General chatter while we wait (and commentary on the "pull out method")

[DobbyForever]

I am exhausted. Party was amazing. I told everyone in my fam straight up we are breaking the cycle, nobody can be an a** or yell system anyone today. And we did it! Not for lack of curse words to close friends though but we did it!

Solid amount of leftovers but also really good amount eaten at party. The pony and petting zoo were a huge success. I had to basically force the handler to take her tip. A had the best time. He was so excited to see his friends, and tbh worked out so nicely that half the party cancelled I swear my kid lived on this poor pony

 

[DobbyForever]

Pony +petting zoo

 

[WinterBub]

So glad that the party was a success!

 

[WinterBub]

PS. I'm not a horse person, but that pony is adorable!

 

[DobbyForever]

Ty! I love horses. Hehe. I was so happy, too. I considered emailing to ask if they had a horse with that coloring, but I didn’t want to be overbearing. So when he showed up I was happy af haha. A loves him. I’d seriously buy him if I had all the money in the world. He’s 20!

 

[WinterBub]

Well, nobody won that mega millions lottery, Dobby. So buy a ticket and maybe you'll be able to buy as many ponies as you'd ever want I could so do with a billion dollars!

 

[DobbyForever]

don’t I wish!

 

[DobbyForever]

Alright y’all it’s game time. Get my classroom keys Tuesday, move a week from Monday, start work a week from Wednesday. I’m already burned out. My family naturally decided to go on vacation so I’ll be shelling out for a moving company, but I’m doing all the packing myself. Back is aching and I messed up my wrist hoping if I can get my classroom squared away this week then the week after I can focus on getting the new place settled and this place up and running

 

[DobbyForever]

Omg and I think OA wants to get back together

I’m so irrevocably in love with him I’m losing my shit

 

[WinterBub]

Good to hear that you're so happy, Dobby FX everything works out between you guys

 

[DobbyForever]

Shae did you end up doing the interview?

everyone is so quiet! I need the tea lol

 

[shaescott]

Sorry totally just realized I fell off the face of the earth in internet world. I do have a bunch of updated, some good, some disappointing but whatevs.

The disappointing:
I did do the initial HR interview for the L&D position, it went well, but they emailed me the next day that they were going with candidates with scrubbing experience (which I don’t have). They did offer to give my info to the managers on other floors, but I was really only interested in leaving my current job if it was for labor and delivery.

The good:
I ended up getting a $5/hour raise at work due to having my ACLS certification, which makes me count as a critical care nurse. I should’ve got that raise when I got the certification in January, and they said no back pay, but at least I’m getting it now. They’re also still “working on” the pay disparity issue, like are the new grads gonna get the same $5 raise with ACLS certification and end up getting $4-6 more than us once again? Quite possibly.

Next, I’ve been trying to convince SO to let us adopt a cat for a while now, but I got very persistent about a week ago. In one day he went from “no, I’m putting my foot down” to “we’ll look into it”. Well in one week we went from “no” to today we’re picking up our TWO new cats from the shelter. They’re friends and they wanted them to be adopted together. SO wasn’t thrilled but he’s allowing it lol.

I bought a cat tree that looks slightly less homely than average and set it up last night after work.

 

[DobbyForever]

That’s a bumming about the scrubbing. Is that something you’ll get experience with at your current job? Idk what scrubbing is lol.

Yay for the raise! Sorry that there may still be inequality in the wages and no back pay. That’s so lame.

also LMFAO re cats. Honestly there’s tons of info out there that two cats is better than one. I think the cat tree looks great and I’m sure they love it. It’s cute that they kinda match too with the black and white hehs

 

[Flueky88]

Dobby are you guys back together? I wish you nothing but happiness.


Shae sorry about not getting the L&D position but yay for raise! A bit crappy they won't backpay.

Also cute kitties!

Winter how backpack.

Sorry for short responses and absence. I worked 129 hrs in 15 days. We did it though! Pretty disappointed at the moment with our new EMR but hoping it will improve as we work our processes and bugs out.

 

[DobbyForever]

Omg Fluek that’s intense! Was the a reason for the long days? Hoping you get a break soon

Yeaaaah I pulled a he’s just not that into and put my faith in “the signs”. When really he just didn’t want me to feel cheap. He cares about me enough to not want me to feel like a cheap escort but as far as dating goes he thinks we should “take it one day at a time” so oops….

 

[Flueky88]

Dobby we were manually moving patient information/records from one EMR to another. We moved like 800 patient's information over. The last week was critical though to finish before our go live on August 1st. I hope we NEVER switch EMRs again!!!

I'm sorry you misread his signs.

When is As first day of school? V starts on Tuesday. Ugh, sad and excited at the same time.

 

[DobbyForever]

Proper post later gotta go finish packing but lol Shae now that you have two cats you need this bed

 

[shaescott]

Dobs scrubbing is OR stuff (for the c-sections), so no, no experience in that at this job.

The cats came home on Saturday! They’re doing great, the white one is very skittish but comes up to us for pets when he feels like interacting. Not sure yet if we’ll rename them. I just thought of Thunder and Lightning matching their color and personalities, have to wait to see what SO thinks, he’s asleep. They also are like Yin and Yang color-wise but those names are a bit short for me with the single syllable. The black one was named Billy Bob by the shelter because of his bobtail and idk if I can rename him, his name is just so funny to me the white one was named Toby by the shelter, he’s more likely to be renamed. Idk. Agh. As for the tree, they haven’t touched it hopefully that’ll change soon. We got a litter box enclosure that looks like a coffee table and they’ve been using that successfully, so there’s that.

That bed looks so cool and the cats would 100% use it, they love hiding under our bed. Unfortunately we use the under bed space for storage, small apartment problems.

Sorry OA was just being polite and not trying to get back with you.

Flueks yikes, I never even thought about having to transfer records like that, I know it wouldn’t be my job but I also hope we never switch EMRs, I’m quite used to Epic.

 

[DobbyForever]

Fluek how did the first day go?!?! Ahhhh such a bittersweet milestone. Hoping it went smoothly.

That. Sounds. Awful! There should be a better way to transfer that amount of info. I’m so sorry!

A’s first day is a week from Wed. Luckily it’s a PD day for us and my boss said I could be a little late.

Shae ah ic ic that’s a bummer. And also I hate that whole need experience to get the job but need the job to get experience.

Glad they’re adjusting! Lol billy bob. I’d rename them but that’s just me. I didn’t rename my first cat and they literally didn’t care that’s great they’re using the litter box and hopefully they see the fun if they cat tree soon. Do they play with any toys?

thanks I mean I cried for like three days straight but then I had stuff to do so lol.

 

[shaescott]

So we tried to rename them and just couldn’t do it, it felt weird, we’re so used to calling them Billy Bob and Toby, it’s too late