ABOUT

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Welcome to 36 Hour Work Week, a blog I write for self-improvement with a focus on personal motivation, productivity, education, professional nursing, family life, volunteering, and health. I share my experiences and observations from books I have read, meetings I have attended, my employment, therapy, volunteer work, and family life.

About Me

Hello.  My name is Carin Diaz.

I work 36 hours a week (sometimes more) as a nurse for eleven years now, and am currently taking care of critically ill patients in adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU). I parent a miniature poodle, a boxer mix, and two good looking and SLIGHTLY defiant teens. Notice, I listed them in order -- from the least to the most difficult loved.

I started 36 Hour Blog in September 2014 not because I know all the answers, but I want to write my story and reviews in the hope that they may benefit others.  I know what it is like to:

• have cancer (I am four years in remission)
• struggle staying fit (I succeeded in maintaining within the American "ideal weight" ALL MY LIFE without crazy diet and daily workouts in the gym)
• parent challenging teens (I . . . am still alive and so are my teens)
• face life in depression (my diagnosis stays in "mild depression")
• work the stressful job of a nurse (I still love my job as a nurse for eleven years)
• put on a youthful looking smile each day as life goes on. (I am 45, who can pretend to look like 35).

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More About Me

I am from generation X, who formerly lived in the Philippines and California.

I currently stay in Colorado some five thousand feet above sea level away from the beach that I love. Okay, maybe I do not love the beach so much.  After a near-to-drowning experience many years ago, I stopped pretending I know how to swim in a beach.
On my spare time, I create designs for products like shirts, bags, cups, phone cases, and many more-- that you can customize and purchase from 36 Hour Work Week Store.

I update this blog at least weekly.

As this is my personal blog, I mention my loved-ones a lot.  Paul poses as my soul mate here and in real life too.  I live with my favorite only-son, my favorite only-daughter, my playful boxer Velvet, and my killer miniature poodle, Snowball.

Thanks for reading. Carin Diaz Nurse Blogger