My name is Sheila, and Im here to save your life.

"Call 911, we need an Ambulance, and come right back!"
"Man are you ok? Can you hear me?"
"1and2and3and4and5and6and7and8and9and10and11and12and13..."
"Stand clear of patient. All clear!"
"Shock administered"
"Im sorry that you have a pen stuck right through your elbow, Im going to bandage it up and get you to a hospital so that they can remove it"
"First Im gonna wrap up your stump and then I'll pick your hand up off the ground.."
"How are babies supposed to tell you that they are ok? why do you even ask them if they are ok? obviously they are not!"
"Chris Walby Im gonna have to get you to kneel down because you are too huge for me to do the heimlach on you."

So if you haven't figured already, I was at a CPR/First Aid course today, and I super aced my test, so Im feeling quite qualified now to save an adult, child and infants life. Twas a good time, pretty long, but our instructer was really fun, and unlike most of the time, I caught onto everything pretty fast, even how to do all them finicky bandages. I almost wish I could do CPR on someone now just for the sake of being able to put what I learnt into practice. But I would never wish upon somebody to almost die. We learnt alot today, and covered so many things, most of which was all really interesting, we covered CPR(adults,children,infants), burns, pple who are impaled, cuts, strokes, heart attacks, choking (adults, children,infants), unconscious and conscious, drowning, etc. Interesting Fact of the day: 60% of the stress you carry around isn't even yours to carry. So after working at daycare for 2 years-ish. I finally now know what I was supposed to have known within the first 3 months. yippee. Oh and i still have my dummies lungs lol

OH and I figure maybe I should let AlL of you know... Australia's not gonna happen this year, so its gonna be a white Christmas for this girl. Hopefully God will bless the idea sooner then later, and if it just isnt' meant to be, then He'll open a different window, as there are still other places in the world I'd like to see. Its just I have a bunch of friends there, and in 10 years we'll all be in different "places" in our lives or we'll have totally lost touch, they often ask when Im coming back and I can't wait to be able to tell them, hey guess what, Im on my way... we'll see if we can't do something big for '09.
This is how I'd ideally think about travelling these next couple years... cuz its something thats started already.. 2007-Australia, 2008-Banff, Calgary Edmonton, 2009-Big trip(Australia, Carribean??). 2010-little trip (Vancouver, Niagara Falls..).... by little trip I mean something thats cheaper within Canada. Of course this is how I view it now, but we all know it will probably become near impossible, cuz life is life, and money don't grow on trees. But for now.. I like to dream big.