Today was a fun day. It was our 2nd day off before working Wed and Thurs, and we had been couch potatoes all day. I decided it was time to go get our pumpkin for the fall. I reluctantly put the windows on the Jeep, our dog carrying car, and we piled in with the mutts to go up the mountain.
We started up HWY 14 and drove through Landrum then Tryon before we finally headed up to Saluda in search of our pumpkin.
THE LEAVES WERE JUST BEAUTIFUL!
It got more colorful the further up we drove. Presley was sprawled out on the back seat, and Jasper was perched on the glove console box looking out the windows. We were about a mile from Saluda up in the "big curves" when Martin started yelling for me to pull over. Japper was sick! He got car sick in the curves. So I whipped it over into a big curve, and turned around at the first place I saw which was a little produce stand. There she was! Our pumpkin! They also had lots of jams and spreads and apples, honey, etc...
We not only got our pumpkin, but we spent some time talking to the nice man there and left with Muskidine cider, fresh Saluda Mountain honey, mint apple jam, and vidalia onion steak sauce.
Oh how I love the Carolinas and her mountains...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
MTV VMA's
Wow. I am an MTV Gen X'er, and I grew up watching MTV. I can remember when it was all music videos, and I remember the debut of one of their first shows, The Real World.
What has happened to what has been one of my most favorite channels?
Last night, the 25th MTV Video Music Awards were on. I have never been more disappointed about a TV show. I look forward to it every year, bc It never disappoints to shock and amuse. This year, however, they went too far.
They pushed the envelope with their host, Russel Brand. Who is he, by the way. I googled him this morning, and apparently, he was in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" which I did not watch.
He is a Brit, who looks like a bad old school rocker with bad teased hairsprayed hair. All of his jokes were at the expense of either the Jonas Brothers and their decision to save themselves for marriage, and their choice to wear purity rings, or his jarrs at President Bush.
He has no right to speak of either one, being that he isn't even a citizen of the US. He called our President a "retarded farmer who wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors in his country."
Wow. Are the VMA's really the place for such political banter?
That aside, as if that isn't enough, His attacks on the Jonas Brothers were way out of line. Heaven forbid we have some positive role models for today's generation of kids. Thank God for Disney for churning out some G rated stuff for our kids to watch. I think its great that The Jonas Brothers have chosen to have a voice for saving themselves for marriage, and waiting on their wife. It seems as if young Hollywood is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they do positive, good things, they are the butt of jokes. If they are a train wreck, they are the butt of jokes.
At one point, his jokes and sexual comments to the Jonas Brothers got so bad, that when it was time for Jordan Sparks to present an award, she threw in that there was nothing wrong with Purity rings, and that some people do not want to be sluts... Go Jordan!...
The rest of the acts were nothing compared to past shows with Aerosmith, and Britney a few years ago, and Michael Jackson and Madonna.
This year it was just so lukewarm, and they had this "houseband" on the side where some of the "featured performers" were singing. It would cut to them for like 20 seconds after a commercial break. It was a drummer, Travis Barker, and DJ AM churning out tunes. Those definitely were not "featured performers"...
The whole show is usually set in Radio City Music Hall, with thousands of screaming fans, and many famous people including movie stars. This year, it was set on Paramount's movie lot, and the whole thing was supposed to look like a set. It wasn't large enough for the big audience, so it came off looking like a high school gym set up with about 200 people watching. Hence, there was no loud abruption of applause, or screaming fans, or maybe that was more due to the lackluster...
I was just disappointed. I had my pj's on, my Pepsi ready, Martin brought home pizza, and I was ready for the show. Man. If I had had kids, that would have been turned of 30 seconds into the Brit's monologue. How trashy.
MTV has hit a new low. The only time MTV will be turned on in this house now, is to watch the Hills, and even then, I will Tivo it so I don't have to take a chance on any of the other trash.
peace.
What has happened to what has been one of my most favorite channels?
Last night, the 25th MTV Video Music Awards were on. I have never been more disappointed about a TV show. I look forward to it every year, bc It never disappoints to shock and amuse. This year, however, they went too far.
They pushed the envelope with their host, Russel Brand. Who is he, by the way. I googled him this morning, and apparently, he was in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" which I did not watch.
He is a Brit, who looks like a bad old school rocker with bad teased hairsprayed hair. All of his jokes were at the expense of either the Jonas Brothers and their decision to save themselves for marriage, and their choice to wear purity rings, or his jarrs at President Bush.
He has no right to speak of either one, being that he isn't even a citizen of the US. He called our President a "retarded farmer who wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors in his country."
Wow. Are the VMA's really the place for such political banter?
That aside, as if that isn't enough, His attacks on the Jonas Brothers were way out of line. Heaven forbid we have some positive role models for today's generation of kids. Thank God for Disney for churning out some G rated stuff for our kids to watch. I think its great that The Jonas Brothers have chosen to have a voice for saving themselves for marriage, and waiting on their wife. It seems as if young Hollywood is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they do positive, good things, they are the butt of jokes. If they are a train wreck, they are the butt of jokes.
At one point, his jokes and sexual comments to the Jonas Brothers got so bad, that when it was time for Jordan Sparks to present an award, she threw in that there was nothing wrong with Purity rings, and that some people do not want to be sluts... Go Jordan!...
The rest of the acts were nothing compared to past shows with Aerosmith, and Britney a few years ago, and Michael Jackson and Madonna.
This year it was just so lukewarm, and they had this "houseband" on the side where some of the "featured performers" were singing. It would cut to them for like 20 seconds after a commercial break. It was a drummer, Travis Barker, and DJ AM churning out tunes. Those definitely were not "featured performers"...
The whole show is usually set in Radio City Music Hall, with thousands of screaming fans, and many famous people including movie stars. This year, it was set on Paramount's movie lot, and the whole thing was supposed to look like a set. It wasn't large enough for the big audience, so it came off looking like a high school gym set up with about 200 people watching. Hence, there was no loud abruption of applause, or screaming fans, or maybe that was more due to the lackluster...
I was just disappointed. I had my pj's on, my Pepsi ready, Martin brought home pizza, and I was ready for the show. Man. If I had had kids, that would have been turned of 30 seconds into the Brit's monologue. How trashy.
MTV has hit a new low. The only time MTV will be turned on in this house now, is to watch the Hills, and even then, I will Tivo it so I don't have to take a chance on any of the other trash.
peace.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Hi, its me, Nikki
Hi, It's just me, Nikki
I wanted to start thing thing up, since I have been searching endlessly to find something to keep my family up to date on what is going on in my life, since we never have the time we want to get together bc of my nightshift schedule.
But,
That is all about to change...
I am starting a new chapter in my life on September 15. I am ending my suffering on nightshift duty in the PICU.
I will be joining the dayshift on my same rotation. I feel bittersweet about this. I am going to miss my buddies that I have worked with for 3 years sinceI started in the PICU. One thing that makes it a little easier, is that April, our Unit Secretary, is also leaving. She is going to a dayshift position at a totally other hospital. So, she won't be there to leave. Anna, my other buddy, left a couple months ago to go to Atlanta at Egleston, and is loving it. Paula, she left to go to a dayshift position and is no longer in patient care. So that leaves Angie, my rock, that I have been with since I started, my "mom" of sorts, and confidant, that taught me everything. I worry about everyone helping her out when I am gone. Jessie, who came right after me, is going to be just fine. She is picking up the charge nurse position, and she floats around to each rotation, and fits right in. Mary, who is still sort of new, I also worry about, only because she worries. She is going to be just fine, too, though. Alicia, our RT, I don't know what I am going to do without her. Whenever my voice reaches a certain octive, it means, "COME NOW I NEED YOU, SOMETHING IS WRONG!", and she knows, and she is right there.
I had to make a tough choice, though. I had to choose to get my normalcy back, and be on a normal day time schedule where there is sunshine and stuff! I also will be on the same shift as my husband. We will actually work the same hours on the same days, and get to sleep at night together like normal husband and wife. That is definately a plus.I miss him, and I am tired crying when he goes to work on Friday morning, bc I know I won't see him until Monday morning.
I wanted to start thing thing up, since I have been searching endlessly to find something to keep my family up to date on what is going on in my life, since we never have the time we want to get together bc of my nightshift schedule.
But,
That is all about to change...
I am starting a new chapter in my life on September 15. I am ending my suffering on nightshift duty in the PICU.
I will be joining the dayshift on my same rotation. I feel bittersweet about this. I am going to miss my buddies that I have worked with for 3 years sinceI started in the PICU. One thing that makes it a little easier, is that April, our Unit Secretary, is also leaving. She is going to a dayshift position at a totally other hospital. So, she won't be there to leave. Anna, my other buddy, left a couple months ago to go to Atlanta at Egleston, and is loving it. Paula, she left to go to a dayshift position and is no longer in patient care. So that leaves Angie, my rock, that I have been with since I started, my "mom" of sorts, and confidant, that taught me everything. I worry about everyone helping her out when I am gone. Jessie, who came right after me, is going to be just fine. She is picking up the charge nurse position, and she floats around to each rotation, and fits right in. Mary, who is still sort of new, I also worry about, only because she worries. She is going to be just fine, too, though. Alicia, our RT, I don't know what I am going to do without her. Whenever my voice reaches a certain octive, it means, "COME NOW I NEED YOU, SOMETHING IS WRONG!", and she knows, and she is right there.
I had to make a tough choice, though. I had to choose to get my normalcy back, and be on a normal day time schedule where there is sunshine and stuff! I also will be on the same shift as my husband. We will actually work the same hours on the same days, and get to sleep at night together like normal husband and wife. That is definately a plus.I miss him, and I am tired crying when he goes to work on Friday morning, bc I know I won't see him until Monday morning.
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