Beautiful Fall day!

Today was the perfect Fall day!! I wish I would have taken some pictures! The leaves are gorgeous!! Mostly orange and yellow. Half are still on the trees and half on the ground. So it's so pretty! Plus it was fairly warm today! Cool enough for a nice hooded sweatshirt but warm enough to be out to enjoy it!! It was just perfect!
I got a yummy and easy chili recipe from my mom yesterday and a delicious and very healthy recipe for pasta fagioli (can't remember how to spell it and don't feel like getting up) so I made a double batch of both today and once they are done simmering I will freeze most of them so we have plenty of quick and easy meals for later on!! Especially on days I have class...I just don't have time to cook between work and class so this way we will still have yummy healthy meals on those nights. Lots of work today but I'm glad I did it! The house smells sooo good!!
My foot is healing very nicely. It still hurts but I was told that it will take a while for it to heal but thankfully I can be up and about. I can go back to work and resume all my normal activities Monday so I'm glad for that!
Well...hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend!!!

Ouch!

Well I suppose it was bound to happen...I am SUCH a clutz!! Thursday night we got a 1st aid call. Sam and I were rushing out the door and I tripped over the computer cord and fell and landed on my foot (foot was sideways) I screamed and Sam said..."well we're not going on this call!" But stubborn me jumped up and said "it's okay" and we did. (in my defense...the nature of the call sounded like something I really wanted to see first hand especially since I'm taking my EMT class) My foot hurt at the call but I guess because of the adrenaline it wasn't horrible. I was okay till we got the patient to the ER and things had settled down a bit. Then I couldn't put any weight on it whatsoever. So last night I went for xrays to see what was going on and come to find out...I tore some ligaments in my foot. Fun fun. At least if it was broke they could have put a cast on it but I'm still thankful it isn't broke! Anyway...I have to stay off it for several days and Sam is taking very very good care of me!! I know it's not how he wanted to spend his weekend but I appreciate him taking care of me!! Oh! And my sis~in~law brought over some yummy homemade Fall cookies and a picture that my nephew colored. That was so sweet and brightened my whole day!
EMT class is going great. Having a really really hard time with the homework today but the worse that can happen I suppose is I will get them wrong and then learn from my mistakes! As long as I learn from them it's fine.
It looks so "fallish" out there today. So pretty! The trees on our street are so colorful right now (most of them) and it's beautiful!
Well...better get back to the homework!
Happy weekend everyone!

Good morning!

Well I got up waaaay too early this morning so I guess I'll update my blog! :)
Okay...not complaining cause I love Fall but it is COLD here this morning. (31 degrees if I remember correctly from the news) Brrr!! My body is not used to this yet!! Days like today I am so glad that I have an inside job!
Lets see...well I had my first "accident" (if you can even call it that) this week!! Sam has a BIG Chevy Crew Cab Duelly (no idea how to spell that) and I very rarely drive it for obvious reasons! It has those huge hips on it and it's easy to forget they are there...especially when you are used to driving a small vehicle. So...I pulled into work in the morning and forgot about those darn "hips" on the truck and I side swiped one of those yellow concrete poles that they have surrounding the utility pole. It did alot more damage than I would have thought it would. But it's not horrible (depending on wether you ask me....or Sam!!!) So needless to say...I was in the doghouse for a little while!! For those of you who do not know Sam...lucky for me he is a very laid back person! I felt so bad cause that truck is his "baby". Needless to say...I won't have to drive that to work anymore! I kept telling him it was way too big for me...guess now he really knows that! haha!
Lets see...work is going good for both of us. Flu season is in full swing so I'm getting coughed all over on a daily (more like minutely) basis! Lovely. Just lovely! :( I learned to cover my mouth when I cough when I was like 3. Not sure why grown adults don't feel as though that's necessary!! Not only that....DON'T stand face to face with me and cough in my face!! Yuk!! I have no problem jumping back and moving over so they know I did not appreciate it and do not want their germs. That's just nasty. Okay. That rant is over!
My EMT class is going GRRRRREAT!! Love love love love it!!! I'm so excited about this! Still have about 3 months of class left so I'm excited to see all the different things I will be learning.
Well I suppose I should get ready for work.
Happy Thursday everyone! :)

Just rambling!!! :)

Ha! 2 posts in one day!! I don't believe I've ever done that and probably will never do it again but I'm home sick and was ordered by my husband to rest on the couch (NO PROBLEM!! HA HA!!) So I'm rotating between studying for my EMT class and just playing around on the computer. Gotta say....today I have gotten pretty good at Super Mario Brothers!! :)

I forgot to post something really really sweet that Sam did for me recently. My washer and dryer are in our basement. Up until now they were just in a corner in the basement which was fine. Worked for me. But Sam was tinkering around in the basement the other day....I didn't think much of it cause he is constantly "tinkering" down there. (the man never sits still...which isn't a bad thing but I wish he would just relax sometimes!!! But to him....that is relaxing!!!) Anyway....after a while he told me to come down....that he had a surprise for me. Come to find out....he had built a wall down there (looks great!!) to seperate my washer/dryer from the rest of the basement so I could have my own little laundry room. He built shelving so I could store my detergent, clorox, etc and built a tabletop in the corner so I could put the clothes on there. Then he hung a nice bright light so I could see what I was doing and told me to pick out a rug at Walmart to finish it off. I just thought that was so sweet that he thought of that all on his own. I honestly never even complained about the laundry situation. I'm just happy to have one in the house so that was so unexpected and sweet of him!!! So I wanted to brag on him!!

Tomorrow if I feel better I'm going to pack away our summer clothes and pull out and wash our winter clothes which is so exciting cause that means that Fall is officially here!! Woohoo! I LOVE Fall!! Love it!! From the end of September through Christmas is just a wonderful time of year!!

Alright. Guess I'd better get back to studying. Not that I mind cause this class is awesome!! So much hands on!! I'm loving it so the studying is actually fun!! :)

Happy Anniversary Honey Bunny!

Today is our 8th anniversary! Woohoo!! I know 8 years isn't much but it's exciting to me! It has gone by sooooo fast! I'm so thankful for Sam. He is a wonderful husband and friend. He always puts my needs and wants above his own and lets just be honest here...he puts up with alot of mood swings! Poor guy! I'm excited to see what this next year brings for us.
On another note...my EMT class is going great!! I am loving it! It's alot harder and way more time consuming than I thought it would be but I don't care at all. It's an amazing class. I haven't been in quite a month yet and I still have SO much to learn but when I look back on what I knew 1 month ago compared to what I know now....it's so exciting!! I have great teachers so that really really helps too.
I think maybe Sam and I got food poisoning. Maybe. I'm not sure. But I came home from class tonight throwing up and feeling so weak and lousy and come to find out...Sam had come down with it while I was at class, too. Weird. That's what makes us think maybe it was the Chinese we ordered last night. :(
Anyway...just wanted to jump on here and update a bit. Hope everyone has a wonderful Fall. I love this time of year!!

Mogley Mogley Mogley!!

Okay this is not gonna sound as funny as it was but let me tell you....it was HILARIOUS!!!
I left work in the middle of the day to take Mogley out to go potty and stretch his little legs, etc. While I was home the UPS guy came and left a box on the porch. I did not open the door on purpose cause I didn't want Mogley biting him. (he's been known to do that!! lol) So I waited till he started driving away and opened the door. Well Mogley saw that as his chance to escape! He ran SO FAST towards the UPS truck which was, by now, down the street. He started running circles around the truck (while it was driving) Now for those of you who have never seen our dog, he is all of 13 pounds soaking wet so he's really small!! How he did not get run over....I'll never know! That in itself is a miracle!! I was running down the street frantically calling him but he was on a mission! When the UPS driver stopped, Mogley jumped in the truck with him and started kissing him!! Which...if you know Mogley that in itself would surprise you!! I thought I'd find him biting the poor guy!! lol! I really think he wanted to go for a ride...he LOVES rides! It was so stinkin funny!! I wish so much that I had a camcorder right then cause it was hilarious!!! I'm so glad he did not get run over. He must have thought he was in trouble because when I was carrying him home he was hanging onto me for dear life crying. I probably should have scolded him but I was laughing so hard I couldn't. So that was my excitement for the day!! So glad our little honey bunny is okay!! lol!!

Ahhh....I'm so happy that this is a long weekend!! It's been a tiring week!! But I started my EMT class on Wednesday night and it's going to be even better than I thought! I mean...I was excited before...but I'm even more excited now! We are each actually going to 2 different emergency rooms (all of us at seperate times) to get a little experience. I picked Suburban because it's close and ECMC because that will be a huge challenge for me and I want to prove to myself that I can do it. I'm working on the homework now, well RIGHT now I'm taking a break cause my brain was seriously starting to hurt. But it's great. On the homework it seems to be questions from all over the book so it's forcing me to flip back and forth and read everything so that's good. That's all reinforcement. This is going to be great!
Tomorrow we are going to Clarence Center Fire Hall as we do every year for Labor Day. It's always alot of fun and we see alot of people that we don't get to see much so I'm looking forward to that tomorrow. Then the rest of the weekend we are just going to relax!! Yay! We were supposed to go camping but we just changed our minds yesterday. I'm kind of relieved actually.
Let's see...what else...I guess that's all for now. Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!