I PASSED!!!!!

So I took my Certification Exam on Friday to become a Certified Medical Assistant and well you guessed...I PASSED!!!!! I'm so fricken excited!! I set up my date and time back in January and my thought process was to set it out a few weeks so I could study. So I choose March 11th. But that plan proved to fail because I studied once when I signed up, a few times in between and the night before. Haha but in all fairness I do study better under pressure. But I wasn't too worried about it because everyone that had taken it said it was easy and to just take the study tests in the booklet (that the school gives you) because that's where they get the questions from so that's what I did. Well to everyone that told me that...LAIR!! I did not have one question and was in that study book!! But its ok because I PASSED.

New Job!!!

I got a job at St. Lukes Downtown!! I'm so excited about it its not even funny. My first day was on Monday (2/28) I'm working in central processing. So I pick cases, wash surgical equipment, sterilize equipment, wrap instruments and take them to the departments if needed. I was hired on as just a PRN position but everyone that I have talked to said that wont last long and I will be working full time. And if that's the case, it would AMAZING. For training I'm working full time. Each week i will be in a different area learning how its done. This week I pick cases. Which at first was really overwhelming but by Friday, I was a pro. I'm still not as fast as everyone else but on Friday I only had to ask about two things the whole day! Each case has usually four or five pages of stuff they need for the procedure. Some things we have, and some things the OR has. So if we have it its highlighed in pink and then we take it off the shelf and on to a cart. A week of doing that gets kind of old. They rotate every day so that would be so bad. My trainer says a week of everything gets old. Haha so once I can rotate it will be much better.

I'm most excited to just have my foot in the door at St. Lukes. You can transfer departments after only working there for six months. I'm taking my MA certification test on FRIDAY. (I'm freaking out a little) and if I pass...in six months I could transfer to a MA job!! That would be amazing!! I looked and they have quite a few openings in the internal job openings and a few that are to the public too. There are so many clinics that St. Luke owns so I really don't think it will be that hard to find a MA job. Ah!! I'm just so excited. I finally feel like I caught a break. It seems like everything was against us there for a while and things now are starting to look up. Makes me very happy.

I have to wear surgical attire and the cloth hats the hospital provides are so sexy, so i made this one. And I'm quite proud of it! And I have material to make a few more!! Woot!!

To celebrate we decided to go to Jackpot. We drove there gambled. And drove home. haha. We didn't want to spend the money on a hotel. We broke even including our gas! I mean I wish we came home millionaires but for three hours of fun, its better to break even then loose! We didn't start out so hot but then I found one single slot machine with the Village People. Haha. It was awesome. We won over 300 dollars on that machine alone! So it was fun. Once we started winning!!

In a nut shell...

Well its been a while. I have done a lot these past few months. A few months after my last post we moved into a new apartment. Its a much better location and much bigger! We do miss our view of the lake but like how much we saved on gas. I finished my MA program and graduated. Finished my externship and now I'm just looking for a job as a Medical Assistant. That's not any fun at all.

Me, Amber and Tarin on the last day of school!!

Those little kittens Joe found at work, we got super attached to them and now we have our five babies to great us every day when we come home. Sadly we still have 100% agreed on their names...Right now they are Mellow, Stripe, and Gotee. Mel was super calm as a little one and is still pretty calm compared to her sisters. Stripe is stripe because she has a stripe of white going across her nose. It was much more noticeable when she was little. And Gotee has a goatee. They started out as Mel, Brit and Jermaine from Flight of the Concords. Then we found out they where girls. So Mel stayed Mel but transformed into Mellow. But Joe doesn't like Gotee since its not a girls name. And he doesn't think Stripe is a real name. So lately I have been calling them Snap, Crackle, and Pop. We will see if that sticks.

This is Miss Mellow. She was soo tiny!!!

Me and Jill seem to do everything together....even if we don't mean too. We graduated at the same time! It was really fun to share it together since we where a year apart in school.

Me and my teacher Mrs. Abel

Me and Joseph

The day I got done with school we decided to celebrate with a trip to Vegas. It was awesome and we actually won some money!!

Five bucks I turned into 95 in less than five minutes

Me and Joseph on Fremont Street

On the way out of town we stopped to see the Pawn Stars, Pawn Shop. There was a line to get in the front door.


This past weekend we took a little weekend getaway to Park City Utah with Joe's family. It was awesome. We had an opportunity to stay at this awesome 3000sq condo with three stories, four bedrooms, six bathrooms, six tvs, a two car garage (that could fit two full size tucks back to back) a hot tub and a ton of snow. It was fun minus the drive back. Of course we decided to go the weekend of the biggest storm in 10+ years! There was at one point complete white out conditions and some sliding around on the freeway. Luckily there was no cars around. Well...that least no cars that we could see. We did get sideways at one point but Joe was calm (unlike me) and got us out of it. Him laughing and me crying. We saw two cars that had slid off the road. But once we passed them the roads where dry so we were wondering how they did that and or how long they had been there. We did see a semi-truck off the road too. But it looked like a truck slid into it and then it slid off. Not really sure what happened there but luckily it was on the other side of the freeway because traffic was backed up pretty far because of it.

Joe decided to make a snow angel after sitting the in the hot tub.

But before that he decided to first. sled down the hill

This was Saturday morning after we cleared off the hot tub cover and table

This was Sunday Morning....

NEVER AGAIN

I NO LONGER WORK AT DIRECTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday April 26th best day of my life!!!

I now work at Craft Warehouse :)

I'm happy that I don't have to apologize for things that aren't my fault. And Joe is happy that I wont be complaining about not wanting to go to work. Its a Win Win.

Crazyness and Kittens!!

So life at our house has been a little crazy lately. Sometimes I feel like my brain might explode! As some of you may know, I have started school. Only about four years in the making. I had decided to go to school for Medical Assisting at Apollo. I have heard some horror stories about them over the years but so far its been good. One thing that has taken me so long to start school was I couldn't decided what I wanted to go for. I knew it would be in the medical field but I kept going back and forth. I have always wanted to be a nurse but the schooling scares me. And I really didn't want to be in school that long. So I went back and forth between dental and medical assisting. Finally, I just jumped on it. Medical Assisting always stood out more. So I signed up and wouldn't let myself be talked out of it! The only thing about medical assisting that really scared me was I didn't think I could draw peoples blood. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it. Turns out, my second week, we where learning about blood....and how to draw it. So on my second week of school we started drawing blood. I was shaking and sweating and pretty much freaking out. Well my turn came, my first stick I got the vein! Drew the blood and now I LOVE IT!! I want to get my licence so I can be a professional Vampire! I seriously cant get enough of it. And I'm pretty good at it if i do say so myself. We practice on each other so for the past few weeks I have been looking like I'm on drugs. Then I bruise so it looks like Joe is beating me. Its been fun.

Haha! Oh yea also on our first day of blood drawing, I got poked and the first person got blood (witch is surprising cuz my veins suck! I have had about 12 sticks and only two people have gotten blood!!!) then we moved on and someone was trying on my other arm. He missed. So he was trying again, well he needed help finding my vein, so one of our teachers came by to help. She tied the tourniquet and it was soooo tight I started to fell a little funny. So I said umm I don't feel good. So she untied it. I closed my eyes and started to breath in deeply. Next thing i know I was on the floor and everyone was around me, someone was holding up my legs, someone had their hand under my head and my teacher was taking me blood pressure. Yea, I passed out!! I had never passed out before. It was weird. The plus side is, now everyone knows my name. Haha.

Also making things crazy is my stupid job that I hate. So yes, I'm still at Directv. I go to school Monday-Thursday 7:45-12:30 and I work Saturday-Wednesday 2:30-7:30. I still haven't adjusted to school and work and trying to balance everything. I hope it comes to me soon. That also leaves only one day where I do nothing. Thats Friday. At least I get one day!!

Also something that has made our house a little crazy is the fact that Joseph found three little tiny one or two week old KITTENS! Down at Boise they have a lot of stray cats running around and they keep producing. So he decided to bring these little ones home so they don't keep growing in numbers down there. We have had to feed bottle feed them. Even had to make them go to the bath room! Now they are eating solid food and can pretty much go to the bathroom by themselves. Its getting annoying finding poop all over the floor but they are getting better about using the litter box. The plan was to get ride of two of them and keep one....I don't know how we are going to part with them though!!!

First Day they where home!!

Joe feeding them!

They are always on top of each other. Its

warm that way!

That's Mellow, or Mel, sleeping with me!

Well I was excited...

So its been a while like always. I'm really bad at updating this thing. But my last post states how excited I was to get this job. Well the fact that I'm getting paid is really the only good thing about this job. Other than that, Its pretty much the worst job in the world. Just still there all day listening to people verbally abuse, you for something that's not your fault, is not fun. The best part is when they say "i know its not your fault, but...yawda yawda yawda, yell yell yell, curse curse curse!" Its just taking soo much out of me. Then to top it off, I choose to be on the flex shift. When we where doing our bids they made it seem like the best shift in the world. Start no later than seven. Get off no later than nine. They went on and on. WELL they never said anything about working TEN hour shifts. And now that's all I am working. AAAAAHHHHHH. I know everyone says their job sucks and they hate their job. But unless you have worked for Directv or any other type of call center you really don't know. Lucky for Jill she gets to hear about it all over again. She tried to warn me but I didn't listen...I should have listened...

On the plus said Joe has started school. He is still trying to get the hang of it all. Working and studying. He will figure it out. Speaking of school...I am more than likely going back. Going to go to Apollo College and try my hand in Medical Assisting. I have wanted to be in the medical field for ever and I don't want to work at a job that takes me no where anymore. Its just hard because well...I don't want to pay for it. Haha being in more debt really doesn't sounds good to me right now. But I wont have to pay for it while I'm in school and they give you six months after graduation so it should be enough time to find a job. I hope so. Because this is something I really want to do. And have wanted to for a long time.

I look back and wonder why we where in such a hurry to grow up...

Job and School

So I'm pretty much the happiest person on earth right now. As of today, I have a job. Also Joe just enrolled in the Spring Semester at BSU. Got the classes he wanted, when he wanted. This means, I will get a paycheck, we will get B.A.H (houseing pay) he can still work and go to school, and he will be getting a paycheck too.

I dont think I have ever been so excited to pay my bills next month, BECAUSE I CAN!!

Anyway, good day. Good day.