Gas money has to go somewhere...

<sarcasm>Its good to see that the oil companies pass along the extra cost of oil (and then some)onto the consumer so that the companies can have record profits.</sarcasm>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060130/bs_nm/
energy_exxon_earns_dc

Thank goodness that is over...

I took my classes and received my certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support this week. Even though I am working at a clinic, it is not attached to our hospital here in Owatonna and in our department we give some pretty nasty medications (chemo) so we have to have out own code team. (aka. the RNs in my department and our internal medicine docs) So they sent me to Rochester to take the classes. Our clinic is part of Mayo Clinic so I had to go take it with other Mayo staff. I was super stressed about it. Not only did I have no clue where I was going (the Mayo Clinic is HUGE) I spent 2 days in class then a pracital evaluation with instructors and a written test and a cardiac monitor rhythm test. All in all is wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be and I did well. I am just SO glad that it is over with!!! Now I have 2 years before I have to do it again:)

Can't wait for Daddy to get home!

Well, Brian has been in South Dakota for work since Sunday. We were doing great here until last night... Payton woke up around 3:30am crying and after a couple of minutes I knew she wasn't going to stop so I went into her room, and the poor thing was sick! At first I thought she was just yawning... several hours later and a clothes change for her and mama she seems to be doing a little better. I think it really freaked her out to throw up. That poor baby. Last Friday when I picked her up for daycare they had told me that a couple of the babies were home sick that day with vomiting and diarrhea. We just have the vomiting so far... She has not really eaten anything today, I feel bad about that. But we we tried just a cracker and water/juice and out it came again. She isn't interested which makes it easier. Brian will be back this afternoon, thank goodness! Mama is pooped! And I'm sure our little sweetie will perk right up when he gets home!

That "New Car Smell" might just kill you!!

I guess now that car emissions are cleaner and people don't smoke as much they have to find the next best thing to kill you.

http://www.ecocenter.org/releases/20060111_autotoxics.shtml

Look at the cute girl!

Steelers vs. Colts

That was a crazy game! I'm sure anyone who's interested either saw the game or has read about it. The final 5 minutes were a combination of some unlikely events that kept the Colts in the game. The Bettis fumble at the 2 and Manning's overturned interception and the missed field goal are getting all the press today. What I'm interested in happened with about 11 minutes left in the game...an apparent false start by the Steelers on 4th down that had players on both teams jumping up and down and crossing the line of scrimmage. The refs stopped play without throwing a flag, had a conference, then said that there were no penalties on either team! Replays showed that there was a false start but it was missed by the refs. They apparently didn't know what was going on so they did a "do over". The Steelers converted the 4th down and ran a bunch more time off the clock. I think that missed call really hurt the Colt's chances for a comeback since there wasn't much time left. I wanted the Colts to win originally, but they were outplayed by the Steelers, so the best team won.

Our little girl

Our little baby is offically our little girl! She is totally losing that "baby" look and is looking so big! She is walking more than crawling now. She is trying to break into a run, but she isn't quite steady enough yet and she just falls on her butt or her hands. And she is doing so well with her sippy cup that we have not given her her bedtime bottle and she didn't seem to mind at all. Although some days are better than others, so she does still get that bottle if she seems to want it. And I think that putting her into daycare more days a week has totally helped us along with the table/finger food. We stopped at Wendy's on our way to my sister's house over New Years and she snatched Brian's hamburger from right in front of him and gobbled it up! Who knew she liked hamburgers!? She is just the cutest darn thing!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all! We spent the weekend at my sister Nicole's bringing in the new year with friends and family. It is SO nice to be able to drive there for the weekend! Still not used to that!

Things have begun to settle down. We are taking Payton to the zoo this weekend. Her first trip to a zoo. Hopefully she will like it! We will... The end of this month is Brian's holiday party for work and we are for the first time going to have someone other that close friends/family babysit Payton for us. Hopefully. I am going to try and get our neighbors teenage daughter to come over for the evening. This is a huge hurdle for me! She is a very nice girl, and she sits for quite a few of our neighbors. And she lives directly behind us! Doesn't get much better than that. I need to call, hopefully she will be available:)

We are also trying to plan a trip to Jamaica at the end of March with my sister Nicole and her husband Jason. They already have their trip booked and we hopefully will have ours soon. Thanks goodness for Grandma Betty! She is going to come and watch our little sweetie for us.

Hopefully you all had a great holiday season!