A FRIDAY VIEW ON SATURDAY

I just can't seem to stay awake at night long enough to write my blog.  Even though I was at the Fishtown Branch yesterday which is usually very slow, it was busy.  What's going on here?  And once again I was the only Library Assistant there until 2 p.m. which meant that I sat at the front desk from 10-2.  That's a very long time.  I guess having a lot to do was better than just sitting there.  And I did have short spurts of down time where I was able to write my "Groundhog Day" entry.

Yesterday was pay day so Joe took me to dinner last night at the diner.  The food was very good.  But everything is changed there again.  This place keeps reinventing itself.  I guess they are having money problems because their Early Bird Special dinner is gone and their menu went from four pages to two.  They don't even have the specials page in there anymore.  It is on a board when you walk in and they have about 10 handwritten copies of it which they hand out one per table when you walk in.  Joe had fish cakes and I had meatloaf.  Because my lunch wasn't until 2:00 I wasn't really hungry so brought a lot of dinner home.  But that's a good thing.  Lunch for tomorrow after church.

There is a farmer's market at the farm today.  I am leaving in a half-hour to pick up my girlfriend Debbie and we are heading out there.  Then we are going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch.  With our crazy schedules Debbie and I don't see very much of each other anymore, so this will be fun.

Joe's wrist is much worse today.  Now the pain is all up his arm.  He got the earliest appointment he could with the doctor which is next Thursday afternoon.  (I said it could have been sooner because he didn't tell them how bad it was, but I'm not going to argue with him about it.)  At least it's better than "I'll see you in three weeks."

I called the previous doctor yesterday and cancelled my appointment for Tuesday.  The girl asked if I wanted to reschedule and I said, "No.  Actually I've changed my insurance and I'll be seeing another doctor."  She said OK like it was nothing to her.  She didn't even ask why.  From what I hear a lot of people are changing.  At least the new doctor we chose is associated with Aria Health where I go for all my cancer, cardiac and other treatments.  I was not going to change all my doctors mid-stream.

Well I have to be running so here is your Friday View (even though it's Saturday).  Every morning when I go to take my sunrise picture, Jenny joins me on the windowsill and I have to shoot around her.  I stepped back the other day and got this picture of her.  It just reminds me of an illustration from an old story book.  I really like how it turned out.

Have a good one everybody!

GROUNDHOG DAY

Another really busy day at work yesterday and I ended up falling asleep before I could write my blog. 

I took Joe to the VA Hospital and he went to see if his doctor could see him to evaluate what is going on with his wrist.  He doesn't know what he did to his right wrist, but the bone is sticking out and his hand and part of his arm are swollen.  He says it is very painful.  The doctor would not see him because he didn't have an appointment.  He was told to go see the nurse.  We went to the place to make an appointment to see the nurse.  They took his information then told us to have a seat.  We waited and waited.  A guy came in from seeing the nurse and was all upset because he was there thinking he had pneumonia and she wanted to give him a shot for Hepititis B.   He didn't have hepititis.  Joe looked at me and said "We're out of here."

We went home and Joe called our primary doctor.  He was told the doctor did not have time to see him and just go to the emergency room.  Joe said that it cost $200 on our insurance to go there and asked if he could just have a referral to get an x-ray.  The nurse said no, he couldn't do that.  So Joe hung up.

I was angry.  I went to work, but was still upset about this.  So I called my insurance company and told them what happened and asked to change doctors.  We are now going to go to a doctor who is two blocks from our house.  I won't have to take time off from work to drive Joe there, he can walk it.  He has been to this doctor before and says he is good.  He is calling to make an appointment to see him this morning.  I am not staying with a doctor who won't even see you when you are sick or injured.

Enough of my ranting.  Just had to get that out.

So yesterday was Groundhog Day and Phil saw his shadow.  Six more weeks of winter, even though it's been feeling like spring around these parts.  Cold today though.  Here is the link to Phil's exploits.  The poor groundhog looks so scared with all those cameras flashing at him.  How could he help but see his shadow with those bright lights?

Have a good day everyone.  I'll be posting a Friday View when I get home from work.

CHOCOLATE

 

Here is another of the pictures on the cute calendar my sister gave me.  Love or chocolate?  I already know Joe loves me, so give me the chocolate.  Especially with the way work has been going lately.

Yesterday was the busiest day I can remember in a long time.  We usually have 300-400 people a day come in the library.  Yesterday we had almost 800!  With just Diane and I there for most of the day it was really rough.  And everyone had a problem.  They were all what Sheila (the children's librarian) called "needy".   "Can you help me with this?"  "I can't get on the internet."  "Do you have this book?  You don't?  Well who does?  Can you tell me how to get there?  Do you have their phone number?"  And people needing not only change for dollars, but tens and twenties.  Do they think we're a bank?  We all went home very, very tired and cranky.  I ended up with another headache.

Today I had to deal with the mistake I made on the cash drawer.  I spoke with one of the financial/computer people.  She told me that it is a common mistake and I wouldn't be in trouble but I had to write a full explanation on the deposit summary I had to send in.  She told me what to say and said that she would back me up if there was a problem.  I had sent emails to her, my boss knew about, and I wasn't trying to hide anything.  Also, it's the first time in more than 3 years that something like this has happened.  I told her if I was going to pocket some money it would be a lot more than $5.  She agreed I wouldn't risk being fired for 5 bucks. 

So....  chocolate.  Sounds so good right now.  I love milk chocolate, but am not a big fan of dark chocolate.  However, I was in Rite Aid the other day and saw some Dove bars on sale for Valentine's Day.  I bought them and took them to work.  I was very popular.  

Now that I have chocolate on the brain, I think I will go make myself a cup of hot chocolate and then go to bed.  I have to get up early tomorrow to take Joe to his doctor's appointment at the VA Hospital.  His wrist is still hurting him (in fact getting more painful every day) so he is going to try to see an orthopedic doctor there as well.  I'm going to need that hot chocolate.