Names

My firstborn will be named Screamy McPhee. I don't care if I didn't think of it first.

I've joked with my brother that we should form a band and call ourselves Whitey McPale and the Coppertone Affair. I thought I was pretty clever for coming up with that one, but Screamy McPhee has me beat, hands down.

Storms

We had 4 tornadoes around our town last week. That's right ... 4. All within a few miles of our house. The power of the wind is absolutely incredible.

I was working ICU during the storm. Thankfully, we only had 1 patient at the time. We had to move that patient to a different part of the unit, away from windows. All the patients in the hospital had to be moved into the hallways. More action than I'd like at work, thanks anyway...

Run, fatboy, run

Ran (er ... jogged...) the local 5K for Relay for Life on Saturday. My time was somewhere around 30 minutes (I forgot to start my stopwatch when I started.) Miss Fluffy ran, too.

I came in 2nd in my age group (there were 2 of us, I think,) but when it came to having the whitest legs in the race, I crushed the competition!

You can call me...

... Alpineman, LPN

Now you know where I've been. I took my LPN boards Friday, and got my license issued today.

I have - literally - had a constant, low-grade anxiety attack since taking the test. I've had a tightness in my chest that's hard to describe.

The test was one of the most horrible experiences I've ever had. I've never felt so underprepared before. I wanted to grab the screen and shake more questions out of the system when it shut off ... I was sure I had failed. Thankfully, I was wrong.

Now I feel like I can breathe again.

So, if you'll excuse me, I have pizza and beer to attend to...