Sorry for the delays

Sorry readers,

I've been super busy and that probably isn't going to change soon. I'm going to try to update as often as I can. With my new job I'm super busy. I only work three days a week but I don't know how people do this full time. I come home and pass out from exhaustion and hunger. I tend to sleep from just after I have dinner (my only meal of the day) till about 10:00 the next morning. Then I try to catch up on the stuff I used to do like keep the house half decently clean. This too shall end.

The job isn't terrible but I'm just a perfectionist and I feel so lost. I know I trained for this for years but the paperwork is killing me. And it doesn't help that I tend to see the clients only once and then have to write their weekly progress notes. Can we say EAK!

So now that I've complained I'll move on to my challenge for lent. I am going to go meatless all lent. This doesn't sound so hard and It probably wouldn't be if three days a week I wasn't working. I hope this works out. O and since the husband is on a diet it looks like we will be having a lot of salad and fish dinners. Today since I'm off I'm making Greek pizza for lunch and tonight I'm making Veggie soup. We can also have it tomorrow night for dinner. This should be an interesting adventure. I'm also going to try to make it to mass every day but Mondays and Fridays. There is no way for me to go to mass those days because Tomball doesn't have a mass that allows me to make it to work for 7:00 AM.

On the mass note, I missed Ash Wednesday because I got lost and by the time I would have found it Mass would have been over. Kind of a downer but on the upside it wasn't a holy day. I did go to confession on Tuesday though so that was a silver lining. I'll try to find a mass for me to go to today since I missed morning mass by sleeping in. I honestly didn't remember to set an alarm for me to get there.

Great scrub deal

Hello dear readers,

Some of you know that I have interviewed with and was hired by a rehab contract company. I have to work 1,260 hours to become fully licensed and get my Certificate of Clinical Competence. I will be working three days a week in two different long term care/in-patient rehab facilities. One facility is about 30 miles from our house and the other is about 55 miles. That means I'll be in traffic for about an hour and a half one way on the days I go to the farther facility. I'm not looking forward to that part but I guess it's only three days a week and I can work there for a year then look again for something closer.

In preparation for starting my new job I had to get some scrubs. I found a place near the house that was having a sale on their discontinued styles (Didn't know scrubs had different styles before that). Well I decided that I'd at least try a few on and low and behold I found some. For you guys who are not in the medical field and don't realize how much scrubs are, a pretty nice set (one that isn't 100% cotton) runs about $50 to $60. The higher end scrubs run about $30 for the tops alone. I was able to pick up some really expensive brands from their sale rack for $5.50 per top and $ 4.50 per pants. The mid-quality set out of the sale been was $2.50 a piece. I got 2 complete outfits and 3 extra pairs of pants for $40.00. I was super excited! The baron told me I should brag about the purchase on here since it was such a great deal. Now if I can only find an other shirt with an empire waist in a petite size I'll be really excited. I'll even be willing to pay full price for it since I got such a great deal on the rest of my scrubs.

I also bought a new pair of Nike tennis shoes for work yesterday and they were only $40.00. Over all I think it was a very productive shopping day.

On a totally different note, my parents are coming back to visit and to fix the Barons car. (My dad and the Baron are doing that). They are also coming to help me remodel my master bathroom this weekend. (It will be a group effort). We are going to need to remove wall paper, maybe re-float the sheet rock and paint it. If things go well, I'll have pictures of that to put up by the end of next week. If not I'll have to live with a half way done remodeling project till they are able to come back again to finish it. Lets hope we can do this in a timely manner.

This is my inspiration for the bathroom. (Or at least the color and texture)