Hello everyone. This is me using a public library computer to log in for the first time in bleens. So this will be very short as they will close soon ( Read more... )

So I think I will skip the obligatory apologies for not posting sooner, and just write about where I am now. David and I have both decided that the solution to our job burn out, as well as our cash flow problems, can be found in the wonderful word of travel nursing. And, if there's anyone who reads this I haven't talked to lately, we are indeed ( Read more... )

    So I just realized it's been a whole month since I've had access to a computer (did I mention that my husband really thinks this thing is HIS, and that his WOW needs outweigh my need to do whatever) and since I've had both hands free.  (Bobby is napping in his crib.  He fell asleep in my arms, and woke up a bit when I put him down, so I'm not ( Read more... )

  So yesterday I stayed home from work because I didn't want a repeat of the day before.  Monday I went to work on the first of my all-evening-shift schedule (yeah), and I felt fine.  Then I got sick halfway through the shift.  I tried to shake it off, but I ending up (I wish I were kidding here) throwing up in a patient's sink.   The only ( Read more... )

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  Today David's grandfather died.  His name was William George and he was 94.  His health has been failing recently, but when I first met him 10 years ago he was still strong and independent.  He was still driving (at 35 miles an hour and in daylight only, but still).  He had only recently "cut back" his gardening to one huge field.  I think his ( Read more... )

 
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   And an exersaucer, a rocking horse, a life jacket, a teething duck (he likes the beak, not the chew toy limbs), some great books (Make Way for Ducklings, Sea Bird, etc), a large teddy bear, a stuffed elk, and yet more clothes.   And yes, I meant it.  Bobby is now the proud owner of a Cricket .22 gage bolt action single shot rifle (Not a Toy. ( Read more... )

   So I'm back to work now, and what little progress we'd made with getting Bobby to sleep has gone out the window.   So now that we're both working, both David and I are regularly exhausted.  Today I have had the good fortune to get called off from work due to lack of patients.   But I was supposed to work 7P to 7A today.  Yesterday I worked until ( Read more... )

   Well folks, that time is nearly upon us.  Tomorrow I go back to work.  Thankfully, David is home tomorrow, so it doesn't also have to be Bobby's first day in day care.  That comes on Tuesday.  Sigh.   I am ridiculously nervous about going back.  It feels like it's been forever, and I worry that I'll have forgotten my skills.  I know it'll all be ( Read more... )