Friday, November 9, 2007
Makrothumia, please!
This past week in my Bible study (we're studying the fruit of the Spirit), we focused on patience. The Greek word for this aspect is makrothumia. It's not the hupomone or enduring under hardships type of patience, but rather the merciful, unjudgemental type of patience when dealing with people. Giving up "my right" to be angry is not usually my preference - obviously, in my head and heart, I'm justified to be angry at whomever or whatever person has injustly treated me - intentionally or unintetionally.
Boy, is that convicting!!! I have been reminded time and time again how judgemental I am - thereby - how impatient, unmerciful and unChristlike I am. I'm thankful for the Holy Spirit's convicting - you can't grow and work on something if you don't know that you need to work on something. I need to be humbled and reminded of what I truly deserve - if it were not for the mercy and patience of God, I would be going to Hell.
Boy, is that convicting!!! I have been reminded time and time again how judgemental I am - thereby - how impatient, unmerciful and unChristlike I am. I'm thankful for the Holy Spirit's convicting - you can't grow and work on something if you don't know that you need to work on something. I need to be humbled and reminded of what I truly deserve - if it were not for the mercy and patience of God, I would be going to Hell.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
It's the little things
I'm so excited - my eBay win has arrived! It's a Pottery Barn Kids crib bumper. I paid $10.50 for it(not including the $10.50 for s&h)! I can imagine how much something like this would have cost retail. I didn't really have a desire to purchase a whole matching set - well, it would have been nice - but I couldn't justify a whole new matching set.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
One last hurrah!!
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My knight in shining armor surprised me with booking a nice hotel room in North Little Rock/Riverfront last Friday. An hour is the furthest that I'm supposed to travel these days, so this get away was perfect! We had a wonderful time!
We walked around LR's riverfront, went to the North LR mall and bought some stuff along the way. Saturday, we did more shopping and then finished the day with catching a movie on the way home - Dan in Real Life. For a predictable romantic comedy, it was one of the better ones - we both enjoyed it.
Mark is wonderful!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Done!
Yea, no more commuting. I can't say that I was sad to leave today. My DON is certain that she will be able to call me back at some point. I didn't have the heart to tell her that it was okay if it didn't work out. Thankfully, I have come to the point of accepting the fact of working night shift a couple of days a week in our ER.
It would still be wonderful IF I could go back to the nursing home for a few months after the baby. I really would prefer to not start a brand new job in February - but time will tell.
Also, the department heads and LPN's did have a wonderful shower for Matthew yesterday. We recieved a lot of really useful stuff - like those bulb thingies that suck snot out, nail clippers, blankets and such. No, I didn't bring my camera. For the "cake" - it was actually cupcakes made in the shape of a blue bootie - yummy and cute. I got to bring leftovers home for Mark.
It would still be wonderful IF I could go back to the nursing home for a few months after the baby. I really would prefer to not start a brand new job in February - but time will tell.
Also, the department heads and LPN's did have a wonderful shower for Matthew yesterday. We recieved a lot of really useful stuff - like those bulb thingies that suck snot out, nail clippers, blankets and such. No, I didn't bring my camera. For the "cake" - it was actually cupcakes made in the shape of a blue bootie - yummy and cute. I got to bring leftovers home for Mark.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
New motivation for excerising after pregnancy.......
.....just get your pictures taken for the church directory. YIKES!!! I think I'll put the picture right in front of the elliptical machine - or maybe on the fridge.
Of lay offs and kidney stones....
Tuesday was an eventful day here!
First off, with my job - ever since I had returned in August - things had been different. The paperwork that had filled half my time (and one of the two reasons why I had been hired) had been stopped. Our new administrator thought that it was a waste of time to do. That left me with my other main job - which kept somewhat busy - but not busy enough. Also, the LPN that did my job while I was gone was kept to do office type of work instead of going back to floor work. I had made more than one comment to a dear coworker and Mark that I wasn't sure that there was much of a purpose for me there anymore.
Another key factor is that census has been down for many months - low census means no revenue - even if the acuity is high - it's all about numbers.
With that said, I was called to the administrator's office on Tuesday and told by her, with my DON sitting there, too, that I was being laid off effective November 1st.
They said that if census goes back up, I would be called - but let's be honest - I won't be holding my breath on that one. My mindset is that I will be looking for a new job after adjusting to a new baby - not exactly my ideal - but - I have no other choice.
Mark and I were planning on me looking for work here in town next summer anyway. God obviously doesn't think that I need to wait until summer to do that.
Since I am being laid off, though, there is the possibility of me drawing unemployment - since I was planning on working up through November. I will be checking into that this week.
I really am trying to look at this as a blessing from God - to not have to work this coming month. I was a little concerned about the forty five minute commute - in case I would go into labor.
About the kidney stones..........Mark had decided that I needed to stay from COPE(our ESL class) that evening and rest - even before the lay off news. We usually get home from COPE around 9 or after. So, when I heard the door unlock a little after 7, I was curious. You could tell that he wasn't feeling well. He said that he almost called me to pick him up from campus - he was having so much lower abdominal pain.
I got dressed and took him to the ER. After waiting for two hours, we finally got back to see a doctor. He had some blood in his urine; the doctor suspected kidney stones. They got an IV started and the radiology tech let me go beck with him for the CT scan. The tech told me what a kidney stone would look like - and there it was - a bright white dot. Out of the hundreds of CT scans that I've seen, I had never seen a kidney stone - that was cool for me.
They sent us home with a perscription for Mepergan and a strainer. Needless to say, Mark was exhausted. Thankfully, we were in bed by midnight.
I joked with Mark that I won't be able to hold labor over him since I've heard that kidney stones are as bad if not worse than labor pains. Also, since he's had this one kidney stone, he's more predisposed to having more. Poor guy.
Of course, knowing Mark, he went to work yesterday, he did however cancel one class.
First off, with my job - ever since I had returned in August - things had been different. The paperwork that had filled half my time (and one of the two reasons why I had been hired) had been stopped. Our new administrator thought that it was a waste of time to do. That left me with my other main job - which kept somewhat busy - but not busy enough. Also, the LPN that did my job while I was gone was kept to do office type of work instead of going back to floor work. I had made more than one comment to a dear coworker and Mark that I wasn't sure that there was much of a purpose for me there anymore.
Another key factor is that census has been down for many months - low census means no revenue - even if the acuity is high - it's all about numbers.
With that said, I was called to the administrator's office on Tuesday and told by her, with my DON sitting there, too, that I was being laid off effective November 1st.
They said that if census goes back up, I would be called - but let's be honest - I won't be holding my breath on that one. My mindset is that I will be looking for a new job after adjusting to a new baby - not exactly my ideal - but - I have no other choice.
Mark and I were planning on me looking for work here in town next summer anyway. God obviously doesn't think that I need to wait until summer to do that.
Since I am being laid off, though, there is the possibility of me drawing unemployment - since I was planning on working up through November. I will be checking into that this week.
I really am trying to look at this as a blessing from God - to not have to work this coming month. I was a little concerned about the forty five minute commute - in case I would go into labor.
About the kidney stones..........Mark had decided that I needed to stay from COPE(our ESL class) that evening and rest - even before the lay off news. We usually get home from COPE around 9 or after. So, when I heard the door unlock a little after 7, I was curious. You could tell that he wasn't feeling well. He said that he almost called me to pick him up from campus - he was having so much lower abdominal pain.
I got dressed and took him to the ER. After waiting for two hours, we finally got back to see a doctor. He had some blood in his urine; the doctor suspected kidney stones. They got an IV started and the radiology tech let me go beck with him for the CT scan. The tech told me what a kidney stone would look like - and there it was - a bright white dot. Out of the hundreds of CT scans that I've seen, I had never seen a kidney stone - that was cool for me.
They sent us home with a perscription for Mepergan and a strainer. Needless to say, Mark was exhausted. Thankfully, we were in bed by midnight.
I joked with Mark that I won't be able to hold labor over him since I've heard that kidney stones are as bad if not worse than labor pains. Also, since he's had this one kidney stone, he's more predisposed to having more. Poor guy.
Of course, knowing Mark, he went to work yesterday, he did however cancel one class.
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