Really, I love technology.
This evening I had my first video chat with my sister, Mary. It wasn't the greatest picture - Mary looked like she was a living flip book.... and she was pixilated, but the sound was good, and we could see each others' general expressions.
I also loathe technology.
Especially the type that lures you in and then makes you want to part with your money. As in, here is a free sample - with ads... if you want an ad-free version, pay money. Well, I am cheap. However, I have a five year old who believes that all ads are personally directed to him. If a Burger King ad comes on and says, "come to BK today to get soaked with your own Super Soaker" then he is going to pester me to go to BK TODAY, Not tomorrow, or next week, or sometime in the distant future. It has to be today! The advertising people have studied him carefully.
Mathblaster is the lastest conflict of this nature. It is a math based learning video game. Fun, cool graphics. Free. Until you want to play a game more than once on any given day. And then you have to become a member. Mark is busy asking Paul how he will put the money into the computer..... Paul is perplexed. I will only laugh until Paul tries to feed a silver dollar into the CD reader.
I think Paul realizes it will require a credit card, but he doesn't understand the value of what he is asking for.
How do I teach him not to be a gimmie gimmie gimmie sort of kid?
Well, I'd best run, I need to be awake for some more video chats tomorrow - hopefully with my cousin from Japan, or perhaps Sandra in Italy.... the possibilities are endless.
:)
S
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Back to daylight
I slept like a rock last night.
Yesterday, I slept from 9am until 11:40am when I got up to go to the adoration chapel. I have an hour on friday every week to sit and pray and think. I know I could get someone to cover the hour for me when I work on Thursday night, but I don't like to do that. I like to get up, to go to the chapel and sit for that hour in prayer. I am deliberate about it. Yesterday was spent praying for my co-worker Jeanne whose daughter has just been diagnosed with cancer. I also reviewed the daily mass readings for Friday and the mass readings for this upcoming Sunday. John 3:16 is coming up this weekend - one of the shortest, best, gospels of the year.
After being in the chapel for an hour, I drove home, chatted with one of my sisters for a few minutes and was back in bed by 1:30. Up at 3:35 to go get Paul. Not really awake. Functioning, but not on all cylinders. Succumbed to the voice of temptation for something cold and sweet.... I don't really want to know how many calories are in a McD's Mango Pineapple Smoothie..... I should have made my own at home. Collected Paul from the Paluszaks and came home to watch Paul fiddle around with the Star Wars on the Wii. Mark was late getting home, we ate Mexican food and then I was SO TIRED that I just collapsed as soon as we got home.
This morning Mark and I were up at 6:25 - oops, I forgot to turn off my daily alarm clock!
Paul joined me to snuggle at 8:40. We read some from Grimm's fairytales. Now battling getting dressed, going running? and doing laundry. So far, blogging has won out. May go to a handwork meeting today to knit. May go to a Charlotte Knights baseball game with fireworks afterwards. Unclear what today holds. But I do know I am awake for it, and that is a good thing!
Yesterday, I slept from 9am until 11:40am when I got up to go to the adoration chapel. I have an hour on friday every week to sit and pray and think. I know I could get someone to cover the hour for me when I work on Thursday night, but I don't like to do that. I like to get up, to go to the chapel and sit for that hour in prayer. I am deliberate about it. Yesterday was spent praying for my co-worker Jeanne whose daughter has just been diagnosed with cancer. I also reviewed the daily mass readings for Friday and the mass readings for this upcoming Sunday. John 3:16 is coming up this weekend - one of the shortest, best, gospels of the year.
After being in the chapel for an hour, I drove home, chatted with one of my sisters for a few minutes and was back in bed by 1:30. Up at 3:35 to go get Paul. Not really awake. Functioning, but not on all cylinders. Succumbed to the voice of temptation for something cold and sweet.... I don't really want to know how many calories are in a McD's Mango Pineapple Smoothie..... I should have made my own at home. Collected Paul from the Paluszaks and came home to watch Paul fiddle around with the Star Wars on the Wii. Mark was late getting home, we ate Mexican food and then I was SO TIRED that I just collapsed as soon as we got home.
This morning Mark and I were up at 6:25 - oops, I forgot to turn off my daily alarm clock!
Paul joined me to snuggle at 8:40. We read some from Grimm's fairytales. Now battling getting dressed, going running? and doing laundry. So far, blogging has won out. May go to a handwork meeting today to knit. May go to a Charlotte Knights baseball game with fireworks afterwards. Unclear what today holds. But I do know I am awake for it, and that is a good thing!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Happiness Is.....
Being able to help a patient feel better quickly.
Sweet patient had a headache, I taught her husband how to do healing touch and her headache was relieved within minutes! And it stayed away the rest of the night. Hooray!
And it's nice when technology makes life easy - inflatable bottom support was too firm for a newly delivered bottom..... let the air out of the support - patient instantly felt relief! No meds required! I love being in a modern hospital with gadgets, gizmos and technology to make life easier!
Now, I need sleep!
Adoration time coming, too quickly....
Sweet patient had a headache, I taught her husband how to do healing touch and her headache was relieved within minutes! And it stayed away the rest of the night. Hooray!
And it's nice when technology makes life easy - inflatable bottom support was too firm for a newly delivered bottom..... let the air out of the support - patient instantly felt relief! No meds required! I love being in a modern hospital with gadgets, gizmos and technology to make life easier!
Now, I need sleep!
Adoration time coming, too quickly....
Thursday, June 16, 2011
work and sleep
Today, I will sleep. Tonight I will work.
Really?
Do people actually do this?
Somehow, I find that I am actually someone who DOES this. And even though my body screams at me for hours before, and for a day or two afterwards, I actually LOVE what I do enough that I still do it!
I enjoy working with new moms and babies in a maternity center. I love teaching moms how to care for themselves and their new babies. I love coaching the couplet through the beginning of the dance of breastfeeding. I love being present to moms in the wee small hours of the morning, when the rest of the world is quiet and yet the baby is awake.
My hope is always that I am where God needs me to be. And if I am at work, that God would make my sleepless night productive.
Here's to being nocturnal. At least tonight.
Really?
Do people actually do this?
Somehow, I find that I am actually someone who DOES this. And even though my body screams at me for hours before, and for a day or two afterwards, I actually LOVE what I do enough that I still do it!
I enjoy working with new moms and babies in a maternity center. I love teaching moms how to care for themselves and their new babies. I love coaching the couplet through the beginning of the dance of breastfeeding. I love being present to moms in the wee small hours of the morning, when the rest of the world is quiet and yet the baby is awake.
My hope is always that I am where God needs me to be. And if I am at work, that God would make my sleepless night productive.
Here's to being nocturnal. At least tonight.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Week 2, run 2
This morning I ran the second run for Week 2 again. It was a beautiful morning, not too hot, not too humid and I was able to run a little bit farther than I ran on Monday.... in the same amount of time. Goal 5K on August 7th.... I am one run closer.
The other cool thing about today - 9 years ago, I married Mark. It still sticks out in my mind as being a really great day. And these 9 years we have been blest with relatively good health and of course, with Paul. We celebrated our 9 years together by eating Pizza at lunch and seafood at dinner. No big celebration this year - but for our 10th, we are hoping to do something big....
Today, Paul and I finished reading Ralph S. Mouse. Paul and I both enjoyed the book. I read aloud, Paul listened, and we talked about it together. Next book: Runaway Ralph.
More soon.
The other cool thing about today - 9 years ago, I married Mark. It still sticks out in my mind as being a really great day. And these 9 years we have been blest with relatively good health and of course, with Paul. We celebrated our 9 years together by eating Pizza at lunch and seafood at dinner. No big celebration this year - but for our 10th, we are hoping to do something big....
Today, Paul and I finished reading Ralph S. Mouse. Paul and I both enjoyed the book. I read aloud, Paul listened, and we talked about it together. Next book: Runaway Ralph.
More soon.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Who needss to run?
When you have a new laptop! My DH got me a laptop as an anniversary present! Hooray for us! And there's a prize if you know how many years we have been married.... Well, there's not really a prize, but I'll know you're reading if you post a guess.
At any rate, we are doing well, and we are not really celebrating this anniversary in any particular way. I have to work, unless I get low census, and Mark has to work, so methinks we are not doing anything in particular. This year.
Summer reading started at the library yesterday. And while Paul and I did read together yesterday, today was a bust. Partially because we were fussing at each other over following directions and partially because I became a lump in a chair as soon as I had my hands on this keyboard. Also, I was obsessed with figuring out video chat with my sister, Mary, and was unsuccessful. Ugh. Perhaps tomorrow will yield better results.
Currently, I am reading Robinson Crusoe.
Paul is reading Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
Mark is reading Sharpe's Devil
And I am planning to run early tomorrow, so I'd best get to bed or I won't be able to run!
At any rate, we are doing well, and we are not really celebrating this anniversary in any particular way. I have to work, unless I get low census, and Mark has to work, so methinks we are not doing anything in particular. This year.
Summer reading started at the library yesterday. And while Paul and I did read together yesterday, today was a bust. Partially because we were fussing at each other over following directions and partially because I became a lump in a chair as soon as I had my hands on this keyboard. Also, I was obsessed with figuring out video chat with my sister, Mary, and was unsuccessful. Ugh. Perhaps tomorrow will yield better results.
Currently, I am reading Robinson Crusoe.
Paul is reading Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
Mark is reading Sharpe's Devil
And I am planning to run early tomorrow, so I'd best get to bed or I won't be able to run!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Running
summer is here.... and i have decided to try to run a 5k on august 7th. if it comes together, i will run it in nyc with my sister mary.
also, i want to write more, and more often.
running, prayer, lactation, life in general will be on tap.
s
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