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So it turns out the entire Gulf Coast needs prayer, not just New Orleans. It really looked as if New Orleans had escaped as the hurricane didn’t do as much damage as many had feared. However today one of the levees broke, and currently 80% of the city is underwater. 80%! I can’t imagine it.
As bad as it is in New Orleans is, looking at some of the many photos taken, Mississippi and Alabama may have fared the worst. Some of those towns have just been flattened.
We’re praying tonight for the folks about to get hit by Katrina. New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast in that area including Alabama and Mississippi are in the path of a devastating category five hurricane, only the fourth to hit the U.S. since 1900. May God be with them.
Quite the productive weekend around the house here. I finished painting the rest of the windows as well as the subsequent scraping of the paint off the glass. Bill also offered to paint the entire roof trim so I helped him with that, and we even managed to replace the roof trim on one side of the house as the existing wood was water-logged and rotten (thanks, Bill!). I also painted the trim around the garage and front and back doors as well as the pole on our front patio.
Whew! I could use another weekend to recover from my weekend.
I just finished my first full week of nursing school, and although I am tired, I am also excited, nervous, anxious and just a tad bit stressed.
From the very first day we had long lectures, reading assignments, lab practices, and my very first exam is this coming Tuesday. I spend most hours of the day studying, studying, and when I am done, I study some more.
I also practice nursing techniques on Brian, and I think he is going to start hiding from me so that I don’t take his blood pressure, pulse or respiration anymore. He has warned me that his participation in helping me study procedures stops with his vitals. When it comes to drawing blood, starting IVs or other invasive procedures I am on my own.
I will carry my blood pressure cuff and stethoscope everywhere so watch out because I will practice on anyone!
My clinicals (hospital rotations) do not start until October so I want to get all the practice I can. Hopefully in 2 years when it is all said and done I will be a licensed Registered Nurse and it will be totally cool to write that RN after my name!
Anybody else sick of the whole Cindy Sheehan thing? It’s really sad that her son died in Iraq, and I feel terrible about that…but the media are making her out to be some kind of martyr while leaving out all of the wacky things that she has said on almost a daily basis. This lady has had a history of radical left-wing agenda and just keeps spewing the same lies that we’ve heard since John Kerry was still relevant, but she is being portrayed as just some poor Mom who is simply grieving for her son.
This is the kind of thing that really bugs me about mainstream media and the left in general. It’s always awful when soldiers die in Iraq, but there are so many more proud parents of those soldiers that support what we are doing than there are Cindy Sheehans. You won’t see that reported though.
The astronauts did in fact make it back safely, thank God.
I’ve been off for a few days so I’ve let some things slip, including posting on here and calling people back. Things get back to normal starting tomorrow though (and work too, unfortunately).
With my few days off, Monica and I did some travelling so some new pics will be posted soon.
We finally bought a hammock! I put it up Friday between our perfect hammock trees and have already spent some time relaxing in it, despite the sweltering heat we’ve had lately. It’s totally cool.
Monica starts back to school on Thursday so things will definitely be changing around here.
The shuttle is returning this morning around 4 am or so. Man, I hope they all return safely this time. The last thing we need is another tragedy.
God be with you, brave astronauts.
I’m sure some of you have seen the recent polls which state that 60% of people think the U.S. was justified in dropping the bomb on Japan. What are those other 40% thinking? Do they not know their history? Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that countless American lives were saved because the bombs were dropped. It’s that simple.
To say otherwise is revisionist history.
