Saturday

I can not believe this December is sooooooo unseasonably warm.   It is like October.  They blame it on El Nino.    I hope the summer is not 12 degrees above normal.  

Work is as workable as ever.   They ended the contracts of the locums and I feel they won't have enough people to work.   Offered us a paltry pittance to work extra.   I do not need the money for all that aggravation.   The place is the same as usual just the names change.  

Off for three more days.   Why do the days off go faster than the days worked???   Started on a new thing....I am researching my ancestory..geneology....    Got copies of the census forms from the library.   The problem is going to be that my grandparents or the great grandparents all came from Germany or Ireland and I don't know where to go from there.   Guess I will have to study German.

Monday

To every thing there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
The Bible

Maybe we could make a song of this...whoops they already did....

 

Saturday

Today has been a huge bummer.   It started when I got up.  Fortunately I had already washed my hair.    AT 8 am I got called to come in to work.  Weekends are a pain in the arse.   People who are sicker than shi*   GI guys want to do their ERCPs in x-ray and these areas are all far apart.   This is a disaster waiting to happen.   Also after I got the sick guy underway  the doc got a call from OB and left me with a super critical ill patient.   Everything worked out OK, but it is a disaster waiting to happen, and I hope my name is not involved when that happens......

REtirement is looking better and better.   They promised (I really didn't believe them although I wanted and hoped it would be so..)   Cutting my benefits because now full time is only 40 hours not 36.  Although it didn't say that in print.   Now our vacation is not front loaded and I really need a sabbatical.   I hate going to work and hate every one there..........

 

Wednesay

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man."
Alexander Hamilton

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
Albert Camus

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers

 

.""We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
William Howard Taft

 

Wednesday

Sitting here ,eating my myself, waiting for the timer to go off.  I actually bought some frozen entrees and can't wait to eat.   My daughter and husband are both working.   She complained that she didn't have any time to study, but the last 2 days she went in later.   On Tuesday they called her and today she called them.   Actually I think it worked out OK.   She has two weeks  and two days to finish this semester. 

Tomorrow is not too busy,  and Friday is even less so.....   The or supervisor had a meeting with the staff and explained that they were to be staff leveled on a egualr basis.  Haven't heard the gist of that.  Although they promised we wouldn't be either ,  that can be changed on a whim......It really gets on my nerves.  Thye treat professional people like they were minimuam wage uneducated people.   I hope some day it comes back to bite them in the arse.

Sunday

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius

This is really lacking in today's society.   As I thought previously all those jerks and A-holes don't know that they are.....But they have a radar for finding each other.

Wednesday

I seem to have off a lot of Wednesday.  I guess that is OK.   I have spent the morning trying to "clean up" my computer.   The HP guy helped me yesterday, went into the bowels of the cmputer and clicked some box and that seemed to reallymake things go faster.   So I have been going over my list of things to do to clean it up....  We will see how it goes.

Emily is feeling so tired, she had been sick so I told her that she would benefit from taking vitamins.....She complained yestedsay about going to school, and working and not having a lot of time.   I told her that she wasn't the first person to do that.   I worked in the OR, went to class and then worked 3 to 11 two or three days a week when I was in school.  I also had to study.   Also the husband (he says I don't mention him in this journal,  Chuck it is about me....)  He also went to school full time and then worked 40 hours and studied too.  Guess I will give him the link so he can start his own journal or blog...

I think she thought she was the only one who had if rough.  How does this switch colors without my doing it on purpose??  

Sunday

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
Madame De Stael

I guess that is true, but I have no way to prove it.  I think I am witty but how can yu determine???    Some eople may say I am just a joke.!!!!!!!!

Turkey DAy

I still havn't figured out how to make the picture fit the square.   I can view the picture larger with the icon but still how to make it fit is a mystery.   I hope I solve this before I die.   Since I am not ill I hope it will be awhile.   

Today we are all going to my sisters.   My assignment is sweet potatoes.  It was difficult to find a recipe tha didn't include those marshmallow. I found one in Southern Living.   This is my tried and true.   Last year I bought  a photo-snap shot album and copied all the things that I routinely cook for the holidays.  I didn't want Emily to say I have all those cookbooks and she can not find the special recipes that I made every year. 

We are looking for a beach house for next summer.   I don't think this will fly.   The week in August my brothers dog sitter is on vacation and the week in July my sisters church is having a conference.  She goes to more conferences.   I think maybe this church is a cult???????

With each Thanksgiving passing I always wonder what the next year will bring and what I will be doing.   I guess this started when I was a kid (around 12 or so).  I have had some surprises.   Like the time the next year rolled around I was living in Korea and had never pictured myself there.   So who knows what the Thanksgiving of '07 will be.......

 

"Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness. To hang out a sign saying, 'Come right in; there is no one at home' is not the equivalent of hospitality."
John Dewey

"O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"
Sir Walter Scott

I always thought the Bard  of Avon said that.

Tueday

It has been quite a while since I have written in my jouranl.   I have been plagued with plantar fascitits in my left foot.  Had it shot again today.   Next is custom orthotics.    I KNOW without even looking into it that the insurance company won't pay for it........... All they want to do is collect the money and not pay anything when you need it.

Thursday my sister is having dinner,  I am on the sweet potaotes detail.   That will be easy enough. 

We have been lookin into renting a beach house for all of us this summer.   One week is not good for my brother and one week is not good for my sister.   I think the church she joined it sort of culty??????   Have to keep an eye on her.....

Work is the same.  I leave basically on time and feel really good when there are lot of cases left and I am not involved in it.   Also not working the weekends is a really big plus.   I don't mind the work but they still call with all their stupid things.  Like IV's and turning down the pumps that the RN's all over the ret of the hospital turn down.   I think the OB nurses at my place are stuck in the 1960's.   They need a manager who is up to date and not an anachronism.

Saturday

"Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they’re going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they’re doing."
Dr. Eric Berne

Did you ever wonder how the jerks and losers ALWAYS find each other.   Is there some sort of AH radar.

"Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice-Auguste Chevalier

 

Monday

My daughter must have the luck of the Irish.    She does have some Irish genes.   Hit a deer while going 65 on the PA Turnpike and just a dent in the fender.   The car is even drivable.   Some days it pays to be lucky.

 

On the other hand she missed the Irish potato genes.  I asked her to check the status of the potatoes cooking for the mashed potaotes.  "How do I do that?"  Duh...................

Wednesdat

Off today.   I would like to do three days, but I have a commitment for another 1 1/2 years.   The weather is colder but I think it is below average for the time.   Went to the store and got some errands finished.   Em and I are going to go walking this after noon.   She looks like she is losing weight, I know I have lost a few pounds.

Nothing really new in my life.  Don't know if that is good orbad.

 

Thursday

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Benjamin Franklin

"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying, 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' "
Sydney J. Harris

 

Well, I caught the stupid cat.   She (Molly)  is the hardest one to catch.   I finally had to sit down at the compter and work on it.  Then she jumped up and I grabbed her.   Then Lucy to the vet yesterday and I had to trap her like a rat in the corner.  Fortunatly, she doesn't attack. 

Today is a birthday milestone.  I am entering a new decade.    Somehow I made it to 60,  But I really don't have the mental attitude of some one in their sixth decade.   The people my age are a lot of old farts.  Now I can say that..........Ans I am more compter savy than a lot of people younger than me.   I guess I like technology....... But-----I would still like to figure out how to get larger size pictures in this journal.
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Monday

I have to take the cat to the vet and can not catch her.   How does she know,  I did not tell her she was going.    We are due there soon and I don't know what to do.  So, I sat down at the computer and sure enough she jumped up and I will sign off and grab the grey beast.

Sunday

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

Todays theme is better food choice , portion control and exercise.  It looks like the dtr has gained some weight since summer.   Sometimes I think it is a feeding frenzy.   If she just ate properly, watched her portions and got some exercise she would look really hot.    I shall not give up on this matter.

Tuesday

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."
Mark Twain

Sunday

"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think this is pretty rampent these days.  And the people who do it in the name of  God are the worse.    They think they are doing things in Gods name and have the Bible to back them up.

Nothing new in the past few weeks.    Work is the same, I am really read to cut down my days.    It is mentally and physically exhausting.  But back to work tomorrow.  Who knows what it will bring.

Saturday

"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel."
John Quincy Adams

I guess this would describe the welfare system in this country.   But the cruel consequences are to the people who are footing the bill.  

We have a problem in this country where not working and squandering your money is rewarded.   As anyone who has sent a child to college will agree.   If you work hard, don't overspend and save money you will not get any financial help.     BUT............If you live beyond your means and have huge bills you are entitled to cash.     ???????????????  Figure that one out.

Also people who are healthier  and younger than me are on the dole.   People on welfare still have money for tattoos, cigarettes, beer and lottery tickets.   Gold chains too.    One day a person came for surgery and also paid cash for liposuction (several thousand dollars) and was on Medicaid.  Go figure out that one.   There is always some was to beat the system but it would never work for me.

 

Wednesday

"Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals."
Samuel Ullman

This seems to sum up how I feel.   Age is an attidute.    Some people are old  when they are young.   People who are miserable when they are old were also miserable when they were young.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
Havelock Ellis

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have."
Theodore H. White

Tuesday

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Omar Khayyam

I guess this applies to your life in general.   People wait till retirement to do things and when they get there one of them dies.   I have not made any grandiose plans.    Just to keep busy.  

Sunday

"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
Theodore H. White

I think Theodore hit the nail on the head with this one.

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
John Adams  

     Funny these words are as appropriate today as when they were written in the 1700's

 

 

 

Sunday

I guess the copying and pasting was a temporary thing.    The space is there but the image is gone.  I wonder where it went.   Floating around out in cyber space I guess.

Back to work tomorrow.   I feel that I could do three days.  The prospect of doing hearts, heads and trauma is not a nice one.    That is why I accepted a job in a community hopital long ago.   The people who work there have been doing community hospital surgery forever.   Where will they get the people with the experience to do this??     The administration comes up with these bright ideas and I guess they don't consider who will do what they dream up.

 

Saturday

 

Someday are like that.  Great,   I found out that I can highlight and paste pictures into my journal.    I will go crazy now.   There are a lot of things I downloaded and wanted to move over into here and now I figured out how to do.   Not all that bad it only took 2 1/2 years.   I guess that is better than never.

Saturday

Proof  that marriage exists in the animal kingdom...  

Monday

It is the last of a stretch of days off.........It was a welcomed respite.  Although I had appointments every day at the end of the week.  Lucy does not have to see the kitty ophthalmologist.   Nor does Claudia have to pay a huge bill for it........Lucy's eye is looking much better.   Her vet said that the problem with her eye is a auto-immune problem that will need medication her entire kitty life.   I wonder how many of those nine does she have left????    JUST KIDDING LUCY...MEOW  MEOW

Emily starts back to school tomorrow.   She has three Math and one Science and one  English.    Still has to get her admission things in order.   I am hoping she had an epithany and takes this seriously.   

I am on second call today and so far so good.   You never know what will happen.   Since it is a three day weekend there will be a lot of leftovers from the weekend.    A emergencies or semi-emergencies.   Work one day and then off and then work two more.  I am still glad I am not taking call.   Although I did nothing I just didn't want to be there........

I think fall has arrived.  It is always a surprise how it will be coolish and then extremely hot when summer arrives and then hot and suddenly cooler with the arrival of September.   My daughter and I both like sweatshirt weather.

 

 

 

Thursday

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"
George Bernard Shaw

And that's the truth.  Had a real exciting day at the dentist.   I hate having any thing done to my mouth.   I guess this is from a childhood trauma.   My parents never took us to the dentist and I had lost a few molars before I was twenty.

The one time I had an abcessed tooth and they took me to see Dr Vogt/  What a jerk, I didn't like his from the time I met him.   He gave me a numbing shot and proceded to pull the tooth.   WELL, THE LOCAL DIDN'T WORK....   I screamed and he slapped me on the face.   I told my parents but they didn't believe me.   I have hated the dentist ever since........Every time since then my visits have been good and painless, but I still cringe at that thought.   But even with that experience I didn't become a mass murderer and go around killing dentists..

 

Tuesday

"Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard

Sounds like a good philosophy to me.   Was on call last night, after I said I would do no more.   I didn't do anything.   Had a hard time falling asleep and woke up with every sound.   This was just an isolated call, if they were all like that I would sign up again, but I know that is just a fantasy.  And as with fantasys, the are always better than reality.

Dtr. is set to go at Penn State ( branch campus 15 minutes from home)  She said she will transfer to Pitt (or Penn State)  She will take as many as she can at the branch campus.  If she goes to main campus., maybe she could be a RA and get room and board/   I will just take one semester at a time........

 

Sunday

Found out from my friend that to teach in HS you need a BS, plus here in PA you need a teaching certificate.  That means you need education courses.   To teach at a community college you need a MS and to teach at a University you need a PhD.  That is a lot of work.    But a person will till be the same age 10 years from now if you don't go back to school...

I can hear the thumder.   Last night while I was dozing off I thought I heard the weather man say that the week after Labor Day the highs for a few days were to be in the high 60's.   Maybe that was a dream.......

Back to work tomorrow.   I have a call day this week.   Then off till Tuesday after Labor Day.     Have a lot of plans for Weds but I know I gave that call the kiss of death because I made plans the next day.  Why did I do that????

The dtr and I are going to the movies today.   "Little Miss Sunshine"  will critique it later.....

 

Friday

Figure this,  three weeks ago she get commision and a pay raise.  (She works in a independant jewelry store)  Wednesday she get called to come in to work an hour early and the boss tells her they don't think jewelry sales is for her.  She is not "personable" with the customers.  WTF is going on.   They will "reevaluate" in one month ??????  We went out to eat last evening and she is still dumbfounded, and I am as well..   Something is going on that either of us are not aware.  

This just doesn't make sense to me or my husband.  I don't think it makes sense to anyone else either.    She had been planning to go back to school in January, and now she has upped it to September.   Went to talk to Penn State and is looking for a math/physics degree.    Since she is 24 the parents income will not be counted and hopefully she can get assistance.   The Univ of Pittsburgh told her there were a lot of grants and moneys available for women in science.   I think she is looking toward teaching.   There are always jobs in those two areas.  I think she would like to work at a college level.....

The campus is 15 minutes from our house.  And she talked to the counselor there.  She will also look into work study.   She still has her job at the Johnstown Symphony.

DOES THIS MAKE SENSE AT ALL???????

Tuesday

Off today, and boy do I love that.    Daughters car was in for repair and had to take her to work.   She is now interested in Engineering.   No money to be made in Music.   At least with one degree in place hopefully the second will be easier.  Also hopefully, they will give her somemoney based on her income since she is now an adult.  Probably too good to be true and I am wishfully thinking.

She is interested in  Engineering.  She certainly has the brains for it.  Told her to make apts with Penn State and Pitt.   Our suggestions usually fall on deaf ears.   Husband is putting a super-charger on his car.     WOW  We will see how this goes.  

Sunday

Up early.   Was on call yesterday and not one call in.   Last week the second call person was in for 10 hours.   That is working way too long for a "emergency" only day.   One of the MD idiots took 11 hours to do four cases, all of which were non emergency.  He like the surg tech and I was thinking he was trying to decided how to score with the tech.   She was part time and didn't plan to be working 12 hours days on the weekend.   SHE RESIGNED the next day.   She is working at another hospital and said she didn't need the money to work that hard.    Another tech resigned also, she is going to Nursing School and the new place will give her 3/12's with no call.   So we are short of help.  And busy as can be.

Everyone asks what the problem and when they find out nothing is done.  I guess they are in the mind set of that we are a bunch of malcontents and that our problems are trivial.  Well. don't ask if you don't plan to do something about it.   We need help not lip service...............

Wednesday

It is so nice to have off.   When my daughter was little she said she wanted to be like her granparents who didn't do anything but spend money.   That is my goal too.   I think she also thought you also just went to the ATM and got money out.   Soemtimes I think she still feels that way.............

She got a raise and commission.    She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life.   She needs a reality check.   That mind set is for when you are 17 - 19.  But for someone who will be 25 next year she should know by now.....  It drives me NUTZ.

Monday

Back from Cleveland.   That meeting was good but three days tooooooo looooong..  The worst thing is that I had a hotel 6 blocks from the convention center and walked twice a day, and now my left heel hurts.   I had to make an appointment to get it shot.   Bummer.   Exercise is not all what it is cracked up to be.

Off tommorow and who knows what I will do..

 

Friday

Well, I am off and running for today.   Going to Cleveland for the National Nurse Anesthetist  Meeting.   It is usually in some hot place, but then again, it is hot every where in the summer.   My hotel is 6 blocks from the convention center.   Cleveland is flat and it should be an easy walk.  That reminds me I need to take the inhaler. 

Chuck gave Emily the email stating that she was soon to get her degree.  She looked at first dumfounded.   She didn't know that he had called the school.   To have 131 credits and only 124 were required for graduation was crazy.   The Dean said she would accept 2 of those credits as an elective to fill her requirement.   I am really glad there is a reasonable person in this world.  We will be going out to dinner to celebrate.   She already got her gift two years ago.....

Thursday

The eagle  has landed...........Diploma is on the way......Hallelujah...hallelujah.

Thursday

I am not sleeping well at all.   I don't know if it is the heat or my mental state.  Which is stressed.  Actaully we are all stressed here.  This crap with getting the diploma has us all on edge.    It is like "Groundhog Day" where things keep repeating over and over again.  The daughter has signed up for a Intro to Philosophy class,  She needed one on a Tuesday night.  

Baack to the heat.  I has discovered that the temperature that I like best for sleeping is about 65 degrees.   It is no way near that this summer.   Just one more month and the averages will drop.    

Today is the day to get things ready for my trip to Cleveland.   Will pack tonight and see what else I have to do.  I am going to squeeze a manicure in there too.

Monday

"A person’s right to smoke ends where the next person’s nose begins."
Anonymous
I can't belieive it.  After two years of slogging thru to get her degree and being assured on July27th that all was well, she was notified that she needs 2 more credits.   Those people are a bunch of a-holes.    

She signed up for a class at community college and she is really bummed as well as we are.

 

Thursday

"I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best."
Lionel Abe

He should have also added that they are the ones who get mad when you don't do what they think is best.   I know a few people like that for sure.

Thusday

My Lucy is sick.  Actually she has an  unlcer on her eye.  Have taken her to the vets twice.  She defecates in her carrier each time I take her. Chuck said he wet herself on the ride home on Tuesday.  I guess she needs some kitty Valium.  Or maybe we do when we have to take her.  At least she  is not aggressive.

Big plans on the horizon for the hospital.   They are going to open a whole unit for hearts, caths and surgical ICU.  I hope to be retired by the time they are done.   Also a neurosurgeon was hired and wants to do that,   the ICU is unable to handle these cases so I wouldn't have my head done there.  They also want to make the place a Level II trauma center.   We can't get the cases done in a timely manner now.

Sunday

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much."
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

People find fault with everyone and possible someone found fault with Mother Theresa. This is going to be a hot one today.   I got the electric bill and the electricity usage is down for this same period from last year.  I have to watch it all summer to see if there is a trend.  

I am off this week and have nothing scheduled to do.   Except visit the dentist.  I guess it really has been a non event week.  Chuck has to start on the supercharger on the car.  Of course it will be roasting arse hot.

Sunday

Went to a little get together at my sisters.   It was her son's graduation party.  He will be going to study engineering.    My brother is up from VA and his daughter is going to study pharmacy.   Good choices for both of them.

I have off tomorrow and I am glad.   I am working two late shifts per week and on my early shift I hear "Do you want to stay."  No, I don't.    I want to get out on time when I am early.   My life isn't that hospital.   I can't say that we are not busy.   I don't know where they come from.   Now the attitude is let anyone work anytime they want to work.   I am glad I am not taking call.  They are working till 10 or 11 at night.   I am too cranky for that.

The awnings are wonderful.   It keeps the front of the house cooler.  I am glad we got them.   It looks like they will be up for about 6 months of the year.  Will have to check the electric bill and the usage.  Last year was hotter than this year.   So I don't know how I will compare it.   All I know is the A/C is clicking off and on instead of running nonstop betwen 3 and 9p.

I am off the week of the 17th.  Have a dentist visit planned and don't know what else I will do.   I REALLY want to get the picture hung.  It has been sitting in the living room for 2 years now.   

 

Sunday

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
Martha Washington

 

I think this follows my idea that people who are miserble when they are old were also miserable when they were young.    I hope I am miserably only for short periods of time.   Usually my mood is good and I try to find humor in any situation.   The exception being funerals........................The whole mystery to my is whether it was the enviornment or upbringing?????  Or combination of the two.

Saturday

I am quite a bit irked.   Got a call from the charge person, this Saturdays second call needed to be filled.   I told Deb that I could cover the first 12 hours, but I have covered the last 2 weekends.   I will have to talk to my boss when she gets back from vacation.  Don't want to ruin her time off with an issues that isn't life threatining

I  don't have my beeper since I wasn't going to need it.   Have to go and get it.   Since everyone is working it doesn't matter if I get called in.   Next weeks is posted and I am going to a graduation picnic for my Nephew.    Hope the weather is nice, my brother is coming up from VA for this one.

Friday

Imagine, having a three day weekend.   The schedule was light today and since I made the assigments I was able to take off.  I think a lot of other people are thinking of taking off too.  

Today is a low humidity day.   I turned off the A/C and will see how well the awanings keep the house cool.    They look really great.  Chuck thought he would have to paint the shutters but the beige look good next to the dark red awnings.  The red is the same shade as the bricks on the house.

The daughter had an interview at a new department store that will be opening.   She got all dressed up and fill out an application and then interviewed with HR and two of the assistant store managers.  She is interested in the Jewelry department.   IT HAS BENFITS.   That is the best of the deal.   It opens at the end of August.    She, of course, never asked when she could expect to hear from them..    

We are going to Johnstown for the 4th of July concert.  I imagine it will be a stirring selection.    We are going to see the Cirque du Soliel this evening.   Hope it is good.  Everyone who sees it loves it.   The ony thing is no cameras.   I would like to see how the camera works in low light.

Tuesday

Another gloomy weekday.   The rain here on the east coast is a pain.   Although in my area it is not as bad as  farther east.   Today the awning people are coming.   I really hope this solution will work out.     Everyone who has them say they are wonderful.

I also have given their name to other people and they have ordered awnings too.  Emily is back to work.   She did a drop-in interview for a department store that is opening.   I hope she gets an offer.   She needs 40 hours and benefits.

Back to work tomorrow.    I am ready for three days a week.   But am committed to full time till the spring of 2008.  Everyone in my age group is feeling the same way.   They want more time off and less work.    It is a pain when you see younger and healthier people sitting on their butts and on the dole.    They always seem to have money for cigarette, beer and lottery ticket.  

Tuesday

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison

I am getting lax in writing in this jouranal.   I just don't seem to have the time.  We are still waiting for the diploma..........  She said she would call on Thursday.  Work was so busy yesterday.......eight rooms running at 3 and I don't think they finished until 11p and then the ortho guy got bumped by a bowel case.  He scheduled the open reduction for 06:30 this morning.

We ordered awnings for the front of our house.  It faces directly west.  Every one who has them loves them, for the shading and keeping the house cool.  We got 2 estimated that were $1,000 apart.   We went with the lower.    I can't believe the difference.  

Just waiting for the daughter to get home.  She has decided to eat chicken.  She said she thought she would be able to make more healthy choices and I have to agree with her on that one.

 

Saturday

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is
softness of head."
Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday

I can't believe the hot weather for so early in the season.   We are having some people come out and see about awnings for the front of the house.   Everyone who has them are so happy and love them.   They say that it make so much of a difference in the coolness of their house.  I know it will be expensive but I don't care, I need the house to be cool.

I am off today and have nothing scheduled but trivia.  That is a lot of fun, the only problem is that I smell like cigarettes when I get home.  I have to take a shower when I get home.

 

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."
Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld

I guess the translation is what goes around comes around.

Friday

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin

Didn't get done all the things I wanted.   Its good that I don't have a need to be done by list.   The biggest thing was to clear out the attic (partially done) it was limited by the lack of space when I unloaded the things.    Most of it went to my sister whose church is having a rummage sale to support the youth group.

This cleaning of the attic needs to be done on a cooler day.  On Tuesday the carpet guy came to clean and the great excape by Molly.   Molly is neurotic and runs and hides.   The telephone repair guy came too and Molly got out of the bedroom, where I had placed her to keep her out of harms way.   

Came home from the mall and all cats were out but Molly.   The carpet guy had the front door open while he cleaned.  I called and called by NO CAT.   We look around the yard and all the places she may have gone.   NO CAT.   We walked around the block and NO CAT.   I made up lost cat signs to post the next day.  It was also Emilys birthday and we cancelled her dinner because of NO CAT.  I was heart broken because she is so stupid and neurotic.

At 8 pm while I was feeding the remaining cats I caught a grey streak out of my peripheral vision.   There was THE CAT.  She had hid in the basement for 8 hours and now was hiding in the bedroom.  Neurotic was could be.   We thought we were going to have to take her for therapy.  But two days later she has bounced back to her "normal nutty" self.

What a fruitcake is she...........................

 

Sunday

Another week gone by.   This week we are off.   My goal is to clean stuff out of the attic,  I can't remember what is up there, other than the Christmas decorations.    Tomorrow will be cool and so will the attic.   That would be mission impossible for a summer project..............

I think the rain has ended for now.   Yesterday was nice and so was today after noon.   The funny part is that it rained for 12 days and we just now have eliminated our water deficit.   I guess now we will have a drought for the rest of the summer.   It will probably be in the 80, unless it goes to the 90's.

More on the weeks progress later...................

Monday

I haven't written for awhile.  I guess that is because there is a pseudo--- smoothness !!!!!   So far everything appers to be going well.   Of course, that is subject to a fast and furious change.  

Dear Lord let it be so.........I think she may be finished.    The last class was finished and today we sent the transcript.    But I will feel comfortable when the diploma comes.       She could have has a Masters degree in the time she spent on this one.

I also feel like if things apear to be going well, I have obviously overlooked something...............................

sunday

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

It has been a while since I have written.  Don't know where the time goes.   I guess that is one of the mysteries of life.  

Went to my daughters final peformance of the season.  And signed up for season ticket for next year.   Looks like it will be a good year. 

I think (extremely hopefully) that she is FINALLY finished with college.   That last class proved to be a giant PITA.   The problem is that she never checked her final grades last fall.   She assures me things are well, and in fact she assumes that they are and doesn't check.   I can understand that with some items, like feeding the cats.  But, when something is as important as grades and finishing your degree  DON'T ASSUME ANYTHING.

Next week will be a busy one for her.  It is the 25th anniversary sale and she is working every day and there is a special going on each day too.

Cool today or maybe the weather is just seasonable.   The leaves are finally coming out.   They are out where we live but on our way to Johnstown the leaves are not as far advanced.   Johnstown is in the mountains and you could actually see the difference with the increase in elevation.

 

what is she saying????

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Agnes de Mille

Agnes said a lot here but what did she really say???? 

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."
Henry Thoreau

In otherwords, life is short, drink more wine.

Saturday

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison

Tried to listen to the radio and that was a dud.   How can something be preset and then tell me it is not available??????   Now on second click it is playing music scores.   Sometimes I think this has a mind of its own.

On the other hand a must have and vital patch was due from Microsoft.  After downloading this patch the computer wasn't working at all.   I wa lucky enough to get in and do a system restore, which seemed to solve my problem.   And a week later I find a note on Kim Komando that the patch is not compatable with HP computers.    One would think that the people who set these things up would know that information.

It is a gloomy, rainy day.   We need the rain.  With a mild winter without much snow and a rather dry spring, the rain is welcome.   It puts one in a mood for napping and doing not a whole hell of a lot.

 

Weds.

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations
and epochs, it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

I actually think it is in epidemic proportions here in this country.

Wednesday

Things are going fairly well.   There must be something wrong.   Work is uneventful.  I like it that way.    I think I would like to work 2/8s, but I am committed to working for 2 years.  I guess about that time I can go down to 2/8s.

The schedules have been busy and more people whom I do not know.   I do not like slow surgeons.   There are not very many good surgeons who are slow.   If they are any good they are efficent and go quickly and do not waste time.

 

Wednesday

"Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference."
- Charles Nalin

In other words don't make yourself look bad.    Having lot of fun today.   Trying to log on to Macys to pay bills and some how I haven't succeeded.    Then I try to pay Kaufmanns and they tell me as of  April second I can't pay that bill on line.   Guess they are rolling it over into Macys and that is the reason for my difficulty.

Opened a new bank account and trying to set up all the paying on one site.   But, I need the ATM card to do that.   Maybe I should just give up on paying bills for today.

 

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.''
William James

Maybe I should just overlook today and the bill paying......Tomorrow is another day.....Way to go Scarlett
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MOndaay

Why do the days off go by so fast and the days we work go slowly ?????  I could become real accustomed to not working and just sitting and waiting for the check to be deposited in my account.

Back to work tomorrow.   There are a lot of things I would like to do and that includes taking classes.   Most of them are given during the day.   Can I take classes and still work two dys a week or do I want to quit entirely???

 

Wednesday

"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Samuel Johnson

Back in town.  After a few days off and a wonderful visit with my girlfriend I am now back home.     That drive is too long,  I broke it up on the way down but didn't  on the way home.    I just wanted to get back home.  We did a bit of hiking, walking and museum and gallery perusing. 

I have been trying to get my bags unpacked and stuff put away all morning.   I keep finding things to do to interrupt me in my project.  

The cats are all now my bests buds.  Chuck said they followed him and Emily around last week.  Golly that is all I can think to write about.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

If we don't expect, we have all things."
Buddha

This computer is slow and I don't know why.  I ran the spyware program and it still seems to stall.  I guess I will run the Norton after this.

Tomorrow I leave to visit my oldest friend (in time know, not age)  The drive is all highway and should be good.  I just worry about all the wackos on the highway.    Where I will stay on the way down is a quaint little town and there are lots of antique shops to peruse.  

Work is uneventful and I like it that way.   I had my last call (hopefully) and got awakened at 2 and then could not fall back asleep.  I hate being awakened for things that other people could solve or refuse to handle.  That is a big reason why I decided I didn't want to do it any longer.   I also want to sleep in my own bed.  I guess there could be a time where I would be requested to do some.

Have a lot to do this morning but it is early and not a whole lot of places are open.

 

Friday

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Sir Winston Churchill

I guess all of us are seeking Nirvana.  I seek Nirvana at work all day long.   I have off a week in May and have been trying to plan a beach vacation.   Nothing is free and I couldn't imagine what was the problem.   THE PROBLEM WAS ME.   That week is the lead up to the Memorial Day weekeend and everyone has their three day weekend planned.  

Back to the drawing board on that one.    I wanted it to be quiet and now I will have major traffic troubles.  Still am looking at housing for that.    My ideal place would be with a balcony that overlooks the ocean, two bedrooms and cable TV and high speed internet.   I don't think that is too much to want.   WIFI would be ideal.  Have to keep looking.

 

 

Tuesday

Another day gone by, and not much done.   I was on call last evening.   I have one more to do next Monday.   The reason call is so stressful for me is the crap that they call you for that aren't anesthesia related.   Like the IVs.   They are a pain in my existence.   After spending 12 or so hours I really do not feel like going and playing IV nurse.   The problem is that they won't hire someone to do that when the can call me (or my associates).   This is the main reason that I do not want to do call anymore.  My call was uneventful and got to sleep all night.

Planning a vacation.  Emily has to decide whether to go or stay.  She wants to go and stay with me when I go to Cleveland in August.   I am going to the National Convention and she would like to go and visit her chums which whom she graduated.    The hotel would be my treat.   So she would like to go to the beach too, she has to decide which one she wants to do more.

I am researching the avaliability of condos at the NC shore in May, which seems to be plentyful.   I will find one with 2 bedrooms in case she decided to come.   Sometimes a person just needs to get away.   I want ocean front so we can sit and watch the ocean.   Hopefully there won't be any hurricaines.   It is usually too cold of water temperature.

Next week I am going to TN to visit my good friend.  We have know each other for thirty years.  Can you believe that???    That is a long time.   I am looking forward to going.  Especially since it isn't spring break and he husband is going to be working and so is mine.  

 

Sunday

It is quite relaxing to sit and read the Sunday paper and drink copious cups of tea.   The sun is shining and the birds are singing their little vocal cords off.       BUT, the forecast for Tuesday is snow.  I like snow till Christmas and then that is enough of it.   I want the days to be warm and be able to open the windows for an airing of the house.     Maybe next week.

To be back at work is still good.  It is because we have a lot of help.  I don't know what will happen when they leave.   Being employed by the hospital practice plan is better, in a way.    They know how many people they need and are (or should be ) more concerned that we can't get thing done.  It really all remains to be seen. 

Planning my trip to OH for the Nation Nurse Anesthetist Meeting.  The hotel prices seemed to high.   Going to go to one of those websites that can get you prices for less and check it out.

Pizza party with the  sibs this afternoon.........

Thursday

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the
religion of solitude."
Aldous Huxley

Thursday and tonight is Trivia.   Emily loves to go to play Trivia.  She also loves the jewelry store job.   She just can't buy all the stuff she wants like she did at StVincents.  Tomorrow is the last of the work week.  I feel quite relaxed knowing I am not taking weekend calls.  I also want to sleep in my own bed.

They put new carpet in the call room and got a new bed.  I asked for a computer outlet but that hasn't happened.    Two cars were stolen in the parking lot.   Somehow the person who did this took the keys from a doctors lab coat and a nurses purse.   How did they know what keys belonged to whom????   Sounds like some kind of inside job to me.    The moral of the story is to put your stuff in your lockers.  All the or supervisor said that someone went thru the OR lockers and stuff was thrown from the lockers that didn't have a lock on them.  Now, they had to have the combination to get into the suite.  Good news is that they have an idea of who it was from the surveillance tape.  That just goes to show you.  Rumor has it one of the former MDA's took a barcolounger out of the mds call room.  Don't know if that is true or not.

I am going to visit my friend in TN at the end of the month.   We always have a good time.  She made sure it wasn't UT spring break or would follow us around.  LOL LOL.   I think my daughter was sad I was going.  Jealous I guess.

 

Monday

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saturday

My mood is upbeat today.   My biggest worry is whether I can clean out the interior of the car before the rain starts.   I check the weather map and it is raining in Columbus OH.    When I get done here I will hurry down and do it.  I got the car washed yesterday and it looks great with all that grime gone.

Emily is playing in two concerts today.   First will be with the youth symphony of Johnstown, she and her stand partner will be ringers.   She will get paid for that as well as the real Symphony  Her and her stand partners are the youngest in the professional symphony and can pass for rookies.  She would play for free actually.   Some of the musicians look to be in their 70's.

Work was uneventful and reduced stress this week.  I asked some of the OR staff if it has been like this or was it just this week.   They told me it has been like this since the begining of Feb.    So far no one has gone out of their way to make anyone look stupid.   This is a refreshing change.  The new billing company has signs posted on how to improve your recovers of fees.  Ones that you are entitled to.   They said all in all that our compliance is very high.   The new thing is when we are done we are to put the bills in each MDs mail box and then they in turn review it and if any thing is not in compliance they will give it back to the CRNA for their correction.   One I had not signed and then I was able to take care of it the same day and it was a lot easier because you had all the copies at your disposal.  Also the patient is still in the hospital.

Chuck says the new parking charge is going to finance the aneshesia department.   He may be right, we calculated it and they should get about a half million per year.  This was from minimal calculations.

Some of the people coming back this week and next.   One of the doctors told me I was the queen and they all follwed me back to the hospital.  That made me laugh.  I like the 35 hour week and when we get up to par I won't be taking call.   This was one of my stressors at that job.   I heard that the chief was going to talk to the DON and request that they not call us after 9pm with the IVs, my opinion is out on that one for now.  We dont have second call during the week, just weekend call at this time.

Off to vacuum the car.

 

Wednesday

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment."
A.A. Milne

Third day back at work and no one has p*ssed me off yet.   It is a short time though.   Almost two pages of cases.   The place is going like gangbusters.  Tomorrow is light though.   I think I can tolerate no call for the rest of my working career.   Working till 4 isn't bad either.   It is just a little longer and you go before the 10 hour people.   And won't get stuck like you will at 5 sometimes.

Another coworker came back today and another is starting next week.  We have a lot of guys in the department.   One is young and gung ho to make money.   Let him have the call.   I want to sleep in my own bed, or some bed at a resort.   With the raise my husband figured that I would make the same with less hours.   I have been there and done that and want to take it easy for the next few years.

I feel that I have made the right decision.   I wouldn't want to come back and take call but the no call is good for me at this time.  I think I have two calls this month and hope to have none in April.

BAck to work.

Well, today was my first day back at my own place of employment.  It was uneventful.  Got a lot of hugs and glad you are backs.   They have hired 13 or 14 people.  Have about 4 slots to fill.   This is more than we had before. 

I have two calls to do and I hope that they are the last.   The calls wouldn't be so bad except for the IVs and changing the pump setting for the stupid RNs in L & D.   The refuse to do it, althought the nurses in the rest of the hospital do the changing.     They need a younger department head that will take them into the next century and out of the past one.

The bonus will be cut in half as of March 15 and then end by the end of the month.   I heard that our former chief is interviewing at St Clair for a chief position there.    I really like her I hope it goes well for her.    It was also said that they will NEVER  hire any of the old docs, it is too late, but they will hire the old Anesthetists.   I feel old and over the hill myself.   I want to stop call and sleep in my own bed.   

The big difference is the feeling to rush and push and shove to get things done is gone.    I will wait for  the rest of the week to see if that remains so.....

 

 

Thursday

I got a new cell phone.  While perusing the features I came upon a chapter on safety.    Do not put battery in your mouth.   Do not paint your cell phone.  Do not made a "to do" list while driving your car.   All This leads me to believe that some has done these thing or else the warnings wouldn't be there.

My daughter told me the best one she saw was a sign in a state park (Where??) Do not masturbate or perform bestiality on the animals.  Don't you just wonder..........WTF what were they thinking !!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday

Anxiety is the space between the 'now' and the 'then.' "

The anxiety of the then was not knowing what was going on and knowing the end probably wasn't   going to be good.   The then was making a decision (whether ration or irrational) and going with it.  And hoping it will be better.

I have my schedule for the next two weeks.  They REALLY do have enough help.   The part I like is that I can work 35 hours and maintain by full time benefits.   Right now I do not want to take call.    After taking call for 35 years I can truly say I am tired of it, I want to sleep in my own bed and have weekends and holidays off.   I do not want to take any more holidays.........Maybe last Thanksgiving was my last.

I got a new TV for the bedroom.   I had a Zenith (do they still make them??) that was older than dirt.  It had belonged to my husbands cousin Jimmy who passed away about 4 years ago.  He could repair TVs so who knows how old it was?????      When we pluggedthe new one in it was so clear and bright.   I could not believe it.      It had a built in DVD player as well as a VHS.   I think the tapes have gone the way of the cassette player but it is there.  We still have a few of those old tapes.

I guess now I can get things done this week that I was unable to do for the past month. 

Went to Johnstown with my daughter because it was suppose to have a few flurries.   It was a nightmare.   There were 4-5 inches of snow there and the only clear road was the Turnpike/Interstate.   When I got off at New Stanton, the roads had never been touched and I fishtailed and slid when I make a turn onto the final road home.   The state PENNDOT sure missed the boat on that one.  Even with the AWD it didn't do much on the ice except slide like everyone else.

 

 

Sunday

Good grief!!!!!!!!!  I have been sleeping well for the past two nights.   I woke up this morning and it was 7 am.   Can you believe it.   I was almost to the point of asking my doctor for some sleeping medication. 

This week off and then back to work.   I was able to do some cleaning and sorting of Emilys clothes.   With her approval of course.......

I haven't gotten any emails.  I can just imagine the brouhaha on the message board.   It is not an exchange of information, it is an exchange of rants and raves.   And I don't really give a shi* what they say about me.  They are in denial.   I don't know what they expect to appear in the job situation, but come this summer there won't be one avaliable.

 

Satruday

I feel relieved and exhausted.   I made a decision to leave my present employer and go back to the hospital.   Somehow, I feel we have been a pawn in a power struggle.  The interlopers in the group think they are going to go back.  It is not going to happen.   They also expected a  mass exodus from those two hospitals and it didn't happen.   You can't employ a huge anesthesia group in a few surgicenters.    I am not going to relocate either.   I have worked at the same hospital since 1989and I can continue there for the next two and a half years. 

I found a little hospital in the city that I could have been happy working at, but I can't do the commute.   Rush hour traffic starts at three and lasts till six or there about.    I hate bumper to bumper jams.  A person never gets out on time to be able to leave before the trafic tie up.

My other alternative would have to do drugs.  I was heading down the path to Xanax.

Wenesday

I really haven't been up to date on this journal.   Just the usual frustration of the job situation.    Maybe I will  hit on the power ball and won't have to work.     Well, honestly, that is plan Z.     But somebody will win.  

At my age it is better to take the lump sum and spend it.   Who know if I will be here for 20 more years.   I plan it but of course, life sometimes has other plans.  I will spend it before my daughter has a chance to squander it herself.

 

Frida;y

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
- Olin Miller

I guess that is true because there are a lot that I don't give a hoot about.   I really don't care what they think.    I have had a whole week off.   But it hasn't been relaxing at all.   I thought the stress would be relieved, but it has just been replaced by more stress.

I want just to get thru the next 2 1/2 years.   When my group signed the contract a year ago I thought that will take me to retirement.   But it didn't happen this way.  What do I want to do.  At the last rah rah meeting when the pres got up and spoke he lead me to believe that there were inklings of that maybe this wasn't going to work...and if they came up with a good offer maybe we should take.   That doesn't sound like the words of a man who thought he was going to win.     What will they do?????   Are we all going to be dropped in May????   I honestly don't believe either group when the tell us what they are going to do for us.   I think they are both not telling us the truth. 

This is requiring some serious soul searching..........who to believe and where to go.   I am tired of taking call.   I hate being captured at the hospital.   I don't want to drive a long way to work.    I wish I had a crystal ball and could see the future.  

 

Thursday

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government.
Thomas Jefferson

I see they haven't been able to accomplish this in a few hundred years.

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy

Sunday

After a weekend of wineing and dining I am back home.   My group gave the CRNA's who stood by the group a getaway  weekend.   It had informational meetings in the morning and PALS/ACLS in the afternoon.   What to do is the question.   We have a "severance" type of arrangement plus a bonus that we will get in the spring.

So, who knows what I will do.....Some people are just taking a break.   I am mentally exhausted and need some time off too.   Haven't decided what to do next.....the only thing I can say is this dispute had skyrocketed the salaries in the Pittsburgh area which have traditionally lagged behind the rest of the country.

Who knows what the spring will bring.

 

 

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
- Rene Descartes

Wednesday

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"    Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 

Wednesday

It really does get more interesting my the minute.    This week the current administration learned that they also have to cover call.  Just goes to prove the point of stupidity.  

To hire 54 nurses and 20 docs it will cost 175K just to cover Monday thru Friday, 7 to 3 pm.    Weekends and call arre extra.   Plus the newly hired company docs are not obligated to give breaks and lunchs.

Not much longer to go.   All this because Jerry is mad.

 

Sunday

"Wisdom is born, stupidity is learned."
  - Russian proverb.

Friday

I haven't had much time to think.   With the employment winding down.   I think the current CEO is heading on a path of a second bankruptcy.  This is all his making.  At my age I need less stress.   All of us are looking for a week or two off.   This current guy says he has a plan and it will be OK.   I think they are trying to prove a point, whatever that is.   

So, the next week will be interesting.

It ain't over till its over.

Now they are calling me at home......The surgeons want to help us.....  Do they think that I really believe it?? 
They want to help us negotiate.   They are even willing to help and fund us an attorney to get a contract in place.   Does this hospital administration think that I would believe them????

They are worried that there cases won't get done.   And one told me "there will be no negotiation"   Well,  according to Yogi Berra "It ain't over till its over"  The next three weeks will be a wild ride.   Now I have people all over the hospital asking what am I going to do.  What I really would like to say is "Its none of your f'in' business"   

There are a lot of people in authority that look down on everyone and think they are stupid as well.   It just comes to arrogance and it is in epidemic proportions at our hospital system......

The moral is don't go in and work for a system in chaos.   Don't believe everything you hear.   Don't put anything in writing and keep every that is written to you.    I am really looking forward to going to work on Monday to see what new develops.

what are you going to do???

Thats what everyone wants to know...What I would like to say is NONE OF YOUR F'ING  business.    My husband thinks the CEO is the biggest a-hole in the world.   He is still banking on all of us "panicing" and bolting to sign on with the hospital.    I don't think this will happen.     Some people are really upset, but, what are they going to do.  It is stressful but I can't worry about things of which I have no control.   I really have no control over this one except to stay at the dance with those who brought me.......

Trying to download patches.   Couldn't get that darn Service Park 2 installed.  It keeps downloading but not installing.   MS said to try to start it in "safe mode"   This is really getting into the tecki angle.  But I did it.....  I think it is installed.........but who knows.

On call tomorrow.  Who knows what it will bring.  Been telling all the nosy people I am going to retire.  HAHA HA

 

"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."
- Benjamin Franklin

Right we are not taking it too well.   Got an astronomic gas bill for the final reading.  Since I have had the thermostat on at 50F I knew it wasn't right.   Called Dominion, and what a time with that I had.  One hour on hold by calling their toll free number.   I finally found a local number and they had a mechanism where you left your phone number and they would call you back.   And they did! ! ! ! !    The mechanical voice said 15 minutes wait and they called back.

NO ONE read the meter.   What a bunch of idiots.   They are going to go out tomorrow and read it.   Told the lady that I had the thermometer set at 50 and no one was using the gas.   They will prorate it, or so they say.

Still no resolution to the work situation.   I could use a month off..........

Tuesday

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
- Dean Acheson

This goes along with the employee hand book, which they bring out to prove to you they don't have to pay for or give you something.   It also involves don't put anything in writing and keep everything written.  Never volunteer, unless it is to your advantage.     Maybe I should get my MBA or apply for Dave Berrys job when he retires.

All finished

Well, another years Christmas is done and past.    Today we took down the tree and put all the decorations up.   That tree business seems to come rather quickly each year.

I took my sisters table back and told her that our tree was down.  She said she left hers up until the Epiphany.   ?????  That is next Sunday.   I didn't ask her why though????  

 

 

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a
man is wise by his questions."

- Naguib Mahfouz

Goes to show you how to spot the idiots out there......I often hear people talking and wonder......"Do you know how stupid you sound???"  I also wonder how these same people make it thru life??????

And another observation is how the above fools and jerks always seem to find each other.   They must have some radar that is invisible to the rest of us.

New Year

The new year has arrived.  I hope it is better than last.  I made the required pork and sauerkraut.   My husband said why bother since it didn't seem to do any good last year.   I said "Maybe it would have been worse."  An eternal optimist I am.

We had the traditional meal also today.   It is a German tradition.  Read an article about the traditions worldwide.   That dish is pretty mundane.    Some people  burn trees.  That would have been pretty dangerous in the house today.

I have off tomorrow and hopefully I will get to use the gift certificate given to me by our realtor.   I am glad that is over.....

I hope this  year will be better.