i tunes

i think if i'm gonna play my music on the 'puter i need better speakers. but its ok.
i should really find my ipod. damn thing is around here somewhere.
borrowed my sisters car today. she has 2 cars and her hubby has a truck. since my car is broke i asked her if i could borrow her other car.
went to the liquor store. ahhhhh nice

high on crown now. what a feeling. listening to music. havent drank in a while. work too damn much. made the mistake of telling my hubby i thought i may have a drinking problem. i dont. i think i just had a problem of too much free time.....fixed that by working. now i had 2 days off. go back friday night. so i went to the ABC store and got some crown. love the high.
and the music.
letting my hair grow out. cut my nails. i had 2 break. i had a tip put on one but when the second broke i just cut them all off. i wont have tips on all of them. too much maintenance for me. but its like hair, it'll grow.
i got me an sonia matching rings. "Always sisters. Forever friends'
cool.
and she got us matching bracelets. not planned. just happened.

drums

i got my 3.5 yr old nephew a drum set for xmas! after i saw it in the store and bought it i promptly called his mom and sang, "i got connor a drum set!!"


you thought i was an unpopular inlaw before! hahahaha!!!


its a small one. bass drum with foot pedal, two small drums and cymbols attached. and little drumsticks. just the cutest thing.


so when we went to charlies moms for xmas and he opened that up, he didnt want to open anything else!! oh the look his mom gave me was priceless!!! his brothers and matt put it together!!! he likes it. to say the least.


this is what i got!!!!











GE H855 Digital Camera - 8.0 Megapixels, 5x Optical Zoom, 4.5x Digital Zoom, 3.0" LCD, Pink

when i finish reading the 200 page manual i'll post some pics!!
nah, its not that hard. i need to get a SD card. i run out of room to fast.

boogers, lizards, gizzards,etc

xmas is over!!!!! thank goodness.
kids are happy with their items. so are the adults.
my car is still broke.
but i have a digital camera!
we seem to be getting by ok with just the truck. for right now. i miss my car.

this is what happens when you let your kids watch discovery channel:
my 7 year old daughter comes to me last week and asks me what sperm is. 7 years old. of course my first question to her is where she gets the word and in what context so i can know how to explain. damn discovery channel and fish spawning and sperm and stuff. ok.
so i proceed to tell her that its what guys/ males have to help make babies. girls have eggs, guys have sperm. its like this with all animals. both get together to make a baby.
she's fine with that explanation and goes about her merry way. meanwhile, her mom(me) is still in shock. its gotta come up sooner or later, right?


my blog has been looking empty because i have been working ALOT lately. i'm having a hard time staying caught up with a lot of things. here it is almost 0630 and i'm doing this blog and washing some laundry. yeah, thats me 'multi tasking'.

lemme tell you about xmas.

on xmas eve morning i get off work. i was off xmas eve night. i had about 4 hours total sleep xmas eve. not all at once.
charlie and i have to wait until the kids are asleep so santa can come. i finally get to sleep around midnight. AT 0230 THE KIDS ARE UP. i'm up til 0430 sleep til 0730. up for the rest of the day. i have to be at work at 1700. but i got off at 0400 and slept all day and all night and here i am!! i have to keep asking people what day it is because i lost track last month.
we go to my moms xmas morning...they cook breakfast, we open presents. blah blah blah.
i'm sitting there eating and realize that this is the first real food i've had in 2 days.
how sad.

http://www.projectplaylist.com/playlist/additem/1341034

fa-la-la----bite me

ga-dang

finally. i have a day off. sort of. i didnt work last night. but i did have to go in from 0300-0600 this morning. ugh.
final proof that different shifts do different things different ways.
--pretend you understand--
when i got in to work this AM i pulled a pending log...lets me know what hasnt been done...i pulled a log for yesterday to see if anything got missed. it did. a patients labs got kicked into the 2400 hour and the label does not print anything in that hour. its either 2359 or 0000. our LIS does not recognize 2400. an ongoing unresolved issue. so at 0330 i force printed a label for it and this mornings tech asked me about it. i told her i came in at 0300 and when i pulled a log to just make sure, i found it. 3rd shift tech shouldve caught it. but our 3rd shift tech for the night was a regular 2nd shifter person. ugh. so it wasnt caught. or just nothing was done about it.
and going in with a hangover so does not help. nope.
had to take my sister to the dr. today. that was an all day thing. not that i mind. i dont. thats why i took the night off.
so whats the first thing i do when i get home? drink. oh yeah! a 'shot of happy'. whisky is my drink of choice. at least this headache thats been plagueing me all day is gone!!!!!!!!!
i have worked last thursday night thru this past wednesday night, and friday morning. i go back saturday night and sunday night and them i'm off mon-wed.
yay!!!!!
hopefully the new tech will start soon. i dont know how much extra hours i can pull and still live.

my daughter asked her dad today about 'retirement'. shes 7. what a conversation that was.
i got 'the bourne ultimatum'. saw it in the movie theater. good movie.

3rd floor nursing station. i wrote "there are trolls in the elevator" on one of the white boards wednesday night. this morning a nurse asked me if the trolls were still there. and she didnt even work wed night! i had to admit to her that i didnt know since i just got here at 0300 and havent had a chance to ride the elevators. so i wasnt sure.
peace out....be careful of the trolls.

finally finally finally

damn. we finally got the xmas tree up. it has lights and about 8 ornaments. no garland, no tree topper thing. its pretty. a frazier fir. and tall.

heres a pic of it. (took with camera phone)

as you can see, there are no presents under said tree. i'm still working on that part. kinda hard when you're working what seems like every day of the week. and 3rd shift. and with one car right now. yeah, mines kinda broke. dont know whats the matter with it. we're going to have it looked at after the holidays.

tonight will be, i think, night 6 of an 8 day stretch at work. i'm used to doing 3 in a row, occasionaly 4. not 8. its not been bad. except for the couple of patients with some neuro issues, its all going well.

i havent posted in a bit, what with being busy, so this is my contribution.

peace out.

night from hell

Matt's better today than he was Saturday. He's still sad. And, yeah, I'm still pissed.
Five day stretch is FINALLY over. I don’t go back until Thursday night.
Last night was a night from hell. With the fire and pitchforks and everything.
Damn chemistry machine broke down. It’s the only one we have. We don’t have a back-up.
I get into the lab and I swear its almost 80 degrees in there. We had fans going, I rechecked all the thermostats and its almost like a sauna. The dimension (chemistry machine) went down because it overheated. We had to cancel some orders and reorder them to send to New Hanover. That was not fun. And then Becky had 2 stat crossmatches to do. I did not stop from 2100-0030. ugh. Beats boredom I guess. I was really really thankful I only had 12 on pickup. Finished that and had to get 2 more down in ICU. Came back, Barbara had finished hers and we chatted. A patient threw up on her while she was getting labs. Ewww. The bad mojo had engulfed the whole lab and its occupants.
I had to make myself remember how to do sed rates on the little machine because I haven’t done them since I was taught. And I did a strep.
Poor Becky. She hasn’t even been with us doing 3rd shift for a month yet and this happens. She's my MLT. She came from New Hanover. Over there its one person per department. Over at Cape Fear, you ARE the lab. All the departments. At night. During the day we have more techs. But at night, its just 2 of us.
I didn’t think my night was ever going to end. Oh. And I had to go back last night and re-stick a patient I had just stuck because we had to send her labs across town and over there they have a different chemistry machine which uses different tubes for certain tests.

santa

IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renowned scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.
No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

i dont know

my neighbor came over today about 1230 to let us know that my sons cat was in her yard by her garage and he couldnt move. charlie and matt went to get him. ended up taking him to the vet where he had xrays. his spine was shattered from a gunshot. he had to be put to sleep. my son is devasted.
merry freakin xmas..
i'm calm about it. not a good thing. angry as hell. extremely angry.
it is my experience it is never a good thing for me to be "quiet angry".
again, merry freakin xmas.

well, we DID not do xmas ornaments last night. i have never seen anyone take so long to do their homework. five words, use them in sentences. what does she do? asks us to do her homework for her. "whats a sentence with 'try'"?
no. had to tell her several times that it wasnt our homework, it was hers. it was 7pm when she finished and i was no longer in the mood for xmas ornament making. i still had other things that needed doing...
lets see how long it takes her tonight...but wait! i have to work tonight. maybe we can get something done...at least make and bake. decorate tomorrow night. we'll see.

let the games begin

its almost 2pm. kiera will be home in about 30 minutes. and then the madness will begin.
sometimes i wonder if i'm doing right by her. she's so, whats the word, active. i guess thats a good word. she's always needed more than matt, attention wise. and it makes me wonder if i could've done something different when she was smaller. i try to raise them the same, even though they are 2 different kids. and i take into account the differences and work with that. personalites can vary with kids. amazing how much. she's such a joy...full of energy. and love. so i must've done something right. so far. i guess if just keep on track, all will be good. she does well in school...likes school. although it took this kid about 2.5 hours last night to do homework. you know what her excuse was?? "my mind keeps distracting me." how does one respond to that? she was in a quiet area...kitchen table...no tv....yet, her mind was distracting her. go figure. i think she was bored. i think her homework bores her.
peace out.

homemade xmas decorations.

well.
we are going to make xmas decorations for our tree tonight. we've never done this. ought to be interesting.
this is the article i found on a website:


Basic Salt Dough
2 Cups of Plain Flour (not self-raising)
1 cup Fine grained plain salt
1/2 cup water at room temperature
Mix the salt and flour in a large bowl and then add the water. Knead the mixture for about 5-10 minutes until it becomes smooth and elastic. Cover with cling wrap to stop the dough drying out and let the dough sit for 30 minutes before using.
Fresh dough is best for shaping your Christmas ornaments. However, if you find you have any leftover dough it can be wrapped in cling wrap or an airtight container and stored in a cool place for a few days.

Air drying is suitable for flat, small pieces or for colored pieces where baking will alter the color of the finished project.
Oven drying is the most popular method and requires careful attention to accurate temperature control to avoid burning. Bake for approx 2 hours using a low temperature setting 50-70C for the first half hour then increase temperature slowly to 90-100C and cook until the piece is uniform in color.
While baking if any air bubbles appear pierce the bubbles with a pin and gently depress the dough. If the dough starts to darken before cooking is complete cover with a piece of aluminum foil.

they're out there...somewhere

sometimes to pass time, and in general put off what i should be doing (bitch duties) i will scour the internet for things that entertain me. sometimes i find things. sometimes i dont. guess what??? today i found some cool pictures. not made, just found. google is a wunderful thing...

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i like this little fella with the peace sign!

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an evergrowing awareness of MRSA

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this one made me giggle...

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time to pay the piper..

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been stuck in the bortex about a gazillion times in my lifetime...how about you?

blitzed

drinkin' before 7am

drinking before 7am....i can do that. because i work nights. and when i get off work its the same as you daytime ppl getting off and having a beer. i just happen to drink before the sun comes up.
i was clocked out by 0530. sssllloooowwww morning. only had 11 on my pickup. tomorrow will be the same.

escape is a state of mind
losing only to find
reality.
reality is a state of mind
sometimes cruel
sometimes kind.
sometimes it aches
sometimes it throbs
only to find out
it robs
your sanity.

george foreman grill and kids.....no

my darling 12 yr old son is making cheeseburgers on th george foreman grill. hamburgers would've been ok. but he then put cheese on it. and closed the george foreman grill. can ya picture that??? can ya??? closing the grill on cheese??? hamburgers on the bottom part, and now cheese stuck on the top part of the grill. way to go matt.

i'[m turning into my mom

yup, came home from work, made a pot of coffee and sat down at the table to read the newspaper.
had 12 whole people on my pickup this morning. beats the 25 i had thursday morning.
did NOT do any of those crazy after turkey day sales. helllll no.
i read in todays paper how crazy it was at certain stores. thank you, but no thank you, i'm not on the right freakin medication to attempt that insanity. 300+ people lined up outside of stores at 4am waiting to get in....uh uh.
tired....peace out dude

interesting day

well things went very well today for our first turkey day hosting.
my sister in law brought fried corn. she would have brought cream corn, but she couldnt figure out the can opener. so she got frozen corn and scissors. apparantly that was much easier than cans and can openers.
and she had her dig cam with her. and she told us she finally got it working. batteries help. but then my sister and husband decided to tell them about me 'looking' for my cell phone.
there are five kids in my house, ranging from ages 3-15. oh the fun. the 3 yr old and 7 yr old are playing together. charlie and elizabeth went to the store. i'm the only grownup right now.
i'm trying to teach the 3 yr old 'pull my finger'. he wont play. he did once. after that, nada.
i made some whisky sour mix. drank some. i'd just had soon drank shots. i drank one mixed drink and that was it.
they brought back scratch off tickets and the kids got 2 each. fun fun fun.

chiwoodle

http://www.in-memory-of-pets.com/personaltribute.php?ID=69527

holidays

just got off my 5 in a row...gotta say though, it passed pretty quick. didnt mind it all.
theres this little lady in the hospital who broke her hip. cute little thing. her husband, of 60 years, is staying with her in there. they are from macon, georgia. cute couple. they'll probably still be in when i get back wednesday night...having to spend thanksgiving there. i'm gonna buy a card for her...

damn stupid juice

oh yeah. my husband now owns the stupid juice. why? because. number one, he's a guy. i think they invented stupid juice.
two: he knew my thermostat was not working properly on my car.
three: its 0830. i have just worked 4 out of my 5 nights. one more to go. i'm doing laundry. hate laundry. i'll start it, and make him finish it.
four: he thinks we live in a restaurant and invites everyone over for thanksgiviing. i dont mind so much...its just the amount of people. it seems there may be a total of 15. thats alot of damn people.
five: i cant really think of anymore right now, but i know there is more. he's a guy.

could it get any worse?

i'm on my five night stretch at work. wednesday thru sunday nights. well. i get off of work this morning and it has gotta be about 30 freakin degrees outside. theres ice on my windshield. no big deal. let it thaw and go.
in the mornings when i get off work it only takes me about 30 minutes to get home...no traffic.
i just get onto I-40, get as far as mile marker 418 and i gotta pull over. why? car is overheating. just cant make it. ok. its 0630-0645. what to do....ok...call husband. called him, woke him up and told him. its amazing how cold it gets when theres no heat and youre sitting on the side of the interstate with cars blowing by at 75 mph.
anyway.
for him to get the kids up and bring water for my car....that would be at least a 30 minute wait. i told him let me call him back. so you know who i called? my dad. good ole dad. MY DAD had to come with water for my car. he was way way closer and it didnt take him nearly as long. i still was frozen when he got there. why? becasue i'm a freakin idiot. i have on scrubs and a nice warm jacket, right? no. scrubs and a sweater. yup, thats what my sorry ass chose to wear for warmth when i left the house last night.
my dad put water in my car and i made it off the castle hayne exit to take 117 the rest of the way home. sigh. its amazing. when your car is 'overheating' theres no DAMN HEAT COMING OUT. i know we had to stop a half dozen times. oh yeah. did i mention? my dad had to follow me home. it was 0815 when i finally made it home. 0815.
funny thing is i wasnt mad at the husband. its a car. its his job to make sure things like this dont happen to the wife who works 3rd shift and has to drive from wilmington to rocky point on an interstate. the whole damn thing was funny to me. i dont knjow why. it was cold out. i was not dressed properly. i had to stop a hundred times to put water in my car. and oh yeah. my dad lost me in rocky point.
we pulled over, yet again to put water in the car. ran out of water. rode in his car to freddys to refill, drive back to my car, put water in. i left before he did and made it as far as the new post office. no where to pull off safely so i pull into the parking lot of the post office. my dad doesnt see me, rides past. its only about 2.5 miles to my house from there. but i watch him ride right by. damn. its still cold. i call my husband and told him when my dad gets there could he please send him back? he did. i finally made it home. frozen. crawled into bed and stayed there until noon.
the husband says he can fix it. the car. ok. but i'm not driving it to work tonight. no way jose'. uh uh. i'll take the truck, thank you very much.
i did tell him i better get a damn good xmas present for me having to be stranded, frozen and tired on the side of the damn interstate.
man, i better not get sick. i got 2 more nights left to work. until wednesday. then i get to start all over again.
and they want us to quit smoking at the hospital. bullshit. if i did, this mornings little episode would have sent me right over the freakin edge. right over. geronimo!!!! splat.

ants in your pants

mike rowe has ants in his pants!!!
yeah. still drinking. actually not now. ran out. remedy that in a.m.
in march i'll be 38.,
dont feel it
maybe feel 30.
how do you feel an age???????
i have fun so its not old.
its young.
tomorrow i start working 5 days in a row.
ugh.

change

change is difficult. scary. but sometimes good.
i've gotta get in the frame of mind to 'think'. one day i'll explain. right now i've been drinking and must not explain. it just wouldnt come out right. but for hte good of all, one must sacrifice. again.

guess what

chicken butt

drunk football

i have the best time throwing the football with Matt in the front yard after i 'd had a couple of drinks. somehow it makes it even more fun. he's out there fixin' kiera's moonshoes while his old mom takes a break for a minute. another drink and a cancer stick thanks. and some eminem on the puter playing. at least thats whats playing right now. i have a whole eclectic collection of music playing...from kenny chesney to eminem to toby to linkin park. i'm not biased. i like it all.

long day

went to my sisters today.
and i have to say, "bless her heart".
she was coloring her hair. let me preface first.
they are building a house right next to where they are now. the people were out there today putting footers in, or something. dont know. they were digging. well, they hit the water line.
ok, back to present. sonia is in the shower washing the color out of her hair when this happens. i have to run out to her pump house and turn the water off. she has to go next door to her neighbors to finish getting the color out of her hair. and then....she goes and deals with the guys who busted her water line. i thought it was going to be worse, but she was nice to them. something about a couple of them being cute. i tell ya what...cute goes right out the damn window if i'm in the shower washing color out of my hair and they bust a freakin pipe and i gotta go next door to finish. but they fixed it.
her husband hunts and feeds the dogs gizzards. sigh. ewwwww. ick.
sonia and i ride to the grocery store to buy 10, yes 10, family packs of gizzards. ewwwwwww.
thats it for now.

if i'm lyin' i'm dyin'

swear to god this happened this morning on my way home from work:
i got behind some female driver who turned her turn signal THREE lights in advance. its 0630...its not like there was much traffic!!!

whew!

i can now throw out my gallon of stupid juice....they just filled my lp tank and i now officially have heat. woo hoo.
it never dropped below 65 inside. nice!
my sister was telling me about this website, kproxy.com, that will allow me to access blocked sites at work. i'm going to try it tonight. i'm hoping it will let me post on my blog, because, of course, blogging is blocked at work.
"noone promising" has applied for the open position at work yet. more hours for me right now. that could go either way. but it'll come in handy with xmas right around the corner.

peace out

stupid geico commercials

how could jed clampett save a bunch of money? could he find oil? no! but, he can log onto the internet, on his laptop, in the early to mid 1960's and save a bunch of money on his car insurance!!
thats just messed up. other than the obvious, it being in the 60's and the internet? please.
if he was that poor, how the hell could he even afford the frickin laptop????
i'll tell ya....Jed was into time travel. how else could you explain it? and he messed up and brought that laptop back. and the aliens introduced time travel. duh...
you know that bitty little shack was a cover for something...who the hell lives in a rackety old shack, in the middle of nowhere, and apparantly not only has some electricity to run the laptop (unless it had good batteries), but internet? i didnt see any phone lines. or cable boxes....i'm telling ya, that Jed was into something hinky.

its my 'monday'

its friday. thats my monday for you working people.
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS OUR LUCKY WINNER! EDNA, TELL THE LADY WHAT SHE WON!
WELL, BOB, THE LUCKY LADY HAS WON 3 FAB-U LOUS NIGHTS AT THE BEAUTIFUL RESORT CAPE FEAR! FOR 3 WONDERFUL NIGHTS SHE'LL SIT. SHE MIGHT WORK SOME, BUT MOSTLY SIT! NIGHT AFTER NIGHT OF BLISSFUL SITTING. (hey, at least i get paid to do it)
yup, unless the ER is busy, i'm not doing a damn thing until 0400.
YES BOB, TONIGHT OUR LUCKY WINNER WILL HOLD CHAIRS DOWN, HOLD WALLS UP, AND IN GENERAL BE A PAIN IN THE ASS TO HER COWORKERS OUT OF BOREDOM!!
(i get bored and wander the floors...theres only 3 floors at this hospital....and irritate the nursing staff. i'll go smoke some...but mostly annoy the crap out of coworkers...if you do it right it can be so much fun!)
SAY BOB, WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SMILING??

i'm right proud of myself

yup. havent had the tv on all morning. yet. but sadly i've just been sitting here at the computer watching jeff dunham on youtube instead. he's funny.

my daughter left her silly putty on my desk. you can just sit for hours and play with that stuff!
whats left of it. about half of it found its way on her shirt and pants yesterday. ever try to get silly putty out of clothes? no? then you just dont know the fun your missing there!
i had to google it. rubbing alcohol gets it out good.
if i posted this previous, then sorry. but that handy little piece of info is worth posting twice. trust me. you try to get silly putty out of clothes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

brrrrrrr

i think the low here last night was 33. its 34 now.
i have electric a/c and gas heat. or, i would have gas heat if we had gas. it comes tomorrow. i woke up at 0530 this morning and it was only 66 degrees in the house. not bad. insulation comes in handy. and we have a little space heater that i turn on when i get up at 0530. just to get it to 70 and comfortable for the kids when they get up at 0630. last year, where i lived, it would have been way the hell colder inside if it was 34 outside. it would have been about 44 inside. brrrr. again, loving this house. again, loved that we finally moved.
kiera has a field trip tomorrow. they are going to see the movie "bees". i think its tomorrow. they have early release today.
xmas is fast approaching. this year we are going to make gifts. we used to do that. last year we didnt. frugal living. i've already googled frugal/homemade xmas gift ideas. i think some people will be getting scarves!!!

damn

ever feel like you just drank a whole gallon of stupid juice? heater is perfectly fine. put some gas in the tank and it'll run.

stupid juice: colorless, tasteless, odorless.

"i am legend"

theres a movie coming out with will smith called "i am legend". well i just read the book. damn, i hope the movie is better because the book sucked.

good googly

you all know i work in the lab and the highlight of my night/morning is waking patients up at 0400 to stick them with a sharp needle!
saturday morning i only had 13 patients. about the same yesterday. this morning i was down to 9. 30 minutes, done. and that was with me chatting with nurses and patients. clocked out by 0500. oh yeah!
so now i'm sitting here listening to such catchy tunes as 'funkytown' and 'rock me amadeus' on my computer waiting for time to pass to wake up the kids to get them ready for school.
and my sister is sick. i gotta go check on her today or she MIGHT DIE. i'd hate that.
and i wear paper disposable lab coats at work. paper. i brought crayons in friday night and colored on my coat. got quite alot of response off that one. good comments.
peace out.

and just for fun

'curiosity killed the cat. but only if he was playing with Hefty garbage bags.
"CAUTION: PLASTIC BAGS CAN CAUSE SUFFOCATION"
and thres even a warning on the back of my 3 pack of food lion paper towels.
"CAUTION: ANY PAPER PRODUCT CAN BURN IF USED IMPROPERLY IN MICROWAVE OR CONVENTIONAL OVENS."
and it goes on to tell you what not to do with paper towels and what to do in case of fire in the microwave. interesting.

no, really??

i'm about to put a frozen pizza in the oven, because thats what one does in order to eat the pizza. and on the box is this, "COOK BEFORE SERVING"
no, really? i'd would not have thought to do that. but i'm sure glad they put that on the box just in case i forgot.

some weather

winds gusting up to 35 mph due to Noel off the coast. pressure has dropped. my head is killing me. and with that comes the lovely nausea. just cant beat the nausea.

don't hit 'enter'

i messed up on that last post and hit 'enter' instead of 'tab'. oh well.
nice weather we're having.
as i've mentioned i work 3rd shift weekends. the girl that works 3rd shift during the week is resigning effective november 12. i have the oppurtunity to work some extra hours. i told my boss that i can't work mondays and tuesdays but i could wednesdays and thursdays. i'll find out this weekend what my extra shifts will be. i told her to just schedule me to the end of november for right now because i havent looked at december yet.
i have the potential to work 5 days straight. thats alot when you only do 3 days in a row. or nights. 'cause us night people have to still operate on you day peoples schedules.
what with xmas coming up it will work to my favor. could always use the extra dough.

could this weather be any better?

makers

i would almost swear that makers is a wee bit stronger than jack.

they came from outer space

that "annoying" pb&j song is gone.
my daughter has been invited to her first sleepover tonight. she is most excited, and i'm most nervous. she's growing up. sigh.

blah blah blah

yeah, not much going on lately.
quit drinking and started on prozac and feeling much better. havent hurt since last week. YAY!
and i actually have energy back!
not just physical energy, but mental energy as well.
dr appt tomorrow.

creativity

some people try with the creative thing. some people just dont have it. god bless 'em.

Mr. Pototo Head, damn, he's into drugs...

Mr Ecstasy Head in customs bust
October 04, 2007 12:00am
Article from: AAP
MR Potato Head turned out to be Mr Ecstasy Head when Customs officers at the Sydney International Mail Centre removed a panel at the back of the toy.They found 293g of MDMA tablets, commonly known as ecstasy, inside. "Whilst this is one of the more unusual concealments that we have seen in recent times, people need to be aware that Customs officers are alert to unusual and often outlandish methods of concealment," Customs operations manager Karen Williams said.

project

my current yarn project.

poster child

all my blood test came back normal.
i was thinking before, what could be worse? all this having a name or not? after the phone call yesterday, i'd have to go with the not. if it had a name it would be fixable. no name, no fix.
although....my sister thinks i'm the poster child for that commercial depression hurts.
i dont feel depressed. i thought i was pretty happy. sort of. but according to her, and my husband, i'm more down than up. hmmm.....so on my next dr appt i'm sure that issue will be raised. it was brought in passing on the last dr appt. sigh.
i have several nephews. no nieces. i have the only girl. or i did.
my 23 year old nephew, ryan, has an 8 month daughter named Chloe. i met her last night. and chloes's mom, nina. i knew ryan had a little girl, but he's never brought her over. well, he called my mom out of the blue yesterday and asked if he and nina and chloe could come over and visit. its the first time my parents have seen their great granddaughter. it was a nice visit. i really hope they dont make it a one time thing. that would break my moms heart. its bad enough they dont talk to her but maybe once every couple of years.
but it sure was nice seeing ryan and meeting nina and chloe. a cute little family.

the time for action is now

god. you know you're bored when you are drinking and going thru all your mp3's for music.

i know how you like scrubs, so this is for you and you know who you are!

http://www.videoparodies.com/turkdoespoison.htm

this one may describe alot of peoples day!!

http://www.videoparodies.com/paxilback.htm

cyberparodies

i found this website...its funny.
so, i'll probably be putting some of their stuff on here...starting now.
http://www.cyberparodies.com/iblogalone.mp3

finished another book...big surprise there

yeah, i read. who'd a thunk it? i can start and finish a book, but when it comes to one of my numerous(too many to count) yarn projects...well, damn. took me about three years to finish one blanket i was crocheting. its kinda crooked. i finally called it done. ok, so its not quite big enough to fit a twin bed, but hell, i really got tired of that wopsided piece of color explosion i picked out for a color. that and i swear they discontinued the color i was using, thats how long i have been on that particular project.

about this author....(isn't he just the cutest thing??)

just finished chris kuzneski's latest book, "sword of god".

pretty good. i liked 'sign of the cross' better, but it was ok.

now i have to get his first book, 'the plantation'.

when i went to books a million they only had 'sotc' and 'sog'.

guess i'll have to find the freakin zanax and hit the barnes and nobles.

(another story about anxiety for another day)

peace out!

chicken butt

i asked my son, "whats up?"
he says, "chicken butt"

do you know what number i'm thinking of?

oh, what a day. nothing going on.
took a darvocet and a nap this morning. feel much better now.
my follow up appt is in 2 weeks. did i mention that already? 2 long weeks.
blah blah blah

happy ocktober

well, here it is. october. woo.
another day closer to xmas.
had the dr appt today. they took blood and i have another appt in 2 weeks. we'll see how that goes. today went well.
the girl that took my blood had good technique, but i'm gonna have a small bruise. i didnt tell her that i work in a lab. drawing blood. wouldnt want to make the girl nervous. cause she's new at it. but very pleasant.

guestbook

theres no guestbook.
so i'm making one.
please sign it.
thanks.
(this is the guestbook, just go to the comments section below and pretend)

things that make you go hmmmmm.....

i do.
i was at work this morning, working, and for some reason this popped into my head:
"there's no black people on the andy griffith show."
now, i'm not trying to be funny. honest. i even asked a couple of my coworkers, a white girl and a black girl. they knew.

its FRIDAY

this means alot to most people...the fact that its friday. for most people its their last day of work for the week. for me, its my first.
3rd shift fridays, saturdays, and sundays. been doing this for 4 years now. but it gives that illusion of being a stay at home mom. i'm there for the kids during the week. sure, i miss doing things on the weekends, but my boss is really cool if i want to take a weekend off.
it frees up my week for important things...like:
1. doing absolutely nothing
2. bitch duties
3. drinking during the day
4. crocheting in peace
5. reading in peace
6. more drinking
7. shopping at wal-mart while all you people are at work
8. preparing a nice dinner for the loved ones (yeah, right)
9. watching all the tv i want
10. etc.

ok. read this, had to share

Man Buys Smoker, Finds Human Leg Inside


MAIDEN, N.C. (AP) -- A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first.
Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.
The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.
The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery "for religious reasons" she doesn't know much about.
"The rest of the family was very much against it," Steele said.
Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.


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dr appt

well my dr appt is on monday oct 1st. it cant get here quick enough.
i stopped taking the B-1, green tea extract and selenium over this past weekend. it was making me feel better, but i dont want to go to the doctor feeling good. theres a reason i hurt and i need for it to get fixed.
wondering if i can make it thru the weekend like this. within 3 days of not taking the vitamins the pain came back.
now i'm sitting here trying not to take it out on my kids and not cry and wonder if this will ever go away. 'cause if i go to this dr and he shoos me off like the last one did, then i just dont know.
ok then.

sticks and bricks and dicks and chicks

yeah, the title means nothing and is irrelevant to this. just bored. bored i say!!!
i can only do so much laundry, sweep or mop.
so i'm watching CMT. yup, country music television.
sometimes its good tv.
reminds you of all the romance that life is. not all the romance in life. but that life itself is a romance. every romance has its ups and downs. its heartbreak. its soul lifting happiness. that's life.
one can never go back and say 'i wish'. everything you do is a stepping stone to the next and to go back and eliminate one would make it all crumble.

take what you have and run with it, but don't forget to stop and smell the roses. kind of contradicting. but so true.

blah blah blah

jokes

what did one ghost say to the other ghost?
do you believe in people?

what did the stamp say to the envelope?
stick with me and we'll go places!

what city has no people?
electricity!

what do little people travel in?
a mini-van!


yeah, corny, i know. but its my style. my daughter told me the last one...cracked me up!

Chris Kuzneski

i just finished reading a book by this author, chris kuzneski. omg!! you people have to check him out. he writes these thrillers/action/mystery type books with the wit and sense of humor that will leave you waiting for more. personally, i cant wait to go the bookstore to get his other books.
and check out his website, www.chriskuzneski.com because he has some photos and the captions will crack you up!!!!

he's up there with dan brown, james rollins, steve berry, etc.
omg! ya gotta read him

omg

its going to be one of those days. you know the kind. the predestined already gone to shit days.
the weather is crappy, you're the only one eating the donuts your son talked you into getting because he said he would eat them, its time to do laundry, again. when is it ever time not to do laundry? its always time for laundry. ugh.
and now billy ray cyrus is hosting a special on the history channel. 'hillbilly: the real story'.
hannah montana's dad is hosting for the history channel. who'd a thunk it?

??

so whats going on with you people?
my life is at a bit of a standstill.

books

i hate it when i start reading a really good book and then misplace it. dammit.
i started reading one this weekend and i just went to look for it and i'm pretty sure i left it at work. sigh.
which really sucks.
but on the plus side, i have to go back to the hospital on wednesday because my mom is having some kind of radiology procedure and i'll look for it while thats going on.

no title really, just my most favorite video ever!!!!!

curtain rods and screws oh my

appantly i'm about useless when it comes to the cordless screwdriver.
i'm trying really really hard to put some curtains up. i finally got some curtains i like for the living room/dining room area. i got the curtains on the rods. but i cant attach them to the wall because i dont know how to use the freakin cordless screwdriver. i mean, you just squeeze and the screw goes in the wall. right? i can get it about half in. AND...i have a height issue. curtains are 84" tall. i'm not. sure, standing on the chair gives me some added height, but i'm supposed to use the screwdriver AND stand on the chair, and to tell you the truth, its not really working out that well for me.
makes me want to take up drinking.
oh wait....i already do.

damn damn damn

you ever have one of those moments? where all you can do is just sit there and go,"damn damn damn." yeah, i had me one of those today.

my mom and i go to walmart. i picked her up and off we go. we went, bought stuff, i dropped her back off and i head home. which is 13 miles from my moms.

i get 1.5 miles from my house and she calls me to ask if i need the keys i left at her house. "the keys" would be my house keys, so yes i would.

i turn back around and my mom meets me about 1/2 way so i dont have to drive all the way back. she's nice that way.

i was this close.

and to quote one my my mostest favorite comedians, Ron White, "We just can't pull it off with this equipment."

out of the mouths of babes

my mom took my daughter to a small zoo here in wilmington. totem pole zoo. thats what it used to be called when i was little, but i think it has a different name now. anyhoo....
my mom took kiera to the zoo. kiera also wanted to go to the aquarium, but my mom told her to wait until next weekend after she got paid. this is what my daughter told me:
"grandma and i got some scratch-off tickets and grandma won $15! but she doesnt have enough money to go to the aquarium. we have to wait until next week after she gets paid."

now, i know the kid was being a smart-ass, but she said it with the most serious and straight face that i about fell out the chair from laughing so hard.

101 uses for drumsticks

feel free to add some uses so we can make it to 101!

1. well, to play the drums

2. magic wand, with the other as a spare

3. to beat on things that are not drums (regardless if there is any music playing) just to irritate those around you

4. wooden stakes in case you run into a Vampire

i'm a pushover

yup, a pushover. i have just agreed to go to the gym friday morning. for 'just a stroll on the treadmill'. and tanning. they have tanning. i forget they have tanning. tanning would feel good...the heat.

cardi-who??

i get a text from my sister this morning at 0541 asking if i want to meet her at the gym for a bit of cardio this morning. (snicker)
i'm thinking not so much. the amount of cardio i'll get this morning will be in the form of me walking my ass right back to bed!

hypochondria; is it gone?

my earlier post about me having hypochondria...well, the symptoms for the hypothyroidism have almost gone away. yay!!! it really sucks to hurt 24/7.

and since the ouches have cooled off i have, of course, way more energy now. hence the cleaner house. and why i'll be fighting to find something to do today. i've already threatened to rearrange the cabinets in the kitchen. alphabetically. not quiet that desperate yet!

of course i could go visit my home planet for a few hours. hmmm.....

why why why

i spent most of yesterday doing bitch duties. you know, cleaning, laundry, cooking, etc. Bitch duties.
and i've just realized that i did everything yesterday which leaves me nothing to do today. ALL the laundry is caught up. i swept, mopped, vaccummed.
i guess i could go o.c. and clean the kids bathroom and then re-arrange the cabinets in the kitchen.

hypochondria

i think i may have hypothyroidism. i have a dr. appt. for the first of october. we'll see what he says.

i hate i cant blog at work. blog sites are blocked.

dang da-dang diddy

i live at the end of a road. its 0.2 miles from the highway. the kids bus stops at the beginning of the road. i go to pick up matt, he gets in the car and my car won't crank. it turns over, but nothing after that. i think i'm out of gas. isnt that wonderful? matt and i had to walk back. not like its far. 0.2 miles.
matt is going to take his sisters bike, it has a basket, and whatever gas is left in the gas can for the lawnmower to my car and see if it cranks.
i'm finally feeling better and this is what i get.
smile, put on sunglasses. the sunglasses are so others cannot see the daggers you are shooting from your eyes at them becuase now all of a sudden everyone is stupid too.
breathe, tonia, breathe.

seasons are a state of mind

i'm making a scarf for a coworker who will be leaving us soon. she's kind of retiring. i got that thick wool like yarn. i just took it all apart to start over. it was too wide...looking like half a blanket instead of a scarf. first time i've ever re-done a scarf.
scarves, in september. who'd a thunk it?

boo!

this is what i bought for my door today. yes, i know its not even october. but, dang, ain't it cool?

beam me up scotty

"wheres the future and what does it look like?"

sick

i had to pick my daughter up from school today. school starts at 0745 and i got a phone call at 0815. her teacher called and said kiera was not feeling well. and i quote, "shes not a complainer so when she said she wasnt feeling well i thought i'd go ahead and call you."
now this child has only been in school for ONE week. and she has her teacher thinking that. i'm thinking, just come home with her one afternoon and see how much she 'doesnt complain.'
oh well. her teachers like her...thats what counts. she does well in school.
so i picked her up and we went to the craft store.
because you know its almost halloween. they have stuff out. halloween stuff. this just happens to be one of my most favorite holidays! i bought this huge ghoul for the door...the glass door so its kind of see thru. huge because its from the chest up and its like death with a sickle. very cool.

beverly hillbillies

my 7 year old daughter told her friends today that we are rich because i have diamonds on my rings. sigh.

'we must card anyone who looks under 35'

ok.
i went to the ABC store today and got carded. what a treat! the lady asked me how old i was and i had to show her my ID. she says, 'we have to card anyone who looks under 35.'
ok. i told her i'll NEVER complain about being carded. ever.

windows

the husband is out of town this week. this means i can open the windows and let in fresth air. he's an a/c junkie. not a bad thing. especially when its hot out. but its been rather cool this weekend. i'll probably end up turning the a/c back on this afternoon for a bit. but at least its not as humid as it has been.

i just found out today that 'weren't' is not a real word. my sister told me. she didnt know either. she found out at work. i asked her did a northener tell her that. (she's a nurse in the trauma icu at the hospital.)
apparantly her other southern friends didnt know either.
it has letters, it must be a word.

on a world far far away.....

i just had a 3 year old tell me a story and it started like this:
"a long time ago when i was a baby...."

i dont know how the rest of the story went, because i was stuck on the beginning.

phobia

i work 3rd shift weekends at the lab. my main duty is to go and wake patients up at 0400 and collect their blood.
everyone was surprisingly chipper this morning considering i was waking them up with the intent to stick them with a needle.

dang cats

somehow my house seems to be the hospitality house for cats. we moved in july. we have 3 cats. after about a week, Freida wandered off and got lost. we didnt see her for about a month. she's back. but while she was gone another cat came. she had kittens. and we havent seen here in a while. now theres another cat. my daughter has named him jose'. he was skinny when he came here. not so much anymore.
our cats: Freida, Tia, Sonny, and now Jose'.

do you hear the ringing?

i really gotta remember where i put my cell phone. this happened to me. again.
i'm sitting in my recliner watching tv and i hear my cell phone ring. i listen for it to ring again so i can locate it better when i get up. it rings again and sounds like its coming from my bedroom. i get up and start walking down the hall and it rings again, only this time it sounds like its coming from the opposite direction, the kitchen. i turn around to head that way. it rings again, coming from behind me. thats when i i finally realize where my phone is. my back pocket. my husband is just sitting there, laughing. like i said...not the first time i've done that.

big brothers and little sisters, oh my

My son is 12 and has decided to let his hair grow. I guess its that 'skater' look. i just dunno.
My daughter is 7 and thinks he has 'girl hair'. which she is now putting in a ponytail. Poor Matt. what a nice big brother, though.