Merry Christmas! I worked all day - from 6:30 am to 7:30 pm! I only like working all day on paid holidays because you get paid time and a half, so ka ching! (It’d be even nicer if it were double pay!) I was originally scheduled from 11:30-7:30, but I texted Emily, who was scheduled from 6:30-11:30, and told her I would pick up that shift for her. I ( Read more... )

I headed up north with my parents this past weekend to celebrate Christmas. We first stopped in Iowa at Sue and Ter’s cabin for the Bruhl family Christmas. Everyone was there except for Verlyn who had a bad cold and Connie, Bob, and Pauline who had a Christmas party with Bob’s family. This was the first time I known of that they missed it. Gracie ( Read more... )

Yesterday there was a HUGE fire in the kitchen! It was really scary! It was after lunch was served to the residents and I was sitting in the dining room on lunch break with Mike (the cook), Matt (the dishwasher) and Brittanie and Brooke (also servers like me). A nurse came to put her dirty dishes in the bus tub and she asks us, "Is there suppose to ( Read more... )

I celebrated Christmas with my family this weekend since it was more convenient for everyone to get together then rather on the 25th. On Saturday my parents and I headed up to Klemme, IA where Aunt Sue and Uncle Terry were hosting Christmas for my mom's side of the family. There were 23 people there so it was a pretty good crowd. We had a lunch of ( Read more... )

Yes I am! For my mom I got Adele's CD, 21 because she told me she heard "Rolling in the Deep" on the radio and loved it (and yes, I realize that song came out in 2010...leave it to my mom to only discover it three years later!) For my dad, I got him two books: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini and The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. For Bill ( ( Read more... )

( Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! )

I went up to Iowa with my parents this weekend to have a family Christmas with my mom's side of the family at my Aunt Mary's house. This was the first Christmas without my Grandma, so that was a little sad, but we still had a good time, nonetheless. All in all there were twenty people there, so we had a good turnout even if two of my cousins couldn ( Read more... )

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I celebrated Christmas with my parents yesterday since I have to work on Christmas Eve. We had our annual Christmas Eve dinner of fondue. It was delicious as always, but I got hit with bubbling popping oil about three times. Not fun! For some reason, the oil would always spew my way! There was a ton of oil on the table cloth in front of my plate ( Read more... )

I have all my Christmas shopping done, thank God! I got it all done by the first of December. I got my parents the first two seasons of Breaking Bad and for Bill and Kelly I got them a speaker for their iPod that looks like an old fashioned speaker. And remember last year when I made them 30 CDs, one for each year from 1980-2009? Well, this year I ( Read more... )