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Happy 2010

Hi Everyone, Happy 2010. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Ours was quiet, no company this year. I have to say it was kind of nice, although i did miss everyone. What was really nice was having two weeks off and not have to worry about anything. Although you would have thought i would have got tons done , but no , i was really lazy. Sunday night i decided to make rice bags for my clinic and so that i did. The kids at school like them except one he wanted the bag of ice instead. I guess you cannot make everyone happy. :)

I cut out a quilt for my new great niece and so i am hoping this gets me going i have two unfinished quilts now, i have not made a quilt in almost a year. I know what is wrong with me. This move to Florida is what. I don't have my quilting buddies and my resources here that i did there. So i decided to get the pics out of what i had done before and maybe this would get me excited to start quiilting again.

My sew room is still a work in progress but it is slowly getting there. I just remember in the past come Christmas holiday i would cut out like 3 or 4 quilts to work on during the winter and spring. Believe it or not i miss nebraska and all my friends, and my quilt shops and my quilter. I miss the snow right now i would be home sewing up a storm in my cozy little sewing room with my music blasting out of my Ipod.

So i am going to get the pics out and post them on here of my past quilts and maybe that will help me get in the mood to get busy again. I need to get out of the funk i have a job i love here, and i am starting to like my house and i have found a couple of quilt shops so i really need to get going.

I need to make new resources and new beginings here. It is just these things take awhile and this time it is taken longer than in the past. So bare with me if you have seen these pics in the past it is just part of my therapy.


catch you later, Peace

Thanksgiving

It has been awhile since i have been here, thought i would catch everyone up on what is going on in my life. Gee i am bad with run on sentences aren't I. Can you tell Grammar was never my thing. Anywho. Lets see, when i last left , I think Halloween had just happen.

These are the things that have happened since then. number one the kids voted on a picture they wanted for the clinic at school and the principal that had retired from there a couple of years ago is quite the painter. She spent a weekend painting the clinic wall, it looks awesome. I also have a sign. the clinic is coming together.

My grandson Tyler got through his surgery to repair his acl with no problemo now he is doing physical therapy to be the mean driving machine he was before the tore that ACL.

I bought my twin grandsons these cool Net books so we talk to them through skype which is free by the way. Their net books have a camera and so does mine and it is so cool. I get to have conversations with them face to face. which is just awesome.

For Thanksgiving we flew to Nevada and spent it with Ron's mom. She lives in this little town called Panaca, it is 3 and half hours outside of Las Vegas. When we go we always spend the night before or after we visit Ron's mom. This time we did it before, stayed at the Luxor. It was nice , i was so sick and tired that i was really unable to enjoy being there. The next day we took off for the middle of nowhere Panaca. there is literally nothing out there, we pass area 51 and you just keep driving, the drive is a string of mining towns or what use to be minining towns lots of Mormons live out there. lot of Ranches and farms. We actually passed one farm and the cows were actually tipped over, i don't know if this was a bunch of kid pranks or they were dead i don't know i just know in my small little education in farm life cows cannot lie like that because they cannot get up.

Right Cindy. Cindy i have to tell a story about you because whenever i see a cow i think of this story. My friend Cindy grew up on a farm outside of Havre Montana and we lived at the little base that was stuck out there. We were 42 miles from the town of Havre, I went to a one room school house honest i did. Anyway Cindy was on of my best friends and my family use to hang out with her family. My family even took care of their farm once when they went on vacation. My dad use to brag how he could milk a cow, well he probably could at one time, but this particular time that we were taking care of the farm it took my Dad like an hour to milk this one cow. He was sweating pretty good when we got done. :)

Some of my fondest memories of my childhood were spent with Cindy and her family on that farm.

Okay back on to current events.

Ron's mom's house is right at the beginning of a national park, how fun for Ron growing up. I mean how many kids get to have a national park in their backyard. I had to go to the doctor the next day after we got there, and get some antibiotics and i pretty much slept through the whole Thanksgiving thing. For that matter I pretty much slept through most of my whole vacation, i am better now. What a way to spend your vacation huh.

I go back to work tomorrow, i am looking forward to that. I get to start my hand washing campaign. well I am actually in the middle of it. This week we will finish up what we did the week before the break and this week we will start the next phase.

I am going to have a poster contest where all the students make a poster about hand washing, and the winners will get the honor of putting their hand prints on the bathroom wall in the clinic. I can't wait.


I hope you have a great time getting ready for Christmas. My Christmas shopping is almost done, now i just need to get busy wrapping those things which i have gotten. I cannot Christmas is like 25 days away.

The big local news here is all about Tiger Woods he and his wife I don't know it is kind of sad but funny at the same time.

He lives not far from where i work, he lives in this gated community that is located in a little town called windamere, which is really a stickler about things like that stuff like that just does not happen in that town. Some old lady is sitting there going what is going on we don't allow this stuff here. :) too funny.

okay hope everyone has a good holiday and have fun with family and friends. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Vicki

Reunion

HI everyone, Well this has been an interesting week. Right now i am listening to the news talk about the first Hurricane of the season, that will be here soon. Lots of rain.

Halloween was fun we had a great time at school in the morning all the classes had a parade and all the kids looked great in their costumes. The front office went as puzzle pieces. We have an award that is given every week to the person that works at the school that has worked in a team work effort , they call it the piece of the puzzle award, so that is kind of the work motto be a piece of the puzzle.

the paras like the librarian, tech guy , the art teacher all went as super heroes, the Liberian went as perfect man from an old book his cape was really cool all book covers very cool .

I got my sign for my door so i guess i am official it is kind of cool. This weekend the old principal is painting the wall in the clinic the picture the kids voted on , i am so excited about going in tomorrow.

This weekend was fun, i got to see Wanda Ammons. She and I worked at the base pool together, she worked in the locker room giving out baskets, and i was the lifeguard. Then at school she was the cheerleader and i was pep squad. it was really fun seeing her and meeting with her husband Richard. We started out looking for a Mexican restaurant and ended up eating steak the restaurant had sold out to the steak place. From their we went to a flea market to look for Betty Boop stuff , which we found a lot of.

A really nice day and so nice to see wanda after 35 years.

My grandson Tyler had his operation this week on his ACL, he is doing great and i am glad that part is over, now he is working on the physical therapy part.

We had a shooting on Friday, a guy who was mad at a former boss, decided after two years he was going to get revenge, one person was killed and five others were injured. The killer took off and all of I-4 was shut down while they were trying to catch the guy. He had been in and out of mental institution for the past two years. No i never took care of him not that i can remember. :)

We lost Stryker on Thursday , Stryker was 16 years old and had not been able to walk himself for the last year. Lately he had just looked miserable, and nothing seemed to make him comfortable, so it was time to put him down. Hard day. Snoop his son has been kind of moping around more than usual, i took him with me to Ian's soccer game and that seemed to cheer him up. He is the last of the corgis .

It is getting late so i am going to close this i guess the next time i will post something will be after thanksgiving , so i hope everyone has a nice thanks giving.

Okay someone just found a 6 ft boa constrictor in his engine . wow and there were people who actually went in there and tried to get it out, it weight 10 pounds. Why are people allowed to have these as pets. Now they are saying that big snakes have been showing up in neighborhoods all over Florida. I hope i never find one, i freak out when i see a little one i don't even want to think what i would do if i saw a big snake.
Good night.

GREETINGS FROM ORLANDO, I hope everyone has had a great week cannot believe that September is almost gone. This weekend Ian and I drove up with gidget to South Carolina to help my dad celebrate his 75Th birthday.

Left right after work on Friday night, rough drive it is about 8 hours to my parents house so i got there around 2 in the morn. Gidget did very well for her first road trip. The drive was pretty uneventful until we got to the last three hours it rained that heavy rain, all the way through South Carolina, i guess it was all that rain that Georgia got.

My brother John drove up from Kansas city, Sister Patty, came with her family from Atlanta Georgia, and my son came from North Carolina with my cute little grandsons. Big news is Henry is now potty trained yeah and before he was 4. yeah again.

It was a nice turn out for my dad, it was nice seeing my nieces and sister Patti and her family. Sunday we got up and had breakfast with the family we still get looks when we go somewhere to eat. There is a lot of us, and we were all not there. I use to get embarrassed by that. We would go into a restaurant, and everyone would look at us like we were some kind of freak show, all those kids. Then of course my brothers had to all have red hair so that was really a sight. I remember we were always so good when we would go out to eat it was such a rare occasion, people would always come up and compliment my parents on how good we were, They did not know about my dad and his finger thunks. :)

Anyway we all had a good time and Ian and i with miss gidget headed back on Sunday after breakfast with the family got home around 8:30 that night, drive back was allot nicer. No rain. Gidget once again was quite the trooper.

today i dragged butt all day , and what am i doing up still, i don't know but i think i will sign off. tomorrow is picture day at the school, and i was told i had to get my picture taken, wonder how i can get out of this.

Peace:)

I am a school nurse :)

i know , i know , i have not been blogging in such a long time. Life has been busy, allot has happened. So last time i was on here,, i was working at the psych place, i liked to refer to it as the hotel :) There is an old saying three hots and a cot. this is referring to a homeless person who wants to rest awhile all they have to do is go to a policeman and say they want to commit suicide. The police haul them over to a psych place where they have 24 hours cause that is how long a doctor has to see them. In the meantime they are getting a shower, three hot meals and a bed to sleep in.

Anyway i am no longer there, i have got a new job as a school nurse and I am loving it. I am at an elementary school grades k-5th grade, So far i am loving it. i am still trying to get things arranged and organized. This was my second week and everyday there is another challenge.

My first day was busy i started right away taking temps, i had so many kids that first day that i did not even have time to sit down. So far i have checked for lice, took care of bloody noses, taken a lot of temperatures. giving out loose tooth necklaces, I have had two fractures and the list goes on.

Last weekend i spent the weekend painting my office, I am working on now is getting a mural painted on the wall. i am almost organized have to get my forms in order Right now i am working on getting donations for stuff like underpants , socks and some used clothing i have had three accidents since i have been working, like u know wetting of the pants and so i have been lucky in the fact that i had something for them to wear but this Friday i was not so lucky so i had to go out to Kmart real quick and pick up something everything up. I am going to ask the parents to send in a package of new underpants in their kids size , or socks or any gently used clothing they may have and so hopefully i will have all the sizes covered.

tonight i made some ( i know i am sewing again) ice pack covers, i hated sending kids back to class with a plastic baggy of ice this way they will have something cool to take back to class with ice in it. I have tons of material and so tonight i made like five of them they are cute,

Yes i am sewing again i finally got my sewing room back together, although i still have to paint and make some minor adjustments but other than that, it is clean and organized and ready for me to get sewing .

Next weekend i am going up to Sumter South Carolina to see my family my dad turns 75 i know wow. So Ian and i are heading up and meeting my son Jeremy and his crew there.

I have not been to any of the parks or done anything like that for awhile now. I am so busy with my job and then the last couple of weekends have been taken up with getting things cleaned up around the house and all. Still cleaning out boxes today i cleaned out two more. i know , i know what can i say other than i am taking things slow. ;0

Well i guess i better go now, i think i have sent all people my new email at work, it is vicki.setzer@opsc.net. , i still have all my others, and you are welcome to send me email there if you so desire.

well i am getting sleepy, so i need to say good night i hope you are having a pleasant night, good night and Peace, Vicki

summmer is going by fast

Greetings everyone from Central Florida ,

Things here have been comfy. The weather has not been too hot or humid we have showers here and there , life is comfy right now.

I have been working allot, wish i like , the natives were restless while i was there, learned how to give a good shot in the butt.
Did not have any complaints so i guess i did okay. In fact one client said i gave a pretty good shot. :) i wonder if they would take that as a recommendation on my next resume. :)

Today we ventured out to Downtown Disney , it was Wednesday and it is usually a slow day for them. Well okay slow for Downtown Disney.

They have added some new stuff since we had been there, they now have T-Shirts you can make yourself which is kind of neat. Ian made himself one, they gave you this neat little bag to put it in. It was neat.

I always make a quick once over to the chocolate place gimarlidies, they gave out a free square of chocolate when you walk through there store. I always go through there to keep me for going to the other side and buying some real heavy chocolate. :)

They also had this neat artist there Peter Gunn, he had some really nice prints i got two of them for my bathroom downstairs. Maybe this means i am getting better i am finally wanting to fix up the house i don't know. it is a good sign though.

My little gidget had the surgery to have her fixed, Yes she was spayed. She took it like a little champ i have not had to put that collar on her not once to stop her from licking herself , which is a good thing because the collar was too big for her.

She is going through that i am all legs stage i remember when Taz went through this. now he is this beautiful dog coming into his own he has a beautiful white Irish collar that is what they call the mane around his head. i just wish he would not be so skirmish about going on the grass when it is wet. if not for that the dog would be perfect. :)

I cannot believe the summer is halfway over, it has gone by so fast. My Son Matthew turned 27 yesterday, gosh he was my baby for so long. all my Friends who are having babies, right now, and i just keep telling them enjoy them now they grow up so fast. it seems like forever when you are not getting any sleep and they are driving you crazy but then before you know it they are gone and all grown up. You know there is a song out there that i just have always loved there is a line that says turn around your a baby , turn around your a young girl, turn around. I mean that is how it is you just turn around and they are all grown up..

Last week I was sick so sick i actually went to the doctor, which means i must have been sick. Anyway after calling off the second time from work and coughing all night for like a week i thought it was time, that i just felt like shit.

So i go to this centra care and the first thing they ask me is why are you here, i said well i have this cough, okay everything just stopped there and i was handed a mask that actually looked like a duck beak. from there on i felt like i had some awful disease, Plus felt foolish in this duck beak mask, I just knew i was dying , everyone stayed like 50 feet away from me, even the doctor. He got close enough just to listen to my chest. He then backs up real far away again and said you have a upper respiratory infection, wrote my prescriptions asked me is there anything else i needed no just a note for work okay. The nurse comes in and she is still standing far away and throws me the note and prescriptions , i mean they just could not wait to get me out of there..

I am thinking all the way home gee i hope i am not dying. :) I called one of my nurse friends and told here what happened after a good laugh she said Vicki welcome to the world of Swine flu everyone is scared to death of it. BTW i don't have swine flu just had a lot of the same symptoms. I would not have even brought it up except it was just so funny the way they treated me. And scary for me. and i could see someone thinking Wow i am a goner. :)

I will be happy to report after some good drugs i am feeling better still have the cough but it is not as bad and it is slowly going away. So my life is slowly getting back to normal , although it will take time to get over the duck mask thing. :)

I hope everyone had a great fourth, and your summer is going along smoothly . Peace,