one more quarter of school!

hey how is everyone doing? I have not been on here in forever! I have been busy with school, softball and babysitting. I'm failing English right now which is not good. I need 10 more percent to pass. so I have been writing and typing tons! I am almost caught up! I cant wait till English is done. With this assignment he gave us, if we don't want to fall behind, we have to type 2 papers at least 2 pages long every night. I was busy so I fell behind. So now that I got a lot of it done, hopefully it will raise my grade up. I have till Tuesday to get it up. Other wise I have been really good, and my grades are really good. Softball started on march 9Th. Its my favorite sport and if I fail English this quarter I cant be in it anymore. So I'm kinda scared, but anyways the boys and everyone is good. Logan is busy doing his own thing. Cody is a HARD working man. He works all the time. Sam is working quite a bit to, and for me.... well I guess I'm kind of a slacker. I still don't have a job, but i keep putting in applications. I babysat Friday night and made $15 and I babysat yesterday and made $50. A little girl named Lilly comes over at least once a week. Her grandparents are our neighbor. They have her all the time because their daughter is in treatment for drugs or drinking. They are a little to old to be raising an 8 week old child on their own so we help out a lot, but I keep being told, don't get to attached to her. We don't know how long she is going to be at her grandparents house. It all depends on what happens with Katie(Lilly's Mom). It is to late though. It kinda feels like she is my little sister. That's how often she is over here. We have all kinds of things here for her. Clothes, toys, movies, books, and more, but anyways I guess I better find something to do... talk to you all later.

Katie

shcool's done for summer yeeeehaaww

I'm back. The ad for the HUC is in the St.Cloud paper today. That's kinda scary. I'm thinking if they found someone they were interested within the facility, why put an ad in the paper. Oh well, we'll see I guess. I had a tough day, kinda given up hope, thinking I didn't get it, but others don't agree with me. Hopefully, they're right and I'm making more of it than necessary. But the good news is they graded my last assignment, I got 91. Sweet! I am so excited. I finished with a final grade of 88. I don't know if there is a final overall test or not. I'm thinking not cause there's no mention of it anywhere so I think I'm done. I should get an email tomorro or so saying Congradulations. You have finished your course on Medical Billing and Coding. The last five or so things I completed, they sent me a congrats, you are one step closer to finishing you studies. Wow. I'll keep ya posted on the job thing. The in-house posting said ap deadline is 3/25 but now they put it in the paper. So who knows. Yap at ya all later.

Hello all, I wasn't gonna say anything until I knew for sure, but I already talked about it at bingo so I better let the rest of ya in on it. One of the HUCs was fired on Thursday and they plan on replacing her. The posting says knowledge of medical terminology and coding. Well, that pretty much is what I just finished so I applied. I just turned it in today though. So, we'll see what happens. Nothing else new. Just wanted to update everyone. Yap at ya all later. Mom won tonight. The rest of us sucked. We had the Petericks there tonight so there were about 10 of us there. Good night.

ROBIN REPORT

ROBIN IS AT THE U. PH# IS 612-273-3000
I THINK SHE'S IN ROOM 215 ON THE 6th FLOOR

HOWDY YAPPERS, I E-MAILED SNOOKS, SHE IN TURN E-MAILED ME BACK. MOM AND I GOT TO TALK TO HER LAST NITE. ROBIN'S SECOND OPINION WAS MUCH BETTER THAN THE FIRST. THEY WERE ABLE TO SAVE ABOUT 1/3 OF HER LUNG. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO BREAK ANY RIBS EITHER. SHE HAD AN 8 PLUS HOUR SURGERY ON TUES THE 17TH AND IS ALREADY OUT OF ICU. I'M WAITING FOR THE HOSP. INFO. WHEN I GET IT I'LL ADD IT TO THIS BLOG, ON TOP, IN A DIF. COLOR. CATCH YA LATER. LU

HI EVERYONE!!! LU HERE. DAVE'S NEPHEW CORY (RITA'S SON) HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY LAST MONDAY AND IS DOING FINE. HE'LL PROBABLY BE DOWN AT CHILDRENS THIS WEEK YET. HE HAD A LOT OF STUFF DONE.

THE ECONOMY HAS HIT W/S. 20 OF US GOT LAID OFF. WE ARE HOPING TO BE CALLED BACK BY END OF MAY, EARLY JUNE BUT I GUESS WE'LL WAIT AND SEE. I AM WORKING PART TIME AT CSF (CUSTOM STAINING AND FINISHING) IN WAITE PARK. ACTUALLY I SHOULD SAY TEMPORARILY, AS I AM GETTING UP TO 40 HOURS FOR NOW. I AM ALSO GETTING SOME HOURS IN AT KELBER. THE CAR SHOW STARTS IN MPLS THIS SAT THE 21ST AND RUNS FOR 8 DAYS. I'LL BE WORKING BOTH WKDS AND A COUPLE DAYS IN THE MIDDLE. I QUALIFY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BASICALLY IF I WANT TO SETTLE FOR ABOUT HALF OF MY WAGES. SO WHILE I'M WORKING FOR CSF I'M WORKING FOR CASH AS A TEMP LABOROR AND THAT WORKS FOR BOTH OF US. KELBER THO IS A REG PAYING JOB SO IT ONLY PAYS TO WORK FOR THEM WHEN I CAN GET ALOT OF HOURS. (MORE THAN 35 IN A WEEK AT 10 BUCKS AN HOUR). IT'S INCOME ANYWAY. I WAS PRETTY LUCKY REALLY. I WAS LAID OFF ON TUES, WENT BACK IN FOR AN HOUR (PAID) ON WEDS. TO DISCUSS WHAT TO DO W/WORK STUFF,ie 401,MEDICAL,FLEX PLAN $ ETC. I WAS WORKING SOMEWHERE ELSE ON THURS.

SO TAMMY, ABOUT THE NON-MOM PHONE CALL,I HAVE YOU KATHY AND MYSELF ON HER SPEED DIAL AND I MUST HAVE BUMPED #2. SORRY I FREAKED YOU OUT-REALLY. THAT SUCKS WHEN THAT HAPPENS. AS FOR WHY I HAD HER PHONE? I HAD LEFT MINE BEHIND SOMEWHERE AND BORROWED HERS FOR THE DAY. I WAS HOPING IT WAS ACTUALLY IN MY CAR BUT NO SUCH LUCK. SOMEONE DID FIND IT AND TURNED IT IN (TO THE SALVATION ARMY) THEY CALLED ON MOM'S PHONE THAT SAME NIGHT AND I PICKED IT UP THE NEXT DAY.I HAD CALLED MY PHONE FROM HERS SEVERAL TIMES TRYING TO FIND MINE. SO THAT'S WHY THEY CALLED MOM'S # 1ST.

I STARTED A WALK EVERY DAY PLAN. I ONLY DID A FEW BLOCKS TODAY BUT HOPE TO START WALKING DURING MY LUNCH BREAK. WHEN I'M AT KELBER I GET IN LOTS OF WALKING! I'M AT MY HEAVIEST WEIGHT-EVER.(BY FAR-LIKE 15 LBS MORE THAN MY HEAVIEST GO-HAVE-A-BABY WEIGHT, YIKES!!!) INSTEAD OF SETTING MY ORIGINAL GOAL FOR 40 LBS I'M STARTING W/18. THAT WILL GET ME BACK UNDER 150.
TTFN, LOVE YA ALL, LU

Logan's Grad Party

Hello everyone, is this weather awsome or what? I'm cleaning windows. Inside and out, screens, blinds, the whole works. I should probably get back at it before I lose my drive. It doesn't come around very often. I bought ink yesterday so my last assignment is ready for the mail. I got a bed at the auction yesterday too. I had to go get some bolts to fasten the headboard. So I have been busy this weekend. It turned out to be quite productive. Which is pretty cool cuz I usually just sit around watching tv and doing homework. I also have Logan's grad/guard party set up for June 13. Glen wants to go out to eat when he gets done working so I better get my blinds washed and hung back up. I have 3 left to go. The ones I have done sure look good though. Smoke....ICK! Yap at ya all later.

Hi Everyone!
It's been a while, I know. Winter sucks. I am so glad we have good weather coming. It's so boring in the winter, there just isn't much to say. I've been busy with Speech. I am judging for the high school this year. It's almost done, just two more meets. We were coming to Milaca this Saturday and I was going to see if Tammy would be home and visit for a while, but because Little Falls is rocking this year in sports and are in the State Hockey tournaments, many of the Speech kids who are also in Band will be in the cities, so we cancelled our participation in the Milaca meet and are going to St. Francis next Saturday. The Flyers had three of their teams go to state this year! Wow!
I'm still entertaining the idea of going to a warmer climate to teach, but frankly haven't been offered a job anywhere yet. I am starting to get a little worried about it anyway with the economy the way it is, I would be the first to be let go when they cut back. Also, I have a set curriculum for the first time and my job is getting a lot easier. So I am thinking maybe I should stay where I am for a couple more years. But nothing is set in stone. I guess I'll wait and see.
Our state governement is planning to put a wage freeze on us this year, so we'll see what happens with that and with our district and the negotiations.
I finally painted some canvases for the living room-a colorful, seemingly random, abstract montage complete with the little mirror chips that I got from Jess for Christmas and glow in the dark stars. I think it will be cheerful. I am going to create some kind of mirror mosaic to complete the set too. I think we'll like it.
Finally got a new dishwasher installed here. Been waiting for it since I moved in.
Also bought a car two weekends ago as the Escort was on its last leg. It set me back financially for a month or two, but I needed to do it. Sold the Escort last weekend to someone who knew all about its problems but wanted to fix it. Cool.
I know I said there was nothing to say...I guess what I meant was that there is nothing earth-shattering to share.
Hope all is well with everyone. Have a super weekend.
P.S. Anyone going to Deb's surprise party? I wasn't planning to cuz I had the speech meet, but now that it's been cancelled, I will give it another thought.

Hello all, just thought I would come on and say hi. This hasn't been very active lately, are we all froze up or just nothing worth sharing? I fall into the last catagory. Anyway, because of the icky weather on Tuesday, we opted not to go play bingo and I finished up my last assignment. I was quite excited to get it sent off in the mail(finally), only to remember I have no ink so I couldn't print it out. Oh well, it's done! I'll run to St. Cloud this weekend and get some ink and mail it off. I ended up having to redo both research assignments that I have been putting off forever. But I passed the second time around and am still sitting at 88. So I am quite pleased with that. But, as I have decided earlier, I will be staying put as far as work goes. The work field doesn't look to promising right now. I am still hoping to get put to work within the nursing home, although they just laid off a care manager yesterday, so I'm pretty sure they won't be adding a new position at this point. Either way, I'm staying put. Nothing new besides finishing school. It's spose to be in the 40's all next week. YeeHa! I still haven't done anything about Logan's grad party, probably will have it at the Pow Wow grounds. That seemed to work out good for Jessi's. I just have to make a call. Maybe I'll go do that now. I'll come back and let you all know when I get something figured out. Yap at ya later.