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My husbands job is changing

by The Diva

My husbands job at the hospital has been changing lately. For the last few years he’s worked in the Recovery room as an attendant, but the hours are changing there and the OR is in desperate need of assistants so to make up for the hours that he’ll be losing in the recovery room soon he’s been training as an O.R. Assistant for the last few months.

In fact the last few weekends he’s been finishing up his training. He does everything from setting up the O.R.s for surgeries to assisting during surgery when needed. Assisting can be anything from helping hold a patients limb or handing things to a doctor or nurse during a procedure. I suppose if his hours continue to decline at the hospital between his experience as a Recovery Room assistant and his training in the OR he’d be able to apply for Surgical Technologist Jobs at other hospitals or clinics.

Hopefully between the two departments that my husbands been working in he’ll get enough hours. As of right now he’s working 6 and 7 days a week, but that’s only because he’s training in the OR once the training is done we’ll see what happens.

Filed Under: Education, Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: assistant, clinic, doctor, hospital, job, nurse, OR training, recovery room, surgeries, Surgery, surgical assistant, technologist, training

Quick visit – busy weekend

by The Diva

My in-laws called last night and now they are here in Toronto for a quick weekend visit.

My father in law used to be more spontaneous than he is now, but I think this weekend he truly was spontaneous. He heard from a woman that he knows that a church here in Toronto was holding a special ceremony in honor of the Irish famine (as in the famine that brought my grandfather here and so on) and he decided that he had to attend so he and my mother in law are in the city for the weekend.

Unfortunately their visit didn’t quite mesh with my husbands work schedule. He’s just starting to do a bit of work on the weekends and he had to work this evening so he spent a bit of time with them this afternoon visiting his uncle in a nursing home but then he had to go to work. They were too tired to do much this evening after their long day. My mother in law doesn’t like to drive after dark … otherwise she’d be out looking for Wholesaleinsurance.net or something! Tomorrow is going to be a busy day so I guess we’ll all just get together tomorrow maybe for breakfast, then to see my husbands uncle again and then off to the church for the special ceremony and reception.

At some point we have to get groceries tomorrow too … hmm maybe in the evening when Chris’ parents drive back home? Maybe.

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: church, drive, driving, father in law, home, inlaws, irish famine, mother in law, nursing home, Parents, tired, uncle, visit, work

My neighborhood is under construction this week

by The Diva

I’m tired this week. Almost every day there’s noise on the street very early in the morning. Why? Well … there’s construction crews tearing up our sidewalks for some reason. I’m not sure why, but they’re replacing some of the sidewalks that were put in two years ago when some of our neighbors had their waterlines improved.

On Tuesday the sidewalk right in front of our house was torn up with one of those big hammer drills. Our whole house shook like crazy! Luckily it only took about fifteen minutes for them to finish. Then … once they removed the broken concrete they cleared the area and at about 4:30 pm they put in new cement and smoothed it out and moved on to other areas.

Before they left the neighborhood they blocked things off with wooded blockades and put canvas over the wet cement but by 8 pm – only about an hour after the guys had left the area someone walked in all the wet cement in front of my house and apparent all down the street (doing the twist in the cement) mucking it all up. Who does that? So it’s all ruined! So I guess maybe tomorrow I’ll have another hammer drill making noise in front of my house again.

Now the sidewalk in front of my house is only partly useable because of the mucked up footprints in the cement. All the little kids parading by with their cute little personalized lunch boxes are having trouble walking on it. I hope they fix it soon.

Filed Under: Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: cement, construction, fix, improvement, mucked up, neighborhood, repair, ruined cement, sidewalk, terrible, walking, waterline

I love special sales

by The Diva

I love getting notices for special sales. I’m signed up with a few of my favorite businesses to get their regular sales newsletters and their special newsletters. I absolutely love it when I get the occasional notice from one of them that their having an Employee Purchase Program Event or a Midnight madness sale or special bargains that you’ll only know about if you get the newsletter.

Naturally I don’t take advantage of all of these sales because I don’t always need to be out buying things … but it’s good to keep any eye on what’s on sale just in case I need something or in case I have to buy a gift. I always have sales and savings in the back of my mind.

Do you sign up for your favorite department stores sales newsletters so that you can find out when they are having big sales?

Filed Under: Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Shopping Tagged With: buy, company newsletter, department store, email, employee price event, gifts, ideas, midnight madness, sales, savings, shop, Shopping

Really enjoying Sons of Anarchy

by The Diva

I’m just watching Sons of Anarchy on my PVR …. I’m really enjoying this season. Anyone else watching?

I really never thought I’d enjoy a show about a motorcycle gang … but hey .. guess what, I really do. It’s a very well written and well acted show. I’m not surprised at how many awards this show has won.

I haven’t finished watching this weeks episode but I’m hoping that the fake death threat against Tara works. LOL that was genius.

Man I never notice how many steel buildings were in this show either … I think the whole SAMCO compound is made of steel buildings isn’t it? Odd that I never noticed before.

Anyway … do you like Sons of Anarchy too? Who’s your favorite character?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Items to Try, Television Tagged With: gang, good show, motorcycle, samco, season, sons of anarchy, tv, watching

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