Seriously funny thing happened this weekend.....

I have a friend at work (shocking isn't it) and his name is Robbie. Most of you know his quippy comments on my blog and have asked him to be blocked....haha. No way.

I just delete the ones I don't want anyone to read.


......anyway.


Something funny happened to HIM this weekend that just made me laugh right out loud.

He and his wife will use their Tivo to watch movies they record when they can't watch them. He saw the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" and thought "My wife likes that show, I will record it for her."



This weekend they sat down to watch the movie and when he turned it on, two naked women showed up on the screen. Shocked and in horror with his kids and wife there, he stopped the show and checked the title again to make sure he had recorded the correct show.

He recorded "The Devil Wears Nada" instead of "The Devil Wears Prada".

THAT was funny Robbie. You know what they say about those who live by the sword right? He later said "I thought it was supposed to star Meryl Streep, not Meryl Strip".


HAHAHAHA


HAHA

HA

{snicker}

HAHA

Starting today

Yesterday was the last day I am going to see my kids for a week. I will see them again on Sat and Sunday but then I won't see them again the next week either.

Starting school for my CNA today and thanks to a supporting wife I am not scared for this....just want to do well.

Wish me luck.

What people think

I have to submit three professional references in my application to school. It is interesting what happens when you ask someone to review your work and who they are. To make matters worse, I don't even get to see them. They have to be directly emailed or delivered in a sealed envelope with a signature on the seal.

Why am I nervous?

I don't know.

I feel I do good work and present myself well, but why am I tingling with fear about what they might say? Is it because deep down I have confidence issues? I fear (with dark trepidation) rejection?

I don't know....I just don't know.

I really want to get into school this next starting quarter but they are only taking 12 applicants and they usually have 80 or more students apply for the course.

........praying with faith........

Six Demon Bag Project

As I mentioned in my earlier post today.....Chris and I (really just me) have started working on memories of our childhood on the Six Demon Bag blog. If anyone out there remembers stories of us....please email me and I will post it (yes, even if it is embarrassing to either of us....which generally means me.)

Here is the link:

Six Demon Bag

Send me an email at aatball@gmail.com

Great blog about me.....

My best friend Chris blogged about me. You can read it here. His blog is so great it makes me vomit rainbows....

He has always been there, when times are good and when they were bad. Our lives read more like the parents guide to "What your kids do that they will never tell you".

We (and when I say 'we' I mean I) started a blog called the "Six Demon Bag"......(you had to be there, but it's a line from "Big Trouble In Little China"....best Kurt Russell movie ever) where we began to chronicle all the stories but I can't get him to go out there and expound on the stories. I have pages of memories just jotted down where he can fill in the blanks and then I can give my side.

Everyone go to his blog, post on the blog he wrote about me and tell him to get on it and get writing on the other blog so we can sell our story to Disney / Pixar and Jerry Brickheimer

.....seriously.

I know what I want to be when I grow up

It has been a whirlwind, crazy bunch of weeks all rolled into one at our house. Without boring you with the details of how I got to this decision, I finally figured out what I want to do when I grow up....I am going back to school to be a nurse.

Yes.....laugh it up but seriously, I am going to be a nurse.

My long-term goal is to become a nurse anesthetist but the shorter term goal is to finish my CNA (starting on the 18th) then apply for school. That is as far as I can hope to do for now but I am changing professions.

Catey is thrilled and is fully behind me which is comforting because going back to school is scary for me. Gratefully (if I get accepted) I can attend school at night and still work during the day. The kids are getting old enough to really help out while I will be gone to school over the next 24 months.

It seems strange to go back to school for an associates (RN) when I have a bachelors, however, when I get out of school, I will already have my bachelors and could go on right to a masters. I wish I would have figured this out years ago, but I think the timing is right since the kids are now getting functional.....well, at least semi-functional.

I am really nervous but excited. A friend of mine asked me if I really wanted to be up to my elbows in poop, pee and blood all day and I asked him if he had ever been to my house.....That is what I do, might as well get PAID to do it right?

But it's more than just comedy. I have always moved from job to job....this is a career I can move toward. Yes, I am late in the game, but I am moving in a good direction I think.....maybe....

{so....scared.....}

p.s.

I was going to try and find a fun picture to put up on the blog to go along with this....but I googled images of 'nurse' and didn't get what I was expecting.....I hope I still have a job after those images appeared on my screen.