How to Sleep like the Dead

So I survived my first crazy week of work and night classes! Yay! The sad part is that this week my teacher made the classes shorter because she said she wanted to give us a week before we actually stayed for the full 4 hours of class. Yuck! Basically what I have learned so far in my first week of CNA class is that I appreciate my job as a Medical Assistant. I'm not gonna lie, I have never been interested in geriatrics. So learning about caring, washing, whatever for old people is just not appetizing. Granted, we haven't really gotten into that stuff yet, but my teacher did have us a watch an overview movie the first class and it was kinda gross. I love working with people and feeling like I can make their day better, but I really don't want to deal with cranky old people.

In my class we have all of one guy, 5 high school students, a mom, and the rest of us. So everyone is 16-30. Haha. My favorite part of the class is the two girls who comment on everything! My favorite students! It's even better when you know you have to deal with the comments for 4 hours that night. Then, on the first day of class, the teacher was going over the rules, schedule, etc. and one of the rules was no food. I was about to tell her "I'm diabetic and if i need to eat i'm going to!" but she added that as long as we were not disruptive she did not mind us snacking. Good thing, so I eat teddy grahams and granola bars during class. Plus, the food helps keep me awake. I leave from work on Tuesday and Thursday and drive straight to school and then want to crash as soon as I sit down in class. Luckily, the teacher (Pat) seems to understand that we need to do more than sit there, so she gives us a break and activities. Otherwise, I would sleep through the lecture. Instead, I go home and crash. Poor Brad. He has been wonderful and cooks dinner on those nights. Then, after our late dinner, I go to bed. As soon as a close my eyes I am out! Honestly, if you have trouble sleeping, you should try this schedule!

Wednesday was my one week night I came home before 6. I went visiting teaching and then had dinner and did my reading for class the next day. So I still did not get in bed as early as I would have liked. I totally had forgotten that my pump was almost out of insulin, so at 2am my pump went off. I was so dead tired I just put it on suspend (which makes it so the alarm only goes off every 15minutes instead of every 3), took it off, and put it on the floor next to the bed so it wouldn't vibrate the bed. Well, I went right back to sleep. However, poor Brad shook me a little later and asked if I knew I was out of insulin. I told him that I did and rolled back over. He later got out of bed and went and slept on the couch because he couldn't sleep with the alarm going off (the alarm isn't that loud either but Brad has ultra sensitive hearing and he told me that he is extremely sensitive to anything diabetes related). When I woke up at 6am I was totally shocked to not see him in bed. I felt so bad. Brad told me that I slept really soundly. That is basically how I have been sleeping all night.

Last night I did a basal check, which is where I woke up every 2 hours to check my blood sugar to see how it fluctuates at night and if I need to adjust the amount of insulin I receive every hour. Well, I was so surprised I woke up for all my alarms. It sure didn't help me get out of bed this morning (and I had some smeared blood on my finger I had poked that I apparently hadn't cleaned so great by the light of my cell phone). Brad was kinda concerned that I didn't get up to my last alarm this morning and started tickling my feet to make me move and check my blood sugar. He gets worried that I am low in the morning when I don't move. But I was fine of course and I feel like last night did nothing to help with my blood sugar except stress and tire my poor body out.

Wow, So i have noticed how boring our blog is, but well, I don't take alot of pictures and posting them is the biggest pain. I am blog retarted. So sorry about all the writing, it's the only easy thing.

On a side note for this week, I have had some wierd cravings, wierd as in I normally only crave chocolate or sweets. But thursday I really wanted chicken nuggets, so Mandy and Cassie got when some when they went to Wendys. I don't think I have ever been so satisfied with chicken nuggets before. Then last night Brad and I were supposed to have this asian thing for dinner, but I really was craving fries and ranch, so we went to Red Robin were I had chicken strips and LOTs of fries and ranch! Yum! Well actually, now it doesn't sound so great, but at the time it was wonderful. No I'm not pregnant, my stomach has just been really wierd this week, maybe from the lack of sleep....

Now Entering the Crazy Life

So I am starting a CNA evening class this week. I'm kind of nervous cause well it's almost been a year since I've taken a class and I will have even less of a life than I do now. Basically I will be working full time and then on the 2 nights I get home early, I have to go to class. I didn't really realize how much this limited any social life I could have, until the other day when Brad was trying to plan something with some of our friends and he had to tell them that Monday doesn't really work because I work until 8:30-9, and Tuesday and Thursday I will be in class till 9:30. So hopefully I don't have a lot of homework to do for this class. But while I'm kinda nervous and anxious, I know that this class will be good. Getting my CNA is a step to one day getting my RN since most places require, or at least encourage, you to have it. So, let the craziness begin! And then I can try to have a life again in May when all this is over.

Holidays

Well, I guess we should talk about our holidays. Christmas was spent up in Kaysville, UT with Brad's family. We were very happy to b e out of Happy Valley and spend time with the family, especially with all of Brad's siblings home from school. On Christmas Eve we all went up to Temple Square to look at the lights. Kimber took a ton of pictures, which I'm sure are awesome. Elly took some too. Elly was excited because going to see the lights is one of her favorite things to do. Temple Square was beautiful of course and the coolest part was that we got to use some of the underground tunnels to get there because Brad's dad works for the church so we parked in the underground parking and walked up the stairs right into the Temple Square.

Christmas was a nice day, other than the news of the Grandpa's death. Elly read an entire book. Brad beat at least half of the new Super Mario Bros. We also did puzzles and had a nice dinner with the family. Brad was pretty excited about getting an ipod and super mario brothers. Elly got her favorite picture of Jesus and Wii Fit Plus (which is amazing as long as no one is watching you play). The next day we went to Grandma and Grandpa Steven's to celebrate the season with the Steven's side of the family (Brad's mom's side). We lucked out in the gift game and got a new game and slippers (other gifts included Sarah Palin's book and necklaces). We had fun playing games and visiting with the family. The funniest part of the evening was when Brian's wife, Camile, who at the time was 8 months pregnant, had to borrow one of Grandma Steven's shirts because she was hot in her sweater. It was definitely entertaining.

After Christmas with the Taylor family, we went back to Provo for one night and one day of work, then we headed out to California. We left Monday night so we could spend more time with the Cramer family in lue of the funeral services. Also, a storm was supposed to be coming in on Tuesday through Nevada. So Monday we made a nice night drive across BEAUTIFUL nevada! haha We truly hate that state, but such is the drive to Sac-town. So all was good and clear, until Reno. Then we ran into the snow and had to put chains on to get over the pass. 50 miles worth of chains! From Reno to Alta! Took us 2 hours to go what normally took 40 minutes. But well, we made it safely, and we had some nice guy help us put the chains on in Reno so Elly could sit in the warm car.

Well, California was CRAZY. Before Grandpa's death, we had been planning on doing all sorts of fun things with the family. However, with a funeral to prepare for, fun kinda went out the window and stressed craziness entered. Elly's mom was freaking out about flowers, pictures to display, and programs. Elly did what she could to help. Brad was able to escape and go snowboarding with Steven at Boreal (which Brad laughs at due to it's small size compared to Utah's resorts). We did get to eat our favorite pizza though (BJ's) and Robyn "indoctrinated" us on Psych. Grandma and Grandpa Bennett came up from SoCal to see Brad and Elly. It was good to see them and play some card games. We all learned that Grandma is the Apples to Apples queen! That was a shocker! Cards I never thought she would have put down were hers! Plus, Elly got to walk Sadie every day and love her puppy (which made her wonder who walks the dog when she isn't there). New Year's Eve wasn't very exciting, we mostly just played Super Mario Bros (Brad's escape from the craziness). But New Year's day the whole family went and saw Invictus. Elly also got to catch up with a few friends while in town.

Saturday was the funeral. Elly actually help up better than Brad thought she would. However, she did start to cry on the drive to the funeral due to a certain country song that mentioned someone dying. She also had a hard time at the viewing. But the service was very nice, and the casket spray was actually not ugly. Elly's dad gave a great talk reviewing past memories that had everyone crying in parts. After the service, the family had a nice lunch. Brad got to meet Cramers that Elly had never even met before, such as Great Uncle Dick, Grandpa Cramer's youngest and only living brother. After the lunch, Uncle Dick was invited back to the house for dinner. It was really nice to get and talk with him and hear all of his stories about the family, such as how Great Grandma and Grandpa met. G. Grandma Cramer was teaching an electrician class at the college and Great Grandpa was a student in that very class. Dad then told Elly that now they know that she got her math smarts from her great grandma. So other than time with the family, Elly also completed her 2 favorite puzzles and we had a second Christmas, opening the presents from Elly's family.

Sunday we drove back home and we so excited to come back to our bed and quite apartment. The only downside to being home was that we had no food.