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  • Technical Difficulties

    Please bear with me as this website undergoes some changes. I’ve been having some difficulty in the technical arena and as a result I am migrating from one hosting company to another. Once that is resolved hopefully the software issue can get fixed and then I will be able to post pictures again. THEN the new design will go up, which is way overdue! I am very excited about it, but until this all gets worked out posting will be light. I’m not anticipating that it will take TOO long, but who really knows?

    There are some good things and bad things happening in my life right now, and I hope to share them with you soon. In the meantime, my birthday is tomorrow and I would love for you to give me the gift of commenting and letting me know that you’re still there! Or, comment and let me know that you’re reading if you never have. It would make my day! Thanks, friends.

  • I Guess They Trust Me

    Well I’ve been trying for days to post pictures from our new house and our wedding. After trying on three different computers and three different browsers and still getting faced with a blank page, I called my brother, my web-design guru. Turns out something has gone wrong with my software, so he will be fixing it soon hopefully!

    So I decided that just because I can’t put up pictures doesn’t mean I can’t write about SOMETHING. So here is something. I have been a nurse for about eight months now, and my director has asked me to precept (train) a new employee. Some have told me that I must be doing a great job to warrant this trust, but I personally think it’s more the case that we are running out of experienced nurses that can precept – we have had a lot of people leave for other jobs lately, for various reasons.

    My director had told me the nurse’s name that I would be training, that she was younger than I, and that she had graduated around the same time as I did and had been working at another job up until this point. Today she let me know that the nurse would be coming by the unit tomorrow and I’d get to meet her.

    Well, she showed up today, and as soon as I saw her, I recognized her! It’s an acquaintance I went to school with, recently married with a new last name, who is extremely friendly and who I always thought would be a really great nurse. This relieved a lot of my anxiety, because I am unsure of my ability to make a good first impression. Also, she is really easy to talk to. We’ve already had a phone conversation, which is crazy for me because I’m a chronic phone avoider.

    So the moral of the story is that I’m actually kind of excited about this now instead of nervous. I’m still not that experienced, but I know that the rest of our staff will help me whenever I need it.

  • Does This Mean I Need Another Vacation?

    Last night when I went to sleep at 8 p.m. David lay down in bed with me and took a nap. It was a nap because he could never ACTUALLY go to bed that early. Anyway, he decided to get up a couple of hours later, once I was already asleep. Apparently his movement stirred me halfway out of my dream, because I started talking to him. He thought I was completely awake.

    I wasn’t just babbling random words though, or so he tells me. I started clearly demanding that he give me all his prescriptions and medical records so that we could get him admitted to the hospital. Since I’m a nurse and he had been sleeping, he seriously thought that something was wrong with him. I was so insistent that he started to get really worried. 

    At this point I vaguely remember that I was trying extremely hard to convey something to him that seemed so obvious to me, and I didn’t know why he didn’t get it. Eventually he asked me if I was partly dreaming and I responded, “I thought you knew I was!” 

    When David reminded me this morning about what happened, I had no recollection of the events. He finished the story by telling me that I should try dreaming more about him than the hospital. My coworkers think this means that I need a vacation, and I tend to agree.

  • happy friday to me!

    I got up this morning, as usual, a little after 4 a.m. to get ready for work. As I was in the shower, I heard my phone ring. At first I thought it was my alarm, but no – I had turned that off. When I got out, I checked my messages and it was my unit calling me to say that they had too many nurses scheduled for the amount of patients on the floor, so would I like to take a day off?

    At first I was, of course, really excited about this. Then, for a split second, I thought, “Maybe I should say no, I want to work. After all, if I stay home I won’t get paid.” But that thought didn’t last long. Everyone will get called off at some point, so why shouldn’t today be my day? Yesterday was my scheduled day off, and I already got all my chores done then. And I discovered some really great sales at Banana Republic, which I would love to explore in greater detail.

    So here I sit at home, on my couch. I have already showered and played some Mario Galaxy. I am thinking of reading for awhile and then venturing out to do some shopping. What would you do with an unexpected day off like this?

  • silencing the enemy

    Psalm 8:2 – “…You have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger…”

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    For my mother’s birthday, which was yesterday, my brother and I gave her a gift that she’s been asking for since last year. We recorded a simple 6-song CD of worship songs for her. I sang, and my brother played guitar and sang a little. It was done in the course of an afternoon and evening in a makeshift studio in his roommate’s closet. When I listen to it now, I can think of a million things that we could do to make it sound better. But when I gave it to her yesterday and we started listening, her eyes filled with tears and she said that we couldn’t have done anything better for her. Even now that I’m grown, it’s still so nice to see evidence of my mother’s love and pride in me. I’m happy with the gift because she was.

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    Last night was the second week in Beth Moore’s newest Bible study. I felt blessed to attend with all the beautiful women in my family, minus my sister-in-law Kim, who was missed. What a wonderful experience to join hands with thousands of women as we prayed a powerful prayer for our new president. May our president know the fear of the Lord, and when he comes to a time of crisis and the whole nation is looking to him, may it be as the prophet Isaiah said: “Your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” (ch. 30 v. 21)

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    At home before I went to sleep, as my husband tucked me in, our girls Eddie and Cleo hopped up to join the fun. With the love of my life on one side of me, and our smiling puppies licking our faces, I couldn’t have been happier.

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    Praise God for the beautiful moments of life. Praise Him that as long as we praise, no matter how timidly, our enemy cannot open his mouth!