Just A Thought

I was working with nursemom last week and she was all excited because she is going on vacation. We always have a good time when we get to work together which isn't to often. She was saying how she got done early passing her meds and I said that is because you are working with me!! We laughed. I said well I would like to think that is why you got done early. We talked about her post about the holidays and how she forgot Easter and than we got talking about other things like that day happened to be fat Tuesday! Than I told her the day before was national pancake day and how Russia had this celebration. When you think about it, it's pretty silly some of the days they have! Well fat Tuesday goes into ash Wednesday which is the start of Lent which to me is the begining of Spring! Which leads me into the fact that I know we still have a whole month left of winter. Now I really can't complain because we have had a mild winter or I should say a warm winter, which is fine by me! We have had a little snow, but we have mostly had rain! It has snowed in the mountains where it should anyway! Now we are coming into March and it looks like March is going to come in like a lion! I just hope it goes out like a lamb!

Okay so you are wondering where this is all leading to, probably no where really!! No I wanted to talk about spring because I am looking forward to it because I am taking a couple weeks off from work. I was only going to take spring break off and decided the heck with it I am going to take two weeks! I really need to do some spring cleaning! That is my plan! Plan you say, but you don't plan anything! Yeah I know but I feel I am safe with the spring cleaning thing it is not like I am planning a big trip or anything, because that would never pan out! I hate to plan anything just because you know the saying stuff happens!! I don't like to make list either, which comes back to nursemom. She loves to make list and I guess so does her daughters! She said you make a list of things you want to do than cross them off! I am glad that works for her! The only list I make is a grocery list and guess what I don't do the shopping!! My husband does! Is that great or what!! Now I love to shop just not grocery shopping!

My husband is taking off spring break so we will probably do stuff since the kids are out of school that week and he wanted to go somewhere and I am like I don't think we can. So that comes back to the whole him being angry with me and not specking for two days yeah. So yesterday was bill paying day and I told him he wanted to know what was going on so get out here and see exactly what is going on!! So I paid the bills and he asked question than he got the big picture or at least I think he did and I have to tell you I didn't feel as stressed as I usually do! Of course I said these are the end of the month bills and guess what, March is apond us and it starts all over agian. Can you get why we live pay check to pay check like most working class people. I hope he finally gets it and has seen first hand that is the way it is and it is not like we have extra money laying around! Than you have the kids saying they need money for this and that or you help out your son who is on his own.

So I am looking forward to taking a couple of weeks off and hopefully if my "Plan" goes okay I will be doing some much needed spring cleaning and even though that is work it isn't "Work"!!

Addiction and other comments from other post...

I was reading someones blog about how she decided to give up caffeine and how she had with drawls but she was sticking to it! How she had texted her husband because she really wanted a soda pop! It was pretty funny!

That blog got me thinking about all the different kinds of addiction there are, but they aren't all bad. I mean if you buy dvd a lot you could say that is an addiction. Now I am guilty of that as well as as buying my tv series on dvd! The artificial sugar they put into diet soda isn't good for you either. Now I drink coffee and I have read that it can actually be good for you. Dark chocolate can be good for you. So I don't feel caffeine is a bad thing. I work graveyard shift and I need to stay await, which I usually don't have a problem doing. I am a night person anyway so it works out great for me, but I still need that extra help to keep me going. So good for this person who quit but just thought I would comment about it! I loved the blog it was very funny!

Than there was a post I was reading and someone made a comment about going to the fair and than they said Nevada didn't have a fair, yes we do. It is usually in the summer and it is in Reno. They have the rodeo in June and I believe the Nevada State fair is in August.

Than I was reading about Mardi Gras and how this person buys this pastry and such and she had mentioned the Kings Cake. It is a colorful cake that they usally put in a trinket mostly a placstic baby that represents baby Jesus. The person who gets the trinket has an obligation like buying the cake the next year. My son had a friend who buys the cake every year and they usually celebrate mardi gras as well and so I got to have a taste of it for the first time. This was a few years ago. It wasn't to bad at all. They always have a party for mardi gras and decorate and dress up.

The Road Of Life

Traveling down the road of life has it's ups and downs. Sometimes there are bumps to go over sometimes pot holes. There are twist and turns. There are hills and mountains to climb and sometimes there is a dead end! That is how I kind of felt last week. I hit a dead end with no way to go and at the dead end was a cliff. Sometimes there are these plans that have been made, but that doesn't always mean they are going to happen the way it was intended. Where am I going with this well I will get to that.

My daughter was really sick I said that in my last post, but she wasn't getting any better and this was President's weekend. So I told my husband he should take her to urgent care on Sunday and his reply was, I will see how she is. Okay. This is a 17 year old who isn't going to say she is not feeling better! So I went to work he still didn't take her to urgent care on Sunday or on Monday. I didn't say anything. No here is where things get a little bit hairy. I come home on Tuesday morning after a hard night at work and all I wanted was a hug from my husband. I didn't get it, instead I got I don't want you to go to bed I need to talk to you and I am taking our daughter to urgent care this morning she still isn't feeling better, okay I didn't say I told you so!!
He takes our son to school comes home sits down and just starts saying this stuff that just took me by surprise! I mean I couldn't believe he was saying this to me. So, we have arguement like any normal couple does and usually it is about money and bills and such and everything is said and done and we make up.

So he wanted to know about this bill and that like I never have told him before, well I get angry and yes I acted a little immature but I start throwing the bills at him and tell him if he thinks he can do better go for it! The thing is it wasn't just about the bills and money it was some other stuff thrown in that had really just floored me to not believing what I was hearing. I went to bed because I had to work that night. I didn't sleep to well because of what was going through my mind. When I got up I asked what the doctor had said and she had the flu and couldn't go back to school until Monday the 23rd. So that means the field trip was off that I was going to go with her on Friday. I still didn't say I told you so in fact I said very little.

Now I had broke two of my own rules. 1) Never leave the house angry 2) Never leave the house without saying I love you. I got ready for work left said goodbye to the kids told them I love them but said nothing to my husband. This went on for two days! I couldn't stand no more and finally on Thursday morning I told him we need to talk. We did, I cried everything worked out! He said it wasn't supposed to go on this long. He was supposed to say what he had to say and everything was supposed to be a done deal on the same day. He didn't expect it to go the way it did. So sometimes things happen and we don't expect them to go the way they do and life's road takes us down a corner we haven't been before. Lesson learn? Maybe.

Just another turn in the road of life that sometimes might be a little to dark that you didn't see something coming the other way.

Valentines Day

Valentines Day is for lovers, will not really. It can be a day to just say I love you to your children too! It is the second busy day for people tying the knot. The first being New Years Eve! I kind of miss getting the Valentine cards for the kids to take to school. Now that they are in middle school and high school they don't do that anymore. Sometimes making cup cakes for the class and getting special treats!

So yesterday I went to the store to get something for my husband for Valentines Day! I went to pick out a card which is always a big mistake these days! Let me explain: I like getting cards with feeling and in doing so I am always crying when I am reading these cards! So in picking out a card with feeling I am always hoping the first card I pick up is the card I want, Wrong I read one and it is okay so I pick up another and get a little teary eyed and finally the thrid card said what I feel and here came the tears! Yes people I am a sap and sometimes I don't have to pick up a card I just have to go to the card section and start crying before I even read a card. How sad is that!! I keep telling myself maybe I should only get funny cards from now on, but I always go to those cards that just make you cry!! I was going to get my husband a Plain white T's cd with the song Delia on it because he got me this bear that sings that sing well part of that song and he really liked it! They didn't have it so I got him a couple Beatles Cd's. We were going to go out to dinner last night just the two of us, but my daughter was really sick and I didn't feel right about it, so we will have to do that another time!

So Happy Valentines Day to all! Hope it is really nice for you!

You Had To Be There..

The other night at work there was a nurse from the other unit who came over to talk and she said I have a story. A little back ground on this gal. She is a mother of nine, works part time, and goes to school. Not to mention her children are in various activities. She is going to school to get her masters degree in nursing. Where she finds the time for everything I am not sure. She is also a Mormon. With that said in comes the "story". She was having clinical where they were told they were going to have to dress in a hospital gown so that they could do assessments on each other, but the teacher had said they could keep there under garments on. Now she is Mormon and she wears the garments okay. So she thought that she would go get underwear for this occasion. She went to Wal-mart to the underwear department now mind you she also said that she hasn't bought underwear for 22 years. She was a bit over whelmed with all the different styles of underwear there are, not to mention the fact the sizing. She was trying to find the size by what size pants she wears when that clearing wasn't right. A sales person ask her if she needed help and she thought about it for a minute and thought how could she tell this person she hasn't bought underwear in 22 years, so she opt to tell her no she was good. She ended up getting the boys style underwear she thought they would cover up more than the other choices. Well she said she never had so many wedges in her life! I told this to nursemom last night and she chuckled. The thing is the story always sounds better when told by the person who's story it is . I know when she was telling me this story I thought it was pretty cute and funny. I relaid it to nursemom and I guess I told it pretty good since she chuckled a little. My point is that sometimes stories don't seem as funny when they are retold by someone else. The same goes with jokes. I am terrible at trying to repeat a joke I have heard from someone else that made me roll on the floor laughing. So I come home and try to tell that same joke to my husband as I am laughing still and than when it comes to the punchline well I usually mess up and my husband is like I don't get it how did you find that funny. Well I guess you had to be there!!

Eatting My Words

My last blog was about how my husband didn't get me a card or anything on my birthday and how that was so unlike him. Well, I shouldn't have doubted him after 26 years I should have know he had an alternative plan of action. He is a great person and never forgets birthdays and such, so when I didn't get anything not even a card on my birthday well I was very hurt by this and it is because it was so unlike him. So I wasn't specking to him except if I had to so he knew I was a little upset. I went to work on Sunday night and of course I had to tell everyone how upset I was after all they ask how my birthday was so I am telling them how hurt I was and everything! Well the next morning when I got home my husband was waiting for me and he says to me as I am walking into the living room, "They sure do lock the hospital up tight at night" at this point I am seeing the dozen roses on the coffee table in this very pretty purple vase. My husband says, "I wanted to surprise you with a cake and goodies and these roses at work so you and your friends could have a party at work"! So he says, "That's why I didn't get them on your birthday because I had an alternative plan". So I hug him and tell him I am so sorry I doubted you, but I was so hurt because it is unlike you! He said well I guess what I am trying to say is that I am sorry that I hurt you! So I am eatting my words and bowing my head and going to the corner now! I don't know sometimes you get all wrapped up in the moment you don't stop to think that maybe there was another plan. Okay honey you are safe if there is a tool you want for your birthday You got it!!

Just Another Day

Yesterday was my birthday, yeah just another day. Don't get me wrong I am grateful I am here to see another day, but I usually don't like to make a big deal out of it, well than again maybe deep down it is a special day and maybe I expected to much. I got this really nice card that my youngest son made up for me and I got all choke up about it, because it was so sweet! We were going to go out to dinner and I had decided on the buffet at the Fandango, but I did expect at least a card from my husband, but did I get a card NO! I mean I wasn't asking for much and yes I didn't ask him to get me a card, but I shouldn't have to ask right? No card, no flowers, not even a box of chocolate. Did I say anything, no not at first. So we go out to dinner and it was pretty pricey and the food was good but not great at least not for the price and it really wasn't worth to pay that much when my son hardly ate anything. It was seafood night and I love seafood and so does my daughter. Well she ate to much shrimp and didn't really go get any of the entree meals, my son ate a salad and a piece of pizza and that was about all. I went up to the seafood counter and they really didn't have that much choice. I had some prawns and they were really good and than I decided to try the sword fish because I have never had it before. Well it was too fishy for me and here is a person who loves fish! Lets put it this way it was very gamey tasting. It was venice of fish! We decided we aren't going to buffets anymore unless it is just my husband and I because for the price it isn't worth it when the kids don't eat that much.

After word we stopped off at the store and that is when my husband bought a card, but my daughter is the one that had pick it out, so that really doesn't count at all. Okay maybe I am making to big a deal out of this or maybe it is the fact that I really can't believe he didn't get me a card at the very least, because usually he does. So needless to say I am a little bit hurt by this. All I got to say wait until April when it's your birthday and there is some tool you want well guess what don't expect it because I expected a card and didn't even get it! Okay I will stop whining now thanks for listening!!

Friday

I am naming this Friday for a lack of a better title and since it is still Friday I figured why not! Today was my daughters birthday she turned 17 she said she didn't want to turn 17 but like everyone else you can't stop time! She said she told her teachers it was her birthday so they told the whole class, which she didn't want them to do. Well my dear if you don't want anyone to know don't tell!! I took her out to dinner along with my two son's and my daughters friend plus my youngest son's friend of which I didn't know he was invited because my husband forgot to tell me they were talking about it the other day. Thanks for informing me people!!! Well it was nice for my youngest son to have his friend there for his sisters birthday and he didn't have to listen to all the "girly" talk alone. Although it was mentioned at dinner that he was looking for a girl friend. I said why you can't date. He said yes I can. Oh dude no you can't! Your 13 you don't need a girl friend. You can have friends that happen to be girls but not "Girlfriends" His friend says I have a girl friend. Well that's you. It is really kind of funny how conversation get started or the subject of conversations. They were also talking about when they were 18 how they are going to dye there hair black and get nose and ear piercing. I mean stuff I really don't want to hear about. After dinner I took them to the movies. We went and saw "Coraline" It was pretty good. Well here's the thing my oldest son wanted to sit in one spot and my other two wanted to sit up higher so I sat with my oldest son and let my other two sit with their friends. That probably doesn't seem like a big deal, but for me it was. So later I told them they needed to thank me for letting them have some freedom without me breathing down their necks. They did and all was good!

Earlier in the day I had to go get my fingerprints done for the upcoming field trip I am taking with my daughter in a couple of weeks. So we go to the sheriff tell what I need and they needed cash money they wouldn't take a check. Well I just Assumed they would take checks and yes I know what happens when one assumes anything. So I go get the cash and go back only to almost get upset when I over heard someone say exact change. I said you need exact change? Well thank goodness the gal said oh no, good because I was about to say, "You got to be kidding me"! So all was good. Than I had to go to wal mart to get something for my daughters birthday and I hate when I go there and can't find anything I like or I can't find anything that she asked for. I did finally find the dvd she wanted and got her a nice outfit. All and all it was all good!

When we were waiting to get in to the movies my daughter and her friend decided to start singing Really loudly!! They both were in choir and they were remembering songs that they learned and people are looking at them and I am thinking I do not know you!! They both have beautiful voices, but that was not the time or place to be singing so I finally ask them to please stop! Maybe it was a good thing I wasn't sitting with them. All in all it was all good!

Economy

I decided to write about the economy because these are really hard times right now and with the budget cuts and all it just really makes me mad. Why, because I feel they are cutting in the wrong places! Education for one, that is just the wrong place to cut in my books. Okay I don't have any answers as to where they should cut, but cutting education just isn't the right place to be cutting. Law enforcement is another place they shouldn't be cutting. With the economy the way it is people out of work there are already more crimes going on and it is just going to get worse. The unemployment rate in NV is at it's all time high of 9% and I believe that is where CA is also or they may even be at 10%. So the Govern of NV is cutting the State workers pay down 6% that is including the teachers I believe. Job freezes so the workers will be getting paid less and doing more work even possible layoffs even after all that. Than I heard that in CA with all the people that lost their homes to foreclosures they are having to find rentals well the landlords are jacking up the rents. My friend was telling me her sister said a studio apartment is 1700.00 a month! Shame on those landlords for doing this! It is an outrage! Gas prices are going back up again which don't even get me started on that subject!! Even working at the Hospital they are cutting back so much it is really scary!! I am not even sure what is going to happen with our little unit. They say no worries, but at the same time I feel like I am the captain of my ship and it is sinking, but I am going down with it and at the same time I am thinking should I try to find something else? Should I go over to the Long Term Hospital? So many question for such a scary time. With businesses closing there doors and the unemployment at it's highest and all the cut backs the only thing I can do is pray and turn to God for guidance. So I do pray for myself and my job and I also pray that things start to get better. It really is hard times we are living in right now and I feel even worse for my children's future if they keep cutting education. So in these hard economic times we can pray that the President well do the right things to turn the economy around. I know it will take time but there should be some solution that would be able to work and stabilize the way the economy is going, so I will keep on praying for that to happen.