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Good morning! I really enjoyed my visit to the surrounding area in Phoenix. It's not a landscape I'm used to. Very nice. They do endure a hot Summer. Dianah, glad you settled on a new vacuum. It isn't always an easy decision is it. I got mine at Walmart but it's still the old fashioned heavy kind. I love a good PB&J. I have rice cakes and PB&J at work for hunger times. I did have a good meeting with my retirement counselor whose AI tells me I have a 92% chance of meeting my retirement goals which is good. We decided to decrease my risk some since I'm close to retirement. So if a crash like 2007 or 2022 happens it will be less painful. I've updated my beneficiaries to have best friend get my cash and sister and brother get my retirement. Best friend will get the house, sell it, pay the mortgage and split it with my siblings. I picked a funeral home and will pre-pay for a cremation. Too bad I don't have a spouse and children so I can ignore all this and leave them to deal with it. LOL One thing I learned is my medicare premium will be based on my final two years of income, which is annoying as this year I'm working overtime and might be thrown into a higher bracket and pay $80 more a month for life. It is what it is. Healthcare premiums are factored into my retirement needs. Anyway, yesterday was kind of a dud household chore wise, so I have some meal planning to do, cooking and cleaning to do. Laundry has been started.

Good morning! I like modern art but have to rely on the explanation to tell me what it symbolizes. I'm going to fill out some documents about my will, etc. It's really very simple since I'm not rich. My two siblings will get funds 50/50 and best friend will get the house and be the executor. He's instructed to pay off the mortgage and then give the siblings 50/50 anything left. He doesn't need the money. My house over the years has really become an asset. I'm shocked at what Zillow is saying it's worth and I have my doubts since it needs some work and doesn't have a working sprinkler system. But should make a profit anyway. Anyway, I hope to live to a healthy old age, but best to have it in writing. I got up at 3AM and decided to feed Waffles so I could go to back sleep and wake up when I wanted without her waking me up. We slept until 7:40 after that which was nice. Meeting with my retirement advisor in person in Tampa later and hoping she doesn't tell me to cut back my expectations.

Good evening. Hope the resident pet is okay. We have good take out Chinese here. They are fast. I can order it and pick it up in 10 minutes on my way home from work. Worked OT shift today. It sucked.

Good morning. Tacos sound good. I'm made taco "meat" out of walnuts before and it was good. Day off today. It's wash the sheets day. Going to see a play this afternoon.

Good evening. Stars, I thought I read all the posts and don't remember a fall. Hope you're okay. I love those odd aches and pains not. I must have joined the gypsy club because this week it was my wrist at the palm. Don't know where that came from but it seems better now. Although had an ache behind my left shoulder blade. Had that before. Getting old. Welcome back Ado. Hooray for generous donors to the Eagles!

Good evening. My late Slowbro has frequent vomiting and would wake me up often. Some ileus/gastropersis thing. I miss being part of a book club but don't miss being rushed to finish a book. LOL Work was steady busy. They pulled a nurse to float, what else is new.

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. Connecting and dealing with IV tubing and crawling under a sink to make repairs are not similar skill sets in my opinion. I would have to hire a plumber. But then again, I'm the least handy there is. I hired people to do easy things that if I were so inclined I could do myself. My away from work skillset is in the kitchen, just don't ask me to bake anything. I will be cooking stuff to meal prep the next couple of days, so I don't stop and get chicken fingers. I sent off some information to my financial advisor on my current status, goals and concerns. We have an in person meeting next week. We could do Zoom and not sure what she prefers but I prefer in person. My main concerns are inflation and the high cost of insurance here and what my healthcare costs will be as I will be paying myself for medicare and a supplement. Overall, even though I'm a late bloomer I have to give myself credit for doing okay for a nurse that's single. I've always said that I won't retire young or rich, but I might be okay and middle class still.

Nothing not to like about Avatar: Fire and Ash. It has great scenery, special effects, and great battle scenes. It can be a bit melodramatic at times but it's a great movie overall. Just don't take it too seriously. Again the theme is the earthlings destroy what they touch, but also there's a war within.

I edited my post to say I bought new scrubs and now it went from being posted to needing approval.😝 I have to check my sexism because the air conditioning maintenance person is female and I said "he" above. First time that's happened in the 26 years I've lived here.

Good morning! Joe, happy that you're getting a cat! Dianah, hope you enjoyed yourself. Hope the cellulitis is getting better. Good that you got on top of it. When I got it, it spread very quickly and I went from zero to being in Urgent Care in one day. J22, who knew you were a plumber? Very talented. I've had some pretty stressful days in med-surg land and got home late and didn't post. They pulled a nurse Saturday 30 minutes into the shift because of a no-show on another floor. What is it with the no-shows. She says they messed up her schedule and she wasn't working. Monday was an OT day and wasn't as bad because they didn't pull from us for a change (well they did pull a tech at 10AM). I'll leave it at that because I"m leaving it behind. I need to get my act together today. My kitchen is a mess. Laundry is pilled high. Stuff to do and clean. Having a routine air conditioner maintenance day sometime between 8AM and 10. It's now 9:12 but I'm not going anywhere for a while so he can be late if need be. I used my overtime money to buy five sets of scrubs. This is likely the last time I will be buying scrubs. Strange thought. I had no food and since I was getting Waffle's eye drops at the grocery store pharmacy I use I got some buffalo chicken fingers and mac and cheese. I need to do better, but it was good. LOL

Good morning! Joe, hope today is good. Dianah, so glad the Keflex is kicking in. I had a bug bite or something years ago that caused a lot of swelling and cellulitis to my arm with pitting edema. NP opened a the small area, cultured it and it was MRSA. Didn't have the itching though. Responded to oral antibiotics after two weeks. But I had to switch from the initial antibodies the urgent care gave me. I figure if I didn't get it from the bug, I got it from colonies I have in my nares and body from being a hospital nurse. I was looking at work emails on my phone from home because I wanted to follow up on something and noticed they floated two nurses and made the charge nurse take a full assignment. I've mentioned before how we're signing up working extra shifts, making sure we're well staffed and we wind up floating. I hope they don't do that to me the next three days because I hate working three days and with Monday being an extra day I didn't sign up to take a full assignment so they can float nurses. Not sure what's going on other than nurses taking Summer vacations and being already short staffed, on top of a busy steady stream of admissions. The other day we discharged 14 patients and got 13 admissions with the 14th coming on the next shift. It's exhausting. Anyway, I'll stay present and enjoy my day off. I've accomplished my big goal of going to the gym, washing sheets and going to the grocery store. Best friend is coming for lunch. Since he's low carb, I'm making chicken thighs and veggie stir fry. I'm using a jarred Jamaican green sauce for the marinade. I like to make my own stuff but no time. Again, I had the biggest paycheck of my career, beating two weeks ago by $100. It's not sustainable for me to keeping working overtime but two more weeks of my commitment to go.

Good evening! Dianah, sorry about the cellulitis and glad you're getting it taken care of. Hope the Keflex takes care of it. Keflex does not cover MRSA which a lot of these things tend to be so be watchful and let them know if things don't improve. I already have crappy dental insurance. They even only pay 80% of cleaning. They covered about 1/4th of the cost of a crown. But if I need other crown the max benefit will be achieved. We had a retirement party for someone that's a year younger than me. I'm jealous but I'm sure she's earned but being part of a couple helps. Her younger husband still works. I'm off tomorrow and making plans to make lunch for best friend and then watch TV and have a proper day off.

Good morning. Joe, hope it's less crazy today. We're still in the "feels like" temps of over 100. I went to the grocery store and plan on going to Trader Joes for a couple of things after my haircut which is near there. Had dental cleaning this morning and it was time for X-rays and an exam from the dentist. He has been watching a couple of cracked teeth for a year or more and one is needing a crown now. He identified the other one that will be next but can wait. I appreciate he doesn't do things until they really need them rather than when they don't. Thankfully I still have some left in my Health Savings Account to pay for the crown. Although it's still my money, it feels less painful if it's not coming out of my checking or savings. Otherwise going to meal prep. In the coming six days I have only Friday off and need to do better than take out Chinese.

Ado, hope you continue to sleep well. Joe hope it's uneventful at work and you sleep well as well. Over time I've put pads down where Waffles tends to pee in the house and sometimes it makes it there, other times it doesn't. She can't tell the difference between the bath mat and a pee pad though. Worked my overtime shift today it was a busy day. At the end a family member went into another patient's room and started cursing at us that we weren't taking care of her. I told him it's not his concern as did security who gave him no wiggle worm and told him to shut up or be escorted out with the police called if necessary. I had drama while I'm in report trying to go home. Take out Chinese for dinner.

Good morning! Joe, sounds like a full day. Enjoy! Dianah, hope you slept better. Waffles would not let me sleep past 5:30 AM so I got up. I'm working tomorrow so I'll just stay up. I went to bed early enough. Will go to hot yoga today and if I do only that I will feel accomplished. Will make some pasta recipe for meal prep. It's so humid here, as is our normal for this time of year, our "feels like" is always 100 or greater. It was only 89 yesterday afternoon when I mowed and it "felt like" 100. Yes it did.