Sister K

fc weekend con't...

2009-09-07T18:53:00.002-07:00

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fan club weekend cali :)

2009-09-07T18:47:00.000-07:00

fc weekend....a few pix....good times!\

what happened to bedtime?

2009-06-02T19:57:00.000-07:00

it's been a long time and not many people read this, but is it me or do people not have bedtime for the lil' kids anymore? at work i see it all the time. it'll be midnight and some family is dragging the baby, the toddler, the cousin, the cousin's sister, the cousin's sister's cousin (ok you get it) into or out of the unit. tonight i was at the grocery store (Tuesday) at 9pm and it was like Saturday afternoon. even if school's out, shouldn't the kids be at home getting ready for bed, or at least winding down?

learning to share...

2008-10-26T06:57:00.001-07:00

all sisters need to share...zoe and garfield are getting there :)

smart helper zoe

2008-09-22T15:32:00.001-07:00

helper zoe helping me look for files...she's so smart!

zoe getting beauty sleep :)

2008-09-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

zoe's bathtime

2008-09-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

"i'm ready for my bath now"

off to the wrong start...

2008-09-04T08:09:00.000-07:00

last night i got ready for work. i got to the door and tried to put stuff in my shirt pocket on my uniform...cursing myself for picking the top with one pocket, and still not being able to find it, i slowly realized i had my top on inside out!!! oh boy! i couldn't wear it because then it had marked deodorant (at least people could tell i was clean) on the inside outsides....the night only proceded to get better from there (can you feel my sarcasm dripping between the letters?)

every cloud has a silver lining

2008-08-31T19:20:00.000-07:00

with hurricane gustav rapidly approaching over in the next state, tonight, here was the calm before the storm as i headed out of the supermarket....every cloud has a silver lining...

zoe wants to eat at the big girl table...

2008-08-24T15:27:00.001-07:00

i came downstairs and saw this the other day...i think zoe might be telling me she's ready to eat at the big girl table :)

3 miles

2008-08-24T15:26:00.001-07:00

3 mi. week for the long run....feels like it's short compared to 6! lol...next sunday will be 7.5 miles...i think i can, i think i can...

2008-08-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

in the spirit of new hairdos here's david and mandy's latest creation :)

loving the olympics!

2008-08-13T15:05:00.000-07:00

i haven't written in awhile..partly because not very many people read this and partly because i click on it and don't feel like signing in to write a new post! lol...but i thought i'd write because i have decided to try to train for another marathon. this time the AZ phoenix PF Chang rock 'n roll in AZ. i hope my physical condition and the weather conditions are a bit better than the L.A. marathon i did w/ mom in 1999 but it seems fitting that it'll be 10 yrs. since my 1st marathon. so far i'm up to 5 miles for my sunday long run. this sunday goes back to 2.5 miles. keep your fingers crossed! :) as always the summer olympics is a terrific inspiration!!!!!!!

ta da! come on over!

2008-06-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

ever since my backyard chair incident (scroll to some past blog here for pix), i've needed/wanted to get some patio furniture. my patio is not huge but it's very garden"y" back there and so everytime i go to the grocery store, i've been checking out the sets and chairs they have. but then pass them by. so i decided to head out to walmart today just to look and see what they had. anyone who knows me well knows i'll wait forever to get something until i see just the right thing...hence me waiting 2 years to get my couch way back in cali (also the money saving thing, but whatever...lol)...so at walmart i saw a green padded couch, two chairs and coffee table set that was so cute! i was gonna go for it but in reality, i do not have a pickup truck and did not know if the set would a. fit in my car and b. fit on my patio. so i finally, after lots of sitting and rearranging of models, opted for THIS one :) same fabric on cushions pretty much but more bistro...i think it's bali bistro...or something fun like that :) and so the kind gentleman helped me get it off the shelf, to my car, and out of the box so the pieces would fit on the way home :) and then....i had to build it. myself. ARGH!!!! i think i read the directions out loud at least 15-20 times for the chair and i still have to tighten the table, and there's glass for the top of the table that i don't want to put on yet, but voila! i feel accomplished. and it looks good too (if i do say so myself)!

zoe's tent...

2008-06-24T13:09:00.000-07:00

yes, i am a sucker for wandering the kitty toy isle at walgreen's when i go. and perhaps zoe's kitty playland is more than it should be. because i'm a sucker like that. and becuase i feel guilty for leaving her home. did i mention that i'm a sucker like that? so last night i had to go to walgreen's and lo and behold, a new kitty toy! a kitty tent that comes all folded up the size of a piece of bread! you know i had to try it. and you know i had to take a picture becuase it was a bigger hit than i'd anticipated. so watch out pixie and kippah! one might be headed your way! zoe goes in and out of it and rolls it all over the floor. you can get another one and attach them together too! lol...hmmmmm....i'd better stay away from walgreen's!

50th post...really? cool...

2008-06-02T10:32:00.000-07:00

50th post...thought it might be neat to note :)

where's zoe?

2008-05-26T15:33:00.001-07:00

zoe? zoe? where are you? not in her usual places, i figured she was somewhere clever...and here she was! that's my baby girl!

zoe & her friend puppy...

2008-05-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

"whatchu talkin' about willis?

2008-05-13T18:09:00.000-07:00

sometimes it's nice to stop and smell the flowers.....this is what life's about....

visitors to my new house!

2008-05-12T16:59:00.001-07:00

it was pretty cool to be able to host my family at my own house! thanks for a great weekend!

the silver lining of being congested

2008-04-20T11:42:00.001-07:00

so i admit. i think i caught slightly more than a bad case of allergies. i think. so i caved and made my way outta the house last night at 10pm to go get nyquil. those people r smart. they now package dayquil and nyquil together. if you want them. but i'm afraid i'd still zonk out w/ the dayquil. that's ok. the sleep i got from the nyquil was soooooo nice. until 7am when zoe brought me a toy to play with. she's cute like that..lol...all i can say is thank goodness i have one more day off today!! at least i had an excuse for being lazy last night. 16 candles was on! woo hoo jake ryan :)

left side draining...

2008-04-18T15:31:00.000-07:00

i'm fighting allergies like tyson fights in the ring (ok, so he's the only fighter i can think of right now). today is my drain day. after having such pressure in my head that i wanted to just pop a leak in my sinuses to let it all out. so finally i'm draining. out my left nostril. i can breathe. i just keep draining. so how is it that it only drips (floods?) out one side? i guess i'm happy that at least it's coming out from somewhere!

zoe's new "house"

2008-04-05T07:40:00.000-07:00

zoe loves her new scratch house! i do too! she loves to play on it, scratch on it and most of all, use it as a stepping stone to get up to the window sill (yes! she still likes to come across the desk, but she'll use that route too)

tired from taxes....

2008-03-27T19:08:00.000-07:00

zoe was playing all while i tried to do my taxes but once i was done, she was worn out! lol...dark pic but look to the left of the screen! she's growing :( i suppose it's a good thing but she's filling out for sure.

zoe prepares for harvard

2008-03-16T20:07:00.000-07:00

apparently zoe likes all kinds of mice!

bonding with zoe

2008-03-15T16:06:00.000-07:00

zoe is working on the bonding today. she comes out sometimes but still gets kind of scared when i actually stand up to move around. baby steps. but we had a great nap together this afternoon (ON the couch, not under :)

Welcome Zoe :)

2008-03-14T16:26:00.000-07:00

well, i finally decided to take the plunge and adopt a baby kitten! she's so cute. a little shy, but that's ok. i was with a friend today and we decided just to look (she already has kids and pets so i guess it really was more for me). anyway, when all was said and done, i walked out with a baby girl. here's the e-mail they sent me already. her name started out as hot tomale, but decided to make her first name zoe. she's very cute and as soon as i can get her to come out from under the couch again i can take some more :) (i did once and she totally purred but when i showed her where the food was, she rand back under the couch so i didn't get pix)...i tried not to make this a spur of the moment thing. hopefully it will be a good decision! she's just 5 months :)

radish sproutlings are here!!!

2008-03-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

i've never had my own garden. so this year, a couple of weeks ago and a day, i decided on a whim to plant radishes when i went to home depot to get a washer. they sounded pretty hardy according to the package, and i do love to eat radishes! so i took my new garden tools and after turning over the dirt in the garden all the way around the yard, i planted my packet of radish seeds. kind of like the directions said. only i didn't have a big space for the experiment so i dumped all of the seeds in 2 rows! it's rained a few times since then. i have no idea if they'll come up or if i have the right conditions or not, but today (It had rained this am too) i decided to do radish watch (say that 10x fast in a row!) and saw a green speck in the soil. upon closer inspection, i realized it did not appear to be a weed! so i moved a little dirt lightly with my hand and saw a WHOLE LOT of little seedlings sprouting through!!! i guess i can liken the feeling (sorta) to parents seeing a sonogram for the 1st time! lol...can't have a guy, can't have a dog, might as well have radishes....

2008 bday do :)

2008-02-27T18:50:00.000-08:00

having been 5+ months since my last haircut, and a not terrific one at that, it was time for me to get a little more professional and find a new "do." here's to good upkeep! lol...

garden guy

2008-02-17T11:37:00.000-08:00

the other day i was going to work and opened the garage and when i did, a little salamander guy ran through faster than a cheetah! i tried to keep up with him (until he ran out the opened door) but he went somewhere and i'll be darned if i know where. so torn between needing to get to work and getting on my knee without really getting on my knee to dirty my uniform, i was trying to make sure i didn't see any kind of hole in the wall. i finally surrendered and went to work hoping i wouldn't later find him in my bathtub or bed. this morning, after a day of rain and rainbow yesterday, the sun is brightly shining so in taking a tour of my garden to assess new growth and weed growth (boy do i know where the phrase growing like a weed comes from), i saw this little garden guy hanging out in the sun. right where he should be. i hope it's the same one as the one who fled w/ fear in my garage, but this guy didn't move when i stepped closer, so hopefully he'll spread the news to his relatives that the garden is much more fun!

Healthy Home Decor...

2008-02-12T06:47:00.000-08:00

ever since I saw the whole apples thing on HGTV, i've wanted a place where i could enhance my home decor with apples. i love apples. particularly granny smith (thanx mom) and have a new thing for them. especially w/ peanut butter. which just so happens to be the color i want for decoration. so now that i have a place for my apples, i've discovered that when i eat them, i have none left to look at. but if i leave them there, they'll rot. so really, i have to be healthy to have my favorite hgtv look. brilliant i must say. hopefully they'll keep the doctor away too :)

oops....

2008-02-09T16:54:00.000-08:00

i finally have a yard. yay! i finally have a garden. yay! so today i got sick of looking out the window at the dead stuff. i wanted to do the old owners proud. and i really wanted to continue to have a beautiful view. so i ventured outside for the afternoon and pruned, and weeded and made it look great if i do say so myself! so i decided to sit down in my chair to admire the hard work and listen to the birds. i saw a spot i wanted to touch up so i got up and did. when i went to sit back down (can you tell where this is going?), i sat on the chair i'd just been on, which, is not high above the ground. instead of getting an admiration seat, i got a huge surprise. BOOM. i went through the chair and was on the cement patio and somehow i scraped my elbows in the process. maybe that's a sign not to admire your own work too much? anyway, i was a bit stunned until it hit me (yeah, pun intended) that i was not on the chair but in the chair, and a bit sore, but all in all ok. i wish i could've taken a picture of myself but here's one of the poor chair...

today's tried recipe..mmm

2008-02-04T20:06:00.000-08:00

well, here's a pic of today's tried recipe...a few variations on the theme (for ex. we cooked the potatoes we bought for this recipe in a different wonderful meal) so we did rice and salad and this chicken and it was scrumptious (at least i think so :) i'm lovin' playing chef girl (w/ the help of mom :) thanks again karen and thanks for the upcoming ones i just picked up from my mailbox!!!! mmm...

did u ever wanna?...

2008-02-04T18:08:00.000-08:00

today i finished the Texas trilogy process of getting my license/car registration....as i stepped back against the blue background (in my pink scrubs because i obviously didn't plan a color coordinated wardrobe today) i had a GIANT urge to stick out my tongue and make a goofy face for the camera. i wonder if anyone has ever done that for a driver's license id...it really wouldn't have mattered because the guy spelled my name wrong the first time and i had to sign, do my thumbprint and take the picture again (ok, there are some thing TX is still a little backwards in)...then i was REEEEEEEALLY tempted to stick out my tongue and be goofy. 3x a charm?

please pull over!

2008-01-30T17:55:00.000-08:00

it never never never ceases to amaze me that people not only refuse to pull over for fire trucks and ambulances, but get angry when you do. beep? at me? um. ok. or people who seem to think that just because they're on the other side of the median, it doesn't matter. i've seen emergency vehicles cross, just last week in fact. so please, learn the law and help save some lives. even though you obviously don't care. pull over!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mmm...Steak Salad w/ Spinach

2008-01-25T17:45:00.000-08:00

mmmmmmm.....for my new kitchen, reasonenough has been wonderful to start sending me more new recipes for my collection! tonight mom and i decided to try the steak and spinach salad, which HIT THE SPOT!!! Thanks reasonenough!!!!! Here are the pics. I'm proud to say that it was FANTASTIC!! the first pic is of the magazine (can tell by the blue) at the bottom of the page...the 2nd pic is ours. we substituted the grapes w/ tomato and cooked the steak a liiiiiiittle longer than 4 min. (if we had cooked it 4, it would have been on the cow) but the tastes together were PERFECT! 5 stars :)

and the image that didn't attach...hmmm....

2008-01-23T16:19:00.000-08:00

i seem to be having attachment difficulties today!

my rug arrived!

2008-01-23T16:16:00.000-08:00

there are just a few splurges i caved to when buying my first place. a rug to define the room is one of them, and it came today! the colors are PERFECT!!!!! though i had to take this pic w/ a cell phone to get it up right away, the colors are even more vibrant in person...and i forgot to take the pillow off of the chair...baby steps, baby steps :)

missing link

2008-01-23T13:35:00.000-08:00

here's a link to the book i was talking about...the other post didn't post it?!

http://www.everytownneedsatrail.com/

Great book!

2008-01-23T13:30:00.000-08:00

i love being outdoors and i love that austin provides so many opportunities to walk, bike, run, boat, etc....so when we met up w/ my realtor for lunch yesterday, i was thrilled to receive a copy of the book "Every Town Needs a Trail." It's got beautiful color photos of the "Town Lake" Trail in Austin, on which the kayak pic in my blog post of below was taken. The book also shows prominant people of Austin and gives a history. It's really neat if you get a chance to view the photography of it! If not, you can always come visit and look at mine :)

Chinese Drive-Thru?

2008-01-21T16:46:00.000-08:00

hmmm.....i'm having fun exploring seeing the kinds of places around my neck 'o the woods...today's winner is a chinese drive through...it's kind of funny to see a big mac kind of sign in the front window but advertising tea for $.62 cents! lol...

Town Lake Exploration...

2008-01-20T13:23:00.000-08:00

Today I thought it'd be great to get some fresh air. So I thought I'd take mom down to Zilker Park to see the water and Barton Springs. But I missed the exit. So we ended up at Town Lake. Still fun and a great path to walk. We saw people fishing and kayaking and birds and turtles and people running and walking their dogs :) I only had my phone cam w/ me but still, I like this pic!

Twiggy

2008-01-19T20:55:00.000-08:00

Twiggy the waterskiing squirrel is gonna be at the Austin boat show next weekend! he's sooooooo cute and funny. check him out. now that's talent :)

http://www.twiggyskis.com/

i've really arrived

2008-01-18T16:07:00.000-08:00

you know you've made it in life when you're walking through home depot and see that a toilet has been named after you...what an honor!

welp i signed 'em!

2007-12-30T09:11:00.000-08:00

the papers have officially been signed on my end...tomorrow is my closing & my realtor will pick up my keys!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh :)
scary but exciting! Austin here I come ready or not!

Welcome to my world...or part of it

2007-12-22T17:24:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS....A NURSE'S SONG

T'was the night before Christmas, and all thru the floor
Lasix was given, filling the foleys galore.
Stockings were worn to prevent emboli,
they came in two sizes, knee and thigh high.

The patients were nestled half-a$$ed in their beds,
while visions of stool softeners danced in their heads.
We in our scrubs, and they in their gowns,
Fashions created to hide extra pounds.

When down in the ER it became such a zoo,
they called with admissions for me and for you.
They're coming, they're going, and they're all looking the same.
My patience for patients is starting to wane.

Now call lights are ringing, the patient 400 pounds,
says-"Didnt get my pericare, now send my nurse down."

And now delegation seems the best plan,
We try to send others, to the needs of this man.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But Santa himself and 8 tiny reindeer.
He says he comes from Central Supply.

To bring us LR,NS, & D5.
The doctors then scribbled what no one could read,
Orders on patients, to measure their pee.
We try to decipher illegible words,
orders for patients, to guaiac their turds.

The new shift arriving, our day is now through,
How did stool & emesis get in my shoe?

We give them report and pass on the facts,
and tell them of duoderm lining the cracks.

And the nurses exclaim as they limp out of sight,
"Ativan to them all, and to all a good night.!!"

movin' on up...

2007-12-18T20:01:00.001-08:00

i've moved around a lot since graduating from high school 15+ years ago (?! no can't be)...nyc, cali (north, south, north (shorter) south), AZ (to finish switching my career)....i've made friends, lost some, kept some more. i've worked real jobs while going to school, temp jobs with the real jobs (i even worked at a traffic court doing tickets, and a mall for a week once scraping stickies off key tags for the mall promotional dept. until i got another job)...i've worked in television, construction and am now a nurse. i've gone on bad dates, good dates, and more bad dates. but finally i am proud to say i'm moving once more but to Austin, TX where I have purchased my first townhome! I close next week and I'm excited but terrified! But anyone who reads this and wants to visit Austin, you're welcome to my home :) oh, and don't worry, i might not have a table to eat on yet, but i'm getting internet as soon as possible. the blog addiction thing. priorities, priorities :)

wonder woman?

2007-11-13T21:43:00.000-08:00

oh my gosh...i was at work today and i had a patient just admitted, had one going down for a procedure and a third w/ a phlebotomist trying to tell me she couldn't get the blood stick. yes, all at once. and all while my bra strap popped off. so i'm running to the room w/ the admit because the PACU nurse won't leave the pt. until i go there and my bra strap came out of my sleeve. AH! so i tucked it in as best i could (luckily there wasn't a big family waiting for me)...as i was listening to the pt's lungs, lopsided because i was afraid my bra strap would swing back out, i was madly trying to plot a place to duck in so i could get my top off so i could fix it. i almost caved and went in the pt.'s b-room but didn't think that would be a terribly professional 1st impression, so in the middle of running back to the room to help transport
get the other patient out of the room, i ducked into the bathroom (the staff one-thank GOODNESS it was open). i emerged to a "there you are!"...i felt a little like wonder woman :)

oh the irony...

2007-10-02T04:06:00.000-07:00

it's now 3:55 am. i'm wide awake. not physcially but mentally. it seems the rougher the day at work the day before, the more i shoot up in the middle of the night with anxiety having a harder time detaching from the day. caregiver anxiety. see? i don't need kids! lol...so rewind to days of report card comments. i wasn't a straight "A" student in middle/high school. Sure I got some but I'd typically fall back to the "sea of "B's". But my usual comment usually had the word "conscientious" in there somewhere. no joke! i think the teachers just got lazy and didn't know what else to say sometimes. or they just knew me too well ;) so fast fwd. 20 years later. who knew my conscientiousness and awareness of my days (a.k.a. worrywort, anxiety, too conscientious?) would land me a front page on Yahoo? "Study shows Conscientious people less prone to Alzheimer's." ;) See everybody? There's a reason to my madness afterall! which is the whole reason i woke up at 3:30 am...ah the irony

color me peaceful when...

2007-09-15T21:09:00.000-07:00

trying not to feel annoyed at the 112 degrees & in the grocery store while following a lady in a velvet dress wearing lots of perfume (so much i could smell her (at least it killed my appetite) before seeing her) i thought of a bunch of things that help me feel a wave of calm or get a warm fuzzy when i see or think of them :)

1.) getting a pedicure in the massage chair w/ the extra leg massage scrub with a finale of pretty pink polish :)

2.) nature: forrests, meadows, morning dew on grass, water, animals, farms

3.) evening at dusk or sunset

4.) walgreen's lime/coconut body cream in the lime green container

5.) oversize cute coffee mugs (& the coffee that would go in them if i had them and a coffeemaker)

6.) a child's contagious laughter (like the young toddler who laughed hysterically in the shopping cart when his daddy kept bopping a balloon on him at the grocery store:)

7.) summer/fall nights when it dips below 100 :)

8.) black & white photography

9.) breeze and storms

10.) keeping in touch with good friends & family :)

it's been awhile

2007-08-20T22:58:00.000-07:00

ok wow. it's been awhile since my june post of extern II. i've since passed the NCLEX and, as a new RN have fit into the fast-paced, high-stress world of med/surg. med/surg is not where my heart truly is, but since that was the job i fell into, for now here i am. and holy moly i'm learning a lot. it's truly crazy. and, well scary and sometimes funny. i often think i should start a blog WNE (worst nurse ever) for some of my thoughts that flee in & out of my brain throughout my shifts...

anyway, i'm doing my best at med/surg and living here in AZ. but neither one i guess is for me long-term. and so i took some action and applied to an RN residency program in Atlanta. i also contacted a nurse recruiter in Austin. i want to at least move near people i know at this pt. in life but i can't quite bring myself to face the harshness of dark, b-lo winters again. or the expense or earthquake possibilities of Cali... but somewhere in between would work!

i know a few of you live over in atl and so, i would love any thoughts, suggestions ideas on great areas or just about the place in general (and if you have RN postpartum/nursery contacts that'd be great too...lol)

for now my head spins, my body aches and my eyes need new glasses for all i encounter in the week. off to hunt down some zzz's before my other day job in the am...

thanks!
sister k

1st day as Extern II...

2007-06-22T20:58:00.000-07:00

so now that school's out and life has changed in all kinds of ways, what's a girl who felt lost to do? work. make new job, & keep the old, one is silver & the other's gold...lol...well, now that i graduated school, i'm now considered an Extern II at the hospital until i pass the board exam (NCLEX...hopefully very soon and then i'll be RN). i hadn't worked there since before school let out and finals and so it was kind of like a 1st day today. and it was definitely my first full 12 hr. shift! it was actually so busy, that it flew by for the most part. more so than i thought 12 hrs. would! & it really felt different than it did as a student. and i was called nurse. what a weird feeling. and so, i've decided that since my temp job is happy i want to be there, why not keep that more laid back job too for awhile? as long as a cup of coffee awaits, i figure why not keep working. i feel a little like that scene in forrest gump where he just keeps running & running. maybe one day i'll stop. but for now back again tomorrow at 0645...off to zzzz...

sometimes life is like a soda machine...

2007-06-18T21:44:00.000-07:00

i try not to drink much soda anymore but today at work i put in my 50 cents for a squirt & out came.....a diet dr. pepper. hmm...

i am a cursed graduate

2007-05-17T16:17:00.000-07:00

i'm beginning to confirm the feeling that my graduations are cursed events. at least when it comes to pictures and videos. i 1st graduated college over 10 yrs. ago. it was a special day but most of my friends had graduated the year before, so when mom discovered there was no film in the camera, it was disappointing, but move forward i did. in fact, i became a pro at trying various grad school programs until i finally quit school for good to take a job. or so i thought. the real world did not work out as i had thought it would and so after some major soul searching and pondering, i found myself in nursing school. i did everything i could not to quit. it was the most challenging of school paths, but so far the most rewarding. my wonderful family+ came to my pinning, a really special evening. fortunately, digital replaced film and so we do have a few pix. videos weren't necessary to take we were told, because the school set up a feed so that we could purchase dvds at a very reasonable price. and so you can see where this is going. i logged on to the site and found out that the feed malfunctioned and so nooooo video of the pinning. which is disappointing for more than me i'm sure. does this mean i have to go on and graduate again? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! at least i have my pin :)

really? i'll have free time?

2007-04-28T23:26:00.000-07:00

wow. i'm not even on the other side of graduation or taking my boards yet, but my preceptorship ends tomorrow, and though i have tons of things to do in preparation for the excitement of company and being done with school, it hit me the other night that i'm not quite sure what to do! of course i'm checking into getting a real job again but i almost feel like a prisoner who's finally free and not sure how to readjust to the "outside" again! it's a very odd feeling to be focused on one thing for so long and then to not be is...well...i think i'm a little lost....excited and grateful to reintroduce myself to life again, but lost...i'm still going through my quarterlife crisis....lol..oh well, at least i have a blog :)

every kid should have a pair...

2007-03-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

i wish i would've had these when trying to pass "cutting" in 1st grade! LOL...http://www.uberreview.com/2006/03/laser-scissors.htm/

it's time to get up already?

2007-03-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

a hint of an idea from my mom from my sister + getting up waaaaaaay too early in the am these days, made me think to check out some funny alarm clocks online. in my search, i came across this site. you've GOT to read down. these are terrific! LOL...makes me want to come up w/ an invention of my own :)

http://www.uberreview.com/2006/03/top-ten-most-annoying-alarm-clocks.htm/

by george, she hit the ball!

2007-02-25T12:16:00.000-08:00

by george i think she's got it! i managed to connect the bat to the ball for the first time this season! is my 10 yr. old muscle memory returning? let's hope the slump is over! woo hoo!

it's fluorescent green!

2007-02-08T20:51:00.000-08:00

ok, it's not a neck lanyard, but reasonenough, it IS flourescent green....it's...a wrist lanyard! kind of the material of 80's jelly shoes... from home depot....Toyota could make a key for me! only took me one borrowed car for a day, a borrowed ride to and from school yesterday, 2 trips and back to the Toyota dealership, an extra walk tracing my exaaact steps, an attempted stop in the locked school office, a canister of Trader Joe's fruit slices (the yummy half moon kind that fowler's used to sell) and a lot of stress and i got the key! and i went to home depot to copy the key. phew. fortunately for me, i didn't have to pay $ to re-key the entire car! oh dear.

before hollywood does...

2007-01-18T20:31:00.000-08:00

i think we should all collaboratively write a screenplay about our blogs and experiences, sell it to hollywood and then split the $$$...who's in?

darn...school's back...again

2007-01-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

i was doing pretty well at ignoring the fact that i have to start school all too soon until today, when a classmate of mine had to go & remind me that the assignments have been posted on "web ct," our place to get all nursing info. from teachers, etc...somehow that kind of killed any ounce of motivation i was going to cook up today...oh boy, back to the drawing board one more time. sigh :(

Blog...the word

2006-12-31T11:02:00.000-08:00

is blog an abbreviation for something? if not, who made up the word? do people get paid for making up words? if so, what is the job title and how do i apply? how many words are thought of and turned down? is there a word committee for approving words and what criteria do they have to follow? i mean blog? what kind of criteria is that?! :)

Did I really sign up for a Blog Space?

2006-12-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

After months of reading other people's blogs, after a long time of having no clue what a blog was, I'm finally writing a blog of my own. Reading blogs is addicting. I never knew the blog world before. My blog is not very exciting right now I know, but I figure I'll give it a shot anyway since I'm on a break from school. As I'm typing this, it just occured to me that YAHOO wasn't invented until my senior year of college 10 years ago. TEN years ago! And here I sit online writing a blog for all to see. Hmmm...Happy New Year everybody!