looks like I've got a new job. Fortunately, a previous co-worker from 7 years ago is now director of nursing at a facility that's a actually a bit closer (not much) to where I live. We'll confirm it on Monday, but it seems to be a done deal. My intention is to work only four days a week and to really focus on the nutrition business, so eventually ( Read more... )

just got home from Memphis, at a three day international conference for Juice Plus+. Had a great time. This product continues to impress me, as does the company. As of last June, they've been using non-gelatin capsules; it's taken 7 years to find a capsule that wasn't brittle and that didn't increase the oxidation of the powders in the capsule. And ( Read more... )

'Abdu'l-Baha said, The reality of man is his thought." Someone else said, "What you think about, you bring about." and another, "what you think about expands." it's so amazing that how we feel about any moment or event is simply due to how we feell about it ( Read more... )

last week, the first three days, I just couldn't get "in gear," no matter how much I willed it to be otherwise. Then, on Thursday, things broke through and life's got productivity happening again, amidst each day. Steph suggested that it was fall-out from my working an evening shift, followed by a day shift the next day ("doubling back") last Sat/ ( Read more... )

ramblings ( Read more... )

"By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds ( Read more... )

the past two or three days at work, I have simply felt more comfortable. I suspect that first "three months" that it takes humans to adjust to change (studies show it takes 3-6 months for most humans do become comfortable with new changes). It's just feeling easier to get everything done within the alloted time. And if I do go overtime, it's not as ( Read more... )

(um..I posted this to ljbahai, and wanted it to also go to my friends list, but didn't find a way to send to both at same time? so am pasting it here for freinds. if there's a better way to do this, please fill me in on it--still new at this tool ( Read more... )

I arrived at work about 10 minutes early. Had already decided to try to get done about fifteen minutes early, because I wanted to drop over to our wonderful HUGE bookstore in Portland, Powells ( Read more... )

so now it's been about9 weeks at this new staff-nurse position. I'm relying on the basic psych finding that it takes himans 3-6 months to adjust to any change. So I'm almost half way there ( Read more... )