Seven

Elizabeth tagged me to do a "reveal 7 random things" about me and my life. Yay, something to blog about, I've been having a hard time finding blogging inspiration lately. I'm not sure I have 7 things going on right now but let see....

1. My bathrooms look institutional. We went to Calgary this weekend and bought new energy efficient, daylight light bulbs and they're so bright it looks like you're in an interrogation room or a mental hospital. The bright light against the light green walls, definately looks institutional but we're saving the world one light bulb at a time.

2. I wish I could spend more time with my "calgary friends" A bunch of us all got together for dinner for Allison's birthday on Saturday night. I was so great to see them again.

3. We need a good cat repellant. Hobo insists on torturing the birds and we havn't been able to find a way to keep him off the window ledge for good. He sits on the ledge and stares into the bird cage. He's knocked the cage over a few times until we got smart and anchored the cage to the ledge with pins and paper clips. He's terrified plastic bags, long story but he had a bad experience with a plastic bag, so we've got plastic bags lined up on the ledge so if he jumps up there he'll freak out. Anyone have any other suggestions??

4. I'm not a florist but I think it will be ok. I found some vases for our centerpieces at the reception and we bought some flowers to do a trial run. I think they'll be ok. I want to be able to do them myself since it would cost a fortune to have a florist do them and we don't want anything fancy just a simple arrangemnt. I think they'll be ok so now I have to go back to Calgary and find 23 more of them.

5. I'd really like to start a herb garden on my patio but I have no idea how to do it or even where to start. I don't have much of a green thumb and all our indoor plants are clinging to life. Should I start them from seeds or transplant plants into a large planter. I think herbs are pretty hardy so they might be able to survive my gardening skills...maybe.

6. I'm getting married in 4 months and 1 day!!!!!! The past two months have just disappeared so quickly. I keep having dreams that the wedding is tomorrow and nothing has been done or the photographer doesn't show up or we invited too many people for the reception space or I forgot to book an appointment to have my hair done..... We've got everything under control and I think we're doing pretty well with planning and staying on budget. We're just ready for the day to come!

7. I'm playing housewife today. I have a long list of laundry, cleaning and organizing to do but I'm not complaining because I actually enjoy doing it. I'd better get started.......

Sunny day!

It's hot out and it's only 10am. I'm sitting out on the patio drinking my latte in shorts and a tank top and I think I'm getting a sun burn. I was hoping to go out for a bike ride this morning but I don't have any sunglasses and it's too sunny to go without. I have a pair in Travis's truck and the other pair I think is at Sue's but they went missing last Friday. I'm going to be too busy around the house today anyways. Niki arrives tomorrow for a fun filled, busy, busy, busy weekend of wedding planning. I'm super excited to see her and get some stuff accomplished. I have to make some lists of all the stuff I want to get done this weekend and where we need to go in Calgary on Saturday. Have a safe May Long!

It's 1:45am

It's time like these where I really start to rethink my career choice. It's 1:45am and I'm working in emerg on a Saturday night and I'm playing around on the computer. I guess the only thing I can complain about is the fact that it's the middle of the night and I should be sleeping like most normal people because other than that it's been a pretty decent shift. Although right now I'm nothing more than a glorified babysitter. I've got a drunk guy here sleeping it off, a lady with a cough who's ride left her here so she's spending the night and a young girl who I think is a big faker and just needs some attention. Is this really what I went to nursing school for?? In the last hour I've had the priveledge of witnessing the drunk playing around with his hands down his pants. Awesome. At least he hasn't peed all over the bed yet, as the drunks usually do, but then he's been drinking for almost 3 weeks straight so he shouldn't have to pee till next Thursday he's probably so dehydrated. Maybe I should go work at Starbucks where it would be totally unacceptable, and probably a sure fire way to get arrested, for their customers to have their hands down their pants. Why is it acceptable at my workplace for my "customers" to act inappropriately? Why should I have to be a witness to that? It's so not fair and I'm soooo not getting paid enough to put up with it. I'm really starting to lose my patience with my patients especially for people with self-induced illnesses. I just don't get why people continue to make unhealthy choices and have an unhealthy lifestyle when they know that it is the cause of their pain. If you had gallstones and had been told to avoid fatty foods because it would give you excruciating abdominal pain would you go out and eat a bucket of KFC? People do it and why is that? are they looking for attention? or are they so unwilling to change their Saturday-night-bucket-of-KFC routine? or do they just not care about themselves? or maybe they just need to practice a little self discipline and will power to resist temptation. Right in front of me I am witnessing the decline of the human race. What's wrong with people? People come in when they're sick and we patch them up only to send them go home again to eat their bucket of KFC and when they come back the next day we're there to take care of them again. I guess the only thing keeping me going are the people who actually need help and are grateful for everything we do for them. I'm going to go give my drunk, sleeping beauty some mouthwash. If it doesn't make him feel better at least I'll be able to tolerate getting within 5 feet of him.

Whoops!

I mean it's been a month TODAY since we got engaged. I thought yesterday was the 5th. I'm working nights, my days are all screwed up. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ;0)

A month already??

We've been engaged for a month today. Wow, that flew by. I hope the next 5 months fly by too, but not too quickly cause we still have a lot to do before the wedding. I have got a lot done in the last month though. I ordered my dress and the bridesmaid dresses, ordered invitations, we started our registry, booked the cake baker, DJ, photographer, reception and ceremony sites....I think that's it. Our invitations should be arriving in the mail next week so today I'm going to be making the information cards to go inside of them. I'm working nights all weekend and Travis is in a course all weekend so we'll be meeting as one comes in the door and the other is going out.