Rain, Rain Go AWAY!
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Posted:Mar 11, 2010 12:58 am
Last Updated:Apr 14, 2010 2:39 am
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It started raining last night, occasionally the thunder would wake me. It was raining when I got up. We've had threats of tornadoes off and on all day.
Several years ago I used to chat in a room called 30something, I had mIRC and pIRCH chat programs. It was fun and I spent several hours there everyday. Suddenly my computer went haywire and had to go to the shop. A few days later an F5 tornado blew through the greater Birmingham, AL area. Many lives were lost. There were many with survivor's remorse. "Why did God take her and not me?" kinda things.
I was at work that night but we were only a level 3 category which meant we didn't get much in the way of trauma. However I did take care of a guy who had a broomstick through his calves. The tornado ripped away his home. He and his wife were in the basement. This tornado hit right at dusk and soon it was too dark for him to see. He pulled himself around his basement scattered with debris trying to find his wife, all the while with the broom handle through his calves. She was there, but she was, sadly, dead.
I get my computer back about a week after all this happened. I log into my usual room. People were saying stuff like OMG we were so worried about you since that huge tornado hit where you live. I explained that my computer blew a gasket but I was perfectly fine. "Well we knew you can't have basements where you live, so we were worried that you were blown away." WHAT? I have a basement, why wouldn't I have a basement? "It's swampy down there in Alabama." (Actually, AL is the second most geographically diverse state in the nation, California holds the number one spot) I live in the tail end of the tail end of the Appalachian mountains.
It rained so much here so quickly that some folks were parking their cars in shopping center parking lots where the ground was higher and the Emergency Management folks were taking them to their homes in CANOES! It flooded part of our ER.
A few weeks ago Rocky and I tried to go fishing at my aunts house where I caught the super enormous crappie (17 in long and weighed 2.75 pounds). The lake is part of the Coosa river chain that's dammed up for hydroelectric purposes. Only when we got there the water was too low. They let it drop in the winter in anticipation of spring rains and the thaw way up stream. It WAS down by about 6 ft or so. I told my sweetie that AL Power was gonna fool around and mess up the spawn if they didn't start holding some of the water. I don't think I need to worry about that anymore.
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Wow, more than a month
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Posted:Feb 18, 2010 7:33 pm
Last Updated:Mar 11, 2010 12:34 am
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I haven't been here in a while. I was sure I would come here tonight and my list would be just a sea of yellow with unread posts but that's not the case. Seems many of us have been too busy or like me haven't had much to say.
There was only one post on Sum's blog which is unusual so I go there to see what crazy words of wisdom he has to share only to see that he's another intelligent, funny person who's decided to leave. Shame.
He left because of a law suit, the company he's suing has been reading his blog! What the fuck???
We have no expectation of privacy here unless we're really dumb. Not because this place is full of exhibitionists but because it's a public place. This kinda worries me.
When someone becomes a nurse part of the nursing law states that your license can be revoked for numerous reasons including immorality. So I suppose that means that a nurse can't be a nurse and a at the same time? Laws in Bama are screwed up anyway.
Just about anyone who has ever laid eyes on my blog knows that I'm a nurse. A large part of nursing is teaching. It always amazes me how much people don't know about what goes on in their own body. I used to work with a doctor who was just crazy funny. I'd ask what the diagnosis on a particular patient was and she'd say something like "too stupid to live". This may seem cruel or heartless to some of you until you think about what brings most people to the ER. Many of my patients could either win a Darwin Award or at least be nominated. Many of the injuries we see soon occurred after these words were uttered "hold my beer and watch 'is." Unfortunately, often times the injured person is the of the beer drinker. Mostly though they are of someone who just didn't think. Would you even consider letting your 6 year old have a 4-wheeler of his own, probably not but would you let him ride along with you without a helmet on cause you were just riding in the yard? The yard consisting of 20 acres of farm land?
Or maybe you would believe me if I told you that I had a patient who was a 40 year old woman who thought she'd "out grown" the diabetes she'd had when she was a ? Sorry ma'am but Type I diabetics do NOT out grow their need for insulin. Nor does your high blood pressure go away because you "completed" the prescription that the doctor gave you.
If you think I'm making fun of my patients I am a little but actually I'm ashamed to be thrown into the category of health care professional when someone is doing these patients a great disservice by not educating them.
The diabetic woman is lucky to be alive after no medication for years and years, get your blood sugar high enough and it'll kill you. Same is true for the guy with hypertension who completed his course of atenolol... he came in because he had a headache. Well I guess so, so would I if my BP was 220/130!
If you ever feel uneasy with what your doctor or nurse is telling you, if there is something that you don't understand then ask. There are a lot of nurses here too, ask one of us if you want.
OK, no longer rambling on.
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The long and short of it
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Posted:Jan 17, 2010 7:37 pm
Last Updated:Feb 1, 2010 7:39 pm
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I work in the ER. I'm a nurse. Patients come in, fill out a form describing what's wrong along with their address and such. Lady's hubby fills out the form for her. He describes her symptoms as fever, ear ache, cough and shortness of breast! He meant breath. Love the Freudian slip 
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After theHo-Ho-Ho, Let it Snow, Let it Snow?
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Posted:Jan 5, 2010 2:28 pm
Last Updated:Jan 17, 2010 7:33 pm
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Been almost a month since I posted anything here. I hope you all had enjoyable holidays. I did. My and my grand one was here. So many cute baby pictures. OMG I could just eat her up! She looks very much like my who was THE most beautiful baby in the world.
They're back home in Minnesota now, I miss them terribly.
My tree is still up, I need to take it down but Rocky isn't here and I'm not quite tall enough to do it on my own so it can wait till he comes back. Besides, I like the lighting small lights give off.
I've made no resolutions for the new year although there are a multitude of changes I would like to make but we Geminis are a flighty bunch making it hard to commit to much of anything. Or at least that reasoning is convenient, so I'll use it.
I got a new rod and reel for Xmas but thus far have been unable to put it to the test as it's uncharacteristically cold here in the deep south. We're expecting a couple inches of snow on Thursday which will probably stick as it's barely made it above freezing for day time temps this week. I'll get stuck at work.
Seems I'm always working during bad weather. Since I work in a hospital if the next shift is unable to make it in we have to stay and rotate sleeping so that the patients have someone to care for them. Sleeping on a stretcher in the ER with all that goes on in one is a hard thing to do. However it beats being caught at Hartsfield International (Atlanta) for 3 days for "Winter Storm '93". Dumped 13 inches of snow on Birminghsm, thundered and lightning while it snowed. Our luggage was somewhere in the system so by the time we got home we were ripe! I kept calling the hospital in Birmingham asking them when they were going to have the roads cleared. My coworkers were out "sledding" on backboards! Let's just hope it doesn't get that eventful this time.
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Posted:Dec 8, 2009 11:26 pm
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2010 1:41 pm
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I've been busy. Haven't been here much. My work schedule has my brain all screwed up and I can't sleep before 3AM.
I really have nothing to report. Went Christmas shopping with my sister today. I have lots of gifts in my car but it's raining and blowy here so there they can stay till later today.
My sex life had been sidelined for a bit because Rocky had this weird rash (no it's not jock itch). So I was presently surprised when I was practically tossed on the bed only to see a blur of a head aiming at my crotch.
He finally went to the dermatologist who told him he was probably allergic to the detergent I bought. But... I love the smell of Gain!
Anyway gave him some steroid cream to put on it.
I just may have a Merry Christmas yet!
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In My Own Words
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Posted:Nov 17, 2009 11:33 pm
Last Updated:Feb 22, 2010 7:18 pm
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These are my top twenty most used words. All I can say is hmmmm
love(278639) head(130492) fuck(98719) cock(85689) pussy(81802)
lips(68957) fucking(66536) weekend(64994) tongue(58416) phone(53819)
giving(51303) black(47897) suck(47664) water(46015) party(4576
email(45749) horny(43846) pain(43683) control(41675) blogs(41233
There's at least one page of least used words too.... The last of the last, BDSM movies. Again.... hmmmm
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Any Suggestions?
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Posted:Nov 17, 2009 10:54 pm
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2010 1:41 pm
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OK, so yeah, I have changed. Change is the norm although I have an immense fear of it. However, I think as people age it may seem like holding on to the past is the only way to hold on to who we perceive ourselves to be.
I was talking to a patient the other day, female, few years older than I am. I was smiling when she walked in and she asked what I was happy about. When I'm at work, I pull up pictures of the grandest grand-baby and in between patients I look at her. I showed her, she oooh'd and ahhh'd and then said you don't look old enough to have one of these. Told her I got started early. She says I know what you mean, being involved with your keeps you young. I told her I disagreed with the adage you're only as old as you feel. I think it should be you're only as old as you think.
My brain screams 21, my body operates on a different plane. I have the dirtiest of dirty minds, can turn the most vague statement into something filthy. What I wouldn't pay to have the brain I have now and the body I had 30 years ago. I think just about anyone here that's even close to my age would have the same sentiment.
Whoever makes the earth spin knows what they're doing though, cause I woulda been hell on wheels! I sure as hell would be dead now or in prison (no not really) and definitely NOT who I am now.
When I was in high school I was chosen to participate in an enrichment program, sort of an internship deal. The school had given us IQ tests and tests to see what we might be good at job-wise. They wanted me to go talk to the people at the Red Cross. I have a family full of nurses, lab folks etc. I wanted to experience something else. So... I did an internship with the Birmingham PD. Can you imagine me as a cop? ROFL!
I was 17, built like a brick shit-house and I had a point to prove. IMO at that time I was smarter than most any male, boy, man, didn't make any difference. And you know why? Cause 37-28-36 speaks WAY louder than words ever could. I had them eating outta my hand in two minutes. Box of rocks, cause that's what they were thinking about, getting their rocks off. One of the secretaries pulls me aside and tells me I'm being much too disruptive to the department. Me? What did I do? She got the point, "I" wasn't the problem. Bat my lashes and smile coyly, nah, I didn't do a damn thing. I was feeling my power. Yeah we know we got it even when we're little girls, or maybe it's what we don't have.... testosterone.
Am I making fun of men? Yeah. You guys make fun of women all the time. (Disclaimer* ABN does not mean that all men do this, nor is she making fun of all men, so remove the twist from your panties)
Flash forward to now.
OK, so who is me now? What do I think now? How do I feel about this that and the other now? Some days it's SSDD and some days it's DDNS (different day, new shit).
I'm still looking for where I'm supposed to be and where I'm supposed to go. I like what I do but somehow it's not fulfilling anymore. Something is missing but I don't know exactly what it is.
My trust and faith in almost anything and everything has been blown and I'm not sure how to get that back. Any Suggestions?
And BTW, NO writing pass and adding it to my post!
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Those Were the Good Ole Days
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Posted:Nov 15, 2009 11:48 pm
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2010 1:43 pm
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This place used to be so fun. I don't know if it was because I was new here and all this sexually explicit stuff was new too or if it was really the company I kept here. Almost every single one of them has moved on to different pastures.
There were guys here that I loved writing for, even if nothing would ever come of it. I could get more comments off of one post full of enuendo than I can telling what I feel about something.
Perhaps my life was more fun then too. More carefree?
There were so many funny folks, there were people to dare us to write about something completely out of the designated comfort zone. Perhaps that was what was interesting about here, I allowed people to push my borders.
I dunno, some of you here now were here back then too. What do you think?
Time for bed, night night.
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Well Whadya Know?
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Posted:Nov 15, 2009 6:54 pm
Last Updated:Nov 15, 2009 11:20 pm
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I think I'm different. I know I am not like most other women and that's OK with me.
What's not OK is wondering what people actually think about me. When was in Jr. high school there was a way around this... The Slam Book! I have no idea who started it or why but the premise was this... the owner of the book would write someone's name at the top of the page then pass the book around. Others would put what they thought about the person, good or bad, down for all to see. I was so popular that I never made it to the book before it was confiscated by one of the teachers.
They say that aren't domesticated, I believe it. They can be some of the most cruel people on the face of the earth. Always makes me think of Lord of the Flies.
Here in the south we're a polite bunch. Even when it's a health issue and I'm a nurse it's very hard for me to tell someone what they need to do from a hygiene stand point. "Why do I keep getting these abscesses?" Could be cause you never take a bath?1? No kidding, we have a patient that I have a record of all of his medications so I won't have to keep him in triage with me for long. Why? Cause he SMELLS!!! He has BO like no one I've ever even smelled before. I start Lysoling the minute he's out the door to a room!
I wonder if he ever thinks about why people avoid him? Maybe that's his defense system? Other people comment, why doesn't he buy a bar of soap? Hell, I'd give him a bar of soap etc.. I don't think he can't buy soap. It's probably the water he can't afford.
Why am I writing about this? I dunno, maybe cause I'm just weird and this is the kinda shit my brain scrounges up?
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Posted:Nov 3, 2009 10:31 pm
Last Updated:Nov 6, 2009 1:50 am
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I'm on the way home from the store last night and my cell phone rings. It's my just chit-chatting. About that time the car I'm behind stops at a GREEN light!!!
So I say "what the..." and blow my horn to tell the idiot to go! Only my thought that my phone was somehow censoring my speech. She heard the beep from my Toyota and thought it sounded like the beep from the censors on TV.
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Oh please
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Posted:Nov 1, 2009 12:29 pm
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2010 1:43 pm
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I'm sick. Had to leave work on Friday due to nausea and vomiting. Vomiting is over just feel shitty now.
Today is NFL day. I'm just not one for football, or any other sport where men/women are paid million/billions of dollars to play. They are idolized by the public, why I just can't fathom. OK rants over.
It goes with the rest if the story. My guy loves guy things, football, had to watch deer hunting on TV this morning, then some drifting race thing. Meanwhile I play a word game on his I phone.
He's going to watch the game with his bro. He takes a bath, starts putting on his clothes and comes flying out of the bedroom having a temper tantrum cause he can't find his blue jeans. He's going thru the hamper, looking in the dryer and washer. "have you seen my jeans?" I haven't been looking for your jeans.
I get up off the couch, walk into the closet, flip thru the hangers and find the jeans. I walk into the living room and toss them to him. "where were they?" In the closet. "how come I didn't see them?" Like I know.
Now quit having your baby fit.
I was at another's blog a lil while ago. He said women are irrational when it comes to relationships. Maybe so. He ponders why women give up more easily on relationships than men do. Maybe because we're tired of taking care of men who can't find their own bluejeans and blame us for it.
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Say the Darndest Things
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Posted:Oct 27, 2009 8:59 pm
Last Updated:Jan 25, 2010 1:21 pm
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Of course one of my aunts had a big get-together at her house so the family could meet the grandest baby and her mom. My mom had 4 siblings so we have a rather large extended family.
Some of them had never met my sweetie. So when my first cousin and his wife walk up and introduce themselves with first and last names, Rocky gets this weird look on his face. He kept saying their names over and over. Before we became an item, he played, A LOT! He looks at me and says something like, your cousin is a swinger, both of 'em he says. He's never met them but recognized the names. Hmmm.
Most of my cousins are my age, some a little younger and they have school age . They've all met Rocky. 2 of the girls run up to Rocky and start hitting him, hard! He's protesting, asking what he did. They tell him that it's not what he did, but what he didn't do. He didn't do what they told him to last fall.
I ask what he was supposed to do. "HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PROPOSE TO YOU!" I laughed. He laughed. And we let it fall by the way side.
It's much more fun to live in sin.
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Howdy
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Posted:Oct 27, 2009 12:44 am
Last Updated:Oct 27, 2009 7:35 pm
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It's been awhile since I've posted anything here. I've logged on for a few minutes here and there but haven't stayed for long. My list is lit up like a score board.
I've spent this weekend with my grand and her parents. Is there anything better than having some chubby cheeks cooing at you? Already spoiled rotten. I do know one thing, my is in love with his .
She cracks me up, don't even think about getting her to lie down. She's two months old and she thinks that's old enough to watch everything that's going on. If you sit her on your knees and let her hold your fingers she'll pull herself into a standing position and looks around like we're supposed to be applauding or something!
Tomorrow they head back north but will return for XMAS!!
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