Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for my husband. Nate and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary tomorrow. We even got a babysitter so we can go out alone. YEAH!!! I had some other fun wedding pictures to post, but our scanner isn't allowing me to scan them, so here is one that was already on our computer.

It has been a great 5 years. We have been through so much together and I have learned a lot from Nate. He has helped me be a better person and he works so hard for our little family. We have so much fun together and have created some wonderful memories as a family. I thought I would share a few things about him that you may not know. Not for any particular reason, but just because I want to.

• He does not like small talk.
• He has a Black Belt in karate.
• He has a great singing voice, but only a few people know this.
• He impersonates Jim Carrey to a 'T'. It is so funny to watch him.
• He grew up 'worming' as a child, meaning he would pull up worms and sell them to bait stores for money.
• The thing that grosses Nate out the most in the ER is when he has to yank someones toenail off.
• He is in the Young Men's presidency.
• He is also the Scout Committee Chairman, which is funny because he never has liked scouting.
• He is doing most of the work in finishing our basement.
• He ran a marathon last year.
• He was my home-teacher in college.
• He looks HOT in scrubs!!!!
• One of the nurses refers to Nate as "Dr. Sunshinc". I am not sure what to think of that, or if I should even be telling people that.
• He loves basketball, golfing, fishing, and being outside.
• He thinks things through before he says anything, unlike myself.
• He was a mink wrastler in college. Meaning he would hold mink down for blood draws.
• He is the most honest and trustworthy person I know. Seriously.

Well, that's all for now. I hope you all learned something while reading this.

We haven't been doing too much else this week. Just trying to feel better from these dang allergies. I have been living in my glasses all week and wearing no make-up because my eyes have been so itchy and puffy. It kind of gives me an excuse to not have to get ready. I am so sick of it. I also lost my glasses at the pool today, good thing I have an ugly back-up pair. Other then that, we have been getting things tied up before we fly to CANADA on Saturday. We are just a LITTLE excited to go!!!! As Dylan says, "Only 2 more sleeps left".

Medical Moment

Nate came home from work last night with another story:

A girl came into the ER with a bump on her fore-head. Nate opened it up with a needle and popped it. It was a Zit. She will be paying$200-$300 to have that zit popped in the ER.

That is an expensive zit.

Thankful Thursday

I feel like I have posted a lot lately. Oh well. It's fun.

Today I am thankful for:

1. The rain. Our grass is now green instead of brown. It is not crunchy anymore either.
2. The rain again. It washed the noisy cricket away from outside our bedroom window so we can now sleep peacefully at night.
3. Kleenex. I have bad allergies and a cold. I have bonded more with my kleenex this summer then I have with my own children. Sad.
4. Chap stick. My lips have been very dry and even cracking, due to the allergies and cold again. I always have a chap stick with me. Thanks chap stick, for helping me out.
5. My blender. Yes, my blender. It has been used a lot lately. The kids won't eat fruit, so I make a lot of smoothies. I can sneak all sorts of healthy stuff in there and the kids don't even know it. They love it!

New shoes

These are the new shoes I bought at Kohls last night. I don't wear heals. I mean, I have shoes with a big chunky heal, but they are more like clunkers, not heals. So, this is a first for me. I have never been able to walk in heals before, I always fall. These beauties, I tried on and fell right in love with them. I even did a nice little dance in the store wearing them and I didn't even fall. That is when I knew they were the shoes for me. No, I wasn't alone dancing in the store. I had an audience. Cora and Carolee came to help me. Thanks girls. I am very excited about these shoes, not that I even have nice clothes to wear with them, but it is a start. The best part is: They were originally $50 and I paid $26 for them. My father would be proud.

CHEESE!

Whenever I open the camera to take a picture, Cassie's new thing is to run right up to the camera and say "CHEEEEEEEESE" until I take her picture. She makes the funniest faces!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for:

1. The Library, because the kids love going there at any time (when we get bored) and picking out the best books.

2. My new camera!!! Yeah, it came in the mail today. For those who don't know, after many times of dropping my old camera, it finally stopped working. So after a lot of research, I found one on buydig.com that costs $45 less then the same one at Walmart. Yeah!

3. Our new computer speakers. Now we can actually hear sounds from the computer without actually holding the speakers right to our ears.

4. Aldi. This is the cheapest grocery store I have ever been to. It is the best. Seriously, it is way cheaper then even SuperWalmarts. Thanks Tanya, for introducing me to Aldi when we joined you in the Midwest.

5. Nate's random schedule. I know, kind of weird. But he has 5 days off in a row for no reason. Mind you, he did work 6 long days in a row last week and he does the same thing next week, but having 5 days of him home in a row is a blessing. It means big breakfasts in the morning, running errands alone, movie nights after the kids are in bed, happy kids, happy mom, happy everyone! I love my family!

PG

This entry is rated PG for Pretty Gross.

WARNING: Let's just say that it might leave some unpleasant images in your head.

Nate came home last night from work and said he had to do the grossest thing he has ever done. I hope I can relate this story as well as he told it to me. If you have any questions, he can answer them.

So a man in his 40's, that appeared to be homeless, came into the ER last night. He had an abscess on his butt that was causing major pain. So down came the pants because Nate had the wonderful opportunity to drain the abscess out. The man had VERY POOR hygiene, meaning he didn't keep himself very clean, as in wiping. Gross, I know. And the abscess was located very close to this not very clean area. In fact, Nate had to have a nurse help "spread the cheeks" so he could have better access to the abscess. So as the nurse is holding the cheeks apart, Nate opens the abcess with a scalpel so he can start draining the "white, creamy, tan, brownish, crud/puss junk", or whatever it is, out of the abscess. So once the hole is created, the "stuff" starts spraying out. Nate said he has never ever in his life smelt anything so horrible as the crap that was flying out of that abscess (amongst other smells that were coming from this man). And it flew out into a stream almost 12 inches long, and it kept coming. He said he didn't think it would ever stop. It was so horrible that he was dry heaving from the smell, but he couldn't leave. He had to help drain it ALL out. He was trying to be really relaxed about it so the man wouldn't know he was dry heaving. I wish I could have seen that. The funny part was that the nurse kept trying to make excuses to leave the room, but Nate made her stay and suffer through it. The guy was in a lot of pain too, so Nate felt bad for him. Gross. Nate tells it a lot better, but that is okay. His work usually doesn't phase him, but when he gets the few "odd" cases, it is so funny to hear his stories. Oh, and one more thing. He told me that he wanted to bring a sample of the "white, creamy, tan, brownish crap/puss stuff" home for me to smell so I could know how awful it really was. Sweet, that would have been just sweet.