I'm ready for a day off...

...but unfortunately that's not gonna happen till next Friday. Well not exactly I have the 9th off but I have an orientation for the Lpn school to go to and it's suppose to last 3 hours. So I don't really count that as a day off. So far I like where I'm at now, there's been a little grumbling but it's nothing really someone mentioned why I was on a section for 4 days, well 'cause that's where they put me. They rotate the sections, well are suppose to anyway, you work one for 4 days(or 5 if you pick up a day) and then you get your day(s) off and then when you back you move to the next section, rinse and repeat. So the other ladies told me to not worry about it I'm only doing what I'm suppose to be doing, this lady is almost always on a certain section herself...hmmmm. Anyway it's not a big deal, with one drama leaving somebody is certain to want to fill that spot. That somebody is not me though so they can find someone else to pick on. I'm just there to do my job, make sure all my residents are clean, dry and fed and whatever. I would like to be on friendly terms with all my coworkers but with some people that takes time (you know the ones that are waiting for the newbie to screw up so they can jump all over her). There are certain working habits that people do here that maybe they aren 't suppose to, but most people just roll their eyes and go on. As long as I'm not having to do their jobs I don't care.
Welll, after a little mess up eating (I had some pizza and junk early last week) I'm back on track. I lost the nearly 2lbs I gained from eating junk so all's good there. I feel like I don't work out enough but after everything settles down and gets into a pattern, basically after this weekend, I'll get that lined out. My 12th wedding anniversary is coming up next weekend, so I'm trying to figure out what to do there. I was going to go to Dave& Buster's after seeing the commercials on t.v. and thinking there was one in Memphis but no, according to the website the nearest one is in Nashville. I'm not driving 4 hours for that. I do want to go out though, maybe we'll go down to Tunica and eat at one of the Casino's and hope to strike it big. I kinda doubt that, we're just not much for gambling. We're a boring couple, lol.

It's been a while

I've just been busy the last few days. I got the new job and started it already, the last three days have been orientation. I work tonight and tomorrow night at the old job and tomorrow day and Monday at the new job. So Monday night I'll be rather loopy and sleep deprived, but I'll be just fine I swear. 40 hours of work in 3 days time isn't so bad, really. It's not something I'm going to make a habit of though, 'cause I like my sleep.
Nothing else new has happened this week. I like the new job so far, kinda felt a little odd at times 'cause I came in at the end of an ongoing situation between the lady who was orientating me and another coworker. That came to a head yesterday and the administrator got in on it. It's a small nursing home and there are usually about 6 CNA's on the day shift along with 3 nurses the don and adon and housekeeping staff...basically the total staff is small enough that everyone knows everyone and everything and everyone gets sucked in to everyone else's drama. This seems to happen at every nursing home I've been at so I just figure it just what happens when you work with women. Women fight dirty and some can be rather catty, it's always fun.

Made it through the weekend...

Now only one more week of Spring break to get through. I put in an application at a nursing home near here. I've only worked for the company I'm currently working for a couple months now but it's gotten old quick. They asked me to work 11-7 Friday, I was fine with that. Well 30 minutes after I get home I start getting phone calls from my supervisor. She wanted me to come in at 3 and work from 3p-7a (I had already agreed to come in an extra hour early), yea I told her I didn't think so (I was a little cranky 'cause I hadn't slept yet and the thought of working 8 hours getting a just a few hours sleep and then working 15 hours just did not sound good to me). Then I finally get about 2 and a half hours sleep she calls me back asking if I can be there at noon for OT training. This was at 10:45, it's a 20 minute drive to the place so I figured I would just get up and go, she said the training was only gonna last 30 minutes. So I get there and wait for 20 minutes for this lady who is suppose to show up and finally my supervisor calls her and she's not coming in tell 5pm. I'm real happy about hearing this. So I go home eat lunch and get another hours sleep, spend a little time with my family and get ready to be there at 5pm...get there at 5pm and the lady does not show up till 6pm (the time I had originally agreed to coming in). I just love how organized this company is. So basically I've decided this is it, I cannot be at beck and call for them for the little amount they pay me. I cannot just drop stuff and come in, I have kids I have to arrange and plan things and so need nearly a days notice to do such.
So I applied at the nursing home, spoke with the D.O.N. for a minute who said to call her this afternoon and she would see what we could do. I make more money working at a nursing home and will feel more appreciated.
Okay back to the title, lol. Still having the influx of children at our place, I'm getting real tired of the bully tendencies of the neighbor boys though. It's stressing my dd out who is feeling like she has to protect everyone (herself, her brother's, the girl up the street and the boys' own sister and our property) from these boys. She's only ten, this is a tall order she's putting on herself. She's not coming and getting me the instant these boys start their shit like I've told her to (damned independent children I'm raising here...they all are like their daddy and I and try their best to work out all their problems and everyone else's without asking for help). It's not mental bullying either(or not just name-calling, laughing and teasing) these boys have been getting a bit physical as well(kicking, pinching and scratching) and all these girls are doing is minding their own business. I think it's mostly a group thing, 'cause I've noticed on a one-on-one basis these boys are all right and polite. When they are all together though, then they start shit. If my kids are outside either their daddy or me or both are outside and we see and hear everything so I know the girls are not making it up as I've had to go and break up the fights. If this spring break week is what summer is going to be like then it's gonna suck.

Yesterday

All right, now with the typing of that title I have the song from the Beatles in my head.


Yesterday afternoon was busy. On the way to the lawyer's office I got a phone call from a place I had faxed my resume to. So I may of got a job and a house in the same day. Today sometime I have to go to the shop and get the application they faxed there. All eleven pages of it, I swear when you work in the healthcare business they need,or want, to know your entire life history plus some. It's perfectly fine, I understand you only want to hire the best, most reliable people. It's just crazy how many papers you have to fill out. Then they do a background check, a driving record check, a drug test, they check the registries to make sure your not listed as having abused anybody. By the end of it all the company knows more about you then you do. It's okay though, I'm sure I'll love the job. I'm going to be taking care of special needs people this time. It'll only be about a 15 minute drive from the house, compared to the 45 minute drive it would of been to the place of my prior employment. I try my absolute best to work as close as possible to where the kids will be during the day. Beginning in the next week or so they'll be at the elementary school. Staying home is not going to be an option, not with the mortgage payment we have now. We could make it on Hubby's salary, but it would be so tight we would squeak when we walked. We just don't want to live that way, and then if something bad happens we would drown. I want to avoid that as well.
It'll be great, new home, new job, new school for the kids. When we start a new chapter in the book of our life we go all out. Everyone seems to be in a lighter mood today, except for Hubby who is still trying to choke down the amount of the mortgage payment and our less-then-great interest rate. He'll be okay once we get our budget all figured out and everything. We've never paid so much a month for a place to live. It'll take a big adjustment, but it'll work out. It kinda has to now.
Oh I also got an Eastern Redbud tree in the mail yesterday from the Arbor day foundation. My yard is going to be so pretty, in a few years.