What a pretty day!

Just came in from playing outside with Anna. I think she spent most of the day outside between my sister and I. Man that girl loves outside! I have some cute picture to prove it but again with the undownloaded adobe...

If I did have the ability to post some of them, you'd see pictures of her dancing with the bubbles (the wind was perfect for big bubble wands), pulling flowers off our pear tree, drawing picture with chalk, calling for her bug Howard to "come back Howard! Its the girl that picked you up and put you in the purple bucket! Come on, come back to me!" at the top of her lungs. I don't like this new picking up every bug she sees thing. I thought that was boys? Ugh and shudder. I don't mind snakes or lizards.... I hate bugs. Except lightning bugs and butterflies. She is very much looking forward to lightning bug time- anyone know when they start appearing around here? Anyways, back to the pretty day- it was SO nice out. I'm so glad she can be outside again. I'm trying to find that balance between good sunscreen coverage so there's no horrific burn and the fish belly white alternative. I'm so afeared that I'll forget one day and she'll burn like her daddy does and blister and just yuck. I just thought, you know, my cousin from CA occasionally reads this blog and she maybe doesn't know how sarcastic I am at times so I'll clarify that I do know that "afeared" isn't a real word.... anywho again... my brain is making leaps all over the place today. I have a lot of things percolating in there- scary right? I need to sit down and make my list that I haven't made yet. Not having your list of things to do all written up isn't a good start to getting things done in a timely fashion is it? I am so tempted to actually save up some cash (so I don't feel guilty for spending it on something I should be doing myself) and pay someone to come in and totally clean every freaking square inch of my house. Cause dang - I REALLY don't want to do spring cleaning. And of course it needs it. I am beyond aggravated that every time I turn around something else is destroyed that two seconds ago was clean. I think I've mentioned that already on here for the last 10 blogs. It's just so frustrating! If I could just get it all done to perfection then maybe I could maintain it better. Anyone know a good cleaning person? :)
Ok off to make several lists. Seriously this time- I'm getting started...right now...

5 things

I'm looking forward to:
~a break
~some changes
~hands on experience at the hospital
~Anna's birthday trip to the aquarium
~getting my scholarship money so I can pamper myself a little :)


I miss:
~scrapbooking
~a beautiful sparkling clean house every day
~veg out time
~my friends
~running and actually being in shape enough to enjoy it

I need to:
~make my health/well-being a top priority
~study, study, study for the rest of the semester
~get motivated!
~get my pictures under control
~find better things to blog about

I am thankful for:
~Anna ... and a husband that works so hard so I can be home with her
~family
~new friends
~new possibilities
~my free time today courtesy of my wonderful sister...wonderful and fantastic sister

Things I absolutely MUST do today:
~make a to do list for the next few months
~put away laundry
~study
~pick up the house
~go to the store

No title tonight- too bad if you dont like it!

Trying out a new background- not sure I like it. Let me know what you think... or if you care
 *edited- background did NOT take.... all my text colors changed successsfully so that was irritating putting all those back.... I'll try again later....

Passed my second set of skills checkoffs. Whew. and yea!

We go to the hospital officially Monday- woo hoo! I'm so excited! I am officially cleared to do IV therapy, pass meds, put in a catheter, do vital signs, etc etc. With supervision of course ;)

I'm currently arguing with my professor over one point on a test. I'm rather irate over it. Irate over the fact that she totally screwed me on this point...and aggravated that I have to care about one stinking point! She said all she can say is that she's "considering it"-geez whatever- just give me the point lady- my answer came straight off YOUR dadblame notes!

I'm playing a LOT of farmville these days...

My sister passed her boards- yea Stacey! We're all super happy for you!

life is weird and ironic at times....and irritating

Anna cried the other night because we rearranged her sleeping areas 3 times, then she wanted to go back to the first one. When I asked her why she got out of it in the first place she said it was because she didn't realize she was being rude to herself! ha!

The first time I hooked up iv tubing, I remembered to clamp all but one of the clamps and then saline solution started flooding out of the firehose they call iv tubing, then my hands got wet and all slipperly and I kept dropping the tubing and then once I got ahold of the tubing, I couldn't grab ahold of the clamp. I think I emptied like half the bag of saline all over the floor and dummy arm before I finally got it stopped....that was fun.

I told Anna no more Easter candy today and she looked at me then spun around and walked rather quickly adn purposefully to her playroom. She "disappeared" from view for a few seconds then came calmly walking back in. Probably would have gotten away with it if she didn't smell like she'd just bathed in chocolate sauce. Apparently she stashed back a few chocolate eggs for an emergency such as this.

The Office is just really funny. Seriously.

I guess that's all folks. :)