Not sheltering in place.

As a health care worker, I still have to go to work.  It's crazy times right now and I am exhausted from hearing about it all and from trying to do my co-worker's job  (she's off for the duration at this point) and from trying to get out of the darn building with most of the entrances and exits closed.  But, I'm trying to keep my sense of humor.  My son took advantage of a huge sale of downloadable games and he and my daughter and husband spend the evening last night playing some kind of cooperative cooking video game.  It was pretty hilarious to watch and listen to their comments.  At one point, my husband's character picked up a fire extinguisher and carried it around for a while without knowing it, which was funny.  When my son told him to put it down and he said "what?"  It's not too bad having to spend time with these people.  :-)  

We didn't rush the stores and grab all the toilet paper so we'll be running out in a little over a week and that is a significant source of stress to me for some reason.  Also, we placed an online order for groceries and didn't get any meat.   Hopefully, we can solve both of those issues this weekend.   Please, people, don't hoard.   Some of us are out there working in hospitals and don't have time to wait at the store for toilet paper.  

Still working.

I'm working and I'm studying.  It doesn't leave much time for blogging or any of my hobbies.  I did get to go out with my cousin last weekend and do some shopping, just recreational shopping, not shopping-shopping.  :-)   We bought some food for our weird diets and then had a weird diet-compliant lunch out.  It was great. 

Youngest son has had the flu this week and the girl thought she was getting it too, but she just had a cold.  I'm still going to work at a hospital in the midst of this corona virus scare, but I'm just not thinking about it that much.  I don't have time to worry about that.  I'm just trying to survive my job at the intense level it is right now.  I'm trying also not to think about the future too much because I don't know if I will be able to pass the coding test and become a coder and I don't know what I want to do if I don't.  I don't really want to stay where I am because I don't want to be pulled over constantly to do my co-worker's job.  I had've already had to do it 3 days in the last 2 weeks and I'm going in today for a day of it and also tomorrow.  Then back to my regular job for Thursday and Friday.  I am not happy but I am going through the motions, hanging in there and waiting for things to change.  They always do.  If I do get to start coding, I might be able to work at home and I feel like that's what I want, though I will miss the people I work with now.  I like all of them and they have been good to me. 

Sigh.   It's always somethng.  I had such a great job and then I got put into a position of subbing for my coworkers job which I hate with my whole being and everything changed.   I also just found out from my supervisor that they're not going to hire anyone to help, just depend on me to work all the time.  I am going to have to put my foot down about that.  I need a break. 

Anyway, nothing about homeschooling here.  Sorry.  We're not doing that anymore.  I miss it.  I have found that all my vacation plans seem like good homeschool field trips, the museum, the sculpture garden, the other museum .. :-)



 

Another one.

What is the point of having transplant as an entry at all?  

My coding laugh for the day.

In case Mad Eye Moody's warning about carrying a magic wand in the back pocket of jeans ever comes true, I will know how to code the buttock reattachment, either right or left.

Keeping incredibly busy.

I'm working pretty much full time and doing my school work in the mornings.  It's keeping me going for many hours a day and I'm not, to be honest, really hanging in there with the housework or the hobbies or getting together with friends.  Yesterday at work, I realized that I needed to see people besides work people and texted all my cousins and some of us are getting together at work today.  Of course, I have people here in my home, but sometimes they're not the most chatty.  They're all involved in their own interests all the time.  Anyway, so today is Saturday and I have school work, lunch out, going to the grocery, laundry and dishes.  You can see how a lunch out is very important to break up the rest of the work, work, work, work.  :-P   I'm working hard and saving for retirement so that maybe someday when I get grandkids, I'll be able to spend time with them.   I don't regret for 1 minute pouring myself so fully into motherhood and neglecting my career, but the time is now to build it up and get some savings.    That studying though.   I'm not a big fan of the course I am taking.  It seems like it's set up in the worst possible way and maybe these people need to go and read How Children Learn by John Holt.  It's written for kids but it applies to adults too. 

This week marks the fourth anniversary of our board game group.   I'm no longer participating, but the kids and their friends are still going strong, meeting every Tuesday night.   I'm so glad I started that.  If you're a homeschool mom looking at this blog for homeschool advice, here are 2 things.  Read How Children Learn and be proactive for your kids socialization, take them out and let them meet other kids and do it regularly.  It's so easy to neglect that part.

Work again.

I am a p.r.n. employee, which means "as needed" apparently in Latin.  It is the same abbreviation they use to write prescriptions for medications to take as needed.   My minimum contracted hours is 4 hours a week.   The minimum that I ever work, however, is 16 hours a week.  That was my schedule in January, but now we have another transcriptionist who is going to have surgery, so I'm going to near full time from now until May 5 when she gets back.  With the coding classes I'm doing, it's likely to be pretty stressful.  The only way I'm consoling myself is thinking that the money will be good.  I am going to work a little later, study my coding in the morning every day before I go, do some make ahead and freeze freezer meals and try not to be too grouchy when I get home.  It's personal growth, right?

I'll share some pictures of what's been going on here.   When I looked at my phone for pictures I found mostly pet pictures.  The young adults have been doing a twice a day medicine regime for 2 pets with ear infections and 1 with an eye infection (Zoey has both an ear and eye infection.) So they're keeping busy with that, D&D, writing books, board games, job hunting and school.

Dog bed

My daughter made this adorable dog bed for her dog.  Of course, he would rather sleep in her bed.  He has been shunning it unless told to stay. 

And this was my weekend coding laugh.

It was in the causes of injuries section.