Where's the snow?

So we went from having over a foot of snow in our yard to nothing in less than 48 hours. To say its soggy is an understatement. And the back yard full of no more snow covered doggy doo is nasty. This is another reason I hate winter, the mess it leaves behind. But the weather man assures me its not over yet. joy.

And I am struggling to figure out the software/blackboard for WSU too. I have to start that next week and no clue how to even log in. Blah.

She's alive.......

Just computer-less as dust flies in my house with some wall redoing. and the library at school is closed for cleaning over break. But I'm still here!

Workin woman!

So I started my new job as a nurse at a nursing home Thursday. What a whirlwind. I've managed to not kill or harm anyone over the last four nights, so I consider it a raging success. =)

Busy busy busy......................

New weather sticker for my dear friend Polo in Kuwait before he goes to Iraq. Stay safe.

Brrr fricken brrr

So the boys and I are at my parents house and decide to go for a walk. Which consists of them taking the John Deer Jeep, and a bike. Which leaves me and potentially one other walking. Before we even got out of the driveway I had to go get another layer on under my sweatshirt. So we make it about 1/3 of a mile when I realize the batteries are dying on the jeep and we need to turn around. About 10 feet later the battery was done. So, that leaves me on the bike (which is a ten speed I got in grade school. There is a way to raise the seat I am sure...) and the two pushing Iden down the road. What a site I am sure. We got a wave and a few smiles of laughter as cars passed. I am still freezing. I need to move to a warmer climate. LOL

Yeah, that hurt.

So it was IV start day today. Blah. I made sure to drink as much coffee and as little water as possible just for the fun of it. ;)

But to no avail. I still had to do it. So I left the room for another swig of coffee during partnering up hoping to be odd man out, no luck as there was an even number of us there. Foiled again.

So my partner and I watched the first round. We had practiced on dummy arms and I was successful there, so I hoped that would continue. I decided when our turn came, I'd poke first. And wonder of all wonders I got in on the first try! Sure I tried for a vein up high for my first try, but it worked. So then it was my partners turn. I realized this as I was washing up after my success and my joy was quickly squashed. So on the bed I want. My partners first mistake was sitting next to the instructor who had sufficiently rubbed my nerves the wrong way already. She was very hands on and not letting us just do it. When I did mine, I was on the opposite side of the bed. Not my partner. So, off she goes, looking for veins. Of course, trying to be the hero, starts low, on the back of my hand, and picks a nice round rolling vein. Things continued down hill from there. I had one girl holding my other hand helping me breathe. It really was that bad. I think I have sufficiently explained my distaste for needles in posts pasts. This is why. I had to get stuck again. Uhg. This time was much better and successful at that. But crap oh dear. I don't think I'd volunteer for that again. LOL No bruises which is nice. But its still sore. Both of them. :whine winge moan:

As for me, still pretty pissy these days.

Dark....

To match my mood these days. There are times when I laugh, and I will focus on that. Thank you my friend.

I can't believe I paid for that

So, I got a couple of scholarships this year that require me to maintain full time status at school. The nursing program is 1 credit short of that. A lot of times students will pick up a PE credit. Problem is they are scheduled and my schedule for nursing does not really allow for much else. So they have added Jazzercise for a credit. I figure, why the heck not. Yesterday was my first day and I literally had sweat dripping down my face. Gross. I can hardly walk today. Yes, it was a good work out,and yes I will go again, but seriously, why must I excercise? I truely don't enjoy it. The closest I ever came to enjoying it was running on the treadmill at the Valley YMCA in Spokane. It overlooks the pool area and there were TV's all around. They were on Fox news and there was a car chase in LA going on. I ran along for the whole darned thing and didnt' bat an eye! Ah well. The things we do for longevity eh?

I have updated my weather sticker to reflect Honolulu where my mother has just landed about an hour and a half ago, and my father is scheduled to land in another hour and a half. Easier time difference to remember, but I want to be fully jealous of their weather.

Bit by bit.....

My house is getting cleaner. As I sit here. ;) This is surely the life I tell ya. And its not even my mom doing the cleaning!!! Yes people, robots have moved into my house, and I can say that I am pleased as punch, because even as Fly Lady says, even cleaning done incorrectly still blesses your family. So when my Roomba decided it was tired of vacuuming and went back to bed, and only had done about 3/4 of my living room, I was fine. Considering the filter was full, as was its dust bin, I'd say it did good. Even went under the entertainment center and behind the couch. All without me having to move a thing. Sure I had to pick up toys and bigger garbage, but heck, I'd have to do that before I vacuumed anyways right? So Scooba got to clean the bathroom first. After I watched it for a few minutes and saw that all of the dogs black hair was getting blown away rather than picked up, I decided that roomba could go ahead and vacuum the kitchen after it charged before scooba got in there. So, in the last 2.5 hours, my bathroom has been mopped, my living room nearly vacuumed, the kitchen vacuumed, and now is being mopped. The living room will be finished up here as soon as roomba is recharged. And I haven't hardly had to do a thing! Sweeeeeeet.

Another test passed!

Two tests down, a gazillion to go. Each quarter we have to take a calculations test to make sure we can still safely pass drugs since doctors don't usually write, give two aspirin and call in the morning. There is lots involved, and I'll spare ya. So that was Monday at 8 and I passed that.

Then today was our lab skills check off. You choose between 5 possible scenarios of all things learned last year and have to perform it and answer various questions for the instructor. I passed that as well! I have to go back in a few minutes to start learning about IV therapies. Theory today, and then in 2 weeks I get to start learning how to insert IV's. Wee! The down side is we practice on each other. :-/ :faintthud: If you know me at all, you know I don't like needles. Crud, I went through natural childbirth away from a hospital to avoid the stupid things. Well, there was more to it than that, point is, I don't like needles. Now I get to be a pin cushion for a class mate. Oye. Hopefully I come out of it alive. ;)

Wee!!!

Chickens are really starting to lay eggs now. Its funny, I have different sizes and different browns in my carton now. I found two in that tall grass under my kitchen window this morning. ONe was still warm. I think it was one of the hatched here at home babies. Or both, they are smaller than even Benny's, and two slightly different colors. Then the adopted chicken is laying nice big dark brown eggs. Then day before yesterday I sent Iden out to get them cause I needed them for dinner, and he brought in two, and then said there was a jiggly one that he threw out. I went out and looked and of course the chickens were devouring it. I think it was just a shell-less egg. So perhaps its just another chicken starting to lay. It looked like it was a fairly large one. But exciting! The boys have been painting on the back of the coop, and hopefully we'll get it moved into place in the next day or two and finish it up. It froze night before last, so I really need to get it done.

And I've ordered a couple of cleaning fairies. They should be here on October 3rd. So perhaps I will have a nice clean house by the 5th after they properly orient themselves???

Cleaning Fairies!!!

Favorite addiction

Its mindless, but its really quite fun!!! I have decided to start posting some of the cooler hits that I receive on my bills. I don't have a minute to do it right now, but go check out the site!!


Where's George

I'm a nurse!

I passed!! Woohoo!!!!!!! Thanks for all the prayers and support! Too bad I'm not done...... LOL

Test day!

Has come and gone. I should find out my results in the morning. They make you wait 48 hours. Uhg. The test itself was only about 1 hour long and I finished in 85 questions. It could have gone over 200 if they weren't sure I knew....or weren't sure I didnt' know my stuff. I am hoping I knew it. ;)

Couple o' pics.....

(I started this post last week.......its taken this long to remember to come back to it and finish uploading pics)

My mom made some quilts for her great neices and nephews and took pics of the boys infront of them (all sporting their new hair cuts)

Its quite comical getting a good pic of three and these are some of the cutest.





They are loveable goof balls.

And then our trip to Silver Mountain and Silverwood.

This is in Ritzville, made nearly entirely of horseshoes and chains. Iden wanted nothing to do with the idea of it all, so he stayed in the truck.







Our first stop was Silver Mountain in Kellog ID. It has an indoor water park that comes with your hotel room. It was great fun, although Iden was limited by what he was allowed....strangley enough not until about 4 hours after we'd been there though. Odd and inconsistent. But who cares, he had fun in the mean time. Two tube slides and one raft slide, and a huge play area for the kids with lots of water coming out all over. A flow rider , which Kainen is so "been there done that" with ours in town. And a great lazy river that was fun and fast moving. (pardon the old tatoos and missing teeth on various children. I asked them not to put anymore on....)

If I decide to hang out with youtube, I'll post some videos later.

The next day we were off to SilverWood Theme park and rain. Lots of rain. Because I was borrowing my moms camera, and there was rain, I kept the camera in mostly. Lets just say I was in denim capris, and was wet from the very beginning. We got in the park just after 11:30, and had dinner in the truck in the parking lot about 8. I was wet the whole time. Ah well, kids had fun right?

The first part is on the train, it was covered. LOL We passed by buffalo, teepees, and a cute show. I'll spare ya most of it. LOL You can see how cold it was after the train ride. Again, Iden was not interested in the photo op. The last pics are on the way outta the park. Boys had a blast on the roller coasters, and I think I still may have whiplash. LOL

And lastly, first day of school. Again, the silliness of getting even one good picture of three boys is lost on us all, so I tried to get a few.....melt them together in your head to get an idea of how cute they can be. ;) Kainen is in 3rd, Jantzen in 1st,and Iden is doing preschool.

'bout time!

So I finally got my ATT and I go in Tuesday the 9th! It will take at least 2 days after that to get my unoffical results, so I will post the news. So far I've heard everyone is passing. Phew!

My mom is in Oz so thats why I have the weather sticker up. So I can see what kinda nice summer she's coming into as we are forced out rather quickly.

Argh. Still waiting.

So I called to the center to find out why its been 4 weeks since I sent off my request to test and no authorization. They said they are still waiting for info from the state, which that application I sent off 6 weeks ago. So I call the state, and they had just finished my background check the day before, and said I should get my ATT by next week. Sure, I'll believe it when I see it.

AOII Alumnae Weekend

We had a blast in Lake Chelan and I can't wait to do it all over again next year!!!!! One of the fun highlights was running into Jake Harris of Deadliest Catch fame. Ryan and I are die-hard fans, so it was a treat!!! He's a very polite guy and happy to oblige my picture request. =)

Obviously not studying.....

If I have time to play on the blog. Boys head back to school next week. I think we are going to try for a day at Silverwood Theme park before then. I don't go back for another month after that. And I am STILL waiting for my authorization to test. Uhg. As far as I know, there was just one that received hers and took the test and passed. Beyond that, the rest of us wait.....

One more year done!!

Today was my last day of summer quarter, and thus, the last day of my first year of nursing school!!!

We took a predictor test to tell us the likelyhood of passing our PN boards and I got a 99% chance of passing! So unless something goes insanley askew in the next few weeks, I will be a nurse! Wee!!!!!!!!!!! I am so relieved to be done with the first year. Uhg. Now to hit the streets and find a job. Well, not the streets, but you know what I mean. ;)

2 more days!!

Ahh......only two more class days until I am done for the summer!!!! Its been such a long freeking year. Uhg. But I am done with clinicals for the summer, have one more (busy day) lecture after a test, and then Tuesday is our LPN predictor test, which tells us the likely hood of passing the LPN exam. Wee!!!!!

Kids are running around like idiots with their heads cut off, so I must dash away.......