Kung Hee Fat Choy!

Happy Chinese New Year! Obviously - that's something that they pay attention to out here. Today they even served a dim sum plate for lunch in the cafeteria - so of course I had to try it!! The only thing I didn't like was something that resembled a perogie - only it was in a clear dough?! It resembled an alien womb or something so I think I ruled it out before I even tasted it. Very weird. But then this desert they serve is rice cake - it's a sweet gelatin made of rice?! It's pretty good - but again, a weird texture.

Nothing really new has been going on here, and I've been tired lately so I haven't really been updating, my apologies. My week has gone by pretty quickly - we have had some pretty busy days at work, today probably being the worst. I got there and as usual, Irene was already dealing with some serious issues, only to be followed by ANOTHER issue caused by yours truly. I had filled a therapist's schedule full of start evaluations and caregiver education trainings (with families) - which only licensed practitioners can do, not the assistants. Only issue? The practitioner had a vacation day today and I was completely unaware. So at 8:00 we were struggling to fit those patients onto other practitioners' schedules, which did not work out and some people weren't seen. Oh well. When you have 80 patients and maybe 15 practitioners, that's going to happen. We moved past it and I learned my lesson.

Unfortunately, since I've started, Sheena has been slacking off and it's beginning to get to Irene. She sees me as her gopher almost - and an excuse to not help out so much. Irene finally got up the nerve to say something to Shelby (our supervisor) today about it so hopefully that stops soon. We also got our new desktops delivered today, meaning some time either tomorrow or over the weekend, they will be installing those on each treatment floor, and instead of being stuck in our little closet, we will each split up and schedule separately on our respective floors, mine being A3 (The "A" stands for Alexander Wing of the hospital, obviously the 3rd floor). At that point, I'll be bringing my iPod up to the floor and hiding behind a desk to schedule for most of the day. Should be interesting. It's kind of nice to hide away from the therapists because if you're there - they can ask you to do things and rearrange their schedules. Jerks. ;) Anyway I switched days for this upcoming week, so I will be working Sunday with Sheena and will have Friday off. Then I switched two weeks after that to work a Saturday and have a Monday off, and then Sheena asked me to switch Easter with her so she could spend it with her family, so I'll be working Easter, and Irene has a wedding in early March so I'll work her Saturday and have a Monday off again. Nice that we can do that, be so flexible and switch around like that....we'll see how I like working the weekends!! I have to get used to it eventually anyway.

What else...no new encounters on the bus. I've been spending my mornings/afternoons reading my book on the bus so that's kind of relaxing. I was recently introduced to Skype online (look it up!) which allows you to "call" one computer from another (for free), and if you have a web camera, you can see the other person. Dad and Patty tried it and got it to work, makes conversations completely different. I bet you're sorry you returned your web cam NOW, huh, Jenn? :) Even if you don't have one though, you can still talk through your computer's mic and see me on my video, even if I can't see you. So if anyone wants to download it, let me know your username and I'll be sure to look for you!! Pretty slick program. I guess Yahoo! messenger does the same, though - as does AIM. So apparently any of those will work...so there's an idea for you guys!!! :) Better than the phone sometimes and free! You're stuck in front of the computer, though, if you decide to use it...

I did have one neat highlight to my week...lame maybe but it made me happy. "Across the Universe" came out on DVD Tuesday of this week. That's the movie made completely of Beatles songs - I couldn't wait to see it in theaters but never got to. Well I went to the video store Monday night and they already had it out!! So I snatched that up and watched it Monday - glad it was out early :) I enjoyed it...

Besides that, not a lot has gone on. I have laundry to do and cleaning to do. I need to buy some more foods. My veggies don't really make a dinner so I need to find meats or something...

Thanks for leaving more comments :) If you didn't say it was okay to publish yours, I didn't. I just read them and discarded them. I don't want to assume!! But it's nice hearing from all of you. Again - I know there's more of you out there reading who don't say 'hi' but that's fine.... I'll just cut you off eventually ;) J/k. Maybe.

I hope everyone had a great week and has an even better weekend. I'm hoping the rain passes long enough for me to hit the beach on my one day off (Saturday) but I'm not holding my breath. Happy Aloha Friday! :) Miss and love you all....


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