Out of the Mouth of an Intern..

With that Intern being me!

Me: John Doe! Pull your pants up! Right now!

Me: Please don't stick your finger in that!

Me: Bring your paper to me so I can cut the snot off the bottom!

Me: Seriously?! You just did that?

Me: Please stop, now! (said approximately 1,547 times a day)

Me: I love you too but please don't pet me!

Me: Get the scissors out of your mouth now, please!!

Me: Don't lick that!

Just a few of the things I heard myself saying today....

Another One Down

Well friends...another semester down...and ONE more (not including a summer class) to go!! I can't believe I'll be graduating in 7 months!! This has been a veeeerrryyy long process for me. Sometimes I feel like "ok, really, most people are finished with medical school in the amount of time it is taking you to complete your bachelors degree." But then I think, "who cares?! AT LEAST I'm finishing my degree!"

My parents got divorced when I was 16 and I promised myself that no matter what...even if I'd never use my degree...I WOULD complete it. I unfortunately had to witness my mom, who was a SAHM of 3 kids for 20 years, take life on all alone and with no college degree or work history. It broke my heart and since that point I've wanted a degree to fall back on!

And at the risk of sounding INSANE...I think I may get my Masters degree...why stop now? ;)

So Long, Lil Kim

After 10 years and 107,700 miles..."Lil Kim" (don't ask), my 2001 Civic, is NO longer mine! My fab husband bought me a GMC Yukon! I am so stinkin' excited...it's not even funny! We kept Lil Kim for hubs to drive to work because his truck is getting a lot of wear and tear and miles on it...so she's not far...but don't think I'll be driving her anytime soon! I looove looove my truck!! And she needs a name...

And this is what the kiddos said when I got home with it, before hubs got home...."Ummm, does Daddy know about this?!"

And the Vomit Continues...

Evidently our youngest daughter likes to keep us on our toes with....vomit! This is how it went last night about midnight...

Youngest Daughter: ::yelling from her bedroom:: Daddy!! Daaadddyyyy!!

Hubs: ::running into her room:: What?! What's wrong?

Youngest Daughter: ::standing by her bedroom door:: My belly huur....::projectile vomit:: hurts.

Hubs: Go into the restroom!!

YD: ::walks into restroom...stands in front of the toilet and vomits all over the lid...without raising it::

I enter about this time: What's going on?!

Hubs: She just threw up ON the toilet.

Me: Well, better than her bed...

And then I begin scrubbing vomit off of her bedroom wall and carpet and hubs begins scrubbing the bathroom...at midnight....and then she continues to vomit all night...BUT she made it IN the toilet the rest of the night....HOPEFULLY she has the concept down now...vomit goes IN the toilet....

And the joys of motherhood continue!!

Vomit

If vomit bothers you...I suggest you leave now......Don't say I didn't warn you!



Tuesday Morning - 6:25am

Husband walks into youngest daughter's room to wake her up for school...upon entering he smells THAT smell, you know what I'm talking about...

Youngest daughter wakes up: Daddy, there's something WET in my bed!!

Husband: What?! What is it? Did you go potty?? (really confused because luckily we've NEVER had that problem)

YD: Oh no, I throwed up last night. (she says this very nonchalantly) (I also know "throwed" is not a word...and so does she, but she chooses to use it!)

Husband: What?! Why didn't you call for us?

YD: I didn't know if I was supposed to. I feel fine though.


A few minutes later....

Me: Why didn't you go to the restroom??

YD: I didn't have to potty!!!!



So yeah, our kid threw up in her bed SOMETIME during the night...because hello people...she DIDN'T need to potty...didn't bother to yell for us so we could clean it up...she totally slept in a vomit filled bed all night. I then threw up myself when I cleaned it...it was an awesome morning I tell ya! I gave her a friendly reminder that if you ever feel like you're going to throw up, go to the restroom!! Even if you don't have to potty!!

Family Portrait

I had to use our oldest daughter for an assignment for school...her job was to draw a family portrait and my job was to analyze it...uh, ok. Last time I checked I am not qualified to analyze anyone...but whatever you say professor! All I could really gather from the portrait is....I'm a different color! (I'm in the purple...you know, the "peach" one!!!) Thanks, C! Love ya too! ;)

Wolf & Cat

Youngest Daughter: (very serious tone) DADDY!! Me and C think I'm part WOLF!!!

Hubs: (holding in laughter) Why do you think that?

YD: Because Daddy...look...I can make these teeth (eye teeth) move up and down! Watch! ::Rubbing her finger up and down on her eye teeth)

Hubs: ::watching...nothing happening::

YD: See it Daddy??

Hubs: Yeah...I saw that! ::turning around, bright red, from holding in laughter::

YD: ::running off:: See, C!!! Daddy thinks so too!!

Seriously you guys, the stuff this kid comes up with is crazy!! She really thinks she's part wolf because her eye teeth "move." She felt her finger moving up and down and thought it was her tooth! LOL

A few hours earlier while blow drying their hair, I hear this convo...

Younger Daughter to Oldest: You know that little bity girl in my class? (there is a little girl with CF in her class and she truly is tiny and oh so adorable!)

Oldest: Yes...what about her?

YD: I think she's part cat...

OD: Why? Because she's so little?

YD: Yeaaah! She's soooo tiny!! She must be part cat....

I honestly have no idea where my child is getting these ideas....she's part wolf and her friend is part cat because she's tiny!! Gotta love kids...

Whine Wine

All I have wanted to do recently is whine...or drink wine! It really kind of sucks to be in a slump and not be able to pinpoint it!! I know I'll be fine....and I'll just keep drinking wine til it's all better!!

Until then friends...

Stupid

The washing machine is dinging, the dryer is buzzing, the dog is running damn circles in the living room, the cat is banging her scratching toy against the bedroom door, my husband is at work for 36 hours (seriously), the dishwasher won't drain (still), my child keeps getting in trouble at school for not listening, running, etc., and my computer just froze up and I lost my homework I had been slaving over....seriously? Oooh, and the stupid weather won't make up it's mind. News flash...this is TEXAS, it doesn't snow 3 times in one winter here!! This is stupid. I want to pout like a 2 year old...or drink a lot of wine.

Dishwasher Blues

How is it that I wanted/needed (ok, technically we HAD one but hubs wouldn't let me use it because it was "old") a dishwasher soooo terribly bad...and now that I have one, I've grown to hate it! The stupid thing already caught minor fire, doesn't dry my dishes, leaves water spots, and now...it won't drain!! I'm not happy...and I think I'll just go back to hand washing...my dishes never had spots then!

Delurk for Haiti

**Trust when I say...I made a larger donation than $4...but thank you to all who stopped by and left a comment!**


Dear bloggy readers...all 3 of you...for every comment left on this post my family and I will donate $0.25 to Compassion International to help aid in relief for the people of Haiti. I chose Compassion because we sponsor a child through them who lives in India. Compassion does awesome things and I want to help them. I know $0.25 doesn't sound like much but it's what our family can do at this time and every cent will help. Please feel free to do this on your blog and then go to Brittany's blog and put your link up on her MckLinky so other people can find you!

Bathroom Stalls and Black Asphalt

We got new bathroom stalls at school...and the parking lot is being repaved with messy black asphalt...and tuition went up...coincidence? I most certainly think NOT!

Seriously UofH?! The bathroom stalls were fine...yes, they all needed new locks and hooks to hang your bags on...b/c it's a mother bitch trying to go to the restroom and balance your school bags and purse because the hook is broken and the door is swinging open because the lock is broken...BUT why not just replace those two simple, cheap, items?! Did we really need brand new black plastic with white polka dot stalls?! Which btw, slam shut when you walk out...which leads me to believe they too will be broken in no time! And seriously...asphalt?! You know what this means...even I know what this means...in no time all the previous pot holes will show back up and it'll look the way it did before. If you want to fix something, do it right...AND what ever happened to saving some money?! Why must you increase my damn tuition every semester? I'm a little tired of it, quite frankly. You'll be sad when I graduate in 11 months and 3 days (who's counting?!) and you don't receive several thousands of my hard earned (or not) money!!! I won't be sad dear UofH! And while you're "fixing" things...could to fix the damn heat in the Arbor Building?!

Internship...

Woo...long time...let me see if I still know how to do this! I know I said I'd be back after my self-inflicted horrendous Fall 2009 semester was over...but I did nothing, well, nothing productive, for two weeks! I just didn't feel like typing when I didn't have to...I knew my computer time would be back soon with Internship 1 starting. I totally got ripped off on my winter break. The university doesn't go back until January 19th but intern started...TODAY...and yesterday I had professional development alllllllllll day...and I have it again next Tuesday...and Friday. Needless to say...it was a way too short break. I spent the first half of it in El Paso visiting in-laws....yes, it was as exciting as you think.

My bff of 20 years had her baby girl on December 18 and my sister is scheduled for a c-section next week because baby C is breech and he's not moving into the correct position! Boo for that but yay for him coming!!

I think I'm going to abandon this blog...yes, more than before...and start keeping an internship blog....anonymously, of course...because I have kindergarten (btw, it was the grade I threatened to slit my throat if I go)...and we all know kids say the darnedest things! I want to remember the good times in intern...and hopefully if I blog the funny things I'll remember WHY I wanted to be a teacher in the first place. ;) I'll let my huuuuuuuuuuge group of blog readers know if/when I start this.

BTW...I graduate on December 18, 2010...not that I'm counting or anything!