Last friday in August

So I have run out of things to blog about. I haven't however run out of boxes to unpack...lately my unpacking days have consisted of me staring at the boxes and just pretending they don't exist...I lived without the contents of those boxes for a few years, so do I really need everything that is inside of them now? So I mostly just sit in the middle of the floor, staring at boxes wondering what do I do with them? I have been rather unmovitated to unpack this last week.

I took my CPR-HCP yesterday. It was quite possibly the longest day of my life but don't worry if anything should happen to you, I am qualified to use an AED. So we got to play with the practice ones and shock our dummies who were our patients, it was fun. Though no real electricity actually ran through the lines of the diffibrilators unfortunately. So its not like the dummies jumped or anything. The machines just told us the shocks had been delievered. So we breezed through the day and it wasn't so bad, I didn't know any of the girls who took it with me either, so it was a long day.

So I officially have 5 more days of summer until school is back in....how should I spend my last 5 days of summer? I just don't know.

The blog vs. facebook addicts.

So it seems lately that I am the only one who updates their blog....almost everyday....but I check blogs quite often and I think I have figured out why people don't blog as much as they use to. It is because of facebook. Everyone is on facebook and blogs are becoming the way of the past, some might say old technology to keep up to date with people's lives. I enjoy reading other people's blogs but my biggest pet peeve (as far as internet related) is that people tell you they got a blog and then don't update it often.

So to let people know....who aren't on facebook....what you can do on facebook, let me tell you. You can find almost anyone you knew from way back in the first grade at school. Or you can find people who you went to school with or graduated with. You can find people you work with, people you went to post-secondary with or you can find your friends. I even found extended family members on facebook and as well some of my friends parent's on facebook.

You can keep in touch via the wall, the super wall, the poke, or the messaging (which is just like email). You can draw graffiti if they have a graffiti wall, you can send post-it-notes to your friends. You can play with magnetic poetry if they have that on their wall. You can send people fish, flowers, or plants. You can send free gifts, you can send gifts you have to buy for a $1.00 a piece. You can participate in many activities such as food fights, pets, pirates, zombies, poker, etc. You can join clubs that range from everything like what it was like to be a child in the 80's or to help your friends achieve some kind of internet stardom or celebrity or you can join just nonsense clubs.

You can do quiz's that will leave links on your note page, you can write notes about random stuff...kind of like a blog.. You can hug people, or if you choose to you can hit people....you can Instant message on facebook now. You can create photo albums to share with your friends and you can have as many pictures as you would like. You can even post videos. You can rate your friends and have top friends lists. You can write in their honesty boxes about how you really feel about them. You can tell people how you are feeling that day. You can even have a human pet! You can ask people questions and they can answer, you can tell people what kind of mood you are in. You can support causes, you can countdown to important events. You can tell your friends what you like, you can tell them all the places you've visited.

I mean look at all the stuff you can do on facebook.....it's outrageous. It's like it's own little world over there. So now I understand fully why people waste so much time on facebook instead of blogging. But to my loyal blog readers, I will continue to blog because I like to write and I haven't figured out how to write on facebook using the "note" application yet. So until that day comes, my blog will flourish and grow.
p.s.->I am in no way promoting facebook by the writing of this blog.... :)

A Joke for today :)

A little funny for you all. I heard this one at the womens conference that we went to two weekends ago.

"Why do married women gain weight while single women don't? A single women goes to the refrigerator, sees nothing that she wants, and goes to bed. A married women goes to bed, sees nothing she wants, and goes to the refrigerator."

Sorry I couldn't resist....it was pretty funny...

Thought for today...

So I was sitting here last night with quite possibly the greatest thing to blog about but last night I was too tired, so I didn't stay up late and instead decided to get as much sleep as possible because I was wiped.
Then the idea for my blog came back to me this morning and I said first thing I am going to do when I get home is blog about it....well I forgot what was so important in the first place, so you'll just have to make due with this little rant for now until I remember what I wanted to blog about.

Unpacking, packing, looking at the boxes...

So this is what I have been looking at in the garage for the last two weeks approximately. Boxes! And not just one or two or three or four boxes but probably close to at least 70 boxes. I packed away the contents of my life into boxes thinking it would not be hard to unpack them. Honestly I have probably unpacked twenty boxes already and put them away into the house but now I am faced with this mammoth pile of boxes stacked almost to the ceiling in the garage and I have no desire to unpack them.

I am just not sure why I feel this way. I find the boxes to be more of a hinderance in my life than a step towards positive change. I just want the boxes to disappear or I am willing to sell the contents of the boxes for a sum...but it would be a blind auction! heehee. Plus when you are moving with kids, they seem to be the reason that there are so many boxes. I do not think my kids could have enough toys! Every box has at least has some kind of toy inside of it or the box is filled with toys.

I just am a little disappointed or discourged may be a better word with unpacking. But one box at a time right? I have a long way before we are unpacked and ready to make the move complete.

This summer I injured myself...

So you might be looking at this picture of my knee wondering what on earth I did to deserve such a pretty gross looking bruise on my knee....yes it is my knee....I actaully ate at Subway Restaurant where I was rewarded with this shiner! I am not going to sue....don't worry, it has long faded away and returned to my normal skin tones. But the story is that dad, mom and I were going to have a healthy and nutritious subway lunch. I enjoy sneaking away and having lunch with them. Anyways my mom asked me to go get her a bottle of water out of the cooler around the corner. So being the nice daughter that I am, I obliged and began my journey to the pop cooler. I had no sooner rounded the corner when both feet went out from under me and I ended up flat on my bottom sitting in a huge puddle of water that I had not noticed prior to the accident.. An elderly woman and her husband tried to console me and make sure I was alright. It took a few minutes for my dad to clue in that I was indeed injured to which he made sure everyone in subway saw that I was hurt. So I stood up, hobbled to the table in pain, crying not because I was hurt, but because the seat of my pants was completely wet and it looked like I had wet myself.
So my mom was still ordering and had no clue what happened and then my dad rushed to the bathroom, got me a good size stack of paper towels and told me I could sit on them, they would absorb some of the water from my pants. So instead of this picturesque (sp?) lunch with the folks, I had to sit on a stack of paper towel with a wet bottom through the lunch and then my parents and the elderly people wanted to ensure I wasn't hurt. So I rolled up my pant leg and to my dismay there was a huge welt! It looked like someone had taken a baseball bat to my knee. (it looked worse than the picture, the picture was taken two days later!)...So the employees at subway mopped up the mess and a puddle formed again and I voiced my concern for the elderly who might slip and break a hip in the puddle. Working in the health care field on the orthopedic floor, I do see too many broken hips! They said the manager was aware of the leak.
So a few days after the incident, my parents got a free lunch at subway...I am still waiting for my free lunch that I was told I would recieve if I came in when the manager was there....I haven't been back to subway since the accident.

So this is proof that people do get hurt...yes I was attacked by a box! And as you can tell the box won. I was retrieving the last of my boxes from the warehouse. I had joked with one of the employees that my boxes weren't heavy and that I would manage. The first two were lighter than a feather (maybe they were empty...I don't know!). By the time I reached for the third box it was heavier than a box full of stones. I didn't have a good grip on it, and it fell on top of my hand resulting in an ugly gash...trust me it looks worse than the picture! So needless to say I felt stupid and it was bleeding. I got into the Durango, drove to the front of the building to complain to my younger brother, who in turn replied with "did you get all your stuff out?"....did he ask why my hand was bleeding or hurt? No, he just wanted to ensure all my stuff was gone. I did tell him the box attacked me though, but he didn't seem to concern...maybe it happens more often in the warehouse than I am aware...

So those are my war wounds from the summer...hopefully with two weeks left of summer, there will not be anymore...we'll see.

Updating August

It is hard to believe that August is nearly half done. I am in disbelief because in half a month it is back to the grind with school. But I just have to keep in the back of my mind that I only have one year left. One more year and I get my diploma. That is exciting, I am a well educated person actually with two other certificates. So I am excited to be obtaining my third. In less than a year I will be convocating with my classmates with which some have turned into good friends and I will miss them when we no longer have to attend classes together or have lunch every day together in a food court which does not serve healthy or edible food sometimes...heehee (sorry just had to throw that in there!!!)

But I am glad that I can enter the workforce, though I do not know anymore whether I want to work in the hospital or if I would rather work in a doctors clinic with regular 9a.m.-5p.m. hours. I have been thinking a lot about the shift work and am not sure I am best suited for that type of work. Well I have 8 months to the end of school to figure out where I think I would like to work or what I would like to do with my diploma.

But before I obtain another degree of knowledge, we are in the process of moving. It is a long drawn out process and thankfully I know how to pack up a car (not as pictured...). Today we moved the furniture, that I think in moving is always the most exciting part of the move. It is when you see your furniture in the house that it becomes real. I did however get to open a few boxes with a few new residents in them...(spiders!!!) I hate spiders and shut the boxes right away, I think I might just take the garden hose to everything in the container, give it a good soaking.

Well I have time to open them yet, we are not quite moving in because there are no appliances in the house yet. So we will just continue to enjoy summer and move at our leisure and then make the big move once everything is settled in and in it's proper place.

So until next time fellow bloggers or blog readers, I hope summer is filled with fun and laughter for you.

~The pool~

So today we decided it would be a good day to spend a bit of time in the sun outside. Not to much time because it was getting close to +37 outside. So I figured the best way would be for the kiddo's to spend sometime splashing around in their pool or going down the slip and slide.

We got on our sunscreen, and were already to go outside when we noticed we were missing something. The slip and slide was no where to be found, so I resorted to choice number two which was a small pool which sprays water out of the sides of the pool. I like this pool since you do not have to inflate it, but I do not like it just for the fact that you have to keep the tap running and the hose connected to the pool and when the pool is full, it just keeps overflowing, giving the grass more than enough water. A drowning if you can call it that. Well it was just my luck that I could not find this pool either. Mack had remembered that she had seen the yellow inflatable pool in the garage, so me and her strode out to the garage only to discover she was wrong and did not actually see it in there.

So we went back into the house, and into the closet in the pool room and discovered the yellow inflatable pool! It was exciting, and Mack was ready to jump in and splash around. The only problem was that the pool was not inflated and required the help of the aircompressor to inflate it. So we went on a little hunt to find the aircompressor and well we couldn't find it. So I sat down on the bottom step of the staircase and began to inflate it. By the time I was done with the first ring, I was right about to pass out. So I took a short break and went onto inflate the second ring. I got it to the point where I figured it was ok and it would hold enough water. So we went outside and I hadn't even filled it when Mack jumped in and was waiting for the water to come.

Needless to say the pool got inflated, the pool got filled, the little slide was put on the edge and the kids were able to have a half hour of fun!

I will never inflate an inflatable pool again without an aircompressor!

My Summer book.

So my goal for the end of summer is to finish reading the new Harry Potter book....I haven't finished it, so if you know what happens....please don't spoil it for the rest of us...I am beginning to believe that J.K. Rowling really didn't kill two main characters in the book. She just needed to build hype, so people would buy her last Harry Potter book. I mean I had gotten as far as Dobby the house elf dying....I loved that little guy in the movie...he wasn't scary, but a kind little creature. But the author may suprise me in the end. I don't know!

So here I sit at page 485 of 600 pages, too tired to read anymore. It is my goal to finish this book and tell you what really happened to Harry Potter in the end of the book.....we'll see!
So until that happens, I will continue to enjoy my summer...I will make it through the thick reading.