Sick today

Well most people in the house are sick today.
I stayed home from class hoping that I'll feel better tomorrow for school and work, and I have a test on Friday.

I have a picture of Bella in some of Mum Mum's boots...

Ack! I missed a day.

Well, I tried.
I noticed on the way home from Bloomington one day there was a hole up on a bank along Hwy 37. Just north of the Avoca turn-off. There was orange safety netting around the hole, that's why I noticed it. I could see the red clay along the side, but I figured INDOT was just putting in a sign or something...
Today I got an email from one of the guys I cave with about seeing the same hole and wondering what it was. He got a reply from some of the *other* guys we cave with that it was a collapse sink-hole. It is 29' deep, 18' across at the surface and narrows down, like a cone, to about 3'x5'.
There is a 25'x 10' room at the bottom. They said it did have one lead, but it was sealed off by another clay collapse. Overall a very red-clay muddy mess. But it was surveyed and added to the books.

I took a test today, it felt good, I think I did ok. I'm going to check my grade now.
I checked off on urinary catheter today in class. Whoopeee!!

Fall back....fall down

Today is time change. Our computers at work apparently fall down when they fall back...from midnight till 04:00am the computers will not be "up" for us to use, we'll have to use all paper forms, etc. How long have we done this time change thing? You'd think someone, somewher would've came up with a way to make the computers change time....hmmmm.......

People, in general, are stupid.

3rd day in a row...I'm doing good!

Today, I got a new job. I'll be working at Monroe Hospital in Bloomington. It is a brand new facility, with new staff and all new everything. I'm really excited.
I will be working PRN (as needed) at Paoli.

More to follow....

....and here I was going to post something everyday...

Well, I've already missed the 25th. But technically, I haven't gone to bed yet, so it is still "today", and not "tomorrow" yet for me....
I've had 5 hours sleep in the last 24...actually that isn't even right. I slept 4 hours and got up at 5:30am, slept one hour during the day, and now am still up at 3am the next day.....you do the math!
I don't know any poems....
Two road diverged in the yellow wood...and I, I took the one less traveled. Because the person in front of me also took the one less traveled, and they got to eat all the spider-webs.

This jibberish if for you Annis.

They use pig heart valves in humans. But only if they aren't allergic to pork.
That's all for today (or yesterday), I'm gonna try to post every day.we'll see how it goes.

OH, I almost forgot, big news coming in the next couple of days...stay tuned!

These are a common specie of flower that grows in the summer. I have no idea what they are called, but they were pretty. I've become somewhat of an amateur mycologist (mushroom scientist) in the last few years. I'm not exactly sure what this one is, but in the next picture you can see the veil that covers the spores. That points towards poisonous. I wasn't planning on eating it anyway.

Bella at her birthday party. We had to have two cakes since we were a month late with the party. Dora and Madagascar.

You've asked for it....here they come!

This is a field across from our property. Some friends of ours bought it a few years ago and are planning on building a house. It has a wonderful view.
This is the same scene but with a wonderful sunset included.

I'm not sure what kind of flower this is, but it was very small and I was testing out our new camera.
Pictures, pictures....

Another weekend down...

I have time to post, but can't post pics from here.
We had a really good weekend, we cleaned out the little shed and put together my workbench. Now I have a place to get in out of the weather and work on my projects.

School is going better. I really bombed my second Pharm test, it was really hard. I did much better on the third test and got my average back up to where it needs to be so I can pass the class.
Joe'l and Bella are both doing good. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get some pics up....

A new beginning!

I have been neglecting my blog, shame on me. What can I say, work, school and seeing my family every once in a while is keeping me busy!
We had Bella's birthday party a month late and I got several pictures.
I'll try to post them tomorrow perhaps.

Patrick

Doing well, no jinxing!!

I am doing well in my nursing classes so far. I got an 80% on my pharmacology test last Friday. A 93% on my math test. Today I took another test and I really thought I did bad on it, but my test score was posted on the internet, it was a 92%.
But like I told everyone in class, "As long as it is over a 75%(passing) it doesn't matter what it is!"
I hope I can keep up this pace.

I'm lonely at home, everyone is gone to PA and I don't know when they will be home. I've been eating tuna salad for the last couple of days. I need to go to the store sometime.

Pray for Pop Pop

Pop Pop Lake is not feeling well.
He is likely to have surgery on the 13th.
Everybody please pray for him.

Patrick, Joe'l and Bella

Outside with a flower

Mommy and Bella played outside today. Bella is *finally* driving her tractor (we got it for Christmas last year). She loves to play with her "Sammy Junior". He is a very good cat.
Daddy had to work today, I didn't get to enjoy the nice weather, or the holiday.
Bella is quite the little farm girl!

Just a Quick Note....

I *DID* check ebay, and I did buy a digital camera. Actually, I bought two, but I'll have to sell one of them. I'm keeping the Nikon CoolPix 5200, it is a 5.1 megapixel. It is only about an inch thick, and the size of a credit card. I like it so far, it has a lot of options and such. We've been taking oodles of pictures, I'll post some, maybe tomorrow, maybe not. I work "day" shift (3:30am-4pm, can that actually be called DAY shift? 3:30am is not "day" to me)

*YAWN* What was I thinking.....

It is 04:34 Sunday morning. This is my second day shift in a row. I'm not used to these "day" shifts.
I have also seen that I have some night shifts in the next two weeks, that will be nice, school-work-school in two days. Gonna have to talk to the boss, not that it does any good.
I'm sleepy.
I don't get any pictures to put on here anymore, my camera is in my Palm, and it isn't real good, only 1.2megapixel. I need to get a new camera. I'll check ebay.

I'll try to write more tomorrow.

First Week is Finished

My first week of nursing school is done. It was an interesting experience. There are some people who have no idea what they are getting into. Then there are those who have been CNA's for years and probably won't have any problems.
I'm sure I'll have many stories along the way this year.
So far nothing really funny has happened, but I'm sure there will be.
I'll try to keep up with the Blog more often.

Gotta write SOMETHING!

I haven't posted in a week. I've been kinda busy. (not really)
We have our "new" computer hooked up now. I'm still working on getting everything off the old one and on the new one.

T-minus 7 days till school starts.

Bell is laying on the blanket, under some towels. She was very tired.

Today we went to the beach at Patoka Lake. It wasn't New Jersey. But it was a break from the heat. Bella enjoyed herself, swimming with Mommy and Daddy.Joe'l and I got sunburns on our backs and shoulders. Hers is worse and she really hurts. I guess some sunscreen would've been a good idea!

A fair day

Joe'l, Bella and I went to Bloomington today. I went to Buckners Cave, they went to 'Once Upon a Child'. Bella got a new stroller, her old one got broken at the airport.

Buckners is a very well known cave in the Bloomington area. It is currently about 3 miles of passage. Once you get through the initial crawlway the cave is fine. The crawlway is ~800' of belly crawl, I'm out of shape and this crawl in and out was very tough.
I was helping with a re-survey of this cave system, initiated by Sean Lewis. I worked with Bill Baus, and Paul ? I've not surveyed much and I learned some more today about it. I don't know what the total we shot today was, but we had most shots over 20 feet, and one was 40+.
I'd guess we had about 200'. Mostly crawlway, but some was open walkway.
I had an overall good time, although during the crawl in and out, I wondered what in the world I was doing!

Quite a weekend!

Today we went to the beach at Patoka Lake. It wasn't New Jersey. But it was a break from the heat. Bella enjoyed herself, swimming with Mommy and Daddy.
Joe'l and I got sunburns on our backs and shoulders. Hers is worse and she really hurts. I guess some sunscreen would've been a good idea!

The Cassidys