Today I went to the temple with Rosanna. The 10 am session that we went for was too full, so we left and came back for the 11 am session, and just stayed in the car and chatted, about my issues with Eric (who I've kind of been trying to get rid of), and about the kids starting school and that they like it, etc. And about Dylan, and how he's not here to start school, and how that's hard.
The session was good, they played my least favorite of the new movies, but it's still pretty good, and I had trouble staying awake, as always. But really good to be there with Rosanna. Then after, we stayed in the Celestial room for a while, while she cried. I felt so bad, I really have no idea what she's going through. All I could do was put my arm around her and get her more tissues. She's amazing, for still functioning and putting on a good face amidst this trial. She misses him so much.
Then we went and got lunch at Zupas (love that place), and then we went back to their house and she showed me all their pictures from their recent trip to Jamaica that she had just told me about over Zupas. It was so fun to see and hear about their trip! I think they really needed it and had a great time.
The kids got home from school and I stayed another half hour or so and hung out and heard all about the new school and how they ALL like it (yay! Last year was rough for all of them at APA, well Megan mostly, and Rachel for all three days she attended it before Rosanna pulled her and home schooled her). So happy that they are all liking school!
Tonight was the first night of our new volleyball season! We played two teams, and only won 1 set of all 4. But it was still really fun! Got to catch up with Camille, she was right next to me when Mom texted me about how she got the job today and her $11,000 a year pay increase, so that was way exciting! It was legitimately good to see Jamie, and I was hoping to catch up with her more, but she left after while I was chatting with Camille. And based on her texts tonight, it seemed like she was a little almost offended, maybe, by that. And I was going to help Jamie with some math, that she is tutoring a little girl with. But it didn't happen, darn it.
And this new Brian Uz.. that I hung out with for the first time last week, we were going to do something tonight after his softball game and my volleyball games, but mine went later than planned, and it was almost 10 by the time we were done and Camille and I stopped chatting, so I called him and suggested maybe we do something another night. So we're going to try for tomorrow, depending on his softball game schedule tomorrow. But just quick, he's basically the most cool, impressive guy I've probably ever been out with. Not a lot to look at at first, I"m hoping that comes, because he sure knows how to treat a girl, and really has his act together, and is mature and totally solid in the Church. These guys DO exist! So we'll see how things go. But I definitely want to keep getting to know him, because just based on the other night with him, and the fact that he calls me, doesn't just text, I've been super impressed with him already.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Updates on life--life is good! I feel so led, and so grateful for that.
Sooo...lots to update on since my last post! But just quick---life is really great right now! Amazing how there are such highs and lows in life. But I feel like my life is being very guided by the Spirit right now, and I'm so grateful! But some quick updates:
Not going to London. Changed my mind, and after much thought and prayer and fasting on the matter, and being prompted to talk to Sally and then Mom about it, I decided to go ahead and go to Taiwan with Rob and Meg. So I'm going! And since I'm going, Jamie is going too. But that's fine. I'm really excited to go! It'll be a cool adventure. And the plan is to go to London in the spring. And my friend, Shawna at work (also in my ward, but I see her at work way more than at church stuff), might go with me (and whoever else), but I think that would be so fun! She's pretty chill and mature, and likes adventures like that.
Haven't moved out yet. Still want to, and I looked into those apartments, Highland Point apartments, online, and I feel really good about them, and want to live in the three-person set up, because of the price, so I just need to find a couple girls I would want to live with. I don't really want to just move in with random girls. I already don't really want to have roommates again most of the time, and I don't want to just be the new girl. I'm hoping Cheryl and I might really be able to live together. She is in fact going to get a divorce. She asked Kyle for one the other day. It's got to be so rough. I totally support her though. I'm all about making a marriage last, but she has done pretty much everything and more to try to make it work, and it sounds like he hasn't put in anywhere near the effort she has to be a good spouse. She deserves someone so great, someone she feels comfortable bringing children into the world with.
Due to a series of prompting and spiritual experiences of sorts, I've decided to attend a conference in Sept, called the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit 2015. I feel like I'm supposed to go. It's in Florida, so that's fun. I'm super excited about it! Mostly because I've felt so guided into deciding to go. And part of it all is that with Sally's help, I've been able to get in touch with the organization's executive director, Dawn Hawkins, who I get emails from frequently (I'm on their email list) about the fight to end sexual exploitation, so to me she's this famous person, and now I've been emailing her, and she waived my registration fee, and has offered to pay for my hotel for any extra nights to come early and help, and it's all happened so fast, it's kind of crazy! But cool. I'm really excited to be more involved in this fight that's happening and needs to happen. I hate the sexual exploitation that is so common and rampant in the world, in so many ugly forms.
I'm planning my trip to Texas! It'll be the end of Oct-beginning of Nov. And I'm going to go for almost 2 weeks! Whoa, why?? Because I can. :) I miss those kids so much! Especially little Keelan. I'm excited!
My job is great, love my job. I worked last night and double floated, which usually isn't desirable, but it actually turned out great. I was on AIM-B and then SSTU, both floors were a first for my to float to. I only had 4 patients on both, which was fantastic (usually have 5 at night on AIM-A), and my patients were great, some even fun to talk to, the other nurses I worked with were good and friendly, I learned some good things, and I even got to run into Jared from Plastics! He's a plastic surgery resident who I've met a couple times, and he is so attractive. Blue scrubs, classy dress shoes (which is funny, but he pulls off the look very well), square framed glasses..I've naturally looked him up, after the first couple times I met him and he was working with a patient of mine for a couple days, and he is LDS and single, as far as I can tell. So that was fun to run into him again last night. Nothing really happened, haha, except he stood pretty close to me at one point in a patient's room, and he smelled really good. But just being around him like that made me kind of giddy the rest of the night, haha (that was around 2 or 3 am). And as far as floating, it was actually really nice and refreshing to be off my floor and be around other nurses and just do my own thing. It was the most comfortable and confident I've ever felt floating, which was fun. And I love my floor and the people I work with and being comfortable there, but everyone else I worked with last night were really nice and friendly too, and I don't know, it was just kind of fun and refreshing, I think partly to be somewhere new, and still feel competent and even fairly comfortable, and like I knew what I was doing. And it was nice to float to two places I hadn't floated to, although maybe I have to SSTU..it seemed more familiar than I was thinking.. but I'm happy to be comfortable and familiar with two more units now, makes floating in the future less scary and dreadful. :)
And just for memory sake, the patients I enjoyed the most were that LDS guy who has that random infection in his L elbow, who is from Provo, now they live in Wyoming and love it, and who coached Brandon Davies and other BYU bball stars in high school, and he and his wife are both really cool people, both teach school up in Wyoming. They were fun to chat with, and to see their good relationship.
Then my pt on SSTU who has the congenital condition with short legs and his suprapubic catheter and such, who is turning 50 next month and never been married, and lives with his parents. He asked about me and I was like, I'm actually in the same boat as you! Haha, never been married, and live with my parents. :) But he didn't get all weird or creepy and try to hit on me after that, like some patients have and would, so that was nice and appreciated.
Oh, and there's this guy, Brian, who visited his friend, Mark, down in Sally and Peter's ward recently, who Sally and Joe met, who I then met at our tri-stake temple night the other night, and who added me on FB the next day, and who Audrey Stanger texted me today to tell me she has a friend who is asking her for my number and could she give it to them, and turns out it's this Brian guy. Initially when I met him I was not really interested at all, but after the good things she had to say about him and looking him up on FB the other day, I feel like he could be one of those guys that surprises, in a good way. So that's something fun to hope for :) We'll see if he calls. I'm already impressed that he wanted my actual number, when he could have easily contacted me via FB. I'll be even more impressed if he actually calls, and doesn't just text me. That's a rare man these days.
Gotta go to bed!
Not going to London. Changed my mind, and after much thought and prayer and fasting on the matter, and being prompted to talk to Sally and then Mom about it, I decided to go ahead and go to Taiwan with Rob and Meg. So I'm going! And since I'm going, Jamie is going too. But that's fine. I'm really excited to go! It'll be a cool adventure. And the plan is to go to London in the spring. And my friend, Shawna at work (also in my ward, but I see her at work way more than at church stuff), might go with me (and whoever else), but I think that would be so fun! She's pretty chill and mature, and likes adventures like that.
Haven't moved out yet. Still want to, and I looked into those apartments, Highland Point apartments, online, and I feel really good about them, and want to live in the three-person set up, because of the price, so I just need to find a couple girls I would want to live with. I don't really want to just move in with random girls. I already don't really want to have roommates again most of the time, and I don't want to just be the new girl. I'm hoping Cheryl and I might really be able to live together. She is in fact going to get a divorce. She asked Kyle for one the other day. It's got to be so rough. I totally support her though. I'm all about making a marriage last, but she has done pretty much everything and more to try to make it work, and it sounds like he hasn't put in anywhere near the effort she has to be a good spouse. She deserves someone so great, someone she feels comfortable bringing children into the world with.
Due to a series of prompting and spiritual experiences of sorts, I've decided to attend a conference in Sept, called the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit 2015. I feel like I'm supposed to go. It's in Florida, so that's fun. I'm super excited about it! Mostly because I've felt so guided into deciding to go. And part of it all is that with Sally's help, I've been able to get in touch with the organization's executive director, Dawn Hawkins, who I get emails from frequently (I'm on their email list) about the fight to end sexual exploitation, so to me she's this famous person, and now I've been emailing her, and she waived my registration fee, and has offered to pay for my hotel for any extra nights to come early and help, and it's all happened so fast, it's kind of crazy! But cool. I'm really excited to be more involved in this fight that's happening and needs to happen. I hate the sexual exploitation that is so common and rampant in the world, in so many ugly forms.
I'm planning my trip to Texas! It'll be the end of Oct-beginning of Nov. And I'm going to go for almost 2 weeks! Whoa, why?? Because I can. :) I miss those kids so much! Especially little Keelan. I'm excited!
My job is great, love my job. I worked last night and double floated, which usually isn't desirable, but it actually turned out great. I was on AIM-B and then SSTU, both floors were a first for my to float to. I only had 4 patients on both, which was fantastic (usually have 5 at night on AIM-A), and my patients were great, some even fun to talk to, the other nurses I worked with were good and friendly, I learned some good things, and I even got to run into Jared from Plastics! He's a plastic surgery resident who I've met a couple times, and he is so attractive. Blue scrubs, classy dress shoes (which is funny, but he pulls off the look very well), square framed glasses..I've naturally looked him up, after the first couple times I met him and he was working with a patient of mine for a couple days, and he is LDS and single, as far as I can tell. So that was fun to run into him again last night. Nothing really happened, haha, except he stood pretty close to me at one point in a patient's room, and he smelled really good. But just being around him like that made me kind of giddy the rest of the night, haha (that was around 2 or 3 am). And as far as floating, it was actually really nice and refreshing to be off my floor and be around other nurses and just do my own thing. It was the most comfortable and confident I've ever felt floating, which was fun. And I love my floor and the people I work with and being comfortable there, but everyone else I worked with last night were really nice and friendly too, and I don't know, it was just kind of fun and refreshing, I think partly to be somewhere new, and still feel competent and even fairly comfortable, and like I knew what I was doing. And it was nice to float to two places I hadn't floated to, although maybe I have to SSTU..it seemed more familiar than I was thinking.. but I'm happy to be comfortable and familiar with two more units now, makes floating in the future less scary and dreadful. :)
And just for memory sake, the patients I enjoyed the most were that LDS guy who has that random infection in his L elbow, who is from Provo, now they live in Wyoming and love it, and who coached Brandon Davies and other BYU bball stars in high school, and he and his wife are both really cool people, both teach school up in Wyoming. They were fun to chat with, and to see their good relationship.
Then my pt on SSTU who has the congenital condition with short legs and his suprapubic catheter and such, who is turning 50 next month and never been married, and lives with his parents. He asked about me and I was like, I'm actually in the same boat as you! Haha, never been married, and live with my parents. :) But he didn't get all weird or creepy and try to hit on me after that, like some patients have and would, so that was nice and appreciated.
Oh, and there's this guy, Brian, who visited his friend, Mark, down in Sally and Peter's ward recently, who Sally and Joe met, who I then met at our tri-stake temple night the other night, and who added me on FB the next day, and who Audrey Stanger texted me today to tell me she has a friend who is asking her for my number and could she give it to them, and turns out it's this Brian guy. Initially when I met him I was not really interested at all, but after the good things she had to say about him and looking him up on FB the other day, I feel like he could be one of those guys that surprises, in a good way. So that's something fun to hope for :) We'll see if he calls. I'm already impressed that he wanted my actual number, when he could have easily contacted me via FB. I'll be even more impressed if he actually calls, and doesn't just text me. That's a rare man these days.
Gotta go to bed!
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