to use a MA and I actually document with a type keyboard. That's alright, Dolly.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

I had to pay, I had to I had to pay to go do that I am R training.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

The course?

SPEAKER_01 7:19

No, well, the parking.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Oh yeah. Yes, very expensive parking.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

I paid forty dollars to park for the whole day. Oh and then I bought lunch there. So it's essentially fifty dollars for me to go do IEMR training.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Which you yeah, obviously really needed.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Because you you we did IEMR training in our like last contract of last year, even though we also both already knew how to do it. Yeah. So like in the space of like three months, you've done IEMR training twice and have are completely proficient in it. Proficient? Is that the word? Proficient. Yeah. But that is exciting about your job. So, like, if people don't understand what a clinical facilitator is, like what what do you do?

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Yes. Uh so essentially, you in my circumstance at least, you're essentially an asset for the hospital and the ward. You just help staff members with signing off different competencies like uh Ivy cannulation, basic life support, manual handling, CVAD stuff. And you're essentially the person that's making sure competencies are above 85%.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Oh, we love a KPI. We love a KPI. But you also get to like educate and like oh definitely, you know, yeah, I guess like you're a facilitator. Like anyone that has been a grad that has had a grad facilitator, whenever you've started in your nursing career and you have some sort of a facilitator, like that's like basically what you do, right? Which is amazing because, like, yeah, if you've listened to our other episodes from last year, you will know that Tom was like really excited about trying kind of like a quote unquote non-clinical role, and I feel like this is like a good balance between like you're not compli like you're not going into like management where like you don't really go near patients like ever. So this is like a good kind of in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Oh, definitely. Yeah, I um yeah, it's been a great process so far, and I reckon if you're one of those people that's you know, maybe a bit burnt out by emergency department nursing or critical care or even just wherever you work and you kind of want to move into I guess yeah, not a completely bedside role, do it.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

Try it.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Try it, why not?

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Try it out, why not? Why not?

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Life short, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

We know that nursing's shit. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Nursing probably makes your life shorter.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

It does, shipwork does. Yeah. Every year, I think I've said this before on the potty, but like I just have a little hee hee ha ha every year when we do our opera questi like registration, and it's like, how long do you think you'll stay in nursing for? Every year mine gets like less and less, or like depending on like my you know mental health at the time or like how much I love my job at the time. Sometimes I'm like one year. Yeah, sometimes I'm like ten years. I've been this forever. Like, what are you talking about? I just think it's such a funny question.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

I wonder if they audit that and I think they do, but what do they do with it? Yeah, it's not like I could reach out to you and be like, hmm, really? Yeah, you're only gonna spend one more year in this.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

One more year. You went to uni for three years, babe.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Um just quit now.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Could you imagine? Abra gaslight to you, like anyway. Well, that's exciting. I'm very happy for you.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Yeah, but what's been what's been happening with you, Georgia?

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Well so so when we when we sat down to brainstorm this episode, which despite how chaotic it is thus far, believe it or not, we have brainstormed for this episode. But when we sat down to brainstorm for it, I was like, yep, Tom's job, and then I wrote my job, and then in brackets and caps lock, lol. Because uh Auntie Sibs doesn't have a job. So let me take you back. So when we finished up our last contract, obviously I was banging on about how I was like really excited to go back to cardiology, I missed cardiology. There's parts of like emergency nursing that I like, there's parts of like rural and remote nursing that I like, but we all know that I love cardiology, I love ECGs, I love CCU, I love Cath Lab. Like, and so I was like really excited to get back to that. And because we kind of knew that eventually we were gonna end up in Brisbane, I was like just chatting to some people like where I used to work when I was a CNC, and they were kind of like, yeah, you know, like your job is like might come back, like it's gonna come back. And I was like, no way. So I was like super excited about that, kind of like having like chit like uninformal chit chats to people about this job coming back, and kind of like accidentally maybe like backed myself into a little bit of a corner because then I like didn't want to apply for jobs because I was like, your girl misses cardiology, like I want to be in cardiology. So instead of being like, you know, you were applying for lots of jobs that you obviously were like interested in, so like all of those kind of like educatory, like non-clinical kind of roles, which was amazing. Uh, and I took a back seat a little bit um the hopes and also conversations that maybe my ideal job, which was this cardiology CNC job, would come back. Alas, alas, not everything goes to plan. So, to cut a long story short, I kind of didn't really start applying for jobs until like January, and because of that, like we know that Queensland Health, you know, she's an amazing beast. She's not very fast though. So, like applying for jobs in January, like you know, nothing happens quickly, right? So I have applied for a few jobs, some have been like very ambitious, some just to be like completely honest and like transparent, I thought I was a shoe-in for. Uh and yeah, little nurse sibs has not been successful in even getting interviews for these jobs, so which is fine, like you know, you never know who else applied, you never know, you know, maybe like I thought I had a really strong application and I didn't, and that's fine. That's just like applying for jobs. That's the the the beast, we'll we'll say. So yeah, it's gotten to this point because now we have this beautiful house in Brisbane that we have to pay for. That while I am still applying for jobs, like I'm still looking for my quote unquote dream Brisbane job. I'm still doing all the things, I'm like calling numbs and applying for jobs and doing all the all the things. Uh, but none of those things are yet to give me any money. Uh so you know, my hopes and dreams aren't gonna pay the bills. So essentially I am about to go and do an agency contract.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Um technically the intro still applies to East.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Yeah, I could have still done the intro. I could have been like cardiology CNS turned travel nurse because I am still doing travel nurse.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Turned unemployed, turned travel nurse.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Um but you know, so I'm about to go and do another a short con it's a very short contract. Uh because yeah, like obviously, like I want to be here. Yeah. I want to be here with you, baby. I want to be in this house. We just went, like, before we recorded this episode, we just went bouldering and had like a bougie breakfast and a BB. A BB. A BBB. Uh yes, we had a BB. Um words, words, words. Anyway, where I'm about to go, there'll be none of that.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

No.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

You also won't be. Bougie breakfast. Bougie breakfast. No, not happening. Servo pie, maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Uh yeah, but anyway, so I don't really I don't want to go out there for a long time. So I'm about to do a very short-term agency contract whilst continuing to apply for jobs that tick the boxes that I want. Uh, if it was up to me, it would be card in cardiology, but I'm not like um like I don't want to box yourself in. Yeah, I don't want to box myself in. We all know like I love education and like leadership roles, so like I'll keep applying for those. Uh, but yeah, that's that's me.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Yeah, you've been doing you've been doing a bit of I've been I've been looking on the stories. I've been looking on the nurse sib stories, of course. Sometimes I feature on them.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

You can you can see me on there from time to time. But you've been posting some quizzes and some ECGs and stuff. Yes. I've been getting most of them right, guys. I think I've only gotten one wrong. Yeah, that's I probably you know I shouldn't get any wrong, but you know, that's that's what I must.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

That was like one thing, like before you started your job, like your job that you have now. Um, Tom was like, Could you go over some like ECG stuff with me?

SPEAKER_03 16:11

And I was like who better?

unknown 16:12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Who better?

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Don't flirt with me, sir, but absolutely. Um, but yes, when we moved into this house, because we had our own space and it's beautiful and everything, I did feel very inspired when we first moved in here, and it was like it was close enough between like it wasn't yet stressful that I wasn't working, so I was like feeling all like inspired and creative, and I was doing all these like ECG quizzes and like working on some other like ECG related stuff, and that was like amazing, and I was really enjoying that, but then it was like getting to this point where I was like, Yeah, but like I need like I need income. So then, like, you know, when like I guess I don't know, there's probably some science behind this that I don't know, I'll can't explain, but like there was like a tipping point. Oh my god, lol, like the show, a tipping point where um sorry, we like we knew someone that like really loved tipping point, and we used to like just like tease that a little bit, and then on one of our contracts, the tipping point was like always on this TV, and I used to catch Tom like just not listening to me and like watching tipping point, and I was like, bro.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

We actually talked about Tipping. I think we have as well on this podcast. I think this is the first time we ever talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Dear lord, we should never talk about it again. Um, but yeah, I feel like there's like a tipping point obviously from when you know not working and just like trusting the universe that a job will come is like all well and good, and then it gets to this point where you're like, oh no, now I'm just stressed. Yeah. And then I got to that point and I was like, I feel like I can't be like creative and do like quote unquote. I we call it Nurse Sib stuff, like anything to do with like social media or the podcast or the business side of Nurse Sibs is Nurse Sib stuff, and it was getting to a point where I was like, Yeah, this is great, but like I feel stressed, and I don't want to like create stuff for people from a place that feels stressed, so then I was like, no, I need to I need to lock something in, and like I tried picking up agency shifts, that's right. I've been trying to pick up agency shifts in Brisbane, and a few times I've been booked for like a 12-hour CCU shift, and like the first time it's like kind of embarrassing like how excited I was. Like the night before, I was like, I like washed, washed, blow-dried, straightened my hair. I meal prepped, I pre-washed all my uniforms, like I was like a kid on Christmas to go to work. I was so excited, yeah. Like I haven't felt that joy for nursing for so long. And then I woke up at you know 5 a.m. or whatever it was to go to work and they'd cancelled the shift, and I was like, oh, like I was really sad about it. But then they were like, Oh, but can you do another 12 tomorrow? And I was like, Yeah, sure. But I was like, don't gaslight me, I'm not getting excited for this, and even mentally, I remember saying to you, like, I was like, I'm not going to work tomorrow. Like, I'm just gonna treat it. Obviously, like I got up for work, but like surprise, surprise, it was cancelled, and then I don't know, just like put like a super huge sour taste in my mouth where like because like I get it, you know, places are allowed to cancel you, that's part of agency, but don't like because they were cancelling like one minute before they had to. So, like on a morning shift, on a 12-hour morning shift. So, like, what did you do? Convince someone to stay from their night shift to do a 12 hour and work 24 hours? I don't think so. Yeah, like why did you just hold me there until the last minute? And then I don't know, I just you're the sick leave person if anyone is gonna call it. That's what I think. That's what I think, and then I don't know, I was just feeling really stressed, so I feel like I'm going on a tangent now, so like cut me off if you need to, but like I feel like I was getting really stressed because I was like the app, like the agency app is just constantly like there's a shift, there's a shift, there's a shift, and then like two seconds later, it's gone, or like because I'm new to Brisbane, I don't know where places are, so I was like, Oh, like I don't know where this hospital even is, and I don't know where to go. And I was like, nah, this is not, this is not it.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

It's a it's a doggy doggy eat dog world.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

You always get this saying wrong. A dog eat dog world, a doggy dog world.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

A dog, it's a doggy dog world, a doggy dog world.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Thank you for that input. I just monologue for like 10 minutes in your first input is it's a doggy dog world.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

It's a doggy dog world.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Doggy dog world. Anyway, that was just becoming hell stressful. So I was like, I would rather lock in a short contract somewhere in the middle of nowhere and just have got guaranteed work in one place for a couple weeks and keep applying for jobs and hope for the best.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yeah, you would rather lock in on a locked-in contract.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Wow. Are you okay? Are you hungry?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Yeah, look, we obviously have like everyone else, we have financial goals as well, so it's not gonna, you know.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Hopes and dreams don't pay the bill. I need a job, exactly. I know, I was like, can you not be my sugar daddy?

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Not on a nursing salary.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

No, not on the no penalties, no weekends nursing salary.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Yeah, because you haven't been paid yet, have you?

SPEAKER_01 21:32

I've not been paid yet. Interested to see three weeks in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Queensland Health does that weird 10 day thing though, so why not get paid for a bit?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

My cath lab mum from like Cairns was here yesterday with her daughter. They were going to Ed Sheeran and she came to our house and and stopped in. And she reminded me that one of the times that I worked uh in Queensland Health when I started in Queensland Health, that I didn't get paid for there was a time. Where I didn't get paid for like two months, and it got escalated to the point of like the executive directors, and like one of them was like, I'll pay you out of my money if like you haven't been paid. And I was like, How about you just get your like payroll people to do their job, right? Just do yeah, I was like, sir, no.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

It is absurd.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

I know, but anyway, we won't we won't discuss that anymore.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

Obviously, you and I have discussed behind the scenes that we're gonna do a dedicated episode to this, but all the hospitals in Brisbane seem to have started their new grads. So if you are a new grad listening to this episode, I hope your job so far is treating you well, and just know that in the future, very soon, we are gonna talk about you.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

You specifically.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

You specifically. We've been watching. Big brother's been watching.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

We've been watching.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Fly on the wall, baby. No, for real though, we are planning to do a dedicated grad year episode. So if that is you or you know a grad, uh, you know, keep keep your eyes on the on the potty app, on Spotify, wherever you listen, your ears, ears open, you'll have a wow, have an episode. Soon.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

I think the listeners, you listening in the car or on your workout, or whatever you're doing right now, I think they deserve a little funny story about when we saw the Veronicas in Melbourne at the Australian Open. Why don't you take take it away?

SPEAKER_00 23:42

I'll paint I'll paint y'all a picture. So we go down to the AO basically to see the Veronicas. I am a millennial 31-year-old woman, and I've never heard Untouched Live, so I was like, I will, you know, it's it's a bucket list thing. You've got to sing the national anthem with all these people around. It's just it had to be done. So we go down to Melbourne. We all know how much I love Melbourne and classic, like us, but also just humans in general style. We get first night fever, which was not the night of Veronica's, it was the night before. So we, you know, got excited, we're catching up with all my old friends and had a couple drinky poo-poos. So I woke up, you know, a little bit um nauseated.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

You were very hungover.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Uh nausea and vomiting plus plus, let's just say. Anyway, we got you know some greasy food and was that when we got Unlimited Sprite at Nando's? Oh no, I was too hungover. I was too hungover to go to Nando's. Oh my god, what's up? Yeah, I yeah, anyway. So then we go to the Veronica's and I had like rallied pretty good, I thought, again, for a 31-year-old woman. Um, I'd had like two drinks at pre-drinks that like kind of went down okay, but I was like a bit stressed, but they were alright. And then we got into the A.O. and I don't know if any of you guys went to the A.O. Um, but I felt like they had a really weird mix of like alcoholic drink options. So like I like had heaps of like apar rolls, and like I hate Aperol spritz. Like I had that that aparol taste to me is just disgusting. I don't like it. So like that was like out of the question, and then I didn't want to drink something for some reason, whatever, and then I don't know why I thought this was a good idea, but me and my like old housemate both of us did it, and we were like, what? Sorry, but what the fuck were we thinking? We both got a CC and dry, and like as soon as I sipped it, I was like, Oh, I just forget that Canadian Club is whiskey, and so I was like, Oh, and we got it like as we were walking into like the arena to to see the Veronica's, right? And so we like get in and we we were kind of like running late for some reason, so it's all a bit chaotic, and then we like sit down, and I just instantly was like, Oh, I feel so sick, and the only drink that I had was this Canadian club, and I was like, No, I can't keep drinking this, like it's gonna make me vomit. And so Tom was like banging, like just having like the like best time, and I'm like panicked, like trying to open this. Like, I wish I could, I could video this for like I was like panicked, like trying to open this on dance, and like I couldn't open it, and then like and so I like gave up on that one and just like got another now. And I was like, and I could like see you like seeing me just like sweating and like fiddling, like get it, and I was so stressed because I was like, if I am too hungover for the Veronica's and I have to leave to vomit and I miss it, I'll be so pissed because we've literally come all the way down for this. Anyway, had the on dance, the effects took over, my nausea went away. We raged to forever and untouched, and it was amazing.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

It was great. Oh, that was so good, it was fun.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

Oh, but I've like, I yeah, but I had sweats, yeah, like fear in my sweat or something. Literally, I need this on dance.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

I think she needs 10 milligrams of diaze a pen.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Oh yeah, that's pretty bad. That was pretty un shaking. Anyway, that was like a hee he hee ha ha ha. There was also another hee-hee ha ha that happened like over our Christmas break that we kind of like didn't want to talk about before. Um, but we went and visited on our road trip down to New South Wales, we went and visited Tom's like great auntie. She was in a nursing home. She's so cute. She's great. Ani Gwen. Shout out to Anie Gwen. So Anie Gwen goes out to like the lunch area as she does at the same time every day, and it's so cute because she's very particular. Like, she's always like, guys, like it's 12:30, I've got to go to lunch. And we're like, yes, we know that it happens at the same day, same time every day. So we like walk Ani Gwen with her little walker out to the lunch thing, and she sits down with her friend Pam.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

And we look over, and there she was.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Sarah.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

Sarah. Sarah Steady out in the corridor.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

And I was like, Tom, we are taking a photo with Sarah Steady. So I made Tom come over. I've got a I must I'll post on Instagram. I made Tom take these photos in the corridor with Sarah Steady, and like he was hell embarrassed. But I was like, it's fine, the podcast, do it for the podcast, do it for the people, do it for the listeners. And like all the oldies were looking at us like what? And like Gwen's pretty deaf. I mean Gwen's pretty deaf. And so like Tom's mum is like like yelling in her ear, being like, because I need Gwen doesn't know what a podcast is, so she thinks we have a radio show. It's so sweet. And so like Tom's mum is there being like, it's for the radio show. They make jokes about that Sarah Steady. And Gwen's like, who's Sarah? And we're like, oh my god, this is like just the best thing.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Literally.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

It was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

No, it was like a it was a real full circle, full circle Sarah Steady moment. Obviously, we tried to get her on the podcast, and she was so busy.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Yeah, she was busy on those. She was busy everywhere. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Whole country.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

With Gwen.

unknown 29:11

With Gwen.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Lol. Anyway, I feel like that is us, our break, and our current where we're at. Summary, in a nutshell. Had some time off, it was great. You were successful getting a job that you wanted, which is amazing. I'm still on the job hunt, about to go for a short-term contract, because like, yeah, hopes and dreams don't pay bills, but still crossing my fingers that one day they will.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Wouldn't that be great though, if they did?

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Right?

SPEAKER_01 29:38

That'd be so good. Just like eat good food, get paid.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Right? I know. I'm like, how can I get paid for living my life? Like pottering in the garden, painting very mediocre paintings, having plant babies, bouldering, bouldering, going to brunch. It's whatever. Right? Or should we the real housewives? I feel like that.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Uh get our own keeping up with the Tom and Georgia. Keeping up with the Tom and Georgia.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Anyway, that is Georgia and myself. We hope you've been well.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

We hope nursing's been treating you okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

Yes. Oh, and and and not just okay. Like we hope you're thriving.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Yeah. Stuff okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

We know.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Hope you're doing the best.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Hope your patients are all independent.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

Absolutely. Yes. You've got a good manager that honours your roster requests and your leave requests. Also, if you haven't yet, book some annual leave in because we all know that we will need it.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Do that Europe trip this year. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

I want to go back to Europe. I want to go back to the Northern Lights. But yeah, seriously, we we hope you have been well. We hope you had a nice Christmas, New Year's, all of that. Like we said, if you are in your, if you've just started your grad year or you're about to start your grad year, we are going to do a whole episode about grad years and tips and advice and just some like big I was gonna say brother-sisterly love, but then that sounds weird because we're in a relationship, so um it's turning Game of Thrones. Oh dear lord. Okay, so with that, thank you so much for tuning in. We are forever grateful to all of our listeners. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure you follow the podcast so you don't miss out on what's coming next. And if you do have a spare minute, we would love it if you could leave us a quick review. It really does help other nurses to find the show. If you have a question for us or you have a story you want us to cover, any unhinged nursing stories, funny things, case studies, anything like that, you can always send me a message on Instagram at NurseSibs or shoot us an email, nurssibs at gmail.com, and we would love to hear from you. And until next time, remember your human first, nurse second. So leave the vital instability to us and make sure you're looking after yourself as well as you do your patients.