What the sam he(( is that????

My little pixie is all white.......for a reason. Uhg. She coulda warned me there would be snow all over the place today. I just got my pond all cleaned out and pretty (minus plants of course). Had to sink my heater back in there today and everything.

Speaking of my pond, all 4 big fishies are still alive and kicking. And there are 2 babies. I thought I started the winter off with 3......but we did put that crawdad in there.....and can't find him, nor a skeleton. LOL But the ponds all clear, water lily is already starting to grow. Now just have to figure out a frugal way to get some cool pond plants. LOL

Here Chicky Chicky!

So I braved going out and checking the eggs under Benny. ( BTW, can you guess the roosters name?? I'll let you. I was totally creative too. )

I thought that I saw 5 eggs under her, but I guess it was only 4 eggs (plus the 5 golf balls I left in there to entice her into staying there). So I pulled them out. The rooster was trying to get ontop of her just to get away from me. Silly goose. This is the one that likes to attack me too. The boys and I candled them to see if we could see anything growing and we did! We saw the air sack and spider veins in all four, and we are on our way!!! Wee!!!!!

I'll do it again next Saturday night and see if we are still growin babies.

Grades posted....

and I made Vice Presidents List! Sweet! Not that I am sure what it means.....beyond the fact that I had enough credits and high enough grades to be recognized for it. ;)

Hooray! Benny is broody!!! I added a ticker so you can watch along with me. Supposed to be 21 days from setting. But I've read when you let the mama do it instead of an incubator, its a day less. So Sunday the 13th.....we shall be ready and waiting!!! Weeee!!!!!

MML 2008

Now that I am officially on spring break......I have time to upload some pics! Just from the pageant. LOL My camera is broken, so only when I get my hands on my moms camera.

Kainen was in it again......

With his 'Big Sister' Cheyenne (teen contestant) in his tshirt for production number

With the winner and first runner up for the Miss contestants
With Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto

With last years Miss winner Sara
With last years teen winner (left) and winner and another contestant
And finally with Washington Teen USA and some of the other kiddos in the pageant.

Another quarter in the books!

Today was my nursing class finals day. Sweet! I passed my final, passed my class, all that good jazz. Woot!

Now I have to catch a carpool to Wenatchee at 7:15 in the morning. Oye. Its gonna be a long day. But now just about 18 weeks stands between me and an LPN behind my name (if I pass my test of course.....)

Still holding steady at two chickens. Realized it wasn't my egg layer that got the train ride outta here. So my other one is a good broody hen, just gotta get something in there to get her broody, cause by golly its chick season and I want some! Either she's gonna hatch me some eggs, or I'll get her foster babies. We went and looked at them at the store today and they are soooo stinkin cute. They even have the ones that lay green eggs. I really want those. And then a mix of little banty's. They had lots of ducks too. I bet I could fool her into being mama chicken AND mama duck.....

Can't get the darned eggs to stay in the coop though. ThankyouverymuchIden.

I didn't want the stupid chickens anyway.

And the d$#m dog is taking care of that chicken by chicken. This time it was my egg layer. Its war. The dog will not come in the house and will remain on a leash while on my property for no less than one week.

In nursing news.....it was OR day today for my rotation. It started off with a c-section, a lap chole that ended up being cancelled when the surgeon realized that her chirrosis of the liver distorted the anatomy and the gall bladder was in the wrong spot, another surgery of a more sensitive nature that I will spare you the details on, and then another c-section. This baby was breech and man those toes were tickling his ears when he first came out. And they did a tubal ligation on her as well. I guess I never really thought about it, but fallopian tubes are really really small!

Tomorrow is short stay and I told the surgeon I wanted a redo on the lap chole. So I get to watch that! The rest of the day will be admitting patients for procedures and discharging. Well, at least watching the nurse. Hey, maybe I can do a cath?? LOL We'll see .

Menopause Jewelry

My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves a big frickin red mark on his forehead. Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond. Idiot.
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I thought that was just to stinking funny not to share. ROFL I really LOL'd at that one. ;)

Got my schedule somewhat for next quarter. The stink of it is we get done with finals on Thursday, and start up summer quarter on Monday! Uhg. Not sure yet where I get to go for clinicals. I am almost rooting for Wenatchee...just so I hopefully get out of going there during summer. Its 2 days a week every other week this next quarter, compared to 4 days a week , 2 weeks in a row during summer. Which could mean bunking with some class mates. I dont' particularly care for that idea..........

Good companions, chickens and dogs, do not make.

So, have I talked about my chickens? My neighbor sadly had move away to an adult family home type place and bestowed upon me her chickens that I would take care of and gather the eggs from whenever she was away. they've been living in her coop since she moved about 4 weeks ago until we could figure out something for our yard. There are 2 roosters which is too many for the 2 females (if you know what I mean). I had already picked out which rooster would be the one to go in the freezer as he was the crower and the meaner one.

Let me digress........

DH has been working at a house for the last...oh 6 weeks maybe? About 4 weeks ago a black lab showed up. The guy living on the property looked for its owner during that time. DH fell in love with her of course. Its been his dream dog for several years now. So, on Friday after noon, "Girl" came home to live with us. While in the back yard, she managed to chase off two of my cats and nearly stopped when I called her off, and did the second time when DH called her off. It was then I told him I felt I traded in my 3 cats and 4 chickens (yet to move into our yard) for his one dog. He brushed it off as me whining.

Back to the story........
Yesterday was a beautiful day and I decided that it was time for my chickens to come home. So I dragged some posts from the back and fencing and brought home a post pounder from my parents. We went over and got the coop my neighbor said we could have and plopped that down where we decided it was a good chicken home. Pounded in some posts, and I left DH to put up the fence while I went to work for a meeting. Came home to Kainen bringing a chicken to the back yard. (yes, the dog was tied up thank goodness). So it took close to 45 mintues for Kainen and I to get all 4 chickens caught and brought over to their new home. DH declared it a job well done, and went off fishing with his new dog. While they were gone, I shut the chickens in their coop for the day to help them acclimate to the area. DH came home a couple hours later to take us all to the lake for sunset. During the short 10 minutes he was home, I lost a rooster to his 'Girl'. I was ticked off to put it mildly. Somehow she made it through the fence (which was still closed) and got in the coop. Argh. So now Girl gets to stay tied up when she is in the back yard until we can spend more time dog proofing my chicken yard.

And the bummer of it all?? It was the wrong stinking rooster!!!!! Uhg.

Anywho, it shut the other rooster up, which was nice, and I still got an egg from the one thats the layer. I haven't found her eggs for over a week now at the other chicken yard. She tried to go broody on me and I wouldn't let her cause its still too cold for chicks. But hopefully around the end of the month she'll go broody again and I'll let her hatch them.

Anywho.....here's a pick of the chickens prior to their move to my backyard.

Can we have some more crowns please?

Well, another pageant is in the books. We have a couple of lovely new ladies to represent our small town well for the next year. Of course, the addition of several more crowns would make for a lot less *itchy parents. Seriously, your girl did a lovely job, just this year, she wasn't meant to win. Sorry. Gads. I just don't get how some girls survive under the pressure of their parents. I can undertand being upset, but to go around badmouthing winners. Thats just in poor taste. These parents and girls don't get to see interviews. A few of us do, and thats where things really show through and separates the competition if things are close on stage. Ah well. Such is the pageant life. If you don't like it, don't participate. You have the spirit of it all wrong any ways. Argh. k /rant.

Now I have a bit of down time aside from work for the day. Its nice to have a break. Phones been ringing a lot, so a nap is out of the question. Had a test on bones and such yesterday and a midterm in speech last night. First test I scored well on, not sure yet on speech. We'll see. I'm not sold on that class yet.

I'm just excited to go eat some sushi tonight. YUM.

More shots....

Clinicals today were in the clinic next door to the hospital since there were very few patients there. Two of the five of us were sent to hang out there. So more office visits and such. Quite different from the hospital, but I did really enjoy the different things I could sneak in on. For instance, the x-ray room was right by the nurses station, and the tech was a lovely lady who cheerfully welcomed me each time I saw her take a patient back. Got to see a couple chest xrays (these suckers pop up on the computer from the film, which is like a giant disk. So cool.) Then a kid with a hand injury, but neither of us could be sure there was a break. And then....soooo neat, a guy broke up a dog fight and really messed his leg up. He walked in there, and it ends up he has broken his tibia (the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg) at the top , closer to the knee, and its at a 45 degree angle and about 2 inches long and NASTY looking. Combined with some broken bones in his foot, made for a pretty horrified nursing student due to the fact he walked in there. OYE. I hurt for him.

And what goes on in clinics?? Well child checks. And shots. And nurses who happily hand them off to me. Luckily I wasn't around for the second one, but I did do the first little girl. 4 months old and sooo stinkin cute. Red head to boot. Had to give her four shots. Man she was TICKED off and still hollerin out the front door. It was the combo vax that did her in. Luckily I somehow managed to make that the last one. She stopped crying in between the other three. Poor thing. And me being a non-vaxer had to really tune out to the fact I was doing this and what I was giving her.

At the station I was drawing up the meds, there was a little package sitting on the counter and I couldn't tell what it was, so I picked it up and it was a plastibell. I dropped it in fear that they'd ask me to watch. Barf. I've never seen one like that and certainly not in my hand, and was very surprised at how small it was. Which makes sense when you consider how small an infants ween is. :( But I think it was just out for no reason, as I didn't see a little guy come back while I was there. Phew. I have to go back tomorrow and pray there isn't one there. I will have to politely decline AND bite my tongue all at the same time. How's that gonna work?? ;)

THE perfect food.

I swear, sushi is the perfect food and I am glad to be working in a sushi restraunt. I had a Cherry Blossom roll (no, can't remember whats in it....but there is cream cheese, and the top is covered in maguro aka raw tuna.) Its like a little bit of heaven with each bite. It took me about 5 minutes to move after I ate it I was in such heaven. Its been FAR too long since the restraunt closed due to fire. The end of September! And I have been going through withdrawls ever since. But NO MORE! Restraunt opened back up on Tuesday!! I will be working a max of 3 shifts a week. Which on clinical weeks will be pure torture....but I can do it. Its nice to have cash in the ol' wallet again.

Speaking of clinical weeks, this is one of them. And then Miss Moses Lake is this Sat. as well. And I am heavily involved in that.... Then Sunday, our group heads to the Miss Spokane pageant. So all in all, I may not be standing come next Monday. Oye. So don't be surprised if I don't show up here for a week. ;)

Toodles!

Good Day Sunshine!!!

Ah....I need my sunglasses. This is the life. The sun is shining, and its up to 19 degrees!!!

I've been busily preparing a speech for speech class tomorrow night. Decided to do it on the local part of the Miss America program, considering Miss Washington, Elyse Umemoto received 2nd runner up at Miss America on Saturday night. She's one awesome chicklet and great to be around.

We worked on setting up IV pumps in lab today, and then get checked off on that tomorrow. I hear this makes the nurses at clinicals happy, because there are lots of IV's to set up and they happily pass the buck on to us. I feel like I will be more official getting to push buttons, silence alarms, ect. ect. Silly I know. ;)

GACK!!!!!

Its been snowing for over 24 hours now and I am about to loose it. TURN THAT OFF!!!!!!

I told DH that I am pretty certain they need nurses in Jamaica or Baha California.

Could I have some cheese

with my whiiiiiiine.

Hey, at least now the weather channel says it feels like -1. Thats up 15 degrees from 2 hours ago. Blah. I told DH I can't feel my feet anymore.

Hey, at least I don't have to do laundry right? Pipes are frozen in the garage.

Oh! I have an idea, lets go ice fishing. Ha.

Hmmm....

Have I mentioned lately that its freaking cold? I couldn't even get the gas pump to work without just dribbling it in there before it would do its stupid auto shut off thing, while I am standing there, nearly frozen to the stupid pump. I can' t stand it. Its a balmy 18 degrees out there now. Frick. At least the sun is shining. Score one for the good guys.

That was a looong week.

These weeks with clinicals in them are going to be buggers. I'm pooooped to say the least.

so the pit mom delivered at 10:05 pm that night. 7 lbs 12 oz boy. Ahh....he was a sleepy fella too. Wouldn't nurse till much later the next day.

The section mom didn't nurse after we left. From the limited sign language and slow speaking (Spanish speaking) I gathered from the husband she was upset the baby wasn't getting anything because there wasn't much there. So of course you know this breastfeeding nazi gathered up some spanish pamphlets, the interpreter and marched myself in there. They took the info and next time I went in she was reading the info. There was no new bottle in there, so I was biding my time. A bit later, I had to do vitals on mom and baby, and asked/demonstrated if mom wanted to give it a go. Baby latched RIGHT on and both were content. Score one for the good guys!!! Even if she doesn't go for long, she will still be passing on some amazing gifts to her little girl each time she does nurse her. HOpefully they will continue for a while.

All in all, I was uber impressed with my 2 short days in OB. There were no other deliveries while we were there, so hopefully there will be more chances to witness a vag birth. And who knows, I still have my OR rotation, so perhaps then I will get to see another section.

I have a TON of papers to finish up. OB has the most stuff to do. Plus a test on Tuesday, lab on Tuesday, and videos to watch before that time. Oye. But heck, at least I will have a short break on Wed. and Thursday. Perhaps I can sleep? LOL

C-Section time!

Yeah, so thats what I got to watch first thing this morning!!! I really wasn't expecting that at all at 6:35 this morning. But at 8 am, a 9 lb 4 ounce baby girls head popped out of a womans stomach right before my eyes!!!

I never thought my first time witnessing a birth other than my own would be a c-section, but heck, I'll take it.

That and the fact I aced my test yesterday makes for a good week so far. ;)

Other women the nurse I was following had.... a 12 week gestation mom with some bleeding. Sent home on bedrest with a shrug from the OB. A 38 weeker being induced with #4, cause she 'can't have big babies'...mind you the biggest is 7 lbs 8 ounces. She started on pit at about 9 am...and was at about 1 cm when the OB checked her at 1:30 and maxed out on pit. Hopefully she will have delivered by the time I get there tomorrow at 6:30. I just really...don't get it. Ah well. Not my body, not my birth. Right? shut yer trap Tiarnna....

That wasn't so bad

So guess who had a snow day today?? Yeah, not me, but K and J did. lucky ducks. I think we've had more snow this winter than the last two combined, and its still the first week of the year!

But I was at class, bright and early for my calculations test. We have to take one each quarter to keep up on our math. I was glad I looked at everything yesterday, cause I wouldn't have passed if I didn't. Its funny how fast you loose stuff like that if you aren't using it....but like riding a bike, it came right back with a few practice problems.

Then it was lecture from 9-4 with an hour for lunch...and I get to do it again Friday. Minus the calc test, but adding in another class at 8. oye. But no labs or clinicals this week. I do have speech 101 Tues and Thurs nights. That will be fun on clinical weeks, when I have that from 6:30-3 on thursdays as well. Ah well, its a short quarter right?

Back to school!

School starts back up tomorrow for both me and the boys. There has been kicking, screaming, wailing and gnashing of teeth because of it. But the boys seem to be handling it just fine!

I just hate homework. I don't mind going to school....its just the part of having to do school stuff outside of class that gets to me. Blah.

I filled in my planner today with my schedule and I can hardly keep up with it. I have a nightclass (Speech 101) added in so I can for sure sit for my LPN licence at the end of summer quarter. Weird to think, that in 8 months I will be a nurse! Weee!!! (that is, if I pass.....but I will. RIGHT???)

My clinical group is in Othello, about a 35-40 minute drive from my house. Of course before dawn breaks. And its 2 days a week....everyother week. Then lab usually on Tuesdays, but some mondays this month because its a short quarter, and then class on Friday. I will usually have Mondays off...but not this month, again, because its a short quarter. :insert rolly eye guy here:. Me thinks they are just shoving too much crapola in there. Blah.

Anywho, this will certainly cut into my sewing time, as work will hopefully be starting up by the end of the month as well. I could really go for a nice cherry blossom roll right now.....yum. I will take a picture of it the next time I am blessed enough to eat it. Its covered in raw tuna....all red, hense being called a cherry blossom. Oh goodness...tummy growling. Heck, I'd even settle for a california roll at this point.