tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:32:00 +0000Neighbor BobCouch 2 5KChunkJust BecauseDrunkUndergradFamilyAnger ManagementGodHome Sweet HomeThe lucky OneFriendsLettersWritingThe OfficeBoysNursinghttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Nikol)Blogger489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-7225432952136846260Tue, 13 May 2008 17:27:00 +00002008-05-13T12:28:04.841-05:00Croak.http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-digs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5299643329806667076Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:59:00 +00002008-04-01T09:16:31.446-05:00I am turning thirty years old in 29 days.Since I can't turn backwards, I suppose I need to have a positive outlook and set goals for myself for this decade. So I will start with things I want to accomplish this year:1. Lose thirty pounds and start this portion of my life in the best shape I have ever been in. 2. Get into the nursing program (I will find out in June) and try my best to enjoy http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/04/april-fool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-7478572956029771087Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:51:00 +00002008-03-27T09:00:32.348-05:00We're playing Tag around here, and it's my turn to be it, so here I go. Booga tagged me to grab a book, flip to page 123, read the 5th sentence on the page, and write the next 5 sentences that I think should come next.The book? Page After Page by Heather SellersThe sentence?"You'll want to want that."You'll want to want that. In 25 years, when you're 55 and your kids are grown and your http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/im-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-216595565922771825Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:36:00 +00002008-03-26T07:54:01.299-05:00NursingChunkWell, I'm feeling better today...still overwhelmed, but I spent three hours studying Microbiology last night, and that was an accomplishment...I have about 12 more hours to go before the test, but let's not think about that right now.I also have a take home test and a practical exam due Sat in Anatomy, and I have no choice but to start studying for that tomorrow. Today is still a micro day. I'mhttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-3417662303893639939Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:13:00 +00002008-03-25T10:22:23.527-05:00Or I didn't do it...however you want to look at it. I did not step on the scale this morning. And I'm not going to step on it again until Sunday. Really. I am so frustrated I don't even care what the numbers read.While I'm venting, I might as well tell you that I'm frustrated with so many things. And while I know and understand that I do the things that I do to benefit me down the proverbialhttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-did-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-3283869291356137488Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:22:00 +00002008-03-26T07:53:30.103-05:00NursingCouch 2 5KChunkSaturday I dragged Tony to the gym and completed my last day of Week 1 of the Cuch 2 5K program. This week will begin 25 minutes of alternating between 1.5 minute runs and 2 minute walks. It should be a pretty easy week. I can also begin including lower body strength training to the mix as I am now set up on the machines. La-Di-Da. I don’t care about any of this right now, and do you want tohttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-post-is-stupid-my-apologies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5684008666843230484Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:25:00 +00002008-03-26T07:52:19.498-05:00Couch 2 5KChunkI missed my workout last night. HOWEVER, I gave the house a much needed cleaning (well, the main parts anyway) and I think I burned some calories in the process. If anything, I worked up a long-awaited bowel movement, and let me tell you, it paid off! This morning I stepped on the scale and 148.5!! Thank you, Jesus! Because I thought I was going to have to spend the rest of my days in large http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/adventures-in-pet-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-6085416989947706473Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:47:00 +00002008-03-26T07:51:19.715-05:00Couch 2 5KChunkLast night after work I was on a mission to buy new running shoes. I am in the habit of wearing the same ones for years, and every running website that I researched in the past two weeks has emphasized the need for good shoes. So off I went in search for an AFFORDABLE pair of running shoes that would support my high arches. First I went to TJ Maxx because they sometimes have great shoes for http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/still-trudging-along.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5214897304826162616Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:12:00 +00002008-03-26T07:52:44.863-05:00Couch 2 5KChunkWhere oh where have I been?? Well, let me tell you. I wanted to stop writing here at Blogger and start writing on my VERY OWN WEBSITE, but my web designer guy is backed up on his current projects so I have been waitlisted. So...I need to write, right? And here I am.So I've decided to start training for the 5K season, and I stumbled across a program on coolrunning.com, and then read several great http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-got-fever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-2740464754815026560Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:02:00 +00002008-02-14T12:35:48.502-05:00When my youngest brother was in grade school, he came home crying on Valentine's Day. I walked into the living room and saw my mom hugging him on the couch and I asked what was wrong.Mom whispered over his shoulder, "The kids exchanged valentines in class today and he didn't get one."And my. heart. broke.Some people don't do Valentine's Day. Some people think Valentine's Day is a joke...a day http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-valentines-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5096905989411443861Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:28:00 +00002008-02-12T08:40:37.019-05:00There are advantages to being raised with mostly boys. I can be prissy when I want, but I can also get muddy and ride four-wheelers. I can care about fashion and make-up, but still wear jeans and a flannel shirt with my hair in a ponytail and not care about curling irons, flat irons and tweezers (I am not afraid to sport the unibrow). I can talk to guys like a guy (even if they sometimes http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/two-reasons-i-smile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-8988926033802681730Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:00 +00002008-02-11T11:37:14.936-05:00The lucky OneYesterday TLC had a Jon & Kate Plus 8 MARATHON running. All Day. Babies. Tony's head exploded against the patio doors.I have to say, in all fairness, he didn't retreat to the office to play poker on the computer, or run to the car to drive miles and miles away from the chaos that oozed from the television speakers. He actually sat and watched a couple episodes with me until the point when we http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/he-swept-me-off-my-feet-with-his-charm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-4234940973837514351Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:44:00 +00002008-02-07T09:02:44.223-05:00The USB cord to the camera. I found it. Actually, I just lied to you...how does that make you feel? Because Tony found the USB cord. So now I can update you on news that is no longer current. Lucky you.The Kitchen - BEFOREThe Kitchen - AFTERI don't have any BEFORE pictures of the downstairs bathroom because I didn't think to take any...but when I moved in with Tony, it was just an empty roomhttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-found-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5562951961064356190Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:12:00 +00002008-02-06T11:17:19.329-05:00I studied Microbiology all day yesterday and didn't get NEAR finished. The test is today. What is happening to me? I am unraveling fast. I also have a chance to redeem myself in Anatomy with Exam #2 on Saturday, but ask me when the first free minute to study will reveal itself...ummm...tomorrow. Which only gives me about six hours to study...maybe six hours. Because my life? My life does http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/are-you-aware-of-election-going-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-2303646350247724335Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:16:00 +00002008-02-04T13:19:51.212-05:00Tony says that Super Bowl Sunday is a National Holiday, well, should be, and so he took the day off from work today. To me, yesterday was Sunday, the day after Saturday, and the day before the day I hate most when I wake up and drive to that place where I sit on my spinny chair and wait for my ass to expand a millimeter at a time. It’s not that I don’t like football or the Super Bowl…I love thehttp://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/02/its-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-4641765228861380390Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:51:00 +00002008-01-31T10:56:47.217-05:001. When I was potty trained, I had to stand up to wipe myself. I still stand when I wipe my ass, and if I can’t, it doesn’t feel right.2. I chipped my front tooth on a beer bottle during my “rebellious stage”. I was newly divorced and 23 years old.3. My “rebellious stage” lasted for about six years. Good times.4. I have moved 21 times in 29 years. I’m really good at packing, unpacking, http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/01/because-i-couldnt-think-of-100-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-41037298395916838Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:33:00 +00002008-01-30T12:50:30.011-05:00I got my period yesterday (now THAT is an attention-grabber, no?). I was in the most excrutiating, someone-poke-my-eye-out-with-a-fire-stoker, pain of my LIFE! Okay, well maybe not my whole life because I would bet my socks (because they're actually Tony's socks) that I will be in the same agony again next month. Anyway, I was in pain? And this was part of the reason I could not act my age? http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/01/im-feeling-much-better-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-3823936978124814052Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:27:00 +00002008-01-29T16:45:31.912-05:00I can't stop screaming at people in my head. Let me be clear: I'm not screaming at the people that live in my head, but rather, I am screaming at real ,live people inside my mind so that I don't do it out loud and lose my job. Because I would. Lose my job. Because the words that I am screaming are not appropriate and I'm pretty sure aren't part of the approved vocabulary in the Code of http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/01/am-i-only-one-who-isnt-grownup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-728506258846737249Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:02:00 +00002008-01-17T10:04:42.903-05:00Last night in Microbiology they made us play with bacteria…as in E Coli! Seriously? I came home and scrubbed my hands with antibacterial soap, and when I told Tony he said, “What?! Go upstairs right now and take a shower!” What I didn’t tell him was how the professor explained to us that by the end of the semester we will lose interest in most things we now find fun…like going out to eat, http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-day-another-dolerranother-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-6182195338344445163Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:03:00 +00002007-12-18T13:09:51.365-05:00In three days I am having a Rhinoplasty / Septoplasty. I know I haven't written in awhile, but I didn't have anything to say. And even right now as I'm typing this I STILL don't have anything to say. Except that in three days I am having a rhinoplasty / septoplasty. The hot doctor is going to cut off the middle of my face and chip away at my NOSE!! Also? Someone is going to put me to sleep http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/12/hes-going-to-cut-my-face-off.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-2988035839842807538Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:25:00 +00002007-10-31T07:28:21.081-05:00http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/10/trick-or-treat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-3207019091171250180Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:41:00 +00002007-10-29T11:58:49.336-05:00Our cat is a sports fan. I'm not sure how this happened seeing how I, am not. I mean, Tony does not want to love the cat even though he can't help himself, and I, on the other hand, do love the little furball. Therefore, she should have inherited my indifference to sports. This is also the way it should go for our offspring when the time comes, although, something tells me that they will all http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/10/kids-these-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5263956253766797947Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:43:00 +00002007-10-26T14:44:49.066-05:00"Nikol, do you want some M&M's?""No thanks, I'm trying to stop eating this candy.""Oh. I'm just going to become obese."http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/10/facing-facts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-5877823811556125367Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:55:00 +00002007-10-26T07:58:09.482-05:00Why do people feel the need to hold up traffic to BACK IN to their parking spaces? Just pull in, dammit!Also, my coworker was just talking to her friend whose mother passed away and said, "okay then, good luck." She hung up the phone and said, "oh how dumb. I just told my friend 'good luck' with her mother's death. That's weird."http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-morning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12028997.post-8281261491548515309Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:24:00 +00002007-10-19T07:36:11.354-05:00Today my parents have been married for 33 years. 33. They have had to wake up to each other's faces every morning for thirty-three YEARS! Yikes. And they are more in love now than ever.It's no secret that Tony is skeptical of marriage. Afterall, we have both been married once, we live in a society where it is often not taken very seriously, and we know plenty of married couple who are http://nikolsview.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-dont-believe-in-love-you-never.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nikol)9