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Tally, THIS nurse isn't going to lecture you because she is horrible about drinking herself!!!! And if I do, it is iced tea!!!!

Mini- Good luck with your rehearsal. You will do GREAT!!!!!!!:grouphug: And I will let you know if comedian guy comes to Utah...he is going to eventually wonder why people all over the country are checking on him to see if he is worthy! LOL! My sis caught up with him already!

Sounds a little like a few of those people are bordering on an eating disorder to me....anyone else agree? How the heck are you Jamie? My new comedian guy has shows in NC this week, in Lake Norman, Matthews, and Goldsboro. Don't know if any of those are by you or not, but he is pretty funny.:smile:

Dee, you're so adorable! I just want to give you a huge hug!!!!!!

Beautiful pics as always, thanks for enriching our lives by allowing us to live vicariously through you! Hee hee....cattin' around.....who me?????????????:w00t: I did say he was a perfect gentleman....

Have fun in Cancun, don't do anything I wouldn't do!!!:w00t:

Gorgeous artwork as always Lap. I wish I had an ounce of your talent.

Not dumb at all, a totally accurate statement!! Good to see you back, I have missed you!!

Puff Mama-down one pound this week. Did I give you a weight last week? My old timers is kicking in. :w00t:

Hello everyone, I am still around. :scared2: I was in a major funk and feeling very antisocial. The stupid neighbors sued me over the fence last week, and that was pretty much the last straw. But, I finally have a court date for the default judgement in my divorce-November 3rd! So I am excited that is going to be done soon. I won't be excited when my ex finds out we are divorced and goes crazy (crazier would be the appropriate word I suppose), but I am ready to be free. On a good note, my friend Bob was attempting to cheer me up the other night and told me she was taking me to the comedy club, no excuses. So I grudgingly went, and we had a blast. There is a piano bar next to the comedy club, and it was free cover to go, and Bob wanted to go, so I grudgingly went even though I wanted to go home. We were watching the dueling piano players, and drinking martinis and having fun, and the management from the comedy club brought the comedians in and sat them at the table in front of us. One of the comics kept making eye contact with me and smiling at me, and the manager guy noticed and asked us to go sit with the comics. We ended up talking all night, he was a super nice guy, and he wanted my phone number. We hung out the rest of the night, and the next night before I went to work, and he is the total opposite of my ex-respectful, nice, etc. Never tried to make a move on me or do anything-a perfect gentleman. I told him that I didn't see it going anywhere since he obviously travels all over the country, and he told me that he comes through here alot and would like to keep seeing me. He told me he would come here before a show in Ohio at the beginning of Nov just to see me. I figured at first "Oh great, he probably has groupies all over the place" but I honestly don't get that feel from him at all. He is kind of shy. He told me even though he wanted to talk to me, he never would have on his own if that guy hadn't asked us to sit with him. He's sweet.:scared2: So I am kind of mind boggled by this turn of events. At the beginning of the show I was declaring to Bob that I would never date anyone again, and then I met him. Funny how life works. Then tonight I went and got my usual Starbucks iced tea before work. There is always this guy there with a black lab that I visit with and play with. He introduced himself to me tonight and asked me to come to Starbucks early tomorrow before work so he could buy me an iced tea. Again, my mind is boggled. I don't think I have become ultra beautiful in the last week or something? :w00t: I guess it's that whole thing about when you are not looking, that's when things happen? Jamie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have missed you!!!!!!!! Dee and Puff Mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I missed you guys too!!!!!!! And of course Shelbi, Mal, Deb, and everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't think that I don't love you anymore because I haven't been around. I just get very introverted when I am depressed and lock myself in my house and don't talk to anyone. Bad, I know, but that is the way I am. :eek: Deb-Congratulations, I am very happy for you. I think it's awesome. My theory on the matter is this- it is hard enough to find someone in this life to love and spend your life with, so if someone finds someone to do that with, it doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks. There will always be critical people out there who feel the need to impress their unwanted opinions on people....screw them. I am extremely happy for you, and I would also like to see a picture! :smile:

Good point about insurance. If he billed your insurance for a fill that you didn't get, that is insurance fraud. Tell him you can report him to the insurance company.

Jamie- I want to go to BOTH Dave concerts!!!! I am off on Weds so I could fly there, LOL, then you could come here. I think the last few years both concerts have been on the weekend in Chicago. We have a total blast when we go to see Dave, you will love it!

Mal, that was an awesome dream!! And I meant to tell you that judging by the pics on your race shirt, your mom was drop dead gorgeous! Like mother like daughter, eh?

Hey Jamie, maybe I could fly out and we could go see Dave in NC next summer, or you could fly here and stay with me and you could go with us to see him in Chicago!!

They are ALL good in my opinion!

When I am BEHAVING I do low carb. Sometimes I am not always so good at it though, like the week before last. I will not be adding pork rind meatloaf to my list, it sounds hella gross!

Dave is awesome! I love him! If you ever want any CDs I will have my friend burn some for you and mail them to you so you can get the full Dave effect! (His live CDs are better than the studio ones, he is phenomonal live!)

Jamie is sexy with her orthopedic shoe and her depends.... (Just kidding Jamie, you KNOW I adore you!!)

I am really perplexed about why they would have you shadow then tell you they can't take on someone right now without PACU experience? I mean, how hard can it be to train you?

Yes, it does make me wonder. I called the lawyer today and I finally have a hearing date set for my divorce at the beginning of Nov. Not soon enough.

Another bit of hopefully good news-the humane society that I got Brutus and Jake from emailed me to check on the whole "situation". I told them about running into the animal control officer and how she told me to get a foster license, but that it needs to be under the umbrella of a shelter or rescue, so she was going to check with the director and see if they could get me a foster license through them. That would rock.

So true!! The funny thing is, almost all of us that work in the ICU are at least a little bit OCD. We are OCD about different things, we all have our little quirks, but we are all definantly OCD. I think it is a requirement for working in ICU or something. Maybe Dee will weigh in on this one! And I am glad I got the opportunity to talk to my neighbor also. I hope it was all just a misunderstanding because he thought the whackjob was still coming around to see me. I am hoping, like you said, now that the situation is clarified that they will lay off. And now that he knows Shawn is not supposed to be here he will keep an eye out for him and I know he will call the police on him if he is up to no good, so I feel a little safer too.

They tease me at work all the time about my OCD tendencies. One of the docs saw my handwriting in a chart a few weeks ago and commented to the day shift nurses "Whoever wrote this has a mental disorder, they are seriously OCD!" When they saw whose handwriting it was, they were like "Yep!!" I kind of consider it a good thing to be OCD when you are a nurse though....:wub:

Well, when I was leaving to go run errands today the neighbor was outside and actually nodded and waved to me. I took the opportunity to go talk to him and basically ask what their issue is with me. He told me his issue was never with me, that it was always with my husband. I said "But my husband has been gone since February, so why do you keep bothering me?" And he said, much to my surprise that he thought I was still seeing Shawn because he sees him driving around and saw him go up to my front door last week. I told him in no uncertain terms that I am NOT still seeing my husband, that my divorce should be final within a month, and that if he is driving around and coming to my house he is not supposed to be and to feel free to call the police because obviously he is stalking me again. I had no idea! He told me that he always hated how Shawn treated me because he used to consider me like one of his daughters, and he hated how he talked about me and couldn't believe I would still see him and put up with his crap, so I think that is where the issue was. He wouldn't fess up to calling animal control, and swore that they didn't, but I think they did and he feels bad about it now that he knows I am not seeing Shawn. I told him that Brutus is the only dog who doesn't know Shawn, and that he has already protected me once when Shawn was outside my bedroom window at 3:30 am and I had to call the police on him. I told him that once I get a default judgement in my divorce and Shawn finds out we are divorced, I will NEED Brutus to protect me and the house because things are only going to get worse. I think (hopefully) he understood this. Again, he swears he didn't do it, but there is no one else that logically would have, unless my stupid ex did it in an attempt to get his dog (he has threatened to call animal control on me in the past and tell them I have too many animals, so it could have been him I guess.) He also did tell me that they are buying the house next door for his daughter. I told him that I have never been unwilling to move the fence if it is over the property line, that I have gotten an estimate to move it already and gotten a loan to do it, but that the estate attorney will not return my attorneys phone call. I told him I have been ready to take care of it for 3 weeks now and that I am not trying to be unreasonable about it. He walked me back over to my garage and gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek so hopefully things will settle down now. Sigh.

OMG, you are my OCD twin!!! I knew there was a reason I liked you so much!!!