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.......

p.s.

My rooster (Joon-since no one has ventured the correct guess, get it? Benny and Joon) has been attacking my mother now for the last few weeks. He's never said boo to me since he moved in over here. But when I got home on Friday, that evening as I was milling about the yard feeding and watering them all, he attacked me. Stinker. I yelled, hooted, and hollered and stomped my feet at that bugger. He came after me again as soon as I turned my back. A swift kick, and a warning that he wouldn't make it through the night if he did it again, and he stopped. I haven't let him out of the chicken yard since. LOL Somehow, I doubt that his little pea brain can take it all in though.....

Busy Much?

Oye. Where to start?

I have 21 chickens. Yes, thats right. I am not entirely sure what happened. I just kept coming home with them. :innocent: I have many different breeds, and finding out, that I have more cockerels than I bought. Which means I will have to bite the bullet and stock my freezer with fresh chicken soon. Boohoo. But....such is the life of a chicken mama right? Here are pictures of some of them. There are seven more that came after this batch. LOL Lets see if this slideshow works.......

As for school...thats going along nicely as well. We finished off spring quarter, and sailed right into summer the next week. I had clinicals two weeks ago in Wenatchee at the hospital. My first day was in the OR. I got to see some pretty cool stuff. The first surgery was the neatest....a nephrectomy and prostatectomy. And several other urology surgeries......on men......I shall spare you the details and let your imagine take you there. LOL The next two days, I ended up getting to hand out with that first surgery patient.

Then this last week I spent 4 days at Eastern STate Hospital. One of only two mental health hospitals in the state. Oye. Did you know that when someone pleads guilty by insanity, this is the place they go? Yeah.....some definate freaky stuff that I saw there, and lets just say, you don't always know where and when mental health issues will hit. One minute one of the patients will be sweet and kind, then the next yelling that she hates students and to get away. And its amazing to talk to some of them and they some as normal as anyone else. Sad. And there is such limited funding as well. At one point, this hospital had well over 2000 patients.....today its just over 300 and they are close to closing another ward because of money issues. Very sad. Ah well, I survived, and managed to not turn into a patient myself. The next 4 weeks will be here in town at the hospital for 3 days a week. I hear you really start to feel like a nurse after that. Which is good....considering that I can take a test and be one in about 6 weeks. Eek!

Tata for now......

Tag.....

This is my first time doing this....... LOL

Five things on my To-Do List:
1.Drink More Coffee
2. Eat my breakfast hubby is making. (its mothers day)
3. Go to Walmart to buy my mom a couple plants.......again, its mothers day
4. Go play outside in my garden
5. um......drink more coffee??

Five Favorite Snacks
1. Coffee (is there a trend here?)
2. Fondue-the white cheese kind.......with sour dough bread
3. Cadburry Cream Eggs
4. Salami
5. Iced Coffee


Five things I would do if I were a Billionaire:
1. Give back to all those who've given to us over our life time, and pay it forward. cheesy perhaps, but its the royal truth.
2. Build a huge house for us to live in
3. Hire a house keeper to clean that huge house
4. Finance a birth center for me to run
5. Fill my garage that I built with my house with corvettes. ;)

Five Bad Habits:
1. The computer
2. Ignoring the kids (see #1)
3. Demanding TV time
4. Drinking and driving (see my favorite snacks list........)
5. Yelling at my kids instead of intervening earlier.....

Five Places I have lived:
I'll list mine in order.....and then back and forth a few times inbetween.... LOL
1. Moses Lake, WA
2. Bakersfield, CA
3. Cheney, WA
4. Spokane, WA
5. Tustin, CA

Five Jobs I've had:
1. Home Interior Store assistant/cashier in Jr. High....couldn't do much, so I got to make a quilt using outdated fabric samples.....LOL
2. Doctors office assistant, front and back
3. Grocery Clerk
4. NAC
5. Pageant Helper . At Disneyland!!!

I want to know more about: ( This means you are tagged)In alphabetical order
1. Crystal
2. Kristina
3. Laska
4. does anyone else even read here? not that I know of......aside from Shannon who posted this....
5. YOU!

Whats new?

Just school school and more school. LOL

Iden killed one of the babies, so now I am back at four.....even though I bought five and hatched out 4. But the rest are getting big and are a hoot to watch. Moms are doing good too. Everyone is getting feathers in and trying out their wings.

Lets see.......oh yeah, have you heard about the measles outbreak in Grant County? Well, now I get to keep my kids home till the 20th-21st. Dates still up in the air. Uhg. So I've taken the next two weeks off of work so that R can work longer and on weekends to make up for the days I have clinicals or class. Oye. Nice. Ah well.

Beyond that, its finally warming up and I am planning on heading to the backyard to fry myself for a bit before its time to get Kainen. =)

Another one.....

bites the dust.

Kainen came in with tears this morning that one of the baby chickies was dead. Uhg. It was one of the Golden Sex Links. She better not be picking them off one by one. Either that or I need to coop the rooster up separately. Blah.

Meet yer mama cheep cheep!

Well, its been a busy week for me with clincals this week. It was a peds week, so on Tuesday I was at a developmental preschool, and then Wednesday at a pediatricians office.

Chickies were due to the feed store on Wednesday morning.....you can see my dilema.....school....chickies. So, I compromised. Took an hour lunch and got chickies at the store and home to meet mama. Here are the pics I took of that. There were 3 Auracaunas (but the receipt said Australorp, so not sure.....) and 2 Golden Sex Linked (meaning you can tell if they are a boy or a girl at birth by their color, these are all girls).







Mama wasn't sure what to think , and the babies sure as heck didn't know what to do, so they sat there and cheeped. She walzted away with her 4 babies clucking, but the new 5 were clueless. So I grabbed them all and shoved them into the coop and shut the door and hoped for the best. I quicky realized the new babies still didn't know what to do, so I opened it up and shoved them all under mama hen. Everyone seemed to stay put. So closed the door, gave some water to the rooster (no one has guessed his name yet....don't forget, mama is Benny) and went back to the clinic.

That night when I got home, I let everyone out and she seemed a bit more attending to the new ones. The golden sex links blended in well, but the black ones weren't. So, back in the coop, under mama they all went, and the roo went too.

The next morning everyone came out and she started pecking at the black ones. So I took them away from her. I was ticked. This was not in my plans. So here are the babies in their new home...in my bathroom.



Then I took everyone out for pics, and sat them next to golf balls for size comparison. LOL

Here is one of the Banty Buff Orps from Benny



Here is one of the Golden Sex Links from the feed store. They are a tad bigger than the others, with a few darker streaks here and there. A couple days older too based on their wing feathers.



And the black one



And then for some scratching time, I took the three orphans to a dirt patch with rolly pollys. It was quite cute and funny. One would grab it, run off and get chased by the other one. I could tell at this point one of the babies wasn't well.....



Shelbie was more than interested, and there were some slobbers on the babies afterwards..LOL





I took them in and fed them some worms from my vermicompost bin. THAT was hillarious. One would grab it, the other would run to it, grab it and a tug of war ensued. Never mind there were two others wriggling away. LOL

Later that night we moved them to the garage because we can't keep girl outta the bathroom and I didn't want her to get them. I realized one wasn't going to make it. I shed a few tears for sure. I felt really bad. It was gone the next morning. =( I had school that day, so off I went.

CAme home to an empty box. I was torked. Someone left the garage door open and the cats got the other two. Argh.

but now, there are three more at my moms house being fostered by her. LOL She got the last four at the feed store, one died on the way home. She's built them a box for outside trips and everything. I wonder if they'll ever come here? LOL

The other 6 out there are growing in wing feathers and so cute. They are scratching around and just a hoot to watch. Highly entertaining for me. =) My mom took her camera home so no new pics. But I'll get some in the next few days.

Two days old!

Mama took the babies out and about today. Gads they are cute. I really need to get a golf ball to compare their size. LOL

Eating oatmeal out of an oyster can. What better way than to jump right on top?





Daddy doesn't seem to mind them scurrying under him for a warm up. But I just missed the shot.



I dug up some dirt with roly polys and worms for them to scratch through.







ahh......they are so cute!! HOpefully if all works out I will be adding a few more in tomorrow after clinicals!