Patience

Is Patience really a virtue??? if so then I must be extremely virtuous! :)

In May it will be one year since AJ and I started on this venture of finding our home. With the market the way it is, there have been some incredible deals on houses out there. For example, one home that we found (our last favorite) was 2400 sq ft on half an acre and you could see Lake Lowell from your front yard, and bedroom!! very nice! the asking price started at 340,000 one year ago, was down to 169,000 when we looked at it, and then came down to 139,000 while we were still working on cleaning up my credit. And of course someone who had a pre-approved letter went ahead and made an offer on the house, and now it is no longer on the market!

Never thought that trying to buy a house would be such an emotional rollercoaster!! last year, the lender we were working with told me that if it was one year earlier we would've been pre-approved for a 250,000 home loan. hmmm wonder why our country is in such a mess???? we don't want a loan that big!! When this journey first began we were looking for our home! the one we could live in and die in, raise a family and have our grandchildren come visit. However with the way things are going (we haven't completely given up on that possibility) we are starting to look at a "starter home" it could work, and if that's the way we are going to go then I want our payments to be about what our rent payment is. I'm really enjoying the fact that we are no longer living pay check to pay check, and very happy that my husband has a job with the way things are going. Especially a job that he doesn't have to leave the state for!

And don't get me started on the patience of trying to get pregnant!! if I go down that road, this will be a very negative post. I'm still staying hopeful that it will happen someday soon! I hope. It's been 8 months since we decided we were ready to get pregnant. Doesn't help that I was on my death bed last month. But still very frustrating...beginning to wonder what's wrong, or have we really been trying that hard?

So like I said Patience is a virtue, and when this is over I will be so happy!!

Then again I have to say that life is pretty good!!! I'm very happy!! love my job and my husband, and we have three of the best dogs in the world!! I'm actually very "Zen" right now :) so the waiting game continues with finding our home, and getting pregnant. If I had everything I would still find something that I didn't have......

Spring

Only 4 more days left of Winter, and then we have Spring!! ahh can't wait for the sun to start shinning on the ground. I don't mind having four seasons here in Idaho, it's taken me awhile to get used to it, but I finally enjoy them. However I still have a difficult time with Winter, a little more depressed and a little extra cushion around my middle makes it difficult!! Spring is on it's way!! I'm excited!! can't wait to get out there and really enjoy hiking in the Owyhees without a million layers on, get to go to Lake Lowell (when it's somewhat clear) and go swimming with the dogs (ok that doesn't sound right, but oh well) We've really wanted to buy a canoe so we can take it out there and find a nice little spot off of Lake Lowell and have a picnic, and play in the water! however they are a little expensive!! Really looking forward to the warmer weather!! it's gradually getting there, in the 50's, I know I know to some of you out there that is freezing, it kinda is, but way better than being in the 20's and 30's. SO the sun is shining, AJ and I are excited to start looking at houses to buy (another blog another day) and we can finally enjoy taking the dogs for a walk, and not freeze are behinds off!!! can't wait for Spring!!

I'm Back in the "Real" World again

So I'm back to work again, after having three weeks off. So happy to be back in my routine of life!! so much better!! and loving the fact that I'm not sick anymore, I can finally breathe on my own, I have to say that kinda freaked me out, of course I won't ever really admit how bad that freaked me out.

Anyhow it is definitely flu season!!! before I got sick and was working an average day at our busy location was around 40-50 patients in a 12 hour period, so one day. At our slower location an average could be 15-25 patients a day. Well when I worked last Monday at our "slower" location we saw 54 patients!! our busier quick care was in the 90's!!! that is how I know it is flu season, and besides being in my death bed because of the flu!!

Pretty interesting when I have to swab somebodies throat (test for possible strep throat), or swab their nasal cavaties (test for the flu), anything like that, I whip my mask out of my pocket and place that sucker over my face, before I approach any orifices!! and I kindly explain why. They all understand!! It is a pain, when you are that busy, especially having to wear gloves all the flippin time, my hands are so dry!! I wash and sanitized my hands after every encounter with a patient, well unless its a broken bone, not many of those, this time of year!!! can't wait until high school football, and basketball season starts up again, give me broken bones, and blood, keep the viruses away!!! So just a little paranoid!!

I love this man!!!

I just wanted to say that I have the best husband out there, he needs a shout out!! for all the support he has given me, not only taking care of me when I was sick!! and I mean seriously taking care of me!! making sure the house was kept up, getting me whatever I needed, I almost felt guilty! almost :) I do have to say that it was difficult for me to have someone wait on me the way he did, that's my job!! that's what I do for a living, so it was difficult for me to say, OK, I need to take it easy and just try and enjoy this change of pace! It has been difficult!! now that I am starting to feel better, I want to do more, and by doing more I am wearing myself out!! If I've learned anything its to listen to my body, and do what it tells me to do!! and that is RELAX, CHILL, it's ok!! ahhh still so hard.......Anyways I just have to say that I love my husband, and I could not have married anyone who is more perfect for me than he is!! so glad I waited as long as I did, and went through the hell I went through with him, because it is paying off!!! He is the best!!!

Too much time on my hands!!

Holy Hanna!!! I cannot believe I am on my seventh book for the year!! it's barely March!! ahhh something about being sick for 3 going on 4 weeks I suppose!! Thankfully I am feeling better!! I actually feel like I might make it! :) However this morning when I made the bed I was exhausted!! it doesn't take much to wear me out lately. I did finally go for a walk yesterday with the dogs and my husband, I made it about 15 minutes, then insisted that I needed to get home, did nothing the rest of the day. Literally nothing! layed in bed, and actually picked up an afghan that I am working on. I have a whole bunch of yarn that is mix matched, so I decided to make an afghan out of it. I needed something that would take me awhile to make, or else we would end up with a million knitted dish cloths again!! which I have to say are nice for birthday presents, but like I said I need something that will take awhile. I don't know what I would do if I didn't like to read, crochete or knit!! I would be so sick and tired of watching tv, which has already happened!! ahhh, I will definitely enjoy going back to work!! can't believe I just said that, but it is so true!!!