What To Do

Well in just a couple of hours I'll be going back to work for another fun filled night in the ER. The thing is that I can hardly stand it. The stress level is literally killing me. I hate night shift I hardly sleep during the day. I have a chronic headache. And I feel like my career as an RN was a complete waste of time and money. My co-workers are the most perverted, lazy, and whinny bunch of people I've worked with. They make work messirable. The patients I don't have any problems with in fact most of them are cooler then my co-workers. I dislike so much about this job about the only thing I like is the money. I've not been very good about handling this increased stress I've become a stress eater. It's strange that when I eat it actually releases my anxiety/stress about going to work. I need to find a better stress reliever.

I'm supposed to stay at my current job for a year. If I leave early I loose my sign on bonus and will likely have a very hard time getting another job. This hospital has spent a lot of money training me to be a nurse (I was told once that the hospital has spent about $60,000 to train me). I dread every day going to work.

Anywho I can't change much of that but the good news is that I'll be getting the keys to my house June 7th. I'm very much looking forward to it. It will need a lot of work but thats ok, it will give me something to do.

That's all for now I'll try to keep up a little bit better on blogging.

My First Day Off!!

This morning I got off work and it's my Friday. I have a few things I need to do (go to the bank, clean house ect) and then there are a few things i'd like to do.

I've found that probably the greatest day off the week is Saturday it's the day I'm most likely going to be able to spend with family/friends. It's also the day to find some amazing yard sales! This morning the weather is a little bit nasty looking so I don't think I'll find a lot of sales, but I'll for sure be going out to visit my parents and sisters.

A part of me is so tired but I only get three days off and then I have to go back for three more; it just doesn't make since to spend one of my precious days off sleeping. But maybe I can convince my little sister to take a nap this afternoon!

Anywho the plans for the house are coming along very well. I got paint a few days back. Super fun because I got it on sale/extremely cheap.

Ok kids thats all for now. Remember to make good choices! :-)

Help Stop Homesexual Marriage in California

I just signed a petition supporting an emergency supension of
California's outrageous court ruling that sanctioned homosexual
marriage. Same-sex marriage licenses will be issued by June 15 at
the latest. We have very little time to stop this ruling. Please go
here to sign:

http://www.libertyaction.org/290/petition.asp?PID=16609125&NID=1

Attitude Is Everything

There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.

'Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today.'

So she did and she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.

'H-M-M,' she said,

'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today.'

So she did and she had a grand day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.

'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'
So she did, and she had a fun, fun day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.

'YAY!' she exclaimed. I don't have to fix my hair today!'

Attitude is everything.

Cherokee Indian

The hospital where I'm employed, at the beginning of staff meetings they have reflections. They are inspirational/uplifting thoughts. Many times they are pretty "lame" but the one yesterday was kinda cool. I was able to find it online, here it is.

Cherokee Indian Boys Become A Man

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night, the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone. Even when we don’t know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Moral of the Story:
Just because you can’t see God, doesn’t mean He is not there.

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7

See I told you it was good!

A Cute Movie

A few months back I went to see Enchanted (need I say it was with D2) and I like it a lot it's a very cute movie. Carrie Underwood sings a song called Ever Ever After. It is pretty cool song, you should listen to it. If you've not seen the movie I'd rent it this weekend and watch it. It's a good family film :-)

Too Much Stress

The last few days (more like weeks) it seems that life has somehow become more complicated. Many different problems are happening to family members and friends. And I have a lot on my mind right now. I feel like I'm in so deep. I just keep telling myself to stop looking at th big picture right now and focus/fix just whats in front of me. When I look at all thats happening I become overwhelmed.

Today when I thought my stress level could not get any higher and that I my heart was just going to "explode" I took a walk to the corner market; it's a nice walk (with sidewalks!). Once I got there I treated myself some flavored water and headed back home. The walk was great for a few minutes I was able to just forget (more like just put aside) everything happening and do something which is constructive. Instead of just sitting at home stressing.

As I was getting ready for bed I was reminded of everything happening and could not even relax. Needless to say my apartment is sure getting detailed!

Well I can't fix anything else tonight and I'm tired so off to bed. (Nice deep cleansing breath).

Good night :-)

Theodore Roosevelt's mouth to our ears......what happened??

This is one email that needs to be forwarded until every American receives it.


The year is 1907, one hundred years ago...


Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.


'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
KEEP THIS MOVING

The Way Kids See It

1) NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a
woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As
I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year- old shout from the back seat,
'Mom! That lady isn' t wearing a seat belt!'

2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from
his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not
necessarily those of his parents.'

3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the bottle. During her
struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the
phone. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's
hitting the bottle.'

4) MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker
room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing
towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked,
'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?

5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was
interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my
uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop?' 'Yes', I answered and continued
writing the report. 'My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is
that right?' 'Yes, that's right,' I told her. 'Well, then,' she said as she
extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?'

6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the
station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking and I saw a
little boy staring in at me 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked
'It sure is,' I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the
back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'

7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly
shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was
unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes,
walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth
soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she
merely turned and whispered, 'The tooth fairy will never believe this!'

8) DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her
dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit.' 'And
why not, darling?' 'You know that it always gives you a headache the next
morning. '

9) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. 'I'm just wasting
my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I can't write and they won't
let me talk!'

10) BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered
through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked
up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been
pressed in between the pages. 'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out. 'What
have you got there, dear?' With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he
answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear.'

Redhead Extinction

Last night during work I was told, by a patient, that by the year 2020 all redheads will be extinct. This person stated that she had read about it in some research paper, and was convinced that it was true. I got a good laugh out of it. I reminded everyone at work that I'm an endangered species.

This evening I decided to do a little research and I found out that SOME researchers believe that by 2100 redheads will be either extremely rare or completely gone.

However in my searching I found "Red hair certainly has made the endangered list. But with 4 percent of 6.4 billion people carrying the gene, says University of Rochester Medical Center's David Pearce, it is too large a figure to be wiped out completely in the next 95 years."

Anyways redheads are amazing, I need to make lots of little babies to help make sure redheads don't go extinct. I don't see how it could happen, because people without red hair carry the gene and pass it on to their offspring. It's a recessive trait, so it takes both parents passing on the same gene to produce a redheaded child. I'm a redhead, neither of my parents have red hair. I have 2 other sisters with red hair also. I think it's a good chance that if I marry a red head or a man with the gene I will also have red headed children.

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

Just try this... It is from an orthopedic surgeon.......

This will boggle your mind.

You will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't.

It's preprogrammed in your brain!

1. WITHOUT anyone watching you (they will think you are NUTS......)

and while sitting where you are at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

And there's nothing you can do about it!

You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.

Send it to your friends to frustrate them too.