Day By Day in My Life

7:00:31 PM CDT

Well, I have been MIA for a bit, but Im here now!! We went for a bike ride earlier today with a friend....and I even rode my own motorcycle!! I have been riding it more, and feeling more and more comforable each time!! We went to this little creek thing that my friend goes to all the time to feed the fish. He used to go there with his wife before she passed away of cancer last year. She was actually one of my patients and her husband and I have been best of buds everysince. He and my husband are really good friends to.

It has been nice being off work today even though I didnt get to sleep late because some certain dog named ROCKY decided he wanted to pounce all 170 pounds of his self on me in the bed this morning. Work has been really hectic, it is taking everything I have to not just walk out and quit. The only reason I havent is because I know we will be moving soon and I dont want to change jobs and then move. We have a new Nurse Manager and she micro manages and that is bull shit!! She has never done hospice, so how can she manage us. I have been doing it for like 6 years and some of the other nurses have been doing it longer than that. Oh well, maybe I will make it.

Well, hubby and I have decided to become debt free!! We are talking to a financial planner, an we are listening to alot of Dave Ramsey...LOL He has the right ideas. The financial planner says we should sell our motorcycles and build our cash flow....if we couldnt make the payments then we would, but they are being made. We are just going to have to stop alot of nonsense spending!!

Well, I hope everyone has a great evening!!! Happy July 4th

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8:34:40 PM CDT
Feeling Thoughtful

Thankful Thursday....Ii almost forgot but I didnt....LOL

I am very thankful that hubby is continuing to heel up good, and has started cardiac rehab, and is even using the treadmill without fussing!!

Rocky's head seems to be getting better....it was yucky for a couple days

Work hasnt been too terrible this week, not as busy as usual

I am so thankful that all my readers hadnt abandoned me while I was away....some but not all!! I really love you guys

I am very thankful that I have been sleeping better, now if I can just get to bed a little earlier!!!

Have a great night

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7:26:37 PM CDT
Feeling Discontent

 

hELLO ALL!! I hope everyone is having a great week so far, all is well here I suppose. We went to Illinois over this past weekend, had a good time. I enjoyed seeing our friends that we havent seen in several months. It wasnt quiet as relaxing as I had hoped, but better than work...LOL It pourred one night something awful. I didnt even leave the camper one day but for like 10 miinutes...honest!! I see my typing isnt up to par today as well.

Work is really gettiing on my nerves lately. I honestly dont know what to do other than grin and bear it. We arent planning on living up here much longer so I dont see any reason to go job hunting just to quit in a few months. Maybe its just me being in a bad mood, I dont know, or maybe I am just burnt out with hospice. I have been doing it for almost 6 years....6 years of dealing with death everyday just may be taking its toll on me.

I guess everything is good with hubby and I. He says that everything is fine, but I just have this sense that something is wrong. Things have just changed since his surgery....I guess they are suppost to. UUGGGHHH Im just an emotional wreck right now and I dont know why. I am just on edge, and for some reason I make a mountain out of a mole hill lately.....anybody else ever get that way.....is it just plain ole bitchy???

On top of it all Rocky...my mastiff has some horrible sore that has come up on his head and I dont know what it is or how it got there. He was fine when we left Wednesday, and then we get home Sunday and the top of his head is matted up and a huge sore. It is actually drying up now, but he has a fit if I come near him with anything in my hand to put on it....like peroxide...LOL I managed to get some on it the first night but as big as he is he managed to tear the leg off my bedside table, break a lamp, and drag me across the room......thank goodness there was no video camera around!!! Im sure that was a site.

Anywhoo....I guess that catches you up on my life.....exciting huh?? Happy hump day, and have a good week!!

HUGZZZZ

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6:02:56 PM CDT

 

WOOO HOOOO....THANKS TO TRACI I DIDNT MISS IT TODAY!!!

I have sooo much to be thankful for lately, so here are just a few...

1.  Hubby is doing great 1 month after his Triple Bypass

2.  My attitude has much improved now that I am back in J-Land!! (no joke)

3.  I got through seeing patients early today, so I got home early

4.  I only have 2 work Monday and Tuesday next week

5.  I have actually been getting sooo much housework done lately

6.  I cant find enough laundry for a load of clothes to wash....thats a first

7.  Hubby and I have been exercising every night together to improve our health together!!!

8.  We havent even put our house on the market and we someone has already called and wants to look at it.....that would be so great if they want to buy it!!!

9.  I am so thankful that my niece Abbi is doing so well now that she has been adopted by my sister and her husband. She is just the best little thing, and she is learning so much so quick. Everytime I see her she amazes me.

10. My daughter made it through the 8th grade and ended up with all A's and B's....Im sooo proud of her!!!! Although I cant believe she will be in high school next year. She isnt a baby anymore, and it seems like just yesterday that I was bringing her home from the hospital.

11. I managed to trim almost all of my hedges yesterday evening after work in only an hour and a half. They look so much better. I am gonna try and get out there and finish them up today.

Ok, there are a few things that I am thankful for. I have been catching up on a few journals this afternoon and doing a little housework. Unfortunately I gotta go do a little more...LOL.

Everyone have a great evening!!

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6:34:32 PM CDT
Feeling Restless

Oh I just discovered that the moods list is much better!!! Ha What do ya know!! LOL I choose restless because I am on call tonight and you never know when that phone is gonna ring.....knock on wood maybe it wont!!

This already feels like I have worked an entire week. Work is not the greatest lately. It seems like everyone is on edge, and it just isnt as laid back and easy-going as it used to be. I used to look forward to going to work everyday, and now I just dread it!!! Last Thursday I swear I threw up all day....ended up coming home because I couldnt even breath without vomiting. Scotty said when I got home that I was burning up and wringing wet with sweat. I went right to bed and only got up a few times briefly to hurl then slept til like 7am. I honestly think it is my nerves because I dread work so much. Maybe it is just a phase and things will get better....SOON!!!

Didnt do much over the weekend, just kinda hung out at home, got some house work done, and took it easy. This weekend I am on call Friday, Saturday, and Sunday so I wanted to just chill this past weekend at home with no real plans and that is exactly what I did. The next weekend we are going to Cave in Rock Illinois to a bike rally. We always have a good time seeing our friends, but we will be there 5 days so I know when I get back I will definately be ready to be home. We leave next Wed. Next, I am ready for a long weekend on the beach!! I actually NEED that!!!!! Who dont....LOL

I am sitting here waiting on my hair to process.....hubby has been weaving (foiling) my hair for me the last several times. He actually does a really good job and saves TONS of money!! Then I gotta go get iin the tanning bed. I love my tanning bed, but believe it or not I dont lay in it near as much as I thought I would when we bought it. It is a 48 bulb commercial bed, so it is a good one, but I dont wanna look like a leather bag walking around in a few years. So, I tan a few days to get my color going good then I use a sunless tanner then nothing for a few days then tan a couple days....yada yada yada. I try to take it easy on the tanning bed though. I sure do sleep good in it though....I always get a nice little nap!!

Ok, gotta get off here and get my hair rinsed out before it falls out....LOL Hope everyone is having a good week so far, hopefully better than mine. I am gonna try and read a few journals here in a bit before bed time!!

Ciao

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6:21:16 PM CDT

OK....I have to tell this story.....its kinda long, but just stay with me...

Here goes. I have put my Jeep up for sale because I got a Tahoe. I put it on Craigs List and a couple of other free sites to post it on. Well, I got a "quote request" yesterday from some lady named Kim so I replied and told her what I wanted for the Jeep. She replied right back and said she wanted to buy it and wanted to know if I had a problem with her using a private shipping company so I replied back and told her no, but I would not be responsible for anything but being here at the decided time for them to pick it up, and I would accept either cash or a cashiers check. So she then sends me another email that she was sending me a company check for more than the amount of the Jeep and I was to go cash it and send the extra to the shipping company.....Well, I then send her another email saying no, I did not want to be responsible for anything but being there at the decided time for the company to pick up the vehicle. Well, then she sends me another email saying the same thing.....Soooo....I then send her ANOTHER email saying no that I didnt have time to send her money through western union to her private shipping company...yada yada yada. Well once again she sends me another email that she did not have a check for only the amount of the vehicle, that it had extra on it for me to send to the shipping company through Western union and that she was sure that it would only take me a few minutes to send the money to her private shipper and wouldnt cause me any stress.........Geesh......Finally I sent her an email that ask her what part of I AM NOT SENDING ANY MONEY TO YOUR SHIPPER!! DO NOT SEND ME ANY EXTRA MONEY UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO KEEP IT. I DO NOT WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DEALINGS WITH YOUR PRIVATE SHIPPER.....do you not understand???? Would you believe she sent me another email that she was sending me a company check for the vehicle and that there would be extra money that I was to go and send via Western Union to her private shipper..........HOLY CRAP this lady is crazy or cant read or something.........Finally I told her that I thought she should find another vehicle to buy.........I was not selling her my Jeep. Hubby and I decided that she had to have something up her sleeve or something. I dont know what the deal was, but it was just tooo shady to try and sell it to herand end up with no money and no vehicle in the end. She was emailing me from an email address wheasle@yahoo or hotmail .com so BEWARE!!!!..LOL I should have known something was up from the email address.....

Anyway.......hubby and I went to MS this weekend. My mother is still in the hospital. She has been in 3 different hospitals for like 3 months. Bless her heart, she isnt doing very well at all. The last hospital she was in was suppost to treat some wounds she had, but instead she ended up with almost a solid wound on her behind and no behind. I saw them 3 weeks ago then again Saturday and they were like 100% bigger. They are so deep and she just cries  and cries when they change her dressings. The place she is now is actually a burn/wound center and she has been there a week and I can see progress. They actually look like they are healing and have good healthy tissue. I feel so bad for her. We have been trying so hard to keep her from getting sores. When the nurse came in to change her dressings Saturday my mom ask them to wait until later and the nurse said no we cant wait....thats why you are in the sahpe you are in because nobody has been changing you and taking care of you. OHH....I jumped all in her ass!! I told her that we have followed everything to the T and put her through pure hell for the last 3 months trying to prevent and heal wounds and that she needed to read up on my mothers chart about everything that had been done and tried before she started putting people down and assuming that we were a neglegant family. She had no clue that I was a nurse and when they were changing the dressing they were being so rough and not sterile at all. So, I took the opportunity to tell her that nurses that didnt follow sterile technique and did dressing changes like that is why she was in the shape she was in. Oh, I was livid!!!! About an hour later she came back in and apologized and all this crap, but I stood firm and told her that what she said was not appreciated AT ALL!!!! I am going to write a letter to the hospital administrator, and I may even call and report it to the state. Reporting it to the state is drastic, so I havent decided for sure on that yet. She is the only one that has been like that, so I dont want the other staff to suffer because of her. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, she sure needs them. She was in better spirits and I got her to eat pretty good. She even said...I didnt eat enough did I and when I told her no, she said ok....give me some more then...LOL She has lost soo much weight. She looked better Saturday than I have seen her look in 3 months though.

Well, I know this is a long entry, so I guess I will close for now. Hope everyone is having a good week so far!!

 

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6:38:17 PM CDT

Hubby and my little sisters daughter Hallee Grace

Abbi's 1st birthday

Me and my oldest sister Deana at her hooding ceremony....she is now a DR!!! Graduated last week from Ole Miss.

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6:28:20 PM CDT

Hello all!! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Hubby and I went to a motorcycle rally and met alot of our friends from Mississippi. It was great to see them....even though we had seen most of them last weekend. We had a good time and they all helped with setting up our camper and everything so hubby didnt over-do it!! He was a little exerted, but for the most part he took it easy. He did ride his bike about a mile....I didnt fuss too much because it was a straight shot and no turning involved. His incision is healing well, I dont think it will be very visible at all. He is still having alot of difficulty getting comfy to sleep at night though. At least everyday gets better.

Well, we had to fire our yard people because they kept leaving our gate unlocked and Rocky knows how to open the gate if it is not locked. The last time he got out we found him about 2 miles from home. There was a house that was being redone and he somehow got up on the porch and inside because the doors were not installed. When hubby found him there was a man sitting out in his truck because Rocky wouldnt let him in the house.....Im glad we found him when we did!! LOL  The man said Rocky kept running up and down the porch but he was too scared to jump down...it was only about a 2 foot jump....what a big baby. He said Rocky never growled or anything but he didnt want to chance it. I think Rocky was just happy to see someone and the man misunderstood him. Oh well at least it turned out ok. Now we have to either buy a lawn mower or find a new company!! I think we are gonna go buy a push mower because I actually like to mow. But Im sure if we dont do something soon the homeowner association will be calling soon.....LOL

Abbi...my sisters daughter that we went to China to get....is doing great. She is beautiful, and she is sooooo sweet!! She has the greatest little smile. She is abit SPOILED!! She doesnt like the word NO at all, but what 18 month old does.

I was gonna add some pictures, but AOL has changed how you do it so I gotta figure it out.....

Have a good week!!

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5:09:10 PM CDT

Well.......here I am. It has been a loonnnggg time since I was here as you know. I guess I just needed a break. Things were getting pretty hectic in my personal and work life. But, I'm back and I really really missed being here. I hope you havent ALL forgotten me. I know all of you havent because you have emailed me and I do appreciate that.

I have read several journals here and there and I hope all of you are doing great. I am going to try and get around to a BUNCH more very soon.

Not a whole lot of exciting things going on here. We made it through the holidays, and I am so glad the warm weather has arrived. Oh, I guess I should tell you that hubby had unplanned (to say the least) triple bypass heart surgery a little over a week ago. He is home and doing well. He is still sore of course, but I am trying to get him nursed back to health. He had been having some chest pain over the last year on and off but progressed to more often so he had me make him a Dr appointment. When we saw the Dr he wouldnt even let him leave the office but instead sent him straight to ICU. He had seen something on his EKG that he didnt like. All his vitals were good and even the cardiologist said he would have sent him home but when they did a heart cath the next day it was not so good. He had 1 artery 100% blocked, one that was 90% blocked, and one that was 60% blocked. Bypass was the next morning!! He has really done quite well with his recovery....I have been impressed. He is getting around a little slow, but much better than I expected. He really got quite a carving though!! LOL

We are in the process of trying to get our house ready to sell, and get moved back to Mississippi. The surgery has kinda slowed us down, but we will get it done sooner or later. There is no big hurry really, but the sooner the better. I'm homesick!!! I miss my family and friends.

Hmm what else has been going on....OH....hubby's truck was stolen right out of our drive one night. The police said that they probably would never find it and if they did that it would be totally stripped.....3 weeks later they found it abandoned without a scratch......we were sooo lucky. It was only 8 months old and the insurance was being a total ass about settling....they offered us less than half what we owed...imagine that!! We had some things inside the truck that were missing, but they did pay for us to replace them thank goodness. Hmm lets see what else....oh, I got a new ride.....well not new new but new to me. I got a 2005 Tahoe LT. It has all the bells and whistles. I love it. We got a great price on it too. It is charcoal gray. It is the older body style, but its purdy!!!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm back and I hope you are still out there and will return to read my journal. I promise to be good and not run off without explanation again!! I PROMISE!!! 

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8:50:43 AM CST

The Game is on!!! And you're IT!

Describe ME in one word.....just one single word. Post it in my comment section. Then put the same request in your journal so we can visit you… and do the same thing… and see how many strange and interesting things they say about you...........

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