Stinkin', Rotten attitude!

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Yeah, it's mine. I have been up to herewith unnecessary "stuff" at work lately. Being used and abused is one thing. Now it's spilling into my personal life and today I woke up with a major attitude! I am not liking "angry me". Doesn't look like it will get better kids. So, jokes, advice, finger pointing while joking... Go ahead! Anything will help.

So glad I posted. I just snorted while laughing!

And I will try that ***** thing because I don't have cats!

It's even harder to walk imaginary cats, at least in my experience. If you think real ones are difficult, the invisible ones are even sneakier!

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Amen Sister!

Screw this "journaling crap" I don't want to write about my bad day and the crap I dealt with.

Give me my cat and a bottle of wine, and life is good!

And no guilt trips about the wine!

Ding ding ding!

Last thing I want to do is reflect on everything and everyone that ****** me off over the course of the day. I used to write to escape. I could escape anything--school, parents, work, my teenage woes. Nowadays, I write to survive. I write to remember.

And I write in hopes that someday, I can tap back into the unlimited creativity of the 16-year-old me, the one who holed up in her room and thought the world was big and bright and beautiful and boundless.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
No guilt trips here, but don't you mean BOX OF WINE??

:sarcastic:........light weights...only one box?

On really bad days I curl up with my friends......

The Captain, Ben, Jerry and my beautiful dog.......:roflmao:

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:sarcastic:........light weights...only one box?

That's super lightweight to you! My friends like to joke that I can get drunk off the smell alone... :dead:

With that kind of "skill", I've always felt a cape was in order.

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Specializes in ER.
Ahhhh! Now that's support!

And I will consider the red undies. There are days I am sarcastic enough to smirk all day without saying one word!

Some days are like that. Sometimes I find it's PMS, other times it's definitely everyone else. LOL! I find that having my quiet internal dialogue helps me to not provide a smart alec remark! I know the smirk gives me away.... it's called survival!

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Thanks everyone for cheering me up! It's nice to know kindred spirits exist on AN. Gets me right in the... well, the area where my heart will be when I give a crap again!

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

MomaNurse, if all else fails, including the red panties, box of whine, box of wine fumes, walking the visible and invisible cats, walking around with your message under your scrubs, I'll lend you the poltergeist who came with our house. According to local legend, she died in our house when she was nine about 140 years ago. Since poltergeists are mischievous child ghosts, our Molly should be lots of help, especially with the invisible cats.

If all else fails, we have 10 live cats you can borrow if you want to be the crazy cat lady.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.
I feel like your post is me every day.

I won't feed you lines about journaling, because whenever I get *****, I can't write worth a ****. But, as the asterisks indicate, I can cuss up a storm! In private and when appropriate, I vent in four letters, sometimes to friends/family, other times to a mirror, but I get it out.

I call it Swear Therapy. It works. I swear.

I also exercise, eat junk food, chase my cats around, and go for walks. Sarcasm (as you mentioned) is also a great way to mentally work out the kinks upstairs (done in an appropriate setting in trustworthy company, of course).

Chronic bad attitudes (like mine) can be tough to deal with. Hopefully yours is an acute episode. Best of luck!

We used swear therapy and insult therapy one night. The ER charge got under the skin of the charge nurses on one of the units. I was on my rounds and said lets go in the back room and swear and call him names. It worked like a charm. I will always say swear therapy is awesome.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

New boss x 3 weeks and already in the doghouse...like JBudd idea.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

There are 3 types of shifts.

1. You get home, you have a coke.

2. You get home, you have a rum and coke

3. You get home, and you stick the straw into the bottle of rum!

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New boss x 3 weeks and already in the doghouse...like JBudd idea.

I remember when my boss was only horrific for the past 3 weeks... Good times...

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There are 3 types of shifts.

1. You get home, you have a coke.

2. You get home, you have a rum and coke

3. You get home, and you stick the straw into the bottle of rum!

I have much to learn. Clearly I have not followed the above rules and my attitude has suffered!

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