30 things {13, 14, & 15}

13. Describe 5 weaknesses you have.

1. Peanut Butter, I can't not  (double negative, my ears hurt) eat it if I know its near me....yum.  Particularly the honey roast kind...mmmm.
2. The internet, it sucks me in and eats up my spare moments, I mean look it's happening right now!  I try and avoid sitting at the computer unless I have to be at it to do something (ie. editing/email/ordering) otherwise I will sit down and waste and hour and not even realize it.
3. People asking for favors.  Whether or not I have the time/means I have a ridiculously hard time telling people no.  I usually cause myself more stress over it in the long run.
4. An inability to just let things go and chill out.  I'm gonna go with I'm high strung and quite a bit Type A in a lot of aspects.
5.a good book.  They are more addicting than crack to me, I can't stand to not finish it as fast as possible.


14. Describe 5 strengths you have.

1. Organization.  I gots it, it makes life easier.
2. Dependability. If I say I'll be there, I'll be there.  Usually 5-10 minutes early..having a kid never changed this for me.
3. a crazy ability to function on little to no sleep, for extended periods of time.  I might not be the nicest happiest person but I do it. (is that a strength cause I feel like it is)
4. The ablility to remain calm in stressful situations.  I don't know where this comes from since I am pretty uptight about day to day things being perfect.  But give me an injured kid/animal, a car accident or other type situation where normal people freak out and I'm usually cool as a cucumber.
5. good listener.  I frequently am the person who people vent to, why?  maybe because I'm a good listener?  Maybe because I only butt in to give advice when I think it's needed not just because I think I know it all.  Or maybe it's just that I'm a pretty open book so people feel they can be that way with me.


15. If you were an animal, what would you be and why?

a Goddamn tiger.....

and because they are pretty amazing.

30 things {11 & 12}

Two posts in 1 day...due to the fact that I forgot to hit publish when I finished the last one (last week..ooops)


11. Describe 10 pet peeves you have.
1.  Things touching my face..hands, hair, whatever I HATE IT!
2. driving in the passing lane, driving like a douche, not using your turn signal, stopping on the highway because a cop ALREADY has someone pulled over....oh the joy of driving!
3. hearing someone blow their nose..gag.
4. people who talk on their cell phones at an obnoxious volume in a confined space.
5. When people use popular catch phrases like when "my bad" was everyone's favorite thing to say, or the current "cray", you people are from the country or the suburb's...quit.  You are not, nor will you ever really be, a big enough "gangsta" to pull it off without sounding like a moron.  (I am sure that I fall into this own category from time to time and annoy myself)
6. People who are oblivious that they are not the only human being on the planet and refuse to acknowledge that they have parked their rude ass directly in the way of everyone else.  (ie. grocery store dicks who stand in front of something you need and ignore your "excuse me"'s)
7. on that note, rude ass people who were never taught to say excuse me.  I don't care if you bumped in to me on purpose or on accident, a "sorry" or "excuse me" will guarantee that I don't continue to talk loudly and rudely about you afterwards.
8. when people try to talk to me when I'm reading.  Obviously I'm busy.
9. People who think they know everything.  Seriously it's ok to be wrong once in a while and not have the answers for everything, and I don't want to hear your long winded lectures about how you are right and everyone else is wrong.  Also if you haven't experienced it you really have no right to pass judgement on anyone who has in any situation in life.  And don't you dare tell me what you "think" I feel about something.
10. People who can't make plans. (and stick to them)

I could easily do another 10 of those.  I am easily annoyed.

12. Describe a typical day in your current life.


Alarm goes off at 4:30...snooze
Alarm goes off again...wake up..or snooze one last time.
Get out of bed by 4:45 at the latest
run to kitchen start coffee pot
Get myself ready for work, bathroom, teeth, scrubs on, hair in a pony tail 90% of the time. ~10 mins
Pack my lunch, make my coffee, grab Addison's lunch (usually made the night before) grab Addisons diaper bag, and my bag for work load up the car and put the dogs in the kennel outside for the day.
Wake up Addison, do a quick diaper change/refill drink cup/grab a banana.
5:15 Drive to sitters get there at 5:30
Put Addison back to sleep at sitters house.
Drive to carpool lot by 5:50
Get in a van with other people, hope they don't talk all the way to work, try to read/facebook/check email. get to work too early 6:30
Walk to my office, show up about 20 minute early every single day. blah.
Start working, depending on the day I might get to sit down at the computer for a little bit but usually we have a surgery to do.  Go get animal/premed/anesthesia/monitor anesthesia during length of surgery.
help with recovery...sometimes repeat multiple times in a day.
Eat lunch in there whenever surgery allows.
Clean. Stock. Prepare OR's/surgical packs.
Leave office at 5 walk to van.
wait.
wait some more.  Someday's leave shortly after 5, other days not until 5:30.
Arrive back to carpool lot around 6:15
Drive to sitters, pick up Addison.  Hope the sitter doesn't want to chat too much.
Drive home usually arrive about 6:45
make dinner while trying to entertain (hopefully well napped) toddler.
Eat Dinner.
Playtime for a bit if no bath
 Every other night or as needed if she's filthy from playing, bath time for Addison.
If not well napped toddler, try to maintain sanity through an hour and a half or so of hysterical screaming and crying over tiredness and an inability to do anything while tired.
Get Addison in bed around 9:00.  Hope she actually goes right to sleep.  (usually she's very good about this or she'll just play in her crib)
Breathe.
Get my self showered.
Some nights I get on the computer and zone out for an hour or so.
Watch (fall asleep for) a TV show.
Try to be sleeping by 11.  Hope for no toddler middle of the night wake-ups requiring mom's attention.
Repeat.

Don't ever question it when I end up in the loony bin.

My days off are much less stressful. (sometimes)

30 things {9 &10}

9. List 10 people who have influenced you and describe how.

1. My Mom - she busted her ass to support/raise my brother and I pretty much on her own through our teenage years.  She instilled my hard worker attitude and my I don't need anyone else in life to get things done tude'.
2.My Dad - showed me that just being nice/friendly toward people goes a long way.  Be willing to go out of your way to help other people sometimes.
3. My Grandma & Grandpa McMurtrie - another of the people who taught me about hard work.  They talk about how they had nothing to start out with and how they started the farm and how far they've come.  If grandparent success won't teach you that hard work pays off, nothing will.
4.My Grandma & Grandpa Wright - always ones to let you know how important family was.  They were the glue that kept our family close!  Unfortunately when they passed it took our family a few years to get back into the swing of family gatherings!
5. Addison - having a kid, being a parent just make you want to be a better person.  Everything you do in life affects them in some way or another, I don't want to be the cause of my child's future issues!!  She influences me to be a better human.

I know that there are others but for now those 5 will have to do, my brain hurts from thinking about the next 5 for my list ...demanding so many gees...



10. Describe your most embarrassing moment.
I'm not sure.  I've been embarrassed, I've done stupid things.   But I have the ability to laugh it off and apparently forget things because for the life of me I can't come up with anything that scarred me for life!  I just let the embarrassing moments pass and forget about it.