10 Random Musings

Here are ten random thoughts floating through my head this morning.

1) Today I was hoping to get a nice nap in on the bus.  But then my bus friend drove by and picked me up instead.  I got to work 20 minutes early but I am now super tired - it's kind of rude to sleep while someone is driving you to work.  The nights have been rough for the past week.  I am still sick and coughing up a storm all night.  And Evan is still not really comfortable and has at least one "fit" at night where he wakes up and decides he wants to climb off the bed and then roll around on the floor in anger.  Regular coffee, here I come!

2) I am in love with these stamps.


I am tempted to buy lots and lots of them since they are forever stamps and then I can put them on my letters for the next few years.  Seriously, it is 10x more fun sending bills when you put a Harry Potter stamp on them.

3) I tried doing our family budget for next year and it doesn't look good.  When I added up all of our necessary expenses (rent, car insurance, electricity, etc.) and then subtracted the money I was getting from loans and the hub's salary, we were short $2,000.  And I didn't put things like gas and food in there.  We obviously have to eat something, even if it's just eggs, pasta, rice, and beans.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that shortfall, but I have a feeling I'm gonna have to pray a lot and hope this path that I've chosen is the same path that God has chosen for me...otherwise things could get scary towards the end of the school year when our cash dries up.

Another random school thing - I have a "Set-up for Success" day in June where I go to the campus and they review anatomy and physiology and teach us drug calculations, etc.  Is this kind of like having to read books over the summer but for science?  It's a bit scary when you have to have a review session before classes even start!

4) I am trying really hard to eat healthier.  No more eating an entire pan of brownies. I'm not saying brownies are out of the question because it's not worth living if you can't enjoy cakes and brownies at times.  However, honestly, once I've stepped away from 10lbs of sugar for a few days it's not so hard to show a bit of restraint.  And I feel a bit better too.  Not as better as some of those healthy food blogs say you will feel, but a little better.  And I feel a lot better about myself!  This was my healthy dinner yesterday.

I made Teryaki stir-fry with tofu.  It was pretty delicious.  I actually made my own Teryaki sauce - so much easier and better than the store-bought stuff.  And it made a lot so I froze the rest in ice cube trays so I can take a few "ice cubes" out and use them whenever I want.  I ate this over quinoa...quinoa that has been in my fridge for over a week but doesn't have mold growing on it yet.  Thank goodness.  I also then enjoyed an ice cream bar and a glass of wine, so as you can tell, I'm not eliminating sugar from my diet or anything.  But I am trying to make sure I eat bigger, healthier meals for lunch and dinner so I'm not shoving entire bags of chips in my mouth the second I arrive home from work because I'm famished. 

5) I have some scary, new addictions.  First, the Dugger Family.  I know!!!  How embarrassing!!!  I just find them fascinating and I LOVE big families and always wished I had lots of brothers and sisters (really Mom, why didn't you have 17 kids!!!) - so I live vicariously through them.  I started watching the season from the beginning and I'm on Season 6 now.  And I also bought their book and read it too.  It's not that well written, but it was still interesting.  In between that show I have been watching Season 3 of Dance Academy.  Another embarrassing thing to admit.  It's about a group of teens in dance school in Australia.  I love it.  I love dance movies and tv shows so of course I love this.

6) Evan is obsessed with golf.

He loves hitting his golf ball and can actually hit it most times.  I can't wait until we can all play as a family - how fun will that be!!!  And oddly enough, he plays golf left handed.  He plays and writes with his right hand for other things but for some reason he's a lefty golfer.  Funny, huh.

7) This weekend I am taking my nieces out for special days.  I'm taking the oldest out on Saturday for a special day with Titi (me) and then I'm taking the middle one to the Zoo on Sunday with our family for a special zoo day.  I CAN'T wait!!!  At first I was afraid they might be too nervous to venture out alone (they like to go places together but rarely separate) but my sister said that they both want their special days with me so it sounds like it is going to work out.


8)  Our pediatrician just started requiring all patients to be vaccinated (she used to see patients that preferred to avoid vaccines).  She has a Facebook page and you should have seen the ridiculous comments people made.  I'm not going to get on a pedestal and talk about vaccines, but people were saying completely untrue things.  One woman said that natural immunity is best and we should all just get polio and measles and tetanus so that we build a natural immunity and then the diseases would be eradicated that way - like typhoid fever and scarlet fever were eradicated.  Umm, really?  Minus the fact that people can die from those diseases and so some people's "natural immunity" might be death, but typhoid and scarlet fever haven't been eradicated!!!!  Plenty of people get typhoid fever in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  And Scarlet Fever?  Really?  That is caused by Group A Strep - the same thing that causes strep throat.  Yeah, it's not as common anymore because we have antibiotics - but people still get it!  I understand that people aren't as educated as I am about health issues (it is my job, so I tend to know more than the average person), but before I post or talk about fact-like things, I do my research and make sure I know what I'm talking about.  And I definitely do my research when it comes to Evan.  And I make sure I don't just look at websites that say what I want them to say - I try and get a few opinions from different resources because in this day and age you can find any website to support any illogical thought but that doesn't mean it's right.

Ok - long tangent.  I just couldn't believe that comment.

9) I have an upcoming work trip to Atlanta and I can't wait to see my ATL friends.  It has been so long and they have babies now and it's going to be so fun.  And my mommy is coming to take care of Evan and so I get to see her too.  Not much because I have to be at work things all day and all night, but I'll get to see her for a little bit.  And Evan gets to see his Mimi and hang out with her all day.  He is going to be so excited!!!

10) When I first started this post I thought that 10 random things would be really easy but after #7 I was struggling.  And now I don't have much at all.  Except that since April, Verizon has gotten their switchboards screwed up and so a bunch of sick elderly people were calling my office phone wanting a Lifeline phone (you know the "if you've fallen and you can't get up").  I guess there was some Medicare deal where they could get a phone for free and when they dialed the number (which wasn't my number) they were transfered to my phone.  Literally, I was gone for a week of vacation and came back to 99 phone messages from frail sounding elderly adults asking about their phone.  And when I was in the office the phone rang off the hook so I stopped answering it because they didn't understand that they had the wrong number and each call took about 10 minutes of me explaining and it was taking up my entire day.  So then I would get really nasty phone messages (I had to listen to some of them if I was trying to get to an actual message) talking about how I should be fired because I'm never at my desk and that I'm a horrible person because I don't return their calls, etc.  I returned a few calls in the beginning but I can't return 99 calls.  Or even the 15 calls I was getting a day.  Thankfully it has slowed down (our phone and HR people have been working on it) and I only get about one or two a day now - but it was a phone nightmare.  Luckily these people just wanted phones - they weren't using their Lifeline phones because they had fallen.  That would have been way more tragic.  I do hope they got it worked out though because I would hate for these people to never get their phones!

Ok - there are my ten randoms for the day.  How about you?  What is something random going on in your life?  What embarrassing TV shows are you watching these days?  Have you bought Harry Potter stamps???