| - Life Is Precious - - Hello all...
Just wanted to say hello and how're ya doing to everyone....not much up here - I'm working of course, but have also found time to do some fun things like paint Aunt Lydia's tire with lumpy gravel paint (long story lol lol) (and of course be treated to a cool can of Black Cherry pop while I was at it lol)...spend some time with my family on Father's Day (how's that sunburn, Case?? hehehe), and hang out with some friends on a couple different occasions.
I've also managed, of course, to have quite the interesting couple of weeks at the hospital. The black cloud over my head is headed elsewhere I'm hoping lol...you see....
We just got a new whirlpool tub at the hospital, but the trick is that you can't fill it up until you have the patient in (cuz you have to open the door) and you can't open the door until it is completely drained. So yes, of course, I managed to open the door and "WHOOSH!!!" out came a bunch of tub water, which ran not only out the tub room and into into the hallway, but also down the hole in the floor (that our maintenance man hadn't filled in yet) and straight on through the basement lab floor. Yay...but the buck doesn't stop there!!!....
A few days later we were making popcorn, and of course, the microwave decides to malfunction and burn it, and set off the fire alarm in the middle of the night lol....I swear it was just waiting for me to come on shift...grrr....
And then, a few days later, (yes, there is more), I'm driving to work (Nights), and half way to Mercer my headlights suddenly go out, my interior lights dim on, I lose power and my speedometer says I'm going 85 and I'm really going like 10. So I drive to the church, call my folks, and let the hospital know I'm going to be late because my car just died. lol......turns out I needed a new alternator.....they say bad things come in 3's and I'm hoping I'm done for a while now......haha oh my....
This coming weekend is Mercer Centennial www.mercernd.com and I'm going to make the most of it...I'm especially excited to sing in the Community Choir that's performing for the community church service on Sunday...I miss choir and singing as much as I used to...hopefully once I'm done with school I can do more of that again!!! :) I'm also looking forward to the parade and the "Old Time" music that's going to be going on...oh hahaha and I can't wait to see the lawn mower races! Mercer probably has the best track in the country by now!! lol
Which reminds me....my dad managed to hit his head with the post pounder the other day while pounding posts for the lawn mower race track (he doesn't know how he managed that one!) and knock a nice sized gash into it.....no stitches, of course, as he was to stubborn to go to the doc to have it looked at, but I guess it bled pretty good for a while and now he's fine...eiyayaei...really I wish he could tell you all the story cuz it's terribly funny when he tells it but praise God we can laugh and that it wasn't more serious.
So let's see now...Spent the last 3 eves working....yesterday (Sat.) was absolutely nuts, I can't even explain how insane it was...and when the confused, already agitated residents fight, whoa baby!!! look out!!! lol.... It's worse than a cat fight...:)
I've got the day off tomorrow...(yep, a day off!!! They do occur so if you need to get a hold of me don't give up hope- lol lol) ...so I'm going to do some cleaning, maybe mowing lawn if it's dry enough...we had an awesome thunderstorm tonight with tons of bolt and cloud lightning that completely lit things up...but it also dumped a ton of rain on us so we'll have to see how long it takes for things to dry up.
I had to laugh tonight because as I was sitting here I had one of those "revelation" type deals...ok not quite that dramatic but something similar to that...it never ceases to amaze me how one simple word such as car, or a simple object like a hat can set off an entire set of interesting realizations...haha I'm sure I sound nuts....but it was just one of those weird things that happened and I just started laughing because the way it happened was so dumb lol lol...anyways, if you want to know what the realization was, you'll have to ask lol lol...
Well, I guess that's all for now. Praying that each of you will be held in God's arms this week...take care and hope to hear from you soon!
In His Joy,
Shell | 
