What are the chances of this...

My current checkbook balance is $4242.42. Seriously. How likely is that????? It is almost a shame to pay the bills because it will mess up my pretty balance. Unfortunately when the bill cllectors start calling I don't think they will take "But my check book was so pretty, I just couldn't pay the bills. So sorry 'bout that!" And the truth is that MY checkbook balance is $4242.42. But the bank's balance is actually $17.36 less than that. Bummer. In a perfect world, my checkbook balance would be $4242.42 and it would match the bank balance. AND (since this is the perfect world and all), I would have already paid the bills, not just sitting down to pay them...

More on nursing school and elephants....

After my first week of nursing school I wrote this post about how overwhelming it all was and how I was going to take it like eating and elephant ... one bite at a time. (On my site meter I get fairly frequent hits to that post from people googling "Mom and nursing school". You could leave a comment you know...) So Tuesday starts the last semester of nursing school. I can hardly believe it. In some ways it feels like i am sitting down to the last juicy wonderful steak of the elephant. In other ways it is still overwhelming to think about all that has to be done this semester. 240 clinical hours at two different sites. Hoping that I get a good clinical placement when most of the school placements (We are in public schools this semester for our community health experience) are at LEAST and hour's drive from my house. (Please pray that gas continues to be under $2/gallon and that half of Houston decides to go all green and quit commuting and while your at it add some prayers for a flying car, no, no skip the flying car, let's pray directly for someone to just "Beam me up" to my clinical sites. Let me know if you get any answers to that one.) Then there's that little issue of getting a job...It's not that I'm worries about landing a job, its just one more area of unknown. How do you get a job as a new nurse?????? IT will all work out and all that it is just more unknowns and if you haven't figured it out yet from my blogging I have a small amount of control issues. Very small. Microscopic actually. One more semester... one more semester....

Madeline speaking!!!

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that would be ME!




Hello people of the blog world!!! Let me introduce myself, i am magan's oldest, most amazing, wonderful, and perfect daughter in every way. The names madeline. I like to spend my free time texting, listening to screamo music on my ipod, and going on my myspace. It sure is an exciting life... im in 7th grade and im 12 years old. So im trying to think of something to type on this blog thing of my mother's, and i think im gonna tell u the good things and bad things about my mom. (everyone has the right to be informed!!!)


BAD
1. my mom is having a sudden obssesion with cleanness( is that a word?). Everyday after weve gotten all ready for school and were about to relax for a bit, she makes us CLEAN! Now i think u have to agree that that is INSANE! And to believe it or not she started this obsession AFTER she took our house off the market, when we DONT have to keep it relativley clean for showings!!!

2. She is a crazed bargain shopper! Everything has to be on sale or a good price to buy it! I mean would it kill her to buy me a pair of $50 jeans every once in a while!

3. Now heres a pretty basic one. She dosent understand me at all! And she even claims to have once been in junior high!!! She sits on a throne of LIES!!!!

4. My mom is a strong believer in the "if your bad, i take your phone away" philosophy! I mean, what if, she had taken my phone away and i had gone on a walk around the neighborhood and all of a sudden a blood thirsty murderer had shot me!! As i lay withering on the ground, DYING, i wouldnt be able to call and ambulance to get some basic medical treatment!!! SHE IS RISKING MY LIFE FOR DISCIPLINE!!! Sheesh!

5. SHE REFUSES TO GET $700 JAPENEASE PERMANENT STRAIGHTENING FOR MY HAIR!!!!!! 'Nuff said.

GOOD
1. She has a FABULOUS taste in books! We are both MAJOR twilight fans! But one thing she will never top, is my love for Edward Cullen. -sigh- Maybe thats what happens when u get married, u stop loving fictional book characters...

2. My mom's pretty chill about my grades and education. She not one of those "send an email cussing out the teacher cause they gave they're precious child an F on a worksheet" type of mom or the classic "in your child's free time, give them extra work so they can keep on on they're grades" type of mom. I could go on.

3.Its also good that she isnt like a crack head or a child molestor or like beats me for accidently bumping in to her...

4. Shes also a good cook.(for the most part at least, PLEASE NO MORE HOME MADE SPRING ROLLS!!!!) Its not like our everyday meal is takeout or frozen dinners. She actually COOKS! Thats definently a shocker these days! Her homemade pizza is super de duper good!

5. And last but not least, shes just a loving and wonderful mother in every way! (Yes, i knew i needed to add a sappy one on the list...)

Pistol packing Momma

So hubby and I went to the gun range today and I got to get a little target practice in with my gun. This is our second time out and apparently I am a pretty good shot! Imagine that! As strange as it sounds it really is a lot of fun. I hope to take the ladies only handgun class at the range in February. I'm sure there's a lot of have to learn and it would make me feel safer with my gun. Any way, the point of this post is to show my pictures that prove my pistol packing status!

This is me with hubbys Glock 22 .40 caliber. It is a bigger gun than my 9mm and i was a little scared to shoot it at first. But I really liked it after I got used to it. And as you can see form the target that went with it at 8 yards (about 25 feet), I was pretty good with it! If you look carefully at the shot with me holding the gun you can see the shell being ejected. That's pretty cool!





This is with my 9mm. It was behaving strange and jamming up today. That freaks me out a little. I don't lke my equipment to let me down. But I got over it and figured out what to do when it misfires. I stil don't like it though. My target wasn't as good with this one. I was practicing bringing it up and firing quickly and my accuracy suffered a bit as a result.

Happy Hunter

Is this a happy man or what???? This is a 9 point Mexican white tail. Assuming he can get over the border he will grace our wall in a couple months.

More Christmas Reveiw

Yeah, that's right, More Christmas. More of me to go around! But honestly, a whole lot less of me than was going around last year a this time! And the small weight gain was worth the cookies!!!!! hehehehehe

I went back to Weight Watchers today. I quit weighing in sometime around Ike which means even though I am below my goal weight I had to PAY! Bummer! But I only gained a little weight over Christmas. I am back to following points pretty carefully because I feel like I need to get back into the good habits that I learned last year. So I'm back to tracking and trying to eat less and better!

On a bright note, I've been running a little again. And it feels sooooooo good! I go back to PT tomorrow so I'll be anxious to see whether my pelvis is in alignment or not. It doesn't hurt so I feel pretty confident that things are getting better! I got an exercise ball for Christmas that I LOVE but haven't used much because everyone else in my family loves it as well!!!

Christmas in Review

Well, first what was given and what was gotten...
I gave hubby...


When he opened it, he had a bit of a puzzled look on his face, kind of like, "Why did I get this?????" About three days after Christmas, he was rocking out to Aerosmith and turned around and said, "This is sooooooo much fun!" I knew he would like it! SCORE! (And truth be told, I really like it too!!!!)
We gave the two younger girls...


They seem to have lost interest in Barbie but when they saw the dream house on T.V. they REALLY wanted it! So in hopes that it might keep them little girls for just a little longer we got them the Barbie Dream House for Christmas and my mom got them some new Barbies (can't have a new dream house with Barbies who have had multiple haircuts!)


Oldest daughter got a cell phone this summer and ran it through the wash in October. TRAUMA!!!!! You haev no idea. I had an upgrade coming so I bought myself a new phone and gave her my old one. MORE TRAUMA! The horrors of having mom's OLD phone. Grandparents to the rescue... They didn't even know phoen couldbe upgraded and in my mom's words "Why would I want a new phone I just figured out how to use this one!" So the LG Shine joined our family
And for mom...Heavy metal...




Yes, I got a gun and jewelry. Hubby admits that the jewelry was a CYA just in case the gun didn't go over well. Good thinking! But after a trip to the gun range on New Year's Day, I like my gun.Shooting is a lot of fun. I'm pretty good at it and there's something just cool about knowing how to handle a 9mm. Hubby says he's going to put my practice target in the window (like a security company decal) with a note that says, "This is my wife's target practice. She aims low."