Cesar R M
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Cat lover logic.. moving the cats when they're sleeping on you or next to you.. is a crime.
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Cesar R M
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wow sucks.. time to bring lots of umbrellas? D:Well, quite a few of us in MA feel like we're living on borrowed time these days. (Over 125 roof collapses SO FAR, and yet a 2nd horse barn caved in yesterday, in a different town from the previous one, just a day before that. Thank goodness all the horses were rescued.)
So, a few hours ago, (after shovelling more snow outside), I walked into a back room and the ceiling was leaking all over from some melting snow and ice on the flat roof of that room (we had the first thaw today and that's what people are worried about with all the ice buildup on the roofs). We called the landlord who's going to tear down the ceiling tomorrow, but this afternoon we had to move everything out of the back room, cover a few other things in plastic, etc. Of course, this all had to happen on the one day a year the Daytona 500 is on tv, and I've missed most of it already.
Bye for now, peeps.
Cesar R M
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I'm more of "Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, Evita, Phantom of the Opera and CATS"..
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Plumber done.
Including a 4' length of copper pipe, some other $2.30 illegible part, and HST, it came to $148.96.
Would have been $40 cheaper if we'd waited until tomorrow.
Hot water for the smelly teenage boys' showers - priceless.
Including a 4' length of copper pipe, some other $2.30 illegible part, and HST, it came to $148.96.
Would have been $40 cheaper if we'd waited until tomorrow.
Hot water for the smelly teenage boys' showers - priceless.
seahawk7
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Yes I agree with you about nurses getting out of the physical part of their job. Nurses really have a very physical job. But I was talking about people in their late twenties and early thirties who have been in either field for about a year or two who want to move up the ladder.Where I work, the RNs generally stay with patient care. However, the percentage drops a bit as they enter their late 40s and up. The reason is that their own chances of physical injuries (back problems, etc.) from moving and assisting patients can catch up with them. So then you tend to see more of them enter administrative and research fields. Quite a few will do maybe half admin., and half direct patient care. As you know, some patient care is not physical, but still needs qualified RNs. Some of the older nurses enjoy triaging, patient check-in, and discharge, follow-up, etc. That way, they still stay in touch with direct care, but it's not physically demanding.(I'm not as familiar with the resp. therapists; although I do know that some of them are into research, and may also do a half and half schedule, similar to some of the older nurses.)
I've been an RT for 14 years and just about 5 years ago, people who I had gone to school with started to become supervisors because they wanted to keep moving up. I'm not judging them, but when they ask me why I don't follow them I have to say that I have no interest in supervising anyone. I want to help people get better. The supervisors I work with lose their skills and I would never want that to happen to me.
Now RTS work hard but we do not have to lift patients like nurses do. Our job requires us to run around so that is good for us. I however do work with some nurses who have been doing their job as long or longer than me and they don't want a desk job either. They like patient care.
I have seen some new nurses and RTs who get hired and pretty much immediately try to get a supervisor job. Some of them get it, but they all were lousy RTs and nurses who gave subpar care. I've worked at the same hospital for 14 years so I have seen this. However this is only my experience and I am not suggesting this is everyone's experience.
seahawk7
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Is that her baby bunny?
seahawk7
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I do have to agree with you about he message at the end of Grease. But I'm also a huge fan of it and had the record and choreographed dances to all the songs. The message was lost on me until watching it when I was older. I too Love Star Wars and have to say my love for it is stronger as an adult than my love for Grease as an adult. But as a kid? Grease all the way baby!
seahawk7
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Thank God for your spidey senses.Can I tell you how much more fun last night got?
After nibbling on some toast and sipping some tea at 2:00 a.m., I rode that wave of nauseau until 3:00. I was just about to turn off my light and turn in (after taking a Gravol) when my Spidey senses started tingling ....
I felt like Kevin's mom in Home Alone, and leapt from my bed. For some reason, I thought perhaps Son #1 had left the stove on. Turns out he hadn't even cooked.
But from the kitchen, I could hear a weird noise coming from the family room fireplace one floor below. It was a strange hissing noise, like air being released from a high pressure valve.
I get down on my hands and knees and stuck my head up the flue (what I expected to see, I have no idea), but the noise wasn't emanating from there. It seemed to be coming from under the raised hearth ....
So, I do what any good wife, half-stoned on Gravol would do ... I make Hubby get up from a deep sleep.
Long story short (too late), we figure out the noise is coming from the basement - in the furnace room directly beneath the fireplace.
Son of a bee, a pinhole had erupted in one of the copper pipes connected to the water heater. High pressured hot water was spewing everywhere! Hubby drained some of the tank, shut the hot water off, switched the unit to pilot and went back to bed.
Luckily for me, Adopted Son had loads and loads of dirty laundry strewn all over the floor, which actually fortuitously soaked up a couple of gallons of water!
Guess who was doing laundry (cold water only) at 4:00 a.m.?
When I finally crawled back into bed, I woke Hubby up three times to get him to confirm that he had shut the gas to the hot water tank off, and that we weren't going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
And the moral of the story .... Don't take Gravol before bed. It makes you crazy!
Well, that and Advil Cold & Sinus.
seahawk7
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My kids will watch Grease with me. My daughter even likes it. I watched High School Musical with them and I liked that they thought it was good. I thought to myself however that this is no way as good as Grease, doesn't even deserve to be in the same category. But I didn't tell them that. I did appreciate that they thought Grease was better.
seahawk7
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And me!
seahawk7
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Who is that next to John Travolta?
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
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That was probably my other issue; I had only seen bits and pieces of Grease and didn't try watching the whole thing until I was 18. So my assessment of it is much different than someone who first saw it as a tween or young teen. Also because I saw it in a completely different era than someone in the 70s.I do have to agree with you about he message at the end of Grease. But I'm also a huge fan of it and had the record and choreographed dances to all the songs. The message was lost on me until watching it when I was older. I too Love Star Wars and have to say my love for it is stronger as an adult than my love for Grease as an adult. But as a kid? Grease all the way baby!
seahawk7
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Sorry that this happened.
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seahawk7
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StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
- No
High School Musical was a made-for-TV, low budget film that went big. So of course it's not going to be of the same caliber as Grease, which was a theatrical film.
But it did take off like Grease did, so for me as a tween, it was similar to how Grease was for tweens in the 70s.
Although High School Musical was more kid-appropriate than Grease. And I think the messages at the end were better.
seahawk7
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HUGE sympathy like. Hope it gets better.Well, quite a few of us in MA feel like we're living on borrowed time these days. (Over 125 roof collapses SO FAR, and yet a 2nd horse barn caved in yesterday, in a different town from the previous one, just a day before that. Thank goodness all the horses were rescued.)
So, a few hours ago, (after shovelling more snow outside), I walked into a back room and the ceiling was leaking all over from some melting snow and ice on the flat roof of that room (we had the first thaw today and that's what people are worried about with all the ice buildup on the roofs). We called the landlord who's going to tear down the ceiling tomorrow, but this afternoon we had to move everything out of the back room, cover a few other things in plastic, etc. Of course, this all had to happen on the one day a year the Daytona 500 is on tv, and I've missed most of it already.
Bye for now, peeps.
seahawk7
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My mom loves Sound of Music and I refuse to see Les Miserables since my senior high school teacher ruined the book for me by making us disect, figuratively of course, it for an entire semester. My kids love it though.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Bingo. I think you nailed it.
If I were watching Grease for the first time today, I would surely feel differently than I did back as a 10/11 year old.
As I may have shared, the multiple posters on my walls as a teen/tween were all the Grease ones released ... and Wayne Gretzky! Now of course, it's Titanic - on the backside of the laundry room door, because I'm too old for posters on my bedroom wall.
Son #1 has a re-issue of the iconic Farrah Fawcett/red bathing suit poster on his.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I love Michael Scott.
Unlike his Ricky Gervais counterpart who was just a jerk, Steve's character had a redeeming naivete to him.
He blundered through everything, but was never deliberately unkind or mean-spirited.
And sometimes, there were just tiny glimpses where we knew that he knew that he was a doofus, and my heart would break just a little.
That was some mighty fine, largely under-rated acting there!
