Sunday, March 9, 2008
These shoes are made for walking...
The other day, Collin, who should have been taking a nap comes down the hallway in this... It was hilarious!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Lost in Lost
I love, love, love being lost in Lost. For those who know me well, know that I am a big fan of Lost the series on ABC, I watch old episodes and enjoyed the hiatus of episodes so that I could re-watch all the old series'. I analyze and analyze each episode and can barely wait to watch each week. It even pain's me when they take a week off for some odd reason or other. Well if you to share this unhealthy obsession with Lost, check out this blog http://elprezlostupdate.blogspot.com/. It gives theories on the episodes that are insightful and intersting and let me know what you think, I need to know who my other Lost buddies are!!!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Week in review
Kayla's baby shower was this weekend, it turned out brilliantly, the food was wonderful, the attendance was great, gifts were excellent, pregnant mommy was beautiful but can I show anyone that??????????? NOOOO because I'm a goof ball hollio, I completely forgot to take ANY pictures of the shower, and here's the kicker, the camera was feet a way (on top of the fridge)!! I'm kicking myself! Well you'll just have to trust me on the shower details!
Other than that, I had another big test this week, and I'm absolutely sure I did horrible on it! Grades aren't posted yet, and that's stressing me out, C, C, I'm hoping for a C!! Keep ya'll posted on that, I know, I know, you'll be on the edge of your seat...
Other than the shower and a test, I was going crazy with kids by Friday!! Monday was a holiday, Thursday, I didn't send Cregan or Clay because they had head colds, and Friday was a snow day!! We CAN NOT have another week like that one, absolutely NOT, I was going out of my mind by the end of the week!! It seems all the boys do is fight, fight, timeout, fight, fight, spanking and stern talking to, fight, timeout, fight, screaming and bed, yep, that sounds about right...
Something else I did tonight, therefore still counts in this blog because it was this week was scanned some really old pictures of my newphews, niece, family in general, so that's what you see down at the bottom,
The grinning girl with no teeth, yep that me, and my sister and mom (look at those rockin 80's bangs)
Here is my ode to bad perms, my sister's wedding, that's me with the afro..
And finally my BFF and I in college
That's it folks, that the Hughes week in review...
Other than that, I had another big test this week, and I'm absolutely sure I did horrible on it! Grades aren't posted yet, and that's stressing me out, C, C, I'm hoping for a C!! Keep ya'll posted on that, I know, I know, you'll be on the edge of your seat...
Other than the shower and a test, I was going crazy with kids by Friday!! Monday was a holiday, Thursday, I didn't send Cregan or Clay because they had head colds, and Friday was a snow day!! We CAN NOT have another week like that one, absolutely NOT, I was going out of my mind by the end of the week!! It seems all the boys do is fight, fight, timeout, fight, fight, spanking and stern talking to, fight, timeout, fight, screaming and bed, yep, that sounds about right...
Something else I did tonight, therefore still counts in this blog because it was this week was scanned some really old pictures of my newphews, niece, family in general, so that's what you see down at the bottom,
The grinning girl with no teeth, yep that me, and my sister and mom (look at those rockin 80's bangs)
Here is my ode to bad perms, my sister's wedding, that's me with the afro..
And finally my BFF and I in college
That's it folks, that the Hughes week in review...
Friday, February 8, 2008
A great form of birth control
As I sit in front of this computer, with my mini migrane, my kids screaming in the background and running around, mostly because I've ignored them for 80% of the day (but if hurts to move my head, what can I say), I can't help but think this would be a great form of birth control...
I can see it now, I could advertise my kids at OBGYN's all over the nation, if you are really thinking of having sex, perhaps you should try the Hughes boys for the week. You must be able to keep up with housework, and schoolwork and feed them relatively healthy meals (no MCDs everyday, eventhough they'd probably love it!). If you can make it through the week, without "losing it", then you too maybe ready for children, otherwise reconsider. Then give the statistics of birth control and finalize the advertisement with something like, the pill may have 99.7% chance of non pregnancy, but do you want to that chance...
Monday, February 4, 2008
What I'm Learning
So if you don't already know I'm going to school for nursing, although I'm not actually in nursing school yet... I'm taking classes that I can, until I am in nursing school and that means this semester I'm taking Human Physiology. This is a VERY interesting class and I thought I'd share some of what I've learned so far in my class
1. Distilled water is not good for you. If taken intravenously (by IV), your cells would swell and lyse (burst)!! Basically it goes into your cells and makes them explode.
2. We all have an electrical charge of -70mV at rest, everyone, humans and animals and we all have to get to -50 to have an action potential or rather for our bodies to do something, say move a finger.
3. Our tongues taste things, ok you knew that but did you know that if your mouth was completely dry you would not taste anything, the reason why is because taste is detected by a watery solution (in this case saliva)
4. Smell is the same way (needs a watery solution) in this case mucus in the nasal cavity, also smell is sent to the Limbic System (this is the emotional brain), so smells are linked to emotions and memory.
5. We can confuse the brain, when we are hurt receptors are sent to that site, but when we rub where it hurts, we are confusing the brain by overstimalating the receptors in that area and the pain is lessened because the brain is overstimulated.
6. We have different brain patterns for when we are awake and a sleep, Beta waves are the higher frequency waves present in the awake state; however they are also the waves found REM sleep.
7. During REM sleep are skeletal muscles are inhibited so we are not acting out our dreams but we may twitch
8. There are different types of memory, one of them is Motor - this is like riding a bike or driving a stick shift. You won't ever forget it!
9. Right handed people use the left side of their brain, which is involved in language, word recognition, and knowing what we want to saya nd saying it (or writing it)
10. Left handed people use the right side of their brain, which is involved in the ability to recognze symbols, patterns, faces, also involved in the ability to recognize emotion in speech
11. Muscles get shorter and pull; never push
12. The reason you get a pain in your side and breath hard while exercise is because you are using Anaerobic Metabolism and are developing lactic acid
13. The cerebellu prevents overshoots in movements that is to say if you see a box labeled books you immediately exert more energy that if it said feathers, but if the box of books was empty and you didn't know if you'd overshoot the movement and probably fall over.
14. Your Sympathetic ENrvous System involves fight or flight which increases heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation and decreases digestion
15. Your Parasympathetic Nervous System involves resting and digesting, so decrease in heart rate, blood pressure, pupil constriction, and digestion is up.
16. When you take say Tylenol with Codine, you are increasing the effects of the parasympathetic nervous system, so you'll be extra hungry...
17. Dopamin is a neurotransmitter in the body, an excess of dopamine has been linked to schzophrenia
18. Glutamate another neurotransmitter is linked to memory, MSG the chinesse food additive, glutamate is a component of it
19. A runner's high is true, endorphins and enkephalins are released in the body to inhibit pain perception, it's the body's morphine
20. The reason everything is dark when you turn the lights on in the middle of the night is because you have bleached out your rods in your eyes. They are sensitive to light and you only see in shades of gray.
21. Also Vitamin A deficiency casues night blindness, because lack of it and you aren't producing rods.
22. Binocular Vision is needed for depth perception, close 1 eye, and try to put your hands side by side (without touching eachother) and you'll see what I mean.
23. The Pituitary gland is made up of 2 different types of tissue the anterior side or face side is made from our mouth is the womb and the posterior side or back side is from brain tissue.
Anyway I won't bore you with any more of my knowledge, go on read a different blog now, it's ok, I don't feel bad, this has been a pretty silly post...go on now, don't look back, I'll be ok, no really, I will...
1. Distilled water is not good for you. If taken intravenously (by IV), your cells would swell and lyse (burst)!! Basically it goes into your cells and makes them explode.
2. We all have an electrical charge of -70mV at rest, everyone, humans and animals and we all have to get to -50 to have an action potential or rather for our bodies to do something, say move a finger.
3. Our tongues taste things, ok you knew that but did you know that if your mouth was completely dry you would not taste anything, the reason why is because taste is detected by a watery solution (in this case saliva)
4. Smell is the same way (needs a watery solution) in this case mucus in the nasal cavity, also smell is sent to the Limbic System (this is the emotional brain), so smells are linked to emotions and memory.
5. We can confuse the brain, when we are hurt receptors are sent to that site, but when we rub where it hurts, we are confusing the brain by overstimalating the receptors in that area and the pain is lessened because the brain is overstimulated.
6. We have different brain patterns for when we are awake and a sleep, Beta waves are the higher frequency waves present in the awake state; however they are also the waves found REM sleep.
7. During REM sleep are skeletal muscles are inhibited so we are not acting out our dreams but we may twitch
8. There are different types of memory, one of them is Motor - this is like riding a bike or driving a stick shift. You won't ever forget it!
9. Right handed people use the left side of their brain, which is involved in language, word recognition, and knowing what we want to saya nd saying it (or writing it)
10. Left handed people use the right side of their brain, which is involved in the ability to recognze symbols, patterns, faces, also involved in the ability to recognize emotion in speech
11. Muscles get shorter and pull; never push
12. The reason you get a pain in your side and breath hard while exercise is because you are using Anaerobic Metabolism and are developing lactic acid
13. The cerebellu prevents overshoots in movements that is to say if you see a box labeled books you immediately exert more energy that if it said feathers, but if the box of books was empty and you didn't know if you'd overshoot the movement and probably fall over.
14. Your Sympathetic ENrvous System involves fight or flight which increases heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation and decreases digestion
15. Your Parasympathetic Nervous System involves resting and digesting, so decrease in heart rate, blood pressure, pupil constriction, and digestion is up.
16. When you take say Tylenol with Codine, you are increasing the effects of the parasympathetic nervous system, so you'll be extra hungry...
17. Dopamin is a neurotransmitter in the body, an excess of dopamine has been linked to schzophrenia
18. Glutamate another neurotransmitter is linked to memory, MSG the chinesse food additive, glutamate is a component of it
19. A runner's high is true, endorphins and enkephalins are released in the body to inhibit pain perception, it's the body's morphine
20. The reason everything is dark when you turn the lights on in the middle of the night is because you have bleached out your rods in your eyes. They are sensitive to light and you only see in shades of gray.
21. Also Vitamin A deficiency casues night blindness, because lack of it and you aren't producing rods.
22. Binocular Vision is needed for depth perception, close 1 eye, and try to put your hands side by side (without touching eachother) and you'll see what I mean.
23. The Pituitary gland is made up of 2 different types of tissue the anterior side or face side is made from our mouth is the womb and the posterior side or back side is from brain tissue.
Anyway I won't bore you with any more of my knowledge, go on read a different blog now, it's ok, I don't feel bad, this has been a pretty silly post...go on now, don't look back, I'll be ok, no really, I will...
Monday, January 28, 2008
He'll be missed
President Hinkley passed away yesterday, although I'm saddened by the news, I am glad he is now with his beloved wife again. I have been a member of the church since 1986, and he has always been there, he will be missed...
He was the Prophet, Seerer and Revelator for my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was a great man. The following link is from Deseret News about the man and his life.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695247765,00.html
Saturday, January 26, 2008
My new obsession
My new obsession in the cyberworld is goodreads.com. I love it, it's similar to myspace, in that you have "friends" on your account and you can see what books they've read and there comments on them and ratings as well on the books. It is just loads of fun, racking my brain around what books I have read, and which ones I want to read in the future, because of someones comment or rating of a particular book.
So if you don't already know of goodreads, go check it out!
my next book I want to read, the time traverler's wife, it looks really good!! ohh, and also the book club book, gotta find out what that is... at least before next months meeting.
In addition to goodreads, I made a 92(!!) on my quiz today in Physiology! Now I have to start studing for my midterm...
So if you don't already know of goodreads, go check it out!
my next book I want to read, the time traverler's wife, it looks really good!! ohh, and also the book club book, gotta find out what that is... at least before next months meeting.
In addition to goodreads, I made a 92(!!) on my quiz today in Physiology! Now I have to start studing for my midterm...
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Here's the truth folks
So most of ya'll know Josh is gone and the kids and I are for the most part doing just fine, their's the occasional and normal difficuties with the kids behavior and outburst at sometimes inconvient times but none the less, life is for the most part normal.
Having written that, I'm terrified, absolutely petrified every second of every day, that something is going to happen to my husband. While sleeping, I dream about it, while doing laundry I'm on the verge of tears just putting his clothes away. I ofcourse can't let the kids see me cry or break down because what would they think, ofcourse being kids they would think something horrible has or will happen and I don't want them to feel that way, just because I have this overactive imagination that I'm cursed, that people I really love die, that something is going to happen to Josh...
here are the facts though, 2 sisters, all grandparents including step grandparents except 1 are gone, mom, dad, and step dad, passed away. With the exception of very few people I don't have much family left, Josh and my kids are mine and I worry, needlessly all the time for them.
so there it is, everyone keeps asking how I am, well I'm a mess really, but I'm trying to hold it together.
Having written that, I'm terrified, absolutely petrified every second of every day, that something is going to happen to my husband. While sleeping, I dream about it, while doing laundry I'm on the verge of tears just putting his clothes away. I ofcourse can't let the kids see me cry or break down because what would they think, ofcourse being kids they would think something horrible has or will happen and I don't want them to feel that way, just because I have this overactive imagination that I'm cursed, that people I really love die, that something is going to happen to Josh...
here are the facts though, 2 sisters, all grandparents including step grandparents except 1 are gone, mom, dad, and step dad, passed away. With the exception of very few people I don't have much family left, Josh and my kids are mine and I worry, needlessly all the time for them.
so there it is, everyone keeps asking how I am, well I'm a mess really, but I'm trying to hold it together.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
my son's inheritance
Some people will inherit their mom's green eyes, or their dad's smile. Some will even say, he looks so much like your great grandpa Joe, or Grandma Eileen. My kids and one in particular inherited something else.
I feel like Collin has the determination and stamina and TEMPER of all of my side and Josh's side of the family. He is more stubborn than any other child I've met in a while and is determined to do what he wants to do! While these aren't altogether bad characteristics to inherit, I only wish he had a little less...
I feel like Collin has the determination and stamina and TEMPER of all of my side and Josh's side of the family. He is more stubborn than any other child I've met in a while and is determined to do what he wants to do! While these aren't altogether bad characteristics to inherit, I only wish he had a little less...
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
My 1st week without Josh
Well, Josh officially left on Saturday. The kids and I went to Perrysburg on Thursday to see him off, on Friday there was a going a way ceremony (which I have pictures to post for them when I get them...). The ceremony was very patriotic and emotional, there were hundreds of soldiers leaving and hundreds and hundreds of family members and friends saying Goodbye to them. Leah (my mother in law) and Kayla (my sister in law), Jon (her husband) and Jordan (my neice) all came up too for the ceremony. We had a great time after the ceremony where everyone except for Leah (who'd gone home), Kayla and Josh, went swimming. Their was a huge indoor pool that connected with the outside, so you could swim under a tunnel and get to the outside pool, and steam would be coming off of the pool because the heat hitting the cool air, it was neat. Josh also saved someone on Friday, he saw a little kid drowning and jumped in, fully dressed, and pulled the boy out!! He is truely my hero!!
This week has been alright, I guess. It really hasn't felt any different yet. Josh was gone a lot with work and school and side projects, so this week so far has felt like anyother, except at night when I hear every crick of the floor and have the phone laying beside me, "just in case." The kids so far have been ok, Clay cried on Saturday that he didn't kiss his dad goodbye, and that he was very sad about him being gone but has since been pretty good. Cregan has been acting out, with talking back and hitting me when things don't go there way, but I've been trying to nip that in the bud, and everytime the door opens or the dog barks that someone is at the door, Collin says "daddy, daddy".
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