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I think he got the job!

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Chris went to work Tuesday evening and everyone that he ran into kept congratulating him on getting the OR attendant position that I mentioned in a post this past weekend. Only problem was that he hadn’t been interviewed for the job yet. Huh?

Well he went and had his interview this afternoon and while they didn’t say that he got the job the director of the OR Recovery area told him he should speak with his current boss about the possibility that he would be changing positions before she did. Chris has balls (well of course, he’s a guy) so he told the director about people congratulating him the night before, and while she still didn’t confirm that he got the job she did reply to him that she “might have mentioned it to a few people.”

It will still be a part time job in the hospital but he’ll have more hours. He’s guaranteed 4 DAYS a week. No more day,evening and night shifts! Plus he’ll only have to be on call every third weekend, and when he’s on call he’ll get paid for four hours work even if he only goes in for an hour. AND since he’s still part time he’ll still be receiving the 14% on top of his hourly pay in lieu of benefits. HA!

The job hasn’t been confirmed but it’s looking good. Keep your fingers crossed please!





My sister liked my photos!

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I spent some time talking on the phone with my sister on Saturday night. We live in the same city but we don’t really get together or talk all that often. She has her own business and she’s often busy and me – well I’m often not feeling that great, so I guess that’s why we don’t see each other much lately.

Anyway she’s off to Mexico! Lucky girl. A week away from home just as it’s getting cold here. I’m envious.

While we were talking I told her about my photoblog and sent her a few links to some of the shots on the site that I’m particularly happy with. I was very pleased when she told me that she really liked the photos.

I’m not just pleased because she liked them. I’m pleased because she’s an Artist and she liked them. She hasn’t been doing her own art work for a number of years now- partly due to having twins and her own business and lately she hasn’t been able to do any painting because she suffered a brain injury in 2004 as a result of a surgical operation she had to have done. She’s much better now but she lost a lot of her fine muscle control with the brain injury and she doesn’t know if she’ll be able to paint again.

During our conversation I was trying to encourage her to use her artist eye in photography. I’m sure she’d be a great photographer. It was through this part of the conversation that I mentioned my photoblog.

Now we have plans to go to some of the Funky areas of Toronto and take some photos together when she gets back from her vacation. I think we’ll have a lot of fun.

Wish my husband luck!

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My husband Chris hasn’t been getting very many shifts lately. He works as a porter at the same hospital that I work at, but his job is only part time. He used to get a lot of shifts at least four a week, sometimes six or seven. Lately he’s only been averaging two shifts a week.

We could handle his fluctuating shifts when I was working, but now that I’ve been off sick for so long and have no income of my own coming in, we are really feeling his lack of shifts. So he’s been applying to a lot of hospitals in the area for portering or other similar positions, and he’s also been keeping an eye on the job boards at work.

He recently found two jobs worth applying for at work – one is an OR attendant and the other is an Ultrasound Attendant. Both jobs will have a lot of shifts and a better possibility of the positions becoming full time. Did I tell you that it can be very hard to get a full time position in the hospital? (unless you are a nurse like me of course).

He has an interview for the OR attendant position next Wednesday and hopefully he’ll be called for an interview for the Ultrasound position too. So wish him luck!

If he has to change jobs I hope that he can get a better one at the hospital that we both currently work in. It’s so convenient. We only live a few blocks from the hospital so we can walk to work. It’s wonderful.

Missing my family

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I’ve been thinking about my family a lot lately. I’m not sure why, perhaps it’s just the time of the year. My sister, and one of my brothers live in the Toronto area but I hardly ever see them. That will change tomorrow or Sunday though, because my brother is going to come over and bring my scanner back. Two bonus’ there – I get to see my bro and I get my scanner that I’ve barely been able to use since I purchased it back. Yeah!

I have two other brothers. My oldest brother, who was almost 20 when I was born is turning 60!!! in a couple of weeks. I can’t believe that I have a brother that age. It’s always seemed more like he should be my parent given his age rather than my brother. He’s worried that he’s turning into an old man but I keep telling him that you’re only as old as you feel.

My final brother, currently lives in Vancouver. I say currently but I think that’s a permanent situation. He loves it there. He’s traveled all over the world for his work as a geologist. He’s lived in the Dominican republic, Africa, and even Spain. I think he enjoyed Spain the most of all the places he’s lived. He’s even talked about buying a property in Spain once or twice in the past. I don’t know if he was serious, but if he did I’d certainly try to visit his “villa” every once in a while.

As I said I’m not sure why I’m thinking of family so much lately, but I am. We’ve already had our thanks Giving here in Canada so the next big time for all of us to try to get together will be Christmas. Unless of course my brother from Vancouver happens to come to town for business- then we all try to get together for dinner.

I guess I’m just missing my family. Do you get that way some times?

Oh Brother!

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My brother called today. You know what he was calling about? To wish me a Happy Birthday. That was nice of him, but he was more than a little bit late since my birthday was September 6th and he knew it. LOL

The main reason he was calling was to set up a time when he could return a few boxes of family photos that we’d taken from my parents house when my mom died, and my scanner.

I had taken charge of the photos back in 2003 since I’m sort of the family history keeper and my siblings wanted me to scan the pics for them. I found it much too painful to even look at some of them so I kept putting it off. Finally last March or so my brother decided he’d do some of it – mainly because his eldest child was getting married that April and he wanted to have some of our family photo’s placed around the reception area.

I had just purchased a new Scanner last January. See, I was gearing up to getting those photos done. Then my brother came and borrowed it around the middle of March. So he’s actually had my brand new scanner longer than I have! How did that happen?

By sometime next weekend I’ll have my beautiful scanner back – it really is a nice one, and then, if I choose to, I can go through my stacks of photos that have actually been taken on a film camera and share them with you. Oh oh the past might come back to haunt me soon!

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