Check, check, and check!

This past weekend was crazy busy. I don't know what I was thinking when I scheduled all of the things that I did. I have to turn in my paper sometime in the next couple of days, get through another clinical day, put the finishing touches on my management presentation and then work on Friday night and I think that I may actually be able to enjoy the rest of my weekend. It's been awhile since I've been able to do that.
Today I was with the EP Fire Dept. I was doing the ambulance ride along portion of clinicals. I was bored out of my gourd for 7 hours and 15 minutes of the day and then the last 45 minutes we got our first call and I got to go. It wasn't anything serious, but we had to transport someone to the hospital. Atleast then I was awake. I seriously could have nodded off a couple times throughout the day. I'm not used to getting up at 5a and then not doing anything. I need to keep moving if I'm gonna keep my eyes open. Everyone was really nice though, so that made it good.
Things are starting to draw to a close with school. I paid my $300+ for graduation/NCLEX, so that was kind of painful, but atleast it's one more thing I can check off of my list. Speaking of list....

Two One presentation.
Three Two Exams.
Three Finals.
Four Three papers.
700 600 NCLEX/MedsPub questions (approximately).
Five Four shifts left of work on 2400.
One girl's weekend.
Two more MOPS until graduation.
One concert.
One retreat.
Seven Six weeks until Graduation.
Six Five weeks until finals.

Things are moving along quite smoothly. As long as I can get through my management presentation this next Tuesday it should be smooth sailing. I can't wait until the calendar moves to November! It's been downright chilly out in the morning and although I love it, I'm pleased that these last few days of October will be sun-shiny and "warm". Quite frankly I just want to turn the page on my calendar. My October was so busy that it gives me a headache just looking at it.

Well, I should really look over my paper again before I hand it in and put some last few things in it. I'll be so happy tomorrow afternoon. I just want this week to be over with already. I'm exhausted!

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Posts Up!

My Reba/Kelly concert post is up as well as the Extreme Makeover Home Edition guest post from Holli and Lisa. Check 'em out!

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Tag! I'm it...again!

My good friend Robin has tagged me again. Here it is...

Here are my random/weird facts:

1. I hate to see other people embarrass themselves. In fact, it embarrasses me to see them embarrassed. I always cover my face with my hand.

2. I was a pretty ridiculous hockey fan for about 3 years. Would never miss a local game.

3. I can't stand children singing in "adult" songs. (Example: The end of Casting Crown's Slow Fade.) I know I have that song on my playlist but, I just skip the last 15 seconds. The rest of the song is good...

4. I have an impeccable memory. I can remember things from when I was a toddler. My family always used to joke about how good my memory is, but they love it now when they need to know something that their feeble memories could not hold on to. :)

5. Having my feet touched by strangers weirds me out. Pedicures are not likely in my future. However, I would totally be up for a massage... weird, I know.

6. I check my calendar about 50 times a day. Even if I checked it 5 minutes ago, I check it again. I have a constant fear of forgetting something or overlapping appointments. Ha!

7. I tear up at the slightest things. I never used to do this. I'm going to be a fountain of tears in my job I think. Haha! Oh well, that's compassion right? I guess that's not so weird after all....

More posts to follow, but probably not until later this afternoon. oh, and I'm well aware that I didn't do the last two parts of this tag. Guess I don't follow directions too well. :)

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"Unknown Precipitation"

That's what the Yahoo! Weather button says.

I'll tell you what it is.... it's windy and little flecks of SNOW! That's right! You heard me correctly! SNOW! I saw it with my own two eyes on teh way home from work. Craziness!

BTW, I drove by the Extreme Makeover Home Edition house and it is so bright on that block that it looks like daylight. No joke! The poor neighbors that have to sleep on that block.

Oodles of pictures and stories from this last weekend. Some hints... Hospitality, Delayed, and Bob the Builder. :)

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Guest Post: Extreme Makeover Home Edition Experience!

This post is from Holli and Lisa who got to help out during EMHE's visit to our town. This is their experience with pictures taken by Dad. Enjoy!

From the mouth's of the babes that experienced it...

We arrived at the park for check-in at a little after 3:00. The website said for volunteers to arrive 30-45 min ahead of time. So, of course, we were a little earlier than that. They couldn’t actually check people in until 3:30. We stood in the heated tent with Enoch, the security guard. He was trying to get the masseuse to give him a massage. She was there to give the workers at the site massages if wanted. He just went up to her and autographed her shirt. She didn’t ask him to. He was cute though so she didn’t mind. This is where we met our soon-to-be new friend Gerry.

After we checked in we got on the bus about 3:40 and our driver took us right over. There were about 15 of us. There was a masseuse, a set of twins, an electrician, a guy who was just happy to be there, a Bradley graduate and a girl who thought the Bradley graduate sounded way too smart.

So, we arrive at the site. We start walking and we hear cheering from the crowd. Who might it be? Dad and Mom. We were walking with the twins and had to explain those were our parents cheering. Once we got by the house we didn’t see anyone to direct us so we asked someone what we should do. They said I don’t know, look for someone in a yellow shirt. Didn’t find anyone in a yellow shirt so we just started unloading hardwood from the truck and took it to the basement. After a couple trips we got pulled to the backyard to help unload deck material. Then reload the wrong deck material. Back to unloading the truck. Holli’s hard hat would not stay on her head. She would walk by someone carrying her box and say “Hi, can you catch my hat, I’ll be right back for it.”



After we finished unloading, we went in the house and stood for a little bit because there wasn’t anything to do at the moment. Then we got sent to the garage to sweep it out so we could move the extra trim out there. After a couple trips of moving trim we were setting a load down and hear “Hi Ladies!” We turned around and there is Michael (the designer) in a chicken/bird costume. We follow him in the house to get more trim and they are filming a scene. The crazy, aggressive lady we were with was ready to just barge on through the camera crew. We waited for a minute but then she took off so we followed. After that we kind of lost her and watched them finish taping Michael’s scene.

(Way to go Dad! This wasn't even zoomed in!)

More standing around. Talked with Gerry a bit and she mentioned that Rib (hottie designer) signed her shirt. Well, we had seen him standing in the garage so Holli said “Lisa, let’s go.” Holli went up to Rib and whispered “Can we get your autograph?” To which he said, “Sure” and pulled out his Sharpie. Back in the house to wait with Gerry.

Then we went with our other friend from Washington whom we forgot to ask her name. We cleaned up wood shavings in the laundry room from the holes they drilled in the cabinets for the knobs.

Next, is the exciting part. We were standing there…again and one of the “men in black” came up to us and asked if we could come help him with something. Of course we went with him. Much to our surprise he wanted us to film a scene with Didi (designer). As we were waiting, Didi came with two guys she had grabbed and said she thought it would be funnier with two guys and a girl. Holli said “Ok, well I’ll do it.” Lisa was left on the cutting room floor before she even made it on film. (Sorry Lisa!) After several takes, Holli emerged from the room. Watch when the episode airs to see if she made the cut. (Do not be alarmed when you see her in the hard hat. It was a sight.)

Meanwhile, the rejected Lisa was sent to Production Road by a producer to take a package to the third trailer on the right. She completed her mission with honor.

Holli found Lisa carrying a ladder in the house to Ty’s secret room. Holli followed. Lisa was assigned to help clean in that room and Holli was assigned to stand guard of the door to make sure it stayed shut. We met several nice people in that room. No sign of Ty though. He was off filming a “move that bus” scene in another city.

Our shift ended and it was time to go. We said goodbye to our new friends and went to the food tent to eat dinner. As we were walking it started snowing. Crazy!

It was a wonderful experience. So glad we got the opportunity to do it. Tune in to see if we made it on national TV as Aunt Betty hopes we do. It should air in December or January.

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Reba and Kelly...dog tired and waiting

So we had spent Friday night and all day Saturday at Ladies' Retreat and then the three of us being the crazy sisters that we are, headed off to "Po-dunkville" for the Reba McEntire/Kelly Clarkson concert. This probably wasn't our smartest idea ever, but we missed their concert the first go around, and didn't want to miss it again. The drive there was a little over an hour and a half and it felt like most of our drive was spent sitting still in traffic only a few blocks away from the Center.

The concert was set to start at 8pm. We got in our seats at 7:50p. We sat and waited. And waited. And waited a little bit more. At about 8:20p a man came over the loud speaker and informed us that the concert was going to be a little delayed (uh, yea..ya think!) because Reba's plane was delayed. She was still in Minnesota! Kelly was in the building, but seeing as it was the '2 Worlds, 2 Voices Tour' it wasn't going to happen without the other half.

The new start time was set for 9:15p. I thought Lisa was going to fall right out of her chair. She was hoping it was cancelled so we could go home, Holli and I were praying it wasn't because we really wanted to see them. So, we did what anyone in this situation would do to keep busy. That's right folks... we pulled out the Sudoku! Lisa was fading fast and nobody was too happy about the extended wait. Plus, there was a creepy older woman in front of us who just kept turning around and staring. At one point I heard her tell her husband "I'm watching the people come in." She said it in a slow creepy way though. *Shudder* Why must we always get stuck by the nut jobs?

Finally, at about 9:25 the lights went down and the crowd cheered. The concert was beginning...

(Guest appearance by Melissa Peterman aka Barbara Jean from the Reba tv show)

Here's a little video that I took. Sorry it's so shaky. My arms were tired, and I had to hold the camera over a bunch of people's heads.

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Senior Project: CHECK

Well, the week is done for me. As I type this I was all of a sudden overwhelmed with fatigue.

Today I presented my senior project after clinical. Talk about nervous! We had to wait an entire day before presenting. That's just not nice! I was within the time limit and should have my grade by the weekend... I hope.

Two One presentation.

Three Two Exams.

Three Finals.

Four papers.

850 700 NCLEX/MedsPub questions (approximately).

Six Five shifts left of work on 2400.

One girl's weekend.

Two more MOPS until graduation.

One concert.

One retreat.

Eight Seven weeks until Graduation.

Seven Six weeks until finals.

Now that this big hurdle is over I can move on to papers and my last presentation. The weeks are winding down and graduation is creeping closer. The excitement is building!!

This weekend is Ladies' Retreat at church. I'm going to try and cram in as much work as I can in the next 22 hours before I leave, so that I don't have to worry while I'm not home working on school work. My goal tonight is to do more NCLEX questions and knock out 80% or more of my paper that is due in a week and a half. Not sure if it can be done, but I already have 40% done, so it shouldn't be too difficult... I hope.

Well, I better get to work. Hope you all are staying dry on this rainy Fall day. :)

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