I Love Toys

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1/5/2009 @ 9:57 pm
Filed under: General

Working in pediatrics at the hospital, I get to play with all sorts of toys and have managed to get some free toys mailed to me too without even asking for them. I got some mini Etch-A-Sketches, bouncing balls, and a few others I can’t recall the names of but can picture them all miniature size of course. I even have a pack of crayons in my desk with some coloring pages if I get really bored which does not come all to often. Every now and then I’ll hit up the playroom in the hospital to play with all the cool toys they have over there including a magnet building set. Oh ya, we go all out in the playroom. It is mainly for the kids who are admitted to the hospital and is free from having anything done to the children so they know its a great play area and once they have been admitted once and know about it, any subsequent times they immediately ask when the playroom is open so they can go play if they are feeling well enough. Sometimes they even get to take the toys out sort of like a library and take them back to their rooms to play. The magnet building sets remind me of the Lego’s when I was growing up but better. You can make these stay put a lot easier and have even more funky shapes because they bend in weird ways. It lets the kids imaginations just run wild and being in the hospital for something serious they need that extra help to make a getaway. So, whatever they might build could be the place they were wishing they were at at that particular time or some take it really serious and want to make something structural but the best part is asking them to build something and see where they take it.

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In the Process

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@ 9:28 am
Filed under: General

Okay, so I’m really in the process of updating a new theme which entailed me to get busy and update my plugins as well. Now I know on this specific theme you have to enter the anti-spam word twice, my bad and unfortunately it will only be for a short period of time as my new header is being worked on for the new theme. I really think you are going to like it because I dearly love it. You may even see it here and there as I have to put it up fully to make sure a few things work right as I don’t get the full impact in just the view portion. If you see something majorly awry just let me know and I’ll try to do a work around for it except for the two anti-spams. I may try to find that right now though.

Edit: Easier than I thought, just needed to delete some code. Carry on.

Just noticed I need to put back my own smilies too.

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A Day in the Life of…

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1/4/2009 @ 11:52 am
Filed under: General, Technology

You ever wonder what your laptop feels once you beat the life out of it on a daily basis? I admit it, I’ve dropped my tablet a few times and it still works but I did manage to break off the clip that actually held it closed properly from one of those trips down. Flying with them on the airport is no easy feat either especially if you don’t have a proper case for it. I just shove mine in my back pack as it comes with this mini case for the tablet itself but nothing extra for the rest of the parts I need. I actually need to get some laptop bags that have an over the shoulder sideways strap and some extra pockets for the power pack, etc. Of course the bigger the bag for all of that I could replace my normal backpack and actually do some other activities with just carrying that around like heading off for a bike trip. You’d be surprised at where you can wifi service now. Carrying it around in the shoulder strap at the hospital would also be a plus too because sometimes it will slip when I have to carry it with other papers and those hard floors might damage it more than carpeted ones not to mention if someone runs into me with an open drink pouring all over me it will miss that if I didn’t have it in my hands.

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Football Playoffs

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@ 11:36 am
Filed under: Sports

We did it, the Eagles made the wild card slot after last weekends blow out game with Dallas. The Dallas fans are still scarce down at the gym which I find hilarious because they were so abundant at one point. And now all the Eagles paraphernalia is way higher than it used to be when they didn’t make the playoffs, darn inflation. Yesterdays games were somewhat of a disappointment to me as I didn’t pick either team that won. Todays games should be better and we should, need and will beat the stuffing out of the Vikings.

PS Baked Cheetos are the bomb. They taste just like the regular ones but now I won’t feel as guilty for eating them on the off chance that I do.

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Happy New Year!!

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1/1/2009 @ 8:17 am
Filed under: General

Missing Christmas Gifts

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12/27/2008 @ 12:19 pm
Filed under: General, Personal

You ever get somewhere and think for sure you bought a gift for that one person only to realize you never did and you are going to someones house for Christmas without a gift? I have done that and I really feel bad when it happens and almost always double check my gifts to make sure I have the appropriate gifts for everyone now. What do you do then? You go out the very next day the stores are open and get something for that person and give it to them. Luckily, everything is usually on sale even more than it was right before Christmas.

I’m always a last minute shopper though and I appreciate last minute gifts from Kmart. I was actually there Christmas Eve buying some jewelry (a chain necklace and butterfly charm) for my sister and a pair of jeans and some Joe Boxer undies for me. I will need to go back though and get a few more pair of jeans since they seem to be the only store with the stone washed Lee jeans. I mean did those really go out of style? They have all these jeans with freaky dark blue colors and streaks in them. Really? I also love shopping at Kmart because they have Martha Stewart. I don’t care what people say, she makes some great stuff and I go crazy buying kitchen things. I’ve actually been trying to clean mine up somewhat better and was thinking of some spice jars I could get and I’m sure I could get some pretty ones from her collection as well as some more microwavable bowls since I only have 1 left. Not really sure where the others went considering it is just me. :roll:

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