Shheessshhhhhh

So I was at work last night and one of my co-workers who knows I didn't want Obama comes up and starts to tell me a racist joke. Wait I said with my hand out. I do no appreciate those types of joke ever. But you didn't vote for Obama he said. For heavens sake. It is NOT ABOUT HIS RACE. Another person who voted for the wrong reasons. Makes me sad. Seriously he could be purple, that is not the reason we vote, for either person running.

So that got me in a hissy mood the rest of the night. I just get so I can go a few hours and not think about anything political and that happens and I get mad all over.

You know everyone is entitled to their opinion, I know that. I don't talk politics at work unless it is being discussed and then I do give my opinion you can bet. But some things, like racist behavior always surprises me. I just don't hear this type of talk much, surround myself by all the right people I guess, so I was surprised. And sad. So here is someone who is agains't the man I voted against, but for the wrong reasons also.

DID anyone vote for the right reasons!

Anyway, onward. We had a lovely wet snow this morning. Looking out from the windows over the city during the night, the snow softly snowing and iluminated against the streetlights was so lovely. I love walking in a wet snowfall. But couldn't do that being I was at work. I had such great patients and really liked them. It was a good night.

Yesterday however we got some bad news. Read the news and checked out the obits and Ricks relative had passed away. We didn't find out until after the service. So sad. There were elderly and we didn't see them often but always enjoyed visiting with them so Rick was pretty sad. We are sending off our card today.

I believe in Karma, what goes around comes around. Birth to the full circle of death. Still it does throw you.

Well Rick is making us Creole for supper, yummy. Then work tonight. Here's hoping for 2 in a row.

Food Friday

This is for Linda's Food Friday.

I found this recipe on All recipe a few years back and will never make corn beef and cabbage any other way. It is just wonderful. Even with me cooking it it was wonderful and my MIL said it was the best meal I ever cooked her.

Corned Beef and Cabbage II

SUBMITTED BY: ORIGINALSYN PHOTO BY: BETHRACHEL

"My mother has been making corned beef and cabbage this way for years. She has no idea where the recipe came from but it is absolutely the best. Easy and quick...Enjoy!"

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PREP TIME	15 Min
COOK TIME	4 Hrs
READY IN	4 Hrs 15 Min

• 1 (5 1/2 pound) corned beef brisket
• 2 tablespoons pickling spice
• 1 large orange, sliced in rounds
• 2 stalks celery, sliced
• 1 large onion, sliced
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 6 tablespoons margarine, divided
• 1 large head cabbage, cored and sliced
• 1 cup Golden Delicious apples, cored and quartered with peel
• 1/4 cup cold water

DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a 9x13 inch roasting pan with aluminum foil, leaving enough extra extending over the sides to cover and seal in the roast.

1. Rinse the brisket, and pat dry. Rub with pickling spice, and place in the prepared roasting pan. Arrange celery, orange and onion slices on and around the roast. Pour in 1/2 cup of water, and wrap aluminum foil up over the roast tightly, making sure the ends are sealed.
2. Bake for about 4 hours in the preheated oven, or until meat is tender.
3. About 45 minutes before the roasts time is up, heat 3 tablespoons of margarine and 1/4 cup of water in a large pot. Add cabbage and apples, cover, and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. Occasionally shake the pot so that nothing sticks to the bottom. Serve with remaining margarine and sliced corned beef.

Friday already

I can't believe it is Friday already. The time is just flying.

Today I am going shopping for my Thanksgiving items. I work almost every day until the day and need to get my supplies and Turkey. I am actually cooking this year so it should be interesting. Rick will be there to supervise. It's not that I can't cook, I do sometimes, its just that Rick is much better at it and likes to cook better then me. So I say, go for it big guy.

My oldest son just called. He works for waste management and his truck caught on fire. Yikes. He was able to jump out and put the fire out with his fire extinguisher which all the trucks carry, but it could have been serious. Its a rather dangerous job as it is without the trucks catching fire so I am grateful it turned out OK.

My wrist feels better today thank goodness. Mostly its the cyst that is bothering me. It has doubled in size this year and must be pressing on some nerves or something. I hope they can just pop it out and I can be back to work in no time. If it didn't bother me and interfere with my typing so much I would just ignore it but I type at work all the time and it really causes me some fits. I always said my job is lovely if it weren't for the paperwork, which is now-a-days typing work.

Work went well the other day. I had some nice patients although we were full it went well without problems. There were all experienced nurses on and it is nice as everyone knows exactly what to do. Not that I don't like the new nurses, I do, but when we are busy and you have 1000 questions to answer it can make it stressful. But we were all new once and we all learn. That is why it is great to partner up new staff with experienced staff.

It is cold and dreary out. Hard to get motivated to take any pictures. Here is a bare tree and gee, here is another bare tree. I am looking forward to those big fat snowflakes to see if I can capture some flakes with my macro lens.

Well, I had better quit. The warning on the bottom says this entry may fail. Hummmmm. I hope Dad gets his blog back. Didn't occur to me these might get lost in cyberspace also.

Marie Antoinette Award Real Blogs Real People

I am honored to have received this award from Missies Upside Down World and KBear's Heart 2.
Thank you both for the honor and Yes, I am real..... a fake person would be more exciting, LOL. So here are the rules.

1. Please put the logo on your journal - Real People - Real Blogs.
2. Place a link from the person, from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate at least 7 if you can.
4. Put the links of those on your journal.
5. Leave a message on their journal to let them know.
6. Put the award on your sidebar/journal.

Now there are many many journals that deserve this award so I can't hit them all, but by passing it to these 7 I know they will be included. Hope I don't repeat anyone. So here goes.

1 & 2 .This is actually 2 people on one site. I just love this site, 2 hard working people and their many many pets. My kind of people and I love the chickens. Vicki and Skip

3. My dear friend Linda from My Thotful Spot Love ya sweetie

4. , Connie from Windswept Whispers makes such great tags and is just a all around nice woman, takes great photo's also.

5. Lyn from A Brit's Blog. Won't be long now Lyn.

6 Emmi from the Constitutionalist youth and intelligence, must be rough, gee I am jealous.

7. Meg, In Quest Of, I have been reading Megs journal since I started. always a good read and she also takes some darn good photo's.

Your turn ladies, and gentleman. Make sure and grab a the logo for your blog.

Sometimes you get to my age and you ask yourself, do you want to live it safe? Or do you want to live it fully.............

I can't believe that not only am I awake this morning I already have supper cooking! Thats amazing for me. I am making pork cutlets with sauerkraut and apples in the crock pot today. One of my mothers favorites. A good German meal except I add the apple and she never did.

Don't you just love crock pot meals, get them ready in the morning and them just ignore it the rest of the day. My kind of meal.

I work tonight extra and have to be charge at 11. I get tomorrow off instead. My hand is bothering me so much I hope it goes well. Every since they did the EMG studies my wrist has been numb and hurts. I have had DeQuervain's tenosynovitis flair up a few times. I have had it injected twice. Hurts like the dickens and you can only have it done a couple of times.

That is one of the things they are going to repair on my wrist. Get rid the cyst, fix my carpel tunnel and the tendon. I had it done on my other hand a few years back plus I had a tumor removed from my finger. We thought it was a cyst so that was a surprise and I am glad I caught it early. That hand works good now. So hopefully this will help this. For now I am wearing my brace and hoping it settles down. My neck hurts also where they put the needle in. I am such a whimp these days, LOL.

Other then that not much going on. No dancing last night as the meal cooked extremely fast. Oh well. I am not much of a dancer anyway, LOL. He isn't either so we do pretty good but would never dance in public.

So off I go to clean house nad read my book. Take care all.

Oh my. The day is almost finished. We did some Christmas shopping today. Didn't find anything to buy. Sigh. Sometimes it is so hard. The stuff looks so junky and why spend good money on it. My mind is a blank on what to buy for my impressionable grandchildren.

Right now Rick is grilling a steak. I have mushrooms and garlic sauting in the pan. I smoked a honey cigar which was good and evil at the same time. And I am drinking a Beamish Irish Cream Stout. so good.

Didn't get any pictures to brag about except some good ones of Zoey. She always looks good. Listening to some jazz while I am waiting for my broccoli to steam, sprinkle a little Parmesan on it. Rick might be in the mood for a dance around around the fire as it is cool and inviting around the heat and the music just calls to us. Nothing like a dance in the moonlight to lighten your mood.

My wrist is down to a dull ache. I am thinking about my surgery. How much can I work before hand so the money situation won't be a nagging thought slowing my recovery. I could work everyday if I wanted to. But do I? Not.

We have a movie to watch after we eat. Hummmm. Will I stay awake though the movie? And I am thinking about thanksgiving. I have a temptation to go out and eat. Not cook. Always a temptation. But creating a great meal. Such a good feeling. What to do. I am looking for a great dressing and stuffing recipe. Anyone want to share.

Mai din natten være avslappet og fylt med gode tanker.

Good Morning

Yesterday proved to be a miserable experience at the doctors. I had forgotten exactly how uncomfortable it was. Now I have bruises up and down my arm and my tendonitis is acting up. All to find out what we both already knew. I have carpel tunnel and a pinched nerve in my neck. I just wasn't sure what level in my neck and now know it is C7. So anyway my arm ached all day yesterday. Poor me.

Today is my last day off as I am working for someone tomorrow. I hope it is a good night. We are going to hopefully go to the lake today as I want to get some shots. Then after that I am cleaning house. Don't use just wish you could snap your fingers sometimes and have that done. Yesterday I spend way too much time playing with my photo's at picnik.com. Have to be a good girl today. I also want to plan the thanksgiving menu and get supplies as I work up til Thanksgiving almost after today. Time to get busy.

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

The week is flying by

Just to clarify my last post. It is not that I think a woman would be better at the job. Personally I think most politicians are as crooked as the road above. I just think might as well give a woman the same chance to screw us over as a man, right!

I can't believe it is Sunday already. Tomorrow I get my EMG study or Electromyography and nerve study test. They stick needles into your arm and run a electrical current in it to check for nerve function. Well I tell you, it makes me nervous. It isn't comfortable at all and I am not looking forward to it. I have had them before when they did my last hand and when they thought I had a stroke. Since I have nerve damage from when my disc's in my neck rubtured my muscles tend to spasm and this brings that on. It can be painful. All this to get a cyst and tendon repaired.

When I had it the first time they told me I had carpel tunnel in both hands with my left being worse. Rick was with me and we both heard it. Now all of a sudden they tell me the test didn't show the carpel tunnel in this hand. Say what! That is why they want to repeat it. Not only did they tell me it was in both hands back then they said my left was quite abit worse. So what happened to that record. We both just shake our heads. So I have to repeat this miserable test again. sigh.

I am hoping I can have the surgery before december is over but at the rate this is taking it probably won't happen. I had my appointment for 3 months and then they called 3 days before the appointment to tell me they couldn't do it until I had this test and rescheduled me for next month. Why did they wait so long to tell me this?

Anyway I have to be there very early in the morning. Let the torture begin.

We have a sunny bright cold day out. I want to grab my camera and see if there is anything worth getting a picture of. It already looks bleak out. The snow is gone though for now.

The comedy show was great. My friend had a great showing and it was very funny. I needed a laugh. You can probably tell my mood has been dark. I usually get out of these fairly quickly but it is hanging on. Hang in there with me. I usually can get things turned around and cope better. Maybe it is winter blues. No more bike rides, bulky clothes, dark grey skys. When I work my 12 this time of year I see the sun very little.

Thanksgiving. We are cooking it at my son's house. On the old stove of my MIL's.


It will be strange to have the meal there. Tradition, but not with her gone. Since my BIL is still hanging around I am caught in the moral delema of whether to invite him or not. We are his only family but I really do not want to ruin my day with his presence. We don't see him unless he want somethings. What is with that? The only time I hear from family is when they want something. I am always good for a handout it seems. I must have sucker tattoed on my forehead. Get their money and I don't hear from anyone again until the next time. We were close as children but not at all now. The distance might have something to do with it. I am much closer to my friends then family.

Well, I want to do some housekeeping. Actually I don't really want to but the house needs it. And some Christmas shopping. Then figure out something to eat for supper. I want pork cutlets with sauerkrat and apples. Good German food I grew up with to warm my soul. Always reminds me of my mommie