The real Story

So the real story behind the "Zellers" Saga is as follows. Ashley, her mom, my mom and I were wandering around the linen & bedding department at Zellers when all the suddenly Ashley's mom got a phone call. She said "Kristie, please watch Ashley, she has a tendency to wander off." I told her that I would do my best to keep tabs on the whereabout's of Ashley. I was following my mom around while she looked for her duvet cover and kept having to tell Ashley to keep up because she was stopping, looking and touching everything!!! Telling me how soft the pillows were and which bedding really felt like it had way to much starch put into it before it was packaged. Well I kept a close eye on her, almost too close then soon we were seperated from my mom. Ashley began to freak out and run around the store screaming that she was lost, now you think in the commotion, my mom would have found us. But instead I had to chase Ashley around the store hopelessly trying to catch her and calm her down. Pretty soon we ended up at the 'lost property office'...(see picture above). I told the man at the desk that it would be nice of him to please page my mom to the office to reunite us. Instead the man, deciding we were playing a practical joke on him said this "would the mother of the two twenty-something daughters, please come claim them"...."They really should not be left unattended!"

So that is how the weekend shopping trip to Zellers really went...

Tuesdays Ponderings

So today I started school again...I have two three hour classes per week for 6 weeks. It would be a lot of fun except it is Psychology. That perhaps is the most boring, uninteresting class that I could ever think of taking but since I need it for graduation, I have no choice but to pass the class so that I can get the credits. I had considered taking psychology before as a major...so glad I didn't!!! I really wouldn't have lasted long.

The weekend was really nice to get away and I am contemplating attempting to escape the city again to go somewhere...this far the plan is on hold because I am in school right now and I have a part-time job at the hospital as a clerk, when I can get the work. I have realized that after having worked so hard last semester and with everything else that happened to help make my life incredibly hectic and crazy, that I just need time away. I will travel this summer, just not sure where I want to go yet.

Today it reached an amazing +30degree's outside. Oh so nice except being stuck inside half the day plus the sky looked kind of funny all morning like it was going to rain. The sky really only cleared up at around 2 this afternoon when the sun actually began to shine outside.

Well I am going to go watch Catch and Release...I have no idea if it is actually a good movie or not. We'll see I suppose.

A discovery while away for the day.

So today me and my mom decided to take the day and relax because I felt it necessary to take a little vacation and get my mind of everything and just have fun. I feel like I haven't had fun in awhile. So we took the day and went into Calgary to do some shopping. And by the way the Gap now sells Converse shoes! I was shocked because they are the most comfortable shoes ever and I wear mine every single day and own like five pairs!! But while in the kids gap we saw they had little converse shoes from size 1 all the way to adult sizes! They were too cute!

So we met up with Ashley and we discovered something very unique in the city of Calgary. A one stop wedding strip mall. First they had a bridal shop for the bride and a Tux shop for the groom...must haves for any wedding. Then next door was a hair salon, and a beach wear store. Then there was a travel agent. I mean how convienent when planning your wedding is that? The only thing missing was a caterer, florist and photographer and they would have been set. It was pretty funny, we had a good laugh.

So spending the day with Ashley was quite the adventure. We went to the malls, we hit Ikea and had lunch together with our moms. Then it was time to take ashley home. Now normally this should only take like twenty minutes but we decided to take Country Hills Boulevard to her house in the NW. The trip from Ikea to her house took a whole 53 minutes! Almost an hour...yes we had fun complaining about the traffic and seeing part of the north Calgary I had never seen before and parts I had seen many times before having lived there.

It was a fun day and I have harrassed Ashley to update her blog too. But with the whole facebook craze, who has time to blog anymore...heehee

Well as much as I would love to be sitting on a beach somewhere this summer, It looks like I may have to settle for a smaller trip somewhere closer to home in the time I have off between work and school which starts again for me on tuesday. I am taking an introduction to psychology class.....should be interesting.

Well I am tired, so I am off to bed!

Exams are done!

The anatomy of the pogo stick....actually that is not what this post is about....yes bloggers I am back and sooo ready for summer. I couldn't find a decent picture of a hula hoop which is really what I wanted to post about, so the pogo stick will have to do.

I am finally done my exams and it is time for summer. I had six exams and soo much stress that finally I can just relax and enjoy my time away from my huge nursing text-books. They are all going to get piled into a corner somewhere to be forgotten about until September when I may or may not need them again. I don't get my grades back until May, so we'll see. So far across the boards I have a good grade point average....we'll see if it continues.

My summer should be pretty non-eventful or so I hope. I do plan on having some fun and enjoying my time instead of slaving away my life for the needs of everyone else around me. I am going to take time for me and my kids and actually enjoy my summer for a change.

I guess you could say after having had a few "Rough" weeks, I deserve some sort of vacation or time off to enjoy life for a change instead of worrying about what is going on.

So aside from that I haven't got much to say right now. I am tired and I have discovered the new t.v. show "Thank God your here"....it's amusing really and quite funny at some points during the show.

So until next time, don't eat sand.

Sorry to all my loyal blogger readers but until exams are done and other things are out of the way. I won't be posting any blogs. Check back at a future date...see you all later.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to my older wiser brother. Hopefully you have a great day and don't feel too old! Thanks for being an awesome brother!

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, tomorrow...hmmm

So do you ever feel unsure like the weekend or last week has gone to waste? Yes I feel like the person in the picture above. I was sick for five long days with the flu and it honestly was probably the worst five days of my life. Unable to eat, move, sleep and now best friends with the porcelin bowl. So not fun, I can't even eat now because my stomache does not know what food is anymore. So I will begin reintroducing my stomache to the foods I enjoyed before. I introduced a sandwich yesterday which made my stomache turn all night long. I tried again today and we have had success, my stomache aches but does not throb like last night. The sprite slurpee's are still the best medicine for a stomache ache but come on you can't survive eating all that sugar.

That should explain my absence from the blogging world over the last few days. Too sick to blog.
Anyways I bought the new Good Charlotte C.d. and honestly it isn't that bad, the only track that I listen to is track number two because it's basically the only good song on the whole c.d. (sorry to any good charlotte fans out there.)

What else is new? Well I am blogging instead of churning out my ten page medication paper for pharmacology that is due on thursday, I can't think straight. I guess I am too distracted. I can't write it for the next three days because clinical is really heavy too. They punish us by making us do more work than we should. We are all burned out and tired and yes in four short weeks this semester will come to a conclusion and we will enjoy four long months off. So instead of getting to burned out I am skipping the optional extra activities scheduled. I am going to miss the visit to the foothills cadaver lab ( i was looking forward to it) and I will miss out on the CLPNA conference in Calgary for two days instead I will enjoy two days off of school and lot's of SLEEP!!! yay for me. So you weigh the pro's and cons and honestly I would rather not exhaust myself anymore than I already have.

Well I will blog again when I don't have exams or ten page papers due. Off to conquer my med paper, hopefully this has cheered your reading minds up and made you laugh at how tired I really am!!!