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22 February, 2009
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You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
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16 February, 2009
Wind, rain and a new laptop
My beloved Emac gave up the ghost quite soon after Christmas..It wasn't ready for new technology. So I scrimped up some retirement $ and got myself a new white Macbook. I love it. It is fast though it even has a 13 inch screen. But it's a good investment.
Wind has died down for a little and the rain has eased off. I lit a fire, turned off the heater and will let the fireplace do it's thing. Supposed to be a nice weekend. We need the rain and we need the snowpack. Drought and a bankrupt state. What more do you want from California? Sun and sand and movie stars?
I got roses and a card for VDay. That was nice. I love roses and tulips. I have some tulip bulbs that I am going to plant when the rain eases up.
Waiting on the agency to get the doctor thing done. They are paying me for the TTD time which we need, but for some reason they haven't approved the new doctor; which is stupid because the old doctor said goodbye and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Well it's time to go. Life is flying by.
da bunny
Wind has died down for a little and the rain has eased off. I lit a fire, turned off the heater and will let the fireplace do it's thing. Supposed to be a nice weekend. We need the rain and we need the snowpack. Drought and a bankrupt state. What more do you want from California? Sun and sand and movie stars?
I got roses and a card for VDay. That was nice. I love roses and tulips. I have some tulip bulbs that I am going to plant when the rain eases up.
Waiting on the agency to get the doctor thing done. They are paying me for the TTD time which we need, but for some reason they haven't approved the new doctor; which is stupid because the old doctor said goodbye and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Well it's time to go. Life is flying by.
da bunny
30 January, 2009
Still here
Doing okay.
On meds.
Dog loves me. Keeps me sane.
Weather is hot.
I am waiting for the money to get here. But a watched mailbox never provides happiness.
Life is interesting.
Later alligator.
23 January, 2009
There's moisture falling down
It's raining and that is good news. No having to water plants and mow lawns this weekend.
Listened to the Illinois governor and his wacko news conference. Well what do you expect from the state that gave us Bozo? I hope they throw the book at him and get him the hell out.
Arm still hurts but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not working is relaxing, I am not stressed. At least not stressed over work but stressed over things at home. I am waiting for a check to come from my teachers retirement, I have to get a new computer. I have killed my 6 year old Mac. So I am going to get an Apple laptop. It's time. I know I could spend the money on other things but I am going to pay off bills too, and get those off the table. I already am scrimping and saving everything I can. But I would love to have a long relaxing bath and a massage to relax those muscles. Well maybe it will happen too. I have a brochure from a cool spa. I may spend the money myself.
Another exciting day.Have a good weekend.
Listened to the Illinois governor and his wacko news conference. Well what do you expect from the state that gave us Bozo? I hope they throw the book at him and get him the hell out.
Arm still hurts but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not working is relaxing, I am not stressed. At least not stressed over work but stressed over things at home. I am waiting for a check to come from my teachers retirement, I have to get a new computer. I have killed my 6 year old Mac. So I am going to get an Apple laptop. It's time. I know I could spend the money on other things but I am going to pay off bills too, and get those off the table. I already am scrimping and saving everything I can. But I would love to have a long relaxing bath and a massage to relax those muscles. Well maybe it will happen too. I have a brochure from a cool spa. I may spend the money myself.
Another exciting day.Have a good weekend.
da bunny
15 January, 2009
okay okay okay
It's been pretty warm here. Actually fricking hot. But hey, global warming and all that are proven even if the outgoing administration doesn't believe in it. The dog loves to lay out in the back on the warm concrete and the cat sits on the steps of the jacuzzi.
Some how I have managed to disable my Emac. I got an external hard drive for Christmas and when I tried to do what I was supposed to do, it did something weird. I guess when I get some extra money I'll take it to the shop and have it fixed. I am going to get some extra money from my retirement (there goes another tax problem) and I am getting a laptop for me, pay some bills off, and put some money away for emergencies. I can't get into any of my applications. Somedays I am just baffled by my stupidity.
US Airways had a water landing in the Hudson River. CNN is covering it. At least they seem to have evacuated the passengers and the plane is still floating but it looks like it is slowly sinking. I hope Dave isn't the pilot.
Thank God they made a safe landing and everyone is safe.
Time to move from this uncomfortable chair and computer and read a little. Oh, I thought Grishams book The Appeal sucked. JMHO. I loved The Shack. Now I am going to find some mindless Harlequin book. The kid got a motherload when a used book store went out of business.
See ya.
13 January, 2009
what a clusterfuck
1. I see the new ortho! Yeah.
2. I get 6 weeks off and surgery to come.
3. I get a nice monkey written note to take to work.
4. I go to hr without an appt and the person who handles my file is gone. No matter she doesn't answer email or phone calls.
5. The head witch says that my doctor's note is not MEDICALLY ACCEPTABLE.
6. I call the dr's office and they are incredulous but they write a new note and fax it.
7. I get a copy from the admin office faxed to me.
8. I get threatened by the terminal manager that they will AWOL me if I don't give them the note and make sure it's medically acceptable. I push back and email her with a copy of the pdf note attached.
9. They are harassing me and I am really tired of it. It's time to get an attorney and start putting pressure.
10. I emailed the ombudsman and complained of harassment. The person who handles eeoc is also the person who told me my note from the doctor was not acceptable.
Chicken in the henhouse?
11. Still don't know if I have to bring in the paperwork in person which won't be a problem since my kid works across the street.
12. Don't harass me and I won't back up and get my fangs out. I am tired of being told I am worth nothing and don't mean anything to the agency. Time to retire.
later peoples!
2. I get 6 weeks off and surgery to come.
3. I get a nice monkey written note to take to work.
4. I go to hr without an appt and the person who handles my file is gone. No matter she doesn't answer email or phone calls.
5. The head witch says that my doctor's note is not MEDICALLY ACCEPTABLE.
6. I call the dr's office and they are incredulous but they write a new note and fax it.
7. I get a copy from the admin office faxed to me.
8. I get threatened by the terminal manager that they will AWOL me if I don't give them the note and make sure it's medically acceptable. I push back and email her with a copy of the pdf note attached.
9. They are harassing me and I am really tired of it. It's time to get an attorney and start putting pressure.
10. I emailed the ombudsman and complained of harassment. The person who handles eeoc is also the person who told me my note from the doctor was not acceptable.
Chicken in the henhouse?
11. Still don't know if I have to bring in the paperwork in person which won't be a problem since my kid works across the street.
12. Don't harass me and I won't back up and get my fangs out. I am tired of being told I am worth nothing and don't mean anything to the agency. Time to retire.
later peoples!
12 January, 2009
11 January, 2009
Happy New Year
Finally have an appt with a new ortho------YIPPEE!!!!
Work still makes up their own rules and breaks them left and right.
Just read a wonderful book, The Shack. Recommend it highly.
December was pretty stressful. Hopefully 2009 will be better. Yes.
Miss my kiddo. She comes home from the frozen north on the 13th.
Peace and out!
Work still makes up their own rules and breaks them left and right.
Just read a wonderful book, The Shack. Recommend it highly.
December was pretty stressful. Hopefully 2009 will be better. Yes.
Miss my kiddo. She comes home from the frozen north on the 13th.
Peace and out!
14 December, 2008
I'm still here
Been sick again, arm is in constant spasm and the flu visited me with aches, aches, headaches and just wonder why the flu shot didn't work. Of course the money thing sucks too.
Back to the house. The kids bought a tree and the dad set it up. It's nice. I wanted a live tree and they got a cut tree. But mom it's live, I said where is it connected to dirt? They bad. But they did okay.
Got through 2 funerals in 5 days. Well death is a part of life isn't it? The first one was the hardest. The second one was completely planned out. The Pastor said he thought if she could have she would have written her own homily. I will miss them both. But I hope that Selma found her perfect kitchen in heaven.
Can't say much more.
Da bunny is tired, hurting, and needs her rest.
Back to the house. The kids bought a tree and the dad set it up. It's nice. I wanted a live tree and they got a cut tree. But mom it's live, I said where is it connected to dirt? They bad. But they did okay.
Got through 2 funerals in 5 days. Well death is a part of life isn't it? The first one was the hardest. The second one was completely planned out. The Pastor said he thought if she could have she would have written her own homily. I will miss them both. But I hope that Selma found her perfect kitchen in heaven.
Can't say much more.
Da bunny is tired, hurting, and needs her rest.
30 November, 2008
I am not sure
24 November, 2008
The store was busy
There's a 13 pound tom turkey languishing in my fridge. Had to rearrange some things but it's there. The giblets and gizzards have just come to a boil and they will cook until they are done. Then I will fry the livers with some onion and put them all in a bag to cool. Wednesday night I will put them in the food processor and chop them up.Thursday morning I will mix them with the cooked celery and onion and add them to the stuffing with my organic chicken broth and make the stuffing. There's never enough stuffing and I like it the next day with turkey gravy.
I am home today because my 19 year old daughter lost a friend. He left a 4 page note and he shot himself away from home. He was only 19. Another friend who was on a police ride along happened to be with the officers when they went to the kids house to take a missing persons report, while they were there the coroners office called and asked them if they had a son, and then asked them to come down and ID the body. How awful. Now these kids who knew him are walking around like zombies wondering how and why didn't he ask for help. It's the most selfish thing a person can do.
Have most of the shopping done for Thanksgiving and on Wednesday will have kid#1 take me out so I can finish. I need some Chambord liqueur to use with my trifle. I am making a cranberry trifle and I will pour the chambord over the pound cake, then the cranberries, then the whipped cream and then repeat till the bowl is full. Put it in the fridge and keep it cool. It will be yummy, I will cook my cranberries with a bit of pie spice that always adds to it.
I am getting a little tired now, just took my pills, I can function at a certain level. My mom says I was mumbling this morning. Most likely. After I take the Klonopin I feel okay but a little spacey. If I take the Norco on an empty stomach you might as well get the rubber room ready. But it helps the arm and that is good. When I was at the store and passed the display where they have the cooked chickens and ribs ready to go, I said I could just stand under this light forever it felt so good and warm.
On the medical side:
1. I have to send a form to the Federal Security Director of the TSA at LAX for permission to wear my jacket at the exit. ( what pfiffle is this?)
2. I have called my claims examiner two times in the last 5 days asking about the approval for the new doctor. What have I got? No calls no letter.
3. So my shoulder is miserable, my back is crunching as we speak and life goes on.
At least God loves me and I cling to that knowledge, that no matter what happens in life, he is there for me, holding me, supporting me, and loving me.
so that's it for now. more after the feast. guess i'd better get some pumpkin pies.
da bunny
I am home today because my 19 year old daughter lost a friend. He left a 4 page note and he shot himself away from home. He was only 19. Another friend who was on a police ride along happened to be with the officers when they went to the kids house to take a missing persons report, while they were there the coroners office called and asked them if they had a son, and then asked them to come down and ID the body. How awful. Now these kids who knew him are walking around like zombies wondering how and why didn't he ask for help. It's the most selfish thing a person can do.
Have most of the shopping done for Thanksgiving and on Wednesday will have kid#1 take me out so I can finish. I need some Chambord liqueur to use with my trifle. I am making a cranberry trifle and I will pour the chambord over the pound cake, then the cranberries, then the whipped cream and then repeat till the bowl is full. Put it in the fridge and keep it cool. It will be yummy, I will cook my cranberries with a bit of pie spice that always adds to it.
I am getting a little tired now, just took my pills, I can function at a certain level. My mom says I was mumbling this morning. Most likely. After I take the Klonopin I feel okay but a little spacey. If I take the Norco on an empty stomach you might as well get the rubber room ready. But it helps the arm and that is good. When I was at the store and passed the display where they have the cooked chickens and ribs ready to go, I said I could just stand under this light forever it felt so good and warm.
On the medical side:
1. I have to send a form to the Federal Security Director of the TSA at LAX for permission to wear my jacket at the exit. ( what pfiffle is this?)
2. I have called my claims examiner two times in the last 5 days asking about the approval for the new doctor. What have I got? No calls no letter.
3. So my shoulder is miserable, my back is crunching as we speak and life goes on.
At least God loves me and I cling to that knowledge, that no matter what happens in life, he is there for me, holding me, supporting me, and loving me.
so that's it for now. more after the feast. guess i'd better get some pumpkin pies.
da bunny
23 November, 2008
15 November, 2008
Fires Fires Fires
It's hard to explain what it's like to see the fires all around in the hills and sit down here in the flats and pray for your friends and coworkers who may have lost their homes. There is a fire close to here, 15 miles away. I called a friend but he hasn't called back.
Have another 3 days off thanks to the back going bad, yesterday I had a Toradol shot and a flu shot. I am going to get the ice pack out and use it. Thank God I can use the FMLA and not get dinged for the absence. Of course this is the same agency that denied my doctor's request to wear a jacket at the exit. Gotta wonder don't you?
Now they are asking reporters to leave a mobile home park that reporters have used as a staging area in Sylmar. It's a crime scene. If someone set this fire I have no sympathy for them. Let them suffer.
Husband has gone to the other side of the mts to go gold prospecting. The active fire is about 45 miles from where he is. I can't get ahold of him and he didn't take his phone charger with him. Going to be anxiety for a while.
Monday I get to bid for a new shift. We shall see. All I can do is sit at an exit so what difference is it? People who work shifts are pissy that light duty can bid. They've taken everything else away from us, so this is one way to keep our dignity. Because there is none left. This is one thing that a great many people don't care about===
I'll keep posting on the new medical degree of the primary terminal manager who has denied my doctor's request for me to wear a jacket at night. If it causes back spasms and makes my shoulder spasm too we'll start talking greivance.
Bye from the bunny.........
Have another 3 days off thanks to the back going bad, yesterday I had a Toradol shot and a flu shot. I am going to get the ice pack out and use it. Thank God I can use the FMLA and not get dinged for the absence. Of course this is the same agency that denied my doctor's request to wear a jacket at the exit. Gotta wonder don't you?
Now they are asking reporters to leave a mobile home park that reporters have used as a staging area in Sylmar. It's a crime scene. If someone set this fire I have no sympathy for them. Let them suffer.
Husband has gone to the other side of the mts to go gold prospecting. The active fire is about 45 miles from where he is. I can't get ahold of him and he didn't take his phone charger with him. Going to be anxiety for a while.
Monday I get to bid for a new shift. We shall see. All I can do is sit at an exit so what difference is it? People who work shifts are pissy that light duty can bid. They've taken everything else away from us, so this is one way to keep our dignity. Because there is none left. This is one thing that a great many people don't care about===
I'll keep posting on the new medical degree of the primary terminal manager who has denied my doctor's request for me to wear a jacket at night. If it causes back spasms and makes my shoulder spasm too we'll start talking greivance.
Bye from the bunny.........
30 October, 2008
Rainclouds and Monthends....
Well it's the end of the month, and that means only 2 to go till a new year. Where has the time flown? Last year at this time, I was in an office, busy and happy. This year I sit at an exit, having to beg to go to the bathroom and putting up with snide comments from people who are pissed that I get to sit. Well, it's not all that it's cracked up to be. My comment to them is EATSHITANDDIE.
Celebs I have seen:
Giselle Bundchen
Kristin Davis
Smokey Robinson
Ozzy and Sharon
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
Miley Cyrus
Hank Azaria
Robert Picardo
House is semi clean. Dishes are done.
And it's another day.
Here's the pumpkin that greeted our visitors:
November is here. It has rained off and on. We are safe and sound.
I have a bladder infection, blood even, taking meds. I also have back spasms. Thank God for meds.
Peace and out!
Celebs I have seen:
Giselle Bundchen
Kristin Davis
Smokey Robinson
Ozzy and Sharon
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
Miley Cyrus
Hank Azaria
Robert Picardo
House is semi clean. Dishes are done.
And it's another day.
Here's the pumpkin that greeted our visitors:
November is here. It has rained off and on. We are safe and sound.
I have a bladder infection, blood even, taking meds. I also have back spasms. Thank God for meds.
Peace and out!
20 October, 2008
05 October, 2008
Punishment and Sadness
For eight hours a day I sit in a broken chair and watch people. I get 2 15 minute breaks and 1 30 minute break. I don't get to interact with people other than give some directions and hopefully have a short conversation with the person at the other exit station, who gets to rotate every 30 minutes. And don't dare to ask for something else, even though they have copies of your doctor's notes, they can't remember that you can't stand for more than 10 minutes, not to bother remembering that you've a FMLA for severe back problems and a work comp case for a damaged shoulder.
I would be perfectly happy in front of a keyboard and doing perfectly inane things but the gods that run the agency or at least this airport say sorry you aren't a perfect employee ( but i did pass my proficiency check so what does that mean?) so you stay where you are seated.
And on top of everything else it makes me sad. I would just like to have something to be useful to do.
In vino veritas.....except this is in pharmaceutical veritas.
Later.
03 October, 2008
21 years later......
We're celebrating the 21st birthday of the slug boy. I did all the work and he gets all the praise.
They gave him ice cream, he hates cake.
The birthday boy, his sister's BFF, and his loving sister.
The Elephant Bar is a great place for a birthday!
the bunny
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