Happy Valentine's Day!

Just when I think there's no hope for my husband's romantic side he goes and does this......

I was off work on Friday so when the hospital supervisor called Friday night to beg me to work that night from 11pm to 7am Saturday morning I gave in and said yes. An occasional night doesn't bother me, I've always been kind of a night owl anyway, and I really like the night staff of nurses. So as my hubby was leaving the hospital finally at 11pm I was coming in. The night shift was okay, busy and steady but not hectic. So there I am at 7:15 the next morning knee deep in report and my wonderful husband walks into the conference room among all the nurses and hands me a large skinny vanilla latte from Starbucks, wishes me a Happy Valentines Day, and walks out---and if you can picture this---all the nurses going "Awwww". Now, who was he scoring points with??? Me or all the nurses??? ;0)

I really wanted to go home and sleep but my best friend was coming home from the hospital so I put a turkey breast in the crockpot, mashed potatoes with cream cheese in the crockpot, whipped up a batch of my mom's homemade Arkansas stuffing and went to work on homemade brownies (one of my sister's wonderful recipes). Mid-afternoon the doorbell rang which immediately sends my dog into a barking frenzy and it's a flower delivery! For Me! From darling husband!

Needless to say he really scored points this weekend. If he only knew that he could have stopped at the latte-because I know what it took for him to walk through a room of unforgiving, gossiping nurses and wish me a happy valentines!

Love you Honey...

Janet

A Nice Update....

Just saw my best friend at the hospital tonight and she is doing wonderfully. I can't tell you what a relief it was to see she actually looked herself just a little rough around the edges. And in need of a good shampoo but most of us can't go a day without one!

Gee, she made it to her room about 7:30pm after surgery and at 2am this morning they had her sitting on the side of the bed and by 8am had her in a chair. Guess I'm not the only mean nurse out there! Don't you know they teach us that in nursing school, just like they teach doctors to write illegibly!

So glad you're feeling better, can't wait to hear about your excursion in the hallway tomorrow! I guess you were definately determined this time because Friday looks like a really good day to come home.

Janet

Lazy Sunday...

To Do List:
*Pay bills
*Fold laundry
*Make dinner
*Shake rugs and wash the kitchen floor
*Iron scrubs for work this week
*Clean the downstairs bathroom
*For that matter clean my own bathroom

So what am I doing instead? Surfing the web, drinking my 3rd cup of coffee, reading the Trib, and putting off everything else!

65 degrees here yesterday! It was 7 on Tuesday. What is up with that??? No sunshine today so it's kind of depressing.

My friend has surgery tomorrow so that's really all that's on my mind today. I think it hit her Friday that this was really going to happen. Tomorrow will be a long day for all involved. I don't envy her husband having to sit around pretty much all day and wait. Love you T-my prayers are with you.

Here's hoping for an early spring-yesterday was a teaser. I really don't care if the groundhog saw his shadow this week. If he'd been diligent on his diet and exercise it would be sunny and warm again today ;0)

Happy New Year & welcome to my blog...

My Recurrent New Year's Resolutions:
1. Lose weight
2. Be more organized

My 2009 New Year's Resolutions Revamped:
1. Eat smart and exercise regularly to achieve a healthy weight
2. Slowly and thoroughly declutter closet by closet and drawer by drawer
3. Put myself first more often


I spent New Year's Eve with Brian and wonderful friends and rang in the new year. January 1st I pinned my hopes on 2009. I hope this will be the year I actually achieve my resolutions. I hope this will be the year my children realize their true passion in life. I hope this will be the year Brian and I can take a week and relax and enjoy being together. I hope this will be the year I can take advantage of all life has to offer and share it with my husband, family, and good friends. Wow, those are really high expectations I know.

It's the middle of January and I'm already struggling. I miss my daughter who's back at school already and enjoying the frigid temperatures in northwestern Wisconsin. I'm sad at the thought that my son leaves Sunday for a new dorm, a new roommate, and a new semester. Work has been difficult-my patients and their families seem unhappy in general. And my best friend is facing an uphill battle against a serious medical problem.

Hmm, I'm not sure where this year is leading me. So I'm trying to embrace the good things: my daughter is happy and content; my son seems excited; I still love what I do for a living; and my best friend has a wonderful husband and children and me.

Life is what we make of it...

Janet

So we learned a few things at our Christmas celebration this weekend: Caitlin's sense of direction is a little bit better than it used to be, she is also obsessed with iFart; Ben is quite adept with connectagons, and loves to tell jokes about bears and rabbits and shit oh my; Brian and David still act like little children and wrote condoms on their sister's grocery list; and I'm not too good at blogging-4 people are assisting me with this post and we're still struggling!

Happy 2009 to everyone. We finally get to celebrate with my parents, and sister's family tomorrow. The several inches of snow we got today helped getting everyone in the holiday mood again.

Happy New Year!

Janet

Bear with me....

So my sister has given me a virtual gift for Christmas.....a blog. Somehow I think she's missed the fact that she's the creative one, not me. I'm the one that loves to sew and quilt but absolutely needs a pattern, I can't pick paint colors for a room without stewing over it for days and weeks and then I usually end up calling her anyway for her opinion, I have windows in my house that have no curtains because I can't decide, I have a facebook page and must rely on my daughter to post pictures for me because I don't know how, and finally my husband gave me an iPhone for Christmas and has probably already lost his patience with me because I have no idea what to do about changing ring tones, adding wallpaper, syncing contact lists, and setting up passwords.

HELP !!!!!!!!

Hmmm, okay so bear with me since I know that my sister, parents, daughter, and son will keep up with this blog. Not my husband so much unless I make lots of comments about him ;)

I will do my best to learn how to use this and post witty and comical comments. Again, my sister is usually the writer, not me. I'm a nurse. I enjoy taking care of bizarre patient complaints and bodily fluids run amok.

Stay Tuned..........