hiccups. seriously?! I want to sleep. what the heck.
Those aren't the lyrics?
8 years ago
Saturday, August 14, 2010
so. we have no kids n decide to go out and drink. we get there turnaround and come home. we r going to watch tv n go to bed at a halfway decent time. we r lame.
I said "what's your name?" to Madalyn. She replied "uhhmmm...Gracie?" Noo... "uhhhmm...Emma?" Nooo... "Uhmm....maddie?" Yes. Madalyn! "yayy! Me!!" lol
Tonight's gonna be a good night, tonight's gonna be a good good night....
We are dropping the girls off at my parent's this morning, and then going to pick up Vin's friends from work and then going to a wedding, and then bringing John and his gf back home, then going to Shannon's and hanging out with him and his gf for the night. I am going to be exhausted tomorrow. I slept like crap last night.
We watched 'kickass' last night. it was hilariously wonderful.
Vin and Gracie are looking at youtube video's of snakes. hahaha. Vin is showing her the wonderful gruesomeness of snakes, and Gracie is going "eww. that looks kinda scary. I see it! It's eating it!" hahha. These are some large snakes she is looking at and is not cringing. Props to my 4 year old "ok. lets watch another one, now". lol. I guess it'd be good if someone in this family (other than Vin) wasn't scared of snakes. lol. "ooh. jaguars are so cute. why is that snake following it? Snakes aren't supposed to eat that! It can't swim! Ok. he got it. Oh no. It's eating the jaguar. I guess it was hungry." hahahaha.
ok. I am out to shower and get ready.
Au revoir.
Friday, August 13, 2010
I gave the girls stuffed crust pizza with bbq sauce for breakfast.
Yes. It is true. I gave the girls stuffed crust pizza with bbq sauce for breakfast. Don't Judge Me. It has dairy, fruits and vegetables (it was my fave--tomato, pinapple, and olive, altho I hate stuffed crust. but I have to compromise with the hubby) on it. It was a balanced meal. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why settle for a bowl of cereal with milk? That doesn't have vegetables or fruit in it.
Yes. I can justify about anything I feed the girls for breakfast. I don't tell them No when Gracie says she wants PBJ for breakfast. Go for it, girl. At least she wants to eat breakfast. And I can bet other kids her age are either not eating breakfast, or eating candy for breakfast (which I would NEVER give my kids for breakfast....except maybe every now and then. haha). Whatever they want to eat, I will give them. We don't keep junk food in the house (outside goldfishies, which I don't consider junk food) so there choices are mostly healthy.
There down fall (and my husbands) is Juice. They LOVE Juice. Which is all good and dandy, but I buy the cheap huge koolaid jug to save money, instead of paying 3.00 for like 24 oz of 'real' fruit juice. That stuff is loaded with sugar. So I water it down. They don't need all that sugar. I do get them apple or cranberry (good for their Urinary Tract) juice often. But even that is loaded with sugar (even the light sugar is alot) so I still water it down. Unless I spring for the Apples and Eve. I get them the Apples and Eve juice boxes alot, because at least those have servings of fruits and vegetables. They love juice, and down it. Like Crazy. But I also make sure they have milk in their diet (but not to much for Madalyn, that will back her up like crazy.) Madalyn LOVES fruits and almost all veggies, but Madalyn will take corn over anything else. Gracie loves corn, as well, but prefers fruit over corn. They eat apples (madalyn eats the WHOLE apple, if I don't take the core away from her) like they are going out of style. But, they tend to forget to throw the core out, and i find half eaten apples everywhere. I try not to get frustrated. What am I going to do, tell them they can't eat apples anymore?
That is our downfall. We used to eat at the table. Every night. Together. But with Vin's crazy work hours, that has become obsolete. The girls eat (usually in front of the tv. except I try and have them sit at the kitchen table for dinner), and when Vin gets home we eat in front of the tv. Even when he is home early we eat in front of the tv, with the kids at the table. we have got to stop that. sigh. I do limit the girls tv watching, tho. Except lately their room is soooo hot, so I let them play out here with the tv on. which I hate, but I am certainly not going to let them roast in their room. They color and stuff alot, also.
Ok. Now you know the play habits and eating habits of my kids. haha.
Tomorrow is Vins friends wedding. I am the DD. and for being the DD his other friends are giving me a bottle of Red Cat (for at home, obviously), so that I can pick them up and drop them off, to. (they live on the way to the wedding, anyways). The dress is casual. but idc. I am going to wear my black halter dress. I never have an excuse to dress up, and I will take any I can get.
This is my last week day before school starts. I am getting so nervous. I feel like I may puke. This is the last semester. The hardest. Half the 280 class failed last year. sigh. monday it all begins. What if I don't know my skills? What if I screw them up, when validating on Thursday and have to redo them? How sucky would that be, to have to wait a week and then go thru the torcher of validating again? Gosh. and then they would think i am an idiot. altho quite a few ppl had to redo them last year, (I didn't tho) and it wasn't a big deal. I am just worried. This is our last semester, and I have gotten by with a b+ (and A in Mental Health) the first 3 semesters without practicing, studying or spending any quality time on my paperwork. This semester is going to be the hardest. They are going to want perfect paperwork (which I HATE. I HATE paperwork. it takes to damn long) and we all know I don't have patience. We don't even have to do that much paperwork as nurses. It is all on the computers (which we have to do ON TOP of the stuff that's required by our instructors), which I can deal with because when you have no patients that need anything, you can look busy and prop yourself against a wall with a COW (computer on wheels). And frankly, computer filing is just so much more convenient. and practical. When we have clinicals at upstate, they don't use COWS and it is all paper filing. Then we have to try to decipher the doctors hand writing. It is awful. Once I thought the doctor wrote that the pt. was in for DKA (Diabetes Ketoid Acidosis) and I go in to the room, and my patient is missing a leg. Turns out it wasn't DKA. it was AKA. My patients had an above knee amputation. Those are important things to know. geez.
goodness. ok. I am going to watch Nip/Tuck now. or ER. and finish my coffee. Coffee makes the world go round. The girls are playing some weird dress up cooking game. They dress like princess' and serve me food. hahaa.
oh!! I discovered that in order to 'left click' I don't have to push control and click. I can just put two fingers on the mouse pad thing, and click down my left finger. how cool is that? and I can scroll down by moving two fingers down the pad, but if I only move one, or more than 2, it does nothing. Dear Mac, I LOVE you.
au revoir
Thursday, August 12, 2010
they forgot all of our
they forgot all of our dipping sauces and our food is cold. seriously. oh well. SYTYCD is on :)
It's like I've waited my whole life for this one night It's gonna be me you and the dance floor 'cause we've only got one night Double your pleasure Double your fun and dance Forever (ever, ever) Forever (ever, ever)
Madalyn is doing pretty good with potty training. I ask her if she wants to go, or she tells me, but I don't push it if she says no. She'll do it on her own time. Which is, apparently, a lot slower than Gracie's was. haha. These two are so different. Gracie was early to walk, talk, and get off the bottle (all by 10 months)and was potty trained by the time Madalyn was born, and Madalyn didn't walk til 17 months, has just now really picked up on talking, and just got off the bottle a couple months ago, and is just starting to potty train. haha. Them being so different is what makes life interesting. lol.
Vin is back at work today. He came home after like 2 hours yesterday cuz he pulled a muscle in his back. he could barely walk. He's doing better today.
The New Shark Week is on Watch Instantly. I am psyched. I even set it up so I can watch netflix on my laptop, in case Vin or the girls are watching tv. I also watched the first episode of 'pushing daisies'. Seems cute. I have watched a couple episodes here and there in the past.
Angela's Ashes. SUCH a great book. Especially for being nonfiction. It is told by the perspective of the Author, at his age in the book. He says a lot of things that he doesn't realize are so awful, but just break your heart. Especially knowing it is a true story, and these kids didn't know how bad their lives were. They Were growing up in Ireland during the potato famine. The nights that their father even had a job, he would spend the 'dole' at the pub and they would go hungry. He was like "Dad is at the pub, guess we arent eating tonight", and that just broke my heart. the whole book is spectacular. I ordered Candide and have that coming, since I don't know where my copy of it went, and I really want to read it again.
I have to shower and go grocery shopping today. sigh. I hate shopping with the girls, but unless I want to wait til Vin gets home, that is how I do my shopping every week.
Saturday we have a wedding we are going to. I am the DD for Vin and his friend and his wife. They are buying me a bottle of Red Cat for my services. lol. My mom will have both the girls that night. We are prolly just gonna sit home, watch tv and have a couple drinks. Just like a normal weekend (well, not necessarily with the couple drinks. ahah). Buuuut. It will be quiet. No kids to yell at. It will be nice. Then Gracie is staying the week at my parents so she can go to Vacation Bible School.
I watched the final episode of L word. I must say, I am sad to see it go. :-(
I am all caught up on Army Wives, which Jami has recently started watching. I want to so badly tell her everything that is going to happen in the next 4 seasons...but I won't. haha.
School starts in t-minus 4 days. sigh. I went to the lab and practiced with Heather. Well, she practiced and I observed, I seem to remember better that way. I also watched a couple of the skills video's online on the IV's and stuff since they didn't have the stuff up there to practice with. I am sure that once I actually start doing this stuff again, it will become second nature, all over again. It has just been since January since I have even touched an IV or done any skills. we didn't do anything in our specialties semester, unless you count talking to substance addicted people, holding the legs of mother's pushing kids out, giving the vitamin k shot to newborns, changing poopy diapers, playing with sick kids and taking vitals. That's all we did. No sterile dressings, no IVs, no tubes of any kind-- hell, I barely passed meds.
My risotto turned out really good. I am going to make it again sometime. Maybe for dinner Sunday at my parents. Minus the artichokes. It takes to long to turn those damn things.
k. I am out.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
WooooooOoooOooT!! Shark Week is out
WooooooOoooOooT!! Shark Week is out on Watch Instantly!! Let the obsession begin!!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Alarm Clocks. Start the morning with a heart attack.
Sigh. School starts in 6 days. I am going to the lab tonight with Heather to practice. Time to start playing with IV's, needles, and tubes that go into places where you don't them...
I am pretty darn nervous about failing this semester. I have never been close to failing, but I am still terrified of this semester. I think that is the general consensus for my entire class. Altho, we have lost less people than most classes. On the first day of school (which seems like decades ago) they told us, "only 17% of you will graduate together." Which would leave only 9 of us graduating this semester. There are currently like 40 of us left from the original class. Either A LOT of us are going to fail this semester, or we are all smarter than they thought. haha. Altho, they have never had this many people pass the second semester, and have this large of a class, so they have had to open an evening clinical group for last semester and this upcoming semester, to accommodate all of us. haha.
Still. I am pretty darn terrified.
Monday, August 9, 2010
you know you have a
you know you have a powerful fan when it blows food off your plate when you walk by.
They never cease to make me laugh
Madalyn: Duck Duck
Gracelyn: Duck Duck, Who?
Madalyn: Duck Duck, Me. Quack Quack (complete with 'beak' motion).
Sunday, August 8, 2010
somewhere in this stratosphere.
Sigh. I have been in the kitchen literally staring at the recipe for the risotto, completely baffled. It seems the chef has left out key parts, and is not well versed in English (that was apparent when he kept saying "uhhh how you call it?" at the lesson). Hmm...The Vegetable Bayaldi I can manage. Lets see bout the risotto. haha. I am also making olive tapenade. I am so excited. It's an olive, olive oil, garlic spread that you put on friend french bread. yummmm.
Vin is golfing. I am deciding whether to go to the store now to get my last minute things, or wait and have him go when he gets home. Altho I want the olive tapenade to be already prepared. And I want to turn the artichokes and prepare the rest of the veggies before Jami and Thane get here. I am still not even dressed tho, and have no energy.
My arthritis has been driving me nuts. At some point I should go to a doctor. It's getting pretty bad in my hands and wrists.
My throat hurts, as well. My right tonsil is always 3x bigger than it should be. sigh. I am a massive walking health issue. lol.
my head hurts, as well. sigh.
I am exhausted. blah.
and we must not forget about my eye, which is still swollen and painful from a sty.
ok. enough complaining. time to go to price chopper.
au revoir.
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