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| This would be the reason you never hear from me anymore! February 28, 2009 | | |
| Yes, I am still alive and doing well. Just a few ramblings from a nurse's mind: I think you know you are a nurse, when you get a secret thrill (or not so secret) about being able to draw blood from your own arm. I can attest to that. I am supposed to be doing lab draws and have had this phobia about it, so today I decided to try it on myself. Course I will admit that I should have been able to nail my veins without a tourniquet, so with a tourniquet to have missed would have required cross-eyed vision. Anyway, it was quite exciting to do. I'm thinking about trying it left-handed now. Okay, so that is not true. A few comments from the work day: when asked why I wear that white cap, I said I was a Mennonite. "Oh, you're a modern Amish". No, did you hear me? I just said I was a Mennonite. They are not modern Amish people--they are different from that. Would you like the history lesson now or after I walk away in a huff. I was also told yesterday that she knew I didn't have a family after I affirmed that fact. Why? Because I didn't look old enough. Well, truth be told, she looked young enough to be her husband's baby daughter, but I didn't volunteer that information. She also thought I looked a little crabby and mentioned it and then told me to be cheerful when I left the room. Which made me want to ask them why they didn't go back to the hospital they came from. Okay, i thought of that later. The patient also wanted to be left alone to sleep because he had had a hard day. NEWS FLASH: If you want to get a whole night's sleep, don't come to the hospital!!!! You are there because you are sick so deal with it. If you want to sleep, go home. So there you have it, not much more to say that I'm going to post here, but suffice it to say; MY LIFE HAS BEEN VERY GOOD. | | |
| Why do I do this to myself? I know, it's conviction!! They keep calling and asking me to come into work at 3:00 AM and I keep saying, "No, it doesn't work for me" So finally to make myself feel good I came to work at 3 this morning and I'll do it again tomorrow morning. So nice of me, I know. Even with plenty of sleep, the mind is still crazed at 5:30 in the morning. I'm really turning over a new leaf though. I got up at 4:15 yesterday morning. Granted it was only to go along to the airport, but I was up, and I wouldn't have had to be. Why am I justifying myself on Xanga of all places? Because it is 5:30 in the morning and I have already been up for 3.5 hours. What's been happening in my life? Not much that I'm going to post on here--but my life has been good. It's also been very, very busy. Monday night, we went to hearAmos Raber with Gospel Express. That was pretty good. It also made me aware of how few people I know down here. It was a good reminder that we can know we are saved--it's not an I hope I am and I'll live a good life to help ensure that. Tomorrow I am going to pick strawberries so I can make strawberry shortcakes for Saturday evening. The youth group is going camping and I have been enlisted to help make supper Saturday evening or in actuality to make dessert. Oh dear, it makes me feel so domestic. Next, I'll be picking beans and freezing them and then canning peaches for the winter. Okay, I don't think so!!!!! That is way, way, way too domestic. Then all I'd need to complete the picture would be a couple kids hanging on my skirt. Not even going there! I better stop while I'm ahead Okay, I'm supposed to be working--I should run. | | |
| Wow!!! I have just been made aware how the whole grapevine of news things goes!!!! You tell one person something and within 24 hours, an entire church can know! It's amazing!!! It's kind of cool, but a little different when the news being spread is about yourself--it then becomes a little intimidating and you wonder what else they are saying while they are spreading the basic news. What other little frills and lace are they adding to the basic news? So, on to my last post: I think some of my big decisions are over. I have taken a new job, embarked on a new journey and am keeping my apartment for another 6 months. So right now, my decision is about whether or not I should buy this really nice car I found today. I guess, I am a glutton for punishment. I can't quite not have a decision in front of me to make. But nonetheless, it is a nice car and a really nice color, but I have to decide if it is a good investment or not. Okay, I already know that cars are poor investments!!! What else has been happening? I had a great vacation in PA. It was great to spend a week with my sister and catch up on each other's lives and solve all the world's problems. Just a few pics from the last while: 
Not to be morbid, but these flowers and the picture below were taken at a cemetery. Just beautiful this time of year.  
Don't we totally look like sisters. Innovation at its core. Camera set atop shoes and balanced to be able to self-take these photos.  d 
Who turned the child loose in the cake? | | |
| That's quite a title for someone who hasn't posted in a little while, but if fits pretty good. I have discovered one thing about myself in the last month. I really hate, hate HATE HATE making decisions. It seems I have an overload of them lately. I am thinking of becoming a robot, because then I can just do what everyone else tells me to do and it is so much easier that way. What kind of car to buy, what house to live in, what job to take, etc. etc. I could just punch into a little computer set into my arm and the answers would flow out in ceaseless organization that would just make my life so much simpler. I do believe i should work on that. i know it would take all of the pleasure and excitement out of life, but it would eliminate the unknowns and the uncertainties that surround these decisions. Okay, it would also take away the dependence on God and trust in Him too, so maybe I better reconsider before I get my paton on that. What have i been doing? Today, it's been vegging. I'm on my vacation and it is lovely. No work, no deadlines, just pure relaxation today. Happiness abounds--life's good for now at least. Which brings me to the conclusion, because a nice long walk, a good book and maybe some cold drinks are now awaiting me. Tata for now | | |
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