2010

I usually make a new year's resolution, and attempt it half-heartedly, so here goes mine for 2010! I didn't make one right away because i was trying to come up with a good one, but couldn't really think of anything. But i decided that i would try to maintain a clean house. I usually have a vicious cycle of cleaning the whole house all at once, then letting it get really messy and dirty and then clean it all at once again. What i would like to do, is keep a semi-cleaned house the whole time instead of letting it get as messy as i normally let it. I will attempt it, no promises, but at least i'm trying! (kind of =) ) But first i have to take my christmas decorations down...i hate this part...

Ramblings...

So i am going on my third day of house arrest...just kidding...i am resting because i was sick at the beginning of the week. Had a 24 hr bug in which i had a fever, body aches and chills and a headache. That is the shortest time i have ever been sick! Usually i get a really nasty head cold that lasts for about 2 weeks. Hopefully this will be my only winter cold and now i'm done. Even though i feel better i am taking it easy so i can go to work over the weekend. I had to go home early from work monday night because that is when my fever started. We are extremely busy at work and i can't afford to be sick, so i have been a couch potato these past few days. Which has been incredibly boring. Been watching tons of TV and movies. I watched the Ugly Truth (funny), my sister's keeper (sad), and monsters vs. aliens (cute movie). Plus endless amounts of reality television.

The fur-babies have been keeping us busy. I'm procrastinating getting Brea fixed, but i think i will finally get it done sometime in December.

I'm getting excited for the holidays. I work thanksgiving, but am off christmas and new years eve, yay! Have some holiday parties planned, but am just looking forward to decorating for christmas, which of course can only happen the day after thanksgiving =)

What's your favorite holiday tradition?

It's been a while...

since i updated my blog! I don't even know what's been happening since i updated last. No big events. Brea has gotten bigger and still not housetrained =( I've been working, playing and trying to enjoy the last few days of sunshine we have left. A few weeks ago i did go to seattle with my girlfriends to see my good friend sarah for her birthday. I had a blast, i always do with these girls. We don't get together often, but when we do, it's like old times!

And, i'm so excited, i'm going to san francisco in less than two weeks! I'm going for a neonatal conference and will be there for 5 days. I am going with two co-workers who i always have fun with, so we will have a blast I'm sure! Not quite sure what all we will be doing while we are there as far as sightseeing, but hopefully we can experience the whole city!

I'm also getting excited for the holidays coming up. They will be here before i know it!

Fight fight fight for Washington State...

Guess what time it is?! College football season!! Now i am not much of a sports fan, but i do have to say, i love me some college football and college basketball. Especially my beloved WSU. I know Cougar football hasn't been the greatest of teams lately, but i am still a die-hard fan, and i am going to think positive ; )
I went to a Cougar tailgate event last year and on the handouts they had this quote from Jim Walden, head football coach in the 70's and 80's.

"I can't define it; I can't tell somebody who isn't a Cougar what it's like.

There's something that happens at Washington State, you quietly and subtly become infected. There are very few people I've ever met who have gone to WSU and not come away with a favorable impression...Washington State was a passion. Being a Cougar is a passion."

Since I graduated from WSU in 2005 i've come across a lot of people who hate on the Cougs and bash them when they are having a bad season. I wish i could give them this quote, because you really can't explain it to someone who's never gone to school there.

So needless to say, I am excited to go to Cougs vs. Stanford tomorrow! Other then a game in November, this is the only game i could attend due to my work schedule since i work every other weekend. However, my husband just informed me that WSU is having a swine flu outbreak!!! Now it did cross my mind for a split second to run to work and grab some face masks, but i held back. I don't want to look like an idiot =)

Who is your favorite college sports team?

Go Cougs!!

Scentsy fanatic

I don't know if many of you have heard of scentsy, but i am a total fan! It is a wickless candle so you can have a great smelling house without worrying about setting your house on fire! You put the cubes in the warmer and it slowly melts them. It gets warm but never hot so you can put your finger in it and not get burned. I first saw these years ago at a home and garden show and have used them since. I don't use candles anymore (but i do have them up for decor). I have three warmers around the house and a plug in in a bathrooom. They also have ones for cars (which of course i have!). They have many many scents to choose from and they last quite a while. I highly recommend them if you can't tell =)

I am up early this morning and hoping to get a nap in before i work tonight. Justin is out of town for the weekend and his brother is coming to house/dogsit while im at work. Brea just had her final shots so she can finally go for walks now, yay! We took her for her first walk yesterday and it was funny, i should have taken pictures. She did pretty good for her first time. She had to run though to catch up with Chase's slow walk. By the time we were done she was panting and tired! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Low-key weekend

Had a good, weekend, got a lot done. I feel a lot better, no more pain from surgery so i was happy to be able to do the things i used to do. We got the house cleaned up since it was long overdue! The exciting thing is that we got our new couch!! I did not like our old couch and since i spend a decent amount of time on it =), i decided to get a new one. My dad liked my old one so he ended up buying our old one. I was scared when we bought it because it was big. Our living room is a weird shape, and small, so there wasn't much space or many options of how to set it up. But luckily it fit better than i thought it would. And it's so comfy!!! There isn't any room to put much else in the living room but that is OK by me.

We also made a grocery run which was also very much needed. I studied and did an online test for NRP, TRIED to teach Brea some new tricks, and started my wedding album. A very productive weekend if i do say so myself.

Next week is the fair and i'm excited! I just like walking around and eating the fair food =)

A whole bunch of...nothing

Today I am actually starting to feel like my old self again. The first few days after surgery were really tough. I was fine as long as i wasn't moving positions, but moving hurt so bad! I really underestimated the gas pains i would be feeling. I know the doctor warned me, and said "everyone experiences them differently" but i thought i would be A Ok in a few days. Wrong! Up until today, it hurt to take deep breaths, so i was always shallow breathing when i wasn't lying down. Now, me being a nurse, i knew the importance of walking, and taking deep breaths. But actually trying to do it is a whole different story!

So yesterday before the weekend hit, i called my doc's office just to see if he could tell me around how long these pains would last. He wasn't in the office, but the nurse took my questions to another doctor, who in return seemed concerned about the pains i was having in my chest and wanted to see me. The people who know me can guess what i was thinking "do i have a pulmonary embolism?!" But after seeing me, the doctor didn't seem concerned. He examined my abdomen because he said he was concerned about abdominal perforation. He said my abdomen checked out fine and the pains i was having everywhere else was just the gas pains to be expected. He reassured me that everyone is different in how long they absorb all the gas bubbles, and said i probably was just absorbing them slowly.

It was also a viscious cycle because i would take my heavy pain meds for the pain, but they would knock me out so much that all i did was sleep and wasn't up walking. So today i only took ibuprofen, and even though it doesn't completely take the pain away, at least i am up walking.

That was probably more info than anyone wanted to hear, but i am just resting now and have watched everything possible on tv and the dogs are sleeping and justin is running errands, so this is all i have left to do =)

So i'm giving my body a week's worth of rest, and hopefully by next week i will be as good as new! Believe me, it was hard calling in sick to work this weekend, but in the end, my health is worth it.

Above are the beautiful flowers my hubby got me to cheer me up, please excuse the barf bag sitting next to it! He also got me a trip to vegas, but that is a whole 'nother story in itself =)

And what post would be complete without a pic of brea. Here she is resting with me. She looks like she is in a desperate need of a brushing, but everytime i brush her, five minutes later she looks like this again!

Oh, and these most recent pics were taken with my iphone! Who knew the quality of the pictures wasn't half bad?!