Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I can't sleep

I have to be to work at 6 AM. It is 1:14AM. That leaves me less than five hours....oh bother.

So as I am laying here trying to go to sleep, I realize that an old problem has reared its ugly head. It hasn't bothered me for quite a while, so it surprised me that I notice it again now. This is kind of a strange problem.

I have one hot foot and one cold one. When left exposed my left foot is hot and dry, and my right is cold and clammy. If I have socks on I don't notice the problem at all. This started happening in December 1999 when I back surgery for scoliosis. I guess the nerves just got all out of whack. Weird, right?

Monday, April 28, 2008

I was going through some stuff and found my first journal. I was reading through it and found some huh-larious stuff in here. It was surprising to me how much reading this helped me identify some underlying "issues" that I have. I was surprised to find that they started so long ago. Apparently, I've been nuts for a long time. It's not all sad nor is it all about my psychoticness-there is some pretty funny stuff in here. AnywayS, here goes.

June 16, 1991 (This is the first entry that I ever wrote.)
now I'm six I'm in first grad almost in second grad three more days of school on wensday we have a festival all the classes are going to do a dance all the classes exsept room 5 and six case were doing mousersise I'm going to be one of the leaders to do mousersise we have to praktise alot tita is always good she is going to be a good mouskuteer case she gose the same way that i go she is going to be a good leader I wish ther were 5 leaders she is very good at mousersise

December 31, 1994 (we had been on a family road trip to the Grand Canyon)
I'm not trying to be mean but Alyssa (6) is still a big baby in the car to and from, Alyssa had flem in her throaght because she had a cough. My mom and dad told her she needed to cough it up and spit it out, but she was afraid she'd throw up. Besides that I had a real good trip

August 1, 1996 (this is so bipolar I cannot even believe it)
Today has not been great first of all my mom told me to go vacume and weedwack the backyard then she told me to help Bryan with the Hilton's lawn. Then later that night she told me to help him do another lawn well she asked me to and then Bryan came in and asked if I was going to help him. Well I was thinking about it she just came out and said yes she wants to. It wasn't the doing the lawn that bugged me it was that she just decided for me. then later that night I found out that there's a really good chance that we'll be moving. What's wrong with here? I like it here. Plus well have new neighbors, a new ward, and a new school and I'll have to make new friends. I mean I love my friends and will really miss them a lot. It would be nice to be closer to grandma and grandpa's but I still like it here. I can't wait to be 12. I'll be out of primary and I'll start young womens. Also I'll be able to babysit. I'm fat, I'm really fat. So I'm trying to get into shape. Well i guess thats my day. See ya.

March 13, 1997 (I was talking about how hard the move was for me)
(People who read this: DON'T YOU DARE read this until I am DEAD!!!!! Also for all I know you could be reading this in a room full of 20 year old HOT guys) Oh well. wow there's so much to write about. Why couldn't my dad get a job at UNLV? I would be so much happier there. I have a huge room but can't think of it as home. There are these twins Aaron and Chris who are Bryan's friends and Aaron is so cute. I don't know why but Chris is ugly (sorry if he's reading this) and they're identical twins! Go figure. This Saturday I'm going to see Marvins Room because Leonardo DiCaprio is in it. HE is my soulmate even though he's 22 and I'm 12. So maybe he isn't I can still dream, can't I?

June 14, 1997 (1997 was a hard and funny and well documented year for me)
Ya know what's freaky yesterday was Fri. the 13th. Also a black cat crossed my path yesterday. Then today I got a headache. Friday and today Bryan and I were at grandma and grandpa's house cleaning. It wasn't that fun but we each made 35 $.

July 23, 1997
Today we went to a rodeo, it was awful! They were taking these baby steers roping them around the neck. Then the cowboy got off his horse and threw the cow down on his side. I was mad! We all eat hamburger but this is more than just hamburger and steak. This is totally abusing them, and what did they ever do to us? I'm now a vegetarian.

September 5, 1997
It's Friday YIPEE! Well, tomorrow Bryan daddy and Dave Tedder are going to a football game. A BYU home game. I wand to go but I told mom I'd babysit for 5$ an hour. But also part of me wants the money. I'll probably end up babysitting. Either way I'll still wand to do the other thing.

Okay I could go on...so much funny stuff in here...on a later post I'll do some from my more recent journals.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

April Fool's day

So I work with this doctor who thinks he is great. And in fact, he is very ungreat. He bothers me, and pretty much everyone who works with him. He is the type who gives his loooong opinions no matter if they have been sought for or not, the type who thinks he is hysterical. But, he is in fact the board certified deliverer of babies, so I guess we tolerate him as it would be highly illegal for any of us to do it without him. I hate it when you need people you can't stand. grr. Today, in all of his self-perceived funniness, he decided to play some april fool's joke on the nursing staff at the hospital.

Joke number one: He told our floor manager that he had been discussing with one of the most notoriously bad OBs in the area, and that this bad doctor had expressed desires to practice with him and start bringing his patients to our hospital. As the horror filled this poor lady's face at the thought of having to deal with such a horrible doc he burst into laughter. All of us who were around just stared in unbelief.

Joke number two: Later in the day he called from his clinic and talked frantically about a pregnant patient of his who was due with triplets in 6 weeks who had gone into labor that he was going to send over. Now, the nurse who answered was probably the only one who would have bought this...because please....he does NOT make his own phone calls. Some poor girl making minimum wage does his dirty work. The nurse hung up and started frantically gathering up staff and equipment to prepare for this intense situation. Then about five minutes later we all convinced her to call back and ask him if it was a joke. He laughed even more hysterically that she had taken him seriously. What a butthead.

on NPR (I know, I'm a nerd) they were doing a cast about april fool's jokes people had done. They had an April Fool's day "expert" on to give us tips on great pranks to play. I only heard a smidgin of what he said....

Put post-it notes on the bottom of the laser mouses at work... then sit back and watch everyone get frustrated at technology....then duck as they toss staplers at you when they realize what you've done.

What good April Fool's day jokes have you seen? I need good ideas for next year!!

My mosquito story

When I was in third grade I wrote a short story that has been crossing my mind as of late. So I decided to dig it out.... Hope you likeeee. Here it is, unedited, in all its third grade glory.

The Mosquito that Buzzes in Peoples' Ears
by a third grade Laura Nelson

One night I was fast asleep in my bed when a mosquito buzzed past my ear. I thought it was airplane flying through my bedroom! I went downstairs. I got a drink of water and went to the bathroom then I went back to bed. I fell asleep. The mosquito buzzed by my ear, again it was so loud I thought it was an airplane. I woke up again. I went to my mom's room I layed beside her. The mosquito buzzed by her ear. She thought it was an airplane going past her ear! Soon, the mosquito buzzed past everyone's ears. We were all awake. Then we decided to go for a drive and get ice cream cones. We didn't know it, but guess what? The mosquito got in the car too! The mosquito buzzed past my dad's ear (while he was driving) and he thought it was an airplane fly by the car. He got scared, and we got in an accident. Ice cream got all over the car but everyone was okay except the mosquito. He got smushed in one of the cookies in my cookies 'n cream ice cream cone.

What makes this story even better are the comments given by my teacher. She said "Great use of sequence and humor. I enjoyed your story-very imaginative." Do you think she was referring to the fact that I told this story as a play by play--I got a drink. I fell back asleep. I ended this blog...