Saturday, January 16, 2010

Apple Pie

The other night I had a friend, Ashley, come over to learn how to make apple pie. Here are some of the pics from the event. There would've been more, but I forgot to take em... :}

Ashley wearing my old Starbucks apron... oh, the memories :}

Ashley's side

My side

Making the eggwash

"He puts the lotion on the skin"

Into the oven it goes
Before

After


Doing the honors

I had to throw this one on just because. Evie Louise was eatin the attention up!

Friday, January 8, 2010

BEEF! Its what's for dinner! ...Boy, was it good!

ROLL TIDE!!!
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009!!
I'm so proud of my team!!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Grossness!!!

So... here's the story...

I used to work at a nursing home where I took care of a certain person... we will call him Mr. Gray. (HIPPA crap, can't use their real name). I took care up him up until the day that he died, minus the few days that he spent in the hospital. So anyway, Mr. Gray has a son named Charles. Charles used to come in all of the time to check on and visit his dad, and of course I had to be nice to him and he really didn't bother me and after his dad passed I never saw him again.

I have been working with a Rheumatologist named Dr. Dick (yes, that's his real name) for a few months now and I really like it.... well, at least working with Dr. Dick, there is some stuff I don't like but that's irrelevant. Anyway, one day I was getting some patient stuff together and saw Charles there. He was there as a new patient to see one of the chiropractors and he recognized me. CRAP!! I was trying to keep a low profile. I don't really like anything that reminds me of that decrepit, piece of crap nusring home; it brings back bad memories. Ugh... So then he is referred over to our side to take care of some of his medical problems. The day we see him as a new patient he starts hitting on me like crazy. I ignore it because... I just do... he's old. He comes into see us... more often than really needed which makes it even more annoying. One day we he comes in with complaints of shoulder pain, so Dr. Dick gives him a shot in his shoulder to relieve bursitis. It is my responsibility to help hold the patient still and in position, so I hold his arm in the right position and Dr. Dick gives him the shot. After we are finished Charles started saying how much better his shoulder felt and that it was better because I touched it. *I just threw up a little in my mouth* Thus leading up to everyone in the office making fun of me... pure torture!

OK, the guy is nice , but he's extra fluffy, super hairy (except the GIANT bald spot on the top of his head), super greasy, old enough to be my father, has a son that is my age and it IS NOT gonna happen... EVER!!!

I had been trying to avoid him for a week or so when he came in one day to see the chiropractor and I was back in one of the offices doing paperwork and Vanessa (the receptionist) comes in with an envelope that had my name written on the front. Of course it was mispelled, no one knows how to spell my name right. I open it up and inside is a pink Post-it note with some scribbling on it that vaguely resembles words. I could only make out part of it and asked Vanessa to help translate the hieroglyphics. She couldn't read it either. The only part I could make out was "what about diner tonite?" his name and his phone number. Everything was mispelled. So I had all of the rest of the office see if they could decipher the symbols... it took the WHOLE office!


Yes, I took a picture of it! I had to send it to my friends from the nursing home that knew who he was! The invite took me by surprise and thoroughly replused me!

If it isn't bad enough that everytime he comes in (which was at least once a week... way too much) he makes it a point to hit on me in some form or fashion, today some of the girls in the office told him that I did massages! I do not do freaking massages!!! So he comes back in the room after we are done with him, and I'm putting the finishing touches on his chart, and says that the girls I work with told him that I do massages and asked if I woudl give him one! H-E-DOUBLE-HOCKEY-STICKS NO!!! I am a NURSE... not a freakin massage therapist! If I was, and it was for him, it would be super dooper expensive!!

Here is my schedule of fees:

  1. Massage base charges: $100
  2. Plus $200-300 for the excess body hair
  3. Plus $400 for the grease (in various areas)
  4. Plus $100 for the bald spot
  5. Finally $500 for my pain and suffering!

And I would have to wear like 10 pairs of latex gloves to protect myself.

Those girls are going down!!!!! Freakin sickos!!!!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

New Year

Just to prove how boring I am, my New Years Eve was rung (is that even a word?) in on the couch as I was studying the back of my eyelids :) One of the girls I work with invited me to a party, but I'm just not a big partier and didn't go.

My DVD player bit the dust over the weekend too. Such a tragedy!! I felt so lost! So to comemorate the loss of my dear friend I adopted a beautimus Blu-Ray player!! I LOVE that thing! The pic is soooo clear! I also got Netfilx, which if I do say so myself, is GREAT! I've watched lots of movies on instant stream and have many coming to the house soon.

Finally, today I got an eyes examined and it was determined that I needed glasses. I picked them out and the later found out that one of my best friends got the exact same glasses.... same brand and everything. I think they are very cute :)

And of course it couldn't be New Years without the spouting out of a list of resolutions that no one ever really keeps sooo here they are:

  1. Get to where I can run without feeling like I have CHF (Congestive Heart Failure).
  2. Lose about 40lbs... the weight I gained back... ARG!!!
  3. Brush up on my Spanish, so when I have Spanish-speaking patients I won't look like a complete idiot trying to talk to them in my broken HS Spanish.
  4. Get into UAH and be able to pay for my classes out of pocket without having to take out a loan.
  5. Get to where I can teach my Young Women without putting them to sleep and forgetting what I am gonna say when I get up there.
  6. And last one, get a job at a hospital!!!! Anyone know anyone who works at one so I can get some help getting my foot in the door???

One and two are gonna be the hardest, but I will do my best!