I'm allergic to work

I swear that I have developed an allergy to work. I came to work tonight and went to the cafeteria to get a patient some lactose free milk. I came back up with the milk and developed hives on my arm. My arm swelled up and looked all gross and it was VERY itchy. The crappy thing about working at the hospital is that someone had benadryl cream and it (after half the tube) made the rash go away. Apparently rashes aren't a good reason to go home from the hospital. Who knows why I broke out, but I maintain that I am allergic to work. :)

Hair color isn't for me

So, I decided to color my hair. I wanted to do my bangs purple but my hairdresser was going to charge $40 for that, so I decided to do my whole head by myself. I bought this awsome burgandy color and went to town. It was not my best coloring attempt ever. Matt was in the bathroom when I did this, so I did it in the bedroom mirror which doesn't have the best lighting. The baby started crying about 3/4 of the way through so I quickly finished and went to get him. He kept trying to grab my processing hair, so that was fun. Then, I was looking at it and realized that I missed some spots so I got out the comb and tried to more evenly distribute it. I did this Thursday night because I wanted it to be colored for work Friday night. I rinsed it out, went to bed, and thought no more about it. When I got up for work Friday afternoon, I was fixing my hair and realized that I had a HUGE spot that wasn't colored. It was almost half of the back of my head. I don't know how that happened, but I had to go to work with it like that. I felt like an IDIOT! I got another bottle of color on the way home from work Sat. morning and did my hair again before I went to bed. That time it took. It looked so awsome for about a week. I was looking in the mirror at work tonight and noticed that my hair is almost black, but all that cool burgandy color is gone. I don't know where it went, but my hair isn't burgandy and cool in the light anymore. This is why I don't normally color my own hair. Bad stuff happens. And it was expensive - $8.00 a bottle and I used two. I should just learn to be happy

Blogger Questionaire

My friend Kathryn posted a blog interview on her blog. I thought it was cool, so I got five questions from her and answered them below. So, if anyone wants to do a blog interview, just e-mail me and I will ask you five questions that you can post on your blog and answer.
Here ar my questions and answers. Enjoy.

1. Why do you want to be a nurse? What kind of nurse do you want to be?

At first I wanted to be a nurse because my dad said that I could make good money at it and he would let me live in his house if I went to nursing school. I was going to go to a one year program in Omaha, live with my parents, and have them help me with all my bills. Where is the downside to that? Then, when my dad's cancer came back, and we had some awsome nurses who helped us, I decided that nursing is what I want to do because I want to give back what we had been given. I think that either way, I want to be a nurse because of my dad. Go Dad! One of the best ways I am going to honor him is to become the best nurse I can.


2. What has surprised you the most about becoming a new mom? The least?

Surprisingly, this has been the hardest question to answer. I think the overwhelming amount of love that you can have for someone so small is the most surprising. It just takes your breath away how much love you feel for that tiny baby. The least surprising thing is that my son is perfect. I just knew he would be. Just kidding (but he really is perfect). I don't know if there is really something least surprising. My whole life has changed and even thought I thought I was prepared, every day something new comes along and it's a new experience every day.


3. How did you come to love Star Wars? Why do you think this love for Star Wars has lasted into your adulthood?

Once again, my dad is to blame. I acutally like to say that I was addicted from the womb. As you know, the first Star Wars movie came out in May of 1977. I was born in September of 1977 and my parents went to see Star Wars when it was out in the summer of 1977. It is my firm belief that I watched the first movie from my mother's belly button and have love it ever since. The reason that my love has lasted into adulthood is that I used to watch them as a kid with my dad. As an only child, I loved spending time with my dad. At least once a year as far back as I can remember we would get all three movies out (this was back when there were only three) and watch them over a long weekend or a series of days. Plus, my dad collected Darth Vader stuff. Part of their allure when I was younger is that it was quality time with Dad. However, the movies are dang cool and I think I have a sci-fi lovers gene somewhere in me, because I can't help it - I love Star Wars and most Sci-fi.


4. What is the one thing that you love about yourself the most and why?

I love my husband. He is the best part of me because he isn't as loud, he's very funny, laid back, handsome, and he loves me. (My hair runs a close second.)



5. Tell us the story of how the nickname "Hurricane Emily" came to be.

Matt and I were discussing this, and we arn't sure if it came before the real Hurricane Emily or during. Before I get started, I just wanted to say that I am much better than I used to be. According to rumors, I have a temper that can flair very quickly, do lots of damage, and blow over quickly. When I get mad I yell and slam doors and throw things, then I feel better and it's over. However, it is traumatic to those in the vicinity, according to eye witnesses. Did I mention that I am much better?

Bleeding Us Dry

The gas companies are bleeding us dry! Has anyone seen the price of gas right now? In Kansas City it is $2.83 a gallon. I was talking to my mom a couple of days ago, and the price of gas in Louisville, KY is $3.15. The news a couple of days ago said that Chicago was going to reach $4.00 before the end of the summer. If I lived in Chicago, I would make friends with public transportation, because I wouldn't be able to afford $4.00 a gallon. There is absolutly no reason for gas to be that expensive. It was 10 years ago (oh wait, it was more like 12 years ago) that I was in high school and paid $.99 a gallon. I understand inflation, but come on. The price of gas is absurd! Let's just drill in Alaska for oil and produce all our own. We don't need to be dependant on foreign oil or the OPEC for our oil supply or prices. When is someone in Washington going to get a clue?
The End of my rant (for now)

Things to Look Forward to

Since there is so much going on or about to go on in my life, I have decided to make a list of things that I am looking forward to and then revisit them later and see how they turned out.

1. The End of Anatomy and Physiology (two weeks!)

2. The 8 day visit to Kentucky

3. Starting Nursing School (July 2nd)

4. Only working one night a week (starting July 7)

5. Having a long stretch of time where Will sleeps through the night

6. Graduating from Nursing School (in 2009)

7. Paying off our debts

8. The next baby (in 2010 or so)

9. Matt publishing his first book

10. Buying myself a Mini Cooper!!!

That is all I can think of now and it's a nice place to start. I'll revisit at the end of the first semester of school and subtract somethings and add some more.

I hate the news

I just wanted to say that I am not a big fan of the news. I never have been. The worst part about this is that since I got married I have become addicted to talk radio. I don't even know why. I don't like the callers on talk radio and it drives me nuts to hear about all of the goings on in the world. I was much happier in my little bubble. This all came into glaring focus when the Virgina Tech shooting happened. The media was so quick to blame the school administrators for not doing enough. I think if it were up to the media that the Virginia Tech administrators would lose their jobs and be tried in a court of law for neglect or something equally ridiculous. Then NBC had the guts to sell and air the killers video and pictures. It just makes me sick! I turned the channel every time I saw it. No new information was gained from the video and pictures. It was so insensitive of NBC. What I loved was some people associated with Virgina Tech were scheduled to be on NBC's morning show but cancelled after NBC aired the video. What is this world coming to when the media is more worried about getting the story first than about having morals.

Work Ramblings

So, what drives me crazy is when people stand right in front of the elevator when it opens. That happened tonight when I was coming in to work. I was trying to get on the elevator, and so was another guy. He pushed the up button, decided which elevator out of five was going to get their first (jerk even picked it right - that never happens to me), and then waits with his nose to the doors so he can be first on when they open. It was only he and I waiting. Thank goodness there wasn't anyone trying to get off, he would have run them over. Then he gets on the elevator and pushes the button for 9. I get on the elevator and push 11 and then we sit there for 5 seconds or so before the doors close and the elevator starts to move. Let's push our way onto the elevator only to be patient and wait for the doors to close. Wierd.

And where does it say that since I work Easter night that I have to bring something in to eat tomorrow. I was informed that tomorrow night we are all bringing something in to eat. If I had known about it earlier maybe I could have brought something, but not now. I will get off work this morning, go home to change, go get the baby, and go to church for 3 hours. I will then attempt to sleep until 6pm, but won't be able to, so I will get approx. 5.5 hours of sleep and then work another 12 hours. Where in that time am I going to whip up something to bring to work? And I refuse to break the sabbath by shopping on Sunday for work. Ain't gonna happen.

Also, and this probably drives me the most crazy, why does everyone who doesn't work on my floor come up and look at us and say "Who is the nurse for (insert room number here)?" when all the nurses names are written real big on the board next to the rooms that they have. Every time someone does that I have to stop and look at the board and tell them who the nurse is. Wouldn't it be less time consuming for them to look at the board theirselves?