Matt

He's in the bathroom replacing the faucet and the p-trap now.

I love him.

Even after the 3rd run to Home Depot. He's my favorite plumber!!

There is a note on the washer that the hot water doesn't work. I love it when he writes "broken" notes. More then anything, I love that he plans on having it fixed or fixing it. This married thing has all kinds of rewards! I like it.

I waxed my armpits today.

Snappy headline? Boring blog stuff? I’ve read worse and much, much better!

I tend to blog surf a lot and have mentioned it before. On days that I am so tired from work or just too lazy to really accomplish anything, I find myself going from blog to blog looking for a good read. I have a huge list of “favorites” that I check in on once in a while. Today I spent a good two hours looking at them. Coupled with the last few days of laziness/surfing I have made some observations. I’m sure the words, “wow, she IS lazy” just went through your head. Probably. I worked three night shifts in a row after skiing a full day and my body went into shock/rebellion mode. Mix that in with the fact that Aunt Flow is on a flight into town and Matt and I had our first real fight, over something that I was right about. (Please keep in mind, she is on the flight) I can barely walk on my damn leg or say a nice word. On that note, I move on to the subject of this particular Blog.

I have yet to find a blog that is “musings” of a family with older kids. It would be so nice to see some funny pics and videos of teenagers. I personally have considered videotaping my daughter driving and posting it. It always ends up in a fight, no matter who she is driving with and especially with me. In my calmest voice I can say, ‘you need to get in the right lane” and she replies in that annoying teenager yell, “stop yelling at me!! You’re freaking me out”. Wouldn’t that be cute?? I guess because when they get to be teenagers, chit chatting about issues on the World Wide Web could make them just a little bit crazier. But dang, THAT would be fun! I bet I could get some pretty heavy sponsors if I threw in a 15 min. video of my 13 year old cleaning. Of course he is only cleaning so that he can be let free of the boredom of this house onto the mountain of snow and leaves his helmet in the locker at Brighton.

Some blogs, popular blogs, are really boring. I think a lot of success is brought to the infertile and tragic. I find absolutely no fault in this. Sometimes I’ll be up until late hours of the night reading blog after blog of tragedy. I am sure that what it does for them has nothing to do with my entertainment value or anyone elses.

Too bad they didn’t have blogging in 1989. Now that would have been interesting (OK, not so much). I’ve had kids for so long that no one even knows I had infertility problems and my first son is adopted. Someday I should write that story down. For now it is stored in the minds of me and my ex-husband. Told so many times that when Jake was about 3 he decided he wanted a “birth mother” too. What a crush to find out, at 3, that you only had one mom and that is all you would get.

Also in 1998, that would have made some very embarrassing to look back on blogging. Separated, left the church, divorce, move, nursing school AND some bad choices along the way that didn’t include any of the fore mentioned. I drank more then. Managed to raise some decent kids and never, ever was I a crack whore! Shout out to my friends that kept me sane and camping!

I also don’t have a fancy camera. I bought mine online on Costco for 215.00. I love it. It can take pictures fast, before my subject changes his/her/it’s mind. Of course, I am way too lazy to download the pics on a daily basis. Thus my “day” job.

So, although my blog is not necessarily humorous or complicated, it is there for my entertainment. My soapbox, if you will. Sometimes it’s funny (especially to me) and sometimes it’s just info. Hopefully I won’t look back and feel too bad about it. There is even a book on Amazon about blogging and 100 ideas for posts. Wow. I had no idea.

I do think mothers and fathers of teenagers should unite and post. Can you imagine the cooperation the youth would give us with the threat of public humiliation??

Hmmmmmmm. Just some deep thoughts…
Blog on.

Wedding Pictures

I talked to my photographer and it will be 1 - 2 weeks before all the albums are done and we get the pictures. I'm getting pretty excited to see them and share them with everyone.

Lyndsi took this picture, and wow were those cakes DELICIOUS!!! It's hard to believe they were cheesecakes they were decorated so beautifully. Thanks Christie!!

It will be interesting what the photographer comes up with. I wasn't the most cooperative bride. I was too busy having fun and he would ask me to do something and I would say yes, then immediately forget! hehehe....it's my party!!

complimentary post

I hate to go too long without a little note in my blog. Mostly because I like it when other bloggers post frequently, even if they are lame posts. Such as this.

Since I have been home from my honeymoon I have found myself bored bored bored. Planning a wedding was time consuming and forever on my mind. Now that it is over, I need to restart my hobbies and stuff I love to do.

Since running is still on my "love to do" list, I went to a sports medicine doctor to figure out the damn pains in my foot and leg. I think I already put my thoughts on that and the damn boot. EWWWW

But I do it and my little exercises, in hopes of hitting the 5 mile mark by maybe next September.

Mostly I have just been working. I need the money and they need the skills. Frankly I'd rather be at work sometimes then home for all that special housework and stuff that tends to be my responsibility. Actually I just finished three night shifts in a row, so if this post sounds a little pissy, then it is truly portraying my mood.

Here is a few fun pics from my place of work. OK, not too fun, but hey, it's my job.

These three boxes are the emergent cardiac med boxes. If we use these in a code then the patient is only charged for the medicines themselves and not the entire charge of the code cart. Using these pleases our pharmacist, Kyle to no end. Always pinchin a penny! Usually we only use one at a time, but the patients that I picked up had spent the night coding and having heart massage - so they just kept grabbing them. By the time I got on shift the patient was "stable" and I was cleaning things out. I took this picture to show Kyle. I think he tingled when I showed it to him!
This picture just doesn't do it justice. I had already cleaned up most of it. I really should have taken the pic of my shoe in the puddle of blood. I don't make a habit of blood-letting my patients, BUT, I happen to remove an IV line at the wrong point and it back bled onto the floor. Not the BED thank god!! It seems like a lot of blood, but it wasn't. His hematocrit was stable and my shoe was washed and is continuing it's role as foot stabilizer when I am at work. It was kinda funny though. I mean, there was blood on my arms!! After that point my day went much better - at least better then it had been going.

SO there ya go. What has basically been going on since the big event. I am not working so much this week, so maybe I will come up with a sweet and "I'm so happy I could die" post. I will work on it.

Blog on......