Visit to Oklahoma

So I just got back from my visit to Oklahoma late Tuesday night. It was allot of fun. It's really hard when I only get to see my sister and her family once or twice a year. Those kids are growing up so fast so I had allot of fun spending time with them. Leah is such a talkative little girl. When she wasn't talking about princesses she was dancing like one. Isaac is doing so good with his reading. He can pretty much read any of the Dr. Suess books by himself. He even read one to me with minimal assistance. Very impressive for a 5 year old. And he asks lots of questions. Why this why that? What's this mean? What's that? It just wore me out listening to him. Thanks to Sarah for letting me come out and visit. It was a blast. If anyone wants to look at some pictures, here ya go just copy and paste the link. There were just too many pictures to post on here...


http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=42125&l=ece07&id=506386809

Overtime

So I've been working quite a bit lately. In the past 12 days I have only had 2 days off... and I spent those two days painting my parents living room. Can I just tell you how excited I am for my week long vacation in Oklahoma? It is definatley needed! I am looking forrward to a little relaxation. (Although I don't think Isaac and Leah are planning on letting me have much.) I'm still two weeks away from the trip and getting alittle impatient. I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS HOSPITAL!! And go figure, the night before I leave, I'll be working all night and pretty much be heading right to the airport after work. So I'll arrive in Oklahoma looking all nasty from working twelve hours and smelling like a hospital. Oh well. I hope that Sarah and Mikey won't shun me and will still allow me to stay with them. Hooray for lack of sleep and vacations!!!

Stop setting me up!

Please people, I know you all care about me and my future happiness, but stop trying to set me up with your "available" friends and family. I'm very content with being single right now and I'm just not interested in dating. It seems no matter how many times I say that, someone at work or one of my friends, just don't believe me and insist I "meet" one of their single friends. I promise, I don't need to have a boyfriend to be happy. In fact right now I really don't want a boyfriend. I've even turned down 2 dates the past 3 weeks. Let me be! I beg of you, no more blind dates, I promise I'm happy being single right now!

Just can't sleep...

So it was midnight, I wasn't really tired, so I decided to watch a movie. I start browsing through my collection and decided I was in the mood for a chick flick. I figured I would choose something that was slow paced and I wouldn't mind falling asleep in the middle of. So I chose the six hour Pride and Prejudice. WHY OH WHY DID I DO THAT!?!? So here I sit at six in the morning wide awake because I couldn't pull myself away from the ultimate chick flick, and wondering how on earth I'm going to stay awake during conference thismorning... Well, it's not the first time I've gone almost 48 hours without sleeping. I might be going to game night on Sunday a little on the exhausted side though. So I guess I'll see if I can sleep these next three and a half hours and just see how it goes.

The Utah bubble...

So today I went to the new singles ward that was just organized in my stake. My mom encouraged me to go and check it out and decide if I wanted to stick with the one I'm in, or move on to this new one. Well I went, and hated it. I was probably the oldest one there. Everyone was 21-23 and here I come, 26. So I was thinking, Oh well, I'm here, I might as well attend one meeting, and sat down. The sacrament meeting was good. I've always loved listening to President Call talk, but it was afterwards that things got annoying. To all you single guys out there, just because a girl is over 22 and not married, doesn't mean there's something "wrong" with them. A few guys came up to talk to me, and as soon as they found out how old I was, the conversation ended. They started waking off mid sentence. It was really rude. Is there some code or something that says your not allowed to even socialize with someone who is out of your "preferred age range?" I really don't think 26 is that old, but for some reason, in Utah singles wards, it's ancient. I never had these kind of issues when I lived with Sarah in Oklahoma. There were much older singles in the ward I was in out there, and there wasn't any pressure to get married so young. What is it with Utah?

Happy Birthday to Me!!

So here I am spending the first part of my Birthday at work... How exciting. Ya know, I think there's something sick and wrong about spending the first ten minutes of your birthday cleaning up someone elses bloody poop. I know that was disgusting and you probably never wanted to know that, but I just found it annoying that I rarely have to clean that certain bodily mess up at work, and one of the few times I do, it has to be on my birthday and there's so much blood that the room smells like Iron. Sadly there was also so much blood the guy was rushed to surgery for internal bleeding. Then another patient went into cardiac arrest and we had to do CPR and he didn't make it. Unfotunately they rarely do. Then go figure, someone decides to stop breathing at 6:45am when I'm about ready to go home. And while I'm assisting the doctor with re-intubating the patient, the woman in the room next door decides to pull out all of her IV's, her epidural, her foley catheter(ouch!) and everything else sticking out of her body. So once again, I had to spend over an hour cleaning up blood. So needless to say, my day started out bad. Then when I get home I find out that my parents had to cancel their plans to take me to a birthday dinner because they have to babysit. I guess it's really not that big a deal, I don't mind them babysitting, the boys are fun to play with, but it's just another thing to add to the list. It's only 9:00am and my birthday already sucks! Hopefully things will get better. At least Isaac, Leah, and Sarah called and sang to me. That made me smile alittle. Please say cheerful things. I need them. :-(

10 Months!?!

Wow! I can't believe I haven't blogged anything for almost ten months! Obviously I don't blog often. I guess it's because there's not much going on right now. I work, sleep, work, sleep, read, work, etc... So my life really isn't that interesting at the moment. Since I last wrote, I've moved back up to Salt Lake. I miss St. George allot. Mostly my friends down there. We've had some fun times.

So now, I currently live in my parents basement, hoping that someday I can get enough time off of work to have a social life, meet some girls that need a roommate, and move out. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents, but after living away from home for so long, it's hard to come back....

Other than living in the cave in the basement, I work in the Thoracic ICU at Intermountain Medical Center. I love it! There's opportunities for me to watch open heart surgeries, and assist in some small procedures. And I never get tired of the Arterial Spray! (Those of you that know me well, shouldn't be surprised I put that phrase in here). It's really interesting and I'm learning allot. I think in all the areas of hospitals I've worked in, I like the Heart. It's just amazing. I wish that some of my friends or family worked in a similar field so I could talk to someone about it and have them be just as excited as me. :) Well, I think that's enough of an update for now. Sorry if it's a little choppy. I just got off working all night and haven't slept yet. I should do that. Goodnight. :)