My friend Rainy has had her baby on November 24th. A sweet baby boy- that is such a doll in his pictures. Congrats girlfriend- I am so very happy for you. You had a long struggle, and you deserve this.
{{HUGS}}}
Catch up November 29, 2009
I am 1 hour into my 4.5 hour trip home- I am trying to catch up on blogs right now after my hiatus. 
I love cell phone internet connections on laptops!! I am currently riding shotgun down the interstate. LOL!
Thanksgiving was awesome. Everyone was doing wonderful, and it was so great to be at my mother’s. I helped paint some, and basically just sat around and talked. We had a fire last night and roasted hotdogs and made s’mores. Well- they did. I had a rootbeer float. I am not a big smores person. They are too sweet for me.
It was a great Thanksgiving- and I can’t wait to go home again later this week.
My friend is having a cookie swap, and I am going to head back up here for that. We have been trying to do it for about 4 years, but something always comes up. This year it is happening!!!
New Girl-VENT November 24, 2009
Where I work is a tightly knit group- we are like family. Not only that we are women….and nurses. We are all very nice, and supportive of each other, but when a new person comes in it is interesting. Similar to when a close friend in a group starts dating a new person. You are nice, helpful, but feeling them out. You look for any fatal flaws- both dreading and hoping you find them. You want to find them only to save heartache later down the road.
You all know what I am talking about.
I just finished day 4 of working. Ugh. Considering I am ‘as needed’ in my job status- this is a lot of hours. There has been another firing at work, so they are asking for more coverage from us “oldies” until the “newbies” get trained. Fun huh? The firing that just took place of a full-time RN was needed- she has been given too many chances, and was kinda crazy. Good Riddance.
Okay, so onto New Girl. I can’t stand her. I am not like this- I like people. I give people chances. I inherently like people. I have tried for two 8 hour shifts to like her. I can’t find one fucking thing. Oh, did I mention that she is pregnant? Yeah, icing on the cake. So for the past two days I have ALSO had to endure the “oh- weren’t you trying?” etc. etc. She is also and RN and a friggin’ KNOW IT ALL. I can’t stand nurses that act like they know more than you- especially when they are on the job only a few weeks. Nurses that roll their eyes while you are giving them RULES need to have them punched out of their sockets. (seriously you must let a doctor be AWARE that you told a patient to go to the ER…not just tell them to go b/c you think they might be having a stroke. WTF?!?!?)
Did I mention that she blames everything on “the baby’. I don’t really know how far along she is- and I really don’t want to know. That might show that I am interested in hearing about it. I am SO NOT. She is probably 20wks? She is larger in stature, so it is hard to tell.
Let me also mention that she (pretty much purposefully) called a patient “Mr. Sausage”. Okay, that was pretty funny- except for the fact that she started to say his name (started with an S), then said Sausage. Seriously. She is slightly crazy. Then she walked around telling everyone what she did, and called it “Pregnancy Brain” and saying that the baby is eating my brain. Then proceeded to take a 30 minute break to eat…at 9am. Took another at 11. I was supposed to go to lunch then, but she stated she HAD to feed her baby.
I can’t argue with that huh? Bitch. Several of the other girls at work said that I needed to tell her I had to feed my baby too. My Shit Baby. LOL!!!!
She was PISSING ME OFF.
Now I get to pack to go to my Mom’s tomorrow. YEAH!
Sucky Day November 22, 2009
ICLW- check out my About Me tabs and Timeline in the top right hand corner. Thank you all for your comments- and I am looking forward to finding some new blogs.
For all my established bloggy friends- I am sorry I have not been commenting lately. I have had a hard time keeping up with my mom visiting, working, etc. If anything major is happening/has happened- I will catch up. I am hoping my husband’s broadband card will work on our 4.5 hour drive to my mom’s Wednesday. I will get lots done then. LOL!!! If you know something is going on with someone- or something is going on with you- please let Mel know at the LFCA (Lost and Found). I do check that everyday for major things.
Today was a sucky day in that I had to say goodbye to my Mom- that always sucks. At least I am going to see her in a few days though. I then went to my favorite restaurant to watch the game. We lost to a team we shouldn’t have. The bar we were at was full of Steeler Haters. They were not even rooting for The Chiefs-they were just rooting against the Steelers. It sucked ass. I am not used to that- I mean seriously! I don’t do trash talk. I take it personally, and I don’t do it. At one point the a drunk ass idiots said something about I needed to put Roethleisberger’s jersey on instead of Ward’s so there wouldn’t be so much empty space on either side of the name. (ie- I was fat).
Joke was on them b/c our waitress said the entire table had about 8 or 9 TALL drinks and had just closed out their tabs. There were four cops at the door checking drivers. LOL!!! Apparently a lot of people are leaving drunk from there. They had a wagon and were arresting. I don’t know what happened b/c I got a crazy insane migraine- left right at the end to go work a little early. I got there 40 minutes early to lay down and try and fight the migraine. Three maxalts, 800mg ibuprofen, a venti coffee from Starbucks, and an ice pack later my migraine went away. (Yes, I took the Maxalts 2 hours apart…it took 6 hours to get that migraine totally gone)
I got a mesasge from my best friend (Miss Sweetness) today that my doggy niece died yesterday. 
I am sad.
I am craving Macaroni Grill’s bread with olive oil and cracked black pepper….migraines, irritability…I do believe I am about to start my period. Crap. I could jump in a bathtub full of baked macaroni and cheese, pop a bunghole on a keg of Cakebread Pinot Nior, read some Diana Gabaldon and be in heaven. Double crap-I just got the memo that bathtubs melt in the oven. humm…….
ICLW with Sweet and Gross November 22, 2009
oooo…I totally dropped the ball on this one. I was at work today, and forgot to turn my phone off. Everytime I got an email “blinkyblinkyblinky” would echo in the med room where we keep our purses. Okay- I am not good with making musical notes float on the screen. It was some canned blackberry alert going off each time I got a comment.
This is how I realized it was ICLW. Did I miss an email from Mel? I haven’t been checking my Google reader lately so I may have missed something. ANYHOOO!!! Those that don’t know- or that DO and need a refresher. Check out my ABOUT ME section here. Then click over HERE for our lovely TTC timeline. Wooo hooo. If read a little, like what ya read- leave me a little hug- just a quick comment. If you want to read the “TOP SECRET” posts, I just need to protect myself some- so please include your email and your website in your comment. I will let you know what the super secret password is. That is-if I like your template on your blog site. If it is boring I won’t tell you. LOL! JUST KIDDING!!!
In all honesty- there are just certain things we all must do to feel secure out in this abyss of the internet.
LOL! I got quite a few today. Who knew that trying to figure out how to mop my floor would become such a hot topic. Now I am anxious to try all the suggestions! My mother is down right now (hence the blogging ignoring- that and working), and she has convinced me to get a mop/broom thing that is like microfiber- has long pieces that pick up everything. They use it at the veterinary clinic she works at, and the very rarely need to vacuum. Then they swiffer.
I do like my swiffer vac- but I just have to change stuff out all the time. Maybe we are just trashy people and I just need to get used to it!! I honestly like the idea of the swiffer wet jet- and LOVE how much it picks up…but I don’t like any of the formula really. They streak and make my floor sticky/gummy. I may try and see about putting other stuff in the containers b/c I like the idea of it.
The steam mop kinda freaks me out b/c I actually have laminate- not real hardwood. I am so scared that it will damage it
Oh- so why am I doing another post on MOPS!?!?! Good gravy when I did I become so boring.
What is new with me- My mother has come to visit. She got here on Thursday at lunch. We have had some good food, and some drinks! We went to a local junior league christmas shopping extravaganza, and then a downtown year-end arts on the street night. It was a beautiful night on friday-blue jeans and t-shirts or long-sleeved T kinda night. I love store’s open houses. You get wine, cheese, pate, samples, look at all sorts of stuff- art, jewelry, etc. Most all by local people. It is just awesome. At one Jewelry store the guy gave me a whole bottle of Corona Light-WITH lime. My dear mother grumbled after he got her Dixie cup shot of wine “Shot of wine for the geezer, whole beer for hottie” Hee hee. That made me laugh. I am not a ‘hottie’ kinda person, so this comment was hysterical for some reason.
Today we visited with my next door neighbor/long-lost cousin. It was very interesting to hear them talk about life growing up (they are two years apart), and what the other one remembers about stuff. My mom started crying when my cousin/Neighbor was speaking fondly of her father (my mom’s father”) She called him “Uncle D”, and my mom kinda lost it. The D is short for a nickname of course- but only the people very close to him called him that. My mom hadn’t heard another person say that in long time (her sisters call him Daddy), and it really touched her. (well me too, but I was bumbling mess anyways.
I LOVE having my mom here. We are just perfect for each other- in the mother/daughter kinda since of the word. My poor mother inadvertently said something that hurt so deep though today- I KNOW she never meant it, and she wasn’t really even talking to me. She was talking to my cousin- they were talking about their children and catching up over the 40 years since they have seen each other. My aunt has had a son (military) and daughter(medical) to die in the last 5-7 years. They were talking about love, and how a mothers love is like nothing else. You know you love your husband, your mother, your father- but until you have a child you never really know what true love is. She said “it just blooms out of you, and is the most beautiful,peaceful, wonderful, untouchable, ultimate love. There really is no way to know that depth until you have a child” sniff sniff.
She was totally talking to my cousin- and I really think she had kinda forgot I was there. BOY- did I feel like I was in the hot seat though. I got all squirmy, and teary. My cousin starting her part of this verbal badminton game and my mother reached over to pat my knee in a “I love you so much, you are my reason for living” way, and she saw my face. Mom is a great master of the mask. She just squeezed my leg and patted my knee- smiled looking straight in my eyes. I knew she realized that hurt me, and she was asking for forgiveness- I accepted and told her I understood. I want to love a child like she loves me. This was all in our secret mother/daughter language we have.
Later she did verbally apologize to me, and I verbally said what I just wrote- and she said that is how she thought I felt. LOL! Um, is anyone following this still b/c I am starting to confuse myself in telling the story. HA HA HA
SO. Moral of this story is. I love my mom. I adore my mom. I want to be just like my mom.
Awwwww. Then we went and gorged on some gyros and humus that later gave me horrid gas at work. Someone had the BRILLIANT idea to go buffalo wild wings to get some dinner after work. I went and picked up my Mum and we met them there. 5 nurses and a Mom freezing their asses off b/c we could only sit outside b/c of the UFC championships!!
HA HA HA. So there I added some HOT wings (moving up from Medium) to my churning stomach. (Why do I do this to myself?)
*****TMI ALERT*****
By the time I got home I just knew I was going to be on a TLC show…either “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” or “I Gave Birth to a Bowling Ball Sized Turd” Seriously If labor is much worse than that…give DRUGS DRUGS AND MORE DRUGS. I seriously thought I was going to crap out my left tit! UGH.
So- now here I am blogging about sweet things, Gross things…and all things mundane.
Domestic Question November 18, 2009
I am currently having issues trying to figure out how to best clean my hardwood floors. I am currently vacuuming with a dirt devil stick vac- but it hardly pics up stuff. It is just a dust buster on a stick. BLAH. I need more than a 2 inch strip at a time of level 2 out of 10 sucking strength.
I am also using the “Quickie” (ironic huh?) and some hardwood floor spray for the wet cleaning of the floors.
I am stumped. I am in information overload. I want a basic stick upright (not full-sized), corded, no brushes (I am really worried about harming the floor.). So that leaves what??? I am so confused.
Had anyone used anyone of these? Hate any vs. Love any?? I have to do floors everyday to try and stay ahead of it, and it is driving me nuts.
On a plus side I scored a really cool Steelers 5.5foot by 8 foot area rug for out exercise room. YEAH! Now I can feel calm going in there and Wii fiting. I have been nervous doing it with just the bare floors.
That is all for now. I can’t wait for my mother to get here. She can help me pick out some stuff for sure. She is good at spending other people’s money. LOL!!!!
Thank you for all the suggestions for the FSA- Jenedis…I may take this time to try out acupuncture! Why not- have to spend it on something!
Funny thing to day- my husband is getting curious about my Facebook page. He has always been so scornful and snearing when he would talk about it. So, he finally got curious and was browsing on mine (i don’t care much- he mom is my friend, so I don’t have anything to hide.)
My DH has discovered Facebook stalking. He started searching for people and viola! There they are!!! Then the statements came “Oh- she got really skinny/fat/married AGAIN/etc. etc.etc… I noticed when he started realizing how many of his “old crew’ have children now. He didn’t way anything at first, but he would go really slow and drag the mouse over what he is looking at (a particular habit he has). I could see him looking at each child and each friend that is now a daddy or a momma. I took that clue to just walk away and let him work through this.
Then I hear “It is almost fucking CHRISTMAS! This is in sane. It is 945pm right now, and it was just 845pm just a second ago. Our lives are just sliding out from under us and we can do nothing about it. How sad.”
uh, I didn’t really know what to say b/c I didn’t want to be all – well since you mentioned it…you need to do thus and such. So I took the middle road and said “It is going by fast-at least all this Christmas stress will be over soon!!”
okay, so I pretty much copped out. I can’t take anymore right now. I knew where he was coming from, but I just couldn’t pick at that scab again soon.
Ta ta for now> gotta go to sleep!
No update November 12, 2009
Just an FYI- there is not recent update about the story I posted about the abandoned toddler in B’ham, AL. I asked some family members and they had not even heard about it! CRAZY!! There are very few comments on the local tv’s website, and one seems to be from a family member that says they are trying to get him and his sister back. That is the only thing!! You would think this would be at least updated by that news channel!
I have sent emails and requests- nada.
Okay, second request. Is Chelle out there? I can’t even link to her blog b/c it has been deleted. She delivered her twin girls on the 8th. She then develped HELLP- posted about that and promptly disappeared. I am just worried sick about her- has anyone heard anything? Chelle- are you a lurker now? Are you out there?
I miss you.
When will I learn? November 11, 2009
If you are coming from LFCA-Please Check out this story about an abandoned toddler in Birmingham, AL. This is my previous post with all the information on it.
Most people learn from their mistakes…most sane people do things to keep the same mistakes happening. They take measures to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
I apparently don’t. My mother called to verify my sister’s address b/c she is sending Christmas presents early (my sis lives at the North Pole- ha ha). I told her, but wanted to verify the zip code b/c we both thought the same thing. I had just gotten out of the shower and was drying my hair.
Next blue part is a little TMI- skip forward a bit if you don’t want to read it… hee hee.
It takes a long time to dry this hair…it gets hot. I am in the sanctity of my own home. Therefore- I blow dry my hair stark naked. I have tried wraps,robes, towels, etc. I just get sweaty and yucky feeling- and end up feeling gross when i wear something. Blech.
So I don’t wear anything. I go out to the kitchen and look in the backyard and say to my mother “hope the pool people or lawn guy isn’t here-chuckle chuckle” I peered (butt naked remember) thought the door to the front of the yard where the normally park. Nada.
I was a free woman! Free to attempt the opening scene to a 2 am movie on Cinemax.
I walk into the office, get the address book and tell my mom the correct zip. I turn around and.
oh yeah, you guessed it. Not one but BOTH the pool guys tending to my pool. I have no idea if they saw me when I sauntered to the office, but I am pretty sure one of them did when I was walking out b/c he dropped the Polaris.
I immediately hit the deck, while my mother (who is still on the phone) says “they were in the backyard huh? Dear, when will you learn it is your luck that they will be out there?”
So, here I am. Sitting on the floor behind the desk in my office. Waiting for the to finish the pool treatments and cleaning. (needs a little help b/c of the tropical storm).
Legs are getting a little cramped.
Do you tip pool people for Christmas? I think they need a big tip b/c I feel really really sorry for the sight that is now burned into their retinas. God bless them…I hope they don’t have nightmares.
If I keep this up I am going to become “that crazy lady that always walks around her house naked when service people are there. LOL.
