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originally, i was going to apply to 10, maybe 15 schools. much less than the average (which i think is around 20). i ended up applying to 20. $730!! ah well, such is the sacrifice we make for our dreams, eh? actually my dad ended up paying for most of it. he does have a lot more money than i do...
at some point i'll find out which schools liked my primary application enough to send me a secondary application. hopefully that will be soon. first, the application service has to verify all my information, grades, test scores, etc. then i get to request my committee letter/recommendation letters. those get sent to the application service and then the entire application is sent to my schools. who send me another application. fingers crossed.
i don't know if that process made sense the way i said it.
anyways, to celebrate, i'm going spend money at the apple store (.com). my dad gave me a $500 apple gift card (yeeha!) for my birthday. it's from grant money, so it's less of a deal than it he'd paid for it out of pocket. i went to the apple store, but there wasn't anything these that i needed or wanted. i thought about getting an iphone, but i'm sure those will get even cheaper in the future and i already have a cell phone. on verizon ;) i was also thinking about a camera, but i have one of those also. not as good as some in the store, but i'm not much of a photographer, so it's not a big deal. i wanted speakers, but the ones in the store were ugly. or for ipods. which i don't have. so to the online store i went. here's what i've found so far:
coolio messenger bag/backpack hybrid that's supposed to be pretty comfortable
pretty speakers, small but works well for its size (i don't need huge ones anyway)
microphone, because the one in my macbook stinks and this one's pretty :)
i haven't made these my final purchases yet, i'll look around for a bit longer.
Wow has it been a week! Well almost! I spent one night home Sunday night from our Fourth of July Camping Trip before I headed to Ponca for another camping trip! I know some of this is going to be a repeat of an old blog get over it!:P
It looks like I am back for one night. I get one last day to myself (cleaning and doing laundry) before I go pick up my kids from Goodwill Camp. I really could care less if it is a Christian Based Camp. It isn't a Bible Camp and it isn't a full on Church Camp. I am worried about my kids to tell the truth. Okay I am more worried about Coltin then DeLaney but I am still worried about DeLaney! No News is Good News is the theory in our family. Since I haven't heard anything, Randy hasn't heard anything, and my parents havent' heard anything, all is well!
Thursday the 3rd of July was a busy day of packing for camping. Then lets add to that shall we! Coltin and DeLaney were staying out of my hair by playing outside with the dog, the cats, and riding their bikes! I was taking some down time before I had to get real busy by reading emails and on the computer! All of a sudden Coltin comes pounding into the house screaming "MOM! Mamma! Mommy! I fell off my bike! My hand hurts!" DeLaney is in the kitchen getting into something and then follows him upstairs. I run half way down the stairs to meet Coltin.
His left palm is tore up! Bleeding and full of gravel and dirt! Not to mention some wood peices! I grab his hand, a dirty jam jam top of DeLaney's off the steps and place over his hand and lift it over his head and then haul him like a sack of taters down the stairs to the kitchen! I uncover his hand and it is still bleeding but I cleaned up enough with the jam jam top that I can see a good chunk is scraped, cut, and raw. I tell him to take a deep breath and breath in via his nose and out his mouth and shove his hand under luke warm water and wash that hand up with dawn dish soap, hollered to DeLaney to get my saline solution off the sink. I also told him no screaming in my ear! He can cry all he wants but if he jerks his hand from my grasp or screams one bit it is going to be worse then what it actually is! He listened thankfully. DeLaney thankfully had the first aid kit ready for me (that is what she was doing in the kitchen when Coltin ran upstairs). I get his hand cleaned up, the majority of the dirt, gravel and wood out and see that we can see fat at the base of his palm were the chunk is cut out of it! GREAT! The hand's skin is so thin anyway and he cut it deep. A trip to the doctor the day we leave for camping!
I call our doctor and talked to his nurse. Sue (doc's nurse) thankfully said to just bring him in, no point in racking up an ER bill and doc was slow that afternoon. It still took us 2 hours to get out of there. Poor Coltin had to soak his hand in antiseptic solution for a half hour and then the doctor had to come look at it. Doc decieded that it was pretty dirty still and had Sue resoak his hand for another half hour. And you know they take forever coming in and out of the room between things! Doctor wasn't going to put any stitches in just glue the flap of skin over since the other half of the wound was scraped up; until he found out we were going camping and then Coltin was going to Camp for a week when we got back. So Coltin ended up in the Official Stitches and Staples Club of our family at age 8! DeLaney entered into that club at 5 with staples in her head!
Once we got home, Randy pulled in and we got on the road to camping! Then we had issues with the Ford. The fucked over rebuilt dodge or Driver Returns on Foot vechile! I HATE Fords! We ended up turning around and loading up my busted up van and Randy's work truck. After that we had a grand time of camping over the 4th of July! Coltin managed to get to go swimming once that weekend. Having Grandma and Auntie as RNs, Daddy an ex EMT/First Responder, and Mommy and Uncle with First Aid Knowledge the boy's hand was covered and water proof!
Anyway, I dropped the kids off at Goodwill Camp at 7 in the moring on Monday the 7th, ended up having coffee with one of my cousin's (her boy was going to Camp also!) and then I came home and busted ass on laundry from the weekend! I finally got packed up and on the road at 4:30 PM for MY camping trip! I had a blast even though my hubby showed up on Monday and Tuesday nights!:P
The plan was for me to go cold turkey smoking since I would have the week to myself. Wrong! Randy didn't want to be home by himself (but I get to be home by myself all the time when he is gone!) That is okay. Monday we just hung around the camp site because it was too late to go fishing and we were on the Northwest corner of the park in the Reserve only camp ground. Tuesday while Randy was working, I took the Tomahawk class! That was a blast! I so want a tomahawk and Randy to build me a target! He said he will do that for me this fall! We got to learn how to hold it proper and throw it properally. We also were told how to hit the target and what to step if we were to far or back or ifit hit a certain way! Randy and I feasted on Steak, coal baked taters, and chips for our supper and then we went fishing. The area of the Mighty Mo we were on is NOT channeled (part of the National River Rec area), boy we learned real fast fishing there was different then fishing in the river up at the damm where it is channeled! We caught nothing that night but that is okay.
Wensday, I went to the archary class and got hit on by the Park Worker teaching it. So scrawny and so blonde! Randy isn't even that blonde! Not bad looking just not my type! Made me feel good though. Oh by the way, I was about the only adult to take the tomahawk and archary class, but I still had fun. Wensday afternoon, I went kayaking on the back waters of the Mighty Mo! OH MY GODS! I want a kayak! That was soooooooooooooo much fun! We didn't go straight into the river but into the back waters! Calmer, not as deep (you roll out you can stand up in some places!) and the current was pretty much none existant unless you were near one of the sandbars leading out to the river! I told Randy he had to buy me two, two man kayaks now! And 1 one man kayak so I can go with out him and the kids! He laughed his ass off! After kayaking, I went back to camp, let the dog out of the tent, made myself an early dinner, cleaned up some of the tent site, and loading up the van with my fishing gear. The girl teaching our kayaking class showed a few of us some of the newer trails that lead down to the river and back waters for better fishing! I fished from 5 pm till 8 pm! I only caught a White Bass but they were nibbling all evening long! It was great! I released the fish, since Randy wasn't staying that night and I dont' eat fish!
I got home yesterday afternoon. Before I came home though, I got my rear windshield fixed, hung out with a friend for the day and when I got home I cleaned up my dinning room. Today I am picking up the rest of the house, getting it spot less and running to my new Wally World ..........Dollar General! I pick my kids up at 6 pm tonight and sometime today I find out if I am picking my nephew up today or tomorrow. Regardless I get two nights home before I head out to Western NE to play softball mom for my neice! We will be back Sunday afternoon (depending on how well my neice's team does in what they call state -it is jr olympics).
I'll eventually post pictures and add lil bits of information here and there! But for now my rambling post is done!
Also had Clara’s 15/18 month checkup. Technically we missed the 15th and she’s a month shy of the 18th, so she had the one shot from the 15 month checkup and the one shot from the 18 month checkup, and we don’t go back til she’s 2 except for illness. Clara is in the 90th percentile for height and 60th for weight. And their weight difference is 4 pounds.
The girls are still sick, mainly Clara with the breathing. She's been on antibiotics, has a day or two left. The pediatrician thinks it’s bronchiolitus caused by allergies and weather. I've been giving her 2 breathing treatments a day, so the doctor said to up it to every 4 hours she's awake and at night, give her one if she wakes and is coughing. If she’s not improving with more breathing treatments and finishing the antibiotics, then she wants her to take some prednisone. If that still doesn’t work, then back we go for another visit.
I have been resting...Not getting a lot else done, but I feel 100x better just from getting adequate sleep.
Well the bug that bothered me over the last few days is finally subsiding, which is outstanding If I do say so myself. I took Nyquil the other night, and that stuff knocked me out so hard that when I woke up the next morning I had a hard time lifting my head. It was a Sunday morning and the baby was kneeling next to me on the bed, two hands on my left shoulder repeating “dad, dad, dad, dad, dad.” I looked at the clock it was 9 am, and I was in the same position I was in when I fell asleep the night before. That never happens because I toss and turn all night every night because I most likely have a sleep disorder. Well it was very interesting to say the least.
I am finally going to a primary care doctor tomorrow for my first physical since I was a senior in high school. I assume he will tell me that I am unphysical, at which point I will slap him in the mouth. The only reason I am even going to see him is to get a referral to the sleep clinic in Smithfield, as you can only go on doctors referrals if you want it to be covered by your medical insurance. All in all, my first trip to a doctor’s office in 8 years should be interesting enough.
First post in four days is a bit weak. Need to shake the rust off…
A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask
over his mouth and nose.
A pretty, young, student nurse appears to give him a partial sponge
bath.
"Nurse", he mumbles, from behind the mask.
"Are my testicles black?"
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir.
I'm only
here to wash your upper body and feet."
He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, please check.
Are my testicles
black?"
Concerned that he may elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from
worry about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls
back the covers.
She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand
and his testicles in the other.
Then, she takes a close look and says, "There's nothing wrong with
them, Sir!"
The man pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her and says very slowly:
"Thank you very much.
That was wonderful, but, listen very, very
closely......
"A r e - m y - t e s t - r e s u l t s - b a c k ??"
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