Honest Scrap...

Thanks for sending me this Robin....let me see... 10 things huh??? By the way, I too have no idea how to put links to other people's blogs in here and I don't know but a few people who are blogging at this point so I don't have 7 people to send it too...MA, Perry, Dad, join the fun!! Come on friends, break the mold and start your blogs...it's free and a lot of fun. Trust me if I can do it...so can you!!!


"When you receive the prize, you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in their content or design. Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing that they were prized with 'Honest Weblog'. List [if you can and/or dare] at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on!"



Wow, this is more difficult than I thought....

1. I have a backwards heart. My mom tells me that when I was a very small child, I was sick all of the time. I had an allergy to corn, asthma, and spent the better part of my first couple of years sick. When I was two(?), I had a spinal tap to diagnose the flu. During one visit to the doctor (hospital-I guess), they did some test and were very surprised to see that my heart is in the correct spot in my chest cavity, but is flipped backward. She tells me I made history at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston as they had not seen this up to this point. This was in the early 70's.



2. I am an extremely picky eater. I have always been. I've tried to improve this as I've gotten older for the sake of my children...I don't want them to miss out on something they might love just because I turn my nose up at it.



3. I have several weird "food things". This is certainly a weird "quirky" thing of mine that most of you (if any) know about. When I'm by myself....or bored I guess, I line things up and eat them smallest to largest. Like french fries, I eat all of the small ones first then the bigger ones. I eat broken chips first, then the bigger whole ones. Small grapes before the bigger ones, etc. I know that's weird...it is not OCD (although I do probably have some other tendencies- at least I come by them naturally- right MOM??) It is not something I HAVE to do, I just do it mainly when I'm bored....also, I will not eat any meat attached to a bone. Ribs, chicken, steak, etc. I just can't...yuck. It reminds me of walking up to some chicken and ripping it's leg off and digging in...Oh my, I feel queasy just thinking about it...I will cut my meat off of the bone and eat it with a fork. The worst dinner nights are when we have barbecue-chicken. The kiddies love it...they love picking it up and end up with barbecue sauce all over themselves. So far they haven't noticed that I never eat drumsticks (if I can help it) and if I have no other choice, I use a knife and fork. I hate the skin on chicken, it reminds me it is SKIN!!! I will spend extra money to buy boneless, skinless etc. I suck the salt off of saltine crackers, pretzels, cheez-it's, etc. before eating them.



4. Stephen F. Austin is my great, great, great, great, great, uncle. (My family knows this of course).



5. If given the opportunity, I could probably sleep for 2 days straight!!! (once again, no surprise to my family).

6. I am a 'Gray's Anatomy' and 'E.R.' fanatic. I will move my schedule around important shows like season finale's, etc. I also love HGTV and Discovery Health shows. John and Kate plus 8 and 17 kids and counting are also favorites.

7. I'm and very scared/ uncomfortable around old people. I'm always afraid someone is going to keel over in front of me. I became a lot less "freaked out" by the elderly after working with them on the surgical-oncology floor for 2 years. I had no choice. I have had this fear for as long as I can remember. My grandmother used to cough a lot and that totally freaked me out. Then one day during lunch at her house she choked on a bean-burger and I was sitting right next to her just staring ( I was maybe 7 or 8), it took a minute before anyone else noticed, she ended up being totally fine, but I've always been afraid of choking after that. The VERY FIRST DAY of clinical when I was going to Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Lubbock back in 1996 (I met my friend Robin there) my instructor sent me and another student in to a patient's room. The family had requested a bed bath, I was shocked to find this patient well on the way in the dying process. The patient proceeded to die while we were bathing her and I totally lost it! I called my mom that afternoon and said "I can't and won't do this". I managed to hang on through the rest of the semester and then quit. I was too terrified to continue. It took the Lord a long time to open my heart to the possibility of nursing again, but it has always been my love and I've always felt His prodding in my spirit in this direction. I'm just glad that, for the most part, I deal with young, healthy women now.

8. Being a nurse scares the crud out of me sometimes. Knowing that it is my responsibility to take care of the pt. and to be the first line of defense in an emergency is overwhelming. I find myself praying almost constantly the whole way to the hospital for protection for my patients and their unborn babies and for my fellow nurses, etc. I used to pray before my old job as well. The last thing I request each and every day as I get ready to step inside of the hospital is for a hedge of protection to be around me and my patients and that the holy spirit would work through me, give me the strength I need for the day, and shine through me and reveal himself to the patients. I pray at other times too, not nearly as much as I should, but right before work is MANDATORY.

9. I drive WAY too fast. Let me correct this. When my children are in the car I am a respectable driver. But on my way to work, I drive way too fast. If the weather is good I can make it from my driveway to the hospital in 35 minutes. (It normally takes 45-50 or so). I used to drive wayyyyyy too fast home from Tech in my college years. It is typically a 5 1/2- 6 hour trip to Lubbock to SA and one time I made it in 4 hours...yikes...that little Mazda 626 could fly!! Did you know their speedometers go up to 135??? (maybe higher- can't remember) Man, I'd find myself flying at 100-105. Boy was that stupid!!! Now the fastest I go is 80. (sorry Mom and Dad)- I'm supposed to be truthful after all.

10. Even though I've started developing blood pressure issues, a degenerating spine, have had gestational diabetes twice which puts me at much higher odds of developing diabetes in the future, and I've got 4 awesome kiddies counting on me, I just can't seem to find the motivation to lose the extra weight that I've allowed to accumulate over these adult years!!! Please pray for me this next year. It is literally going to take God whacking me upside the head to get me off my bum and just do it!!! Please pray that God will give me the desire and the strength to lose some weight, my health depends on it.

A few freebies: my favorite job ever was at the movie theater in high-school. We always ran the new movies that opened on Friday's on Thursday nights after closing to make sure they did not break during their first run. Employees were allowed to bring up to 4 people with them on Thurs. nights to see the first-runs. We always got free popcorn and soft-drinks. It was awesome....

I HATE the morning....UGH!!! I wake up long enough to go into the girl's room, turn their light's on and say "It's time to get up, have a good day" and I go get back in my bed. My sweet dad gets Scott up downstairs and gets them out the door on time. I could never repay him for that- it means more than I can express!!! I'm a major night-owl. I routinely stay up until 1 am or so.

As bad as this sounds, sometimes I'm glad when it reaches the night or weekend when the kiddies go with their dad. It's nice to have a break and peace and quiet....I'm always ready for them to come home though!!! I'm good for about two weeks in the summer then I count the days until they are home during July when they're gone for a month!


That's it...I know I lead a boring life...no terrible skeletons in my closet. Stay tuned....