Argh...

This weekend was a rough one. I had to work and thanks to the blizzard on Christmas Eve (Thursday) not many people could get to work. This meant we were severely short staffed. Some nurses had worked 20 hour shifts, sleeping at the hospital because they were stranded and the ones that were supposed to come in couldn't get out of their driveways, much less drive there. When I got there Saturday morning I was greeted by some grim faces and told that I would be 1 of only 2 NA's that shift. There are usually 4 of us. That meant I had double the patient load... yipee.
Mind you, this was only my 2nd day post training, without my trainer. My first had been earlier that week and horrendous, but that's another story.

Anyway, the patients were also cranky, since I'm sure spending Christmas in the hospital is no fun... especially when there is a nursing staff shortage and they probably had to wait forever for everything. On Sunday afternoon, there was one particularly disturbing occurrence that had me wanting to choke myself with the nearest nasal cannula. I went into the room of a patient to answer his call light for the umpteenth time. (He was one of those patients, you know?) The following conversation ensued-

Patient: Blah blah blah... are you married?
Me: Yes sir, I am.
Patient: How many kids do you have?
Me: None, sir.
Patient: None? How old are you?
Me: I'll be 29 in a few weeks. (At this point I steeled myself for the lecture I knew I was about to receive from this 80+ year old man)
Patient: Well you're almost 30! Don't you want any children?
Me: Yes sir, I do.
Patient: You better get a move on then... Don't you think it's about time?!?!
Me: (Trying hard to not betray the boiling fury bubbling up in my head) Some day *fake smile*
Patient: Well, doesn't your mom want any grandkids? I bet she does.
Me: Oh, she has plenty to keep her busy, sir. Three and another one on the way.
Patient: Hmph... well, you're not getting any younger, you know!
Me: *Fake smile and nod*

It's been a while since I last had that outright of a rebuking for my childlessness from a complete stranger. Of course he had no idea... nor was I about to tell him of our struggles as it was none of his business... It just sucked and made my already bad weekend even worse. I'm proud of myself for not flipping out as I was already teetering on the verge from the stress of the workday and being sick with a nasty stomach bug.

Go me :)

White(out) Christmas

It's 25* outside right now and we are currently under a Blizzard Warning, woohoo! They've been forecasting this huge storm for days and it started off with us just getting a "trace" of snow. Obviously that has changed. It's been freezing rain/sleeting since the wee hours of the morning and will soon be transitioning to all snow here shortly. We have a few inches of ice/sleet already and are expected to get about 6-8 more in snow by mid afternoon. Then a hard freeze is setting in and tomorrow we'll probably all be buried under one big chunk of ice. How lovely ;)

Due to this turn in meteorological events, we're packing up our dogs and hauling everything over to Ben's parent's house. I'm cooking the turkey and while dinner is not until 6, we thought it wise to head over early and cook it there before the storm gets too out of control. We'll probably end up staying the night since we'd have to drive all the way back tomorrow morning for presents anyway. Nate & Tiff were kind enough to let us borrow their Xterra, so we're good to go!

Hopefully if my camera cooperates I'll have some pretty pictures to post tomorrow! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas. Stay warm!

Edited to add: We got 14" of snow! The wind was gusting at 50-60mph most of the time so we ended up with some awesome 2-3 foot drifts as well. Apparently this broke all sorts of records for Oklahoma which up until now has never gotten this much snow EVER. So yeah, it's no Utah by any stretch of the imagination, but it was still very pretty nevertheless!

6 Wonderful Years!

Six years ago I married my sweetheart! Can it really have been that long ago? Time sure does fly when you're having fun! Much has happened during this time, some good, some bad... but mostly good! I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful hubby that is so loving and supportive and still makes me laugh, blush, and get that twitterpated flutter in my tummy ;) Someday he will be the greatest Dad too, I just know it. I still can't believe I get to keep him forever!

Love you babe!!! MUAH! ;)

Veni, Vidi, Vici !!!

I kept my 4.0 this semester WOOHOO!!! I was actually kind of worried with that dumb PoliSci class that has been the thorn in my side this semester. If anything was going to mess up my lovely 4.0 it was going to be that stinking class... but I ended up with a 93.95% overall avg so that's an "A" baby! Not my best work, but I'll take it this time. Haven't gotten my final grade for A&P yet, but I know it's an A since the lowest grade I've gotten on any test this semester was a 97% I think... So all is good. :)

Now next semester... ugh, Chemistry is going to eat me for lunch and spit me back out. Then it's going to grind me into the ground with its shoe and scrape me off into the nearest trashcan... At least Developmental Psych should be cake. :)

Noteboks are for notes, not for kissing

I usually can't stand SNL, but this past week Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) hosted it and I was sure something Twilight oriented was bound to be on there. It was and it was pretty funny. His opening monologue wasn't 1/2 bad either, but this is my favorite skit! Check out what's on the board, I love it! :)