A time-traveling, hijacked MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Blurf. I’m going to add to this week’s TMI allotment: I’m having intestinal unhappiness. Not quite intestinal distress, just unhappiness. But it’s making all of me feel unhappy. I wanna go back to bed.

I’m wondering if someday down the line (as in after the latest round of layoffs at KT’s job which will be in a week or so and then after he finds a new job if necessary) my work would be open to a part-time arrangement. As long as KT had the benefits, we don’t really need two full-time salaries. And it’d be really nice to have more time to volunteer, take some interesting classes, and not be so stressed out. And work would get to keep a trained employee, and maybe have a more effective employee if I were more able to concentrate for the hours that I would be here. That’s what’s in my head anyway… we’ll see if I can make it come to pass someday, even if just for six months or a year or something. 'Cause our retirement accounts might not like it if we were non-full-time forever.

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Good morning. Up again with a terrible headache at 3:00. Took some Tylenol, and tried to rest. When the headache subsided, I went back to bed until almost 8:00.

I feel better now, but not 100%. Pressure was elevated earlier, but it seems to be normal again. What’s going on? :confused:

I called in sick to work, and my boss told me I get a 4% raise! Yay!

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Not a dang thing to post this morning. Just Blurf, I guess.

gotti, will you be okay sitting at work?

rebo, get that checked out right away! Sounds scary. (The blood pressure, not the raise.)

Cheers to all and sundry others.

Tupug

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Yay on the raise, rebo! Get the blood pressure checked out, though!

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I have an appointment this afternoon.

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Damn, I wish that happened when I call in sick!

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I love my husband, but today I don’t like him very much - he is a lazy-ass SOB today.

That is all.

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Call in sick more often…

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I didn’t word that quite right, did I? :wink:

The deal was, all salaried people were NOT getting raises this year, but hourly and salary-non-exempt were - but we didn’t know when. I’m salary non-exempt. The boss was just telling me that they came through. I’m just glad to have a job, but the raise is very nice.

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And a blurfy Tuesday to everybody. I’m here, kinda. I’m ready to just crawl back into bed, though, looking at the pile of work that has been descending on me today – a rush this afternoon, a Hill rush tomorrow, and a whole pile of other stuff due, respectively, today and Thursday. I really need to come up with a better response to whole piles of work, since crawling back in bed is probably the least satisfactory in terms of getting it done. But it’s still the most pleasant response!

Yay on the raise, Rebo! And I hope the doc finds out what gives with the elevated BP.

Here’s hoping you don’t end up needing all that puking practice this time around, Lili. They say no two pregnancies are alike, and in your case I really hope that’s true! Mine certainly were different. Of course, so are my kids, so that makes sense. I think.

Cute sweater pattern, gt! The top looks like it’s worked an awful lot like the February Lady Sweater, an adult adaptation of a classic Elizabeth Zimmerman baby sweater that I, like about every second knitter out there, have on the needles right now. I actually made it partway down the yoke, and realized that, as warned, it runs waaay big and it was going to be big enough to fit three of me if I continued, so I tore it out and only have a few rows restarted now. And I’ve had to put it aside temporarily for the test-knitting sock (which I will post a photo of as soon as I finish it – I’m about 2 inches from the toe decreases, so I’m making progress), the hats for the charity (thanks for helping, Moooom, and another MMP lurker who I won’t out but you know who you are!), and the graduation scarves for my nieces. One of which currently has 8 rows done and the other of which is still a ball of yarn filled with promise but no knitting, alas…anyway, as usual, I’m over-scheduled. And with all this knitting I need to do? I don’t have time because of all this stupid work! Why do we have to earn a living, anyway? Why can’t we all just win the lottery and be done with it?

I know there was something else exciting (not) I was going to share, but it’s decided to talk a walk from my brain, so I’d better get back to work. Since I’ve got lots and lots and lots, alas. Envy me my exciting life. :frowning:

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taxi, hope you can manage to sort out a part-time arrangement… as long as the money is there, it sounds like a little break would do you a lot of good and it would be win-win for everyone.

A girl I know through work decided to take a one-year leave of absence last fall to focus on renovating her fixer-upper house, and I’m envious of how relaxed and refreshed she’s looking these days. I’d love to do the same, but chances are I’ll end up being the primary breadwinner in a couple of years if The Boy decides he does want to go to grad school (which he’s been pondering for a couple of years now).

Hope the doc can figure out what’s wonky with your pressure, Rebo. That sounds worrisome.

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It’s hooooooottt!

And I donwanna!

Scary thing is that it’s hotter at home.

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Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day! Woohoo! I’m back from lunch and full of chocolate fudge brownie. :smiley:

Yeah, I’m hoping it might work. Now that we have 3 of us in our group at work again, we could probably get away with me being 60% instead of full time and not have to hire anyone else. But, as I said, it’s contingent on KT either keeping his job or finding a new one. And if I’m going to do this eventually, I have to not complain if he looks at this summer (if he is laid off) as a few months off and doesn’t work really hard at finding a job right away.

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LiLi–we were all in awe of yer mad puking skillz.

I am back from coffee with Ms New Nurse and another friend. MNN kept her complaints about other staffers to a minimum this time (thank god), but is now focused on what she terms as impossible things: getting pts discharged in a timely fashion. IOW, she is puzzled as to why Bed Control is calling her and pestering her re her pending discharges. “Don’t they know I’m moving as fast as I can?”

Welcome to nursing, says I.

Off to do NOTHING today–not even laundry. I am busy, busy, busy for the next 2 weeks, so today I do nothing. Yay.

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:smiley:

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I’ll join the rest of you on the Blurf Bench. It was one of those days, and if I’m forced to make clay this evening, it’ll be even blurfier. But I should get my coral reef piece back today, so yay for that!

Tortelloni (or tortellini?? Can’t recall which) for supper with a mushroom sauce.

Other than that, no news. It is a pretty day and the house is open. Scruffy thinks I should stop now and feed her, so I’ll be stopping soon. Normal feeding time is about 10 minutes away anyway.

Is it Firday yet?!?

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I need to write a cover letter tonight. I will get this damn thing written.

Related question: if I took a study-abroad class one summer, how do I put that on my resume? Complicated Roommate says it should be “Correspondence Course” but that doesn’t sound right to me.

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Stoker and those before him did the traditional horror tale - Whedon was the first (at least AFAIK - or am willing to admit) to bring it into pop culture and twist it a little so that not all the vamps are the bad guys.

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If you mean you actually took a course abroad, then no, that’s not right, Spaz. I would list the course name and then the name of the program and location. That’s just my off-the-top-of-my-head advice.

Home from work. Tired. Not going to volunteer meeting. Worked too late and am too tired.

Off to veg a bit, then back with more…

GT

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It was a study-abroad class like a regular university class with a professor from my uni but we were in England at the time. I may just delete it.