You Are The Hermit |
 You posses a great deal of wisdom and the ability to see people for who they are. You are always looking ahead at the future, developing visions. A loner, you tend to travel by yourself through life, seeking your own truth. You don't crave material things or fancy titles. You have no baggage. Your fortune: It's possible that there is a unknown guiding figure in your life, ready to help you. All you have to do is find this person and seek their advice. It's also possible that you need to start seeking the meaning of your own life. Either way, there's some deep thinking you need to undertake, and it needs to be done soon. |
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Your Brain's Pattern |
 Structured and organized, you have a knack for thinking clearly. You are very logical - and you don't let your thoughts get polluted with emotions. And while your thoughts are pretty serious, they're anything from boring. It's minds like yours that have built the great cities of the world! |
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Steelers won Sper Bowl XL (extra large).
I was invited to a super Bowl party today. Brought a couple of Dominos pizza. My friends sisters were cheering as I came in. They saw the pizza box I was carrying and I hear someone yell "pizza" and cheering followed. It's not as if there were no food in the dining room. There was spagetti, egg rolls, some meat stuff, and tons of dessert.
The game was fun to watch as my friend's sister was rooting for the Steelers and my friend wanted Seattle to win. His sister would dance in front of him everytime the Steelers score or the Seahawks would mess up their chances to score. It was rather entertaining watch the two bicker at each other. My friend J ended up eating more dessert as Seattle keeps messing up.
The commercials were funny as hell. JC, one of J's sister couldn't go to the bathroom to watch the commercials. By the way, all of J's siblings name starts with J.
J's parents are the coolest. They welcome me to their home as if I was family. We've been friends now for more than 10 years and they always j about how I'm doing. Cool folks indeed.
J's son J (told you about the J obsesion) is a funny 3 year old. He likes playing football with his dad so he will pose like a linebacker and give a fighting face. He will then wait for his dad's signal and then will rush to tackle him. He also poses as if he was break dancing. Very funny to watch.
There are kids every where. JC's a single mom so her 6 year old played catch with me with a small hard rubber ball. That ball can bounce. I'm kinda scared because there are a lot of glass windows in the t.v. room. Luckily no one broken pane.
J reminded me that it's more fun watching super bowl with his family than at home alone. I agreed with him. It's also nice to share a couple of large pizza with cool folks.
I was invited to a super Bowl party today. Brought a couple of Dominos pizza. My friends sisters were cheering as I came in. They saw the pizza box I was carrying and I hear someone yell "pizza" and cheering followed. It's not as if there were no food in the dining room. There was spagetti, egg rolls, some meat stuff, and tons of dessert.
The game was fun to watch as my friend's sister was rooting for the Steelers and my friend wanted Seattle to win. His sister would dance in front of him everytime the Steelers score or the Seahawks would mess up their chances to score. It was rather entertaining watch the two bicker at each other. My friend J ended up eating more dessert as Seattle keeps messing up.
The commercials were funny as hell. JC, one of J's sister couldn't go to the bathroom to watch the commercials. By the way, all of J's siblings name starts with J.
J's parents are the coolest. They welcome me to their home as if I was family. We've been friends now for more than 10 years and they always j about how I'm doing. Cool folks indeed.
J's son J (told you about the J obsesion) is a funny 3 year old. He likes playing football with his dad so he will pose like a linebacker and give a fighting face. He will then wait for his dad's signal and then will rush to tackle him. He also poses as if he was break dancing. Very funny to watch.
There are kids every where. JC's a single mom so her 6 year old played catch with me with a small hard rubber ball. That ball can bounce. I'm kinda scared because there are a lot of glass windows in the t.v. room. Luckily no one broken pane.
J reminded me that it's more fun watching super bowl with his family than at home alone. I agreed with him. It's also nice to share a couple of large pizza with cool folks.
Fixed dripping shower faucets.
My shower faucets have been having the drip problem for quite a while now. It's a bad thing since water is a scarce resource. I've attempted to fix them but I don't have the know how. The plumbing books were vague. Remove this and replace that. Plumbing is not that simple.
I was called off work Friday so I have to channel my frustrations to something creative. I had breakfast at Denny's. There I learned to run my network marketing business. Not an easy task but it's better than handling human waste. After that I went to The Arboretum. I took some pictures of plants and the different changes that has happened at the Arboretum since I was theretwo years ago. The walking was nice but some movie shooting was going on so the air was a bit polluted due to the gas powered generators.I also went to Whole Foods store where I purchased some herbs for diabetes. To finish off the trip to Pasadena, I went to get some fried lobster at Fushing, a chinese restaurant.
On the way home I stopped by Lowe's and bought a set of tools to fix the faucet. I later on found out that they were the wrong tools. After going back a few time to Lowe's and then to OSH today, I finally got the faucets fixed. What an accomplishment, I thought for sure it can't be done. I was also afraid that I might cause more damage than good. The faucets are working well and the drip is gone. I ended up chaging the whole cartridges are they are the plastic kind and no repair kits are available. The replacement cartridges goes with a pictorial instruction. I need to be keen to the details on the pictures as there are alignments that need to be made.
So far so good. I've changed two toilet seats a couple of years ago. They were free, paid for by the city where I live. Hmm, this gives me a little courage to maybe tackle some more of the bathroom makeover.
This concept of turning bad situations into good and something creative sure does work.
My shower faucets have been having the drip problem for quite a while now. It's a bad thing since water is a scarce resource. I've attempted to fix them but I don't have the know how. The plumbing books were vague. Remove this and replace that. Plumbing is not that simple.
I was called off work Friday so I have to channel my frustrations to something creative. I had breakfast at Denny's. There I learned to run my network marketing business. Not an easy task but it's better than handling human waste. After that I went to The Arboretum. I took some pictures of plants and the different changes that has happened at the Arboretum since I was theretwo years ago. The walking was nice but some movie shooting was going on so the air was a bit polluted due to the gas powered generators.I also went to Whole Foods store where I purchased some herbs for diabetes. To finish off the trip to Pasadena, I went to get some fried lobster at Fushing, a chinese restaurant.
On the way home I stopped by Lowe's and bought a set of tools to fix the faucet. I later on found out that they were the wrong tools. After going back a few time to Lowe's and then to OSH today, I finally got the faucets fixed. What an accomplishment, I thought for sure it can't be done. I was also afraid that I might cause more damage than good. The faucets are working well and the drip is gone. I ended up chaging the whole cartridges are they are the plastic kind and no repair kits are available. The replacement cartridges goes with a pictorial instruction. I need to be keen to the details on the pictures as there are alignments that need to be made.
So far so good. I've changed two toilet seats a couple of years ago. They were free, paid for by the city where I live. Hmm, this gives me a little courage to maybe tackle some more of the bathroom makeover.
This concept of turning bad situations into good and something creative sure does work.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
More ungrateful moments.
I add this experience to why no one wants to be a nurse.
Today I was assigned to work at DRMC. The shift started off nice and easy. I got my breaks and will get an admission after I get my lunch. Around 4 pm, I recieved a post op patient who had a large mass removed from the right neck. Understandably a very painful operation as the neck is full of nerves.
I talked to the the family and gave them an update. Next thing I know they started crying. Our conversation was insignificant until one of them started asking me how can I do my job if I don't know anything about the patient. Personally, I can't know a patient after a two minute report from an OR nurse. Second, no one really knows everything unless you have read the chart.
Reading the chart is not an option as my other patient in on a ventilator and was thrashing around. he's an alcoholic and going through withdrawal as this post-op patient was arriving.
Back to the stupid question asked, I gave him a quizzing look that upset him. He accused of rolling my eyballs and wanted me out of the room. Obviously he is not that smartest person in his family as he was trying to kick out his father's nurse. He then started to flame (yup he's a faggot). I tried to stop this creature's endless yacking to know avail. There is no stopping a mad fag. He was doing the shaking and finger and swingging thing that fags do. It was annoying. I left the room and reported the behaviour to the charge nurse.
The director of nursing showed up and served them head to tail. I don't know why she showed up. The family probably made a complaint. The patient's sister (a drop dead gorgeous woman, my god she looked like a model) apologized for her niece's (nephew in reality but what ever...) behavior.
I reassured her that everything will be done to care for him and not to worry about what happened. Yup, they were stressed out but treat the nurse like shit. Bullshit. Shut your mouth and bring us food. That's how you show your thanks, baby, FOOD. hehehe
I'm now concerned that I will be placed on the do not send list. The charge nurse reassured me that I'm not. (That is when they find a nurse incompetent and not to let him/her work in the hospital again). She also told me that I didn't do anything wrong. The director was also reassuring of that and that she found the pain medication order insufficient. I guess the family complained about the pain management is not being addressed. Well, it won't be because the doctor's pain medication order can't be read. This is frustrating as heck. I took a while for this doctor to call back. The pain med order is rarely written in fraction of the dose that the med is made. Example Demerol 50 mg is a common order because Demerol is available in 50mg vials. The order was for example 40 mg. Now that is unusual so I need to make sure that is what the doctor ordered. As I wait for verification, the patient suffers, the family gets mad and reports me to the nursing office.
Telling the family about the doctor verification doesn't help. They want it to happen NOW. Well, I don't have magic. There are policies and protocols to follow.
This is why I want to leave nursing. arrgh. So you wanna buy vitamins, magnets or portraits? I sell them all. hahahaha
I add this experience to why no one wants to be a nurse.
Today I was assigned to work at DRMC. The shift started off nice and easy. I got my breaks and will get an admission after I get my lunch. Around 4 pm, I recieved a post op patient who had a large mass removed from the right neck. Understandably a very painful operation as the neck is full of nerves.
I talked to the the family and gave them an update. Next thing I know they started crying. Our conversation was insignificant until one of them started asking me how can I do my job if I don't know anything about the patient. Personally, I can't know a patient after a two minute report from an OR nurse. Second, no one really knows everything unless you have read the chart.
Reading the chart is not an option as my other patient in on a ventilator and was thrashing around. he's an alcoholic and going through withdrawal as this post-op patient was arriving.
Back to the stupid question asked, I gave him a quizzing look that upset him. He accused of rolling my eyballs and wanted me out of the room. Obviously he is not that smartest person in his family as he was trying to kick out his father's nurse. He then started to flame (yup he's a faggot). I tried to stop this creature's endless yacking to know avail. There is no stopping a mad fag. He was doing the shaking and finger and swingging thing that fags do. It was annoying. I left the room and reported the behaviour to the charge nurse.
The director of nursing showed up and served them head to tail. I don't know why she showed up. The family probably made a complaint. The patient's sister (a drop dead gorgeous woman, my god she looked like a model) apologized for her niece's (nephew in reality but what ever...) behavior.
I reassured her that everything will be done to care for him and not to worry about what happened. Yup, they were stressed out but treat the nurse like shit. Bullshit. Shut your mouth and bring us food. That's how you show your thanks, baby, FOOD. hehehe
I'm now concerned that I will be placed on the do not send list. The charge nurse reassured me that I'm not. (That is when they find a nurse incompetent and not to let him/her work in the hospital again). She also told me that I didn't do anything wrong. The director was also reassuring of that and that she found the pain medication order insufficient. I guess the family complained about the pain management is not being addressed. Well, it won't be because the doctor's pain medication order can't be read. This is frustrating as heck. I took a while for this doctor to call back. The pain med order is rarely written in fraction of the dose that the med is made. Example Demerol 50 mg is a common order because Demerol is available in 50mg vials. The order was for example 40 mg. Now that is unusual so I need to make sure that is what the doctor ordered. As I wait for verification, the patient suffers, the family gets mad and reports me to the nursing office.
Telling the family about the doctor verification doesn't help. They want it to happen NOW. Well, I don't have magic. There are policies and protocols to follow.
This is why I want to leave nursing. arrgh. So you wanna buy vitamins, magnets or portraits? I sell them all. hahahaha
