Trick or Treat

My babies in their costumes tonight:

Zombie bride


Darth Vader


Not-so-thrilled "pup"kin

Ew...

Ever cough and have snot fly out of your nose? No? Just me? Ok, well, that's the kind of day I'm having. Blah!

I wish I could just get over this nasty cough already! My chest hurts. :(

Loelsh, RN

This came in the mail on Saturday. Looks good on paper! ;-)

Long Week!

First thing Monday morning, I took the nursing boards. I thought for certain I was failing and left feeling very much less than confident. As of Tuesday, however, my nursing license is now active! I am officially a registered nurse!

A friend of mine started working for a health care company that goes around to different companies all over to do health screenings(height/weight/BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose readings) and she gave me the information. So, after finding out my license is active on Tuesday, I sent out an email. I heard back from them immediately and was able to go in and work a health clinic on Wednesday! How crazy is that?!

It is per diem, as needed. So, not a full time job, but it is something! And, it gets me some experience to put on my resume. I worked again this morning, and am scheduled to work 3 days next week, so far.

I have been working at a major financial institution that has several different large locations around the area therefore requiring my company's services over several different days and weeks. I'm pretty sure that we will be working at one particular location through the end of November. So, hopefully, I will be able to work it several days a week and save up some Christmas money and some good work experience!

Know what I don't like?

When you go into Subway, even if just for 2 minutes, you leave smelling like subway and the smell sticks to you for the rest of the day. It really doesn't smell as good as it tastes!

Crackle!

I bought some of this crackle nail polish I've heard so much about. It is actually really cool! You paint your nails any regular color you want, then you paint the crackle polish over it and it separates and dries like this:



I'll have to buy some orange polish to wear under it for Halloween! :)

:o

Oh, dear 8 pound 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus, they have it in CHOCOLATE!!!

Yummy Treat!

I heart smoothies!

I'm sure you've seen these advertised, and maybe you've tried them. If not, I totally recommend them! Yoplait fruit smoothies. You add a cup of milk with one package and blend them together and make 2 very delicious fruit smoothies!

On top of their deliciousness, you get calcium and a full serving of fruit (and a little vit C, fiber, and protein as well!). They aren't terrible on sugar either, (10 g/serving). I could seriously just drink these things all day long. YUM!

Picture and info found here: http://yoplait.com/products/yoplait-smoothie-yogurt

Face Palm!

My iPhone charger often comes up missing. I usually end up finding it attached to my oldest daughter's iPod touch. The following conversation occurred this evening:

Her: Can I borrow your charger?

Me: Uh, no, my phone is charging.

Her: But my battery is about to die.

Me: It's not my fault you lost your charger.

Her: I didn't lose it.

Me: Oh? Then where is it?

Her: I don't know.

*Sigh* At least she asked first this time...

Homecoming Weekend

Just a couple of pics of my beautiful baby girl!

Here she is with one of her besties at the football game last night:


And Getting ready for the dance tonight:


It's amazing, seeing as she was just born!! :/

Conflicting feelings

I have been having a lot of these lately. I am really not a fan of it. While there are conflicting feelings going on in my head about other things as well, at this very moment I am dealing with this particular set of conflicting feelings: I am very hungry, yet nothing sounds good, and I feel a little nauseous.

I'm not sure what my deal is. I generally like salad. Granted, I need to have dressing on it to enjoy it, but I like it. I usually try to get by with as little dressing as possible. Well, recently, I have just not been able to eat salad. I have tried, on more than one occasion, to get a salad for lunch and end up having to force myself to eat it. I have been getting about half way through before I simply can't stand another bite of it. This makes me very sad. :( Hopefully, this is just a phase that will quickly pass.

Where did Bella go?

Oh.

Snotty

I had a little bit of issues with my sinuses yesterday, but I woke up this morning feeling like all the mucus is about to make my head explode and I seem to be losing my voice. Stupid sinuses!!

On top of feeling miserable, I'm still freaking hungry! All. The. Time. Seriously, stomach, I just fed you. STFU! Tell me this will eventually go away!!! Arrrgh!

AWWWW!!!

Had a good time with friends this morning. We met for coffee and breakfast, went shopping for a gift for our friend that just had her baby, then went to the hospital for a visit. Oh. My. Goodness! The cuteness factor was off the charts! Oh and the new baby smell!! Sigh....

Here's a pic of her. Now tell me those aren't the cutest, most pinchable little cheeks!!!

Oh baby, baby!

One of my friends had her baby today! She was induced this morning at 8:30 and had baby at 1:26 pm. Not bad! I'm so happy for her and can't wait to go meet up with my gals for coffee in the morning and then go see her and her new baby girl!

Ggggrrrrrooooowwwwlllll....

What was that noise? Oh, that would be my stomach! Ugh, I hate feeling hungry all the freaking time!!

Poor little man

So, a couple of weeks ago, my son slammed his finger in the front door. How? I don't know. I cleaned off the cut and wrapped it in a band-aid with antibiotic ointment. He has been keeping it wrapped in a band-aid ever since. (The kid loves band-aids. He is always looking for an excuse to wear one. "oh look, I have a scab, I need a band-aid".)

Anyway, the school nurse called me yesterday and told me he had come down to her complaining that his finger hurt really badly and she thought it looked really infected. So, when he got home, I took his bandage off and looked at his finger - right by his nail - where it had been cut and it looked a little red, but nothing terrible. Then, I saw on the other side of his finger (finger tip) there was a greenish colored bump! What the heck? How is it infected there?!

So, I ended up taking him in to be seen for it. The doctor had to drain the pus out of his finger then packed the hole with a little bit of cloth to keep it open so any further infection could be "wicked" out. I have to take him back tomorrow to get it removed and checked on.

Meanwhile, he is on an antibiotic for the infection. This antibiotic is very upsetting to the stomach. The pharmacist informed me that he should definitely take it with food and drink lots of water while on it to help limit the side effects. This morning, he took his second dose, but did not eat first....he ended up vomiting it up about 2 minutes after taking it. This should be a fun 10 days!

Poor baby!! :(

Ain't that the truth!

I saw this posted on fb today and thought about how true it is:



I think we've all felt this way at some point in our lives.

Drum roll please.....

It's a girl! Very excited to be getting a niece!

A boy and his pup!

Look who fell asleep in my bed the other night....