Friday July 28th 2023

Hi from the shores of Lake Champlain. We attended the volunteer in service this morning, now having lunch at a creperie, and plans for Ben and Jerry's this afternoon. It's hot and steamy, rain forecast in the morning, hope it's doen before the bike starts. 

The other day I gave a woman a ride from the doc's office to her house several miles away. She had had someone drop her off at the office for her appt, and then, after her ride drove away, she found out she didn't have an appt that day after all. I didn't mind doing a good deed. She asked for my phone # so she could pay me some gas $$ and for the 2 L bottle of "Sundrop" soda I bought for her. Last night...after I had turned off my phone for the night, she had called and left me two messages ( at 10:45 PM! And she was hard to understand), She was asking if I could give her rides here and there for this and that, today, and said I didn't have to call her back, but just come by her house (around whatever time of day she specified.)  In the morning I tried to call her back six times but she never answered the phone. Of course I never went by her house 'cause it really isn't near me or where I had to go today.

I'm sorry for her circumstances, but I just happened to be over at the doc's office for my own appt. that day, and was on my way out the door when she caught me to ask me for a ride.

I already have a full time 'job' here with Nannie and hubby and the house. Plus, today I was overloaded with errands of my own, way across town from the town she lives in, and no way could I have fit her scheduled needs with MINE. I mean, she was asking me to drive her around to several places, one place at 11 AM, one place at 1 PM.....so, yuh, right! That ain't happenin' chick! I will have to tell her that I am 'working' FULL TIME and am not available to take her places. Hubby said "There's always UBER...." but she had said in her message that she only had $3 but she would give it to me for gas. Uber would cost, and I guess she thought I wouldn't charge her. Well, I won't charge her, 'cause I ain't a'takin' her all over creation. It's sad, and I guess she is desperate, but I am not volunteering to be her savior. Sorry/not sorry.

No new news about anything having to do w/ detox/rehab, and that personal banker has yet to call me back (and I didn't even want her to drive me anywhere!) So I guess she is an IMPERSONAL banker. Harumph! But we still have to get Nannie's credit card taken care of. If the bank lady didn't want to call me to tell me they don't take care of credit card problems at the bank and That I should call the card companies #, she could have at least called me back to let me know. I know the bank doesn't do the credit card companies business, but THEY were the ones to suggest I take Nannie to the branch bank and have it taken care of there, face-to-face. Keeee-RIPES! Nothing is easy anymore. Ppfftt!

G'day.

J22, enjoy your day.  I Google "creperies near me" and got "Bacon B**tch"

Stars, that was nice, but yep you gotta nip that in the bud and just block her number.

Dianah, sometimes our bodies just catch up like that.  I actually love when I sleep in because it's rare.

Work was a mess.  Started out as a free charge and after report administration thought it better to pull a nurse to the other unit to take an ER admission and gave me two patients and made the nurses on my side take 6:1.  It went down hill from there.  A night shift RN was a no-call no show the other day and wouldn't answer calls, so we had trouble replacing her.  Thought we would have to move patients from one unit to the next and I would stay late waiting on a 7:30 pm (usually late) ambulance for one of my patients.  As it was they pulled a nurse from rehab that initially was floating somewhere else and the other unit had unexpected discharges and we didn't have to move patients.  One of my coworkers texted the no show RN on her personal phone and she confirmed to her coworker friend that she quit and that "we should have figured it out".  We did, but a grown up would have at least called back and told us.   How professional is that?

I did stress eating because we had chocolate from a couple of patients and stopped by Taco Bell for dinner.  It was good but I felt like a blob.  

Off the weekend.  No overtime coming up.