Monday Mornings

I am back at the "w" I have been visiting my blogs I like to keep up with and Jailbyrde is no longer there! Bummer she was always a good read.I have lots to tell you about the weekend but I want to wait until I get home so I can post pictures with the story. It was fun to say the least and Dooley was the best looking weenie there!It is a nasty looking day out there today from my big office windows! I see some lightening going on too! Yuck! I had ot take my car to the shop this morning and it is now 2:30pm and I haven't heard from them yet. That is not a good sign for me getting the car back today. My mechanic's name is Brownie. He is an elderly man from the Boston area. He has a gravelly voice and an eye patch. He is like a Yankee pirate only nicer and does not try ot cheat yout outta money!I will posrt more when I get home ok!

Hurry up Already!

I am getting all excited about the big day tomorrow. I tried Dooley's costume on him yesterday for the first time and he is adorable. I didn't have my camera at home. I had left it at work or I would be posting a picture right now but don't worry I will have plenty for you by tomorrow night! The parade is tomorrow morning and the races will follow. He is in race #33 so it will be in the afternoon. Akasha has a great costume and I do have a picture of her I will post when I get home this evening for you! She is so cute! I am just trying to hurry up and get through today so I can get home and prepare for tomorrow.
Hey,does anyone else besides me watch the new show, Drive on the Fox network? I love that show and wish I could be in a race like that! Looks like a blast except for all the violence. I mean have you seen that Cougar? I love the guy who drives it too. He was a main character on Firefly which I so loved! Oops, here comes the boss gotta go!BYBY!

I'm a Lifer

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Oh my god today has been really noisy in here in the cubicle listening to the talker drone on and on and on! One of the field nurses came in and was sitting beside me while we worked on something on the computer and within 30 minutes she was like does she ever shut the hell up over there. The answer to this question is no, she does not ever shut the fuck up. I wish I could have a cup made with her picture on it and underneath could be a big caption that says here ya go have a big old cup of shut the fuck up!!LOL I make myself laugh. Easily amused I guess. I so want to go see Moma Mia the broadway musical is in town until sunday but so far no one wants to go with me!Wah! I gotta split because it is after 5 pm and believe it or not she is still talking over there! Just remember when the cops come asking questions you know nothing! What body?

Cubicle Life

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As you all nauseating know by now I share my office space with The Talker.I have a little portable dollar store radio on the window ledge in my half of the room. My choice of music is eclectic and my favorite station is KUT-FM the university radio station which also plays National Public Radio too. They will have a very varied range of music from soft rock to mediterranean music. The latter is the one she had complaint about. Seems she feels threatened by this sort of music. WTF? How can you feel threatened by something in a different language? It sounds kind of Bollywood ya know more Indian Pakistani than Taliban.Oh no she didn't! So, today she will hear some 101X. Sounds heavy doesn't it? Well, it is! You know all those screaming bands like Linkin Park (hate 'em) to Pantera. Actually,they play a lot of Pantera!Are you Talking to Me? LOL This wil be fun. I mean if you're going to be scared of the music then let me give you something to be afraid of honey!I mean honestly people have you ever heard music that scared you that wasn't associated with a movie? Because I mean The Exorcist and Jaws are 2 that I can think of right now. Ok I am rambling so it is time to get to "w"!

It Must be Tuesday!

I am listening to the radio and what comes on but mine and Rat bastards song Truly,Madly,Deeply! Man, that cuts some kinda way let me tell you what! Nowadays my song is this one off Chris Daughtry's album which rocks so much!

Over You

Now that it's all said and done,
I can't believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down,
Like an old abandoned house.
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath.
I fell too far, was in way too deep.
Guess I let you get the best of me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

You took a hammer to these walls,
Dragged the memories down the hall,
Packed your bags and walked away.
There was nothing I could say.
And when you slammed the front door shut,
A lot of others opened up,
So did my eyes so I could see
That you never were the best for me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
Well I'm putting my heart back together,
'Cause I got over you.
Well I got over you.
I got over you.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

Dooley Scared me

Yesterday morning I got up at 6am to see the AM diabetic people by 6:30. I put the dogs outside and ran out the door. I came back only to find that Dooley was not outside but inside and he and Buffy had gotten into the kitchen trash can and had scattered all of it all over the kitchen and living room.It was a mess! I threw all dogs out and cleaned the mess up. As soon as I put the mop out on the patio I noticed Dooley was throwing up. I figured he had eaten something in the trash then Buffy started throwing up.Dang it, ya'll. So, I clean that up and bring Dooley back in where he camped out on the couch and proceeded to throw up about 8 more times mostly water and foam. Buffy threw up a couple of more time. I started to worrry about them both but mostly Dooley because he is so small and he was throwing up a lot more. He would lay there and look pitiful and cry. I went to the drug store to get some Emetrol and Pedialyte for him. I brought it back and gave both of them the Ematrol. He was so stubborn to take it though I couldn't get enough down him and he continued to throw up. I had to put the Pedilyte on ice so he would take some.He loves ice! My cousin came home around 5pm or so and she helped me to give him a little more medicine. He slept until 1:30 this morning when he woke me up and went to the kitchen and drank and drank and drank more water. Then he went in the bedroom and peed on the rug by the bed! I put him out while I peed and he came back in and played until 2:30 or so then came back to bed and slept until the alarm went off this morning. I am tired! My bags have bags this morning! But Dooley and Buffy are both fine now! Good thing too, because Mr. man has a race Saturday!

A Moment of Weakness

I got up this morning and saw my AM diabetic patients. When I got back home I was putzing around in the front yard and there is a jasmine that is growing over an archway from the front to the back yard. The Rat Bastard planted it many years ago and it is glorious this year. Full of blooms and smells heavenly. I sent him a text message saying so and he texted me back almost immediately saying do not send me anything else thank you. Well, I was shocked at first. See, the last time we had any contact at all was back when I called and left him a voice mail that the cops were looking for him at my house. I never heard from him when I sent that message. I was thinking about him when I was looking at the jasmine. I am still trying to mend my broken heart and for the first time I wasn't thinking hateful thoughts about him. So, I guess it was a moment of weakness. 1000 days to get over him and it has only been 29 months and 10 days.But who's counting. Chris Daughtry has a song on his album #4 Over You. It is like my mantra these days.

Saturday is Here!

Good day bloggers and blog stalkers! Here is a baby picture of Dooley. I am working this weekend and came home to do some laundry. I got a new front load washing machine. It is so nice to have clean clothes. Before the agitator was not working so basically I had soaked and spun clothes. Not so good. It's the little things that make a girl happy. I am going out to see the weenie dogs at my friend's house again today for a little while.One of the nurses is having a jewelry party at her house at 2pm but she lives so far up in north Austin and I have diabetics to see before their dinner which is around 5pm. Old folks get up at 6am and go to bed at 8pm. When I get old and retire I am staying up late and never getting up before 10am!

Why I Love Fridays

You Are the Middle Finger

A bit fragile and dependent on your friends, you're not nearly as hostile as you seem. You are balanced, easy to get along with, and quite serious. However, you can get angry and fed up with those around you. And you aren't afraid to show it! You get along well with: The Index Finger Stay away from: The Pinky

What Finger Are You?

Hey I got this from Lynda's site. I love the finger I am since I use this finger the most. Driving that is! Wow. I am just now noticing that today is 4/20 and this is my 420th post counting the posts here and from the Rain Queen site. I have said a lot of nothing mostly!My auntie came over to my house last night to fit Dooley's costume. She is a great seamtress but she hates dogs! Go figure! She loves me though and so she will make his costume perfect!I am so glad it is friday. I have to work this weekend but at least it is seeing pts. all day and not sitting next to the talker. I love seeing patients! My diet is going well. I have lost a few pounds according to the scale underneath my bed.I hate those dang scales! I am under the watchful eye of the psycho boss lately. Seems she was remiss in her job and because of that an incident occured and of course she wanted so badly to blame me for it but alas it was all on her! She got spanked by the big bosses and well, you know how shit rolls downhill and I am at the bottom of that particular hill!In my job, it would appear that I am the pivoting piece for workflow. So, now you have the talker who can't triage her dumb ass out of a paper bag on one side and then you got the psycho boss on the other side who won't get shit cleared out so the workflow can continue.As you can see it no flow! I could care less today. I am just wondering to myself why I didn't take today off. I know I thought about taking it off last year. Oh well, 4/20 isn't a holiday...yet!

Good Morning!

Well, I love the new look. Of course, I have to give a big shout out to Lori who did this for me as I still cannot get the whole template change thing down without wiping out the rest of my sidebar stuff. I am a hopeless twit!I have been busy getting ready for the big weenie race/parade day coming up weekend after next. I so wish all of you could just come down and see this for yourselves.I got plenty of floor space and a big back yard to pitch a tent!I bought Dooley a collar yesterday that says Love me tender on it! I will post a picture. I woke up this morning at exactly the right time which is good because I forgot to set my alarm and I never heard my cousin taking her shower this morning. Then I managed to leave the house at exactly the right time and wonder of wonder I hit all my landmarks along the way at exactly the right time. I got to work before the talker and got some difficult stuff done very easily. I turned on the radio and a Counting Crows song was playing.:)I am having a perfect day! I am unanimous in this!LOL I gotta go buy a lottery ticket at lunch. The sun is shining through my perfect window in front of my desk. I could break out in song at any minute!I am off now to have a great cup of coffee and some delicious yogurt! Have a wonderful day friends!

Friday the 13th

Yeah, I have made it through another week of hell in the office! I am going to my friend Nancy's house this weekend to practice with Dooley and her dogs racing. She is the person I got Dooley from. She is also a nurse and she is so funny. She raises Daschunds and has about 20 or so. Her kids say she loves her dogs more than she loves them and she is alright with that. She tells me she was once married and went through a nasty divorce. She says she thinks about getting into another relationship but every time she does she just gets another dog. She says you can tell she thinks about it a lot!

It is official. Dooley hates his costume but too bad. I'm the Moma and he is wearing it! He is so cute. I am having some alterations done on it because he is so small and his little legs are so dang short! I will post pictures of him when I get it to fit!

I have registered him for the race and hope to hear back soon when he will race. I have asked for a Saturday race but who knows. I am so getting excited ya'll. It is the most fun you can have with your clothes on! I wish each and every one of you could come and see the shenanigans! It is a hoot I kid you not! I will be sure to take lots of pictures. I will even take pictures tomorrow of our practice runs. Maybe if you see a puppy you like you can get one from Nancy.here is her website:www.zwergteckelslimited.com
Check out the puppies. She just had new ones!

Closing Day

I have been working on refinancing my house to get a fixed lower rate. I close today at 6% on a 20 year loan. My plan is to pay 1 extra payment /year thus enabling me to be able to pay my loan of in 12 years. Yeh, I will be mortgage free by the age of 62. I am happy about that. My next big move will be to work on my 401K which has been languishing for over 1 year. I am excited though to have the whole house thing behind me. I feel like I have accomplished something for sure.
The talker L. lost it yesterday. She was over there hemming and hawing around and one of the nurses got frustrated because she was having to wait around all day for her to get a new patient into the system so it would hit her IPAQ and it was after 2pm already and the nurse was fit to be tied from waiting for what?? Who knows what the hell she does over there and the nurse came to see me and voiced her concerns and I directed her back to L. who blew up and told us both in a loud voice that she was tired of everyone pushing her to do everything and she was not about to drop everything to make everyone else happy. The administrator was close by and came in to see what all the hoo=haa was about and L. started crying and saying how everyone was against her she just can't take it anymore. I think she ended up pushing a lot of her work off on the administrator. She is still in a mini tither today because I can hear her anxiety in her voice as she answers the phones and does her thang over there. Hey, my name's Bennett and I ain't in it! Gotta go sign my life away.

Monday Monday

Well, back to work for us all after a cold and wet weekend.I worked this weekend and it was miserable weather on Saturday for sure. I never saw the sun once and it was sleeting in the afternoon and then again that night! Sunday was not much better but at least the rain abated. It was still chilly at 37 degrees!Texas weather, ya gotta love it. My cousin in Dallas says it snowed there! So much for your Easter spring clothes!
Today is nice because the talker is out of the office. She is having car trouble. I mean, I didn't know you could take the day off if your car is on the fritz but, hey, whatever gets her the hell out of here for a day is all good with me! Thursday and Friday we had a head on collision in this little office. I was on the phone Thursday afternoon with a client and the phone was ringing off the hook as usual. I was already engaged in conversation so when the phone kept ringing an overhead page went out for a nurse to pick up on line 1. I kept talking but noticed she had not picked up the phone. I put my call on hold and asked the talker to pick up on line 1. She said she was too busy and I said "well, they are asking for a nurse and I am already on a call." She said "well, it is not ringing on my phone" I said "no, but it is blinking and you can pick it up" She sighed her sigh and then picked it up and hung it up before saying a word "They hung up" she shouted at me from the other side of the partition. The call came back and again they overhead paged for a nurse and she reluctantly picked it up. I finished the call with the client and was making a follow up call to the social worker on the same client. She starts hollering at me from the other side of the "wall" about the phone call and I said"I'm still engaged over here can you just handle it?" She sighed and said "well, I am very busy" I said " you know L. I am busy too and I know not to expect much from you ,but, just once do you think you could step up to the plate and be a team player?" Well, that pissed her off and she didn't say anything else to me.
The next morning, Friday, I am looking at the e-mails and there is one in there from her to me and the scheduler,B. It says the client called and said her dressings fell off her leg and needs a nurse to come redress the wound. The e-mail said she didn't know how to see who had seen the pt.so she could not send the nurse back out there. B goes to her and says" L., let me show you how you can look and see what nurse is seeing what pt. or anything in workflow on the computer" L. said " no, I don't want to know how to do that!" B said" no you need to know this and I am going to show you right quick" L. shouts at her"no, I am too busy and I don't want to know how to do it" I told B. " just leave her alone! She said she doesn't want to learn B. I will take care of it with you" L. hollers at me " I did not say that and I don't appreciate you saying that." I said"L. you just said no, I don't want to learn that and I told her to leave you alone! Do not raise your voice to me again!" She started to say something else and I put my hand up and said" I said, DO NOT TALK TO ME!!If you have something to say take it to the boss" (BITCH!) Well, that shut her up! I went into see the pscho boss and she told me I was wrong to make the comment to her about stepping up to the plate. This is a supervisor comment and I am not her supervisor. I told her I had gone from being excited about having some help to dissappointment at the help it was to pity for her because she is so old and slow to disgust because she has no accountability. I asked her how long she planned on letting her be a guest here. She told me not much longer. I have no idea what this means but I also said I was ready to go back out into the field and she told me no not now. I don't know if she talked to L. after this or not.I only know I am so glad to be without her irritating presence today. But now I have to go out to the lake area to take care of a problem on one of her patients. Oh well, can't have everything!

Picture Time

here's Kelly Ho and Lois Ho celebrating Kelly Ho's birthday at Casa Garcia's
Wait a minute! Is that Mariachis setting up to play for our enjoyment?
Wha.wha.wha.what? Did somone say Mariachis? Oh no they didn't!
Wah! I hate Mariachis! I told you hos I hate me some Mariachis!
Connie Ho and Gail Ho try to offer support and love to Jana Ho in her time of need !
But Jana Ho don't you remember that Antonio Banderas was a Mariachi?
Jan Ho loves the Mariachis! And Antonio Banderas too!
Hey, listen up you hos, it's my birthday and I'm ready to dance!
You hos better guzzle those dang drinks cuz Jana Ho just ran out to the car and is leaving the parking lot!

Off the Hook

Okay so I have been having TV trauma in that the cable is messing up on a daily basis. It started last week after a particularly nasty thunderstorm. The picture degrades then the screen goes to black. I called to report the problem last week and they sent a technician out to fix the problem. The only thing is that the next morning when we woke up the cable was back on. The guy came out the next morning and changed out the DVR box and checked the cable lines in the living room and my bedroom. Great! Then on Saturday night around 8:30pm the same thing happens. The picture goes to breaking up and then bam black screen. I went in my bedroom to check the cable in there and it was snowy with poor reception. Kind of like living in the country with a really bad antennae. The next morning I wake up and the cable is alright again. Just a fluke? Now worries. But wait, then on Monday night the same thing happens around 8:30 pm.I called the cable people who tell me I have to wait until next Tuesday to have someone come out. This is infuriating to me because they want you to wait around for hours and the problem seems to be happening in the evening anyways so why send someone out next week in the morning for a problem that keeps happening in the evening. I was not a happy camper to say the least. So, last night I get home and the cable is back on again and then right before AI comes on it starts up again. Oh hell no it didn't!I get on the phone and call the technician again to report this problem and to see if someone can come out before next Tuesday, I think what I said was if that is the case then just turn the damn thing off and reimburse me for this past week of cable. I pay over $110 a month for cable so they are not looking to losing me. Long story short I have someone coming out tomorrow evening after 5pm. They will call me 30 minutes before they get to the house. They told me to try to get home as soon as I can!LOL Oh okay I will!Cool, so now I am on roll and my phone sounds like I am talking to you on a shoestring tied to 2 cans! I got a voice mail on my answering machine from a friend in Australia and the reception was so bad I could not understand a word he said. I didn't even know it was him until he told me! A call all the way from Australia! I swear it is like I live in Dogpatch!So, I have both the phone company and the cable company coming out Friday evening to hook me up!So, you would think no more problems right? Well, this morning I went to get on line at the house and no internet connection! For Pete's sake people! I do live in Dogpatch! And yes, I did pay the bills! Damn the devil!

WOrdless Wednesday

I took the title from Mel but I am using it because the talker is out today. She has a heart condition and had to go to the hospital to be cardioverted. She has Atrial Flutter which could be why she is so dang ditzy!It is so nice in here today without her constant chatter. We do have a wall but she continues to holler at me like it is not even there. I try to ignore her and it is working out pretty good but I also know she listens to everything I say over here too. The staff like the set up better because they can come in to see me and not have to deal with her. She is a conversation hog. Like if someone is telling me about a problem they are having either personal or with a pt. she also has a story about herself that will always top the story I am being told. Like who cares already? Enough of the bitterness though. Today is good. I finished all my tasks and hers too by 9:30 this morning.
Today is tomorrow in Australia and as such it is my good friend Cory's birthday. He is a whopping 29 years old. Please stop by to wish him a Happy Birthday!
Ok ,so who saw AI last night? Can Sanjay get any worse? Please!I am still a fan of KiKi and Melinda. Those girls are the best in the competition. I also like Gina but she is out of her league here. I love Chris too but only because he looks so much like my cousin Tiger's son Dylan. I was thinking last night that all the men in my family are good looking. How about that! I have hot relatives! I would never tell them that though because well, I would not want them to get all proud of themselves. They may be good looking but they are still a bunch of dorks!! Just kidding!
I saw my therapist yesterday and guess what? I am still crazy! No,she actually said she thinks I am coming from a better place now. I still have issues but I am coping with them much better. The talker is still an irritant and Nancy is still dead but I am doing better dealing with it. The Rat bastard... well I still think of him daily but I am no longer sad or missing him and I am no longer angry when I think of him. It is like I have no feelings for him anymore. Now, having said that if I saw him or talked to him I may have a different story but in theory I am doing better in that respect. I am however not ready to undertake another relationship at this time and if the truth be told I don't think I will ever be ready for that. I tell you this last one almost killed me!I wish I had a funny story to tell you but I got nothing. Go see Steph for a laugh. She is always up to something over there on her blog site.

Monday Update

Well, we are all moved into our new offices.i have a little cubby in the same room with the talker but there is a 5 ft wal up between us. I can still hear her but now I can ignore her. She tried hollering at me and I just ignore. I finally told her this afternoon that if she wants to talk to me she can call me or get up and come over to talk to me but I was not going to be listening to what she is doing over there. We will see how it works out. Apparently, I can't go out in the field unless there is a replacement for me here in the office. Crap! So, we shall see if they are going to find me a replacement or not.The postive side of this is that I get to look out of 2 windows and it is on the 2nd floor so it kind of feels like I am in a treehouse. I look to the east and the other window is to the north. I will take a picture of my cubby and post it for you to see. I have started Weight Watchers today. I am so fat that I am miserable and I have to lose some weight before the knee can get fixed too.Why is it so easy to get fat but not so easy to lose it especially once you get old like me! I just have to get used to counting my points.I have had luck with WW in the past. I just hate going to the meetings. They seem punitive because you have to weigh in and then everyone gets kudos for weight loss. Say for example if someone loses 10% of their body weight that is cause for celebration but for me that is a lot of weight. Just seems like a lot to share with all those strangers. Hell, my 10% could be all some of those ladies have to lose!I have all the information and my cousin is going to start it with me too. My back is to the door now so anyone can walk up on me goofing off like now so i have to be quick. I will post more later.