the simple things

Posted on November 20, 2009 by electricnurse

We are finally moving in…after living here for 2 1/2 years. I am so excited to hang a wreath on our front door!!! Yay!!! Look at us~we actually live here!

Derder

Posted on November 17, 2009 by electricnurse

Adam and I have a very good friend that taught us all about derders and I am going to share this valuable information with you now.

I have been collecting derders in the past couple of weeks all in preparation for this amazing post! Seriously, though…this is more for fun than anything which I would say is definitely in need after my earlier ranting about breast cancer screening.

Now, I once thought this friend of mine was soooo smart and brilliant for coming up with the derder but after googling it I find that he didn’t necessarily “create” the derder (I don’t know…maybe he did and the dictionary just omitted his name, darnit to heck). I found the following definition: “Cylindrical light-stock cardboard tube used to wrap toilet paper and paper towels, among myriad other paper and card stock products. Once the paper is exhausted and it is no longer used in its original capacity, it is used to trumpet one’s voice around the room or venue in similar fashion to a megaphone.”.

Whether he is the derder creator or not he still is awesome and we (Adam and I) still give him full credit. Below is a bevy of derders that I collected from around the house. You see, it doesn’t have to just be a TP roll for pete’s sake…for example, pvc pipe makes an AWESOME derder, gift wrap rolls too!

So….I challenge you now~go to your nearest bathroom, unroll an entire roll of TP and yell derder through it as loud as you can to those around you and see what they do. I double dare you.

Open mouth…put foot in

Posted on November 17, 2009 by electricnurse

So…on Saturday night we went out to supper after State Volleyball with my family. This included Grandpa Jake. He isn’t really a grandpa but he IS a part of our family. He has ALWAYS been there for ALL of us. He attends every important event in all of our lives. A wonderful and reliable man. He has three kids of his own and 7, soon to be 8 grandchildren. His oldest, the one that is currently pregnant is my age.

We are sitting at the restaurant and visiting about his kids and grandchildren and about how Kendra (his eldest daughter) will be having her fourth child. He then says, well you know…she is getting kind of up there to be having a baby. The entire table got quiet. I AM NOT KIDDING YOU. Even my nieces and nephews. My mother, sister, husband…all of them turned and looked at me. He just kept on’a eatin’. Poor guy didn’t realize what he said.

Then, it kicked in….and the back peddlin’ started….rapidly might I say. But, I still feel old. My eggs and uterus feels old.

I AM TICKED OFF!!!!

Posted on November 17, 2009 by electricnurse

For a little background: save your ta tas

Sorry for the upcoming rant and abuse of exclamation points but here goes! I CANNOT, absolutely cannot believe what the US Preventive Services Task Force released in their updated guideline for breast cancer screening last night. I absolutely just loooovvvee how they say it can be at the woman’s discretion if she wants to get a mammogram in her 40s. Puhlease, people!!! Do you know what this means? Do you?! What it means is that this will give these stupid insurance companies (and the government) even more reason to perhaps not cover screening mammograms until you are 50! Spare me. As this is a government task force is this a way for them to begin to “save some moula” for their health care reform????

And what about those women in their 40s (and we all know someone…at least one person) with breast cancer? Well, I guess they’d be dead and long gone or have metastases to their bones by the time they get their mammogram when they are 50! And let me tell you…it is REAL fun watching someone you care about die of bone mets from cancer!!!!

Heck, I’ve always been frustrated about how to find breast cancer in women my own age. It is near impossible to detect in women in their 30s. Our tissue is so dense. Here I thought that maybe~just maybe, someday a recommendation would come out about periodic ultrasounds for breast cancer screening in women in their 30s. But….noooo, instead we are going to cut back on our screening attempts????

AND, they have the nerve to say there is NO value to women doing their own breast exams. Again, I tell you…spare me!!! Sure, a woman isn’t going to find EVERY cancer but I can’t tell you how proud I am when a younger woman comes in and is concerned about a “lump” because I know this means she was listening to me when I did her exam. And, they are even questioning whether there is any value in us doing exams on our patients. Gag!!!

The only small hope to hang on to is that the American Cancer Society is going against this as of now…I’ll be interested to see what happens in the days to come. For now, I’ll continue to examine my patient’s ta tas and encourage them to do the same.

Fun with #’s 3, 4, 5 & 6

Posted on November 16, 2009 by electricnurse

You know how it is when you are trying to remember a child’s name and maybe they have multiple siblings so you end up going through all of the other kid’s names before you get to the right one. Jordan, no Becky, I mean David, Madison…oh, you know who you are!!! Anyway, when my sister had her sixth child my husband and I began calling them by their number at times. So here are some photos of some good times with 3, 4, 5, and 6 (David, Madison, Anna & Calissa Jo respectively).

The hotel we stayed at had a swimming pool so OF COURSE we swam. Remember what it was like when you were little and going to a hotel was a treat in itself if it had a swimming pool!? Callie wears this float apparatus that she calls her duckie and she walks around going “quack, quack” and therefore, so does everyone else (say quack quack, that is).

Calissa Jo aka #6

just a little more Uncle Adam...please!!!

Did David (aka #3) finally get taller than Uncle Adam? Not quite...

We also spent the afternoon at the Lincoln Children’s Museum aka the “kid’s ze-um” according to #6. #6 also wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese which was surprising as there isn’t a Chuck E Cheese where they are from nor has she ever been to one. We asked her, “Callie, how do you know what Chuck E Cheese is?”. Her response, “I saw it on the mercial!”.