Time for Change

I have been doing alot of thinking and I'm thinking its time for a change. I really feel like I'm in a rut lately. My mind is wasting away and I feel like I'm totally losing all of nursing skills. I really want a job in Huntsville, but if I don't have a job here by at least September or November I might be putting my house on the market and relocating.
Here are the choices:

The New York of the South... ATLANTA!!! I LOVE this city!!!!!!!

OR Utah.... Prob Salt Lake City :) I would like to surrounded by more LDS people anyway. I just wish winters were shorter and it didn't snow.

Maybe I will join the military (Air Force) and work as a nurse there.



I can't afford to stay here if something doesn't happen soon. I hope the other places aren't as hard...

I Am Thankful For...

I know I’m a day late, but I feel that I need to express my appreciation for the things I have.

1. I’m eternally grateful for my Heavenly Father and His son, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, and the gospel. They help me so much every day. I don’t know where, or how, I would be without them. And also the scriptures (D&C is my personal favorite), they teach you what you need to know and also provide you with comfort when you’re going through trying times.

Joseph Smith's First Vision

  

2. I am thankful for the atonement and the gift of repentance. It allows me to be forgiven for the crappy things I do… and I do A LOT of things :\

3. I’m thankful for temples and the work that is performed in them. I love knowing that we don’t have to be separated from our family after this life. Ahem, husband, whoever you are, you need to freaking hurry up!!

Birmingham Temple

Nauvoo Temple

Salt Lake City Temple

4. I’m thankful for my family, especially my parents. I have the BEST parents ever!! They are always there for me when I need them and try to build me up when I am in the dumps. Also for my brothers, even though they get on my nerves and I occasionally want to do away with them. Oh! And my cousins :D

Justin aka.Fathead

Charile

Ashley, Shariana, and Maclane

5. I’m thankful for my friends, even though some of them are flaky or act old ;) …Sharon is gonna kill me, but I can’t resist! :D

Lauren

Sharon

Christina

Alythia

Amanda

Beth

Beth, I'm SORRY!!!

Katie

Ashley Madden

Sorry Beth, it’s the only picture I have…

6. I’m thankful for the opportunity HF gave me when he put Dr. Dick in my path; that allowed me to continue in my career when all hope seemed to be lost. I seriously had exhausted all of my options in Huntsville and the surrounding areas. It was a very scary time.

7. I’m thankful for my house.

8. I’m thankful for my pups… and my future pup once I get a new job that makes good money so can fence in the back yard :)

Crack and Evie

9. I’m thankful to be out of nurse prison, it feels good… now if only I could get a hospital job in Huntsville so I can relearn a lot of the skills I forgot. Seems like sooooo much stuff!

10. I’m thankful for the great country that I live in and all the brave men and women that dedicate their lives so we can have all of the freedoms we all enjoy.

11. I am also thankfull for Alabama football... gives me something to look forward to in the fall :)

ROLL TIDE!!!

Now for things I will be thankful for in the future…

1. Husband and a family of my own.

2. A new job as an RN in a hospital, either here in Huntsville or if need be in Atlanta.

3. Whatever else HF decides he wants to give me.

Update

Remember my challenge I sat back in like Sept? Well I am proud to anncouce that I am 9lbs lighter! YIPPIE!!

Still no hospital job. I have had some good interviews though... at least I am getting them now! Wasn't getting any for a LONG time, but thank goodness that has changed!

Do You Smell The Gator Meat??

 Ok, let me start off my saying that my boss, Dr. Dick, is the BEST! He paid for me to go to the Alabama vs. Florida game yesterday as an early birthday present. I had soooo much fun! I wanted to go so bad! It just turned out that he had to work the next morning and since is old and crusty (and generous), he couldn’t go and be able to function the next day. So he paid for the ticket for me to go. Wasn’t that sweet?!

I went with one of our patients named Gary. I was a little bit worried about that at first, but it all turned out alright. J In fact he is a really nice guy! I got to know him a little bit better and it was all good. By the way, does anyone know ay available, not crazy women around their 40s or early 50s?  Gary needs a lady ;)

Here are some of the pics that I took from our awesome seats at the game. We were near the press boxes on the west side of Bryant Denny Stadium… the non-sunny seats! YAY, nor sunburn!!

My view from our seats

Watching the Gators before they met their maker ;)

The Million Dollar Band

 

  

I sure was expecting a closer game than the slaughter that occurred. Alabama beat Florida 31-6! Who would have ever predicted that one??

Anyone in the mood for Gator gumbo?? We got plenty of Gator meat from the slaughter!

Again!

So I have decided that I am in much need of slimming down. Especially since I weigh almost as much as I did in high school, and that is not a good thing at all!! So this Sunday I started back on Weight Watchers... actually I tried to start last week and I realized how absolutely horrible my eating habits have been! It’s BAD!! So on Sunday, I started for real. I’m proud to say that I have already lost 2 pounds! Flippin awesome possum!! If I can just keep it up I’ll be set!

I know last time I did Weight Watchers was in the semester I graduated high school (in 2003) and the results were outstanding! I lost about 50lbs and I looked flippin cute! And tiny! I miss those days... I could wear stuff out of the little kids section!

2004

2005

So this is my new goal… I want to lose 45 lbs. I don’t have a time limit because I know if you lose the weight too quick the quicker you pack it back on too.

Another thing on my to-do-list sis to get an indoor bike with a program that adds resistance, so it will be like I am outside and going up and down hills. In fact, that is another one of my goals… hills. I would like to be able to be able to bike up Bankhead Pkwy on Monte Sano eventually. Might be a long time before I achieve that one though. That piece would be sooo hard! I don’t see how people do it. I drive up there and I see people biking up it like it’s no problem. I can’t imagine! Makes me tired just thinking about it… ;) I’d have to haul me and the bike up the mountain! Whew!

If anyone would like to join me in this challange that would be awesome! :)

Have You Ever Noticed....?

That when it rains it flippin pours!!

So much stuff going on... Lately, everytime think I'm doing good and trying to improve myself or my situation, I seem to always get shot down. Its sooo FRUSTRATING!!

I wish I could have a one-on-one, in person, with Heavenly Father so I can get realtime answers. That would be so nice! :)

I thought I had a job at Huntsville Hospital on one of the neuro floors... actually I did have it until some chick that used to work on that floor, called up there and wanted her old job back. I could kick her in the face ;) I could have been making decent money again and the nurse manager was cool and it would have been awesome, but NO! GRRRRRRRRRRR! Looks like I'm still stuck in freakin Decatur! :( I would like to blow that place off the map sometimes. And it also looks like I will be purchasing a new car sooner than I wanted. There's nothing wrong with it now, but it is getting way up there in miles and its only a 2006 and has about 80,000mi. Not to mention the $300/mo it costs in gas to get over there. If I didn't have the bast parents in the whole flippin world I wouldn't be able to make it... not just monetarily (though that's the main reason) but also they are a lot of support. They are troopers; they have to hear all of my whining. Be glad you're not them ;)

UAH is being difficult too. I don't know what to to about that... we'll have to see.

And then Blue Cross Blue Shield is GAY! I need to have a couple of procedures done on my legs and because I got the doctor I work for to write me an order for compression stockings (so my legs don't kill me by the end of the day) before I went to see the vascular surgeon I can't have them done til next flippin June! GAY!!

If only there was a rewind button... I would rewind this mess to about Feb of 2008. I would have a job in the ER at Crestwood and my stress would be 3/4 gone! If only...

One last whine.... babies= UGH!!! Why are there so many prego ladies right now?
The End!!!! (YAY!!)

Pointy hat :)

The knome has her pointy hat now! YAY!! :D

Do you think she should have the streamers coming from the hat??