My first official “get a paycheck” job was at my local McDonald’s in 1976. I wore a uniform that looked like this:


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There was a bit of a crisis in my work life recently when I discovered that my Neonatal Resuscitation certification was expiring in November.  I'd like to blame my lapse in observing this fact on the busy-ness with my mom and  her surgery - but I cannot honestly say I'd have paid attention.  I had even looked at the card in my wallet on the very ( Read more... )

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I have updated the links to the left side of this blog. Some I removed. Some I've added. Some I've shifted around. The links are only some of the blogs and sites I have listed in my RSS readers ( Read more... )

I woke up on Saturday morning to a LOT of snow already. My plans to get to work with a car that was parked up around the corner at the entrance to our development were for naught. I walked through the very high snow and arrived at the car with wet jeans and snow down into my boots. The roads were not plowed, the car did not have enough clearance ( Read more... )

School. Frustration. Time suck ( Read more... )

I was all signed up to do NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation) this morning. The re-certification class is 4 hours - except that I learned after arriving this morning that there is no actual "class". It's only a quick review with a 1/2 hour video, we would then take the test, and then do hands on review with whichever neonatologist is running the mock ( Read more... )

Work yesterday, work today.  Love the job, miss the family - especially on weekends since DH works this morning and I'll be gone before he gets home.

Daughters are off hiking with DS1 (who I got to say hi to briefly) so hopefully they won't get rained on as they walk and I hope they take lots of pretty pictures.  Having siblings is fun so I'm glad ( Read more... )

A beautiful day, a free t-shirt, a long walk in the sun and breeze, concluded with very sore feet. Since there was supposedly "no parking" at the park, I parked at the library. Which is a mile from the park. Arriving at the park, there was plenty of parking. Ah well - I walked a couple of extra miles with my car parked at the library so it was ( Read more... )

I was dreaming this morning that I was late for work. I was in our office where there was trash all around from the previous evening when I'd left and I was not dressed in work clothes and it was 9:30am and I had been due in at 8:00am and I wasn't quite sure how I got there and I thought my co-worker was already there and out to the patients and ( Read more... )