wide awake

Time to get those photos up on the blog here.

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These first three are of the very friendly Arabian camel.  He checked out all sides of the car.

This is one of the many emu friends we made.

I think this is a water buffalo.  (Yours is fast, but mine is slow.... That's for the people who watched "Veggie Tales" as a kid)

One of several peacocks hanging around.

Corey being cute.  As usual.  :)

An ostrich chasing me along the fence!

Video of a monkey swinging around.

I hope that video upload works.  I may have to fool with it some or upload it to YouTube.

Charge nursing is going well in preop.  Still have some things I'd like to improve greatly on, but overall I am getting better at it.

Happy weekend!

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"I was falling hard with an open heart"

call me, maybe

I'm just posting a quick update today.  Hopefully, later this weekend I'll have a bigger post (with pictures!).

Corey and I had a great Fourth of July!  We slept in (both off of work!  yay!) and then went up to Gentry to visit one of his friends at their Freedom Fest.  We watched some "amateur wrestling" and ate a ridiculously expensive corn dog.  After leaving there we decided to check out the Drive-Through Safari still in Gentry.  That place is pretty awesome!  They had all kinds of animals (some that will walk right up to your car... I'll post pictures of the camel and emu later) and a petting zoo section.  We managed to snuggle a kangaroo before going home :).  When it started to get dark, we went back to the Freedom Fest to enjoy the city firework display.  It was great!  We were glad cities were still doing fireworks (safely monitored by the fire department) even with all the burn bans.

My sister, Ruby, is in NWA this weekend!  We have plans tomorrow to do some swimming and ice skating.  I'll post more on that Sunday or so.

Work update:  Going pretty well.  Still not training in PACU :(.  However, I am starting to train as the pre-op charge nurse.  I had day two of that today.  It is pretty special.  You definitely earn that little bit more an hour for charging.  It was fun, though, and while I wouldn't want to do it every day, I enjoyed it so far.

Pottermore update:  Slytherin won the house cup!  Always good to be a member of the winning house :).  The prize is getting to see the first few chapters of Chamber of Secrets before everyone else!  Color me excited.


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"I just met you, and this is crazy..."

creep (2)

It has been far too long since I wrote something.

Work is same as usual.  I'm getting good at it and enjoying my co-workers.
Today was pretty nice.  Spent the afternoon outside (adorable puppy picture to follow) and watching Arkansas baseball on tv.  Right now, Corey is at a friend's bachelor party.

It was pure luck that I got that picture.  He jumped up in my face less than a second after I got it.

There isn't a whole lot else going on lately.  Summer in Fayetteville can be pretty boring.  But I like it that way.  Also, we aren't moving this year.  One more year in this apartment and then we'll find something else.  Maybe?  In any case, I'm glad to not have to deal with the hassle of moving this year. :)


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"you're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry"

one and only

Today I am going to redo the ol' blog again.  Time for a summer theme.

I'm making cream cheese tacos again, too.  Pinterest recipes are going to get me in trouble.  I'm also watching Paula Deen, so today could go anywhere.

Hank is watching the show with me.  Abigail wouldn't sit still for a picture.

On the subject of puppies, Hank is growing really fast!  He is getting to be a big boy with long legs and big ears he hasn't grown into yet :)  His little excitement peepee problem is starting to get better, too.  Happy days with the baby boy.


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"you're the only one that I want"

la vie en rose

So I had a pretty horrifying dream last night.  And it seemed like it lasted all night.

It's hard to remember where it starts, and a lot of it doesn't make much sense, but I'll try to explain it.

I think it started with me being late to work.  And work was at this big old mansion (think The Secret Garden).  So, turns out, that me being late was a mortal sin.  No one would talk to me, and in fact, they managed to pull a curtain around their work station shutting me out.  That was the horrifying thing about it.  I spent all day discharging cataract surgery patients by myself.  Also spent the day getting dirty looks from my co-workers.  Got told near the end of the day that I needed to call my boss to see if I got to continue employment at that job.  What was strange about the patients I was taking care of was that they were people I knew.  I took care of Scotty's brother and Mario's dad.  So strange.  After I sent my patients home, I decided to explore the mansion to get away from everyone who hated me.  There were a million staircases and rooms.  Weird things started happening, like the curtains on the walls rolling down and back up covering the pictures.  I went outside and there were lots of gardens that looked like they used to be well taken care of, but were overgrown and dirty now.

It was such a strange dream.

This morning I am cleaning up a bit and perhaps will coerce Corey into taking me to the library or playing Gator Golf or something this afternoon.  I am hoping to have a relaxed weekend.  The weather is finally warming up (no more gloomy winter!) and it is really beautiful outside!


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"il me dit des mots d'amour"

creep

Well, I have been all over this Pottermore shiznit the past week.  Like on it every day.  I'm trying to gain some confidence in life by finding my Slytherin ambition.  It's all in all a lot of fun.  I really hope it's out of beta soon, so the rest of the books will be available to look at.  I'm dying to get into the rest of them.

Today I am making my first Pinterest recipe.  It is crock pot chicken tacos.  Or nachos if you choose to eat it with chips.  It involves frozen chicken, toppings (diced tomatoes/Rotel, black beans, corn, etc), cream cheese, and your crock pot.  Apparently, you throw all this stuff in and let it go on low for 6-8 hours.  My kind of recipe.  I'm excited to see how they turn out!

I am also casually cleaning today.  Steam cleaning the carpet mostly.  Housework may be one of my least favorite things to do ever.  But I do quite enjoy the end result, so I guess it's worth it.

Yesterday, we got a great surprise in our friend Jordan driving up from Dallas to visit for the day!  He was in Fort Smith with Stephanie and elected to make the extra hours trip to come hang out with us.  We met up with Monica and Emily for sushi (which was great) and then went for froyo (also delicious).  After that, we went to campus to take a look at Senior Walk since they recently put down the class of 2010's names, only to find that it is apparently not finished!  Names from "F" to "R" were missing!  That, of course, means that Jordan was none to be found which was rather disappointing.  We proceeded to walk around campus to find out parents' names and chase squirrels.

I always count it a good day to catch up with friends I haven't seen in a while or friends who live far away.  I miss college in that respect.  I realize how easy it was to take for granted being able to see those people every day.  Now that my two closest friends from school (besides Corey, that would be Jordan and Nick) live hours away, I cherish every time I get to see them.


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"you're so ***king special, I wish I was special"

drive by

Pottermore.com is finally online for everyone.  Jesus, that took forever.  It was supposed to be open last October.  But it opened yesterday.

I'm still getting used to everything on there.  I've made it through the first book.  So that means I have a wand (Cypress, Phoenix feather core, 10 inches, slightly yielding) and I've been sorted (Slytherin house). I have been playing around with spells and potion making.  What's fun about it is that stuff actually takes some practice!  It makes it pretty interesting!  I am excited for the rest of the books to be unlocked on there.  I think there is much more to be discovered, for instance, there is opportunity to make fan art and comments, etc., and I haven't delved much into that yet.

So if you are a Harry Potter fan, you should check it out!

In other news, I have been working on being better at IV starts.  I have improved a lot just by observing others at work.  I also watched some archaic nursing education videos on youtube about it.  Crappy thing about those, though, is that they don't use the safety catheters that everyone with half a brain uses now.  It's still interesting, though.  The following videos are actually really good.  CRNAs, turns out, make pretty boss teachers.

I'll leave you with those.


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"oh I swear to you, I'll be there for you"