Crayons, Playdoh & Wax

Ok, so I am at work… and decided I would blog a bit. Life is a little crazy. Working on getting things in life worked out. Like when to sleep… turning off my phone? Yet I use it as an alarm clock. People kept calling about the time I would start to fall asleep… Probably why I am so tired today… I barely slept yeterday… and took a short nap right before coming in.

Tuesday was H’s birthday. I can’t believe she is 15 already. She has turned into a BEAUTIFUL young woman! She is in ROTC, and once she was able to switch to the HS that she wanted to go to, she is loving being in HS.

Thursday was Clare’s birthday. I start going through stuff like how long I have known people… and realized I have known her for 33 years. That is a REALLY LONG TIME!!

Oh, I got an email from my boss this morning. He asked me if I wanted to work the study on Saturday night. MTV is coming to record us doing a study. I was shocked. It is only my 3rd week. Either I am doing well, or he REALLY doesn’t want to be on TV I said yes. It sounds fun. Not that I would be star struck or anything since I have absolutely NO CLUE who anyone on MTV is… or for that matter half the songs they even play. The only time I hear current music is when they have someone on The View (actually I have been recording SNL cuz of the political stuff with Tina Fay ;))

Ok, I am off to stuff some charts and then stuff some goodie bags for dd’s class party tomorrow… which watching the screen and keeping an eye on the patients

Well, I got a job. Right now I work about 33 hours a week. Probably as close to full time as dh is going to get me at this point I work 3 nights a week at a sleep lab… so yes, I work OVERnight. I love it and am fitting in really well. I just need to get into a schedule that will work for us and me. I start my regular schedule tomorrow night. (Mon) so that will be good. Hopefully it will stay steady for now. My boss is thinking about hiring another RT though, so I might need to make some changes… or maybe since I have seniority I will get to keep my 3 first choices

It does make me feel good to know that I am doing good. I have worked 6 shifts at this point… gotten my first paycheck (which was only for 3 nights and 1 day study that was only 8 hours), so the next check will give me a good idea of where I will be. Then as soon as I can have 10 studies where my boss and I agree 90% of the time, I move to a tech status, and then I am a flat rate. It will be really nice. I have 1 down… and since it was out of 5, I am pretty impressed. I almost had a 2nd one… but was off a little toward the end of the night, which took me to 70% instead (agreeing). Dh was oh so supportive (NOT). When I told him about already having 1, he was like ‘well, it’s a start). The fastest my boss has had someone get to tech status is 2 months… so I am out to break a record here I want to learn this. I know all the rest, except for the EEG parts of it… so that is the part I am working on learning.

I am still working at MOPS 2 mornings a month too… so that is why I am glad that I am not working on Wednesday nights. I work with the 3 year olds. It is fun and keeps me in my kid fix!! Oh, and doing GS twice a month… the weekly thing was getting to be too much… so every other week is enough!!

Oh, and get this… next week… MTV is coming and filming us doing a study. Not sure how we got this, but it will be great for the business… granted, I am not working, but I will post it here when it is going to air… so you can at least check out where I work… and what I do My boss is going to run the study, but he doesn’t want to be on camera, so I believe our marketing guy is going to do all the talking. That is actually who got me my job. J’s girlfriend works with Ken and we met at the bi-annual dinner back in September. The interesting part is, that neither of us were going to go to the dinner, and we ended up sitting across from each other. When he told me he was in the process of buying 3 sleep labs, I was like ‘really?’ We started talking and I told him that was the area I was wanting to move into. He passed on my name to my boss, and the rest is history J gave me a great compliment the other night. He told me that M can’t say enough great things about me and that he wished he could clone me to have at his labs. Our company was 5 labs total, and as of last week, M bought out all the partners and sold J 3 of the labs. Kind of cool. Since J does the marketing, M helps with staffing and J does marketing for us. So we are still kind of all one, just joint owners

Oh, and since I am working The night shift. I started a group on Twitter Moms (it’s a forum, so now, you don’t have to Twitter to join) call The Night Shift so come join me

Ok, so I have been playing with the layout… and I added a nice little button that will be nice for those of you who like to visit but get tired of me NEVER updating It is a subscribe button you can either subscribe to a reader or you can enter your email address and you will get 1 email each evening when I have updated. (and none if I haven’t)

Anyway, when I am all finished here, I will go and add some to Better Me as well!! Since I am even worse about updating over there!!! Hopefully now that I can do this from my phone, it will get better!!!

BTW, I haven’t posted here, but I had a job interview on Friday and I am supposed to hear today if I got the job. It will be in a Sleep lab, so I will be working Nights, but will be able to update a little more often too… if I get the job Prayers would be appreciated! I do believe God has been in the middle of the whole thing. I wasn’t going to go to the dinner for Ken’s work a couple weeks ago. Things moved around and I went. I ended up sitting across from this guy who is a partner in the sleep labs. (turns out HE wasn’t going to the dinner either). Anyway, after lots of back and forth about whether they had openings, wanted to hire an RRT and such, I got called last Thursday to interview on Friday. It went well and all the staff are Christians. They are praying about hiring me. If they hire me, they are going to train me, which most of the hospitals don’t want to do. 3 nights a week… not a bad deal. Cell phone is sitting in front of me… so I don’t miss it!!

This is one of my favorite months of the year. I LOVE pumpkins, I LOVE Halloween. I love the leaves changing and the colors! The weather has been amazing. Right now we have been averaging 10-13 degrees above normal. It’s October and I am still wearing shorts!

We leave next week for our cruise. I can’t believe it’s here.

I can say that I am truly ready for this whole election stuff to be over. I have been enjoying all the discussions that have been going on. I do think I have to agree with Whoopi when she says that it doesn’t matter how much experience they have, NO ONE is ready to be President unless they have done it before. I do totally enjoy Tina Fay portraying Sarah Palin though.

Speaking of The View, I LOVE this show… I even tivo it… the only talk show I tivo. My thing is, I wish they would at least comment on this whole rumor about Elisabeth leaving. Either confirm, deny or just tell us that the offer is on the table but no decision has been made, but stop leaving us hanging! I find myself reading something into everything. Whoopi came down on E on Fri or Mon (I don’t remember which) Today Barbara made a point of telling her she’s glad she is there, but be specific (even if E did make a smart a*$ comment that you would expect from a teen and that would have gotten my dd’s mouth smacked). I like Elisabeth… cheered for her on Survivor, was excited when she got the job, but I think they nailed it today and I have been saying the same thing… She is passionate about her beliefs, which is great, but sometimes, you just have to say that the other side is right! Sometimes you have to admit that your people screwed up or stepped in it. There has only been 1 perfect person on this earth, and they strung Him up on a cross almost 2000 years ago. EVERYONE ELSE is human, and human’s screw up!

So there you go… my .2¢ on that. Still have no clue who I am voting for (but still curious who will be on the ticket come Nov) I heard about this Psycic who has called every election since JFK, and he said that the 2 people that are on the ticket now, won’t be who we are voting for come Nov. I am more curious to see if he is right this time!