55 posts tagged “work”

• Seeing random shoes (not pairs of shoes) alongside the street or road. How do shoes get thrown out of a car? And why do they throw just one? Does it make sense to throw one and keep one? What good is one shoe? Unless you're a pirate, I guess, but to my knowledge there aren't a lot of pirates in Rochester.
• Old guys with ring tones that sound like porn. Seriously, I witnessed this today. This guy who had to be 80 was standing there and just as I passed him by, his phone rang. Boom-chicka-bow-wow.... Well, ok, to be honest, I've never watched porn (and have zero interest in doing so), but that's what everyone says the music sounds like.
• Why I say I'll do things that I know I have no talent or capacity for doing. I think it runs in certain parts of my family that people think they're capable of things they're not. I really hope I didn't inherit that gene. I might have, though. We're having a baby shower for a coworker tomorrow and I thought a rubber ducky theme would be fun. I have this recipe for a ducky cake, and in the picture it's just the cutest thing. I've made it before, but what I apparently forgot is that to build this cake requires an ability to transcend the laws of physics. It was one of the most frustrating experiences I've had in a while and it looks terrible. (I had to pour myself a glass of Malbec afterward.)  I'm going to bring it in tomorrow because I'm too tired to run to the store right now for a normal cake, and I'm going to ask opinions. Like anyone would say that it looks dumb anyway...  I've come to the conclusion that I'm an idea person. Which means I need to work my way up enough to where all I have to do is think and I'll have people to do the actual work for me.
• What posesses people to steal pumpkins off of people's porches and smash them in the street. Someone please enlighten me: how can this possibly be fun? It's rude, it's stealing, it's destructive, it's messy, and it makes little kids cry. Where is the pleasure in that? Or maybe the more appropriate question is, what kind of person finds pleasure in that?

[Insert something witty here that summarizes this post in to a nice tidy package. I never was good at introductions or conclusions.]

My poor blog, it's become so neglected. I promise one of these days I'll actually have something worthwhile to say. In the meantime, I'll try to scrape together a TonT.

Loathe:

• Being tired all the time.
• Watching my poor boy and his friends get crushed in three baseball games over the weekend. This was his second (and last) tournament of the season. We got to the point where we were just hoping for them to make some plays because there was no hope for them winning.
• Having to hear my little boy say, "I stink at baseball!" and try hard to fight back tears even though he was around his friends. :(  (For the record, he doesn't stink. He has some things he needs to work on, but I maintain that he's got potential to be a solid player, even if he never becomes a star.)
• Knowing that Joey's team that's been practicing for 5 weeks on a team we paid $60 for him to be on got crushed by a team of kids mostly a year older than them, that's been together since March, whose parents paid $500 for them to be on. Seriously! In third grade!
• Not losing weight like I've wanted to since we restarted South Beach a couple of weeks ago. I've lost 2 lbs. I started closer to my ideal weight this time so knew the weight loss would be less dramatic, but still I was hoping to see some better results. Oh well. Plug away, I guess.

Love:

• Watching my kids when they don't know I'm watching.
• Watching a project at work that I've been leading for almost a year finally come to fruition. We're working on getting everyone trained and will implement on July 21. The new process isn't perfect, but what process ever is? It's WAAY better than what we currently have. I feel such a sense of accomplishment, and I daresay I'm looking pretty good to the higher-ups! I had a great team, though...which goes a LONG way. I'm proud of them.
• Cuddle Time: a ritual in our house where all 4 of us pile onto Brian's & my bed and just watch something on TV. And cuddle. :) The kids are always asking, "Can we have Cuddle Time?" I love that they want to do it, even when we have to say no.
• The unpredictability and variety of midwestern weather. Last week it was pushing 100; today it's not even 70. As they say, if you don't like the weather in Minnesota, just wait a few minutes. Gorgeous weather is always nice, but I need it to change now & then. I could do without snow, though.
• Even though the games were not so great, at Joey's tournament last weekend I got to meet all of the parents. It was so much fun. In particular I spent a lot of time talking to the mom of a boy that Joey has gotten to be good friends with over the last half of the school year. Now they're on the same team for both tournament and house league baseball. I like her a lot. And the really cool thing is that they're thinking of switching their son to Schaeffer Academy after he finishes elementary school, just like we plan to do with Joey! Crazy. She said she's been praying for a good friend for her son, and to think that my guy might be the answer to her prayers just about makes me want to cry. In a good way.
• Holidays! Because they equal days off work!
• That Brian checked out the X-Files movie from the Bookmobile today. I'm finally going to see it, Kelly!

Are you bored yet? LOL

As aforementioned, I fully plan to give this blog some attention once I actually start having coherent thoughts again. :)

I'm getting ready to go to bed but thought I'd hop on Vox for a second. It's a lot of work catching up on blogs!

If you are my Facebook friend then you might have seen that somehow I've actually managed to get A's in four of the five study guide courses I've taken this semester. Which is a shocker when you consider I've been averaging somewhere around an 80% for most of them. I guess that's considered good for these study guides, though, as they're meant to prepare us for the board exam and according to the coordinator, if we get a 70-80% then we're doing well. I can't help but hope that the boards aren't as tough as the study guides. Oh well, whatever. As long as I pass.

Oh yeah, I say "four of the five" because I'm still not done with Immunology. I was supposed to be done the 15th. I'm such a slacker. I'm getting there. Problem is, though, that the summer semester has already begun, in which I'm taking Hematology, with a lab that starts June 1. I think the assumption is that I've at least STARTED the lecture material before the lab. Yikes. I'm using Monday and also taking Tuesday and Friday of next week to get caught up, i.e. get done with Immunology. I've pretty much lost interest in it.

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Moving from the "being a student" to the "being a teacher" front, my CLS students finished their blood bank rotation today. They've completely spoiled me for any future classes I will ever have because they were so fun and all did so well. I will miss them but I'm happy to be able to focus on other things at work for a while, such as the huge project I've been leading for the last 11 months - I'm ready to wrap it up! And I know the students were ready to be done, as this is their last course before graduation.

Sheesh, what in the world am I going to do with myself with no school, no students, and the competency assessment procedure off my back? Maybe I'll get my personality back and will blog more!

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Tonight for supper I attempted to recreate the hamburger with cheese, bacon, & fried egg that I had for lunch the other day. They were pretty good, although not quite as good as Newt's. (Completely irrelevant side note: on that webpage for Newt's, the two blondes at the top of the page are my coworker's daughters.) Brian and the kids loved them, though. (The hamburgers, not the blondes.) I was going to take a picture to put up here but I didn't know where the camera was and I was hungry. Trust me when I say my hamburger looked stunning.

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Brian's going to run the Med-City Marathon on Sunday, his first ever. Tomorrow, Bailey and Joey are running the kids' marathon, where they had to run 25 miles in 1/2 mile increments. Tomorrow they will run 1.2 miles and then will get a medal. They'll get to cross the same finish line as the big people when they run the grown-up race. I'm hoping to get some pictures. Tell me why it is that my kids can run a mile without hardly trying, and for me to run a mile I have to train up to it and even then I can barely do it. I think my lack of endurance can only be explained by a mitochondrial disorder. (OK, not really.)

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We got a new roof this week thanks to some hail a few weeks ago. Insurance paid for it, minus the deductible. The guys who did the shingles did a nice job, but in the process wreaked plenty of havoc. Apparently they were thowing stuff down from the garage roof & somehow chipped the paint on the garage door. So they decided to go into the garage and look for some spray paint to "fix" it. (I know, right?) Well, in doing so they tripped the security system (we had been told they wouldn't need to get into the house so we'd set it when leaving for the day) and with no one around to disarm it, the police were dispatched. Then the dumb thing started going haywire and had gone off two additional times by the time Brian got home from work. I sure hope we don't get a fee from the police department. A guy came today and fixed that, so I guess we're good on the alarm system.

The roofers also messed up our DirecTV antenna while they were working, so we were without that for a day or so. (Thank goodness we could get the American Idol finale over the antenna!) When the guy came to fix it yesterday, we had figured all that was needed was a slight adjustment. Nope - we needed a whole new dish because whatever those crazy roofers did, they bent up the actual dish. How one would do that I have no idea, unless they dropped it. Anyway, that's all fixed and I think between the two repair calls the cost won't be too bad.

But the roof does look nice.

My first Things of the year.

Bad:

• That I can't apply for this job. Well, I could, but then what would I do after six months? But it's a job I could totally do. Except that I assume they'd want me to actively participate in the nightlife..that would depend on just how wild they'd want me to be. I'm so not wild!  [Although, it's probably a good thing that I'm tied down because at this stage in my life I feel like I do want to go out and be wild, only it's not appropriate for me to do so. I had no desire to be wild when I was 20, which was good because now I have no regrets.]
• (This is likely why the above bullet item is so enticing) That it's -18 degrees outside. You know, there are lots of people who come to Rochester for jobs at the Clinic, and just by sheer probability most of them are coming from the south. At this time of year I always feel a little bit sorry for them because of the bitter cold. On the other hand, I don't really feel sorry for the ones who are only here temporarily....

Good:

• 104.1 JACK-FM from the Twin Cities. It plays all the music I like (the secular stuff anyway). A little 70's, some 80's, some 90's, some alternative, some softer stuff. I discovered it a couple of years ago when I would drive up (through the Cities) into the central part of the state for some meetings, but the signal fades out about 30 miles north of Rochester. I just learned yesterday that they broadcast online! (Yeah, I know that's a given for most radio stations these days; truth is, I never thought to look for it online until a coworker played it yesterday.) Take a listen.
• The scale registered some weight loss today. Not much, but enough to make me feel like something's happening.
• That I got on the treadmill this morning, even though I got up later than I wanted to and I DID NOT want to run. But I forced myself to do it. I set it for 10 minutes at running speed - which still didn't get me to the mile I could do before Christmas - and was dying after about 3. I pushed myself, though, and I did it. I love that feeling of beating my inner I-can't-do-it!
• On that note, I love that I can be very determined when I want to be.
• Sale shopping at Victoria's Secret. FOR CLOTHES. Do you think I'd mention it if I was buying other stuff? I love VS pants because they're about the only ones I can find anywhere that fit me. And the more weight I lose, the harder it becomes to find jeans/pants that fit.
• That a project I'm leading at work is going well. My original timeline is way off so we're not going to be done when I'd hoped we would be, but we make good progress at every meeting so I'm considering it good. I'm hoping we have enough good information that I can submit an abstract for a poster to our annual trade meeting in October. It'll be in New Orleans, a place I've never been.

Hm, well, I guess that's it! Have a lovely Tuesday.

It's been a while since I've experienced a good old-fashioned blizzard.  I guess that's something you give up when you move into a city.  I've kind of forgotten what a real snowstorm is.  Today I had my memory refreshed: it's below-zero windchills, HUGE windgusts, many inches of snow, and drifts that you can't drive a minivan through.

This weekend we came down to Iowa to my parents' house for Christmas.  My sister & her family didn't even make it because of the blizzard warning that was being posted. (They have a cabin rented in Tennessee for this week and were afraid that if they came up here, they wouldn't be able to make it down there.)  We also knew of the blizzard warning, so had pretty much come into the weekend knowing that we may not be able to get home on Sunday. 

We came down Friday night, which was surprisingly decent considering what it'd been like earlier in the day. (School had even been cancelled.)  Saturday had a lot of snow coming down & blowing around. My brother Moon and his family came from Des Moines (maybe 150 miles to the SE of here) and just barely beat the weather. My other brother Stephen & his family live just a few miles from here but they brought their jammies, just in case it got bad enough that they decided not to try to go home. And it turned out to be a good idea, as they did stay overnight.  It was actually kind of fun for us all to hang out.  The kids were all being good and the adults weren't really being cranky either. :)  We played a couple of games and watched the Cowboys get beat in the final game at Texas Stadium.

This morning church was cancelled due to the weather so we all slept in, which was nice!  We continued the eating-fest from yesterday and around 2:30 we decided we should try to get home.  We thought that maybe by this time the plows might have gotten out and cleared off the roads some.  When we turned out from my parents' farm onto the road, they really weren't bad except for some smaller drifts and the fact that visibility was low due to blowing snow.  But that's the kind of stuff that around here, you just drive in and if you don't do anything stupid you'll be fine.

We got about 10 miles from my parents' house and had driven through several drifts when we met one that our van couldn't defeat.  Unfortunately, we don't have 4-wheel-drive so once we were stuck that was basically it.  I think it was because of the lessened visibility that we didn't realize how big and deep this one was until we were in the middle of it. Fortunately for us, my brothers were nice enough to come & rescue us.  We got back to my parents' and looked online at the road conditions.  We'd been thinking about trying again and sticking to the more-traveled routes but decided to just stay put until tomorrow morning, as Rochester is under a Winter Storm Warning tonight until 6 pm and we only have a hour of daylight left.  It just didn't seem wise with these cold temps and kids in the car.

Normally missing work would not be an issue for me at all - you all know that I'm not very work-oriented.  However, I have pretty much zero vacation time, between being sick, having sick kids, taking time off to catch up on school, having to be home for the window installation guy, and doing my clinical chemistry rotation.  Oh yeah, and there are a couple of holidays coming up too.  So I hate to miss work, but I basically have no choice. I should be able to get in by noon tomorrow. 

I'd be much less annoyed if I could at least watch the Vikings game, but the DirecTV in this area doesn't offer local channels, and therefore my parents rarely get regional games.  Oh well. I guess I'll just hang out and maybe we can play a game later or something.

Wish us luck driving home tomorrow!

I was getting ready for bed (yes, at 8:30, shut up) when it dawned on me that I hadn't posted yet today!  Well, since I don't really have anything to say, here's a quick rundown of my day.  (If you stop reading here I won't be hurt.)

• Woke up at 4:00 with my alarm and promptly hit the snooze button....again, and again, and again.  Eventually it dawned on me that I should probably see what time it actually was...it was 5:17.  Oops.  And I had to be at work by about 6:40 to catch a shuttle bus to be at a meeting by 7.  And I had to wash my hair too, since I hadn't yesterday.  But by not exercising, eating breakfast, or packing a lunch I managed to make it on time.  After the meeting was over I convinced a friend to go over to the cafeteria with me for some powdered eggs & super-salty bacon.  I think the last time I bought breakfast at the cafeteria was when I was pregnant with Joey and craving bacon.
• Perish that thought before you think it.  I just really like bacon.
• One of the first things I did after I got back to my desk was check to see if Steph had had her baby.  Congrats to her and Jim!
• I sat in meetings/classes from 8:30 until about noon.  All were interesting, but it did get to be a lot of time sitting down. I've heard that someone at Mayo has developed a treadmill-desk.  You actually walk on it all day, at a very slow pace so you can still do stuff, but you're moving instead of sitting.  I would really like to get my hands on one of those for days like today when I can feel my butt spreading as the day goes on.
• The afternoon was boring, really boring.  I didn't have much to do, although I did get from the library The Ultimate Guide to Competency for Health Care Workers.  I bet THAT'S not on Kelly's list.
• Had eggs again for supper because we don't have much for food in the house at the moment, and I'm also trying to really cut back on carbs for a few days because I've been so bad lately.  No matter to me, though; I love eggs.  And these were real ones (the ones I had for breakfast didn't really count.)
• Dropped the kids off at their school for Fiesta Fun Night.  They do a fun night every year where they get to go hang out at school & do fun stuff.  No parents allowed (except for chaperones, of course, which we were not because we're bad parents like that).  I had a meeting at church at 5:30 and after that there was volleyball at church.  I was able to convince Brian to come so that we could both play volleyball.  It was so fun!  I don't think we'd played for at least a year, and my forearms feel it.  But I found that I moved better on the court - due to being in much better shape than I was a year ago.  I love affirmation!
• Left volleyball early to pick up the kids   Got home and put them to bed.  And here I am.

And here I go.  It's bedtime.  Night. 

Happy Voting Day!

(btw, I’m feeling much better today.)

We’re having some friends over tonight to watch the election results roll in, so since I will have things to do after work, I decided this morning that I’d try to vote before work – that’s if the line wasn’t too long.  The school where we vote is just a block from our house, and in the direction I drive on my way to work, and as I drove by I seriously debated whether or not to stop.  There were a lot of cars parked on the street, and the polls had only been open for 5 minutes.  I had to be at a meeting at 8, and it was 7:05.  Could I make it? I decided to try.  It took me a few minutes to even find a place to park, but once that was done I went inside.  Man, that line leading to the gym was loooong!  Longer than I’ve ever seen at this school, but then this was also the first time I’d ever tried to vote in the morning.  (However, something tells me that the voters are more motivated this time around.)

I debated whether or not to just turn around and leave, but I didn’t want to have to go back after work and face long lines again when I have to get ready for company.  I decided to wait it out, watch the clock, and see how long I had to stand there.  As it turned out, the line moved pretty quickly but I was still pushing it.  Once I actually got into the gym, the line leading up to the table was pretty long.  But all of a sudden, there was a lady yelling “A through G!  A through G over here!”  Sweet!  There was no waiting in my line.  The other lines were huge.  Hah!  I guess maybe that was Providence making sure I got to voice my vote.  J 

All of our ballots were on paper.  It was basically a standardized test, where you take the black ball point pen (not a #2 pencil) and fill in the oval next to the ticket you want to vote for and then stick your ballot into the big sucking machine.  Now, before I left home, I had been watching the news and some lady had texted in from somewhere out East and was going on about their paper ballots and how antiquated they were.  But you know, I’m hearing about all these problems they’re having today with electronic voting machines and I’m thinking that paper may not be so bad after all.  As long as there are no hanging chads, of course.

So I finished voting and I got out of there with pretty much exactly 30 minutes having elapsed.  I headed to work, knowing that I was probably going to have to search a bit for a parking spot since by now it was about half an hour later than I normally like to get there.  (I shoot for 7 to 7:10 precisely so that I can find a parking spot.  It’s great motivation for a lazy person such as myself.  Get my butt to work = Shorter walk from the parking lot.)  Sure enough, it was a bit of a search and I ended up parking a couple of blocks away from my building – and as an aside, making the trek in my 4-inch heels over the cracked asphalt & potholes was rather interesting.  I didn’t think to wear my tennis shoes. 

But get this: I got to my desk, put my lunch in the fridge, and took the elevator ride up to the 7^th floor for the meeting…..and I walked into the room RIGHT AT 8.

Good thing I didn’t try to vote twice.

Love it

Every morning at work we have a conference.  It starts at 8:30 and lasts about an hour, and while I usually don't play an active role, I try to attend for the educational content and the interesting patient stories.  This morning, for no particular reason, about midway through conference I had a strong craving for cottage cheese.  I knew I had some at home, but I hadn't packed any in my lunch today.  I had yogurt, but it's just not the same.  So I decided that I'd walk over to the cafeteria and get me some cottage cheese, and maybe I'd even add a little red pepper if there was any on the salad bar.

So I walked over to the cafeteria and looked around.  The salad bar had been torn down from breakfast but not yet set up for lunch, so it was empty.  There are a few refrigerated cases that contain various salads, etc. that might have worked on any other day, but today a chef salad was not going to cut it, especially not at 10 am.  They even had some sushi, but not at 10 am (not to mention my first time trying sushi was not going to be prepackaged stuff from a cafeteria!).  But there was no cottage cheese, and nothing else would do.  I needed that creamy. lumpy goodness.

But wait!  I looked over and there was a lady with a cart, setting up the salad bar for lunch.  At the bottom of the cart I saw a container of it.  There it was, all white and yummy, even garnished with a bit of leaf lettuce for aesthetic value.  So I walked up to the lady and said, as kindly as I could, "Excuse me, but will the salad bar be open as soon as you're finished putting everything out?"  I guess I should have been a little more assertive because I was hoping that she'd say, "You can have something now, what do you need?" 

But no.  She gave me this glare like I was asking her to remove her arm and throw it into the blender and said, "Yes.  It will be open when I'm finished."  Sah-ree!  I didn't mean to ask you for a favor!  I debated sticking around until she was done and being really obnoxious about it, but I decided that it wasn't worth my time.  But man, I wanted that cottage cheese.  I paid for my diet Pepsi and left, dejectedly, to go back to my desk.  Fortunately, lunch came not too much after that episode and I at least got something to eat.

But NOW, now that I'm home, I can eat cottage cheese to my heart's content.  It's still a bit chilly for me, so I'm letting it warm a bit to room temp so that it can enjoy all if the flavor to its fullest.

Cheers!

PS - by the time I reread this prior to posting it, my cottage cheese was gone.  :)  And was it ever good!

Loathe:

• Politics.  A month ago I loved them, now I just have a sick feeling about it.
• Ditto the sick feeling on this whole bailout thing.  Let me tell you, I'm going to be pretty ticked off if I have to pay for someone else's irresponsibility.  Especially on this grand of a scale.
• That I'm still up & wide awake when I should be in bed.  I'm going to feel this tomorrow!

Love:

• The good kind of visibility at work.
• Buying 5 dozen eggs at Sam's.  And we will eat them all!  We love eggs, and they're perfect for our diet.
• That yesterday we went back to Phase I of SBD (because our eating had gotten slightly out of control) and I feel GREAT!  I haven't had carbs in 2 days and I feel great?  It's true.  I guess my body likes me eating like this.
• Not being crabby now that my eating is under control.  Seriously - look at the size of my love list vs. my loathe list.  It's a physiological (not psychological) thing - less wavering of my blood sugar, I guess.  I feel more like my real self (except the sarcasm; that will probably never go away).  And I had a good run this morning.  I just really feel good about myself today - who I am, what I look like, and what I can accomplish.
• The big bag of red peppers I just bought.  I plan to eat at least some of them with cottage cheese (the best thing ever in the world - try them together if you never have), and will also dip some of them into the spicy hummus I made the other night.
• My heated mattress pad.  Way better than an electric blanket.  And perfect now that the 40-degree overnights are settling in.
• Eclipse mints and Orbit gum.  I'm infatuated with all of the Orbit flavors (many of which aren't featured on their website, strangely).
• This wine we had on Sunday night.  Only ours was from 2002.  This was from one of the places we visited when we were in Sonoma last year.  I never keep track of price, but I'd have guessed it was way more than a $15 bottle as the website suggests.
• Discovery Health Channel.

Seriously, who needs drugs when you can shop?  If I actually had money I'd be drunk on shopping.  It makes me high.

I have to bargain shop most of the time, and I have my favorite places to get stuff (TJ Maxx, Herbergers' shoe room, my sister's closet).  Normally I don't go to the mall because I kind of hate it, plus it's all the way across town.  But this morning a coworker told me about a super-cheap clearance rack at JCPenney's, a store I rarely go to.  Partially because it's in the mall, partially because I don't often find things I like there.  But for $2.97 skirts, I'll drive across town!  I found the rack she was talking about, only now the skirts were $1.97!  Less selection than there was when she was there on Tuesday, for sure, but I found a skirt I liked and a top to go with it.  The top was $14.99 but it's still a pretty good steal for an entire outfit!  Cheap enough that I decided I could afford some jewelry to go with it. :) The skirt is a kind of watercolor print with white, black, brown, and turquiose, and the shirt is a short-sleeved blouse with a tie that goes around the waist, in the same turquoise as is in the skirt.  It's quite flattering, if I do say so myself.  I haven't worn bright turquiose since the late 80's...wow, it's an incredible color on me!  I don't say that to try to sound like I look great or anything, just that it really compliments my coloring, especially my eyes.

Since I was on a roll, I went down to Macy's to see what they might have on clearance.  I found this Anne Klein skirt (cheaper in the store than on the website).  It was one of those things where it literally called out to me and said, Melissa, you must buy me!  I'm not kidding, I heard it!  I might have been the only one who heard it but I heard it nonetheless.  I also found some brown Mary Jane-type pumps that would have killed with the outfit I got at Penney's but didn't get them.  Unfortunately, I had to draw the line somewhere.

I got home and was showing Bailey my finds (it is my duty as a mother to turn my daughter on to the same fetishes I have) when I realized that I didn't have the jewelry I'd gotten at Penney's!  Dang it.  I remembered the cashier putting the jewelry (I also got a pair of big copper hoop earrings) into a smaller bag, but I guess she never put it into my big bag.  So I called the store and had to go back down there to get my stuff.  That was annoying but what are you gonna do?  I enjoyed two trips-across-town worth of singing my guts out in the van, which is always fun.

Ah, yes.  Now I have new stuff to wear to work next week, and a pair of pants on order too, from my favorite place to buy clothes online.  And the best part is, ever since losing weight (up to 22 lbs lost now!), it's actually fun to shop because I get to look for a smaller size on the tag.  And I feel like the clothes look a little better on me.  It's such a psychological boost for me to feel like I can go to work (or church; the wardrobe is interchangeable) and look great.

This post was total vanity, LOL.  That's the mood I'm in today.  I wore great shoes to work today; I guess that did it to me.