Just a bunch of randomness

- This is day 12 of a really bad head cold for me. I've never had a cold last this long so it's starting to get quite annoying. It's not the flu, it's not a sinus infection, it's just a mean nasty cold. At least I feel fine now, just dealing with the sneezing and runny nose. yuck. I'm one of those people who can be anti-medicine at times and prefer to just suffer through it but I did end up having to take Tylenol Cold this time.

- My work is requiring that all employees get the H1N1 vaccine or else we have to mask our entire shift even if we don't have a patient, from now until MAY. If we get caught without the mask, we lose our job. Not cool. I'm NOT getting the H1N1 nor did I get the regular flu shot. I don't want it. I will mask dang it. I do think it's completely ridiculous (and probably illegal) to force that on us and threaten our jobs, but whatever. I think this H1N1 is getting a little out of control, they are freaking out and it's quite annoying. They are not requiring the regular flu shot, so why require this? really? We are not a hospital, we are an out patient clinic. I'm not pregnant. (sorry if you had your hopes up) I don't have any other health issues that would put me at high risk. Therefore, I'm not getting the shot. I don't care what they say, doctors are half and half on this vaccine. Some say it's totally safe, some are not so sure. It's probably totally safe and all, I'd rather just not risk it. Thanks anyways.

- I accepted another part-time job this week at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Not that I remember it, but I was born at Rex Hospital! :) I will pick up a few hours every week as a PRN MRI tech. I will not start until February but I'm already excited about it. I will be learning a whole lot which is cool. I will have to learn new software first of all, Rex has Phillips MRI equipment and I only know how to operate Siemens and GE. Secondly, I will be learning how to do Breast MRI imaging!!!!! It's a pretty new technology and I'm so super pumped about it! The sad part is that all the breast patients we get will have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. That makes me sad but at the same time, this is such a cool technology and I will be helping them diagnose more specifically and help the doctors plan better and more accurate treatment. Awesome!! I will continue working at my current job, at least for a few more months. My hope is that I can start picking up more hours at the new job and kind of phase out of the current job. It's tiring driving so far to work everyday and I've not been too happy there lately anyway.

- We finally finished painting our dining room!!! We still need curtains and a new light and then I will post pics! :)

- We are going over to some friends' house tomorrow night for a Fondue Party. Anything dipped in chocolate or cheese is yum!!! I'm excited!! And I will be going with some girlfriends to a Tea Room on Saturday morning!! yay!! It'll be good for us to get out and do some fun stuff this weekend!

- I'm so anxious for Thanksgiving to get here, I can hardly stand it!!! I have been telling anyone who will listen about how excited I am about going to Myrtle Beach. Definitely one of the highlights of our year! :)

That's all I have for today... hope you're all having a great week!!

Celebrations!

We had a lot to celebrate this past weekend!

First of all, it was our last Upward game!! YAY!! It was a long and tiring season, but it was still good to step out and try something new. We are both glad we did it, but are very thankful for a break!

Coach Kyle and Coach Wes


Charger's football team huddle


My precious girls!


cheering at half-time


sitting on our buckets



We also had a great time at the NC State football game on Saturday! Dad F and Chad drove up and we all went to the game. We met up with Courtney and Heidi at halftime too. It's definitely been hard being a Wolfpack fan this season but they really stepped it up and played a great game! They finally got an ACC win against Maryland so it turned out to be an awesome game to go to!


16 days til Thanksgiving!!!

23 days and counting!

Life still hasn't slowed down much at all for us. This is the last week of Upward and I am so glad it's almost over! It was taken so much of our time the last 3 months. We really need a break and we'll be so happy to sleep in on Saturday mornings again.

I had a really awesome birthday on the 24th! I got lots of special treatment for the whole week. We were actually still celebrating yesterday with my Grandparents who came up to take the whole family out to eat at Olive Garden... they have pumpkin cheesecake right now!!!!! I got lots of cool stuff too, that's what matters, hehe.

This past Saturday was just craziness. It was Parents Day at Upward so I was there first thing in the morning to help put up balloons and decorations in the rain. (Kyle conveniently had to work his Saturday that day) :) The rain eventually went away but it was still kinda miserable being outside the whole day. I was on the football fields from 8am-1pm then I had to walk across the parking lot to the other field where our church was having the Fall Festival. I had to volunteer with that for two more hours. There was over 150 families that came though so it was pretty successful. Then I came home took a shower and hit the coach for all of 10 minutes before I had to get ready for the first batch of trick-or-treaters that came ringing the doorbell. It was only like 5:30pm too, seriously, it's not even close to being dark yet! How annoying, haha. I'm not a big fan of Halloween to start with, so it was extra nice of me to even hand out candy to the 200 people that came by. I really just wanted to eat it all myself but I gave it ALL away, what was I thinking!?!? ;)

Now we are counting down the days until Thanksgiving!!!!!! Whoohoooo!! We are super excited!