Exhausted/Blessed

So thank the Lord I made it home safely from Florida at seven in the morning last Friday. I got unpacked, slept, and worked that night. Thank the Lord again that it was a good night at work....and thank Him even more cause the next two nights I worked were good, too. Sleep all day but I have the whole list of errands and chores to do.....which I did go pay off somethings, pick up somethings, and then get groceries....after which I come home, put the cold things away, and then lay down on the couch and talk to my sweetbean (Tyler) about wedding plans, the future. We pray and then he goes to bed. So I lie there a few minutes and think about all the things I need to finish: wedding invitations, putting the groceries away, putting the clean clothes away, going out for change so I can wash all the dirty clothes (then putting those away), organizing the closet, taking out all the trash, all the cleaning, vacuuming, dishes, tending to the almost dead houseplants, pens pals that need responses, drawings I owe people, etc.....when I fall asleep and wake up the next day at 8:50 am. Thank the Lord again for my being the only one to see how much of a slob I can be.....and more so thank Him for much needed rest and having stuff to do to keep me busy and more so for people to care for. And I will finish putting away the dishes this morning while I listen to praise songs before I get ready to go back to bed.....cause I work these next two nights. And thank God for my crazy work schedule even though my boss forced me to change everything to meet the two weekend quota (that doesn't seem to apply to all employees) as I now will be scheduled to go back to Florida when my wedding dress will be ready for the next fitting and when Tyler will be in the same town. And thank God for friends and family who are so helpful and thoughtful. I've been so blessed with friends, family, and co-workers who are kind to me and full of advice. This makes me think of the song Sheltering Trees by Newsong. My favourite line is "We all need sheltering trees, friends in our lives who get down on their knees, lift us up before the King of Kings." Thanks y'all! God bless and catch ya on the flip side.

Why Not

Because copy and paste is a wonderful thing, I'm not quite ready to go to bed, and I still have chores to do....

1. Did you date someone from your High School?
Yes. The only other guy I dated other than the one I'm marrying.

2. Did you marry someone from your High School? After my first relationship which lasted about three months I intended to never marry. So nope.

3. Did you carpool to school?
I wasn't allowed to....so it was the big yellow bus for me.

4. What kind of car did you have? I didn't have one. Couple years after highschool I bought the family car from my parents. It was a 1994 blue green Ford Escort station wagon. I loved it. I eventually totalled it I guess in a very comical way. I hope the pictures are never developed.

5. What kind of car do you have now? A charcoal blue 2008 Toyota Carola S! And it rawks! I call him Beo.

6. It's Saturday night now you're....prolly working if I'm not out of town visiting family.

7. It is Saturday night then you're....prolly cleaning my room, studying, or pretending to study and doodling while rocking to music.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?

The only job I was allowed to have was to be the nursery attendant at church. I did a lot of volunteer work through our church though, too.

9. What kind of job do you have now?
I am a registered nurse at a fairly decent community hospital. I'm nightshift which means I have street cred cause I'm tough like that. (Actually it means I get to clean up whatever didn't happen during the dayshift).

10. Were you a party animal?
IF there was ever a party going on I was prolly in the corner doodling.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
I really was just being nice cause I was too naive to flirt intentionally.

12. Were you in a band, orchestra, or choir?
Because of where my school was I was not allowed to participate in after school events.

13. Were you a nerd?
I went to a magnet school. I think we all were.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
I never got sent to the principal's office unless I had to decorate the bullentin board/display.

15. Can you sing the fight song?

We had a golf team...AND a tennis team...what was there to fight for????

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Mrs. Alberty for anatomy whom I had as a teacher in middle school. She was a no-nonsense let's have fun and learn something kinda teacher who really cared about her students. Mr. Price who taught economics and a special world history class that I got to be in. He threw out the text book first week of school and made us do research and teach each other about what we learned. Very hands on but well guided class. He also helped me get mostly over my fear (I would practially stop breathing) of public speaking through his jokes and by shining his laser pointer on my papers/nose/textbook. Mr. Grabowskii and Mrs. Smith who were lit/English teachers that really got the class involved and cared about their students. Mrs. Mealing who taught anatomy and for whom I drew the picture of SuperSperm. I really hope that thing never resurfaces. You would have been in that class that day to understand. Mr. Caudle whom let me paint and draw in his class. He kinda taught French but mostly talked about his weird family. It sucked that he always picked me to go up in front of the class because I had such a good pronounciation. Mrs. Gray was lab technology. Because of her I learned how to do urinalysis the classic way and for that reason I shall never drink beer. Had to love the skeeter house. Mrs. Miller who taught my professions class. Good frigid beans I cannot remember what it was called but basically we learned the paper pushing aspect of the medical field. And because of her I finally had learned to type 21 words a minute. I started out at five. Coach Carter. She kept us fit and really kept up with intramurals since lunch hour recreation was the only really form of sports we had. She also was really forgiving that time I put the kickball into one of the ceiling lights even though she called me out. Mrs. Watkins who taught biology and let us make our own sauerkraut. She was the keeper of Satan mouse, Harry Tarantula, and the ginormous red eyed cockroaches. She also would step out the room and let us have scripture readings on most days. I prolly should have just named the teachers I didn't like because there weren't any.

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Usually at the lunch table with my friends who were all a lot less naive than I was...or in the court yard on bright sunny days.

18. What was your school's full name?
A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet Highschool. Yeah, it was a killer to fill that out on forms for college.

19. When did you graduate?
2001 and we gave ourselves trophies for being such an epic class. (I think I might have it somewhere still if I have not lost it in the move).

20. What was your school mascot?
We were the Panthers! Though our principal would insist on us being the Jaguars.

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I would skip the complete freshman year and maybe just visit a couple of the epic times.

22. Did you have fun at Prom?
Fo sho! I went with Ally, Vernee, and Amy. We had a blast and completely eliminated all those prom pressures. We met up with Shannon there. She actually had a boy to go with. TRAITOR!
*kidding*

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
Only Vernee.....though through facebook I have kinda reconnected with Shannon.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
Yeppers. Mostly to show off my amazing husband at that time. I will prolly have to bring a copy of the marriage license because no one will believe that I found someone "good enough" to marry (and Tyler is much more awesome than good enough). Everyone thought I was very sweet and such a good girl but good gravy beans did I have them fooled. *grins impishly*

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Mostly through facebook. It's a lot harder now that I don't live there. But I still keep up with Vernee, Cassie, Krystle, Tom, John, as well as a couple others. Cassie and Krystle are going to be my bridesmaids. And if Vernee can come I may let her be the flower girl. *KIDDING cause she would annihilate me if she ever read that*

26. School colors?
Purple and white, royal and pure, to you dear Johnson, we shall always be true! Part of our alma mater and I still have my Barney purple graduation cap and gown. I nearly fell out of my seat laughing when Prof. Balogh suggested that we just wear our highschool cap and gowns for college graduation.

Shopping!

Shopping is much more fun when you've got someone to go with even though I did have fun going out yesterday. First I went to Hobby Lobby. I picked up oodles of stickers for a scrapbook I am making of things that happened in my relationship with Tyler the first year or so.....I figure in the event that we procreate someday the offspring will enjoy this if they aren't too busy trying to take over the world with their father. *smiles* I also picked up a rain check for all the butterflies I want to use for wedding decorating. I also picked up a veil. It's cute but not quite what I was hoping for so I may keep looking for that.

Then I went to TJ Max which is a pretty neat random store. I found the shoes I will wear on my wedding day. They go epically with the dress (I know cause I tried everything on last night and proceeded to dance around like a little girl) and they are Skechers. Rubber soles for the win! They are really comfortable, too, and this was quite a surprising find. I also got stuck in the baby section, too. There is so much cuteness in that section for a really good price! Dustin and Angela need to find out if beanie baby is a boy or girl stat! And I almost made it all the way to the check out with the coolest thing ever. It was this thing you put the baby in so you can carry the baby on your back or on your chest and keep your arms free. Awesome idea because I know moms and dads need all the free hands they can get. But what was even cooler was that this thing fits into a carseat or straps to a chair so that if you go over to a person's house who has no babies or baby shaped things to sit in you can still sit your baby upright in it. And the baby girl on the package had the cutest smile! I put it back for now because I was unsure of what design to get at the moment. Plus, I think it will be neat to shop for beanie baby with Tyler.

Lastly I went to Wal-mart. I picked up a better straight edge paper cutter because I wore mine out. I also picked up some double sided tape and a really cute heart top and blue bottomed scrub set. I think my wardrobe consists mainly of scrubs now. Though I will say that since I have moved out and all I've started wearing brighter coloured clothes. I pretty much used to buy just black and blue things. My closet looked like a bruise. I've actually picked out pick and light brown tops. It's neat to see the colour change and that was kinda random. I also picked up a black ink cartridge because guess what? We used up all the ink printing wedding invitations. Go figure. The only thing that sucked about going to Wal-mart was some creepy guy winked at me and then proceeded to follow me out of the store whistling something strange. I stopped to put the cart up so that he could go out the store first. I was kinda nervous about leaving the store (because I also left my cell phone at home which was unusual) but at that moment some little old man started walking out to his car and talking to me about the coming rain. It just made me feel better. Course I did have to go back to Wal-mart to get the correct printer cartridge later. I got a 40 something or other and I needed a 30 version. But that was okay because I the cartridge I needed cost less so I treated myself to a DVD/CD of the David Crowder Band Remedy Club tour that was on sale. I love the CD. It has one of my favorite songs to dance to on it: Foreverandever Etc. The music video for this is epic as it has cute animation and Voltronesque band members fighting evil Nazish squirrels.

And in other news when I got home I was thinking it will be neat after Tyler and I marry because he will live here and then I will have someone to go shopping with and better yet help carry everything upstairs! But that also got me thinking about what else I am looking forward to after we're married: spending time with Tyler! For the most part I really enjoy spending time with Tyler (not so much when he farts) and I am looking forward to arranging furniture, decorating, playing video games, watching movies, exploring, travelling, snuggling, and going on walks with him. I know marriage isn't going to be cinchy all the time but I think with Tyler it will be fantasticular.

God bless and catch ya on the flip side. Soonly. *sticks tongue out*

Job satisfaction, please? And other stuff...

I used to love going into work. Taking care of people. I still love caring for people but it just seems like I don't get to do much of that lately and it's frustrating. We're short on help and we get a bunch of new policies dumped on us all at once instead of introducing one thing at a time and letting a majority of the people get used to it before introducing another. It seems as if the work load is increasing though we are still expected to finish on time. I prolly should not even mention being frustrated because I am sure I signed something in my initial contract that states I should never become a disgruntled employee or else.......not that I'm disgruntled......yet....

There is also something work related that I need prayer about if y'all don't mind. Other than the actual working conditions....though hopefully there is to be some improvements soonly. And in spite of everything, I have to thank God for keeping me employed in the rough times and for co-workers who keep the nights tolerable...and for the rough times that make us appreciate those good ones.

In other news....not quite sure where the wedding plans are at....cause we're at so many different spots with different things. It's been fun but it's still a lot of work. I think I now understand why people should only get married once. *KIDDING* (But I really do plan to only marry once)> So much yet to be done and it's LESS THAN TWO months away!!!!!!!! I'm not sure when the panic should set in but I think we'll get a lot more accomplished with this next trip. I just need to schedule my times on and off from work carefully this next month cause it seems I need to be so many places. Good news is that we're getting RSVP's back from people.....and I've heard that some people were even amused by the glitter. (Oddly enough Tyler was the one that put all the glitter in the envelopes...though I did mention which ones he should put extra glitter in...yay for teamwork!!!)

And lastly, I will say I am REALLY hyped about Dustin and Angela's beanie baby (though he or she is looking less like a bean). Why? Well, after this May that baby will be a neice or nephew that I may actually get to see before he or she is three or four years old. Babies are kinda neat and baby things are really cute (I keep "accidentally" wandering the baby aisle at Wal-mart/other randoms shops) but as for my cousins, nieces, nephews, God children, I did not get to see them until they were three or four. Well, I did see Alyssa I think twice when she was a baby. *sigh*

And last night I had a fun break as I drove down to Jacksonville go to dinner and a movie with Tyler. That really cheered me up. We saw Coraline. NOT what I thought it was going to be....it was actually kinda scary. There's Tim Burton for ya. But the theme was a good one, things are not always at they seem and at some point you have to be content with what ya have.

I'll work on the shorter blog thing next time. *sticks tongue out*