Well, not much has happened since my last post. Zach has been working at Ebsco in the warehouse which is good. Its funny because I just assumed he would be lifting and moving heavy objects but when he got home after his first day, I asked him what he had been doing all day. He just grinned, pulled out his phone, and showed me a picture of what looked like a big box of manilla envelopes. I was a little confused. I asked him "What is that?" He said "I put books into envelopes all day." The rest of this week he has been doing inventory. I'm actually glad he isn't doing heavy lifting. All we need is for his to hurt his back or something and not be able to work. In the meantime, I've been trying to fill out applications for PCT jobs at some area hospitals and can I just say that the application process is absolutely ridiculous. It takes an hour just to fill out ONE. First you've got to fill out all of your personal info such as name, address, date of birth, etc. Then, they want your work history with descriptions of what your responsibilities were and why you left. Then, they want you to fill out a survey and they even tell you that it is going to take you about 20-25 minutes. Sometimes they even want you to send in your work history again with all of the prementioned details. And lastly, they want you to attach your resume. Umm, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure most resumes have all of that information on them. Why not just ask for the resume? Ugh, I get frustrated sometimes and can only fill out one at a time.

Now that my venting is over...for now, I have been trying to get a PCT job because I have about decided to go back to school this summer and get the rest of my pre-reqs for nursing. Zach and I met with an advisor at UAB at the end of last week. She told us that prospective students are usually more likely to get in if they have already obtained their 2 year nursing degree. With that being said, what I will probably do is go to Jeff State and get my 2 year nursing degree so that I can start working and then get my BSN when I'm finished. For those of you reading from out-of-state or out-of-the-area, Jeff State is the junior college in Pinson that I played softball directly out of high school for 2 years. It's somewhat overwhelming and intimidating but I know I can do it and I need to do it. Since we went to UAB, I haven't done much. I've been pretty bored. Especially being at Mom and Dad's house because all of my stuff is packed up in the trailor and I'm not about to venture into that thing. I have this fear that I would get swallowed by some sort of trailor-dwelling beast that is living between our dressers in there for the last 2 weeks.

This past weekend, pretty much the whole state of Alabama got snow and/or ice. It was supposed to begin Sunday night. Zach and I were in Alex City at his parents house and we decided about an hour into the "storm" as everyone is calling it that we would drive to Birmingham to my parents because Birmingham wasn't supposed to get it as bad and Zach had to be at Ebsco Monday morning. So, we quickly packed up our bags and got the dogs outside. Since the roads were supposed to get icy, we figured it'd be best if we took "Big Black" (Zach's 4x4 truck). If you had passed us on the road, you would have thought we looked like the modern day Clampets. Zach was driving, I was "riding redneck" in the middle, the floor board was filled with bags and BooBoo layed her big butt on top of them, and Chief sat next to me on the seat. Almost the entire ride home, BooBoo slept and Chief leaned on me with his head on his shoulder. He loves his momma. We made it to Birmingham safely and without incident but not without a few scares. A couple of times we came up on a wreck and the people in front of us would hit their breaks and we would go sliding towards them because there was ice on the bridge. Once, we almost bought a Hummer. After living in Kansas for 2 winters, Zach was getting pretty frustrated with those "idiot drivers who stop on ice instead of just slowing down". It was definitely an experience.

With all the "blizzard" talk over the weekend, not only were Alabamians freaking out about running out of milk and bread, most of us were also freaking out about our power going out and not being able to get TV. Normally TV wouldn't be that big of a deal but this time, it was VERY important since our beloved Auburn Tigers were playing the Oregon Ducks for the college football National Championship. Thankfully the power didn't go out so we all got to watch the game. The game was a nail-biter until the end but Auburn proved victorious. We were all so nervous that Zach watched it downstairs, Mom and I watched in the den, and Dad watched in their bedroom. I think Dad watched alone not because he was nervous but because he didn't want to listen to us lol. Kevin and Julie even got to go to the game. They had a blast. Due to the weather, some people were actually delayed and weren't able to make it to the game. I can't imagine how they felt. Even with all of those people unable to make it, the ESPN announcers were saying 70% of the people there were Auburn fans and only 30% was Oregon fans. There was a lot of orange and blue there.  It is great to be an Auburn Tiger!

Man, when I started writing this post I didn't think I would have much to write about but obviously I was wrong. I doubt anyone will even read all of this but oh well. Sorry.