Christmas Day

We had several people to our house to eat on Christmas day. I cooked and cleaned til 3 AM the night before. It was worth it though. Everything turned out good. Except when Doug flushed my comb down the toilet. So it wouldn't flush unless you had the plunger in hand. But the food was good. My sister, niece and nephew came, along with Doug, Rose, Billy, Shelly, my mother-in-law, and my mom. Justin, my nephew, was running around the house with Billy chasing him. He stopped in front of Billy and Billy fell, hitting his eye on the corner of the tv stand (which is glass). He cried for so long, wouldn't open his eye. So Doug and Rose left to take him to the emergency room, but he opened his eyes in the van and said he wanted to come back to our house. They came back but he still wasn't in a playin mood. Poor baby. I felt so bad for him. Then when he got home, he started throwing up. I was afraid he had a concussion. But he took a nap and when he woke up he was fine. Later that evening, my step brother and his wife came by and stayed for a visit. It was good to see them. Of course I made pictures.
My sister, Gerry. She had worked the night before and hadn't had any sleep:

My niece, Kelli:

Kelli's son, Justin:

My son, Doug and his lovely wife, Rose:

My granddaughter, Shelly:

My mother-in-law, Elizabeth:

Poor Billy with his boo boo:

Justin getting ready to leave:

I think he likes me a little:

Shelly getting a drink of Daddy's coke:

Don't know who made this, but I wish they hadn't:

Billy finally started playing a game on the computer:


My step brother, Gary. Doesn't he look mean?:

Gary's wife, Reba:

Now the house is back to normal, the trees are down, the decorations are put away. I always love Christmas, but it's way too commercialized. I'll admit, I'm as guilty as anybody. I'm glad it's over. And I survived! Now I'm dead with a cold, but at least I didn't have it on Christmas. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year.

Christmas Eve

Well, it's Christmas Eve, and we went to Doug's mom's house for the traditional family, it's good to see you again this year get together. We see most of these people only once a year. Nobody ever comes to our house and I have to admit,I'm not one for visiting either. It was good to see everyone and new ones added. But THANK GOD IT'S OVER!! The kids have gone home, and it's so quiet here now :) Now I've started the cooking and we'll start all over again tomorrow, only here. Not as many people though. Me, Doug, my Mom, his Mom, my son Doug Jr., his beautiful wife Rose (who is carrying my new granddaughter, Hannah), Billy and Shelly, my sister Gerry, her daughter Kelli, and her son Justin. I don't know where everybody will sit, but we'll make it. Anyway, as usual, I went wild with the camera. Maybe one day I'll learn how to make the pictures smaller so they won't be so big.
Nicholas, Rebecca and Shelly:

Billy with who else but PaPaw:

Rebecca and Nicholas (he wanted to get down to business of opening gifts)

The 3 stooges again:

Shelly with her mom, Rose:

Niece Ashley with her current boyfriend:

Doug and Rose:

Shelly wanting to play with the musical carousel:

Rebecca's back (notice Billy getting crushed in the middle):

Mama with her shiner:

Nick being bored:

Ashley lying on floor (could she be waiting on the boyfriend?):

The circus:

Lots of kids:

Shelly loved the Raggedy Ann my mom got her:

Rebecca got an umbrella with animals on it:

Doug liked what I got him; it was green:

Rose liked her Home Depot gift card, with a little green to go with it:

Tiffany waving for the camera:

50 Years of Happiness

Tonight, David and Florence Corum celebrated 50 years of marriage and happiness.
The church was decorated beautifully.

Here comes the bride! She couldn't have been any more beautiful 50 years ago.

The preacher seemed to be getting a laugh out of them.

But things got serious when they took their vows.

The Kiss!! (Some of my pictures were almost too dark).

MR. AND MRS. DAVID CORUM!!!

Bridesmaids

The happy couple greeting guests

The food was delicious (catered by Rothchilds)

The cake


The couple and the cake (looks like David had other things in mind from the way he was looking at Florence!)

Cutting the cake

Having a laugh (that is ginger ale, not champagne)

I think Harold was eating the meatballs out of the hot tray!

At last! The organizer of the whole thing, Carla! She did a wonderful job!

Mama's Shiner

I've been telling everybody that Mama is an example of what I can do when I get mad. Anybody who knows me knows I would never do anything to hurt my mother. She has loved me and done so much for me in my life. I think anyone who abuses their mom or doesn't respect her should be shot. But I've been having fun with her "shiner". Truth be told, she called me around 5am the other morning and told me she had fallen out of bed. She said her elbow was bleeding and she had a lump on her head. When I got there, she had torn the skin off her elbow and the lump was the size of an egg. I dressed her elbow and put ice on her head. The swelling went down and it didn't look bad at all, but each day it looks worse. Here she is the next day:


This is her today:

My new bedroom suite

Hi everybody. My new bedroom suite came yesterday. I thought I was going to get lost in the bed last night. I don't have king size pillows or a comforter yet, but I've ordered them and they should be on the way. Contrary to what some people have been mislead to believe, we DO NOT have alot of money, and this will be paid for when I get my scholorship check. Evidently some people think I lied to them when I mentioned being short on cash. But never fear, I'm as poor as I've always been. Probably more so now. Anyway, I made pictures of my new stuff (of course). So here goes!!
My bed:


My dresser:

The nightstand (which I don't have a place to put):

The chest of drawers:

FINAL GRADE!!!

My Grades
VICKI CARTER
Final Course Grade B
I guess you've guessed by now that I'm pretty happy about my final grade. I copied and pasted directly from the web and posted it here. Now I'm off for a month. So what did I do to celebrate? I went to the Brown Squirrel and bought a new bedroom suit. I don't know if a king size bed will fit in my bedroom or not, but I'm the proud owner of one now. I found someone who's bed is falling apart, so I'm giving them my old bedroom suit. It's not new, but it's in good shape. Now for the work. Emptying out all the stuff from the drawers and stuff and getting it ready to move out. A few things I forgot to think about: my queen size sheets won't fit it, my pillows are the wrong size, my electric blanket won't fit it. Dang! I'm gonna need to rob a bank just to sleep on it! Oh well, I'm going to finish wrapping Christmas gifts so the kids won't see them when they come over. I'll post again soon. TTFN

Good Guesser

Today I had my 3rd big test at school. MAN! I didn't know any of the answers hardly. I just knew I had flunked. Evidently I'm a good guesser, hence the blog title. I PASSED!!! Now, one more unit test, another test based on state board stuff, and the final!! YEAH!!! Almost done with this semester! But then next semester! UGH! Advanced med/surg. I can hardly wait (dripping sarcasm). I also got my clinical evaluation the other day. I was so embarrassed. She told me that I need to lose my lack of self confidence and be a leader to the other students. Yeah, right!

Tomorrow we start on the last unit of this semester. I still have 10 pages of reading to do. But I need a break, so here I am. I'm trying to get used to going to bed earlier. Last night I went to bed at 10pm and I was still awake at 12:30. I need a little helper, I think. But I don't like taking drugs so maybe I'll just tough it out. What did I ever see in drugs, anyway?

A lady at my church has found out her cancer is back. She had breast cancer, and thought she had beat it. Now she has 6 lesions on her brain and 2 in her chest, probably lung. Her name is Florence. Please lift her and her husband David up in prayer. She has a long road ahead of her and much suffering, I'm afraid. They will be married 50 years next month and were planning a wedding. David said he always wanted to see his bride walking down the aisle. I hope he still can, but she's already pretty sick from the treatment and her hair is thinning. So I don't know if she will be able to do it or not. I do know that I will be there if they do.

Guess I'd better get back to reading now. Please remember to pray for Florence.

Good Things

YIPPEE!!! I got my first VA check for this semester with back pay on it yesterday and then today I got the one for October. After I pay all that on the tv, I'll just owe less than $300 on it!! God knows when we need stuff. (Like I really needed that tv. The only time I get to watch it is if Doug's gone or in bed.) Football looks real good on it. The colors are sharper and the picture clearer, other than that, it's just like a regular tv. Oh well, all I can say is it had better last a LONG TIME!
I have passed the first 2 tests this semester. I have another test next week, then just one more unit test, then the final. Wow! Time is flying! Won't be long till I can sign my name with initials after it besides LPN. Can't wait! First thing I'm gonna do is fix up Mama's trailer. She deserves a nice place to live instead of the dump I've got her in now. I wish I could build her a house. But I'll fix her place up and hope she's happy with it.

WHAT WAS I THINKING??

Okay, I'm still part time at work, going to school, which is taking all my money, and I said I wasn't going in debt again until I got out of school and got a good raise. So what was I thinking? I went window shopping to look at plasma tv's, just to get an idea of what kind of tv I wanted when I got out. WELL!!! They had this great deal where there is no interest until Jan of 2008. I can't resist a good deal. Even if I can't afford it. That's my weak spot. So I guess you've guessed what I bought. Yep...a new tv. Nothing was wrong with my other one! Oh well, here it is, and I'll be wearing rags because I'll be paying on this forever!



The picture on it is really better than that. I couldn't get the lighting quite right.

Finally decided to update.

It's been awhile so here I am. Not much going on here. My grandson Billy had to have surgery yesterday on his teeth. They had to put him in the hospital and put him to sleep. He had 2 teeth pulled, 4 capped, and had them cleaned good. He has a HUGE blister on his lower lip. Don't know what happened there. But his mouth still hurts and his dad calls him a little drug addict. He always asks for his medicine. I don't blame him. Today I had some special company. Doug, Rose, Billy and Shelly came to visit and while they were here, Bambi, Jeff, and Nicholas came to visit. I had both my kids here and most of my grandkids. Rebecca is spending the week with her dad. I am so tired. I woke up early yesterday and just stayed up and got to school over an hour early. Then we had Shelly while Billy was having his surgery, and I worked last night. I didn't sleep much today but that's okay. I was mean at work last night. A girl was having a test and had to stay awake all night. So every time I caught her with her eyes closed, I started singing real loud and clapping my hands. That's enough to wake the dead! She didn't get mad though. And she had her test and got to get some sleep. I have been having Mama take Calcium pills and Vitamin D pills and her back isn't hurting as much. I hope it's helping. I'll go now because I'm so sleepy, I'm going to bed. Have a good night.

UPDATE!! AT ROBERT'S REQUEST

LOL! I had to do that. When are you going to update your blog, Robert? Anyway, here's the news I have so far:

I finally learned to read blood gases and interpret them. I was making it too hard. It's really simple if you know the normal levels. And evidently I must have learned some more stuff too. I passed my test. I made an 85 on it, which is a B. YEAH!!!

I'm feeling better about school now that I see how the teachers test and all. My clinical instructor told me that her goal for this semester was to make me feel better about myself and increase my self esteem. She asked me why I'm always saying I'm stupid, so I told her that I have just always felt that way, all my life. I'm glad that she has confidence in me though. I don't feel as stupid as I did, but I still don't think I'm the brightest bulb on the tree. LOL

That's all that's happening right now in my life. I'm keeping my nose stuck in a book, working and sleeping. I think it'll be worth it in the long run.

Have a good day, everybody!

SOMEBODY, HELP ME!!!!!!!!

Okay, I haven't even had my first test yet and school is kicking my butt! I never knew I'd have to learn all this stuff. Isn't that why we have different departments? Right now we're learning how to interpret blood gases. HELLO! I'm wanting to be an RN, not a respiratory therapist. Seriously though, I guess we have to know these things, but I just don't know if I can. If I can't learn it, I'll never show my face at work or to my friends again. Everybody is cheering me on, and that helps, knowing that people have confidence in me, but good grief! My brain don't work like it used to. I guess I killed too many brain cells when I was younger. Just pray for me. Surely God will get me through it (if it's His will). I just hope it is. Gonna be a LONG 2 semesters...

Happy Dwarf

In school we had to take a personality thing to see which dwarf in Snow White we would be. It was a fun exercise, and I was really impressed by what it said about me. Sounds alot like me. I'm Happy! Here's what it says about Happy:
Happy-dwarf people are people persons - they love people. They are warmly interested in others and tend to watch, listen and pick up specific, detailed information about others. They want to like people, and have a special skill at bringing out the best in others. They are extremely good at reading others, and understanding their point of view. Happy's strong desire to be liked and to maintain a pleasant environment makes him highly supportive of others. People like to be around Happy, because he has a special gift of invariably making people feel good about themselves.

Happy takes responsibilities very seriously, and are very dependable. Happy values security and stability, and have a strong focus on the details of life. Happy sees before others do what needs to be done, and does whatever it takes to make sure that it gets done. Happy enjoys these types of tasks, and is extremely good at them.

Happys are warm and energetic. They need approval from others to feel good about themselves. They are hurt by indifference and don't understand unkindness. They are very giving people, who get a lot of their personal satisfaction from the happiness of others. They want to be appreciated for who they are, and what they give. They're very sensitive to others, and freely give practical care. Happys are such caring individuals, that they sometimes have a hard time seeing or accepting a difficult truth about someone they care about or themselves for that matter. That makes it difficult to express a difference of opinion that might be construed as negative by the leader or anyone else in the meeting.

Happy people are focused on reading other people. They have a strong need to be liked, and to be in control. You may observe them changing their own manner to be more pleasing to whoever they're with at the moment.

Happys respect and believe in the laws and rules of authority, and believe that others should do so as well. They're traditional, and prefer to do things in the established way, rather than venturing into unchartered territory. Their need for security drives their ready acceptance and adherence to the policies of the established system. This tendency may cause them to sometimes blindly accept rules without questioning or understanding them.

A Happy who has developed in a less than ideal way may be prone to being quite insecure, and focus all of their attention on pleasing others.

Happys at their best are warm, sympathetic, helpful, cooperative, tactful, down-to-earth, practical, thorough, consistent, organized, enthusiastic, and energetic. They enjoy tradition and security, and will seek stable lives that are rich in contact with friends and family.

Want to see which dwarf you are: Take the quiz:
http://www.snowwhitetest.com/