random jumble

I spent today with my brother and 14 year old niece (I*) at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH). It was for a follow up appointment cuz I* is having some girly issues and my brother felt weird going without a female (his wife had to work). Four hours and a nutritionist later we get to go home. She's underweight for her height and needs to eat more. Wish I had that problem! Spending the day with her was interesting, most of the time was enjoyable, but there were a few times when I wanted to smack her, lol. I don't know how my brother stays sane with a teenager and a 6 year old around. Further proof that I am not ready for kids, LMAO!

I watched Game of Thrones this season and really enjoyed it. I have the audio books but they are like 40 hours long and the guy kinda bores me. I would rather read than listen right now since I'm not doing anything else, lol. I recently found out that my iPod touch has a Kindle app and was way too excited about it. Unfortunately, my library doesn't support Kindle and the ebooks I want to read (GoT and some others) have like 98 people waiting... WTF?

Father's day was awesome, Mandy and I collaborated on a menu and I made a copy cat version of Carrabba's Chicken Bryan , Trottole pasta and grilled asparagus. It was just like the restaurant but better cuz I did it myself! Mandy grilled and I did the inside cooking and baked a sugar free pineapple upside down cake and a peach upside down cake. Yum!

C and I are still doing well, we are playing a game online together and using FaceTime daily. I absolutely love FaceTime. It's way better than Skype, Oovoo or Yahoo video messaging. As much as I bitched about Apple in the past, I love my iPod touch, it is my entertainment HQ- music, internet, movies, TV, photo album, camera and now books! I am so getting an iPhone when I can afford one. /apple testimonial.

I am going to Hong Kong in December. I am excited but scared. C says there is a lot of walking and everything is small, which makes sense since Asian people are smaller. I am thinking it will be like Tokyo though and I didn't have any problems there, of course that was 10 years ago and I was more physically fit and about 75# lighter.

I need to continue walking. I took a walk yesterday as part of my daily challenge and walked today when we went to TCH, I just need to keep it up. I have been in the pool about 4 times a week walking/floating/swimming. I want to start doing water aerobics I just need to find or make up a routine.

I've rediscovered my love for Noxzema! I used to use it as a kid/teen and for some reason stopped using it. I bought some recently for a sunburn and started using it on my face too. I'd forgotten that tingly, cool feeling and the smell. :) Now, if only I could find the Freeman Wild Cherry conditioner I used to buy in high school I'd be even happier! It smelled divine!

That's about all for now :)

Here I go again...

I finished up my last clinical at the children's hospital yesterday. I was in the clinic this time and gave vaccinations and watched the nurse do hearing and vision screenings. Most of the kids were in for Well Child Checks. I was running around a lot but it was fun and I learned a lot.

My sister had her surgery yesterday. They removed her stent and tried extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), she's sore but glad to have the stent out.

I went to the doctor Tuesday and, as I suspected, I gained all the weight I had lost last year back (and more!). I'm not happy about that. The doc suspects diabetes and wants me to check my blood sugar twice a week. She also put me back on metformin but only 500 mg (I was on 1500 mg last year). I want her to increase it, but I guess I'll wait til I see her again before I start questioning her.

I joined this daily challenge thingy through facebook and am really liking it. I am also finding out how out of shape I am. I used to be really flexible, now I'm not. I want to build that back up. I searched online for exercises but I can't do half of them so I got the bright idea to search for plus size exercises and had much better luck! I found a lot of sites that recommend walking and yoga and not just regular yoga-fat girl yoga!

Yoga for Round Bodies
Heavy Weight Yoga
Mega Yoga
Plus-sized Pilates and more!

I'm gonna see if the library has any of these and if not I'll probably see if we can order one from amazon. I am also going to start walking again. I need to quit making excuses and just do it.

I really miss C. Having an "online" relationship sucks after having a real life one for a year. I feel like I don't have a boyfriend sometimes, it's like we've lost that connection. We don't get to talk to each other like we used to and even though we have voice chat, its not the same. I haven't spoken to him in over 24 hours so I'm a little frustrated. Hopefully, we'll be able to talk soon.

365 fail

C left Monday, I'm sad but ok. I occasionally burst into tears when people talk about it or I see something that reminds me of him. I guess that's normal? We're talking through email and instant messenger now until he gets an apartment or "flat" as they call it over there and can get a phone or internet. We are trying Skype or Oovoo tomorrow. Oovoo has 3 way video chat that will be fun for talking to his niece. I'm excited!

I went to a private Episcopal school for my school nurse clinical today. It was pretty cool. As much as I don't like organized religion, I do kinda like the religious schools. The kids seems happier and more well behaved-respectful even. The programs seem better, the teachers more involved... IDK, I'm sure that not all schools are like the few that I have visited but I like what I have seen.

Anywho, I've just been busy with school and clinical and family and C leaving.

I found out that my finger wasn't infected, I actually had an allergic reaction to neosporin (probably the neomycin) that caused it to blister and swell. The doc gave me a corticosteroid and told me to use aquaphor instead of (neosporin).

[Take a bite of my heart tonight]

Once again I'm up when I should have been asleep hours ago. I have to be up fairly early to go walking with my friend, well, she's a girl I met once or twice through C's friend, so a friend of a friend? LOL. Anyway she and I hit it off but haven't ever gotten together just the two of us, I saw her last at C's party but didn't get to spend any time with her. Hopefully we will catch up and have a good time. She is doing WW and has great things to say about it, maybe we could be walking buddies?

I got the oil changed in my dad's truck today. That was fun- before I even got out of the truck the tech was already telling me I needed an engine flush. Freaking high pressure upsales annoy me. Like I'm gonna be like "OMG really? Do it!" This time I got smart(er) and told him to write it all down with prices and I'd give it to my dad.  I also found out that dad and I both like Taylor Swift, he had her newest album in the CD player. Weird? IDK.

After the oil change I went to the library. IDK what possessed me to do that, not like I have time to read anything. I got the last book in Darren Shan's The Demonata Series-Hell's Heroes. I have waited like a year and a half for that darn book! I also got a vampy book called Blood Song and two other books that I probably won't have time to read.

I cleaned my bathroom and washed my shower curtain. I am going to clean out the bathroom closet later today I think.

Chris came over tonight and we watched Life As We Know It and The Fighter, they were both great! I really liked Amy Adams in The Fighter and think I just figured out that Katherine Heigl can't act or maybe she's just stuck playing the same role over and over? Whatev, it's boring. The same goes for Bradley Cooper.

I had to LOL at C tonight. The boy has no idea how to re-heat food in the microwave. He always puts stuff in waaaay longer than it needs and either makes it dry and hard or rubbery. He put a hamburger in for 5 minutes, it came out looking like a hockey puck. He did the same thing with pizza a while ago, it came out half the size it was when it went in! I tried to explain the re-heating guide on the door but he knows what he's doing (excuuuuuse me). At least he eats it, right? I would throw it away.