Monday WLS Express

Hey guys!  Lets get this Purple Train going!!  Woo HOO!!

I hope everyone had a great Independence Day holday weekend!  Mine was pretty good!  I didn'****ch any fireworks or anything but had a great day with the family and friends eating bar-b-que.  It was nice and cool on Sunday but it didn't rain nearly enough for me!  We mostly got spit on with little drizzles here and there!  I still had to water the garden.

Which by the way, the Loofah is growing!  The other gourds are doing pretty well also!  But we have monster squirrls who love tomatoes around here!  A neighbor caught them getting into his tomatoes and told me that they were probably the culprits eating ours!  They have gotten some big ones and we haven't gotten hardly anything off the bushes!  I think next year I'm going to plan a little better and not be so diverse in my selection of plants!  More of what we eat and less of what I know will go to ruin!  LOL!!

Well, better get going and get a shower so I can go to work!  Hope you have a great day!  Love ya!!

Good morning all! Hope everyone had a fun, SAFE holiday. I know this week will seem especially loooooooooooong, as we look forward to Saturday. Can't get here soon enough for ME..for sure!!!

Got a big ole piece of humble pie, or whatever that it you call it when God bited you in the butt. Last night I was supposed to go back to the "difficult" pt I had been with Thursday night. he family was hard to please/had fired everyone, etc..but..for whatever reason wanted ME back..figured....anyhoo...I nearly cried on the 30 mile trip over..grumbled all the way...got there...went up to his apt...wife answers the door..the pt DIED yesterday morning...his hospice company failed to contact my agency...I felt so guilty for my ugly feelings....His wife just hugged and hugged and thanked me me for Thurday night, etc. I DID take the best care of him I could (between him giving me bloody nose, etc)..and I didn't wish him dead..but...I still didn't want to be there, so I felt guilty...Anyhoo..so I came back home...wasted time and gas...no $$....BUT...got called this morning...am going to a nursing home 20 minutes  from home (where I was last week) for a gentleman with AIDS...will work 8am-8am (yes-DAYLIGHT) for as long as he needs me...or until Friday, whichever comes first....Whew....CRAP...enough about me me me me...

Doesn't LYNNETTE have an interview today, or did I dream that? Or was it last week? Anything new on LIZ's job front?

BRYAN-I'm sure you've lost your FIFTY by now-go ahead and SHOUT IT, brother!! You know we're gonna hate on ya, anyway..lol

SUSAN-enjoyed your texts yesterday-hang in there!!

Any of you who don't use FaceBook really need to join...you find out al kinds of secrets about your friends (right, VICKI????) I had lots of fun with it last night. All of mine and DANA's "tests" seem to come up with the same answers. We might be clones...except in the LOOKS dept...Dr Frankenstein sure short changed ME!! Well, at least he had a sense of humor..

Okay..shower calling..be back soon...without fumes

I LOVE Y'ALL AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT !!!!

Gina AKA Nurse Diva

Hugs to you Gina!!!  You do provide the best possible care for your patients!  You have no idea how many "re-runs" go through my mind when Chito was in the hospital and I wanted so badly to call you so you could come be with him and with me.  I wanted someone genuine to be there with us.  I know you put your best effort forth.  That is why you are you love!  You are an Angel of Healing and Comfort!!

Love you lots!

Blessings,

Nina

NINA...and I hope you KNOW I wish I could have been there!!

Now Gina, don't go telling all my secrets.  All I have to say is that quiz has given my husband a whole new appreciation of books and libraries.  Wink ... wink ... nudge ... nudge. 

BTW, if any of you don't use FaceBook, next time you see Gina, ask her to show you her NURSE TATTOO!

Well I was not there this morning but did weigh myself before I soaked for a bit this evening Ms Gina and was at 341.8 or 53.2lbs lost so far since May 15.

Good morning Train Riders!  I'm up and moving very slowly this morning.  I think I'm going to try to go in to the office for a few hours, then have my MIL come get me and take me home.  I'm doing ok as long as I don't have to stand or walk around a whole lot, so I'm hoping I'm making the right choice today.

We're going to have coffee tonight in Plano with Danni and whoever else wants to drop by.  Not sure about the time yet, so one of us will post later with the details.  I've made a lot of progress on my cross stitch projects the last few days.  I finished one up and made a significant dent in my big one.  I'm thinking I might enter the big one in the State Fair next year.  I'd like to go this year and see what the ones that win look like so I can have the best shot next year.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day!

Debbi

glad you are feeling good enough to try work - if you make it till close to 1 call and I will come get you and run you home

the ones we saw last yr that won all seemed to have 3 D stuff - santa with a fluffy beard, flowers iwth  effects that made then physically stand out - I LOVE the ones you do esp the purse one - that will always make me smile - wondering if I could make it into a purse? if not/I don't get to it then I am framing it to put somewhre I will see often b/c it makes me smile -

Good Morning!  It's Monday again, wow time just flies when we get old, lmao.  It was a good 3 day for sure, time spent with family and being Suzy Homemaker.  I'm starting to feel like Danni, now if I could just get her exercise desire I'd be a happy camper.

My FIL loves to garden but doesn't put up anything, they cook what's fresh and they want and either throw away or give away the rest.  This weekend I canned 10 pints and 2 qts. of figs, 10 qts of okra, 3 qts of eggplant and 4 qts of my on rotel tomatoes.  Gonna do more this week of the figs and okra and then I'm done.  I have a fabulous fig cake that everyone loves me to make, very high sugar so not WLS though.  Even made it for Teacher's Appreciation Day last year and they called and asked if I would share the recipe :).  And, of course, okra is a staple in Louisiana during the winter......ya know gumbo (chicken and sausage or seafood) gotta have okra in it, lmao.

Work is busy as usual, not complaining cuz I have a job but I would like to take out a couple of idiots that work there.  Why can't people pull their load.....lazy coworkers that act like they never heard what I'm talking about **** me off and I get to deal with it again today.  One positive about it all is I LOVE what I do and I don't take crap from anyone anymore so I just tell it like it is......like it or not, if it's your job then do it; I don't mind helping really I don't but I'm not carrying someone.....especially when the dodo makes way more money than I do, enuff about this I ain't letting it ruin my week already.

Well time to get moving, running late cuz I want another day off and it isn't going to happen so off I go.

Remember to LOVE yourself my peeps and take your vits (this to me too, bad vit weekend), lots of liquids, protein first (oops gotta work here too today).

Hugs,