Stuff

Just a few things. I still haven't told you about my weekend but I dont have time tonight to do that, so I leave you with a picture of my doggie, Sam. He's lazy, really lazy. But cute!


This is a painting I started over the weekend and finished up yesterday. Not sure where I'm gonna hang it. My frustrations from not passing my test led to this. I wish my creative moments came more often, not just after frustrations or whatever. I'm kinda proud of this one.

Purses

I need a new purse and seeing as how my birthday is next sunday, I think I deserve one. :) My problem is that I'm picky and dont particularly like to spend a ton on a purse. I've looked everywhere for one. All the stores in the mall, various other stores, online, etc. I know I technically haven't looked everywhere...so I'm asking my readers...all 3 or 4 of you (haha) to give me some places to look. This can be online or in stores. Anything would be helpful! Thanks!!

Backyard Friends

***Warning***The following are pictures of things in our backyard...if you dont like spiders...dont look! If you do look, don't say I didn't warn you, thats if you dont like spiders.***End Warning*** There are also some cloud pictures at the bottom.

These little dudes are hanging out in our backyard, eating all the bugs. YAY! I think they're pretty with their colors and stuff. I don't particularly like spiders, but these are cool looking. Front and back yard combined, we probably have about 5 or 6.

My husband took these pics this morning of a little storm that rolled through. I dont think it even rained, but the clouds looked pretty cool.

interesting finds...

I'm too tired to really re-live last week and it seems so long ago, so I'm not gonna make you endure that either. You'll thank me, seeing as how I'm not a great writer anyway. I'll sum up the trip to Dallas, since that was the most exciting part of my week. Flight went well, and if you know my short crappy history with flying thats a good thing. I think Murphy's Law, "if anything can go wrong, it will," totally applies to me with flying. My first experience involved 6 delays, running across DFW to catch a connecting flight in about 15 mins, 3 cancellations, and an extra overnight stay. So this time, no connecting flight. YAY! I even checked my bag, so there was my chance for something to go wrong. Everything flying and bag wise went great! My bag even beat me home! The bad part was driving, well directions. Get my rental car. Miss my first turn after getting out of the rental place, so I have to turn around. That was just the beginning of the turning around. I had no navigational system, so I relied on my printed google directions. These were wrong! I made it to everywhere I needed to go, it would've just helped if the people in my company would have told me to go to the right place before I went to the wrong place. Being lost in a big city is not fun! I made it though, went to where I was supposed to go, pretty much wasn't needed. I totally felt like a therapist or something. The tech new how to do everything,she had even scanned patients before I got there. I was just there to hear her vent. Which really after my driving around lost fiasco, was fine with me. I didn't have to teach, I just listened. (In my defense, TX road systems and on and off ramps and stuff are very strange. Arkansas isn't bad once you try theirs out!)

Enough of that, I have to show off what I bought on thursday! I saw this Cupcake Courier on Craftzine a long time ago and always wanted one. We went in this store in Memphis, called Swoozie's and they had them for sale! They were also cheaper than they sell them on the website, so I snagged one up! They're completely sold out online. Now I've gotta bake some cupcakes and take somewhere!

Guess what crocs makes now?? *drum roll please* These

Personally, I think high-heeled crocs are wrong! Maybe they're comfy, who knows? They say this about them:

it’s true! the first crocs™ high heel. fashion fused with comfort for the ultimate summer style

• incredible 3 inch heel designed with the classic comfort of croslite™ material
• spices up any fashionista’s wardrobe
• lightweight and easy to bring along
• footbed conforms to foot creating custom fit
• circulation nubs stimulate blood flow

Oh and they come in various color selections so you can get a pair for every outfit! Only $49.99. What will they come up with next!?!?

*Update* I found another pair of crocs with 3 in heels. These are about $10 cheaper and come with more color selections than the previous pair but still have the added comfort and 3 in heel.

so tired...

Just a brief update:

Friday-7/18: longest day of work ever! Got asked to fly to Dallas Sunday

Sunday-7/20: Flew to Dallas

Monday-7/21: Worked in Dallas/Denton, TX, Flew home

Tuesday-7/22: Got home about 1 am, went to work at 7am, another long day

Wednesday-7/23: Another early morning-up at 4 am, long work day

Thursday-7/24: Took a test for work, got up again at 4 am, drove two hrs to take the test, didn't pass, retail therapy and Olive Garden helped, and a nap on the way home.

Basically I'm ready to crash, hoping to do that tomorrow afternoon. Complete, lengthier update soon.

It was only the beginning...

I'm afraid my ER visit was only the beginning of my medical stuff to come. I had my follow-up appointment today. He told me he doesn't think its my gallbladder but he put me on some antacids for a month, if the pain doesn't get better or go away to call him and I'll have another test done. Ever since I was sick, just eating triscuits and drinking water gave me indigestion, which I thought was odd but figured with all the puking I did, my stomach was still a little upset. So I have those to take. He thinks I either had a virus or possibly food poisoning. For the time being I will be avoiding Burger King and hot dogs. And those cupcake bites. ick! I didn't even eat one, but I was starting to feel bad while I made them so the thought of them doesn't appeal right now. I also told him about my wrist, that I was now having pain and not just the tingling in my fingers. So he said I really need to have that nerve test done because I most likely have carpal tunnel. SO...whether insurance will pay or not, I'm gonna have to do it. Eventually I could have permanent numbness in my hand. Then I have my other doctors appointment in August. The whole "haven't gotten pregnant and been trying for over a year" will be coming up. This will result in drugs, I'm sure, because she gave me some last time. Then possibly fertility stuff. Oh well...thats a part of growing up/getting old. You have medical problems and then tests and you deal with it.

In other news I got some cute shoes tonight. These will be my new work shoes and they could also work with jeans. I just bought a new pair of shoes for work but they already have holes in the soles. Crappy shoes!!

So far the size changes since I've lost weight have been in the bra and shoe departments. I find that funny!! I actually have dropped a shoe size,or I'm kinda in between. The 9 was actually too big and the 8.5 was tight. I went with the 9. Then in the bras. I put one on the other day and fastened it on the last set of hooks, the ones all the way over and it was still too big. Now if I could only drop a pant size!

I'm boring

I think I'm a boring blogger. That could be good, meaning I have nothing interesting going on, or bad because I dont have anything interesting going on...

I'll leave you with a comic my husband emailed me. A little backstory always helps though. We bought the WiiFit. Used it alot, him more than me actually. We haven't used it so much recently, and I keep asking him when or if he's ever gonna get on it again. This is his answer.

That came from here.

Word Cloud

Found this link on another blog but can't remember which one. It's a word cloud. You can do your own here or check out the gallery for ones other people have made.

Here's mine:


You can click on it to see the bigger version.

My trips to the ER

**TMI WARNING**

Oh yeah...and its gonna be long...sorry!

It all started Thursday afternoon. I had great plans to make these cupcake bites I had seen on Bakerella's blog. I was too the point of making the cake balls into cute little cupcakes and I started to not feel so well. I did about half of them and decided to take a break. Time passes and really I just feel the need to throw up. I hate throwing up, really I dont know who likes doing it honestly. I already had problems in the other end of my digestive track (I'll spare you the details). I turned down even the mention of supper, so while the husband was gone to take some movies back and get him something to eat, I finally puked. I felt a whole ton better, pretty much thought I would be fine. Boy was I wrong!

I ended up throwing up several several times over about a 3 hr period. I was having other issues at the same time, if ya catch my drift. It was hitting me about every 20 mins. I'd feel good enough to take a drink of water only for it to come back up later. Finally, I decided to go to the ER because at this point, I had nothing left in my system to throw up. I remember weighing myself earlier in the day and in my sickly state, I went ahead for kicks and weighed myself before we left. I had lost 7lbs!! Granted I had changed into lighter clothes but I know my jeans don't weigh 7lbs!

I feel okay on the drive there. We, or I decided to go to the ER where I used to work. I figure I know these people, atleast they'll know I'm not one of the regulars that comes in for drugs. Plus, I've never been to the ER in my life. I'm in the triage room where they find out why you're there and get all your vitals. Its a nurse I didn't really know. After I explain everything, she looks at me and says "What made you decide you needed to come to the ER tonight?" I wanted to scream, but I calmly said because I couldn't stop throwing up and all that. It was one of those, "I just told you why, lady!?!" Get to the room, unfortunately I'm next to some really obnoxious guy from town. He was talking so SO loud!

Anywho, the Dr. comes in, its one i'm not particularly fond of because when I worked nights, hes the one you hate working with, but I was sick, I'll deal. Just make me stop puking! He's in the room less that two mins to hear my problems and leaves. The nurse comes in to draw blood and give me a shot of Phenergran. About 2 mins after I get the shot I start violently puking again. I was later told that I kept looking at my husband like make it stop. He gets the nurse in there and she calmly says "Well it won't go into effect right away." And she walks out. (This nurses voice reminded me of the lady off the Mary Tyler Moore show, Georgette. Mom and Ben can vouch for me that she sounded something like that. SO annoying) My mom comes up there to sit in the room with us. I have to give a urine sample, which normally wouldn't be problem, except for the fact that I'm so dehydrated I have no pee in me. The annoying nurse threatens me with an in and out cath if I don't pee. So I try, nothing. She says "Well I can't imagine you would already be that dehydrated." Apparently she didn't get the picture about how much I had puked and done other things before coming to the ER. So I have to have the cath, which wasn't that horrible, just humiliating. Shes like "Oh I guess you are that dehydrated" DUH! All those tests came back normal, except my White Blood Cell count. It was high. So the doc comes in and is very serious and more attentive this time. Tells me what he thinks, he thinks maybe appendicitis, but I'm not hurting. So in the end he tells me to be at my fam docs office first thing Friday morning and they'll work me in.

They're in the process of getting ready to discharge me so the nurse comes in to check my blood pressure. At this point, I've been up and down to go and try to pee and had to change my clothes. I'm not feeling so hot. They take my blood pressure while i'm laying down. Its really low. So she has me sit up, I feel so bad, I dont wanna sit up, but of course I do. It's still low. So she wants me to stand up. It seemed like it took forever for it to take my blood pressure and things were getting a little fuzzy. Before it can take it I start throwing up again. My bp is 85/54 or something. More puking..yay! I think they finally believe that I'm not there to just get meds or that I'm lying about it. So the other nurse, that I know, comes in to start an IV and give me fluids. Apparently the previous nurse, didn't relay any of my info to him because he tells me that he thought I only threw up once that whole time!! I wanted to say hell no but I didn't. So I get my bag of fluids and feel a TON better. I was told I was greenish looking at one point...really wouldn't know. I got to go home about 1 am. Let me point out that I go home with no explanation as to why I'm puking or anything. They give me antibiotics and nausea meds and tell me to follow up with my doc in the morning. I would've liked some conclusion to all that, but no.

So I get home, shower and lay down. I was gonna take more phenergran but I fell asleep. Only to wake up about 3 am for another round of it all. I notice my side is hurting. Not a good thing. I ignore it this time, go back to bed, only to wake up again. I just love this repeating cycle, dont you? Finally about 5 am, I tell ben that I'm hurting. At that time the pain felt low, appendix like but I was also doubled over laying down. I end up making a few phone calls, one to my mom, another to a friend and to someone I used to work with. I figure if it is appendix or any other organ, I'd be better off at the ER in the bigger city than waiting til 8 to go to the doc. Plus they were working me in, which could take a while, and then seeing him, then finding out if i needed tests, waiting for tests, so and so forth. You get the picture. I make it to the ER at shift change, which must be a great time to go. They took my name and before I could set down, they called me over to get vitals and all that. So I repeat everything that had already happened and the new pain, which by now was higher than appendix and going around in my back.

I get in a room and the doctor comes right in. He was very nice, gave me ice chips which I was dying for. (I'll try to make this short) They drew blood, did an ultrasound on my gallbladder. Basically everything came out normal, except I was dehydrated, which was kinda a no brainer. He said he thought it was all just a virus and I needed to follow up with my family doctor in a week. The doctor ran a pregnancy test because my antibiotics are apparently "very strong" as he put it. He asked if they ran one the night before, I assume yes but they never told me. I would hope that by giving me the antibiotics meant they did atleast check that, but you never know, again I wasn't told anything! My awesome ER doc even called me on his own personal cell phone to tell me that my pregnancy test was negative. I was kinda shocked that it wasn't the nurse or something. The second ER visit was much less uneventful and I kinda felt a little stupid for going but the pain worried me and it obviously didn't feel good.

If that was a virus, I never want anything like that EVER again!! Friday night I finally started eating a little. Just crackers, actually triscuits because thats all we had. I was so hungry that I finished the box sometime Saturday. I hadn't eaten anthing since 11 am on Thursday. I think I'm finally back to normal. My antibiotics make me a little dizzy but other than that I'm feeling better. I lost 4 lbs and found out I'm allergic to the bandaids and tape they use in the hospitals. I'm going back to work tomorrow, even though my boss thinks I should take a week off. I can't do a week, I'd go stir crazy. Hope you enjoyed my story! lol

I'm alive...

I survived two trips to the ER in two days. These being my first and second trips EVER to the ER. I'll have more later, i'm tired...just wanted you all to know I will have real update soon.

-10 lbs!!

Finally! I've lost 10 lbs!! I'm so freakin excited!! Took me a little longer than I wanted but hopefully that means I won't gain it all back. Now If I'd just start working out I might lose it faster!!

Obsessed...

As you can see and read my obsessions lately have been baking and taking pictures. Today we baked apple crisp. We used Fiji and Granny Smith Apples. I personally think we should've only used the granny smith ones, but then again those are my favorite. We bought the apples before we found the recipe, but they worked. I think we should've used a bigger dish or less topping. It was still yummy though!

My other obsession has been taking pictures...of everything. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I've actually caught myself wishing I had it with me on the way to and from work sometimes. Its too big to lug around though and I can't keep it in my car because of the heat and I dont want to get it out at some of the places I work. So for now, I'll deal.

Here are a few pics from today:

Other than all that all I've really been doing is working. Work is work. It has its usual excitements or crazy things that happen with patients, but nothing too out of the ordinary. I've learned to just go with the flow on lots of things. Really all I can do anymore is laugh when something doesn't go as planned or like I want it to. Whats the saying "We make plans. God laughs." Yeah thats my life. So I just laugh right along with Him. And try to make fewer plans.

The 4th was fun. We went swimming, well I floated around. I dont swim. But I still had fun. I tried those new pasta things from Pizza Hut. The chicken alfredo was really good! We set off fireworks and watched some that other people had set off around the neighborhood. Overall, I had a really good time!

I'm off tomorrow! YAY! But I'm going in to clean, which is fine because I get paid for it.

Only 60 days til relaxation!!

In other news, my husband got a promotion at work last week! He is now a level I programmer. I'm really happy for him since that is what he originally started out wanted to do back in the college days. I just hope he won't be bringing home too much work with him. Oh and I lost another pound, I guess we'll say 2 wks ago. This week I maintained which is perfectly fine with me since I way over ate over the weekend. I'd rather stay the same than gain. Everyone is saying how they can tell, me personally, I cannot. I do think I'll be needing a smaller bathing suit before vacation. :)

Pictures!!!

This little dude was hanging out on the back of my adirondack chair Friday morning.

I LOVE this pic!! We played with sparklers friday night. Thanks to Court and Linds for the help!!

Happy 4th!!

We had lots of fresh peaches and my new baking dish begging to be used. SO...we made peach cobbler.

I've never made any kind of cobbler in my life, but this turned out pretty well I think.

Now we're off to enjoy swimming, pizza, fireworks and good fun with friends!

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!!

My Weekend, Part 2

After the baby shower, we ventured over to The Container Store. That was a cool store! Everyone must check one out sometime. I'm a big organazational freak, even though my house doesn't look like it all the time, but I love finding cool stuff or new stuff. They have everything from closet organizers, to desks, to kitchen stuff, to wrapping paper, travel stuff, etc. It goes on and on. Right now they're having a big travel sale and free shipping on some items. Our favorite and funniest moment in there was when we were walking around and saw this huge section of trashcans. A worker walked past us, and in a very excited tone says "Don't you just love trashcans!!" We kinda just looked at each other and laughed. We think they put something through the venting system to make all their employees happy, happy, happy.

I also got to go in my first Williams-Sonoma store. We tried some free samples. My favorite was the caramel apple bread. I couldn't find it on the website, but it was really good. We also sampled the Cherry Blossom Sling drink. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any alcohol in it but it really really tasted like their was. I couldn't drink it all, it was so strong, or tart. I would like to get this Pizza Que Grill for my husband. We keep talking about grilling pizza, but not extremely sure how to go about it. I think this would be nice to have. He'd really like this, but no. There were a ton of cool things in that store.

My Weekend, Part 1

We had a baby shower for a co-worker this weekend. We actually managed to keep it a surprise from her as well. The boss told everyone that it was a mandatory meeting and we were going to get griped out. Of course everyone knew except the pregnant one. hehe. For a gift, we all pitched in and got a bunch of stuff. The boss and I ended up making a diaper cake. It turned out to be a 4 tiered one. Here are some pics of it: