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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:52 AM

GORRAMGROUPIE

*waves* Busy with work and stuff, glad you're doing well! 'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' Police Squad

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:00 AM

MSA

HUGS Gorram hope work is treating you well:) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:23 PM

FREELANCERTEX

[/lurk] *ditto's MsA's comment* How's the little bundle doing? I gather from the above posts he's quite excitable about the prospect of food. Hilariously adorable. Rosie: I know this a bit late as you posted it on Friday, but when I saw it I just *had* to comment* Quote: Originally posted by StinkingRose: He had written "I seen two police cars.." I had most definitely NOT said that, so I said "I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude but I think (pointing) that should be saw, not seen". (Poor, poor duckling.. do you think they saw me coming?) Yes, I grammar policed a cop trying to take a statement about an accident I'd just been in. That is awesome. Sorry about the accident, though :( glad you're ok. grammar police ftw

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:18 AM

MSA

Wow ...awful quiet.... Sorry we aren't about more it's just busy with the angel, but he is a very good baby:) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:14 PM

GEE

Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:12 PM

FREELANCERTEX

*deflates* no more classes till after thanksgiving break, FINALLY. had sooooooooooooooo much stuff due the past couple weeks ><;; yikes. Now I can deflate, lol. glad the little one is well, MsA ^_^ Gee: glad ur not dead O_o please don't die. so who's doing what for Thanksgiving? anyone traveling? who's going to whose family? etc? *pours self a small glass of eggnog, as the stuff can only be tolerated in small quantities*

Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:22 PM

MSA

HUGS... He's doing fine Gee... and if it helps his name is John:) How are you holding up? Sorry I've not been on much and neither has NV, but baby's still adjusting and he's too little to be schedule ready To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:48 PM

PHOENIXROSE You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I'm so glad the little angel is doing so well, Lila ^_^ And I hope you're healing. Well here we can see my own personal Catalyzer Something involved in turning the timing belt in my car, actually. Being in two pieces like that allowed it to tear up said belt, and do some damage to my oil pump as well. Had I not stopped driving after the onset of grinding and squealing noises, the belt would have snapped entirely and my motor would have suffered massive and widespread damage. Good thing I'm terrified of grinding and squealing in my engine. And yes, I did recently have that belt replaced, less than 40,000 miles ago. The garage I took it to failed to replace this little moving part that I didn't even know existed, let alone what a problem it could be. So instead of having that piece of maintenance taken care of for eight-ish years like I thought I did, it all had to be done again. I've become loyal to my dealership service center at this point. And oh yes, it's now nearing the end of the semester, and my darling teacher decided it would be a cute idea to add an extra project to our workload. Or rather, as she puts it, 'expand' a project we were going to do, one that would have taken an afternoon at the most, into a group effort full-scale marketing package... thing. As per usual, the most useless people in the classroom get to work with me. Fortunately, I also snagged one of the most brilliant. It's still taken up most of this last nine days or so, with the whole experience tied up with a nice shredded timing belt bow. *deep deep breath* Okay. Sorry. Horrid week from hell rant now over. [/sig]

Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:50 PM

STINKINGROSE

Friday, November 20, 2009 5:52 AM

FREELANCERTEX

Ick, sorry about the car trouble, PR. And the working with sucky people on a project ><;; (though it's good you snared at least one capable person). Yay on the boychild getting all his work done, Rosie! Bet that made you proud. Anyone else been having super screwy weather lately? O_o I dunno what the atmosphere thinks it's doing in this part of the Verse, but I'm used to snow by now and we got torrential buckets of rain this morning, followed by temperatures near the sixties (not that I'm complaining, but it's not really characteristic for this time of year...normally. Still, as much as I hate the cold weather, I do like me some fluffy white flakes of doom every now and then [provided I don't have to drive through it])

Friday, November 20, 2009 7:12 AM

MSA

aw HUGS Rose sorry about the car suckage.. I'm a big fan of dealers and their work. At least it's done right I'm ok but healing keeps getting complicated by other stuff ( got food poisoning yesterday.. doing a bit better today) Still he's so wonderful it's all worth it HUGS Rosie.. you can't have mine.. nope nope nope. He is really fantastic and so so wise ( also can do a full c-section extremely well in 45 minutes with minimal complications.. I left the hospital comfortably a full 2 days before the other doc's c-section patient and my scar is healing perfectly) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:57 AM

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, November 22, 2009 5:45 PM

MSA

Finally mending again... ok seriously there is some sort of cosmic kick me sign involved when I get surgery.... this is the 4 time I've had surgery and then gotten food poisoning. HUGS to all To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Monday, November 23, 2009 6:04 AM

MSA

morning..... To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Monday, November 23, 2009 8:39 AM

WAKEUPSOON

Monday, November 23, 2009 10:31 AM

MSA

HUGS WuS that is really exciting... when will you know if you've gotten a place?? He is a wonderful baby ( check out the photo thread for pictures) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Monday, November 23, 2009 10:53 AM

WAKEUPSOON

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:36 AM

FREELANCERTEX

niiiiiiice *crosses fingers for WuS* wish you much luck. So, who (for those of you in the US) is ready for Thanksgiving? I know it's only Tuesday, but it's close. Also, who's hosting, who's traveling? One of my aunts always provides the gravitational center for all holiday celebrations so I've never (to the best of my memory) actually spent a Thanksgiving at my parents' house :P Happy holiday season, all *pours eggnog*

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:38 AM

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:41 AM

FREELANCERTEX

oooooh cooking. Are you cooking the whole meal or contributing to a "pot luck" family dinner? (that's how our thanksgivings run, due to the large family) In any event, what are you making? :D *hops up and down*

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:54 AM

GEE

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:32 AM

MSA

Ba business always drops off at the holidays when everyone gets busy with families and shopping and such Oh sucks on the IBS Gee.. hope you feel better soon HUGS Oh and thanks he is just gorgeous( just like his daddy) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Friday, November 27, 2009 8:05 AM

MSA

Hey happy after Thanksgiving day.. hope none of you are out braving the shopping nightmare... To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Friday, November 27, 2009 12:41 PM

BRIGLAD

Quote: Originally posted by MsA: Hey happy after Thanksgiving day.. hope none of you are out braving the shopping nightmare... I didn't have to but Rose sure did. She works at the local Walmart. She normally does overnight stocking so she doesn't have to deal with customers (Did that enough when she was a department manager) Last night the store was open overnight and the company I work for provided extra uniformed security guards (I work for the Traffic control division) She said it was a zoo last night. People were camping out waiting for the 5 AM stuff to go on sale. Since it's getting towards winter for real around here, I might have to do some security work too. I'll probably take the next available class. It is strange, if I flag traffic, I get $13.00 an hour (As a crew chief). If I work a security gig, I get $9.00. The flagging class is 8 hours. Security guard certification is 40 hours. Go figure... Bri

Friday, November 27, 2009 2:06 PM

STINKINGROSE

It never pays to become optimistic and even happy. The agency called at 5:15 to let me know that Women's Wellness Place had advised them they had to cut a nurse's position and mine was the one they were getting rid of. I needn't report for work on Monday. Poof. Unemployed. If I'd known even the end of last week I could have cancelled getting the driveway done. That's $4,000 I would most definitely have put off spending if I'd had even the tiniest clue they weren't keeping me after all. Or even if they'd let me know around 4:30 I could have cleared out my stuff and handed in my parking pass before I left. But NooOOOooo... I'm going to stop now before I end up ranting for seventeen paragraphs.

Friday, November 27, 2009 5:20 PM

FREELANCERTEX

Aaaaw sorry Rosie. :( that really major sucks, with major bad timing and all *hugs*

Saturday, November 28, 2009 9:51 AM

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:56 PM

MSA

Oh Rosie honey I am so so sorry. I am sure that you will be able to find something really quick since you are such an amazing nurse ..hey you could move here if you want. I can definitely guarantee there are openings here:) HUGS and more HUGS To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 4:24 AM

STINKINGROSE

But do you have a particle accelerator and my family there..? Thanks for the sentiment, though. Technically I'm still employed because I was working through the agency, but I'm not bringing in any income. Let's face it when the doctor who started the practice says to you "we're keeping you" and then they decide they don't need that nursing position after all (after 12 weeks but before the contract with the agency is up) it really makes you wonder. I'm going to accept the "The doctor who was out is not coming back, so we don't need that nursing position anymore" at face value. It may have been a case of staff reduction due to budgetary considerations, but it feels like "sucked so bad they canned your ass". I mean, think about it: you say to the entire staff one day in November that the doc's not coming back and we all know that another doc's leaving in May, but you'll be replacing them ASAP (the day after you had head hunters in the office) and that you're not planning on laying off staff. You give out longer term projects, the next week ask someone to speak on one at a staff meeting, then decide you don't need them after you've spent 12 weeks training them and get rid of them by the end of the week? What here doesn't make sense? Are you really having that much trouble financially that you can't hold on to a productive team member because they're not one of yours officially for another four weeks? What about the other nurse you hired four weeks ago? Are you keeping her? (I have no idea) Are you reducing you MAs? (Probably not, as they're more cost efficient). You wanted to get another Lead RN in there to take some of the load off the only other RN you have (who is off Fridays). Guess you changed your mind about that one too. My mom (Did I mention I was on my way out to dinner with my mother when I got the call about 45 min after my shift ended?) said that they're probably not going to have to pay the agency's fee now that I'm not needed. (She's been a manager with fairly good sized businesses and understands how MBAs think.) She says her company is currently laying off people by forcing them into early retirement 2-3 months before they'd get full medical coverage with the pension. (Oh the bastards are greedy, yes indeedy..) ******** CAUTION: RANT AHEAD******* I WORK in healthcare and I'm still a supporter of the principle of everyone in our society getting medical care at low to no cost to them (socialized medicine/universal healthcare coverage/whatever you want to call it) if for no other reason than bullshit like that wouldn't matter so much. Imaging yourself at 65-70 years old saying "In five months I'm retiring and while money will be tight I won't have to worry about my healthcare" then are given the option of taking what you can get (sans coverage for medical expenses) or getting fired and losing everything. Hmm... either way sucks but you're not going to say "fuck you" unless you've already got a sizeable nest egg tucked away and don't really need the income anyway. Which is, let's face it, not even true of most of the middle management let alone the rank and file. **********END RANT********************* Sorry, that came out of nowhere. I've flagged the grouchy bits for those who want to avoid it. So anyway, I'm definitely going with "Temp position/suddenly overstocked with nurses" when asked at the next interview why my employment ended. Did I mention how much I hate going on interviews? Or how much I hate that probationary period where you feel like you don't know a fucking thing and you'll never get the hang of it? Or how pissed I am that the job which was going to mesh perfectly with my plans to return to school has suddenly evaporated and now I don't know what I'm going to be able to do or when I can do it? I'm hoping for another job in OB, but I'm going to have to take what's out there that I'm actually qualified for no matter what it is. Did I mention I never did the full 6mos/year on the hospital floors because the 6 weeks I spent on one I was not ready for fresh out of school left me hating hospitals, and I haven't had to go back and do the grind? That means I haven't officially "proved myself" and don't have a year in acute care on my resume, which is what you need before they'll let you work anywhere interesting/fun in the hospital, which is where most of the jobs are. (Man, I do NOT want to have to go work with ostomies and trachs...) Okay, the nursing homes will take just about anybody but I hate seeing all the depressed and confused/demented elderly people just waiting for family or death to visit. People who don't get better and go home make me sad. Home health is a little better but you spend a lot of the day driving, and it's the same sort of care you'd be doing in the hospital, and when you're an RN you've got LPN and HHAs working under your license WHILE YOU'RE NOT THERE and that makes me nervous. I'll get over it all eventually, it's just still a little fresh right now. It was like I found the Magic Employment Lamp and *poof* exactly what I wanted was right there, then *poof* the Job Fairy took it all away just when I was starting to settle in and relax a little. Hey, it was what I needed when I needed it and I shouldn't complain. I got paid what I should have been making for the last two years. I learned more in those three months than I did in the last three years, I got 2/3 of a HepB series and both flu shots out of it, plus being spoiled rotten in a beautiful office where drug reps still bring lunch and talk to you about exciting new meds or new ways to use old ones, and scored a great pair of nursing shoes for what I'd have paid for a crappy pair otherwise. Plus I got to do work I really loved. Ride's over and I'm waking up in my bed in black and white in Kansas. (Still got the shoes, though!) In the books Dorothy got to go back to Oz. Maybe I will make it back to a happy place too someday. "SOOooommmWHEEEERRE Ooover the Beeedpaaaaann..."

Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:31 AM

MSA

Oh HUGS HUGS and more HUGS sweety. It's always so disappointing when you find a job you love and it poofs on you, but I'd believe them. They may have thought that they were going to get another doc and then when they had the end of year budget meeting realized they couldn't afford it or the nurse that went with it. Or maybe the person they thought would buy in, went with another practice ( which happens all the time) and yes we do have particle accelerator and you could bring your family. Plus compared to what you're used to , it's nice and warm here To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:12 PM

GEE

Sunday, November 29, 2009 2:22 PM

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:48 PM

GEE

Monday, November 30, 2009 10:00 AM

MSA

oh no do not corrupt yourself with Twilight Gee. Avoid at all costs( ok it's not that bad, but it really does feel like you've stolen a whiny emo high schooler's journal and reading it) HUGS again Rosie...stupid economy Morning all... To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Monday, November 30, 2009 12:31 PM

GEE

lol - MsA, I hear you, it's not out of choice but been working on things for years and it now appears to be too big to ignore, having said that, I might choose to just imagine a world in which it doesn't exist, heard like a 40 second soundbite in a podcast and it sounded awful, bad dialogue, bad acting, bad wolf sounds... Been bad, no writing, not enough washing up, need to get on, my bed is calling. I mis Kel... and Hk and Jimi and Mavoureen and lots more... *sits in corner like petulent child and sulks* see, just talking about twilight makes you mope

Monday, November 30, 2009 12:59 PM

MSA

I think it's the holidays... loads of people are super busy during the holidays. I am sure HK will pop in eventually. I'm hoping Kelkhil will come back and everyone else will as well To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Monday, November 30, 2009 7:01 PM

DANCINGNEKO

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 3:59 AM

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 6:42 AM

MSA

ok people less lurking more posting To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:48 AM

NAVYSEILS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:06 AM

FREELANCERTEX

oooooh L4D2. the bf has been contemplating that game (he finally caved and got an xbox, and borrowed L4D from a friend). I personally am more of a gears of war person :D *evil grin* Enjoy L4D2, Navy. Dead Rising 2 will be coming out shortly as well. sooooo cannot waaaaaait for the end of semester. Week and a smidge before finals; though, one of my finals is next week (professor is leaving for spain finals week to see her husband's family), at least 2 if not three are take-home (all english classes), and the other one shouldn't be too *too* hard, I hope, though I'm doing relatively well in that class so *shrug*, i practically don't have a finals week, lol. Cheers for another set of classes under the academic belt!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:09 AM

GORRAMGROUPIE

*Insert witty post full of jokes and cheerful stories here* Sorry that's all I got, unless you want me to play proud poppy and gush about my kids. Sorry about the job loss, SR. 'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' Police Squad

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:05 PM

NICODEMUS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:48 PM

STINKINGROSE

Gush away! It gets lonely without the voices in my head. (Hits a moving target with fluorescent spraypaint. Stops to consider the mobile night light for a moment. Giggles.)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 6:36 PM

MSA

Hey I go on and on about my kid... why shouldn't you:) Hugs Rosie eeeeeek naked Nico ( hey try saying that 5 times fast...gigglesnort) Ok must brag that Navy is doing exceedingly well in all his classes!! To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 3:11 AM

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:40 AM

FREELANCERTEX

Yay Navy!! teehee, you called MsA's kid Little John XD that's cute, funny and cute. Fingers crossed on the job hunt, SR.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 2:10 PM

MSA

Yup he has outgrown the newborn stuff Rosie. You'd be so proud in 4 weeks he's gone from 6 pounds 15 ounces to 8 pounds 15 ounces:) Obviously a good eater ( which is making for some pumping problems, but still good) He's in the 0-3 month stuff now and you should see him smile. He has the cutest crooked smile like his daddy.... mind you it's hard to catch him smiling so we haven't a picture just yet. Got my fingers crossed for you on the job front To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 4:56 AM

FREELANCERTEX

Thursday morning bump. Wow, growth spurt for the little one already?

Thursday, December 3, 2009 9:16 AM

MSA

morning all:) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. --Francois Mauriac It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.