This past weekend we went to an SCA event in Lamesa, TX. We almost didn't go...I ended up getting sick the day before going to Champions (that's the name of the event), and had killer abdominal pain following. But I would have had to be feeling like I was going to die to not go see my baby (Lamesa is only an hour from Lubbock), so we went. I was ( Read more... )

"Welcome and thank you for choosing McDonald's! We don't have milkshakes, we don't have parfaits, we don't have Filet-o-Fish, we don't have McRibs, we don't have Spicy Chicken sandwiches, we don't have Big-N-Tasty sandwiches, we don't have Special Sauce, we don't have apple pies, and we don't have milk ( Read more... )

I was at work last night, and someone called me "Missy", just joking around. For seemingly no reason at all, I thought of my grandfather, who passed away a year and a half ago. I was quite fond of him, and his nickname for me was "Missy Lou". With no warning at all, I suddenly found my head flooded with memories of him, close to tears...and I ( Read more... )

From one of my patients the other night. Mind you, this woman is 80+ and bedridden, among other things. This was said after multiple attempts at IV starts had left her with trash all over her bed ( Read more... )

Having never blogged before, I thought I would try something new. It seems to work for several of my friends. Many of them have said they often learned a lot about themselves by going back and seeing what they've written over time, and more often by what people had said about it. I'm no novice to keeping a diary, so I well know the merits of ( Read more... )