Hot Tubs, Halloween, & Happy Birthday to ME!

Well, it has been a while since I have posted anything on here.... September 20th... Sooo almost two months ago. In that time span a lot has happened. Madison turned seven, I celebrated my birthday (a few times!), finished one of my 8 week online courses, HALLOWEEEN!, and we finally got the hot tub up and running! The first major event was the Toga Party. Unfortunately, only a handful of people wore their togas because the weather was unseasonably cool. It was a great event, lots of people showed up, food was good, and the beer was even better. The JELLO shots weren't too bad either! (Thanks Amber!) If you're reading this blog chances are you have already taken a peek at the pics from the Toga Party anyways.... I also had a few birthday dinners in October. What can I say? I LOVE celebrating birthdays! Madison turned seven, and she had a small party with her dad and his family and got some great gifts! My best gift was from Dave...a new digital camera..LOVE IT! The hot tub was a gift from my uncle to my parents and its fabulous!!! Although I had a LITTLE too much hot tub last night and had to pay for my mistake today! School is going well, this semester is about half over. I have a few major projects that are due pretty soon that I really need to get cracking on. It just seems like I have a lot of distractions lately that are keeping me from focusing more on school. This computer obviously being one of them!!! Halloween was fun this year.. Madison wanted to be a pumpkin and she got TONS of candy because she went all over the place. I dressed up as Cleopatra and had a pretty good time down at the Bier Stube. Also got to see a lot of interesting and creative costumes down there later in the evening. Work is going as well as can be expected. We are really short staffed on CNAs and I've been working 40 hrs most weeks which sucks because I need that extra day off to keep up with school. Literally every single day I'm off work calls and wants me to pick up a variety of shifts...Luckily a lot of the first shift girls have been staying over, coming in early, and picking up shifts here and there. It just gets so ridiculous. We finally got rid of a patient that needed a sitter that was sucking up one of our staff members so that helped out. The problem now is that our productivity is in the shitter, so the execs won't sign off on hiring new staff until it gets over 100%. Soo... this definitely won't be happening before Christmas which really stinks. The good thing about that is that I switched and am working NYE 1st shift instead of NYD 1st shift. I have a super cute dress for NYE that I CAN'T WAIT to wear out! Well thats about all thats going on in my neck of the woods. Thanks for reading!