Thursday, April 16, 2009
Here we go... AGAIN!
Another freaking Winter Storm Warning! 6-14 inches of WET Springs snow... starting tonight till noon on Saturday.. this should be fun.. hopefully emily's relay event wont be canceled.. we'll keep it up to date
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Colorado Rockies Opening Day!
I was lucky enough to WIN two tickets to see the Rockies and Phillies on Friday. This was the Rockies home opener and they are off to a hot start after taking 2 of 3 from Arizona earlier this week. (Thats good figuring they only one three games against Arizona all last year) I won the tickets from Fox Sports Radio, they were very high up, above the 1 mile marker line they have at Coors Field, here are a few pictures from my camera phone, I took Aunt Dawn and she took more with her camera that I dont have yet. I also won a chance to meet former player Bob Boone from the local sports station in Denver. So I got his autograph and a Aunt Dawn has pictures of me and Bob Boone that I can post later. The Rockies won the game 10-3!
Nick
Nick
Thursday, April 2, 2009
New from the WEATHER CENTER!
9:53 am MDT, Thu., Apr. 2, 2009
... WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
THIS WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FEET... TELLER COUNTY... AND EL PASO COUNTY... INCLUDING PIKES PEAK... AND THE CITIES OF WOODLAND PARK AND COLORADO SPRINGS.
OVER THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY AND LAST INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY SNOW WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. TRAVEL ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY... MAINLY NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS... WILL BECOME DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE BY EARLY MORNING SATURDAY.
TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY WILL RANGE BETWEEN 6 AND 12 INCHES. FOR COLORADO SPRINGS PROPER... SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 3 AND 8 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE CITY... WITH LESSER AMOUNTS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF TOWN.
THESE SNOW FALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY BE ADJUSTED AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE EVENT.
ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION... TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 6 AND 18 INCHES. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS THE NORTH SLOPES OF THE PIKES PEAK MASSIF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS TO DEVELOP.
WINTER STORMS MAY HAVE STRONG WINDS AND REDUCED VISIBILITY DUE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL AND BLOWING SNOW. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF OVER 6 INCHES ACROSS THE PLAINS AND HIGH VALLEYS OR OVER 8 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY OCCUR. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL IN THE WATCH AREA DURING THE TIME OF THE WATCH... LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER FORECAST AND CONSIDER TRAVELING AT ANOTHER TIME OR BY ANOTHER ROUTE. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL IN OR THROUGH THE WATCH AREA DURING THE TIME OF THE WATCH... TAKE ALONG A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT.
OHHH CRAP!
... WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
THIS WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FEET... TELLER COUNTY... AND EL PASO COUNTY... INCLUDING PIKES PEAK... AND THE CITIES OF WOODLAND PARK AND COLORADO SPRINGS.
OVER THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY AND LAST INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY SNOW WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. TRAVEL ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY... MAINLY NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS... WILL BECOME DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE BY EARLY MORNING SATURDAY.
TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY WILL RANGE BETWEEN 6 AND 12 INCHES. FOR COLORADO SPRINGS PROPER... SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 3 AND 8 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE CITY... WITH LESSER AMOUNTS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF TOWN.
THESE SNOW FALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY BE ADJUSTED AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE EVENT.
ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION... TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 6 AND 18 INCHES. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS THE NORTH SLOPES OF THE PIKES PEAK MASSIF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS TO DEVELOP.
WINTER STORMS MAY HAVE STRONG WINDS AND REDUCED VISIBILITY DUE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL AND BLOWING SNOW. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF OVER 6 INCHES ACROSS THE PLAINS AND HIGH VALLEYS OR OVER 8 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY OCCUR. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL IN THE WATCH AREA DURING THE TIME OF THE WATCH... LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER FORECAST AND CONSIDER TRAVELING AT ANOTHER TIME OR BY ANOTHER ROUTE. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL IN OR THROUGH THE WATCH AREA DURING THE TIME OF THE WATCH... TAKE ALONG A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT.
OHHH CRAP!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Blizzard Round 2?
Blowing snow and more... expecting worse, heavier snow on friday night into saturday! The picture sucks but the snow is really blowing!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Rocky Mountain News... Reborn
http://www.indenvertimes.com/
http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/
Created by the former staff of the Rocky Mountain news.. Check it out!
http://www.iwantmyrocky.com/
Created by the former staff of the Rocky Mountain news.. Check it out!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Nursing School and Valentine's Day
So it's been awhile since I have written on here. I have been super busy with school. I go down to Pueblo every Thursday for my clinical at the Mental Health Institute there. I was on the high-security floor for the first 4 weeks and tomorrow will be my first day on a floor called "circle." It's for patients dually diagnosed with a mental illness and substance abuse. I have to get up especially early tomorrow because my clinical group will be witnessing ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) at 7:30 am, which means we have to be in Pueblo at 7 am. In addition to going to Pueblo for mental health class, I also have a case study due every Monday at 8 am. These case studies are about 10 pages worth of nursing diagnoses, interventions, medications, outcomes, etc. which happens to be about 7-8 hours worth of work. I am also in a health teaching class this semester. The first couple weeks we did a one on one teaching where we are filmed teaching someone in our class something. I taught my partner how to draw up insulin by explaining the steps to him. The following week, we had to teach the same subject with a different domain (cognitive, psychomotor, etc.) so I actually brought in insulin and syringes so that I could show him, then he could show me back. Today we had to teach a powerpoint presentation to about 10 people in the class. I taught on assessing the cranial nerves (which was not the easiest thing to do, considering we only had 10 minutes to teach and there are only 2 nursing major in that class,... everyone else is a health science major and don't have to know about the cranial nerves). I thought I did horrible. My voice was shaky, I was fidgetting, I just get so nervous in front of people. But now that it's done, I feel so much better. Waking up this morning, I thought today was going to be impossible but I made it through! Anyway, so that's what I have been up to with school!
Nick has not blogged on Valentine's Day yet.. I think he wanted to save it for me! So here we go...
So Wednesday the 11th we got Papa Murphys Heart shaped pizza! Yummy!
I wanted to make cupcakes to take to my parents and Aunt Dawn's for Valentine's Day so Friday the 13th I made cupcakes. They have strawberry runts on them!
Valentine's Day morning (and by morning I mean 11:30 am) I woke up to a phone call from my mom. She said Happy Valentine's Day and I told her I was still sleeping. She said, "It's time to get up!" Well anyway, I said I would call her later. So I ended up getting out of bed and I walked in the dining room/living room to see Nick with some chocolate pancakes and eggs, and a HUGE balloon! Oh it was so wonderful!
We had planned on going to Aunt Dawn's that day because her plans were cancelled but Nick said he had to wait for something to be delivered. I figured it was flowers! I was bummed that we weren't going to go up to Castle Rock though but my parents decided to come down here for a while because they had some candy for us and we have cupcakes for them and they hadn't seen the apartment since we unpacked. My flowers arrived while my parents were here... and they weren't just flowers... they were 12 beautiful red roses!
Amazing! :) We were all hungry by then so my parents decided to take Nick and I to Old Chicago for pizza (we could eat pizza every night of the week)! It was so nice of them to do that. It was such a wonderful Valentine's Day! Nick is absolutely the BEST guy ever and I could not live without him!
That's all I have time for! I will catch up later!
Love, Emily
Nick has not blogged on Valentine's Day yet.. I think he wanted to save it for me! So here we go...
So Wednesday the 11th we got Papa Murphys Heart shaped pizza! Yummy!
I wanted to make cupcakes to take to my parents and Aunt Dawn's for Valentine's Day so Friday the 13th I made cupcakes. They have strawberry runts on them!
Valentine's Day morning (and by morning I mean 11:30 am) I woke up to a phone call from my mom. She said Happy Valentine's Day and I told her I was still sleeping. She said, "It's time to get up!" Well anyway, I said I would call her later. So I ended up getting out of bed and I walked in the dining room/living room to see Nick with some chocolate pancakes and eggs, and a HUGE balloon! Oh it was so wonderful!
We had planned on going to Aunt Dawn's that day because her plans were cancelled but Nick said he had to wait for something to be delivered. I figured it was flowers! I was bummed that we weren't going to go up to Castle Rock though but my parents decided to come down here for a while because they had some candy for us and we have cupcakes for them and they hadn't seen the apartment since we unpacked. My flowers arrived while my parents were here... and they weren't just flowers... they were 12 beautiful red roses!
Amazing! :) We were all hungry by then so my parents decided to take Nick and I to Old Chicago for pizza (we could eat pizza every night of the week)! It was so nice of them to do that. It was such a wonderful Valentine's Day! Nick is absolutely the BEST guy ever and I could not live without him!
That's all I have time for! I will catch up later!
Love, Emily
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