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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006
    Quote:

    forraging for rotten pears and birdseed! (blech!)



    Then you'll be forraging for all that dog poop! (double blech!)
  • jaybird627
    jaybird627 Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2006

    Oh, I do that every day! Well, mostly every day anyway! (blech again!)

  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 944
    edited August 2006

    wow "pooh".......i just can't do L&D..........man i commend you!........i got bumped to maternity nursing in my early days and i HATED it lol.......i was the least compassionate delivery nurse ever (i'd had 3 miscarriages, one stillbirth and a cheating husband by then lol).......but all of that aside........i really do commend you.......all these yeas later, with all the "water under the bridge" i still decline to transfer to L&D.......YOU DO GOOD WORK!

  • Sige
    Sige Member Posts: 334
    edited August 2006
    OMIGOSH...no wonder my ears were ringing today! Cthomason if you still need help posting pics, pm me...I can help!

    I don't even drink *well, not really*...am I still allowed to be here?? lmao

    hugs
    peggy
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    Shel, You've been through lots. Your daughter truly is precious cargo when traveling through Cabo. I admire your spunk, girl.

  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 944
    edited August 2006

    yo yo yoy peggy.......i've got a joke i would love to post?????? no pics though, cause i'm just a giant BC mess!

  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    You've got spirit, Peggy. That's all that counts to hang out here. Liquid or not.

  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    Hi drinkin' buddies -

    I'm on Black Opal Shiraz tonight. Said I wasn't going to drink tonight (earlier when I was at work and COULDN'T drink) but after I got home, the already-open bottle actually spoke to me....it said, "Donna - just have ONE glass..."

    Anywho - hope everyone had a good weekend. It's been around 150 degrees here forever, but today, it actually RAINED! For several hours! High of 85. Let's hear a big WOOHOO!

    Cheers sistas ~

    Donna
  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    Does anyone watch the Showtime series "Weeds"? BF and I rented the first season over the weekend. It's hilarious!

    Although when Elizabeth Perkins (don't recall her name on the show) is getting her chemo for BC, it did bring back some bad memories. BF said. "Is that what it's really like"? I said, "yes, only without the cameras and hot-looking male nurses."

    Anywho - it's a funny show. Maybe my wine bottle should stop talking to me now....

    Donna
  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 176
    edited August 2006
    Quote:

    wow "pooh".......i just can't do L&D..........man i commend you!........i got bumped to maternity nursing in my early days and i HATED it lol.......i was the least compassionate delivery nurse ever (i'd had 3 miscarriages, one stillbirth and a cheating husband by then lol).......but all of that aside........i really do commend you.......all these yeas later, with all the "water under the bridge" i still decline to transfer to L&D.......YOU DO GOOD WORK!



    Shel, THANK YOU! I know lots of nurses think L&D is a cushy job (not!)...like to hear some positive reinforcement now and then.

    2 weeks left of my LOA, then back to the trenches!
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    I really freak out when the bottle talks to me. I usually quit for a bit. Just a bit. Well at least till 5'ish.

  • jaybird627
    jaybird627 Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2006
    My bottles plead: "driiiiiink meeeeeee" so how can I refuse?

    And, Donna, just have one BIG glass!
  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    It's 8:23 pm here....so does that mean you mean 5ish am?

    Hope not, don't think I can make it that long.

    Donna
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    Nope, 5pm. Hate when it's a weekday and I'm home and it's only noon and it starts talking. Like to wait 'til dinnertime.

  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 944
    edited August 2006

    lololol.......i go out to the garage and the beer fridge starts chanting....."open me, open me, check out my contents, open me"

  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    Hey yeah! I got an email at work a week ago or so, and it said that I was in charge of drinks for our company picnic this year, and that we could serve alcohol, but only ONE drink per person. Luckily, I was in charge of the glasses.

    I'll bet our friend Peggy got the same email and could find that pic in a heartbeat and post it.

    I'm too tech challenged. Used to be better. I blame it on chemo/meno brain. (I'm sure it couldn't be the wine!)

    Come to think of it - I think someone already posted that pic here...

    Donna
  • jaybird627
    jaybird627 Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2006
    Donna, can I come to the picnic? I promise to have only one drink!
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    You're lucky you get to serve a drink. My husband's company used to have all kinds of fun parties at all kinds of fun places with keggers and lots of wine. No longer. Not PC, I guess.

  • jaybird627
    jaybird627 Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2006
    It's all about liability. Because everyone wants to sue everyone else no one can have any 'fun' anymore!

    (stepping off of soapbox)
  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    I was just joking about the picnic email and the ONE glass only thing. It's a joke that's been going around the Internet.

    Are you kidding me? I now work for (ashamed to even say it)....UnitedHealthcare. I worked for PacifiCare for 12 years before we were acquired in Dec '05 by United.

    There's no company picnic, no Christmas party, no bonus, no customer service, no pride in your job ....no nothing except bad karma, disappointment, and a headline every week in the Wall Street Journal about our CEO making a BILLION dollars last year in potentially illegal stock options.

    Anywho - don't EVEN get me started on that. Or there will more than the wine bottle talking to me. Like the Greygoose bottle, and the Bacardi bottle.....
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006
    Ooooh! Did you say GreyGoose?

    You're just supposed to be grateful that you have a job. That's it. Grateful. I suppose. Could be worse, but definitely could be better.
  • Sige
    Sige Member Posts: 334
    edited August 2006
    LOL Donna...you know me too well!! BTW all, I just had a beer (fairly quickly so am feeling it!!!)...yay for me...

    image
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    WooHoo, Peggy! She's caught a buzz!!

  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    Peggy - I knew you'd know the pic, I mean email I was talking about!

    Those are my kinda cups!!

    Donna
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    I assume that the pix goes with the email joke? Does anybody have the joke? I'd like to see it.

  • casinogirl
    casinogirl Member Posts: 476
    edited August 2006
    Quote:


    Hey yeah! I got an email at work a week ago or so, and it said that I was in charge of drinks for our company picnic this year, and that we could serve alcohol, but only ONE drink per person. Luckily, I was in charge of the glasses.

  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006
    Now, that I think about it, I have seen that before.
    Sorry, slow, non-chemo brain here.
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    Shel, THAT thread is back. Some people will just not let it die!!

  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 944
    edited August 2006
    oh crap...........since i need to work on the bags under my eyes i'm not even going to look lol!

    g'night girls..........i haven't slept in weeks!
  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,064
    edited August 2006

    Take an Ativan and get some rest.

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