Flying Tire

On Saturday we took our car in to get an oil change and our tires rotated. Later that day Brandon took me back to pick up my car, as I pulled out on State Street in Orem, my steering kinda felt funny and before I knew it I heard this horrible grinding loud terrifying noise and my car was incredibly hard to steer. I thought Oh-crap one of my tires just blew!!! So I was trying to pull my car over when I looked up and saw my tire flying!! It was bouncing across State Street and had crossed 5-lanes of traffic and cars were trying to dodge it. I finally got my car on the side of the road and a guy across the street picked up my tire for me and brought it over. Luckily Brandon was able to jack the car up and get my tire semi-back on. We luckily were able to get ahold of the tire place and they admitted fault. One of the "very smart" mechanics had forgotten to put the lug nuts on all of the way!! Hello- even I know that!!! I am just sooo glad that it wasnt worse and that my flying/bouncing tire didnt hit anyone. Well my car spent the day in the shop and is now all better. I think I need to sell it though as it is cursed, that car has had more things happen to it than any other car, and none of them have been my fault.

Tag: 6th Pic 6th Folder

I was tagged by Paige! This is Brandon's B-day last year. Our good friends Jesse and Tina brought over some kind of pie and trick candles that were huge. When we lit them I thought the whole house was going to catch on fire!!

Since I have posted this pic before I tried to find a funny pic, instead I found this pic of Brandon's hand. This was a few years ago when Brandon tried to almost blow his fingers off!! He was working as an electrician and somehow the current went through his wedding ring and burned a big chunk of his hand. It was pretty nasty!!

I tag the Ambers, Stacie, Ashley, Cassidee, and Kendall.

MTN. Dew a potent diuretic!!

Well I am finding out that drinking a 44oz of Mtn. Dew while at work is not such a good idea. I picked one up on my way to work tonight since I was already dragging and knew I would need some major caffeine fixage to make it through my 13hr night shift. Well before I even made it here I needed to pee!! I think I have pee'd at least 12 times already!! O-well at least it is keeping me awake.

I passed!!!!!

Yes it is 3:30am and I am blogging. Well I am at work and it sucks!!! Tonight has been crazy, I am soooo ready to go home. But the good thing is I just found out I passed my nursing boards. Yeahhhhhh!!!!! I am so freakin excited!!! Well gotta go one of my patients just called again for the millionth time. Will update so more later.

I am going to do better!!!

WOW so it has been over 3 months since I last blogged. Time sure does go by fast!!! Brandon and I have been super busy the last few months. The biggest thing was I graduated!! Yeah!!! It is so nice not to be in school right now. I am now a RN-well at least a Temp RN until I take my boards, which are coming up very very soon, so wish me luck. Brandon is still at BYU. He is wishing he was done with school, but still has one more year to go. I started a new job in the end of Dec. I now work at IMC in Murray on the Neuro/Ortho floor. It is an extremely busy floor and is certainly keeping me running all day/night long. Iwork 3-12hr shifts, well more like 15hrs by the time I drive up there and back, they are really LONG days but it has been nice to have extra days off. My house, or what I call it "shack" has never been cleaner, which is nice.

Here are some pics over the last few months...more to come when I get some time.

Graduation Dec. 2008

Me and "my girls"

Rieske Family pics-Nov. 2008

Week before Nate left on his mission.

Almost a Bob!!!

This is what running 26.2 miles in the rain, wind, and wearing a garbage bag can do. Note to self do not let this happen again. It sucked!!! About mile 13- soon after taking the soaking wet garbage bag off, my hair started feeling really heavy. I felt it and wanted to scream it was a complete mess. These pics were after I had taken my elastic out, my hair which normally comes down to my mid back now barely passed my shoulders. It was in a million-kizzilion-batrilion knots. I really thought that I was going to have to chop it all off!!! My aunt said there was no way I was cutting it so her and I spent the next 2.5hours and a gallon of conditioning cream combing it out. I lost quite a bit of hair and it is still pretty damaged, but at least I didnt have to cut it all off!!!!

Only crazy people run Marathons

Well we did it, we ran 26.2 miles in the pouring rain. Can anyone think of something funner? It was actually a great experience. This was Brandons first Marathon and he totally ROCKED IT!! He ran it in 3hr 11min 50sec!!! Thats freakin amazing!
I was glad to finish in 3hr 58min 2sec. I was glad to do it under 4hrs. I ran it with my mom and dad. I need to especially thank my dad- he kept me going at the end. I ended up running the entire thing- yeah, no walking. It was great to actually be passing people at the end- usually its me getting passed by a ton of people.
My Dad and I at the finish

My Mom, ME, and my Daddy!!! YEAH, 26.2 miles down!!!

We had quite the family group running this year. Not only did Brandon, my mom and dad, and I run it, but also my aunt Sheila, aunt Chris, and uncle Curt ran it! WOW 7 of us. We also had quite a few friends there as well, including Kris who kicked some major butt running it in 2hr 54min- thats freakin fast!!!

The worst part about the whole thing was my hair afterwards, it was a complete mess. Some how it got completely tangled-it was basically dred-locks. I really thought I was going to have to chop it off. Luckily 2.5hrs later my aunt and I were finally got a comb through it. My uncle took pics, as soon as I get 'em I will post them!