My Chaotic Realm

I felt so cold and empty, like a lost soul out of place..... This morning's refrain. Was going over a paper with a friend one day and they had written believe as beleive. That whole I before E thing, maybe. I pointed out that it was spelled incorrectly and the way they would know in the future was remembering that there is a LIE in BELIEVE. Not very comforting when you think about it, no? Anyways... this is what I woke up with and I wont share the journalling process with you because i KNOW there are better things to do with your day... like find me at the 38th annual Harrison County Gem & Mineral show today!! I will leave you with a shot form NOLA instead :-)

This morning's song . I am now back from vacation (last week) followed by prep class that was held in New Orleans all of this week. I went up Sunday afternnon and spent some time in Audobon Park, got a Hansen's Sno Ball, ate at Camellia's Grill and took pictures with Marvin & his painting. Had a great time, met some new people. Went to the Quarter, of course.. walked my ass off instead of driving...ate good food... the norm for NOLA. Got done last night but had to go to work from 5-7:30pm, not too bad. Felt weird after being gone 10 days, how funny is that? First stop was not the house.. was the beach. Sat on the shore & ate my dinner, then went home to unpack & sleep. Today is the 35th (36th?) annual Gem & Mineral show in Harrison County... I am SO THERE! opens at 9am, I am sucking down coffee as I type. have a full week coming up but only 4 or my 7 days are filled with work, so I am pretty excited about that!! Work has hired one new tech so there is ho...

Been really really busy @ work but this week I only work 4 days and today I am OFF!!! the weather may not cooperate but I am headed for the beach, regardless. High tide is @ 11:26am today & if the sun will come out there is a good chance of spotting the stingrays. I am running out of time since they will be leaving on their annual migratory mating trip...usually late August, early September. Contrary to what people tell me (upon learning that is what I am looking for whilst standing in the water) stingrays do not attack people. However, if it is stepped on the stingray will utilize its spine as a form of defense. Although being pierced by the stingray’s spine is painful, it is rarely life threatening to humans. So, packing my cooler and grabbing my sunscreeen!

So, woke @ 3:07am on my day off.... went back to sleep. Awoke again @ 7:34am to find the Little River Band playing in my head. Since work is trying to run me into the ground I would LIKE to think this is prophetic and our ROD will finally see that having the unit be short staffed is a BAD THING and will let the FA hire at least one person to replace the 2 we lost in May. There are 2 main perks to working where I do. One is the fact that we are only SUPPOSED to be working 3 days per week, every other day (MWF or TTS). You work like a dog those three days but you get 4 days off which is plenty of time to do laundry, hold art classes, have lunch with friends, sit and read on the beach, etc. Working 5 or 6 like some of are is frekin' ridiculous! arghhhhh The other is PTO (Paid time off) which is accrued as a percentage of hours worked. I am accruing roughly a day of PTO every week. Right now the pisser is that you can only accrue up to 120 hours. Then it stops. Unless you use it,...

the title is also my reason for not posting in a month.. .geez!! I am working in a field where the average worrk week is SUPPOSED to be 3 days... try FIVE. and when those days are anywhere from 11-15 hours, you dont really wnat to work them all in a row... not even back to back. Yet, that is what we are currently having to do. We are short 2 technicians... one transferred to a unit closer to home, the other moved out of state when spouse was transferred due to job. ARGH. so, rather than complain, I will share with you a response to one of my art groups where the question was posed "HOw do you store your paper?" And, if you know me (why else are you reading this?) then you know that I have a somewhat serious paper addiction. No, I do not want help with it or a 12 step program. I am well aware of my addiction to paper and I embrace it! LOL Here you go:: I am a tad OCD in my paper habit... argh. I store 12x12s in the IRIS scrapper containers on wheels...there are 6 clos...

Picture from last nights 2.5 mile walk around the local walking park...

This morning's song was by Avenged Sevenfold, "Warmness on the Soul" . Follow link to video with lyrics. You'll know why. Managed to work 40 hours in my three days this week. Today it's still raining and I have to go get the essentials... cat litter & cat food. Also going to see if I can rustle up a dehumidifier. Yes, you read that right. I have a humidifier for the winter months but my envelopes are all self-sealing at this point. They are not meant to be, but they are in this humidity. Sigh. Laureli scoped one out yesterday so will go take a look-see today while she is with clients. Sadly, another patient died yesterday morning (at home, in his bed) :-( He was my first patient as an extern that I did the entire treatment, from cannulation to removal. We even had our picture taken together after the successful treatment. Sad day. On the bright side, went to get a wellness screening as part of Davita's Village Vitality (requirement for lower healt...