Continuing on from my last post, the tornado's keep coming. They promoted one of our existing nurses to Director and literally the day after that, the weekend graveyard nurse quit with no notice. Our poor new DON (Director of Nurses), while struggling to take on all her new responsibilities has also had to be the graveyard weekend warrior. I am helping her as best as I can.
After two weeks of doing the scheduling and cleaning up the existing mess, the online scheduling app we were using got hacked and multiple random shifts were deleted. I had to totally abandon using that as a resource and start over from scratch with nothing to refer back to since the schedule that was originally there was compromised and couldn't be trusted as a reference point.
So we are going back to old school paper schedules again. The young CNA's don't like it because now they can't see their schedules on their phones and can't send me nasty texts complaining about the shifts they have to work. Even though the situation sucks for now, I'm actually glad this happened. I never liked the idea of forcing people to download apps onto their phones, something I won't even do myself. If the internet goes down or there are power outages, our schedules will be safe. Except for the massive amounts of drama I now have to deal with, I kinda like doing the schedule. I sit down to work on it at 8am and the next time I look up it's 2pm.
I'm still getting a ton of overtime, but at least I'm caught up enough to have my weekends off.
I was at Walmart to pick up some fans a couple weeks ago and found myself in the kitchen gadget section. I saw a little 2 quart crock pot for $10. For ten dollars I almost couldn't NOT buy it, if you know what I mean. I absolutely love it. So far I cooked a corned beef in it and made homemade stew that was absolutely yummy!
Today, in honor of Mother's day, I'm attempting to make Chicken and Dumplings in it. Chicken and Dumplings is my all time favorite food in the world. I tried to find some recipes on how to cook it in a 2 quart crock pot – but all I could find were lame recipes. You can really see the Dead Internet theory at work because you can only find major cooking website recipes and most of them want you to use rolled dough for the Dumplings or God Forbid, refrigerator biscuits. No. The only way to make it is using spoon drop biscuits that will be all fluffy when they are cooked, just like grandma used to make. We'll see how it goes.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. May your day be filled with God's abundant blessings.
Take care out there.
7 comments:
hey girl!
nice to see you back. seems your attitude re:work is outstanding.
and, the income sure helps.
are you familiar with cowboy kent rollins? he’s my kinda chef largely.
dr. gruel (i think is often a good reference).
i’m Southron, so i prefer Southron/Texan mostly.
congrats on that new toy and being able to splurge on it.
Hi good lady, I haven't been by in forever. I have too many bookmarks for too many good blogs, I've overloaded my dumb ass on too much puter time.
I just read all yer entries back to Nov. 30. Lots of good info, insights, you're doing Good (God's?) works getting it out. How many people don't know about V D3? 90-99%?
You've had quite the time of it the last 6 months. I'm glad your work/money situation has improved, that certainly helps SOME, but of course the shit show continues, with some rearranged chairs, people and names.
I'm reaching some kind of burn out, in a good way. Cutting back on doom porn is vital.
Wish I had some profound, helpful advice, but you're well sorted out. I'm 25 years ahead of you in chasing down rabbit holes, but I'm still missing too much, I need to work on my Americanized Zen thing, "It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter". I think I got that from an ancient Bill Murray movie.
Good fortune and best wishes to you and your hubby, also, you have my Christian love, sweet lady.
Hang in there, you're doing the right "stuff".
From middle Tennessee (dodged a tornado by 2 miles last week).
Hi Tree Mike! Glad you stopped by. Yeah, I don't have time for the doom porn either these days. It's all become background noise, although I have to say, it's harder and harder to find good podcasts these days. Hope you are doing well and dodged the tornado! God bless!
Late drive by hope this finds you well, have a great weekend.
hey bear claw! hope you are well also. hopefully will post soon
Is a call in the future?
I'll try to give you a call on Sunday (after I get my meatloaf in the oven). I'm going to try to post - although it just might be me saying how very tired I am these days. Ha ha
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