It has been a rather productive day in several aspects. Laundry was washed and folded. Dog hair was banished from the floor. Hanks of yarn were wound from the swift and transformed into tidy balls of yarn much to the amusement of the cats.
I would have finished the afghan I have been knitting, but I ran short of yarn by six inches. I began to rip the bound off stitches back and decided that it can wait one more day to finish. Six inches of yarn... makes me want to pound my head on the desk.
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There was no tantrum, but there was sleep. An, "I don't think I moved at all once I got to sleep... Man, I really do have the chills, does this electric blanket get any warmer?... The thermostat for the space heater in the bedroom is set only to high so we're going to be broiling in here tonight... Woke up drenched in sweat and without cold symptoms, hallelujah!" kind of sleep.
I have frogged (rip-it, rip-it) back the stitches that I had bound off and have ripped to nearly the beginning to the last knitted row. 20 or so more stitches to rip and we will try this finishing thing again. Done. Now, on to other things.
If you are not aware of it, eBay recently raised the final value fees that it charges its sellers by nearly 60%. It has also placed limitations on sellers being able to leave feedback for deadbeat buyers. Sellers are staging a boycott. I think it would be nice if eBay buyers would do the same.
With the economy and stock market being what they are in this current economic crisis, I'm sure eBay would feel the crunch even more if there were no customers buying the items upon which they charge fees. eBay has a space where members can create blogs. My eBay name now has a Karma's Dogma - Impertinence et cetera blog, too. LMAO
And, the only post there was made earlier today and motivated by my support of the sellers' boycott against the increased fees and feedback restrictions.
My next entry to my blog there will be the calculation of just how much money I have spent on eBay in the last quarter of 2007 and thus far in 2008. I can say without hesitation that it will amount to around $1,000. It may well be more. That's merely an estimate based on some quick mental arithmetic.
I spend a lot of money on eBay. And, I am a loyal customer who is very displeased with how they have chosen to conduct business.
Also, I have transferred my eBay ID to Wagglepop www.wagglepop.com and to iOffer www.ioffer.com in protest. iOffer was even nice enough to provide me with a widget/gadget in order to be able to transfer my feedback rating from eBay to their site. If I were a seller rather than a consumer, I would have been able to transfer all of my eBay sale items to them with a widget/gadget as well.
I perused iOffer's knitting listings for a bit this morning. I saw several familiar seller names. Seems there are quite a few sellers making the switch.
My next order of business is to inform my regular eBay sellers that my money will be staying in my pocket for the next few weeks in protest of how eBay has chosen to do business. When you consider that I spend $100 to $200 per transaction with some of these vendors and purchase from them monthly or more frequently... Well, you can see where I'm heading with this.
That will have to wait until later, however. For now, it's off once again to bake in the bed in preparation for work tonight.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Some Etc
It is a bit after 5am. My wake-sleep cycle is a bit more disrupted than I would have liked it to be. My granddaughter guilted me on Sunday with the, "but I never get to see you." So, I napped for a couple of hours between noon and 2pm, crashed hard before midnight, and was up all day yesterday. I have been up since around 3am.
I will have to get the little boys from the sitter's this afternoon. I may just keep them until Amanda gets home as Linda (the other grandmother) is having a new refrigerator and a new freezer delivered this afternoon. The two older kiddos underfoot is not as miserable a prospect in that scenario as the addition of the two wild boys would be.
It is official. Michael is out of the picture. He left Friday. In many ways it is more of a relief than anything else.
I had finished the throw that I was making him for his birthday yesterday. It was washed and dried and folded on the couch when he arrived unannounced yesterday evening at the house. He seemed very surprised to see me there. I was over doing some laundry for Amanda. Joni had commented that I should give it to him unfinished with the comment that I would have been glad to finish what I had started if he had been willing to finish what he had started. You gotta appreciate the perspective of your friends.
The threatened three to five inches of snow did not materialize. There is maybe 1 1/2" of the white stuff out there. Just enough to be a nuisance to driving and to keep the German Shepherd girl in "revolving door" mode.
For those of you who pray, please say a prayer for my coworker's daughter, Tracy. She is a young woman with pulmonary hypertension that is causing major and cumulative crises in her health. Most of the problems are secondary to the medications that she must take in order to stay alive. I would say "living," but she isn't able to be doing much living at this point. She has extreme weight loss and bone mass loss from the medications. Lots of pain and unable to walk. And, say a prayer for my coworker, Amanda, too. She is dealing with this and with an elderly father located several states away who has had a rapid onset of dementia over the last couple of months. Definitely serves to put much of my petty bitching and drama into perspective.
I suppose things are gradually coming along with my shift in duties and position at work. Not much has really changed. Most of the staff already knew to behave when I was on grounds.
My back and my leg are feeling better after being able to rest for a couple of days after the long week that last week was. I keep reminding myself that I am only going to have to do this for another year or so.
There has been a flurry of buying activity for yarns and beads this last couple of weeks. Gearing up and getting back into the swing of things. It is a welcomed respite. I feel best when I am "making."
On that note, my needles have been waiting patiently, and it is time to take them up.
I will have to get the little boys from the sitter's this afternoon. I may just keep them until Amanda gets home as Linda (the other grandmother) is having a new refrigerator and a new freezer delivered this afternoon. The two older kiddos underfoot is not as miserable a prospect in that scenario as the addition of the two wild boys would be.
It is official. Michael is out of the picture. He left Friday. In many ways it is more of a relief than anything else.
I had finished the throw that I was making him for his birthday yesterday. It was washed and dried and folded on the couch when he arrived unannounced yesterday evening at the house. He seemed very surprised to see me there. I was over doing some laundry for Amanda. Joni had commented that I should give it to him unfinished with the comment that I would have been glad to finish what I had started if he had been willing to finish what he had started. You gotta appreciate the perspective of your friends.
The threatened three to five inches of snow did not materialize. There is maybe 1 1/2" of the white stuff out there. Just enough to be a nuisance to driving and to keep the German Shepherd girl in "revolving door" mode.
For those of you who pray, please say a prayer for my coworker's daughter, Tracy. She is a young woman with pulmonary hypertension that is causing major and cumulative crises in her health. Most of the problems are secondary to the medications that she must take in order to stay alive. I would say "living," but she isn't able to be doing much living at this point. She has extreme weight loss and bone mass loss from the medications. Lots of pain and unable to walk. And, say a prayer for my coworker, Amanda, too. She is dealing with this and with an elderly father located several states away who has had a rapid onset of dementia over the last couple of months. Definitely serves to put much of my petty bitching and drama into perspective.
I suppose things are gradually coming along with my shift in duties and position at work. Not much has really changed. Most of the staff already knew to behave when I was on grounds.
My back and my leg are feeling better after being able to rest for a couple of days after the long week that last week was. I keep reminding myself that I am only going to have to do this for another year or so.
There has been a flurry of buying activity for yarns and beads this last couple of weeks. Gearing up and getting back into the swing of things. It is a welcomed respite. I feel best when I am "making."
On that note, my needles have been waiting patiently, and it is time to take them up.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
I should be sleeping. Though I am still awake after working 55 hours in the last 5 days, I am very thankful to be inside tonight. It is somewhere around 8 degrees outside and feels more like -10 degrees with the wind chill. This is entering into the realm of coldness that begins to make my existence truly a painful experience. The temperature is to drop to near 0 degrees overnight. I suppose we are fortunate in that the wind chill is not supposed to drop any lower.
I have not spoken with that diplomat with whom I quasi-cohabitate more than three times in the last two weeks. He is buried in his books. I am buried in my work. Both of us regret and despise the status quo. Fortunately, it is not forever. His break is next month.
Some of this comp-time that I am managing to accrue at an alarming rate will be used for a couple of days of "us" time. The plan is to venture no further than the front door to meet the food delivery person.
I have not spoken with that diplomat with whom I quasi-cohabitate more than three times in the last two weeks. He is buried in his books. I am buried in my work. Both of us regret and despise the status quo. Fortunately, it is not forever. His break is next month.
Some of this comp-time that I am managing to accrue at an alarming rate will be used for a couple of days of "us" time. The plan is to venture no further than the front door to meet the food delivery person.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Status Quo
It is 20 minutes until shower & dash out the door to work time.
Some things have been bugging me lately. No, not having to spend some time every day at work with the change in my position. I knew that was coming. I still have a few more 7-day weeks to put in before things are together.
I now have to remember to charge and carry two cell phones. And, I thought life was traumatic when I forgot one and had to turn around in mid-drive and retrieve it. OK, most of the time, I didn't return for it. With a company cell, I have no choice now. Makes me wonder how I managed to survive 20+ years of adult life without a cell phone.
When I finally relented and started making my son-in-law the black, plush chenille throw that he has been bugging my daughter for a couple of years to make for him, she decides that she really IS going to divorce him. Her response was "to hell with him, it's mine now." Not really fair as I did promise it to him for a late birthday present. His birthday was in January, about 4 days after I had acquired the yarn. It is nearly done. I doubt I will have it finished before he moves out Friday, but it certainly will be finished by next week. Doesn't it just figure?
We have lost 10 or 12 staff in the last two weeks. Not entirely my doing, I swear! LOL I was a contributing factor in the attrition, I will admit. We had a couple of people no call-no show. One staff went out for break and never returned. We lost some due to attendance points. My direct contribution was the staff who left a client, who is on a modified texture & thickened liquids diet, eating unattended in the kitchen & went outside to smoke. Can you say, "DUH?" My presence is an indirect contribution. Rather than being caught asleep at work, we have had a serious increase in the number of call offs on the night shift - among staff and nurses. That's OK. If they don't "get gone" due to sleeping or failure to do their job, attendance points will get them. In either case, the end result is the same.
Time to jump in the shower and then roll out to work. More fun awaits! Med pass audits in the morning & organizing the filing cabinets for several long hours tonight..... yippee!!
Some things have been bugging me lately. No, not having to spend some time every day at work with the change in my position. I knew that was coming. I still have a few more 7-day weeks to put in before things are together.
I now have to remember to charge and carry two cell phones. And, I thought life was traumatic when I forgot one and had to turn around in mid-drive and retrieve it. OK, most of the time, I didn't return for it. With a company cell, I have no choice now. Makes me wonder how I managed to survive 20+ years of adult life without a cell phone.
When I finally relented and started making my son-in-law the black, plush chenille throw that he has been bugging my daughter for a couple of years to make for him, she decides that she really IS going to divorce him. Her response was "to hell with him, it's mine now." Not really fair as I did promise it to him for a late birthday present. His birthday was in January, about 4 days after I had acquired the yarn. It is nearly done. I doubt I will have it finished before he moves out Friday, but it certainly will be finished by next week. Doesn't it just figure?
We have lost 10 or 12 staff in the last two weeks. Not entirely my doing, I swear! LOL I was a contributing factor in the attrition, I will admit. We had a couple of people no call-no show. One staff went out for break and never returned. We lost some due to attendance points. My direct contribution was the staff who left a client, who is on a modified texture & thickened liquids diet, eating unattended in the kitchen & went outside to smoke. Can you say, "DUH?" My presence is an indirect contribution. Rather than being caught asleep at work, we have had a serious increase in the number of call offs on the night shift - among staff and nurses. That's OK. If they don't "get gone" due to sleeping or failure to do their job, attendance points will get them. In either case, the end result is the same.
Time to jump in the shower and then roll out to work. More fun awaits! Med pass audits in the morning & organizing the filing cabinets for several long hours tonight..... yippee!!
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