Eight...

Oh man I am lame at these but here goes...


[8 favorite tv shows]I don't have TV but at Kendle's I watch...
*Castle
*Dancing with the Stars
*The Bachelorette
*and That 70's Show
As for my other favorites...
*House
*Scrubs
*Smallville
*LOST

[8 things I did yesterday]
*Worked
*Went to church
*Didn't get a nap
*Kendle's for dinner :)
*Worked again
*Talked to my mom
*Texted a boy or two
*Oh and did I mention WORKED!

[8 restaurants I love]
*Quan's
*Olive Gargen
*Red Lobster
*Marie Callendar's
*Casa
*eegees
*Texas Roadhouse
*and a locally owned and opperated Pizza Ria

[8 things im looking forward to]
*Moving in with Kendle
*Kendle getting a job
*Wicked
*Keith Urban
*FHE
*taking a trip!
*not working tonight
*seeing my family

[8 things on my wish list]
*wink wink (just for you kendle only cause I couldn't put dot dot dot, people might misunderstand! hahaha)
*a puppy
*a trip
*make a difference (a real one)
*See the seven wonders
*a new bed
*to do something adventurous
*to do something simple

[8 people I tag]...I like kelsey have no one else to tag! :( sad day

6:15 a.m.

Okay so my mom says it is just how I've always been, but I just say its obnocous.
So I was at Kendle's house last night after FHE, we just chilled and watched Dancing With The Stars and talked while she made decorations for the senior fairwell thingy at the church tonight. Anyways just after mid-night she gave me my wicked cool Birthday present! (but that is a post yet to come)
Shortly after mid-night I came home thinking Kendle could use the sleep and hoping I would finally crash! You think I did? NOPE of course not! So its the middle of the night and once again I'm wide awake. I did finally crash about 3:30 or so and figured I would sleep for quite a while, Wrong again!I woke up at 5:45 this morning, like sat up in bed wide awake. What the crap!
So I called my mom just like I always do when I'm awake for no good reason in the morning, and all she did was laugh at me.
She said it was my habit, I guess when she was in labor with me I kept her up most of the night. Then she finally fell asleep around 3 or 4 a.m. because and I quote, "You just seemed to calm down and the contractions went away!" But right as my mom fell asleep I woke up! haha it was about 5:30 and I was here but 6:15. The last part went really fast but all she could say was that I have always been a pain like that. Let people have a clam before the storm. lol so I guess it is just my way!

Yummy!!!

I was supposed to be doing homework today but I kind of woke up in a "MOOD" I'm not really sure why but that meant nothing was going to get done unless it was something I wanted to do.
The only thing I wanted to do was go swimming but the pool was closed for a cleaning so that was not going to happen. I was really sad; I had all this energy, lots of time, and nothing I wanted to do, so I decided I would make dinner! lol
Yep at like 4 I started making shrimp scampi, with vermicelli, and broccoli. For anyone that knows me I'm not exactly a good cook, I normally have to follow a recipe but today I was flying solo. Best part is it turned out! And that meant that I had to take a picture and do a post because I was so excited, not only did it taste good but I looked good to. So here it is.

Random...

This morning when I got up to check my mail to my suprize when I opened to front door I found a phone book on the mat! This should not be an alarming thing really, however Thie is the 8th phone book I have recieved since january! Eight... yes eight... I am not sure if this is normal or not, but really I am starting to think that is a few to many! I have already given three or so to my parents but I want to know what anyone household needs so many for. What am I to do with them all? I can't just throw them away... what a waste... lol! Anyways I totally had to take a picture just to show the now Five phone books I have in my apartment with no place what-so-ever to put them....

Country Thunder 2009

So I went with my Aunt and a friend of hers (Juan) to Country Thunder 2009 in Florence, this last week and It was oh so much fun. As most would know It was terrible windy last week and being in a tent and out in open fields was not the funnest but we survived. We got to see Hal Ketchum, jason Michael Carroll, Heidi Newfield, Williams & Ree, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw, Jack Ingram, Neal McCoy, Blake Shelton, Alan Jackson, Jake Owen, Diamond Rio, The Zac Brown Band, Keith Anderson, Little Big Town, Montgomery Gentry, and my personal favorite... Rodney Atkins.

So for anyone that does not know, because I didn't know, This whole event takes place out on an old ranch. It is just a bunch of hay fields that are inbetween harvesting seasons. So one field is open and all dirt that is where the set up the stage and everyone just brings chairs and blankets and you are there for all the concerts. If you choose to camp out, which we did, you are camped in the fields surrounding the stage. These are all the hay fields and the are bumpy and still have hay pieces lying around. it was all reather really life and almost too country for me imagine that! haha
So this is the tent after we got it all set up.... It was actually a nice little home for 5 days!


Even with the wind we had a lot of fun.... this is me and My Aunt Missi...


This is Juan and My Aunt Missi! She loves loves loves to dance and she was always making us get up in the middle of a song to dance with her, so this is them dancing... got to love it!



As you might guess everyone that goes to these things (well execpt for me haha) is drunk by the first night. All of the tents around us were young college kids and they were always playing all these funny drinking games with ping pong balls and ropes and horse shoes and all sorts of things. Well my aunt and I want to play our own games so on the third day we went in to town to Wal-Mart and bought jacks and bubbles... there was no drinking involved but all the people around us sure thought we were drunk! hahaha so this is me playing Jacks...


After the first really windy day we went back to the tent to clean up. Of course that was the first day we decided to shower, how were we to know it was going to be so windy later. So after showering I had put on sun screen before we went to the concert and when we went back to clean up that afternoon I took off my sun glasses and I looked like I had a black eye. All of the dirt was blowing to the one side and it had stuck up under my glasses when the lotion was not all the way dry. It is a little hard to see in the picture but it was super funny!


Even with all the wind it was sooo very hot. My aunt loves those little peach ring candies but she can't buy them in the part of texas where she lives. She was so excited to buy some when she got to Tucson. Well she left them in the tent the first day we got there and when we got back this is what we found...

She was so sad, they really did not taste the same at all.
But all in all we had a lot of fun, we spent a lot of the time just laughing. Along with everything else, We climbed a rock wall one of those fake plastic ones that was fun, and we also each took a ride on the machinical Bull... That was quite the adventure. What a week!

Interesting night at work...

So I had two very interesting experiences at work last night the first happened when we had a patient come in by ambulance who was on a spinal board and neck brace because he had fallen while in the shower. He was not my patient but the doctor called me in to help turn him to remove the board while keeping the neck and back stable, we did all that and as I turned him back over I recognized the man, and did a double take on his wife. Sure enough he is the Sunday school teacher in my family ward, here in Tucson! A very loud boisterous man that I absolutely love... Well after a CT we found out he broke his neck, vertebrae C-5 through T-1, he actually completely inverted all 4 vertebrae. He also has a spinal/cranial hematoma (bleeding on the spine and brain) from the impact! He was rushed to surgery (which will take 6 hours) I hope he is all right! Pray for him please! It was very interesting to have someone there is such serious shape someone I knew, someone I could call my Bishop at 3 in the morning for a blessing for! And yet there he was still talking and laughing but unable to move! I was amazed by the peace and calm even I had after he got the blessing! Really I love the gospel!
Okay so my second story is the really winner for the night... we had this girl come in that was miscarrying, she didn't know how far along she was and to put it nicely she looked like she has used drugs a time or two. Well after being there for a while she said she had to go to the bathroom, sure enough she passed the entire fetus! Okay so I have never seen the product of a miscarriage at any point of viable time during a pregnancy most are very early on and several pass the fetus at home, but this girl was at least 18-20 weeks along, or 4-5 months, and the fetus came out fully intact! Like placenta, umbilical cord, the works. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen, The sac was still intact and it was just floating in the fluid, you could see each little finger and each little toe. You could see its eyes, you could see it was female, you could see its ears and eyes, it was this tinny tiny thing but so intricate, you could see the one vein and two arteries inside the umbilical cord wow! Really it was a wow experience... it was truly amazing only God could make something so beautiful!
I wanted to take a picture (how wrong is that!), but that would be breaking so many laws and so many ethical views so this one I found on line will have to do! It is actually very accurate to what I saw!

My Truck!

This is it my new truck! Isn't it pretty! It is a 2007 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 SR5! I have been looking for this truck for years and now it is finally mine. (Well it is when I get it on Thursday!)

What the Nikki Sue????

So just now I was on the phone with my mother. We were talking Hayley Marie Sanders, cause the baby announcement was in the San Pedro Paper this week. My mother saw the picture and knew who it was right away! So she was telling me that she loves the name (points for Adrian and Dustin! hahaha) Anyways we got to talking about how is she had twins my mom would have named then Hailey and Bayley (Bailey if a girl). The topic led to us talking about why she picked the names she did and I have heard the story before but I learned something new tonight!
She has always said she wanted names that were not popular (to bad she picked popular ones without knowing it, lol) So my brother was supposed to be a girl and he was going to be Danielle! if he was a boy she originally picked out Christopher, and she wanted to nick name him "Topper", but they told her he was a girl... then my aunt named my cousin Christopher 7 days before he was born and when he ended but being a boy not a girl they went with Matthew! Wierd! I was always a girl and I was always going to be Nicole Suzanne! They didn't know any Nicole at the time and "Suzanne just fit" according to my mother!
So that is all stuff I knew what I didn't know was My mom wanted me to be nick named Nikki Sue! She said she always wanted a "little country-girl" name! What? Hello I have never heard this! Nikki Sue? hahahaha.... She said I was supposed to be a little girly-girl and it would have been the perfect name! Little did she know, that as soon as I came out she would say, "this baby is not a Nikki!" I have never once been a Nikki, So Nikki flew out the window and Sue did too, cause Nicole Sue just is not the same! Then when I was 6 months old someone called me Collie and it kinda stuck...... and to her dismay I am so not the girly-girl my mother wanted. lol!
Honest who would have ever known.... Nikki Sue!

I survived and so did everyone else! :)

So I just got off of work.... yep just finished my very first 7p-7a shift and I was all alone! Its amazing how tired I am but yet I am feeling rather excited! I made it through... everyone kept saying, "wow! you did it and look at you no panic, no tears, just calm and collected!" hahaa me calm, Right! NOT!
Really It was not bad at all. I did walk in to a big huge mess at the start of shift, they got hit really hard yesterday and the nurse I took report from is very unorganized and frantic! It was not a good start but I had great tech help (thanks Toto and Brian"p.s. Kendle cause I know you are reading this and they wont ever be.... haha..... Brian is a Really hot Medic!.... wink wink") and lots of other people were checking on me when ever they could! But actually I didn't need a lot of help and for a while I was caught up so I could go ask them if they needed help! Sweet!
I totally almost fell asleep around 5 but kinda got a second wind around 6.... perfect timing I got an ambulance at 6:30 and then gave report at 7:15.... All in all it was an okay night! I am just glad it was a "first" cause that means it would ever be the same again! haha
But now I'm going to bed.....

This Ones For you Babe!... I mean Kendle! hahaha

Okay so I made this blog forever ago but I have been promising Kendle I would actually get on and make a post and never have! So tonight as I sit here not sleeping, I am finally posting!

It's official.... I am now 100% my own nurse! lol About time I know, but really i finished my last night of training tonight so the next shift I work is on my own license! I am really excited actually but a little scared also! The best part was Holly my preceptor bought me a cake and wrote "Good Luck Nicole" on it... (it was a way yummy cake) but it was so nice of her to do that! I am not really sure it is a custom to do that either! I mean I understand we don't have tons and tons of new grads but there have been two others in the last four months come out on there own and neither of them got cakes and everyone tonight didn't quite understand why the cake was there so I'm feeling special in the fact that she would actually do that for me! Oh man I think she is my favorite! I learned so much from her and we have had some great times! (like to night we were laughing so hard a patient actually got up and left the hospital because she was going to have a "mental break down" patients own words. Because we were not taking our work serious enough! "people are really sick here and all you are doing is telling stories and enjoying your jobs") now for real that is not funny, people are sick and we felt bad that she left and that we made her upset, we could get into big trouble for that! However the situation at the time was so funny! :) lol it happens and at least we were not laughing at her right! Yeah the last seven months have been fun! I will miss having Holly at my side all the time! Thanks Holly!