Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Christmas is over and the new year is just a few days away. I dunno, for some reason the year 2010 is just a little weird to me. I'm likely just crazy.

Anyways, we had a great Christmas. We worked lol. Well, I had Christmas day off but worked Christmas Eve. Got floated to St. Paul 7W ICU which is kinda like an ICU step down but not. Either way, I was stuck on the highway forever. I left my house around 5:45pm and didn't clock in until 8:15pm. I SHOULD have clocked in by 6:47pm. I was super late. I30 westbound was like covered in ice and I had to use my stupid phone to figure a way to get off the highway and get to work. Especially since my typical backup was closed down because it involved taking a bridge exit that was even more icy than the road I was on, so they'd already shut the exit down lol, worsening the already miserable traffic.

That night I learned that my second gear start button in my car is super awesome in the ice, you can slide even if you were going only like 5mph when you hit the brakes, what my anti-lock brakes feel like when they're working with my sliding car, and that my car will still flash the low traction light at me even when its painfully obvious. Also, that, with my luck, I managed to hit every yellow light between 30W and 1st Avenue and Harry Hines and Inwood. That was not so good on my nerves when I was constantly trying to decide to stop and slide or just run the damn thing.

Brandon's last day of work went well. This is what they did to his truck.







If you can't tell, they even turned his license plates upside down. They also included the Evidence tape on his mudflaps. Oh, and apparently they had put some toilet paper on his truck and got it wet, but it froze so he said it was easy to get off. And they put butter on his door handles. As well as a cake and a nice card from the people he worked with.

He starts Jan 11th!

For Christmas we got a BluRay player! Which is awesome since we don't really have much of a DVD player anymore since mine died, Brandon's works 60%ish of the time, the XBox360 is dead, and I like to keep the Wii in the big TV room for when I play RockBand2. We got the movie the Hangover, the new Harry Potter, I got the new Mario Brothers game for the Wii, some new socks, more of our fine silverware to go with our fancy plates we can't use cause there is no where to put it, money, and some cute clothes and pajamas. Brandon got a new hat (since we ran over his old one), lots of his gear for the police academy (which he played with instantly), more cologne, and some other stuff I can't remember lol.

We took my brother to this great place called Smoke in Oakcliff (its kinda nice there sorta). It had the most freakin amazing breakfast. Its barbeque meat what they specialize in (hence the name Smoke, for like smoked meat) but my all time favorite breakfast they weren't serving that morning (pulled hog eggs benedict) so I was sad. But you should totally try it. We're probalby going to try to drag him to BuzzBrews today before he goes back to El Paso. He's having fun in school.

So, since its long and I've opened up myself for more criticism for the length of my posts, I'll say Happy New Years! I'll be awake all night that night cause I'm working lol. Actually I work Dec 31, Jan 1, and Jan 2. Starting next month, you should know I'll have most Saturdays off! Course you can always check my Google Calendar. If its not shared with you already, uhm, I may not want to. ;) You'll have to ask.

I've sold out...

Or so it feels like.

I'm told I've finally joined the year 2008.

Screw you, Wes.

I got CONNED (or forced against my will through peer pressure via google chat, which we all know how forceful someone can be there. It's not like I can just close my window...well, I probably couldn't cause Wes knows where I live, my phone number, my dad's name and job, what may brother does, etc., you get the point).

Anyways, I got a freaking Twitter account. Needless to say within 24 hours of having Twitter, Wes, Robert, and I are all bantering via Twitter at each other like the old days. I'm just waiting for the comment to come out that Wes and I bicker like old married people again. I'm sure its not far away. Thank God people don't hear our phone calls to each other sometimes.

So, whatever. If you have Twitter I'm @Kimberlyrh04 . If you have Facebook, I don't say any more on Twitter than I do on Facebook. I just quibble with my lovely responders more on Twitter (probably because responder #1 is Westley, dear, but whatever).

Other than that, I'm not looking forward to this week. I have a spot in my neck that hurts like crap. It's like lower neck/upper back and if I move my head a certain way (haven't figured out which way it is so I can avoid it) then it feels like something is not meant to be pinched is being pinched. Then tingles and warm pain start in the areas surrounding it. Don't think this is a first for me...but its not going away as fast as it usually does.

Plus I'm on call. I hate on call nights. I hate working 4 days a week, but then sitting at home by my cell phone waiting to see if I get called in sucks, too. Oh well. Next one won't be til the end of January I think.

And I'll really be missing World of Warcraft. The new patch is hands down the greatest so far. Course I get to meet a-holes from other servers withing my Battlegroup and get bitched at for them sucking and me not being able to heal through stupid, but whatever. For the most part its awesome. I am more than halfway to getting my perky pug!



Oh, and I gave in and got an authenticator for WoW so I could get my Corehound Pup companion, too. Lol. I'm too easy sometimes I think.

This video is stupid but it shows some of how cute the Corehound Pup really is. Course it left out them howling, but oh well.



K, I'm off to bed.

Ears and Rats

So, to avoid writing my OWN essays (seriously, what else do you all expect with as much as I talk?) I am writing AGAIN.

I decided yesterday that JJ's left ear is super stinky dish-raggy. That, compared with his constant shaking of his head and his whimpering when he scratches his ear, confirms in my head that he has an ear infection. I told him, but I bet he forgot, that we're going to the vet Monday. I supposed I'll go ahead and get my stupid Christmas stamps while I'm out. He'll be fine but he really hates taking pills and REALLY hates his ears being cleaned, which I bet we'll have to do twice a day again if this vet prescribes something similar as the one in Kurten did for his last infection.

Bella tonight was let out front to go potty before everyone bunkered in for the night. Course she starts stalking through the bushes and doing her Bella business and won't come when my mom calls her. So I go outside and start after her cause I'll just pick her up and make her come inside my way lol. But before I get near her I see her prancing towards me with the air of a business being taken care of. She marches right up to the front door and waits a total of 20 seconds for the door to be opened (which we're holding closed) and then she spits (seriously) out her huge mostly dead rat she had just caught.

Then we let her in and she takes her treat for a job well done from my mom as if she'd been waiting for her thanks for a little too long.

Now she's snoring on the floor. Never seen her sleep so hard before. Course the rat is still on the front porch cause all the tools to make a hole and bury it (given trash day is WEDNESDAY) are way out in the shed in the back of the wet, mushy yard. This was a Daddy approved decision.

So, I sure as crap wasn't going to include a picture of that, although I wish I could've taken one of her marching with it. It would've been amusing.

So I leave you with everyone's favorite Robert Earl Keen, Jr, holiday song.

Little of this, a little of that...

So, ya, I think I keep telling people on the phone I'm gonna update my blog. Well, here it finally freaking is.

Course now I can't remember what is news worth and what is not. Hmm.

Starters: (by the way if you're not following So you think you can dance and plan to, skip this)

I'm so freakin sad that Billy Bell isn't on this season. He (and this creeps me out to say so) was beautiful!

I <3 Legacy! I <3 him and Russel and Kathryn and Noelle. The married couple are cool, but I am never enthusiastic about their solos. Mollee is ok. She's too over bubbly though. Jakob is really good. I guess I'm liking him more. I never like Nathan. Ever. And I dunno why but I just cannot like Ellenore. She's perfect. But I don't like her.

Oh, crap. I haven't watched the elimination from last night and just saw Noelle is gone. Crap.

I really don't miss the other dancers. They were fun, but blah. Especially the tappers. Don't think I liked any of them. There, those are my opinions. Tons of dances I've liked but I don't remember them all.

Moving on. I think everyone knows Brandon is going to the academy in January and we're putting him through so he can apply to smaller police departments. He got his gun for the academy and was so damned excited about the deal he got on it that he WOKE ME UP just to tell me. Like I care!

Our Bella-dog was a very good girl. We were very proud of her recently. I'd made Brandon take me to see New Moon (book is still better but they got a little better with the movie) and we got home at midnight-thirty. Now, when we're not here when mom and dad go to bed, Bella gets in bed with them. They usually leave their door open when she does that so she can go get a drink of water if she wants to. Because of that, I usually sneak in and get her out of their bed so she won't bother them. Well this time she didn't hear me come in.

I'm right at their door starting to whisper, "Bella, Bella, Bella, come here," when I get the meanest, fiercest, loudest barking I've ever heard from my dog. I knew she didn't know it was me and was about to kill me if I didn't prove to her she knew me so I had to turn on my parents' light.

Mom starts mumbling incoherently, Daddy is half out of bed to come attack me, too, and Bella is standing on the little bench seat/chest at the end of their bed with her head flattened out ready to attack. I turn the light off really fast cause I know it blinded mom and dad, but it was enough. Bella realized who she was protecting mom and dad from and came wiggling out to me, wagging her tail as hard as she could like it was the first time she'd seen me in months.

/facepalm

The next day I apologized to mom and dad and said I'd never get her out of their bed again lol. Daddy said he was just thinking of what he could possibly do...just hit the intruder really hard? He said the light being turned on let him know it was me lol. Mom said she was SO PROUD of Bella and she'll always love Bella sleeping with her from now on, since she's such a little protector.

Now Bella is sporting a stylish dark pink sparkly collar. And has a bloody nose from burying her stupid congratulatory bone all the time. (by burying, I mean putting it under sheets and wears the skin off her nose when she pushes the sheets over and over with her nose to ensure her bone is "buried.")

I had put on like 8 lbs. I've said bye to about 5 of them. Sweet. I just don't eat lol. (that sounds bad but it isn't) Like on the nights I stay at home, I eat when I get up and I eat sometime before I go to bed. I don't work hard enough to need more food. When I'm at work, I have eat light on the way, have a light snack, a light meal, breakfast, then bed. Seems to work. Still have all my Kim energy.

Oh, last week I had an unplanned vacation. We had so few patients that I got cancelled 2 nights in a row. It was really weird. I think I'm going to pay for it this week. Not looking forward to it.

Got to see my brother for Thanksgiving (was grateful for being cancelled cause it let me see him more). Saw some family. Ate some food. (still managed lose those 5 lbs!) And that's about it.

And I shared my calendar with all of you (well the ones who I think read this) so you can hold me to what days I'm off and we can do get-togethers. It'll be awesome once Brandon starts school cause then we can all hang out like normal people finally!!!

If I get stamps soon, you'll get your Christmas cards! They're already addressed and in their envelopes!