Got an email from one of my brothers telling me that he just had an unfortunate run in with a deer.
He was driving home late in the night in his brand new big $$$$ car, and saw two deer in the road. Yes, he was driving too fast, and no, he didn’t slow down enough.
Long story short, he swerved to miss the deer, but one deer decided to “fake him out” and ran into the side of my brother’s new car.
The deer was injured, but ran off. The car was damaged, but my brother was not hurt, just very angry that his new car was damaged. He got out of the car to inspect the damage, and after he got out of the car he realized he had not taken it out of gear, so he ended up chasing his driver-less car down the road trying to hop back into it to stop it. He’s lucky he caught it!
What a misadventure!
I got a phone call last night from a former neighbor. I haven’t heard from him for about nine months. The last time we talked, he wanted to buy a used boat lift from us (we no longer need it.) Then I didn’t hear from him again, so I assumed that he changed his mind.
Anyway, he called last night and said that he was still interested in buying it and explained that the reason he didn’t call back last summer was that his 14 year old granddaughter had suddenly taken ill and died.
Seems that her mother was getting remarried, and having a fantasy wedding in Italy. They flew out for the wedding, having a great time, and suddenly the girl fell ill. They took her to the local hospital, where they discovered that she had a rare form of leukemia that is highly aggressive and has only a 10% survival rate. Most of the cases of this form of leukemia kill the victim within two weeks of diagnosis. This poor little girl died within the week! She died in that hospital in Italy. The doctors here in the states say that they would not have been able to save her, either, so it was not a case of inadequate health care in that situation.
My heart goes out to all of them. It gives me pause to consider (again) how fragile life is and how much pain there is in losing our loved ones.
Although I submitted my job application to the hospital a week ago, they haven’t contacted me. So I tried calling them but didn’t get through to a real person; I had to leave a message on voice mail. That was a couple of days ago, and they haven’t called me back, so that’s a disappointment. They should at least call me back! I’m planning on spending a lot of of time today searching the Internet for potential job openings. I chose this field because it was supposed to be in high demand; it doesn’t look like it’s in high demand for me right now! It’s hard to not get discouraged!
Well, I’m still on the payroll, but I think that it is a good idea for me to start looking for another job since I’m not getting any hours at my current job. I can’t sit around all day every day hoping to get hours! So I’ve been surfing the ‘net and it looks like the local hospital is hiring; I submitted a job application there. I understand that nursing homes sometimes have pharmacies, so I called around to all of the nursing homes I could think of to see if any of them are hiring; they all said that they don’t have pharmacies. I am discouraged at this point.
I’ve been having difficulty finding out what my work schedule for this week is. The boss who schedules my hours has been very evasive. The work week starts on Sunday and I tried to contact him and left messages last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, asking him what my schedule is. I finally got hold of him Tuesday evening and he apologized for not getting back to me sooner. He explained that the girl that was planning to leave that I was hired to replace has changed her mind about leaving and that now I might not get any hours at all!
He said that he would not be able to give me hours this week, and that he would call me later this week to tell me if I have any hours next week. That is NOT good news. It took me two months to negotiate this job, and now it looks like I have to start looking for another job. In this economy job hunting is NOT the activity I want to be engaged in!
I’ve been training in a store that is not the permanent location that I’m assigned to. It was nice because it is a slow store and a large store and the people there were wonderful. I started work in my assigned location today. I was really glad that I’ve had some good training under my belt; I felt like I hit the ground running! There is still a lot to learn, I know, and I’m not as fast as the folks that have been working there several months, or even years, but I know that I was useful today just the same. I was anxious about how well I’d get along with the folks there, but they all seem pleasant enough, so that’s good. What is strange is how cramped the space is, I’m always bumping into something! And the temperature of the space is a lot colder; I’m going to have to dress warmer from now on!
I know it’s a day late, but I was so busy yesterday getting the house and food ready for the big family meal, and then actually DOING the family meal that I didn’t get the chance to get online and check my email, or do anything at all! So belated wishes to all of you out there! My family meal went very well. My parents came over, bringing with them a lot of the food – a great roast pork, corn pudding, black eyed peas, and a dump cake. I provided the appetizers, salad, green beans, dinner rolls, mashed potatoes, and ice cream. My sister and one of her daughters joined us for dinner. After dinner we played games for a while before everyone went home. We all had a good time; I wish we had the time to get together and do this kind of thing more often! But everyone’s work schedule is crazy, so it is hard to coordinate that sort of thing.
