Sock Hop!

There was an multi-stake YSA activity this weekend and it was a sock hop! Everyone was suppose to wear crazy socks! So I went to Fred Myer's and bought this bright rainbow socks that go above the knee! They were awesome and I had an amazing time and even got asked to slow dance!! Wahoo!! yay! Here are a couple pictures of my outfit that I wore and a close up on the back of my hair!

Valentines Day!

So I just wanted to share this story with everyone that happened on Valentine's Day! I worked during the morning and after work I went over to watch basketball over at the church. While I was over there a guy named Cody came to my house and dropped a cookie off at my house that had a rose and my name on it. I don't know any Cody's and I was really confused when my mom told me that he said it was from the branch. Apparently I'm not the only one in the branch that recieved a cookie from the mysterious guy. He is actually a friend of one of the guys in the branch who wanted to do something nice for the sisters, but not let people know who it was! So I just wanted to say thanks and it made Singles Awareness Day a little more bareable :-D

Laid Off and Not Happy

So I got a lovely phone call this morning that woke me up. Ok so it's not that lovely. my part of the conversations will be in parenthsies My new boss at Weed Man called and was like so I was looking over stastics and it's nothing against you we really like your personality, and how out going you are and your fun to be around, but your numbers aren't just good enough. (ok?) We can't afford to have someone on that isnt' getting sales. We were going to be done calling in a couple weeks any way so we are letting you off early. Again it's nothing against you, (uh huh) it's just you can't get the sales. I hope you can find another job but I wouldn't go for one that has to do with sales over the phone. and don't bother coming in, we'll send you your final paycheck. Bye (ok thanks for calling)

WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Ok yes my numbers weren't that great but how are you suppose to have good numbers when 98% of the people you call DON'T ANSWER????? Seriously what am I suppose to do? I can't make people answer the phone, and i can't get sales if people don't answer.

So to say the least I'm not a happy camper right now. The reason I got this second job is because Fashion Bug keeps cutting hours. I honestly have no idea how I'm going to pay my bills, where i'm going to find another job, or anything like that. I'm stressing out like none other and I'm very worried on what is going to happen. If anyone has any suggestion on where to find work please let me know!!!!

New Job!

I got another job! I'm actually pretty excited about it! It's at Weed Man Lawn Care. I'm a telemarketer for them. I call old customers and ask them if they'd like to sign up for our 6 application services again. It consists of 4 granular slow release fertilizers, 2 weed controls and a free mid summer inspection. It's fully guaranteed to work or we'll come out and reapply it for free or give you your money back. It's pretty sweet! So far I've had one sell in the week and half I've worked there. So yeah it's pretty sweet! So I work there Monday-Thursday nights 530-830 and Saturday mornings 930-130. Not too bad, and I'm able to still work at Fashion Bug too!! I get better pay more hours and commission! SWEET!! So that's the update on my life!

Surgery

So in my last blog I told you all that I spent Christmas in the hospital. Here's what has happened since. The day after Christmas I woke up and was in some pain so I took some meds and ate some food so the meds wouldn't make me sick. My mom tried calling the surgeons office but they weren't answering due to the holidays so she was at work and she told some of her doctor friends about what was happening with me. One of the doctors saw the surgeon my mom was trying to get a hold of in the doctors lounge and told him what was going on. He then looked at my ultra sound called my mom talked to her then she called me/my dad and talked to us and told me to stop eating and drinking and to get to the hospital as soon as possible for surgery.

So I got ready and headed to the hospital. Checked in and went to my room and the nurse tried to put an IV in she got it in and it wouldn't bleed right so she took it out and it started bleeding. haha go figure so she then tried again and was able to put it in my hand. So they took some more blood work and prepping me for surgery. So I hung out in the room for a while before they took me down to the OR. When they did take me down the the OR they put my in the prep room first so i could meet the doctor and he could tell me what he was going to do and i could sign papers and stuff like that. That was actually the scariest part of the whole ordeal. There were other people in there recovering from the surgeries already and they were moaning and groaning in pain and yeah it kind of freaked me out. so I was trying to relax while waiting for the Dr. Giles to show up and the nurse checks my IV come to find out the nurse put the wrong size of IV in my hand. they put a 22 in when they usually put a 20 or 18 so they tried sticking me again. They couldn't get it, and was about to try again when the anesthesiologist came and said not to they'd do it once i'm under because my veins will be more dilated. So Dr. Giles came in and we talked then they took me to the OR, and the last thing I remember till after the surgery is breathing deep. Apparently during my surgery they had to try 6 more times to get an IV in. I have bruises on my arms and hands from where they tried. So after the surgery when I first came to it startled me I didn't know where I was or what happened for a bit.

After my surgery Dr. Giles went and talked to my parents about how it went. Everything went fine, but they did find some odd things. For one my gallbladder was really swollen due to the 10 mm by 13mm gallstone blocking the duct so no bile could get into my gallbladder but the mucus that the gallbladder produces that mixes with the bile was building up and making it swollen. So that wasn't good and then they also found some other odd things that I need to go to a different doctor to have checked out. So yeah surgery went fine they made 4 small incisions one in my bellybutton where the scar won't be seen which is nice then three incisions on my upper abdomen. It's actually pretty cool!

After my surgery they took me back up to my room where my parents were waiting. They gave me some more pain killers and I went to sleep for a while. I didn't get much sleep through the night due to them coming in and constantly checking my blood pressure and seeing how my pain was. The funny part was when ever they came in to check on my pain I was fine but when I was in pain I had to page them. oh well! So they had my on an all liquid diet for my breakfast just to make sure i could keep things down since the day before i was throwing up. That was fine so I was able to have a normal meal for lunch. I actually spent the pretty much the whole day Saturday the 27 in the hospital waiting for the doctor to come and check on me and give me the ok to go home. I was hurting that day a lot. I can honestly say I really don't care for surgery all that much. :)

So Dr. Giles told me that I need to not just lay around all day and wait to get better. I need to be up walking around that's the only way I'm going to get better. So that's exactly what I tried to do. They gave me some really strong Vicodin that when i took it made me really tired. So when I could I would get up and walk around. So Sunday I mostly laid around with ice, watched tv/movies, and played my computer. by the end of the day i was wanting to get out of the house and do something. I hate being laid up I can't do it. I couldn't stay home for even a day. Yes I did leave the house Sunday night and I drove myself while on pain meds. Yeah I know know the smartest thing but I didn't go very far just a couple miles away to branch prayer. It was nice to see my friends and let them know that I had surgery. Yes I was a slacker and didn't tell anyone. I didn't want them to worry about me. So monday I did the same thing as sunday laid around most of the day went shopping with Bryn then went and watched Caleb play basketball which I due every monday. So yeah I'm recovering well probably should have rested a bit more but I'm doing well I went to the Institute New Years Eve party, and went back to work New Years day 6 days after my surgery. and yeah. I'm doing great a week after my surgery I wasn't on pain meds any more the strongest thing I've taken since New Years Day is an Ibuprofen, so I'm doing good, and I'm going to play volleyball this saturday! WAHOO!!!! I almost played last saturday but decided to give myself a couple of weeks before doing that.

Well you are all caught up on my life hopefully I won't have any more major sickness sort of things to talk about on this! Have a great New Year Everyone!

To think I thought my life was boring

So when I started this blog last night I didn't think I would have much to put on here. I was wrong. So for Christmas for as long as i can remember we've always woken up pretty early, and this year we were getting up at 745 which is late for us. But NO I woke up at 530 with a horrible pain in my upper abdomen that went all the way to my back. I got up went to the bathroom that didn't help so at 6 I went and woke mom up and was like mom I have a horrible pain I don't know what's wrong. So she got up and got her medical books up and started looking through them. She came to the conclusion that it probably had something to do with my gallbladder and was like we should go to the ER. So we talked and decided to wake everyone up and open presents at 630 then we would go. so that's what we did. well they did i sat on the couch almost curled in a ball wanting to cry. so at 7 my mom took me to the ER. We ended up being there for 4 hours. They put an IV in took some blood I got to pee in a cup and got an ultra sound done. they tried to get me to swallow some medication to help for the pain and nausea but I ended up throwing it up as soon as I got it down. So they gave me meds through my IV instead. So after the Ultra sound they doctor came in and was like you have a gallstone and you need surgery, but we're going to put you on some meds and send you home. then you can call the surgeon and set up an appointment later. I was thinking what the heck?? if i need surgery just do it i don't like being in pain. They sent me home and as soon as i got home I crashed due to the pain meds. which was nice to actually be able to sleep since i wasn't in pain. So I have to call the Surgeon tomorrow and find out when I can get into surgery. So if I don't seem like myself it's probably because I'm either in pain or I'm on pain killers.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I give in!!!

So it seems everyone is getting one of these so I'm getting one too!! Here is a little catch up on my life. I turned 21 on Nov. 23 and I haven't done a thing to celebrate it yet. :o) I'm working at Fashion Bug in Meridian, ID. It's lots of fun when I actually get some hours. So I'm in the search for either a new one or another one. So if anyone has any ideas let me know! Full time and good pay would be nice! So yeah that's my life at the moment! Living at home with the family and working! What a life!