HaPpY ThAnKsGiVinG!!

Well!! I would like to say that I am up blogging @ 5:15 am on Thanksgiving because I am up putting some wonderful food in the oven, but that is not the case. Even though I went to bed well after midnight, I found myself unable to sleep...surprise surprise...lol
Insomnia isn't something new to me, especially upon entering nursing school, but I am sooooo tired of it! And bless Jeremy's heart because on my worst nights he doesn't sleep well either. I try to not bother him, but it's like he can sense it no matter how still I am. During one of his "awake" times in the night we both decided that we need to buy a new mattress set. I have tried to figure out exactly how old this set is, but I can't decide. I know we bought them some time before Dawson was born and he will be 6 in a couple of months. We bought a really nice set so I guess I was just thinking they should still be good....well actually I don't think I have ever given it much thought. BUT...I really do not want to buy a new set right now!! Jeremy wants to go buy new now, but I want to wait until I graduate. When we buy/build a house, I want to put a King size bed in our room instead of the Queen we have now. If we buy new now then we will just have to turn right around and buy new again. Jeremy points out that if we build that we could be on this mattress set for another year before we are in the new house with a new bed....that makes me feel good! We cannot put a King size in our room now because we just don't have room.
I also just could not shut my brain off last night...too many things I could think about...too many "to do" lists being organized in my head. Daniel, my 12 y/o, is not having a great year at school this year...basically one class. I won't get into all the details, but I have seriously thought about changing schools for him at Christmas. Not only for his sake.....but for mine. As I enter my last semester of school I know I will be stressed to the max. In addition to our classes (1 on campus and 1 online that we must take) and our normal clinical day (which includes a day of prep beforehand), we have to do 90 hours of precepting with an RN on her job. I am really looking forward to this, but it will require more time away from my family. I have chosen a great Nurse who got her degree a long time ago (don't know exact numbers, but I would say more than 15 yrs ago b/c she was a few years ahead of me in school and she went straight to school following her graduation). I also chose her b/c she works in the ER.....LOVE the ER. I had a couple of relatives who do precepting who would have been great, but we cannot precept with a relative and this time they were pretty strict about that. (Some have already asked me why I didn't pick one of them and it isn't because I didn't want to....lol) But back to Daniel...he has never had so much trouble at school...and it isn't behavioral. I don't want to get into it here....I have a wonderful friend who I know will offer me great advice...I have to call her!! I will before Monday. Dawson is in Kindergarten and all is good there...he does get on the yellow light occasionally, but he is the typical boy and really a few yellows don't bother me. Trust me, it could be A LOT worse!! Dawson is my rambunctious child...so inquisitive and curious. But he is soooo sweet! Gotta love him...yellow lights and all! My thoughts about Shelbey last night didn't go past the fact that I should have gotten her to Lyrica to get her hair trimmed before Thanksgiving! She has hair like mine and it is getting a little "fluffy" and needs a good trim. It's amazing how much her hair is growing since she gets a trim every 6 weeks or so. I know hair grows from the root and someone once told me that trimming it would not affect the growth rate...but she is proof that it does!
We still have 1 test and our Final left this semester so of course that has been on my mind. I started new reading in preparation last night. I hope I retained!! I feel like I have wasted a lot of time this week. Usually a day doesn't go by that I don't study or read something, but I haven't kept up this week. I have had an amazing case of vertigo and those of you have never suffered with this, let me tell you it is horrible!! You get this dizzy sensation...like the room is moving and you cannot orientate yourself to where you are. You also get nausea and sometimes vomiting because of the dizziness. I also had a huge headache! And...there isn't a miracle pill you can take to just cure it, (which I have learned that no matter what the sickness, there usually never is!), you just have to treat the symptoms. This had gone on since about Saturday and I think is getting better...don't want to jinx myself!! Lord I really hope so...several times this week I felt so bad with this that I didn't want to pick my head up off my pillow!
We did get our Christmas tree up last night...it isn't fully decorated, but we will finish it tonight...or maybe today before we go to my Mom's to eat. Dawson & Shelbey were ecstatic to get it up early. Last year I didn't put it up until after finals and I didn't want to do that again this year. Dawson and I went shopping Saturday and we bought this new tree to put up this year. My old one died Christmas 2006 and last year we used an extra Jeremy's mom had. I didn't want to buy anything spectacular (same reason as the mattress set...lol) so I got this 6.5 foot pre-lit....didn't give very much for it, and was so upset with myself for doing so at first! When we first got it up it was the most pitiful thing I had ever seen...Jeremy must have really felt bad for me because he did all this bending and fluffing of the limbs (he says you have to do this with every tree and he says he has always done it to our tree in the past..lol.....I believe him, but I am not the crafty type so if left to me it would not get done!)...anyways...he made it beautiful!
I think I have pretty much written a short story here....I guess I will hit the shower and get ready to run to Walmart.....I really despise this place and I would rather pay full price than to fight the crowds Friday....but I HAVE to get a few items so I want to just get down there and get it over with. Walmart just brings out the stupid in people and I usually leave there ready to pull my hair out (or someone else's ...lol).
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!