So, I've been thinking about sharing this for about a week now, but haven't turned on my computer in a while. It is quite funny and I'm these kinds of things don't freak me out....at least not too much.
I had a patient on Saturday & Sunday in the ICU. He is a single 60 year old. On Saturday he told me that his daughter-in-law had had a dream that he would have a physical therapist named Shelly. Apparently he has an ex-wife named Shelley as well. I was polite & said something like, "wow, isn't that interesting. I guess you can tell her that her dream was true." Unfortunately that wasn't his whole story. Sunday he decided to complete his daughter-in-laws dream. (luckily I wasn't in the room by myself either time) He asked me if I was married (a very common question asked of me, so it didn't give me any clue as to what was coming). After I told him that I wasn't, he repeated the first part of his daughter-in-law's dream. He then expanded on that and said that he & his therapist Shelly were going to fall in love, get married and go to Hawaii on their honeymoon! The other person in the room was amused by this too, but thought it would be good to say, "You'll have to get out of hear first". I wanted to yell at her to not enourage him. We had a good laugh for the next few days. Needless to say I didn't work with him again, but it was the joke that he wanted me to come help him (for the next few days). I'd be happy to go to Hawaii while he's getting better, but I think he's a bit too old for me....it'd be like dating a friend of my Dad's! I was surprised at how seriously this guy related the dream to me. I thought for sure he had to know this was just a dream (or maybe he uses this line on everyone). I blame it on his condition & all the medications!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Date
Okay, so I know you have all been waiting for this post since my last one. I'm still not sure if I'm an adult. So I got a call Tuesday night from Mark and he asked me out for Thursday night. I have to laugh at one thought I had after I talked to him, and it came from either a TV show or movie, was "What? Am I not good enough for a Friday night date?" Where it comes from is that Wednesday is pitty date night. If anyone knows where exactly that comes from, please let me know!
Since today is Friday, I have already been on my date. I have tried not to make it a big deal because it seems when I do, I am disappointed. We doubled with the couple who set us up (Nate & Stephanie). I had a good time even though the new restaurant we tried wasn't that spectacular. I laughed so hard at times that the muscles in my cheeks cramped. I don't know that that has ever happened before. :) Mark was a gentleman and opened the car door for me. I have to say that it's hard to just sit in the car & wait to have the door opened for me when I am perfectly capable of doing it myself. YES, I know I should let the guy do it, if he's gonna. When we got to the restaurant Stephanie asked Nate if he was going to open the door for her & he said no. Since everyone else was getting their own door, I thought I would too (who wants to be the last one sitting in a car without the AC running?). So, try as I might the door wouldn't open. Yup, child safety locks! I had to laugh. I noticed that it took some concentration to not open my doors for myself. I definitely had some internal struggle going on. I think I've decided that it's no longer high on my list for a guy to be such a gentleman as to open all my doors for me. Now, I do think that if they are ahead of me they should, but if I should reach the door first I'm all for opening it for them. Don't think me some feminist extremist or equal opportunity all the way kinda girl. I'm just used to being me.....is that so wrong?! ;) As kids we used to open the car door for my mom, but I think that was mostly to keep from waiting for my dad to do it....we could get to where we were going a whole 30 seconds faster!
There really aren't a lot of details to share, but there may be another date coming up. I'd be happy to answer any questions from all your inquiring minds. I've already been grilled by my mom!
Last Week
My Grandma Jeppson (Mom's mom) passed away on June 16th. Her health had been declining for the past several years. We will all miss her, but know that she is in a much better place with none of the physical limitations she has had. She looked so peaceful and I could certainly picture her with Ryan and Caylor checking in on all their family. It was good to be around family again although I think since it is said that things happen in 3's, we should be done with funerals for a while. We have had 3 family funerals in just over a year. I'll post some pics of the family later.
Okay, so I know you have all been waiting for this post since my last one. I'm still not sure if I'm an adult. So I got a call Tuesday night from Mark and he asked me out for Thursday night. I have to laugh at one thought I had after I talked to him, and it came from either a TV show or movie, was "What? Am I not good enough for a Friday night date?" Where it comes from is that Wednesday is pitty date night. If anyone knows where exactly that comes from, please let me know!
Since today is Friday, I have already been on my date. I have tried not to make it a big deal because it seems when I do, I am disappointed. We doubled with the couple who set us up (Nate & Stephanie). I had a good time even though the new restaurant we tried wasn't that spectacular. I laughed so hard at times that the muscles in my cheeks cramped. I don't know that that has ever happened before. :) Mark was a gentleman and opened the car door for me. I have to say that it's hard to just sit in the car & wait to have the door opened for me when I am perfectly capable of doing it myself. YES, I know I should let the guy do it, if he's gonna. When we got to the restaurant Stephanie asked Nate if he was going to open the door for her & he said no. Since everyone else was getting their own door, I thought I would too (who wants to be the last one sitting in a car without the AC running?). So, try as I might the door wouldn't open. Yup, child safety locks! I had to laugh. I noticed that it took some concentration to not open my doors for myself. I definitely had some internal struggle going on. I think I've decided that it's no longer high on my list for a guy to be such a gentleman as to open all my doors for me. Now, I do think that if they are ahead of me they should, but if I should reach the door first I'm all for opening it for them. Don't think me some feminist extremist or equal opportunity all the way kinda girl. I'm just used to being me.....is that so wrong?! ;) As kids we used to open the car door for my mom, but I think that was mostly to keep from waiting for my dad to do it....we could get to where we were going a whole 30 seconds faster!
There really aren't a lot of details to share, but there may be another date coming up. I'd be happy to answer any questions from all your inquiring minds. I've already been grilled by my mom!
Last Week
My Grandma Jeppson (Mom's mom) passed away on June 16th. Her health had been declining for the past several years. We will all miss her, but know that she is in a much better place with none of the physical limitations she has had. She looked so peaceful and I could certainly picture her with Ryan and Caylor checking in on all their family. It was good to be around family again although I think since it is said that things happen in 3's, we should be done with funerals for a while. We have had 3 family funerals in just over a year. I'll post some pics of the family later.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
I am an Adult, right?
Okay, so I have to make a fool of myself and share this story with all who love and will not judge me for who I am. At times I think, "Shelly, you are an adult and should be able to do this". Well, as most of you know I can at times be quite shy, but at others can be quite the opposite. I'm usually more outgoing around those of you I know will love me anyway. So where is this embarrassing story you ask.....I'm stalling, can't you tell? You know me...this will probably be a long story....get comfy!
I was at work a month or more ago and while I was waiting to see a patient, I sat down & chatted with some nurses. Stephanie is married to Nate and they are both nurses, though on different floors. Jennifer is Nate's mom & is also a nurse on the same floor as Nate. Jennifer happened to be working on the same floor as Stephanie this day. I don't know how the conversation turned to how I was single, but it did. Both Stephanie & Jennifer lit right up and started discussing how I needed to meet one of Nate's good friends, Mark. They continued to tell me how great he was, but Nate would have to set us up as Stephanie didn't feel confident in her match making skills.
The next day Stephanie told me that Jennifer had talked to Nate before she got the chance & explained how he needed to set me up with Mark. I just laughed as they as seemed way more excited about it than me, but I'm a good sport, right? and an adult? Within the next day or two I came across Nate who then asked for my phone number to give to Mark. They had told me he was pretty shy at first, but then really fun when he gets to know you. I denied the opportunity to be the one to call first. Shouldn't it be the guy who makes the first call? I think so too!
So, for the next several weeks I would get asked by Nate or Stephanie if Mark had called. My response was always "no". I did get to hear some stories about Mark that were quite funny. He really does sound like fun. A co-worker of mine, Karalynn, has taken upon herself to gang up against me with Nate. So here comes the most recent part of this drawn out story. I finally got Mark's #. I told Nate that I would give him a few days to redeem himself, now that Mark knew I had his #. Before my cutoff date (which was this Wed.) Nate decided that he needed to help us further. I was waiting to help Karalynn with a patient when Nate called Mark, talked to him for a minute or two then said he was handing the phone to me. That's all I needed, was to have a nice audience. Well, Karalynn & Nate left because I had said I didn't want an audience. I hate talking on the phone, I find it hard to know what to say to keep a conversation going, especially if the other person has the same problem. As I was talking to Mark about 5 people walked into the immediate vicinity. I quickly ended the conversation as I was at work & now all these people were hanging around. It felt super awkward.
I had told Mark to call me anytime. Isn't that a good opening for him to call me? I thought it was. I didn't expect a phone call the next day (he was home sick and all). As of this post, there has been no follow up call. You may be laughing and saying to your computer "Shelly, you should call him and ask how he is feeling." And your computer says back to you, "don't you think she's thought of that?" So here it comes....I really don't think I'm an adult after all. Set one more place at the kiddie table for Thanksgiving.
I was at work a month or more ago and while I was waiting to see a patient, I sat down & chatted with some nurses. Stephanie is married to Nate and they are both nurses, though on different floors. Jennifer is Nate's mom & is also a nurse on the same floor as Nate. Jennifer happened to be working on the same floor as Stephanie this day. I don't know how the conversation turned to how I was single, but it did. Both Stephanie & Jennifer lit right up and started discussing how I needed to meet one of Nate's good friends, Mark. They continued to tell me how great he was, but Nate would have to set us up as Stephanie didn't feel confident in her match making skills.
The next day Stephanie told me that Jennifer had talked to Nate before she got the chance & explained how he needed to set me up with Mark. I just laughed as they as seemed way more excited about it than me, but I'm a good sport, right? and an adult? Within the next day or two I came across Nate who then asked for my phone number to give to Mark. They had told me he was pretty shy at first, but then really fun when he gets to know you. I denied the opportunity to be the one to call first. Shouldn't it be the guy who makes the first call? I think so too!
So, for the next several weeks I would get asked by Nate or Stephanie if Mark had called. My response was always "no". I did get to hear some stories about Mark that were quite funny. He really does sound like fun. A co-worker of mine, Karalynn, has taken upon herself to gang up against me with Nate. So here comes the most recent part of this drawn out story. I finally got Mark's #. I told Nate that I would give him a few days to redeem himself, now that Mark knew I had his #. Before my cutoff date (which was this Wed.) Nate decided that he needed to help us further. I was waiting to help Karalynn with a patient when Nate called Mark, talked to him for a minute or two then said he was handing the phone to me. That's all I needed, was to have a nice audience. Well, Karalynn & Nate left because I had said I didn't want an audience. I hate talking on the phone, I find it hard to know what to say to keep a conversation going, especially if the other person has the same problem. As I was talking to Mark about 5 people walked into the immediate vicinity. I quickly ended the conversation as I was at work & now all these people were hanging around. It felt super awkward.
I had told Mark to call me anytime. Isn't that a good opening for him to call me? I thought it was. I didn't expect a phone call the next day (he was home sick and all). As of this post, there has been no follow up call. You may be laughing and saying to your computer "Shelly, you should call him and ask how he is feeling." And your computer says back to you, "don't you think she's thought of that?" So here it comes....I really don't think I'm an adult after all. Set one more place at the kiddie table for Thanksgiving.
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