Fun Time!

Yay! For feeling better! I've been feeling much better this last week which is great since we just had a couple of Tyler's Florida friends come up to hang out with us and play games. Our gamefest with Jared and Nathan included:

1. Left 4 Dead
2. Last Night on Earth
3. Settlers of Catan
4. Citadels
5. Monty Python Flux

The guys also played some other random video games as I baked yummy jelly cookies. I need to practice my first person shooter skills as the guys had another objective during Left 4 Dead gameplay which was keep-Kelly-from-being-eaten-by-zombie-hordes. We had a blast though!

It was a good way to relax after working Sunday and then cleaning like a crazed Mary Poppins without the magic Monday after having been sick the whole week before. Praise God for feeling better! And we are prolly going to have some fun time when we go to Florida next week to take care of some business stuff (which includes checking into getting a valid Florida nursing license as so far the only things they have not required besides a DNA sample is the kitchen sink, a leg, our firstborn, the cat, and the soul of an unsuspecting visitor).

Also what I think will be fun is the giveaway Angela is hosting. It is unlikely that anyone who reads this blog does not know who she is BUT just in case.....Angela is my recently acquired really sweet, fashionably wise sister-in-law who is expecting my soonly-to-be-acquired new niece Dallas! And if you did not know, I am REALLY excited about meeting Dallas this year and my sweetbean of a husband, Tyler, has had a challenge keeping me out of the baby sections (and keeping the cutsie baby girl stuff out of our cart).

So if you would like check her giveaway out here!


God bless and have some fun! = )

Yuck

Head colds, sinus infections, allergy attacks......whatever you would like to dub them....are YUCK. Especially since both Tyler and I have them. A little blessing came today though because we thought we were going to need to figure out how to open our air circulator thingie and replace the filter. Typically once every three months someone comes to vacuum the grossness off the filter *cringes* BUT this person actually came and REPLACED the filter. YAY!

And because of our yuckinesses we had a very quick trip to Jacksonville yesterday. We had meant to stay over night and do some yard work and visit people but it's better to be home and just rest up. Not to mention we would not have found out about the filter being replaced otherwise.

Our trip was a productive one looking into our financial future and to sum up all the technical boring stuff it looks like though things might be kinda tight the next month or so that we are going to be doing pretty well in the long run. AND because of the economy's condition we did discover that there might be one more reason for us to move to Florida before the end of December. Even though we are finding fewer reasons to stay here we are still praying over the decisions we are facing.

My only other irritation besides the yuckiness is that a sweet nurse tech (prolly one of our best) has decided that if she tells everyone I am pregnant that it will come true. She hopes that having a baby means we would stay put (which in reality means we would try to move closer to family as of immediately). I have at this point stopped her from spreading this false information with the threat of flooding her locker and mailbox with empty chocolate wrappers. Score one for me!

Other than that we just have to start crossing things off our seemingly never ending to do list before company comes next week. Therefore toodles for now and God bless!

Praying, Planning, Preparing

I suppose it's been a little while since I've blogged....and a lot has happened since then!

We had a lovely visit from Tyler's parents who brought the rest of our things up from Florida. We are STILL organizing, cleaning, arranging, throwing things away....but we are having a blast living together. It is such a blessing to have your best friend live at home with you.

I have seen all the Terminator movies so far in preparation for a future date night with Tyler when we go see Terminator Salvation. We enjoy cooking together and it has been nice using the table set that Dustin and Angela gave us while watching those movies. Which reminds me that I am only about a third of the way through the thank-you notes.....

Last week we had a lovely visit with Tyler's Nana and Mom in Perry. Yay! for yardsaling. Boo! for losing so badly in Pinochle. We had a blast though. I found a really nice iron hook rack for 50¢ and Tyler found an awesome steel printed poster of the Black Knight's Security System! Guaranteed that none shall pass!

We are really looking forward to some visiting and visitations in the next couple months. We are going to go meet my parents (a lot of prayer here, please) and hopefully get to North Carolina so Tyler can meet some more of my family. It will prolly be a while before we can get all the way to Pennsylvania. We hope to see more of Nana as she is so close. My brothers will hopefully be coming this summer to spend time with us and go to the beach since we are just an hour away and I believe some friends of Tyler's are going to pop up from Florida. And of course family is always welcome. *hint hint* Just more motivation to get things organized!

And far as work goes......it has been superfantasticular coming home from work and having someone to greet me! I was blessed to ease back into working after having been gone a month but the last several days we have been getting slammed. We are also going through quite a few changes! I do not like the additional paperwork we have to do but hopefully our accuity research project which will occur over the next five months will show we really do have a need for a smaller nurse-patient ratio. For a cardiac floor right now on nights we have seven patients for every nurse and fourteen patients for every nurse tech. We really could use another tech at least!

The BIGGEST news is that Mata, our clinical supervisor, over our ICU, PCU, and telemetry units is resigning so she can move back to Florida at the beginning of July so she can be with her family. *YIKES* As of yet we have no clue as to whom shall attempt to fill her shoes. Our clinical supervisor is the person who manages us and takes care of our needs for just about anything. Basically our spokesperson if we are being treated unfairly. She also manages our schedule. We have been blessed with self scheduling so far which is really nice because we basically get to pick which six shifts out of a two-week pay period we want to work. This allows us the ability to schedule our life instead of having to schedule our lives around how we work.

Tyler and I have been planning to follow Mata's example and move to Florida sometime next year before our lease runs out. We were hoping to transfer to another HMA (the company that owns us) hospital. This would keep a lot of things simple with trying to find another job, the transfer of benefits, and such. The only thing I would need to do obtained a Florida nursing license. HOWEVER.........it appears that there are no HMA hospitals near any of our friends or family. We are still praying about it but Tyler and I are really considering looking at other hospitals and not transferring to an HMA facility at all. This means we will need LOTS of prayer and research on where we may go. This also mean that exactly when we can move is a bit undecided. So much to consider!!

Anyways, more updates to come in the future! God bless and love ya!