Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone had a great day! We spent the first part of the day at my parents for breakfast, present and naps. Ahhh....then I delivered gifts around to the IL's and grabbed ours in return.

Boys got gift certificates enough to combine to buy a PS2 and monster truck game, so I've had mom time off. LOL

I am thinking off all the things I need to do before I go back to school and don't want to do any of it! Least of all homework. Blah.

My cute kid. ;)

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You want the good news or the bad news first?

Okay, good news......I studied my hiney off for my Pharm final to make sure I could stay in the nursing program and came in with the 2nd highest grade in the class and consequently, brought up my failing grade by 8% to stay in the program!! Woot!!!

Now the bad news......a signature card with all my info was stolen out of my mailbox on Friday (hindsite IS 20/20) and was found in a home along with other stolen property. My name, social, mothers maiden name, was found on a note pad, and in their computer. Gads.

Hey, good news again......my credit is tanked and odds of them being able to do anything with that info is close to zero. Hah. Take that. Ya grinch.

Its still too stinkin cold.

I really hate winter. I will probably whine to anyone about it for the next several months, so be prepared.

And who said homework over a holiday weekend is fair? Uhg. At least I got a bunch done right away Wednesday after school. Haven't touched it since. But headed out to my mom and dads tomorrow for a fire in the fire place and hot chocolate, and will hopefully get something done then.

I'm still working on a miracle to pass my pharm class. Any ideas? Based on the lack of comments I don't think I have any readers. But thats okay. NOT. ;) Too many people asked me to keep my blog up and I guess I waited too long.......LOL

Brrr!!!

Just covered up my pond, and now am in the process of cleaning out my skippy filter (google it if ya need) but its too cold to keep reaching in and pulling out the scrubbies. Ryan and the boys went on a nature walk yesterday around the spillways of the lake and brought home a big crawdad. He's in there now with my fish. All I know is I better still have fish in there in the spring. LOL

That bread recipe turned out delicious. I will double that recipe and make it more often. Yum.

Not much beyond that. My hand is a bit numb and typing is more backspacing and retyping at this point.

Flu shots!

While I don't care to get one for myself, I did get to administer 3 of them at clinicals yesterday. Went relatively well, didn't scrape a bone or nothin! Two of my class mates managed to though. Not sure I would have been able to keep my composure for that. Finished my paper, didn't do so hot on the test (but I wasn't the only one) and now I am ready for the weekend.

My bread turned out quite well for homemade. Wasn't as tasty as I'd hoped, but I have another recipe waiting to try out tomorrow. Honey Wheat Bread I looks like a goody.

My mom goes for her knee replacement surgery on Monday. Since we have school off I get to go with her. So if you are the praying type, say one for her. She's really starting to get anxious about it.

I survived!

Well, I have 3 new holes in my skin, but I did manage to successfully administer three kinds of injections. Woot! And whaddya know, I had the same partner that swore she wouldn't be my partner after the blood glucose sticks. But she said I did good. ;)

Still have to write that darned paper. I did an outline last night, but still have to fill in under the headings......

Renewed my Healthcare Provider CPR card today. I was the only one in class, so that was nice. Less pressure. LOL

Well, its parent teacher conference time, and I am going to go make some bread so it can be rising and ready to bake when I get home. Dee's Health Bread is the recipe I am trying out for the first time. Has lots of good reviews so hopefully the kids will like it too and I won't be forced to eat it all out of the oven. CAuse we all know, fresh baked bread with oozing butter is one of the best foods out there. YUM

Whats this? A new post?

Why yes, yes it is. I don't expect it to be of any excitement, but I was just studying, and decided this was as good a way as any to avoid that. ;)

What is it I am studying? Parenteral administration.....aka shots. We get to start practicing that on Monday, and start giving them at clinicals on Thursday. Ayeyaiyai. Crazy they are trusting me to do this. After the disastrous skills lab of doing blood glucose sticks especially. My partner for that already made it clear she won't be for shots. I don't get it....??

Anywho, nursing school is going well for the most part. Pharmacology is giving me some trouble as its a bit scientific. Gone are the days of answering "its a blood pressure medication". Now I have to know how and why it works. Its like that for LOTS of drugs.......

My program requires an 80% to pass. So right now, on paper my grades look horrid. One just below a 2.0, and one comfortably above a 2.0, yet this is some of the best work I've done over the last year. Any other class those 2.0 grades would be 3.0 which I am more than happy with. Oh well. I did somehow manage to get the highest grade on my fundamentals test yesterday along with one other person. Not sure how that happened, but I told my instructor I would revel in it while I could. (yes, I called after grades posted to make sure that was actually my grade).

I have to have a 5 page paper written by Friday, since I had to miss clinicals on Thurs. because of pink eye. NiiiIiiice. I HATE writing papers. I am rotten at them. Blah.

Oh well......I am still flying high with my last test grade. =)

Back from the dead

So here it is........how many months later? I was just showing my crabs off to someone.......and counted 6. After what........8 odd months, a once thought dead crab is still alive. I don't think I am that inattentive to them, but it was rather odd that there were only 5 up at a time. Perhaps I just need less shells in there so that when one changes, I can account for the missing new shell??

In any case, its time for a deep clean. I made one hemp rope ladder and started a second when my crochet hook broke. I started again with a spare, but got bored fairly fast after that trying to make it perfectly match the first one.

Why is it that I am so anal about perfection that I just altogether give up and let the whole thing go to pot instead??? My house is a reflection of this. If I can't do it perfect, forget it. I want no part of it. :shrug:

RIP?

I think one of the new guys should be renamed snack. Cause I think thats what became of him. Crab-i-cide. =( I think it was Krabby Patty (the biggest) that did the deed, cause I found the shell right where he's been hanging out for a couple weeks now. Stinker.

Rock Paper Scissors anyone??

I adopted 3 new crabs on Sunday!! They were listed at http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/ this past spring, and we were finally able to connect this past weekend!!! I named them Rock, Paper and Scissors, but it will take a while for me to assign them names, as I can't tell one from the other. That will take some more studying. I added lots of new teeny shells to the crabitat, but I don't think any of them have switched. Only one seems to be in too small of a shell. The other two seem to be in good fits. Anywho, they are teeny and so cute. Everyone has been quite active in there since I added the newbies.

If the one there in the light shell stays like this, it will be easy to tell it apart, cause its a bit shy. But it did go for a walk on my arm the other night.





Mr. Krabs, newbie, newbie, Mrs. Hermit, newbie, and Krabby Patty.



Matchy matchy shells. Aren't they smart? LOL

SERIOUS SCAM AT SAMS CLUB BE CAREFUL!

I don't how many of you shop at Sam's Club or Costco, but this may be useful to know. I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. This happened to me and it could happen to you!! Here's how the scam works: Two seriously good-looking 23-year-old well-built guys come over to your car as you are packing your shopping in the trunk. They both are shirtless and start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their highly-defined chest muscles and rock-hard abs exposed. It's impossible not to look. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say 'No' and instead ask you for a ride to another Sam's Club or Costco. You agree and they get in the back seat. On the way, they start talking dirty about what they want to do to you. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and begins kissing your neck and begs you to pull over so he can make love to you!! While this is going on the other guy steals your purse!! I had my purse stolen last Tuesday, Wednesday, twice on Thursday, again on Saturday, and also yesterday and most likely tomorrow. I'm running out of purses....

Again, not about crabs,

by oh mylanta this video is hillarious!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXFqGUGdTk

This has nothing to do with hermit crabs

but please, be sure your mouth is free of all liquids before clicking. LOL http://home.pacbell.net/bettychu/2004allbreedbisris/2004bisindex.html

Hi AOII!!

I have a couple new readers. Have fun ladies!!! =)

Fun =)

All three hermies seem to be quite a bit busier during the daylight hours, which is fun for me.

DH just told me the other day that his sister is making plans to buy the petstore she works at. So you know what that means......at cost crabbies. teehee

She's back

Cause I dug her up. LOL and I don't feel a bit bad about it now. Found her in the front corner (where there was a big crater the day previous-I think one of the others went looking too). She was under about 7 inches of play sand. There was just the small pincher and some toe tips left for her to eat...but she finally molted and is in her..... 3rd shell since coming back up. LOL

In other news.....I am going to be adopting 4 crabs from a gal in Spokane. But two have just gone down recently to molt, so as soon as they are surface, we will meet up to handthem off to me!!! I am so excited.

Where oh where art thou?

Mrs. Hermit has been buried for quite a while. I didn't expect her to go down so soon after the first length of MIA status. I hope she's okay.

I got 3 shells at the craft store,oh, about 1.5 months ago, pink murex shells. 2 were occupied within hours and have been ever since. LOL I am glad, cause it was the first shell that was big enough for Krabby Patty. And they both can squeeze waaaaay down in there so you can hardly see them when they are hiding. LOL

I'd post pics, but I clean that tank up nice each night, and by the am, its destroyed. Stinkers.

And Krabby Patty makes 3!!!

Unbelievable. Woke up to Krabby Patty be-boppin around this morning. Shell fully covered in sand. Looking back at my last post about him.......he went down on Nov. 17th. Gads. That was a looooooong wait. I was days away from digging. LOL I had been told that crabs could be down for as long as 3 months, but I didn't believe it. I do now!!! And all three crabs seemed very pleased to be back together again and were awake and giving me visual interest for several hours this morning. Both Krabby Patty and Mr. Krabs climbed that net upon digging out from below. I put it up while they were molting. They seemed to enjoy it. Mrs. Hermit has taken a couple naps on it as well. So cute. I love my crabs. I STILL have pictures to share. The good news is they are off the camera, onto the hard drive. Baby steps.....

Mr. Krabs.......

He's been back up now for a couple weeks almost. Just after my last update I think. I was walking past the tank and saw lots of legs getting ready to scale the netting in there. But then a few hours later was buried again......but is up and down each day. Spending the better part of the day hiding either under the hermie hut, or in a hole. There are two tunnels that I can see in the play sand area. Pretty neat. But Krabby Patty is still MIA, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried at this point. Ah well.......its still within a reasonable time frame of molting.

I snapped some new pics too. Will add those once I crop them. I cleaned out the inside windows of the tank in hopes of some good pics. LOL