HE'S HOME!!!!

Michael got home last week, yeah! It has been fun listening to him talk about all the adventures he had in Nicaragua.  I am very relieved that the airport reunion is over.  It is incredibly hard to sit and wait, well, for me it's hard to wait at any time, but waiting for something so huge is almost unbearable.  I have decided I need to drive in the "slow" traffic lane more often on the way home from work to teach myself patience, but I digress.....Michael's plane was delayed so it was almost 9pm before we saw him walking up the long hallway.  I don't think he could have walked slower if he tried...when I encouraged him to hurry he told me that "you've waited 2 years, you can wait a few more seconds to see me".  I did have the presence of mind to cover my face partly while I was crying this time so my mom wasn't able to get an awful picture of me like she did at Kevin's homecoming.   Noone looks good when they cry. 

It has been crazy busy since he got here, I just want to spend a bunch of time catching up with him, but alas, life goes on, and that includes work and school, not just him...so I have to share him with other people.  He has been diligently looking for a job, and complete his application to BYU-I and looking for ways to serve others and even helping quite a bit around the house, he is working out at the gym with us, and he has even touched bases with some old friends, I think he is adapting very well.

PACU is a little short staffed right now, and we are a little overstaffed, so I oriented to daysurgery and PACU 2 so I could float down there, it was really fun, and they seemed to like me....maybe there is a change in my future????  I don't know though, the people are all really happy there and they have been there for a very long time, so I am not so sure that will happen any time soon.  But I will not give up hope,another benefit... people in that area have Sunday's off, they just have to take their turn being on call, I could handle that.

I am half way through my statistics class...and I am still passing...YEAH!!! I see a light at the end of the tunnell and it isn't a train!  However I need to be careful not to speak too soon, there are only 16 out of 31 students left in the class....it really is a tough one.

I am scheduled to work on Thanksgiving, but I am hoping to get cancelled so I can participate in the Turkey trot 4mile run and spend the day with family.  But it isn't all bad, I have had to work so many Thanksgivings that Bob is now very proficient at cooking a turkey.  Happy Turkey day everyone!!!!

A new look

I decided I didn't like the color of my hair, I dyed it last week and it didn't turn out well at all, so I headed to Fantastic Sams for highlights and lowlights.  I think they turned out pretty good, but it is definately a lot darker than I have been for a while.  Not sure if I want to pay the money to keep getting them though.  Time will tell.

I am working on my statistics class, 2 weeks down, 6 to go, only a quiz this coming week and homework, good thing because MICHAEL COMES HOME ON THURSDAY!!!!   I am just  a little excited. 

I didn't do hardly anything I planned today, including running (bad me) but I still got a lot of other things done, so I am good with that, but now I need to clean like a maniac before Michael comes home.  I need to hem the curtains I bought for the guest bedroom, not so sure that one is going to happen unless I get low censused.  Good news, UPS called to arrange a drop off time for the desk I ordered, I am hoping that the new bed Bob ordered from Costco gets here before Michael does, otherwise he gets an air matress....hey, it's got to be better than anything he has slept on in the last 2 years:)

Time to get to work and get something off my list done, so I can't say I TOTALLY procrastinated today, (I only procrastinated some of the stuff)

new class,new car, only 11 days left!

This has been a big week,
I started my statistics class this week, and so far I understand what I am doing, although this class has more homework than any class I have ever taken in my life, literally.  One week down, 7 to go!

On wednesday on my way to work our altima, which has had a terrible high pitched screaching noise off and on for weeks changed to a terrible grinding noise.  It figures, you make your last mission payment and everything starts to break that has been held together by the blessing of having missionaries (our heater is making funny noises too).   I decided we could wait no longer to make our decision, that was the day we needed to get a new car.  Bob has been looking for quite a while, originally we were going to buy an almost new car, so he was prepared for that, but I decided I would rather have a couple older cars, than just one new car, because I don't think his car is going to make it much longer either, so he had to switch gears.  We found a 2002 Honda Accord Coupe that is in excellent condition.  It has all the extras and only 70000 miles.  It is a little older than we were looking at, but I fell in love with it when I saw the inside, it is very comfortable and it drives well.  It's a little sportier than I like on the outside, but what I see is the inside, not the outside when I drive, so I'm good with that.  I have heard Honda's last a really long time, so we'll see how it goes.  There was a litttle bit of buyers remorse, I think that is natural anytime you spend thousands of dollar on something, but I feel good about it now.  We got it for just under Kelly blue book, so I think that is fair.

Michael only has 11 days left ( I say 11 because he doesn't come home until 7:45 on Thursday the 11th, so we have to wait that entire day too).  I am really excited, I have started crying on a regular basis.  The emotions with a return missionary are huge.  I am scheduled to teach the Sunday he gets home, so I have asked several people to help give parts of the lesson, because I expect to be very emotional and cry a lot that day.  I want the sisters to still have a lesson:).