What will be great about my new job

  
 

    I am so excited about my new job.   It will still be at my hospital so that is great.   I won't have to do near as much heavy lifting, so that is great.  I will be working 3 to 11 so no more trying to sleep in the daytime, so that is great.  No more cardboard on my windows to keep my room dark, so that is great.  No more getting pulled, so that is great.  Less bedpan patrol, so that is great.  I like everyone I will be working with, so that is great.  My body may actually not be completely destroyed by the time I retire, so that is great.

  I loved taking care of heart patients.  I loved my old job.  But staffing kept changing.  Many of the patients were very heavy, thus the bad hearts, so there was so much lifting.  It was getting so hard on my body.  I was living on motrin and actually damaged my kidneys taking so much, I know, I should have known better.  

   I got so I was only averaging 5 to 6 hours of sleep and it would take me a couple of days to recover working my long shift.  Plus we were being mandated to work extra.  16 hours of work on 5 hours of sleep is not good.   So I am excited.  I will only be working 8 hours instead of 12.  I will miss my long stretch off but it was really wearing me down.  I will miss my co-workers who made working so hard at least fun because they were great to work with.  But 2 of my co-workers are going with me.

  So I am so excited!

    The 2 buds.   They play together,  sleep together and Xena tries to eat Hoss's food but he is too fast for her.   Great pals.  Xena drives me nuts, she is always scratching on the furniture and knocking things off the shelves but Hoss would be lost without her.

    Spring is here, in name only though.  But I can tell it will only be a matter of time before the ground shows it.  My crocus and daffodils are peaking up through the ground and the Robins are back.  Even though it hasn't been a terrible winter it seems like it was soooooo long.  I want the warm weather back.

   I applied for different job and it sounds like I have a good chance of getting it.   It will be much easier on this old body as the lifting will be way less.  It is exciting but nerve wracking at the same time.  I love my cardiac patients.  But the lifting was a lot more then I expected.  My left wrist never fully recovered from breaking it and my neck is out right now so this move will be for the best.  No more 12 hours shifts.  The bad news is no more 6 days off in a row.  But I can live with that.

   My granddaughter is coming today.  I am so excited.  I haven't seen her since last summer.   Yesterday my youngest granddaughter spent the day.  Since I am messed up with my neck at the moment and have bronchitis we didn't do much except for go to the doctors but it was fun just hanging out.  She is a delightful child.  Sunday was her birthday and she turned 8.  Time just flies.

  Here she is with her older brother Connor who is also a wonderful kid.   Grandchildren are wonderful things.   

    We have decided to hold off getting another dog for now.   The economy is hitting us hard right now,  I need to make sure we will be able to afford the dog.  Hoss is bossy enough for us at this point.  I think he gets enough play in chasing the cat and we can always do doggy day care.

   I have a great recipe I got off All Recipes.  Serve warm with ice cream.

 

Country Apple Dumplings 

These are so easy to make and taste great.  You have to use the Granny Smith green apples.  I am going to make it using fresh peaches when they are in season also.  Yummy.   I didn't want to actually print the recipe here since is copy righted so click on the link to be taken to it.

  Well, I didn't sleep very well last night.  The medication the doc put me made me restless.  So I will probably just take it easy and try to do light house work.  What fun.  Hopefully my neck will get sorted out soon.  And hopefully next time I post it will be to tell you about my new job. 

I just found out I got my new job.  Yeah.  I will be working 3 to 11 again.  wow, to sleep at night again.  Joy Joy.