I'll try and pretend I'm not baby happy...

You know time is going fast when the person you've been best friends with since birth, gives birth....

Congratulations to Erin and Justin Wilson and little Bennett!
You are a beautiful family.

Justin Bennett Wilson
9/28/2009
8:39 pm MDT

Pinching Pennies 101

I'm a poor college student. Cliche, I know, but SERIOUSLY, it's true. So to help the whole situation, I resort to pinching pennies, counting quarters, clipping coupons, bargain hunting...whatever the phrase I probably do it (although not as insane as some other members of my family--cough cough Eric). So when I went to send 4 letters to missionaries on Monday, I did not falter when I found I didn't have the right stamps. I opened my stamp holder and found a plethora of stamps that didn't fit the 44 cent and 98 cent stamps I needed. Lots of 2, 5, 10, and 41 though!

So did I go to the post office and buy some nearly-a-dollar international stamps, and possibly some "Forever" stamps that I can send to anywhere in the US? NAY! What kind of college student would I be if I didn't scrap around trying to save as much money as possible? So I was very resourceful and used FIFTEEN stamps to send FOUR letters. How awesome is that? The post office may raise their prices for stamps and think that means people will buy more stamps but they don't know the power of a frugal nursing student. Once again, I stick it the man.

Unfortunately, the man stabbed back, now that I'm completely out of stamps and have to buy some new ones. Win the battle and lose the war.

Thank You, Nursing...

This post is dedicated to Sarah Alvey.

Nursing school is full of stimulating information. Some of it is obvious, others not. This would fall into the obvious category.

Wound dehiscence or evisceration is essentially when things that are supposed to stay inside your body come out through a fresh surgical wound. I'll keep this squeaky clean for all you faint-hearted out there.

But here is a paragraph from one of my books:
If wound dehiscence or evisceration occurs, call for help and contact the primary care provider immediately, stay with client, monitor the client for shock, cover with sterile towel, and do not attempt to reinsert organs.

Maybe you have to be a certain kind of sick sick person, but I laughed really hard at this. Can't you just see a student nurse--much like myself--saying: "OOOHHH!! OOOH!!! I took Anatomy!! I think I kinda sorta mostly remember where the pancreas goes! Let me!!"

Darn you nursing school. Now that this has been in my assigned reading, I'm legally accountable if I try and reinsert the organs. Darn you for dashing all my hopes and dreams.

Who wants to be my patient...?! ;)

Getting Past my Marriage Prime

I may have mentioned the pattern that seems to have emerged in my home ward/stake, where the last several girls that have come to Utah for school have gotten engaged at 19 and married by 20 (well technically 2 1/2 months past 20 was the oldest). In like a week I will be the older than that and will be an old single maiden. Originally I didn't think that I should worry, but after reading this I'm beginning to panic.

For some reason I imagine this being sung as a country song by someone with a lisp...

I turned eighteen a long time ago.
I'm wonderin' why it's takin' so long
To find that man, the one from my dreams.
Gotta find him before I turn nineteen.

I'm nearly an old maid!
Need to say "I do" before it's too late.
Past my prime now!
Come on guys, can you help a girl out?

It's been a long grueling eighteen years
Tryin' to fight back all these lonely tears.
Got my GED; It's time to settle down.
Colors picked, even bought my wedding gown.

I'm nearly an old maid!
Need to say "I do" before it's too late.
Past my prime now!
It's about time I settled down!

They say I'm a menace to society.
Need a man cause I have no self-esteem.
Wanna get wed now so I'm goin' to BYU;
Statistically it'll take a week or two.

I'm ready to be your wife!
I wanna taste of married life!
We'll start a family right away
Before my fertile regions decay.

Been married six years,
Eight kids under age five.
Still don't know you real well
But at least I'm satisfied.