Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Saturday, May 13

Wow, nice looking blog, great content and the girl has a life!

Suzn 7:55:33 PM

Have you seen this yet? Awesome!

Suzn 8:34:47 AM

I am awake and it's way too early for a Saturday. Bogey has to go to the Vet today for his regularly scheduled visit. I have a new SUV with a tan interior and I need to install one of those barrier things before I really want to let dirty paws in the thing. Otherwise I'll be scrubbing for the rest of the day. Why did I make such an early appointment? It's cool and wet and I don't want to go outside yet.

house=peach carpet, truck=tan interior, me=screwed.

Suzn 7:28:32 AM

Friday, May 12

I don't like needles, but I'd be begging for them if they tried this trick on me. Place your order?

Suzn 11:14:50 PM

Can your dog predict earthquakes?...and other weird stuff.

Suzn 10:43:27 PM

Two good links courtesy of Lake Effect

Copyright stuff

Intel stuff

Suzn 9:59:42 PM

I really hate when i make amazingly stoopid spelling errors and don't catch them before I post. It looks so right, till 3 hours later when I read it and it looks so stoopid, yep I know it's stupid stupid. ;-)

Suzn 7:29:34 PM

Small inspirations come from people unaware. People who are involved. People who are true.

A physician I work with, who will remain nameless, has inspired me today. He just finished writing a program (yup he does that too) which will make it easier for us to collect and assimilate our data. He is a brilliant man, but one with humility. Never too busy, to answer a question, never too haughty to answer a challenge (actually I think he really likes them) he is a true person. Never too phony to hold back on what he thinks, never too coarse to be hurtful. An interesting man, an admirable man. And I remember some years ago, working bedside with him as he inserted a line. Like poetry in motion, not a drop of blood spilt, not a move out of place, not a detail overlooked. And so gentle with the patients, from all walks of life they come, and he never condescends, never makes a choice, all have his undivided attention.

So then I wonder about attitudes, and why some people have them, bad attitudes, haughty attitudes, and mostly when they are not "all that". Is it their insecurities? their need to make others think that they are "all that"? ......heck, life is just too damn short for that crap.

Suzn 2:16:58 PM

Ya know what really bugs me? When I receive an envelope. "Open immediately" "Postmaster Please Expedite" "Overnite Courier"....and I'm waiting for a package. And it turns out to be one of those advertisements for Crappola World Car Dealership.."entire inventory to go...you are chosen to get the best deal".......just goes on my list of where I'll NEVER buy a car from.

Suzn 7:53:20 AM

I just read about another tatoo. I want a tatoo so badly! When I was about 25 I actually did go to a parlor that was not too far from my home. When I got there I discovered it was closed and was "by appointment only". I called the number listed on the door. The woman who answered couldn't do it that minute, not even that day. I didn't have the guts to go back. I hate needles (yeah, yeah, I know I've spent the better part of my life giving them). My friend Larry, promised to take me to the best tatoo parlor in NJ. He's working on his whole body at this point. Too much I think but he does have some magnificent tatoos.

I want a small butterfly. I want it to sit on my right shoulder. I'd like it to have my name, small with a little glitter ink. I almost did it 3 months ago, when I was really depressed about something. But, heck I'm not getting any younger. What does happen to the tats when you do get old and your skin starts falling off your body????????? I'm small, I don't have a lot of skin. I can feel my shoulder bones. I think it could hurt like hell.

Suzn 7:33:43 AM

Thursday, May 11

Excerpt from NBC's Dateline which first aired on April 26th and was repeated, in short, last night.

"We were surprised to learn that about a quarter of all dogs in animal shelters are purebred. Eight to 12 million dogs and cats enter shelters every year -- 60 to 70 percent are euthanized for want of a home. And most breeds have rescue groups that can find the type of dog you want."

Suzn 9:57:38 PM

4 pages of Warm Weather Care for your pet

Suzn 9:39:04 PM

Moni I feel for you! I know how heart wrenching that can be. Hang in there k? Sending comforting energies your way. {{{{{{{Moni and Rosie}}}}}}}

Suzn 9:22:34 PM

I just got home from the dentist. I had to have a cavity filled, now he thinks I need a root canal in another one. He's probably right, the tooth has been bothering me, but I didn't tell him, he saw something on an X-Ray. Darn, can't even fool the dentist these days.

And everytime I sit in the chair, and look at the gruesome instruments, I see the scene from "Little Shop of Horrors". yuck. I just don't like the dentist. My friend Nancy, her husband falls asleep in the chair, he doesn't mind the dentist at all, I think he's missing some brain cells..like the ones that smell fear a mile away.

Whoosh today went by so fast, it was so busy. Zeny and I, the two woman committee for the nurses week celebration did the whole 9 yards for all of the staff today, all of the staff of our department that is, because yesterday, the Medical Center did it's thing for the entire facility. Of course I didn't cook, 'cuz if there wasn't a such a thing as a microwave I'd have starved long ago, but we had it catered, a Chinese buffet.......yummmmm, I love Chinese food. And we had all the gifts beautifully wrapped in fancy little colorful bags with cards and ribbons, and pretty decorations for the room. Anyway, the staff didn't really know who had organized it this year, usually Bev does it...but I kept hearing people commenting that this was the best year ever, so I felt pretty good about that. I'm not really into one day celebrations, people should be celebrated every day, all year, but hey, any excuse for a party right? And any excuse to eat a lot. ;-)

This morning on my way to work I was listening to Howard Stern. He had callers and one of them was a man who had been on the show Who Wants to be a Millionaire and was suing the show (for 2 million dollars) because he'd lost. He claims that the question he missed made it impossible to hold down a job or take any tests to get a job. Sheeeesh, why doesn't he just suck the Welfare System dry?

Suzn 9:06:07 PM

10 % of their banner ad revenues go to non-profit wildlife conservation organizations.

Suzn 8:02:00 AM

Whoa Kellea! Perhaps it's time to get another therapist!! No way should your daughter have to be subjected to anyone's anger!! This should be therapeutic, not frightening, demeaning or frustrating! She (therapist) should be in another line of work...frustration is a part of her job, and the process is often slow. She should be able to handle it. Everyone has a bad day, but if this is a regularly scheduled activity of hers (impatience) then she needs to be shown the door. Yeah this really makes me angry...no health care worker should EVER behave this way.

Suzn 7:28:31 AM

Wednesday, May 10

OK, it's official now. I have no life.

Suzn 9:27:23 PM

Welcome to New Jersey!Mr. Keith Brown. Just to set the record straight...it's not only dawg and chawcolate that sets us apart it's also, joisey and woid and big hair. But please I beg of you don't let that little cutey patootey grow up saying "seen" instead of "saw" (as in "I seen her walking down the street") or them instead of those (as in "look at them cars over there") or I swear I'm going to grind my teeth down to their nubs...or is it them nubs? ;-)

Suzn 6:38:05 PM

She saves lives. I like that. I like to hear that. I used to save lives. I haven't saved a life in a long time. Now I mostly sit at a desk and do statistical analyses of others who do save lives, or I tell the others whose life to save...or something like that. It's not as fulfilling as was saving lives. Actually it's pretty unfulfilling in that respect. My staff is the cream of the crop. They rarely, if ever need guidance. Except when it comes to handing in their paperwork. Nurses are people persons and paperwork is sometimes just one of those things we don't want to do and that there is just too much of. I think I have the "empty nest" syndrome...like a Mom whose kids have all grown and don't need her anymore. I'm bogged down with paper work, and budget issues and yeah that's important, just not fulfilling. I am a nurse for god's sake, I need a life to save.

It gets in your blood, nursing does. You are underappreciated, underpayed, overworked for sure, but it's wonderful to save lives...it gets in your blood and you can't get away, even when you want to. It never becomes humdrum, the smile of someone in pain, the hand that reaches for yours, the high you get when a life is on the line, and your moves are perfect, a save accomplished..it doesn't always happen, but when it does it's like nothing else.

It changes you, as a person, forever. When you deal with the fragility of life on a daily basis, when you see death and infirmity on a daily basis, the rest becomes not so important.

Well anyway, enough of my whining...

it's NURSE'S DAY! Happy Nurses Day to all of you, to all of us. You, no we, are one great bunch!!! May God Bless!

Suzn 8:21:51 AM

Tuesday, May 9

I had to leave work a bit early today to take my Mom to the docs. Her regularly scheduled appointment for a 30 year heart condition among other things. You'd have to go with us to even understand the extent of absolute chaos that ensues...the cardiologist agrees that it's amazing I haven't been committed yet. So, after squeezing a normally 10 hour day into 6 hours, and spending an hour with Mom at the docs I came home absolutely wiped out and fell asleep. Here I am, 11pm and wide awake. Great now I should be up all nite.

Guess I'll just have to go and read blogs.

Suzn 11:19:02 PM

Oh what a pretty design, redesign she did here. Reminds me of sherbert on a hot summer's day.

Suzn 7:32:51 AM

Another day.......another day. You thought I was gonna say "another dollar, right? Nope. Here's how the day is going so far. I overslept by a little. A little is a lot for me, I have an early meeting. uggggh meeting, dirty woid. Bogey just threw up all over the carpet. Did I mention I have peach carpeting? What the heck was I thinking? And my last pair of stockings are now in the garbage...stuck my nail right through 'em. Calgon take me awaaaaaaaay.

Suzn 7:20:59 AM

Monday, May 8

Quote for the day:

Life is a seemingly endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you will find a hairstylist you like. ...as if.

You weren't coming here to seek the deeper meaning to life, were you?

Suzn 8:50:40 PM

CHRISTIE!!!. What a hellish weekend you had! So happy to know you weren't badly hurt...but it must have been horribly frightening. Maybe you are lucky that she has only visited you 3 times since your son was born, and I'm not sure the gifts would be worth the price. She sounds like a real mess to me. Psychiatrist's dream.

;-)

Suzn 8:39:49 PM

Ok I did it. I broke down and bought a pair of glasses.

I think it was about two years ago I realized I just wasn't seeing the print anymore. I was holding the pages farther and farther away. About a year ago I went to an Opthalmologist (that was a big step) and he afirmed my suspicions. Reading glasses were in order. I never got the prescription filled.

These aren't "real glasses". They are the ones you buy at the Rite Aide or any local pharmacy type store. Someday I guess I'll go back to the doc and get a new script..for now...well it's pretty darn amazing that I held out for so long. God I can actually see.

The problem is I look like a bug. I'm tiny, my face is tiny, they don't make glasses to fit me. Unless I get kiddy glasses.........oh sheesh, it just keeps gettin' better and better.

Is it Friday yet?

Well, here's buzzing, oops I mean blogging at you kid.

Suzn 7:18:24 PM

Sunday, May 7

What does a Shar Pei (up there) and a Penis (use your imagination) have in common?

On HBO's Sex and The City the scene opens with Charlotte and some guy in a heated embrace. She slides her hand downward, opens his pants, takes a peek (well heck, ya gotta look) and panics. He is not circumcised. She wasn't happy.

The next day at lunch with the girls, she retells her adventure and says......."There was so much skin it looked like a Shar Pei."

Maybe I should have named Bogey (up there) Penis (use your imagination). Then as we took a walk in the park I could be yelling, "hey, Penis, come back here."

huh?

Catchy little tune they've got going on there too. ;-)

Afterthought: "Here little penis, here boy." (Use your imagination)

Suzn 9:53:28 PM

I really love the colours of this new design. It reminds me of something but I can't quite place it. Something rich, dark, mink maybe? Go on check it out. You know you want to.

Suzn 5:08:58 PM

This is sad. Seems like it never ends.

Suzn 3:24:27 PM

Quote for the day: "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." Who said that?

Suzn 1:55:56 PM

Sunday. I have about 4 hours of work-work to do. I have to clean the house. I have to transfer more files. It's hot. The aircon in the bedroom is not working. The aircon in the living room is full blast. My computer is in the bedroom. :-(. I want to shop on E-Bay. I want to lie out in the yard. I want to update my site. I want to do some graphics work. I've been up for 1.5 hours and have just read blogs and drank coffee. I just smoked my last cigarette. I want another 24 hours.

This is my whine...should you decide to accept it. If not it'll go away in a few days.

Suzn 10:26:29 AM

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