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A NEW JOB!! Farther of a drive, and a different area of science, but a much smaller school. I feel good.
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Watching Speedy eat this evening. She is sooo picky she won't eat if she doesn't smell banana mixed in her food. Spoiled rotten I reckon.
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My last strawberry cupcake, but now they are gone, makes note to go to store tomorrow!
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visiting with my son today.... (f)
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as ever....the incredible beauty of where I live....
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Spending all day with my honey!
We were up at butt crack dawn, getting tests done for her upcoming surgery, then enjoyed breakfast at one of fave places....came home and just spent the rest of the day together. She does...always....as does my little dachshund!!! |
Musical Alchemy!
Some renegade musical genius went apeshit one day and married earthy blues vocals to a delicate classical piano melody set amidst a sexy backdrop of jazz-style percussion.
On paper it reads like some sort of dreadful musical nightmare, but it sounded just like magic to me. Ahhhhh. |
Today is my granddaughters birthday. She is such a smart kid. She was telling me all about how she is getting so old (8) and how her math is so much more difficult than the math I learned... and then she was giving me pop math questions/quiz.
I LOVE that girl with every single part of my being. My granddaughter makes me smile. Now I am on a mission to find the newer Monster High dolls. Lol |
I helped babysit a friend's 5 month old grandniece on Saturday while her Momma, big sister and my friend went shopping. She was so sweet, tiny and precious. Even with this being the first time I had met both children, this beautiful, always smiling sweetheart never once got upset that her momma had let a stranger hold and carry her. And she'd look at me with those big brown eyes to "study" my baseball hat and face, always with that cute baby smile......then reach up to grab a tiny handful of my curly hair...I just fell in love!! She stole my heart!!
With that baby soft dark brown hair, dark eyes, long eyelashes and always so happy, she certainly belongs in her great-uncle's family. It's been a long time since I got cuddles from such a tiny baby. I've always wanted a baby girl...I just might have to share custody of this one. She's a real sweetheart and she has her great-uncle's personality! So fun and happier than a puppy with two tails!! |
I worked on the locked ward at the women's hospital today for the first time :)
I am in full time college for medical massage therapy and its my last two terms. So my outreach is high risk pregnancy unit. One ward is locked because the to-be mothers have MRSA or Hep C or HIV and are with drawing from drugs. Usually herion. I LOVED it. The women there are incredible. And being able to take some of their physical pain away as well as listen and slowly get them to sleep, when they haven't in a couple of days is pretty amazing. I love my new career. I'm so, so lucky. |
My Tuesday morning lady...
She makes no qualms about adoring me...and it is truly mutual... She went above and beyond and is paving the path for me to get a scholarship to finish nursing school... It turns out she and her daughter are on the scholarship board and can provide me with an excellent reference. I am beyond blissful. (f) |
I was torn between posting this in the "What made you smile today?" thread or here, but believe what I was told is more than smile worthy, it brings joy to my sometimes hardened heart. I was at the store talking with one of my distributors. He says "I have to tell you this, I think you'll enjoy it. I was talking to my eight year old and telling him we would be attending a wedding this weekend. He asked who's wedding and I told him his cousin Val's. 'Oh!' he says. 'Are they marrying a boy or a girl?'" Who knew the world would ever be like this 40+ years ago?! Yep, he was right, I loved this joyous little story. PS: My apologies to the grammar experts.
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Finding a new to me truck topper that not only fits perfectly on my truck but the colors match very well. I've only been looking for the last year or so. :)
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Cleaning up the yard. It's amazing how satisfying mindless tasks can be.
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The person I shared dinner with, our laughter and the comfort in their presence. Feeling a total trust in them and knowing the value of such.
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painting supplies!!!!
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Sticking to my workout even though I didnt want to today.
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Cleaning off a plot of land and marking off an outline so the building can begin very soon. :-) :-)
Feeling accomplished! |
Having the day off, listening to the rain....
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In my final four weeks of school. The week before I had the last practical midterm I'll ever have in anatomy. I suck at anatomy practicals because someone names a muscle, then you tell your "body" how to position themselves on the massage table, you then palpate the muscle belly, stating: origin, insertion, nerve, artery, and actions. We have to memorize 270 out of 320 pairs of muscles in the body.
We also have to demonstrate how to muscle test each one. For example if you want to muscle test the gluteus medius the body is laying on their back and I bring the leg into slight abduction, and flextion at about 5 degrees and get them to resist further abduction. Glute *minimus* however, the leg is abducted, flexed to 20 degrees, internally rotated and then I get them to resist abduction. The examiner tells you a muscle and you have two minutes to demonstrate this.p, while also talking about the palpation quality of the tissue, and the result of the muscle test. It's repeated five times for five different muscles, for a total of 10 minutes, then they give you a body landmark - like a nerve pathway, an artery pathway, a pulse location, a boney landmark like the radial tuberocity, and you have to find it and show how you know that's what it is and they put their fingers where yours are and double check. I panick and freak out on these regularly. Singly hecUse someone barking orders holding a clip board and scribbling down everything I do makes me highly nervous. I can tell stories at parties, but I can't do scrutiny. I used to freeze and stammer and sweat and shake. Now I blather like a fucking idiot, and sweat and say things backwards. But, this last one, I don't even remember it, I was in full panick mode, blathering incoherently, sweat running down my neck and back, and I left thinking "holy shit I failed. That was awful. I actually had no fucking clue what I was doing. I don't even remember what I said. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck." And failing isn't really an option five weeks before grad. It means I wouldn't graduate. I got my test paper result back today. 94% Apparently, when blathering like complete knob and on autopilot is still know my stuff. It's actually in my skull. So, I phoned my dad and got to tell him I passed that midterm with 94% That brought me a fuckton of joy today. |
after the rain, the beautiful sunshine, stepping out on the back porch to see my breath. Brrrr, it's cold and nice :)
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waking up to so much love from family and friends for my Birthday!
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I had a bunch of fun today after I was so happy to get several glass art/wine bottle light projects completed and my pretty bright red shadow box with it's Christmas tree and "snow" scene finished.
Even more fun and jokes about "slurping nutts" ...(peanuts that is!!) as we raced up to the antique mall to display my finished products. Then went shopping for more light fixtures and SCORED a whole bunch of FREE unique bottles (different shaped wine, "rare" scotch, and vodka) after chatting with a wonderful lady who said she was just going to trash them. I was so excited to get a bunch of beautiful projects done and even more happy to spend it with the people that mean so much to me. |
I made my best friend laugh so hard they nearly tipped their recliner backwards!!!
Admittedly, the laughter came shortly after I seriously set off fireworks in the living room because I was "playing with fire and messing with fate" with a screwdriver and live electrical wires. Even tho my heart stopped and had trouble beating correctly for a while, and I melted the screwdriver, all the laughter was worth it!! |
Taking care of myself.
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a kind stranger... being polite... :)
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I'm experiencing a bit of pampering myself. I am still in my pajamas, which rarely, if ever, happens. I'm either in workout clothes or work clothes on or before 8am every day so this is really nice and comfy. |
Knowing today is the first day of my new life and though I am anxious about surgery I know this is going to be the start to an amazing new journey. Taking care of me
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As ever.....the beauty of the mountains...it never ceases to amaze me...
No matter what else happens in my life, I'm immeasurably blessed to live here...and to be where I always wanted to be...<3 |
Watching all the winter birds play in the snow...and my young goats stumble in it because this is their first experience with snow or ice.
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Doing NOTHING. Just lounging around watching tv, playing on my iPhone, taking our four dogs out in the snow, and resting my brain and tired body. It's nice to not have to DO something all the time and just kind of BE once in awhile.
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Waking up to a new day
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Joy
Coming home to the kitties always brings me joy. I miss them during the work day and I know they miss me. :)
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My boss telling me "You Rock!".
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Spending the entire day at home with my love. Winding the evening down by eating the last piece of dutch apple pie with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream.
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The idea of buying another wig on payday is bringing me a lot of joy!
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The same thing I'm bitching about in another thread....snow and this darn storm. Before I had to get out in it and work and shovel more than a driveway, I used to love it so much. Now, not so much.
BUT I'm in the honeymoon stage of this storm. The ground is just now covered and everything's white and beautiful. This lasts for the first inch or two and then the dread of having to slosh through it brings me back. So, temporarily, the snow falling is making me happy. It's pretty. Now. That will change, but for this very moment, it's lovely. |
Watching the birds and squirrles enjoy the feed I put out for them this morning.
A text convo with a friend last night Watching the frozen stuff begin to melt |
Watching our four little Bostons acting goofy in the snow
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