Let the Countdown Continue

Okay, so i have had a busy couple of months... 

December included final exams, endless Christmas baking (YUM!!!), finding out i was still under target weight (Yay. Go elliptical), lots of R&R, celebrating Jesus' birthday, eating more Christmas baking, visiting friends and relatives, loving my husband more and more.

January included a trip to Whistler with friends, laziness, eating the last remnants of Christmas baking (sad), heading back to Edmonton for yet another semester of nursing school (boo-hiss), finding out eating all that Christmas baking paid off-- weight gain! belly popping out! (haha, this may have been in combination with being away from my elliptical for a whole month and being in my 7th month of pregnancy), having the in-laws visit for a week (this turned out much better than one might expect-- cooking, cleaning, and organizing all magically happened while i was at school everyday!), saying goodbye to my husband yet again because he insists on working 1200km away from me.

So, today i slept until noon, which was quite wonderful.  JM left on Wednesday, but was kind enough to leave me a nasty cold to remember him by. Haha.  

I signed up for a correspondence course in October because i was too sick last semester to take it with the rest of my class.  I did the first assignment over Christmas break, but haven't touched it since.  So today when i got up i decided that today was the day to complete assignment two-- and i did!!! YAY!  Two down, one to go.

Today marks the start of my 32nd week of pregnancy.  Two months to go!!  (However, i think i'm still in the double digits for weeks left-- ultrasounds lie and doctors are sometimes mildly retarded.  Unless, of course, by some divine intervention i managed to conceive while i had my period.  But, alas, stranger things have happened).

So, rumor has it that i am incubating un petit garcon.  I've had names picked out since eighth grade, but it still is nerve wracking trying to pick THE right one.

It's kind of fun being pregnant now that the horrific i-want-to-lay-down-and-die morning-afternoon-evening-and-all-night sickness has departed.  Although it still makes me laugh sometimes when i try to roll over in my sleep and wake myself up from the effort. Haha.

Well, i'm off to find out what you kids have been up to these days... Ta-ta for now!

Sleep and Babies

I'd just like to say that if one more person tells me to "enjoy/get lots of sleep now before the baby comes" i just might punch him or her in the head.  What is wrong with you people?!?! Do you not have relatives or friends who can watch your baby while you have a nap??  Seriously! 

Besides, it's not like i have nothing to do for the next four months except friggen hibernate! Sheesh! First of all, this strange little alien has taken over my body, making sleep pretty near impossible the last four months (yes, i know my math doesn't add up, shutup).  Also? Ever hear of trying to finish a degree whilst incubating a human being?! Not the easiest thing to do... It's not like i can just ignore my school work and lay down to sleep every time the spirit moves me.

On to the next rant... Haha.  During my first trimester i put up with people saying ignorant things like, "Oh? You're due in April and not graduating until August? Hm, not very good planning. What were you thinking?" [I jest you not, IIF, i've heard this SEVERAL times!!].

I've grown (literally! ha!) and gotten smarten.  Now i reply, "Oh, i was thinking... 'I'm horny and my husband is really HOT'... and that's where my thinking stopped and my feelings took over!"  (I also add a polite smile for good measure).  Take that stupid-dumb-heads and keep your retarded comments to yourself!! :)

Good thing my hormones are so well balanced these days. LOL.

SURPRISE!!!

Let the countdown begin

Last week i had a crap day that included deleting my five page assignment i'd just finished writing, spilling my cooked veggies all over the kitchen floor, and splashing the boiling water used to cook the aforementioned veggies on my hand.

Needless to say, it was a desperate time that called for desperate measures.  So! I dug out my Christmas music (YAY) that i'd promised all my bah-humbug friends would wait until Nov.1, cranked it up and hopped on my new elliptical trainer.  Just what the doctor, erm, NURSE ordered.  It worked!

On Friday we were driving to clinical and as i was switching cd's i heard Christmas music on the radio!

Me: Oh my gosh! Christmas music.

Jameson: No way, it's like illegal for radio stations to play Christmas music so early.

Me: No, seriously, i know my Christmas music.

Radio announcer: Just a little preview of what's to come; some Christmas music to get you in the spirit. Starting December first we'll be playing straight Christmas music for the month of December.

Me: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! I can't help it if the radio is playing it... it's not like I put a cd on or something.

Jameson: [unconsciously started humming along]

Because, seriously, who can help it-- everyone secretly loves Christmas music.

Let the countdown begin... Only a month left of school (minus exams) and then... HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I did it!

I started SIX IV sites today! Yay. Count them, 1-2-3-4-5-6!!!

Probably one of the worst things in the hospital is having to get poked a million times to initiate an IV site, so i've always wanted to be a fantastic IV nurse who can get the really hard veins the first time... And i did! Okay, well there wasn't any really hard veins i suppose, but still!  I didn't blow out any veins; i got them all on the very first attempt.  I am so happy and i feel like a real live nurse now. :)

Oh, and almost as exciting: i administered my first fleet enema today. LOL.

Summer Fun (in mixed up evil-blogger order)

Uncle takes over in the tube and picks up the pace a bit!
Haha, this is what i do while everyone else is playing! :)

Maria's maiden voyage on a kneeboard.
Joel wake-boarding under the new bridge in Langley.
Joel rocking the kneeboard.

My darling nephew copying his uncle by napping on the front of the boat and hanging his legs over the side.

My sister and her son cruising on the bow.
Steph and Ade out for a ride... Oh Ade, why can't you ever have a straight face?!
Out on a sandbar in the middle of the river! (From construction of the new bridge).
Karen and Caleb tubin'... For over and hour!

Sigh

Now i have to change my blog address because my husband found it and is SPYING ON ME!!! LOL

Goldilocks

As JM and I were pulling in the driveway after a 16 hour journey to get home, i said, "I cannot wait to have a hot bath and go straight to bed." Famous last words...

As we entered our suite (which is not separated from the house upstairs, where relatives live, by any locks), i was pleasantly surprised by how nice our friend had left it. He had stayed here for two months and was here a week longer than when we left in June. No strange smells, the spare bed neatly tucked away, no garbage left.

Well, a few things were in the garbage-- mostly kleenex and q-tips-- which was slightly annoying because there was no garbage bag in the can. Quite unlike our tidy friend who stayed here. I had been quite firm before we left that i didn't want ANYone down in our suite. (Except the boys upstairs have to come down to do laundry, which is right at the bottom of the steps). In fact, i was going to lock the doors to the bathroom and our bedroom, just to discourage any notions of pirating, but alas, i forgot.

Evidence that someone was (Ew!) using my tub:

• nasty orange-ish-brown scum from the waterline down, thick across the bottom
• extra towels laying around
• kiddie shampoo on the shelf (odd, no?)
• a woman's razor (not my brand) left uncovered on the edge
• a tee-shirt that says "Staff" on the back (and initials of a neighbourhood group on the front-- i will track down the offender!)
• MY candles half-burnt surrounding the tub and littering the countertop

Evidence that someone was (Ew, ew, ew!) using my bed:

• the laundry i'd left on the end of the bed was moved off
• (i'd put clean sheets and everything on my bed just before we left, so it'd be ready for us to jump in when we got back)
• the top sheet was laying on the floor at the foot of the bed (?!)
• (if you are going to be a jerk and use things without asking, at least have the decency to keep a sheet between you and my duvet!)
• a book on one side of the bed and a magazine on the other (king size bed-- chances are, not the same person)
• two glasses and a beer can on the night table (my husband doesn't drink beer and neither do i)
• white ladies Lucy shorts... complete with rolled up lacy g-string (gag) left beside the bed
• (these promptly found their way into my garbage can, which had a bag in it by this point)
• receipts from both July and August

Needless to say, instead of relaxing and crawling into bed, i immediately went into a cleaning frenzy.  I haven't seen the suspected perpetrator yet, which is a good thing.  Hopefully by the time i do, i will have calmed down a bit! :)

Beijing 2008

Since I know it seems like i have my head stuck in the sand, or have left the planet, i thought i'd set a title acknowledging world events...

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I have had a wonderful summer thus far... Nothing too exciting, just relaxing and restful. My poor husband (haha), i told him i would get a part time job this summer, but conveeeeeeeeniently, the summer has gotten away on me and, alas, no job fell into my lap. Haha. So while my wonderful man goes off to work everyday, i... Well, i'm not sure what i do everyday... But i know that in three weeks I'll be back in school and stressed to the max.

One year. I have one year left until i am a fully licensed Registered Nurse. Eeek. It's quite overwhelming considering how little i know. lol. Hopefully in this next year i will be a sponge and soak up everything i need to know. Please don't come to my hospital and get sick for at least two years-- by then i will be super-nurse!

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Okay, since i am typing away, I will take a moment to harass my friend who reads my blog and who i am housesitting for right now...

Before leaving for three weeks, our friends gave us some very specific directions for taking care of their house, including but not limited to:
-No stinky socks or feet on the couch
-Don't wear shoes on the carpet
-Always use coasters under glasses
-Sleep in the guest bedroom (not theirs)
-Don't turn the stereo up past xdB
LOL, balancing between being offended and peeing myself laughing, i told her to stop before we changed our minds about looking after their house! All in all it was pretty funny.

To top it all off, she has adopted a CHICKEN. No joke. There is a bit of a run-down place across the street that has chickens. Apparently, one of them wandered over here and was little and cute, so my friend took to feeding it. She claims it's the best pet ever because it's really quiet (just a few peep-peeps) and cheap (a buck for bird seed is not bad!). HOWEVER, the thing poops like there is no tomorrow! There are two deck chairs out on the porch that the chicken loves to perch on and poop off the side. My friend just places newspaper under it to keep things under control.

My house-sitting services do not include cleaning up chicken poop.

I have not fed the chicken since our friends left two weeks ago. I figured the silly little thing (granted, it's kinda cute) could jolly-well walk back across the street when it got hungry. I couldn't figure out why the chicken was still hanging around, pooping all over the porch. One morning i was watering the garden and walked between our house and the neighbours and found a water and food dish out on the lawn!!! Gah! Evil neighbours with their gated porch! The chicken eats their food and then comes and poops on our porch. Grrrr.

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Okay, enough is enough... I must go look for my camera cord that i've lost again. Sigh. A blog without pictures is like... Well, something boring anyway.

I've missed you all!! Now i'm off to catch up on your blog!

Feuf, two down, four to go!

Okay, so i have a sad, neglected blog. But the good news is: a) school is off for two weeks and b) i finally found my camera cord, so things are definitely looking up for the blogging business!! :)

One quick story: I lost my passport while we were moving. Correction: my husband lost my passport while we were moving by insisting on putting it in a "safe place" so it wouldn't get lost. LOL.

So now, when i want to travel (I'm going to Vegas next week! Wheee!) I have to rush to get my new passport. And jump through a hundred hoops because i don't have my old one-- including lawyer involvement. (Christine, where are you when i need you?!) At the passport office, the lady said I can pay $10 to come and pick it up in two weeks, instead of waiting for it to get mailed out to us. JM opted to wait extra and save ten bucks because he didn't need his right away.

I was given strict instructions to drive straight to the bank after picking up my new passport and keep it in a safety deposit box when i'm not traveling because if this new one gets lost or stolen before the old one expires (two years still), i will not be issued a new one.

My oh-so-submissive husband pipes up, "What's the big deal? The old one is invalid as soon as the new one is processed, so nobody can use the old one."

Response, "SIR! This is not a Blockbuster card!! It is an Official. Travel. Document!!!!!"

Ohhhhhhh, my mistake. How foolish of me to think that this two hundred bucks i shelled out and hours of driving around and filling out papers was for a movie store. Silly me.

My smart-alec (no offense, jess ;)) husband took a deep breath and opened his mouth to say something, but luckily i was able to pinch him- hard- in time to keep him quiet. haha.

Besides me losing my passport during the move, i would venture to guess that most people who lose or have their passport stolen are actually traveling, not sitting at home. So i'm not exactly sure what paying for a safety deposit box for two years is going to accomplish. But oh well.

Oh ya, and to top it all off, I'm not scheduled to pick up my passport until tomorrow (but i'm gonna try today *cross fingers*), but JM got his in the mail FOUR days ago! Good thing i paid ten bucks extra to "rush" mine. Sheesh.

Oh well, who really cares. The main things are that: i've finished exams, and passed everything, thereby completing my second of six semesters; i'm leaving for the coast tomorrow to see the fam; i'm going to las vegas next week for a girls weekend (which apparently, half my in-laws are also "randomly" going to be there-- another story for another time); life is good.