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 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.
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.
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!
Yes, strangely enough, my poor bed is suffering right now! Monday night I had to go to work cause they flexed me to a weird day we needed more nurses than the days I like to work. Whatever. So Brandon was left at the house to fend for himself. Apparently JJ managed to get a hold of a rawhide that wasn't his and threaten all the other dogs within inches of their lives to stay away from his and his rawhide, and, thus, wouldn't eat his dinner, but stalked by the door. When the other dogs finished eating, Brandon tried to go back in the house to put up the dog bowl and JJ rushed him and got inside. /sigh. Bad dog.
Once inside, JJ had his rawhide taken away from him because he and Bella kept growling at each other. Of course that hurt his feelings and he started moping around. Since he's such a great cuddler for a large dog, Brandon went ahead and let him up on the bed while he watched TV, without the protective doggie sheet!!! (a bright yellow sheet I have in the room to cover the bed with should we want a dog up on the bed, not easy to miss!)
After a little while, Brandon fell asleep and woke up to the worst sound ever: JJ barfing, right by his head, on the bed! Ugh.
Bed offense #1: JJ barf
Brandon pulled the sheet and one of the mattress pads off (there are two to protect the mattress from doggie smells lol) and the fitted sheet and put them in the washer. They were the only pieces to get dirty. Not surprisingly, when I got home from work Tuesday morning, JJ was still in the bed, the sheet and mattress pad were still in the washer, and there were still no new sheets placed on the bed. (the barfing incident happened around 1am and I got home by 8am, plenty of time to do those tasks should he have wanted to do them)
Well, who knows what made JJ sick but, he's better. See. Him and Hunter playing around this morning. Very few people believe JJ can play nicely with the other dogs. I got proof now! I would have uploaded the video using Blogger, but it doesn't accept .mov files, so I had to go the YouTube route. You all understand, right?
So fast forward to Tuesday night. Yes, just ONE NIGHT LATER! Bella is inside, as always. Since I cleaned up and purged all our trash, Dr Pepper cans, plates, etc, that build up in the room and the computer room over the week, I pulled the sheets, comforter, and doggie sheet over the bed so Bella could go in our room and lie down on the bed while we play World of Warcraft. (we're just gearing up our druids right now, me as a tank and him as a healer) Well, not long after we started playing I went to our room to check on Bella. I swear sometimes this dog doesn't know she's a dog. She managed to get up on the bed (which sometimes she acts like she can't do herself, even though she's plenty big to do it easily), pull the doggie sheet back, pull the comforter back, pull both the little blanket AND the flat sheet back, and cuddle against the pillows with all the other covers like they're over her legs. I don't get it. Its not like she couldn't have cuddled with the pillows without pulling the sheets back...but she did. Either way, we left her as she was. She did it for herself without our help, she would do it again.
After few hours, she showed up asleep on my pile of dirty laundry to be cleaned that was outside the computer room door. Talk about cute curled up asleep on the laundry! We couldn't figure out why she would've left the bed, but we didn't care that much either. She does weird things all the time. This wasn't very different. After we were done playing WoW, Brandon got in the bed and she got back up there with him while I did some other things (fold the laundry, balance the checkbooks, etc). Then we kicked her out cause it was time to start settling down for him to go to sleep and me to do so soon after. I try to get in bed on my side and there is a wet spot. Not a shock because both Bella and JJ have an affinity for licking their paws a lot and cause huge wet spots to end up on the bed. Its obnoxious, but livable. Dog spit isn't that gross.
So I pull the wet comforter back to reveal a huge, perfectly round, wet spot on my sheets! This is not a dog licking his or her paws, which is never perfectly round. I smell it. OH MY FUCKING GOD! She peed on my BED! No freaking wonder she left the bed to lie down on the laundry. The bed reeked of piss. She got it on my huge comforter (which truly doesn't fit in the super capacity wash machine, even though I force it), my little blanket (which has a very yellow spot on its off-white color), my flat sheet, my fitted sheet, and the last mattress cover on my bed (since the 2nd one hadn't yet been replaced. Thank God I use two cause otherwise my mattress would stink of dog piss, too).
Bed offense #2: Bella pee
Nonetheless, we stripped the bed, flipped the mattress, and currently have no mattress pad and are on our 3rd set of sheets in 3 days! Course I had to find an old quilt to put on the bed to so we won't freeze in our sleep! We still have no idea what possessed her to pee on the bed, but she no longer has bed privileges!
But speaking of her being a weirdo, look at her poor little nose!
Remember those rawhides? She had been given a rawhide on Sunday night and she showed up on Monday with a faint spot on her nose. I didn't worry about it at all. If I worried about every scratch on my dogs I literally would be worrying 24/7 cause they have new ones all the time and we have no idea where they come from. (ok, fine, maybe each other the way they play) The next day, she was given another rawhide when JJ was in the house with his. When I got home from work, the spot on her nose was much larger, about the size of the one in the picture. Now I was a little worried, but what could I do? Follow her all the time? No.
While doing my morning, I'm home from work and putting sheets on our bed stuff, I found her rawhide under one of the sheets that covers one of the couches to protect the couches from the dogs. I laughed, because she'd obviously "buried" in on the couch out of sight, and gave it back to her. While pulling the sheet back over the couch I noticed all these reddish splotches on the sheet. First I thought it was blood, because of the color. Then I saw how it was placed all over the sheet and then it looked like paint. It really looked like someone had taken a paint brush with reddish paint and brushed, in many short strokes, all over the sheet. There was a thick beginning to the stroke and a faded out end of the stroke, like the paint had thinned from being applied. Well, being thorough, I sniffed it and, whoa, talk about metallic smell. That was blood.
Oh my gosh. I now know what happened. Bella was "burying" her rawhide on the couch and was so upset about burying it, she wore the skin on her little nose away and cause it to bleed. That's why it looked like paint brush strokes, because she was stroking her nose across the sheet trying to place it just right so the rawhide didn't show. And she's very OCD about burying her bones and I'm sure was burying it in one corning, didn't like that corner, and buried it in another corner, especially since the entire sheet was covered in her strokes of blood. Well, thinking it was kinda funny I told Brandon, we laughed at how silly she can be, and went to bed.
When we woke up for the day, mom was her and she asked what happened to the sheet. I told her what I thought had happened and she started laughing. Remember how I'd given her that rawhide back before I noticed what was all over the sheet? Ya, she went to another couch and, once again, traumatized her little nose to the point that she covered that sheet in blood "burying" her rawhide on the other sheet.
Offended couches by Bella blood this week: 2
So, no bed privileges, no more rawhides (well, if we want her nose to ever heal).
Other than that, my Blackberry bit the dust (erased its operating system) so now I have an iPhone. Video and picture today are courtesy of the phone. Don't judge it on the lighting on the video, however. Its super cloudy out and if I would've turned the light on the dogs would've realized I was there and quit playing and I just couldn't have that.
Oh, and I've paid my dad the money he helped us with when Bella needed her surgery and other things caused us to not have all the money for our honeymoon on the date we needed it. That made me feel really good. What was more funny, though, was Chase calling me asking if that was an authorized check I wrote or if someone had our account lol. Awesome! Chase seems to be doing their job! Course I wish they'd quit calling about it when I was sleeping.
Ok, bed time. I'm on call tonight. Blah. This week sucks and its just started.
So I've been thinking...I have nothing to blog about. At all. Nothing. I'm that boring.
My updates:
My druid on World of Warcraft is level 80 and working on getting her geared up to be a tank.
I'm working only 2 nights this week cause I took a day off. Whats sad is it feels like a big vacation.
Brandon has taken one test with a police department. More to come.
Brandon's knee hurts.
I made us dentist appointments.
He has an appointment with the headache doctor soon.
Bella, still, for some unknown reason, likes to pee indoors. Even if she's peed outside.
I'm asking for Rock Band for the Wii for my birthday. Brandon already has plans to get the Beatles addon.
The Aggies won their first game. Whoop!
I am now DVRing True Blood and have ordered all the paperback books available. Tired of people talking about it and not knowing anything about it. Oh, the first season is on its way, too.
I keep forgetting to get my stupid engagement ring inspected.
We're taking Brandon's truck to the shop Friday morning cause something about the drive train is making noise. If I spelled that wrong, whatever. I don't know anything about cars. I'm just repeating what my dad said.
I was sadder than I thought I would be about Tooka. Love you, Lexie. Hope you're hanging in there.
I need to give blood. I think I've been "putting it off" for six months. Thats like inexcusable.
And, for all of you who are dying to know. Here is what is set up on my DVR, whether they're coming on soon or not:
True Blood (my show, maybe some Brandon's, we'll see)
Heroes (my show)
Lost (my show)
So You Think You Can Dance (my show, cause otherwise I was told I wouldn't have to be left out of conversations with my friends anymore)
Grey's Anatomy (my show)
Locked Up Abroad (Brandon's show)
The Simpsons (Brandon's show)
Family Guy (Our Show)
Southpark (Our show)
House (my show)
Top Chef - Las Vegas (mostly Brandon's show)
The Soup (really Brandon's show, but I enjoy it, too)
Hung (mostly Brandon's show)
I think thats it lol. Those are all series recordings, by the way. I feel a full DVR coming soon.
Also, I DVR'ed Hancock and thought it was super cute. I liked that movie. Left on the DVR to be watched or ignored and deleted is No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood.
I hate blogging with not pictures or fun stuff. :( So, well, I can't find anything good right now. Tough.
So, not much has gone on lately. We've celebrated a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jennifer! Yay! And that's about it lol.
Work had given me weird hours, but, because of those weird hours I was finally able to see my friends! You all should still be mad at me cause the little, simple gifts I brought back from Jamaica in FEBRUARY for you I still keep forgetting to bring to you! Its not like they're packed or anything. They're practically sitting in the open just waiting to be taken to you all, but I just suck!
This weekend, Brandon is testing for Denton Police Department. He feels "really good" about this test, he says. So, despite the fact its in DENTON, ugh, wish him luck, pray for him, send vibes, whatever your avenue is. We'd appreciate it. Its his dream and he thinks a college town like Denton would be just absolutely awesome to work in, since its large, and has so many elements to it.
My one year anniversary of working for UT Southwestern University Hospital Zale Lipshy (how retarded long of a name is that?) is coming in September!!! Weird, isn't it! I've been a nurse for a year-ish now! Feels like it was only like a few months ago I took that stupid NCLEX and passed it. Course, as soon as Brandon gets hired, I'm going to be looking to take the GRE. I hope to apply for the next fall semester, Fall 2010, to begin graduate course-work towards obtaining my Family Nurse Practitioner. After that is my plan to quit formal education. I really don't have any sort of desire for a PhD or anything of that sort.
So, random story time. Recently we were talking about books. I forget why, but I made some off comment about writing a book (joking) and Brandon said I should write one about Ribby, our beagle. (/sigh) All I dreamed about last night was about what kind of beagle book I'd write, a kids book, that I thought the name of the dog should rhyme with beagle, or we'd just call him Ribby the Hound dog, and that somehow the radio station 1310 the Ticket would be promoting this. Because of the Ticket's involvement, that means the stupid kid's book would have to be about sports, and how do people write kids' books anyways? Does it make sense to write the book, "Ribby the Hound goes to a football game"?! Lol, I seriously had CRAPPY sleep for HOURS thinking of this IN MY SLEEP! How random, right?
On a side note, I THINK I like fantasy books. Mix a little action with a touch of a love story (no romance novels please, I don't want that kind of stuff) and you might have me hooked. But I don't know a good book to read. I like the MAGICAL stuff. Call me a kid or say I have an overactive imagination, but I don't give a crap. I need a new book to read.
So, here is picture time. My mom actually found, courtesy of my dearest puppy dog JJ, a baby bunny hopping around in the garage today! (don't worry! JJ just alerted to it and made my Mom look, he was no where near to killing the sweetie) So when Brandon and I got home from eating out tonight, mom had a baby bunny! Now, after some internet research (and you know everything you read on the internet is TRUE! *sarcasm*), it seems that if we get the right food, and feed it once a day, and handle it minimally, then we can help it grow and release it into the wild again. The reason we took it in, despite it looking so healthy, is two reasons: 1) older bunnies might eat it, and 2) the douche bag bunny might hop into the back yard and get eaten by my dogs. Now, before you think that either option might be a long shot you have to see a) how many freaking bunnies there are in this neighborhood, and, b) the idiot baby bunny kept hopping/walking towards the fence of the backyard that contained my death givers.
So we put it in our old hamster cage, with some water and soft stuff to lay on, followed the directions we read and put it in a secluded area of the house, and left it alone. However, we took pictures while he was outside! (and don't worry! we're fully aware of the fact that he may not survive and that we may have to keep him as a pet. I have had to wrangle my dog Bella in all night, since she's mandatory house arrest because of her knees, and put up the baby gate so she can't get near the room the baby bunny is in right now). All pictures are courtesy of my dad! My camera took a nice one...but before I could take many fun ones my battery died. :( Always at the good moments. :(
