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.

Life

In reading post about relationships, aging, and raising children it got me thinking about life in general. So where to begin, will I suppose I could start by saying that aging really does suck. I mean when you are in high school you can't wait until you graduate at least I couldn't wait and now I hear the same thing from my daughter. I tell her don't rush things it will be here before you know it! It seems once you get out of high school the years really do fly by. My 20's were good and my 30's were great 40 was really hard but I got over it, but now I am going to be 50 and that is just really hard to take! My husband keeps asking me So where do you want to go for your birthday? He means dinner. I don't know I keep telling him. All the good places are in Reno and I really don't want to go to Reno. My husband is glad I am hitting 50 because he doesn't have to be alone. I tell him you will always be 4 years ahead of me! So life what is it all about anyway? You grow up get married have kids go to work pay bills and maybe go out to a movie or what not once in a while. No one knows how long they have in this life so you have to make to best of it for the time you are here. Sometimes that is hard to do. If you lead a normal life I mean work 9 to 5 have weekend off, but what really defies a "Normal" life anyway. I mean normal to you might not be normal to me. I don't work 9 to 5 nor would I want to I like working 12 hour shifts and having 3 to 4 days off. I don't think I could go back working 5 days a week. Life is always thowing you for a loop as they say stuff happens. The one thing that keeps me going no matter what happens is that I have God in my life. So even though I am turning 50 and that really bothers me I know I really don't have anything to worry about. I have God and ;my family and that is all that really matters to know they will always be there and love you no matter what. I couldn't imagine life any other way, except maybe that 50 didn't get here so fast!!

Movies

I have been trying to take the kids to movies when I can and if there is a movie they can see. Well all the movies they want to see are rated R which is all the movies I want to see, but I will not take my youngest. I took them to see Marley and me a few weeks ago and that was a really great movie we all cried at the end!! Last night I took them to see Hotel for Dogs! That also was a really cute movie! They have been to several movies with their dad. Ink Heart, Yes Man and I know there are a couple other ones just can't think of them right now, anyway so we go find a seat and there isn't all that many people there which is good for me. Well this lady and her four kids come and have to sit right behind us, I mean what is the deal there are all these seats she has to sit behind us!!! Okay maybe I am being a little paranoid but come on!! My son ask if I want to move well NO we were here first why should we move!! Well as it turn out the kids were good during the movie! I was really happy because I was planning on saying something if they weren't! My husband say they seem to seek you out! Why is that anyway! There was me and my kids, a guy and his son, a husband wife and there two kids and two other people in the whole theater and this lady sits right behind us! Yeah I know I am making a big deal out of nothing, but it is my anxiety that gets the best of me sometimes. I did really good this summer though going to a lot of movies and it being crowded that is a big deal for me! I made up my mind that I was going to go to a movie with my kids once a week if there is a movie out they can see. I would love to go see Underworld and my kids want to see it too, but like I said it is rated R. In the next few weeks there are some movies coming out that we can go see though. My husband takes them almost every week so now they can get a treat by going twice a week. It would be nice if we all could go together, but with our works schedules it usually never works out that way. My daughters birthday is next week and so is mine so maybe one of those days we could go to the movies as a family. Time goes by so fast and before you know it they won't be home anymore so I am trying to spend as much time with them as I can.