Monday, November 29, 2010

Work

So Saturday night i had to work.  Being a weekend and not having to work on sunday night i opted for my usual getting dropped off at work and riding my bike home.  It actually worked out great because my wife went to see the venice christmas parade, which is one of the events of the season.  Only to be outdone next weekend by the boat parade!  Yeah, a boat parade.  Apparently, all the local boat owners decorate their boat and travel down the intercoastal waterway in a parade line.  I have yet to see it, and i'm sure i won't get the chance considering that next week i work.  One thing i love working weekends in the beautiful state of florida is that i can ride my bike home in the morning even after thanksgiving.  The temp wasn't too bad 14 Celsius, cool enough to wear warmers on my arms.  However, the head wind definietly slowed me down.  My average time was very slow 17.5 mph and it took a little longer than normal 1:11.  My best time to date is  under an hour with and avg time of like 20.2 mph.  I did however swing by the lot hoping something had been done, but there hadn't been.  Not that big of surprise considering it's been a holiday.

Something of note that totally cracks me up was my patient last night.  Listed on the allergy area, was an allergy to succinylcholine with the reaction that she stops breathing.  Sometimes i wonder where people come up these things.  For all the non-nursing/medical people out there,  succinylcholine is a paralytic drug that stops a person breathing used for intubating patients because as soon as you give it, the respiratory muscles are paralyized and you can't breathe.  Funny!  Almost as funny as the nurse that didn't give a patient milk of magnesia because they are lactose intolerent (there is no milk in milk of magnesia).

The even better news that we found out on sunday is that we should be getting a new refrigerator on monday...sometime...  We have to wait and see what time the deliverly truck is going to be hear.  Looking forward to this coming week when all my hard work is going to be reflected in the paycheck i will recieve.  My checking account will look awesome for about 10 minutes before bills are paid.  Definitely looking forward to the day when all our debt is paid in full.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day found both of us completely exhausted.  Working as much the last four days found my quite exhausted.  I came home and slept for a few hours woke up long enough to eat and found myself on the couch relaxing the good part of the afternoon.   At least i wasn't the only one exhausted.  All the cooking wore out my wife.  I'm just glad she didn't make pickles and ice cream.  Thanksgiving night found both of us crashed asleep on the couch.  The good news with the fridge was that the freezer was cold enough to act as a fridge but wouldn't freeze anything.  So leftovers found the unusual place inside our freezer.  Having a fridge that doesn't work is very inconvenient.  Having it break down the day before thanksgiving is even worse.

Black friday found us chilling at home with a repair man on the way for the futile attempt to fix the fridge.  I will admit, after he fixed the fridge, it is colder, however ice wasn't forming in the freezer go figure.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Rotten Luck

Of all the days, Thanksgiving is the one time of year where families get together, huge meals are prepared and most importantely all the stores are closed.  Wouldn't you know it, the fridge breaks down last night.  Nothing is getting cold, and everything is beginning to thaw.  Needless to say i was at work when all this occured.  So my wife got to play the mad dash to the vacant neighbors house that we are kinda sorta house sitting with all the food.  Now to get some milk we need to walk to houses down and two houses back.  Yahoo.  Who needs to go to the gym?  Just the thought of walking down the street to get food makes you think twice am i really that hungry?

The good news is that black friday is tomorrow and we can hopefully find some awesome deals on a refigerator.  The even better news is that we will either have the new frige reimbursed or else paid for, 1 advantage of renting for the next few months.  Then the fun begins when we buy our own house and have to pay for all the breakdowns ourselves.  The bad news is that i have to actually venture out into the cutthroat world on black friday.  And so the fun begins....

Monday, November 22, 2010

On Call

Don't you just love it when you forget to write down that your oncall?  I'm going to attribute my lack of forgetfulness to old age.  Either way last night, i went to bed at 2030, phone rings at 2140 for emergency cath lab pt and i need to come in.  Surprisingly on what little sleep i get, i manage to stay awake really well.  I'm sure that isn't going to be the case all the time and i'm feeling it right now.  I did manage to get best of both worlds.  I got to come into our old cvicu 1 last time and even managed so see the patient in "my room."  Plus i managed to transfer and stock most of the new unit in preparation for today when we officially transfer over.  very exciting. Today and tomorrow will definitely be bringing more exciting things, more to come...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

House survey

So we drove by our lot on the way to the model home in port charlotte to see what a recent completed house with our floor plan would look like.  The orange tape that we marked the trees with about a month ago was still there.  However, near the end of our preliminary markings for lot size were official survey stakes for the lot.  very surprising to us, the lot was even bigger than we thought.  Very excited about the house now that things are starting very slowly.  Off we went to see the house that we are building only completed.  We of course loved it.  Some things were different than what we thought, but all in all everything we want and need.  Because of our little walk through, we changed some things that we thought we wanted (like a pocket door between the master bath and master bed) that we don't want anymore.  We changed some way the doors swing particularly the master bed closets and the study.  Also we changed the exterior colors a little bit more so on the trim.  On our way back we marked some more trees and actually walked around the lot a little bit more.  Very Huge lot is all i have to say.  We can't wait.

Dog Park

SO today we checked out North Ports new dog park...  Very nice.  Moby, our greyhound, loved it.  Just some FYI, Moby is a 2.5 year old brindle greyhound.  He weights approximately 83lbs.  A very big boy when it comes to greyhounds.  When we first come him it weighed something like 75lbs but needed to gain a few pounds due to the fact that his hip bones were quite noticable.  He has filled out quite nice weight wise and we can't notice his hip bones sticking up anymore.  Needless to say like most greyhounds, he is totally a couch potato.  He sleeps almost 20 some hours out of the day.  This acutally works out great since i work nights and sleep during the day, and my wife works days and sleeps during the night.  So he always has somebody to sleep next to.

Moby loved the dog park even though he totally mistook it for his own personal toilet.  Upon arrival excitement overwhelmed him enough that he pee'd on the bush immediately on getting out of the car.  From there, we traveled through the double gates where once inside he ran to the far end to unload his bowels.  From there he spend the next 20 minutes going around sniffing, lifting his leg, and peeing on everything in site.  He even pee'd on the water bowel fountain for the dogs.  It got to the point where he would totally lift his leg and nothing would come out.  The longer we stayed the more dogs came.  Surprisingly we did find manage to find out moby is heterosexual.  Unfortanely the male dog that tried to hump him is not.  The other dog was a labrador retriever that wasn't quite as tall as moby, nor as big,  but was definitely up to the challenge. Moby on the other hand wasn't having any of it.  The second the labrador jumped up, moby turned barked and snapped. The labrador jumped off, ran away to the next nearest dog and attempted to hump them.  This continued until he tried to hump every dog in the dog park except moby.

Yesterday

Switching over from working nights is so difficult sometimes.  Just like most nights, i found myself wide awake at 0100 after working the previous night and having only slept a total of  4 hours and going to bed around 2100.  Sometimes it's difficult to find things to do at 0200 in the morning. This wasn't the case.  I was able to spend time organizing playlists on my computer that i've been meaning to do.  Then of course it was time to get ready for the annual coastal cruisers pasta bash.  Our honda element looked like a cyclists dream.  My madone broken down (wheels off) in the back along with all the helmets, waterbottles, shoes, gloves, and tirepump.  On the back, 1 mountain bike, 1 childs bike, and 1 road bike all secured.  Nothing is more exciting than heading out early in the morning knowing i'm going to ride my bike further and i'm traveling by car.  

The weather was a little cool but absolutely beautiful.  A quick set up and double check of equipment and off i went pedaling away to the start of my 64 miles.  Things started off at a great pace around 20mph. Not the biggest surprise but i was the youngest by at least 15 years in the group of riders.  That doesn't mean much to thses group of riders, the've been riding for years and years and can keep up and even pass some of the younger riders half their age.  It started off as a nice group of riders around about 20 or 30.  As the day progressed, the faster riders picked up their speed enough along with the lovely wind to drop a few riders to the point that only 8 finished in the group i was in.  All in all a great ride of 3:15 with an average speed of 19.8mph.  

The afternoon found us back home for cleaning up, lunch and a short trip up to sarasota for showing.  More on things to come...

And So it Begins

And so it begins my time into the wonderful world of blogging.  Hopefully this will be lots of fun.  Time will only tell.  So here we go...