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I miss my job

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When Chris came home from work the other day he told me about all the changes to the ER.

I’m an ER nurse and I’ve been off sick from the department for close to two years. Obviously it’s been some time since I even went in to visit my old co-workers. When I was hospitalized two weeks ago it was in one of our downtown hospitals … maybe I should have gone to our ER instead.

They’ve been renovating the space and expanding! It looks like emerg is going to double in size and that’s a good thing. Our ER is said to be the second busiest in Canada. Hopefully they hire an adequate amount of staff to manage the new areas. Even though the ER probably always had the most staff on during a shift out of any other hospital department with the amount of patients coming through the doors it almost always felt like we were understaffed.

What they really need there is better time and employee management – starting with the admins! Maybe a business performance management system needs to be installed as well along with all the other upgrades.

I really missed being there as Chris told me about all the changes. I truly loved being an ER nurse and I miss my job. If this darn Crohn’s would just settle down I could go back.





Winters not here and I’m already longing for Spring!

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Look at that. It’s the first night that I’m aware of it being below zero and now all I can think of is how I can’t wait for spring to come! This is a photo of Toronto’s Beach area just off of Lakeshore boulevard in early spring. Pretty isn’t it?

I think part of the reason is that I was going over a number of my older photos yesterday and I was looking at so many pictures of spring flowers that, that started my pining for Spring.

Well … I may have something to help me get through winter, but the catch is that it will probably make me go out and face the cold more often. Ironic eh? I’ll tell you about it in another post later today.

Have a great Sunday!

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Winter is coming!

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I can’t believe how cold it is here! It’s -3 Celsius (26 F) right now!

We still haven’t done much to prepare our garden for winter. Who am I kidding we’ve barely cleaned up the fallen leaves! I guess we’ll have to go out into the yard later today and freeze our butts off and get all that work done or at least start it. It normally takes about two full days to do all the garden winterizing work. I’m not looking forward to it.

I know it’s not that cold, but I have fevers all the time, and when your running a fever even a reasonable temperature can make you feel cold.

The next thing I want to do is maybe get one of those car covers. A really heavy duty one. We live close to work and mainly only drive our car about once a week to go to the grocery store or to visit friends and our car is starting to get old. I’m afraid that all that exposure to snow and ice is going to make it start to rust out. I don’t know if a car cover would protect it that much but at least our doors won’t freeze shut like they normally do!

Are you starting to feel winters arrival too?

I saw Elvis!

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Did I tell you that the hotel that we stayed at in Las Vegas, The Imperial Palace, which had the suckiest internet connection ever! had a vintage car and motorcycle showroom.

Chris got a chance to visit the showroom before we left on Sunday and said it was fantastic. Now I don’t know all the names of the cars but there were vintage cars from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s there. I guess I’m lucky in some ways. If I want to see vintage cars we have at least three neighbors close by that have beautiful old cars that are in mint condition and I can see them whenever I want. One guy keeps his car in his driveway at least 6 months out of the year and all I’ve got to do is look out my window to see it!

Funny thing. While we were in Vegas we really thought we’d see a lot more Ferrari’s, Porches and so on, but other than a few very nice convertibles we didn’t see very many luxury cars. Chris did see a honda cbr that he’d love to get! I think one of his new fascinations is motorcycles for some reason. Maybe it’s middle age setting in?

Since I was sick while we were in Vegas I missed seeing a lot of stuff so I guess we’ll have to go back sometime in the near future. Can you believe I didn’t even sit down at one of the machines or roulette tables to gamble even for five minutes! It’s probably a good thing since I’m sure I would have lost whatever money I used, but it feels shameful to say that I didn’t even try it!

Our Hotel had a feature in the Casino called “legends” and we got to see an Elvis impersonator singing at one point …. so yes, I saw Elvis!

Our neighbors home is still up for sale

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Our neighbors house hasn’t sold yet. I’m not all that surprised though. They haven’t done anything to improve it. Remember that ugly rock wall I told you about? If I was interested in buying the house that’d be the first thing I’d take out! Well of course I’d do that as I know that’s part of the reason sound from their house travels so easily into ours.

They keep having open houses. I think the house has been for sale for about a month now and they’ve had at least five open houses. That’s a lot for this area – especially when homes often sell in a week here! They’ve even still got an Open house sign on their lawn. It says it’s for Sunday but it’s still there! They might as well have a sign that says denver homes for sale for all the good the open houses are doing. I think they have to lower the price if they’re going to get any bites.

My biggest fear is that their house will get sold sometime in the next few days while we’re away. Perhaps to one of the really noisy families that I’ve heard go through their house. Honest, if really really noisy people end up moving in there Chris and I will end up having to sell our house.

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