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Entirely too ill-tempered to blog any time soon.

Alive, awake, alert & less than enthusiastic.

GA is dragging its heels & it’s got me edgier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Hallelujah!

The Lord is wonderful!

I’ve had a rash of “sick” friends (or their families) as of late.

High blood pressure, threats of cardiac problems, eye troubles, pending surgeries & possible cancer.

The guy with high blood pressure seems to be getting it under control.

The guys who had surgeries seem to be recovered (or recovering) well.

The friend with the horrid UTI seems to be doing good.

The lady only needs an aspirin a day, not stints.

And the friend with suspected cancer is cancer FREE!

My BP turned out to be a non-issue.

The Lord IS Wonderful!

Now that my friends are taken care of, I think I’ll say a prayer that GA hurries up & clears me for boards!

Maybe A Picture Next Time

Bread pudding.  All gone, no photographic proof, no calories.

5 biscuits crumbled into 2 quart baking dish sprayed with Pam

Beat together:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Pour over biscuits & top with 1/4 cup each chopped pecans & shredded coconut.

Bake @ 350* 30-35 minutes or until set.

Make it.  You’ll thank me later.

The verdict is in

and Im’ma gonna live.

The BP was a non-issue with the doctor.  He called it stress after the fact.  Told me just for good measure to cut back on added salt & exercise more.

That, I can do without a problem.

Blood glucose:  89 two hours after lunch.  Good.

Weird place on my leg:  beginning of a varicose vein.  No problem YET, probably will need to have it “taken care of” in 15-20 years.  Although, I’m pretty sure I want it taken care of sooner.  It’s ugly & good legs is one of the few “good” looking things I have left, dammit!

Ear:  still has fluid behind the drum, but no infection.  Zyrtec x 2 weeks.

I was going to ask for another round of Protonix, but realized my indigestion has quit since I graduated.

Now, if I could just get to take state boards soon, I’d be the happiest chick in Georgia…

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There’s something falling from the sky that I do not recognize.

It appears to be cool & wet.

Maybe some form of water?

Or the sky is falling, I just don’t know.

Last Hurrah of Summer?

FINALLY, cooler temperatures are in the forecast!

{Insert extensive Happy Dancing here}

Anyway, although tomorrow’s high is only supposed to be in the low 70s, today it was 95.  Not to mention, it was Free day for all Georgia Parks- no fishing license even required.

So, I called Angie & told her we were going & would they like to go.  Swung by her place to give her the bag of ice I bought and she about made me cry.  The pic I posted the other day- well, she’d printed it & bought a Friend Frame for it.  🙂

We headed to the lake only to find every day park we went to CLOSED for the season.  Thank you so freaking much, State of Georgia, for the FREE day, but no place to spend it.

We wound up at a picnic/boating area and I ended up even swimming around the boat dock (in cut-offs & a t-shirt, my bra ended up being one of those magical water bras!), watching the kids jump in and counting seconds before they surfaced, ready to dive & search if needed.

We had a truly great afternoon, but of course the one who slathered the kids down with sunscreen forgot her’s & is slightly beet red now.

Oh well, could be worse.

The one good pic I got – and one could argue how “good” it was.  At least it was of the kids.  Part of them anyway.  Probably would help if I remembered I had a camera slightly earlier.

Interesting

I saw a commercial yesterday for Red & didn’t catch who was in it.

So, I did what every tech savvy American (or nonAmerican for that matter) does & googled it.

Came along to their official page.

Now, is it just me or did the dingdongs put the wrong picture with the wrong name?  I mean, that looks amazingly like Bruce Willis in the middle, but the name above the photo is not Bruce Willis…

After reading Crucis’ reply, I had to look further-

Looking at the ears, the nose, the eyes, & the mouth, I’m convinced they mis-tagged their own pictures.  The guy in the middle has got to be Willis.

NFO Knows Me Too Well

To my previous post, he made the comment to “standby for fireworks in the South” or something close to that.  Right now, I’m seeing sooooo much red, I cannot think straight.

On facebook, I made the following innocuous (or so I thought) post:

Alright, GA Board of Nursing. You’ve had our stuff a week now. That’s long enough to stamp 16 papers with ATT! (Yeah, I know. It’s only been a week. However, patience isn’t one of *my* virtues.)

Well, my former teacher (why did I add her to facebook?) comes back with this pissy reply-

Wow, you guys are killing me. The computer, in it’s mind’s eye, is thinking Julie is your only clinical teacher. You all have A’s for all of your 4th quarter clinical grades. You KNOW that already. It will get resolved. Please try not to be so negative. Small peanuts… You were told it would be about a month for your code to sit for boards. It’s been a week…

The comment about the clinical grades was in response to another reply about how all of our grades are not showing on our “cyber report cards”.  Some are showing as No Grade & showing no quarter hours for completing the class.  Big, hairy deal.  I got my Dean’s List notification already & figure if I didn’t have an A in that course as well, I wouldn’t have Dean’s List status.

Anyway, where the hell do folks get off saying you should not be able to gripe among friends?  My reply-

As I said, patience isn’t one of my virtues. Never really has been, from my best recollections. I’m not planning to storm the governor’s office or write my congressman, I am simply blowing off steam on facebook.

It’s not like I’m posting… “someone’s head is going to roll because I’m not getting what *I* want RIGHT now”, I’m simply saying I’m ready to get the ball rolling and things to move along.

I’m sitting on a household income of $21,000 / year. Yes, I want to test & go to work where my family can eat something beside Ramen noodles as soon as possible. That fact alone is enough to make me extremely ANXIOUS to move on to the next step. I imagine there are several classmates in similar situations.

I’m here, among friends, griping. Not calling the school, not picketing, not making a fuss really to anyone.

My point with SmartWeb was simply- we’re done, we’re through, I already know I made Dean’s List- what’s posted on *it* is of zero consequence. If I were the one handling it, I’d “fix” things where it mattered and SmartWeb would be the last thing I fixed, if I fixed it at all.

And remember, without negativity, there would be no such thing as positives. For every smile, there is a frown. For every praise, there is a gripe. It all balances out in the end.

Note:  I was able to say all that without saying what I wanted to most of all- FUCK YOU & THE HORSE YOU HIGH & MIGHTILY RODE IN ON.  THANKS AND HAVE A DAY.

Thank you facebook for the wonderful “delete” friend button.

Hurry Up & Wait

Okay, I’ve been out of school a solid week now.

And I’m bored shitless.

And I’m not the world’s greatest person of patience.

To get my ATT (Approval To Test), the state has to run its background check (how in depth could that be?  I’ve lived in basically the same place for 26 years now) & deem me worthy of taking the state board.

They said it could be anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks before I get ATT.

Pardon me a moment, but it’s time for a Snigs Kick & Whine Segment-

I WANT IT NOW!  I’M READY TO TAKE IT TOMORROW!  HURRY UP, PLEASE DAMMIT & THANK YOU!

Okay, I’m done whining, bitching & moaning…

…but that doesn’t mean I’m any more satisfied.

Le sigh.

ETA:  Not 30 minutes after I typed this up, I got an email from the Sec. of State’s office.  They JUST GOT my application which was SUPPOSEDLY overnighted to them last Thursday.  Hence, I can figure on another damned couple of weeks from NOW, since they finally have it in hand.

Sorry, I do NOT believe the applications were sent overnight delivery.  One week would be about the correct delivery time for a flat rate envelope to get from here to there.

Now, I feel WORSE instead of better about the whole thing.  If the applications weren’t handled correctly in the simple MAILING aspect, how can I be sure that the info the teacher had to fill out was done correctly?

UGH!  >.<

Truths Recognized at Maturity

A friend emailed this to me & I enjoyed it too much to not share. 🙂 (The ones in italics I TOTALLY agree with!)

1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again..

13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

17. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

19. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?

20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

22. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

23. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

24. The first testicular guard, the “Cup,” was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.