rebo, that soup sounds delish!
ems, I am soooooooooo jealous! I loved Rome! Have a gelato for me!
rigs, perhaps it disappeared during an auto update?
gt, that’s one HUUUUUUUUUUGE ash! 
I was raised Catholic and always felt very important getting ashes. And I loved Palm Sunday because it meant only one more week till we got CHOCOLATE!!!
Still cold here. Coldest winter since 1958. That’s half a century in case anybody was wonderin.
Off to the job boards.
Tupug
Pay for the service call, and it’s all good. 
Meanwhile, my neck and shoulder are killing me. Almost to the vicodin and Jack stage, so you know it’s serious. Hopefully, it’s just the cumulative effects of sitting in lousy chairs for so long at work, and will get better quickly.
Rebo, great minds must think alike, because guess what I posted to my blog last night? 
Mine’s a little different, of course, but that’s the magic of minestrone… you’re supposed to make it with whatever you’ve got kicking around the vegetable drawer.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I am sooooo jealous right now. I’ve been dying to go to Italy, but it’s just so expensive compared to some of the other places I want to go… Too bad my company doesn’t have an office in Rome they can send me to. 
When’s the surgery, Taters? Thinking lots and lots of good thoughts for you.
GilaMonster is making croutons today and boy do I have garlic breath!
The “ashes from pancakes” thing? A joke ------- at least in most cases. The ashes are actually purchased through the Synod (in the case of us ELCAs) and are made from the burning of palm fronds under certain conditions I never fully understood.
However ------ since the pancake dinner is tradition, and tradition being Pastor cooks, and some Pastors being horrible cooks, my money says the joke may have been lived out in real life at some point in history.
So that’s why I always come out of that worship looking like Al Jolson! Whoda figured? :smack:
Mid-morning blurfage
I may be a crazy person. I stayed up all night to work on homework and stuff. I got my room cleaned up and major progress done on my homework. Unfortunately it’s not done. Between the super-drowsy times and an upset stomach, I couldn’t focus for a while. But I should be able to finish in time. I hope.
I’m also afraid I’m getting sick. 
I wish I could get caught up on my homework already.
I’ve been on a steady diet of tons of ibuprofen for the last two days, thanks to an achey tooth (the one with the crown) that’s making my eyes and my ears hurt with it. I hate toothaches
pushes down on LiLi’s blood pressure
Hugs, chocolate, pats on the back and gropes: to be distributed as needed.
Not really… Lent is a time of repentance and reflection, a time to examine your life and to do something to try to be a better person. Traditionally, that means giving up something (not eating meat, not drinking, no caffeine, no chocolate, something tangible) to remind yourself of Christ’s sacrifice. In non-traditional churches like mine, we’re encouraged to do something more spiritual or more directly related to being a better person, e.g. doing devotions daily, praying more, not gossiping (for a whole 40 days!), serving at a soup kitchen, etc. I believe **LiLi **said she’s going to do the Rosary daily. Something like that. So it’s not really something to be “happy” about per se, although everything we do should be with a joyful spirit, so… that’s where my theological explanation is going to end. 
I missed Ash Wednesday service last night 'cause I assumed it was at 7 so we were sitting down to eat dinner at 6:30 (well, 6:29 technically) and I pulled up the church’s website, and the service was at 6:30. Even if I’d wanted to run out on my dinner, the church is ~10 miles away so by the time I would have put on boots, coat, etc., gotten into my car and driven there, the service would have been half over. Who schedules a service at 6:30??
My company’s name is changing today. No other changes. Just we started as one company, created a second company while retaining the first’s name for the umbrella company, and now they want to be able to add more companies without having them all associated with the first. So a new name for the umbrella company. It was weird to come back from lunch to a new sign on the building.
I never knew taxi works for a place that makes umbrellas. Umbrella Company, what a catchy name!
Howdy Y’all! Three down and two to go! WOOHOO!!!
Tonight’s dindin is all about leftovers. Thus it shall be a little bit of left over sketties and leftover veggie soup. If that ain’t enough sammich makeage can be done. It’s Lent. We’re supposed to suffer.
Ok, Ima go check out other stuff.
Later Y’all!
ETA: First on Four!
My iPhone just reminded me that I have a dentist appt after work today. Boooooo.
Worse yet, I have to swing by a neighbourhood bakery on the way, because I’m featuring them in my next piece for the food website and want to do a brief interview with the owner. My definition of hell is taking photos of delicious baked goods when I’m not allowed to eat anything sugary.
taxi, I’ve been through several rebrandings in my seven years with MegaCorp. Definitely a disorienting experience.
Um, so the instructor today said (when I asked a question in front of the group), “You are competing with me and you need to stop.” 
I don’t see how, since I have no knowledge base and was not trying to teach, but to learn(?). My questions were content based, “if I input x, does another drop down menu appear to allow for stats?”–stuff like that.
Yeah–whatever. :rolleyes: I didn’t think I should confront her (we all just wanted to go to lunch by then), but I must have looked like she’d hit me with a wet trout. I stammered an apology (which I wish I hadn’t now–I mean, WTH?), and I didn’t say another word all day.
I got so bored in class that I started doing my Fred and Barney. (I don’t know why it’s called Fred and Barney, but it’s all continuing ed like hand hygiene, fire safety etc). I figure I’ll eventually learn the damned computer charting because I will have to, but I am too tired and brain dead to learn today.
I am now coloring my hair and eating chocolate. I will say she hurt my feelings–I was asking questions and engaged in learning. Bah. What a stupid thing to have ruin my day. So I won’t let it. But (of course) I had to come in here and whine about it!
What a rotten and insecure individual, rigs!
It’s almost time to go to water aerobics. I took a little nap and when I woke up I found that my cousin can’t make it… again. For the fourth time. Well, at least I will make it. I did shallow water instead of deep on Tuesday and it was alot of fun and didn’t make me sick. Hopefully the trend will continue.
See you all later!!!
Water aerobics sounds like fun–and quite a workout (all that resistance). Go!
It’s 4pm and feels like midnoc. That’s what getting up at 0530 does to me. One more day before the weekend. Yay!
TH got some very good news today re a deal he is putting together involving wind energy. So, picking out my refrigerator box for retirement may be premature… Let’s hope it pans out.
I have nothing to say and nothing to do while I wait for my hair to dry.
**rigs **- my daughter is taking a class and she comes home complaining what a lousy instructor she has, and she critisizes specifics for a teacher’s point of view. Makes me giggle. But your instructor sounds like a real butthead! I probably would have said something snarky like “What? I’m not allowed to ask questions??” But that’s just me.
Home and exhausted. I worked another 1.5 OT today. I’ll be so glad when this idiot project is posted. Next week… <fingers crossed>
Glad tomorrow’s Firday. Gotta cook supper now. Maybe I’ll post later.
rigs my guess is you asked a question she didn’t have the answer to. Gasp I ended a sentence with a preposition! Why on earth would I do that for?
Anywho, just think of it like this. She probably has no chawklit to go home to like you did so you got the better deal.
I’m ready to go to bed too. Then again I was awake at a quarter of four this am.
We have Yom Kippur - sometimes affectionately called “Instant Lent”
Thanks, all. I am just so about the whole thing. What an odd comment. Up until then, I had thought she was a good instructor. Now I just think she’s a jerk. She is also a software person, NOT a nurse, so she doesn’t understand when we (RNs) ask how or why or what else can this particular bit of the program do–because we know what needs to be charted/recorded/assessed etc. And lemme tell ya-some of the stuff in this program is just bone-headed stupid. For example:
This is charting/documentation software. It will replace (most of) the chart. It will be used on all units and departments. So, you might wonder why the following exist:
There is no diaper choice–not for infants, not for adults. Not in the intake and output menu, not in the “devices” menu, not in the patient care menu. We are told to use “stool” for diaper. This makes no sense logically or legally. Babies don’t continually poop (it just seems like it), nor do incontinent old people (ditto).
A foley is a Foley is a Foley. Nope–here it’s an “indwelling catheter”. Yes, Foley is indeed a brand-name, but like Kleenex or Band-Aid, it has become the thing itself. There is no trademark or whatever infringement to using the term Foley. And yet, that option is not available.
Anatomical terms for injection sites: spotty at best. “Left hip” doesn’t do it, legally. Any RN could tell you that.
Height and weight input at admission does not automatically load into other portions of the program. So, if you have a weight based drug (say an IV drip), you have to RE-enter the damned weight. This is duplicating effort and is stupid. What makes more sense is for the original weight to do that (auto-load throughout the program) and then any NEW weights must be input.
Medication Reconciliation just makes no sense. The concept makes a great deal of sense. The notion that we need or want a text box to input “white pill, doctors says for my heart” is a big No-No. If the pt does not know his meds, we are to obtain the pharmacy phone and call them for a list of current ones. “Little white pill, doctor says for my heart” has no place in the chart EXCEPT under pt education–meds. Oh, and a text box for the pharm name and number? Not on the same menu as the med recon (it is now, on paper, but not in the computer). ARGH!
I could go on, but there is so much…
Free umbrellas for everyone!
KT’s grandmother passed away last night. It was not unexpected. By the time I met her more than three years ago, she was already unresponsive in a nursing home. But his mom is pretty upset. (It’s her mother.) So hugs for KT’s family would be appreciated.