So embarasing

So today I had kind of a "fashion disaster". So normally I wear some small shoes for work with some straight leg scrub pants that I had to ask for specially as they were being removed from circulation in favor of tapered leg scrub pants... (why?! no one seems to know). anyway I brought my shoes home after work last week as I've really only got dress shoes and boots right now I wanted some shoes to work out in. Anyway, This morning I, of coarse, forgot my shoes and wore the biggest pair of boots I've got. No problem, It looked a little silly to have my big ol clod-hoppers but they didn't look that silly as they were mostly covered up by my nice wide pant leg. All is going well till about 10:00 am when I'm getting a patient out of bed and her Foley catheter bag (containing urine) pops open mysteriously and before I know it soaks my pant leg and the top of my sock. Ok this is just gross, so I go change... (throw away) that sock and (as terrible as getting pee'd on was here's the real dilemma) now I'm only left with a choice of no pants or tapered leg pants till I can drive back to north pole and get my shoes and other pants. So I went to the scrub exchange machine and pulled out some stupid looking clown pants and finished the morning with huge mountain slayer shoes like I was playing "I'm ready for anything"(like when the little boys show up in church with 37 knives and multi tools hanging off there belts, cute for them no so much for me), I looked like SUCH a retard. There was a moment I remember very clearly pulling my pant leg down over my boots and sighing heavily like I do... no fun at all.

The important thing here is that we learned from this and I now will permanently keep a spare pair of pants in my locker. Sorry if you're easily grossed out and this sent you reeling but I though it was pretty funny... In hind sight, naturally. (after my preceptor told Caleb the story HE though it was pretty funny too, "welcome to 2 south" I believe were his words.)

The dog show!

So, I've decited to break into the elite sport of Dog showing. I've already got access to the worlds finest Dogs, there's only one problem. I don't have a dog pedestal to show them on!!! So I found a plan online yesterday, bought a piece of plywood and had Jordan help me. Through blood and tears we asembled a stand worthy of the dogs above them.

Ok, actualy I'm a huge nerd and this is a 20" stand for doing crossfit, a lot of the work outs call for box jumps. So now I can do

3 rounds for time of
400m run
185 lb deadlift, 15 reps
21 box jumps.


3 2 1 GO!

cool shirts

I found these at vikingtactics.com, I just bought a new t shirt so I think I'll hold off but I thought these were pretty cool. Deus Vult means "God wills it."

um... nevermind,,, watch this!!

smart mama

Miss Suzie isn't my mama, and my mama IS smart. But let me just say that Miss Suzie is one smart mama. Today at breakfast she got all tired of all the stupid little start up icons that pop up the bottom right of the screen next to the time, so she googled hot to get rid of them and figured out you go to start==> run ==> type "msconfig" and then select the systems tab and just un check all the useless ones. its easier to tell what they are if you look and where they're stored on your compy and if you don't know what one is you can google that.

in other news it's been about 2 hours and 17 minutes since my shift would have started but its the weekend for me, a very long 4 day weekend and I' m already all depressed and bored. Not that I want a whole ton of suggestions about how I can clean your house or throw a ball for you dog or spank your kids for you. It makes me wonder what on earth I'm gonna do with myself on my days off for the rest of my life. I really wish I could work 4 or even 5, 12 hours shifts a week till it chokes me.

Chena dome

After coming down off the hill I needed something to do so I left "the pig" (my pack) in the cabin and went another 3 miles to the end of the trail and back.


So in no particular order, cause blogger is lame like that, here's the pictures form the trip. Among them you'll find a moose bed, some diamond willow in the raw, and a little cabin with a funny sign, heavy food, and a great big dog track.

Chena dome day zero

Double feature: "the best dog" and "look what tobi found"

So yesterday I was really feeling "quite ready for another adventure" and decided to make it a ski as Caleb said the snow on the trail we ski was really fast. So about 6pm I dressed down, got my favorite podcast downloaded, summoned my adventure shadow with a sharp whistle and headed on to the Chena lake ski trails. Bub was right it was pretty fast. being a crossfiter at heart I of course wasn't content to just 'go get some exercise' I had to time the thing. 4.5 kilometers was the distance. the first ski this winter was about 30 minutes, after several trips i've peared it down to 23:40 last night. I'd like to hit sub 20 or sub 18 next winter but its time to start thinking about 5k run times as the snow melts... (not that running is "it" that kinda thinking is for losers). I was thinking this summer it'd be fun to bring one of the kettle bells down to the beach and to somthing like

3 rounds for time of
swim to the rope and back (life jacket optional)
55lb kettle bell swings, 21 reps
12 burpees

That'll separate the men from the boys.


Any way back to 'the best dog' (lucky you actually got a triple feature today) so after taking the dog on a 5k ski, (which she probably ran more like 10k what with all the sniffing and exploring going on) I let her run behind the car out to the main road. she can keep a 22 mph pace for a good distance, not to shabby. When I got home after the ski I swapped out the ski's for skates as every one was at the ice rink. I got there and there was a game in progress on the other end so I just skated around on the other end. I'm not really into the idea of hockey as much as just skating. I just love how its so fluid a powerful, just brilliant. I just started this winter, Jordan got me all hooked up with his old skates and gloves, then the guy went out and bought me my first stick (it even matches my gloves... cool but NOT on purpose) after the game was over I told Bek that her dog was still in my car and we let her out on the ice and she chased a puck around on the ice. I think she was pretty weired out by the idea of people moving really fast and her moving very slow, then there's the whole not being able to stop thing, that was funny. so she chased pucks around while her mommy acted all paranoid about her losing a puppy-toe to a skate.

All in all, a pretty full day for the dog. I for the record thing dogs should be athletes and not just snuggle bunnies. I guess she was having muscle pain all night afterwards. kept getting out of bed and having leg twitches and stuff. Don't forget you can give dogs ibuprofen people!


the other thing I wanted to share was just a cool web comic tobi found called one swoop fell, I've ready web comics in the past, 'sluggy freelance' was pretty entertaining through most of high school. I really just wanted to put this picture up and give credit where due. I just was really struck by the cute little scene interjected while the bear and his bird friend stopped for sushi, a favorite past time of mine with my Juneau buddies

Steriotypes at Wherk, and a red face moment

So work is going pretty stellar, though I think I've lost my iron stomach. I only retched once in school at that believe it or not was due to the smell of urine. Nowadays is seems that I a lot more sensitive to that kinda thing... any way If it was all pleasant they'd call it a hobby and not a job.

I really like most of the people I work with, there are only a few exceptions. the first is this dumb younger girl who cusses a lot. I said in a conversation with another RN within ear shot of her that I though people who cussed did so because they lacked the brain power to come up with something else to say. Later she made it clear she disagreed with me... and cussed doing it... lawl, sum people are so silly.

One time this girl disappeared, no one could find her and I ended up having to give one of her peeps a pain pill. After ward I was joshin' about how if she quit that'll probably be what its like... she just disappears one day and thats the end of it. This older quiet nurse looked over at me and said "Aaron I'm really glad you're working with us." I just said thanks...

Other than the young dumb nurse stereotype I've encountered the old curmudgeon Nurse. the kind that has an excuse for why she does everything even if no one ask, as though you can argue your way into having a perfect reputation. again I lol'd. (the example story involves bed pans... be advised) we were putting this 400# lady on a bed pan and she grabbed one of the small ones. another RN said "did you want one of the big ones I think they're blue" the old lady replies "no I the new big ones now are pink (like the one she had in hand)" I looked over at the other RN and she rolled her eyes and smiled. Later I went into the storage room and grabbed a big blue one and just set it in her pts room all passive aggressive like... guess what (I'lol'd again)

Ok if you've made it this far you've earned a treat. I was taking a lunch break in the little break room and one of the boss's 15 year old daughter was in there doing homework or whatever. I started talking to her, no wait... she was reading that stupid twilight vampire book. I started razing her about how Edward was totally emo and whiny and... well emo pretty well sums it up (see links if you're confused about the verbage here) any way I was in the med room pulling drugs and her Mom walks up to me and says "so.. my daughter has a little crush on you now Aaron" INSTANT FACE FLUSH. I was pretty embarrassed. I guess she'd asked how old I was and her my boss lady said "he's like 26 so too old for you" to which she replied "yeah but grandma and grandpa were 20 years apart"... I Told her I was sorry, we had a good laugh about it (so did everyone else in ear shot) and I scurried off all serious business... so far i've been told I look like every thing as young as 21 or 19... one guy asked me if I was the worlds biggest 12 yearold... can you guess what I did? right again, I lol'd.