Friday Fun Facts

• There is something big happening in my life.  I promise I will share eventually, but I kind of like to stew on things myself, and then share them in my own time.  I'll get there, I'm just not there yet.  
• I counted up the words that Gracie can sign today.  It's 10.  I'll try to list them.  Milk, more, please, eat, baby, banana, water, book, cracker, and I saw her sign "drink" for the first time today.  That girl is so stinkin' smart.  
• She can SAY mama, dad, hi, dog, cat, car, cow, baby, and if you count "ball" (she says "dall").   
• I'm starting to hate politics more and more.  I got really into the debates and the election back in 2008, but I just hate that no matter what, I'm not going get what I want.  I'm not even sure what I want exactly.  I WILL say though, that I hate the disputes.  I don't mean debates, I mean the nasty disputes between people.  Neither side is going to change their mind.  Why keep fighting?  
• I am really frustrated that people think they can make decisions in me and Jacob's life.  I'm sorry if this is pushy, but the fact is that there is not a leash on either of us and we are free to make decisions on our own.  That's something that you are going to have to come to terms with.  Not me. 

Friday Fun Facts

I'm going to title this version of Friday Fun Facts "Things I Learned While My Husband Was In The Hospital". 

1.  If you are desperate for a nurse to come in to give your loved one pain medicine, just do something that is INCREDIBLY awkward that you never in a million years would want someone to see you doing.  I'll list a few examples:  pick your nose, fart (loudly), change your clothes, check out the itchy spot in your armpit, etc.  I guarantee you that the nurse will show up at the most inopportune moment for you.  Not that I would know. No, I wouldn't know about ANY of those examples.  Not one.  

2.  The croup sounds very similar to the moose on this commercial.  Except like, 491 times louder.  All day.  And. All. Night.

3.  Would you like to pull out the chair to make it into a 2x6 bed?  Well, you won't be able to. 

4.  Number 3 is really okay because once you have it out you won't be able to get it back together. 

5.  Once you finally have it back together, you will sit down on the "chair" and start getting kind of comfortable it will somehow mysteriously end up falling apart on you and looking like this: 

Yeah.  It's going to be a long night. That is, as SOON AS I FLIPPIN' FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THIS DANG 2X6 BED!!  THEN it will be a long night.  AFTER that. 

But on the bright side, Jacob is feeling better than he was this morning.  He's even made a few jokes today and he's already taking machines off and wandering around without the permission of his nurses. NO JOKE. 

I don't think he has any idea that he should probably get permission to take all this stuff off and go wandering around his room. Lol. He gets tired of walking around and goes to lay back down in bed, pushes his nurse button and someone comes in and asks what he needs and when he says, "Can you put those things back on my leg and hook my IV back up?" they look a LITTLE taken aback. The nurse earlier kind of said, "Um...OH!" and had a look on her face that silently screamed, "what in the sam-hill are you doing wandering around without an IV and your leg things hooked up?!?" Haha.

So that's the bright side. He's moving around and joking around. On the other hand, he's pretty drugged up. They're giving him 2 different pain meds, one of which is morphine and he's getting it every hour. Earlier he said to me, "I can feel my intestines moving all around". Apparently things definitely feel a little off on the insides. He just doesn't care because he doesn't feel a whole lot right now. He'll probably be in plenty of pain when he comes home. Hopefully that will be tomorrow.  

She was a He

Welcome to this edition of

Friday Fun Facts!!!  

1.  I am baking some homemade bread.  This isn't my first go at it.  I have made Hawaiian Sweet Bread, Chocolate Bread, Focaccia Bread, and biscuits if they count.  (I don't bake a lot of bread, so I'm counting them.)  This one is called American Sandwich Bread.  In an attempt to get some nutrients, I modified it by adding about 1/3 cup of wheat germ to the dry ingredients.  We'll see if I messed the whole thing up shortly.

2.  I have absolutely no idea where I'm at as far as Christmas gifts go.

3.  I'm pretty sure Gracie said "No" to me the other day.

4.  Speaking of Gracie, she is FINALLY (again) signing "more" on her own with no help from us.  She also signs "please" but that's still only with help.  (But only a little help.)

5.  My husband shot his first deer today!!  I am so proud of him!!  He thought it was a doe, but when he went walking up towards it after the shot, he thought he saw something odd, so he looked through his fancy hunter-man binoculars and saw an antler.  Sure enough, she was a he.  A he with only one horn.

Friday Fun Facts

I'm going to do an "injuries" themed Friday Fun Facts blog.  I hope you enjoy it. 

1.  I have never broken a bone other than my toes.  I broke those by falling (it happens to me) and my foot just happened to kick the corner of a wall...only my foot kind of projectiled into this corner.  And I will go ahead and make a diagram here on my blog of how this corner was in relation to me.  I am the X: 

I'm not talking corner like this:   X>  No, no.  It was pointing at me like this:  X<. 

So my toes split and bruised and swelled up.  I never even went to the doctor because my mom knew that they weren't going to put a cast on toes.  They were just broken and they would heal eventually. You know, I'm tough. 

2.  I sprained my wrist when I was playing basketball in the 5th grade. 

3.  The words "hip replacement" have actually been mentioned in a doctor's appointment that I've had.  And I mean, this was back when I was 21 years old.  Luckily, instead of a hip replacement they chose to go with a steroid shot and my hip hasn't had problems since.  I'm way thankful that someone out there used their common sense and chose the less-invasive route rather than getting all crazy and replacing my bones at 21 years old.  Just sayin'...

4.  I've had surgery.  I had a tumor removed from my lower back when I was 20.  It was called a lipoma which is basically just a fancy word for benign fatty tissue tumor.  Which totally made me feel skinny. Ugh...lipomas....  Always bringing on the eating disorders. 

Anyway, they of course had to run tests on it and make sure that it was benign and it was in fact a "lipoma" as they thought.  It took 4 days to get those results back.  It may have been 4 of the longest days of my life.  I cannot imagine waiting for results from a test in which doctors don't seem sure whether something is malignant or not.  Scary stuff, man. 

5.  Probably the best one - my fake "broken finger".  I used to wrap a finger in Kleenexes, followed by Scotch tape.  I also put Lisa Frank stickers (represent) between the Kleenexes and Scotch tape because, you know, casts have bright purple and pink stickers usually.  Mainly because I'm classy, but then I would go and tell kids at school that my finger was broken.  I actually did this 2 or 3 times in one school year.  I blame my parents for making me the third child and never paying attention to me.  (Joking.)  But seriously, at least this is how I handled middle-child-ism rather than becoming a serial killer.  And I also got over it in like, the 3rd grade or something.  Definitely the better decision on my part. 

Have a beautiful day and don't forget to be awesome. 

Friday Fun Facts

I read a few blogs who do this, so I'm going to give it a shot.  We'll see if I think it's fun.  Here's how it goes:  every so often you just share 5 little funny, quirky, or thought-provoking facts of your life.  So here we go...

1.  I have a degree.  I graduated with an Associate of Arts in Music from Cowley College and also a Bachelor of Music Education from Emporia State University.  ESU was ranked 3rd in the nation for teacher's colleges in...I believe 2007.  First and second were some crap colleges from South Carolina and Iowa or something. 

2.  My sister and I used to have fist fights.  We were NOT besties.  Naturally, I would kick her tail every time she tried to pick on me (she was always the instigator - I'm a lover, not a fighter).  Now we are best friends.  She lived in Virginia for a long time, but now she's back in Kansas (well, technically Missouri, but she's pretty much in Kansas).  I am so blessed to have her back. 

3.  Speaking of being blessed I am a Christian.  I love me some Jesus.  I grew up going to the Church of Christ, but wasn't ever saved/baptized until 2006, when I was 20.  I've known about the father, son, and holy ghost my whole life, but always said I wanted to make sure I knew exactly what I was getting into before I dedicated my life to Him. 

4.  I use the top row of the keyboard to type numbers.  This is the nature of my job.  We type a lot of numbers, but if you use the keypad then the system we use goes all crazy and starts screaming jibberish at you and then you fall behind.  And in my job, falling behind can be very very bad.  Like, it could even cost lives in certain situations.  So I just submit to the crazy computer system and type with the top row of numbers.  How's that for being cooperative? 

5.  I've remembered to set out the trash for 2 weeks in a row.  Because usually I forget.