happy home and fruit time!

Guess what, we moved! After a very long month of lots of commuting and working and packing and schooling by every member of the Streator family parents included we successfully moved in. Now I'm just spending the next week or so unpacking. It takes a long time! I worked from about 9-3 yesterday and all i got done was the kitchen and parts of the bedroom and bathroom. As you can tell by this blog post I'm writing, I'm not quite ready to start it all over again. Our new place is so great thanks to Jay and Sarah working so hard to get it ready! I love love love it and its so nice having so much room. Did I mention our last place was about the size of the living room in our new one?? Ok so that's an exaggeration but you get the idea. I'll try and put some pictures up when it's all unpacked and pretty looking.
180 topic switch: Have I ever mentioned how much I love fruit? Well I do, and I was so busy this last month I pretty much forgot that it's almost/ already is fruit season! Yesterday I went to the grocery store and I noticed there was tons and tons of delicious fruit out. I got so excited i ran around grabbing bag after bag of fruit. Unfortunately i live with a husband who doesn't really eat it so I guess I'm on my own eating massive amounts of fruit. I sort of overdid it and its not quite warm enough outside to crave fruit yet so i might have to force myself to eat it all. However last night I made some whipped cream and cut up strawberries and bananas in it and we both enjoyed the first of many summer fruit treats. Ok it's only spring and it's like 40 degrees outside and snowing but still, I enjoyed a summer treat. Is any body else like me in the summer that it's too hot to eat and i don't want to eat anything but fruit and salad? Apparently I'm weird in that aspect but all summer long I complain that its too hot to eat. This is where my love affair with fruit comes in. I don't know why I'm even writing about summer because its still a good 2 months away but in case you care, there are my summer eating habits. Maybe its just because I'm not ready to start working again. What's that your telling me? I have to  get up and go unpack? Ok, I will, thanks blog readers for getting me up and working :) (and yes that was an imaginary conversation between you and me but hey, i need all the motivation I can get)

cna class week one

This week was the first week of my 2 week CNA class. I really like it so far. It's really not hard, just a lot of common sense and being careful. I learned to take vital signs and i'm trying to practice on everyone i know! Speaking of, step right up if you want your pulse taken, your respiration monitored, and your blood pressure taken :). I'm nervous for clinicals the week after next but hopefully by then I will be confident in my new skills. It seems kind of hard when your watching or reading the book but then when I actually do it it's really not that bad. Yesterday we did transfers or moving someone from their bed to a wheelchair and vice versa. Not being an actress its a little embarrassing to role play and i feel a little stupid especially with people you don't know but once I got over that its really not so bad. I feel like I'm in highschool again doing group work and sitting there for 7 hours a day. Can i just tell you how much better college is for that very reason! You only have to go to class for like 3 hours a day and that can be at any point in the day, its awesome! So yesterday I was eating lunch in the classroom like i have been and reading through my book. I suddenly felt a little nauseous and like i wanted to spew that PBJ i was eating right back up. Then i looked at the opposite page of what i was reading and actively realized that i was staring and these gaping flesh wound pressure sores while eating Jelly. The light came on, maybe i should turn the page rather than stare at bleeding wounds while eating jelly, Jelly, bloody muscle exposed above the skin... pretty similar items. Sure enough i shut my book and instantly felt better. Lesson learned: It's not too bad to look at wounds until you mix in food! We've also learned how to properly make beds without spreading contaminants, how to change the sheets and make a bed with somebody still in it, transfers, assisted falls, and yes several gross things that i won't bring up here and just hope like heck i can do it when it comes time. Like I said, most of its just common sense you just have to learn the proper techniques and then remember to use them. I hope I like it as a job and the good thing is it has peaked my interest enough that I still think I want to go on to nursing. Guess we'll see :)

Party Hearty Zumbathon

Last night my friend from work and I went to a big zumbathon to support woman's heart health. Oh my gosh it was so much fun!!! They had about 6 or so different instructors who each did two dances. They had it in a big gym and everyone was wearing red to support heart health. It was really fun to see how other people teach and to do different styles of dance. After they had yummy fruit and bran muffins and then gave a little presentation about heart health for women. I loved that it was super big with a ton of people so you didn't feel stupid when you couldn't do the moves because there were so many people no one would notice. It was fun to just try and follow them and if not just make up your own little dance until you could get back on track. I wish there were more but oh well. Zumba isn't really a great workout but its very fun just to learn the dances etc. Maybe i will keep trying to go when we get to SLC.