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Katiebell

Photo Contest

There is a photo contest at my Job (for the entire 7 hospital system).  I'd like to enter, but I am not sure I have anything really great.  My choices are:


The Gator.  People like the color I was able to capture, and the reflection and the way the water looks....

The Frog which is a nice color study...and surprising...but doesnt everyone have this photo in one form or another...

Dragon fly, but his wings happen to be well used....a fact of life....

I need to decide the deadline is November 10.  I have a ton of photos.  They need to be non imflammatory type pictures as it is the religious hospital....but I mostly do wildlife, sooooo...
Which ones are good...
this is actually a Sun Rise....I like the dark and orangey contast.

With Digital Photography, I think the average photographer has become very skilled, given that any of us can fire off 40 shots, without the fear of wasting 40 things of film....so I think competition is fierce..not only does it have to be 
perfectly in focus,  and not have a lot of distractors.  the composition of the image should also be good, which is sometimes hard for me, like the stick in the background of the Frog,  its hard to crop out and there was no way I could move it....
Plus its hard to tell what judges are going to like, dislike.....
Sooooo..... what do you all think????
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2 comments Tags: work, images, balance, composition, photo contest
Scooter Kitty

Narwhals are Awesome!!!

Narwhals

Good morning! Getting ready to run 9 miles with Miss K. Blades is off at her mom's so she's not joining us today. I would rather be curled up in bed because (1) it's still dark out (2) it's freezing out there and (3) I'm still sleepy!

So, in order to wake up, I thought I'd listen to this ridiculous Narwhal Song. I don't even know what cartoon it's for..all I know is it's cracking me up.

Another plus for this morning..the House passes a health reform bill!!!

All right..off to torture my body! Happy Sunday Folks!

Tags: running, sunday, narwhals
Bookmole

Random is not Always as Random as It Seems...

I was surfing Rolfrazzi.Com.


3 comments Tags: david bowie, scientology, hugh jackman, kiera knightly, lolz, random pitcture round up, not as random as all that …
Bookmole

Political Statement for Today

Mutually Assured Destruction = MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction = MAD
It was mad then. It still is.
One small world, folks.
One small world, one life each.
Why fuck it all up.

2 comments Tags: mad, cold war, nuclear winter, still sucks, this was our future, why oh god why
Katiebell

Stress....

     Everything seems to be just rather "off" lately.  


It looks like I am going to transfer to the Celebration Campus of Florida Hospital...
Where maybe I can become super nurse....Ha. 
Its a different shift, 9a-7p  4 days a week.  I emailed the director yesterday, he responded within an hour and offerred me two different shifts.  the 10 hour one is very bizarre, but, after thinking about it, I realized  this type of shift would actually help me with my running goals etc.  As I'd be able to do a workout every single day if I wanted to...

I'm really nervous about any kind of job change.  If I hate it, it's unlikely that I would just be able to transfer back. I think though it might be a place where I could advance a little in my career. but there are all those doubts, about if it is going to be a horrific move, if people will like me, if I will remain friends with the friends I made at the other hospital...
if I will make new friends....If I can advance a little in the job, or not, if I would be able to move to a 7-7 shift after some time if the 9-7 was not good.....etc etc etc....

On top of that:

Running lately has been terrible.  My legs are hurting, the more time I take off, the faster the legs heal, but my base also gets destroyed each time I take a day off....

This is probably what has precipitated  my completely foul mood.  
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Florida2 018
Unfortunately it really crept up on me.  So now I am in a bit of a pit of despair.  I am having a lot of trouble running, and thus I have no interest in any type of gym work.  Thus making it even more difficult when my leg starts to feel better...because my base is decimated.  I feel so anxious about this its hard to describe. I have that Marathon coming up and I simply don't want to run it, but having friends coming in makes it very very difficult.  Even today I am missing a super fun race sponsered by my hospital because my leg is in too much pain and I can't really run.

  My main interest right now is sleeping and doing mindless activities like playing Bejewled Blitz on facebook.  While both are excellent activities, they really aren't the end all be all.  And the fact is that I know that if one continues to allow themselves to wallow, then most likely nothing is going to change, so it becomes a forcing to get out and do stuff that I used to like to do.  Truth is I probably still like to do them, but it's just the apathy and frustration that is getting in the way.    

I'm going to try to super schedule everything for the next week, forcing myself to get out to the gym, the pool, continue to set up the aquarium, meal planning, etc.  And hopefully that will help me a lot....
Ugh.
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And can someone explain why these animals are living in my neighbourhood????

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Bookmole

Wrong Number? Or a Portent of Doom?

I just had a wrong number. For Elric.

What is the first thought that goes through your head?

Cos mine was Elric? Fuck! Will he have Stormbringer and call on the Dukes of Hell?

Not good on a Friday evening.

5 comments Tags: wrong number, elric, stormbringer, portent of doom
Scooter Kitty

The morning where I learned about "shake weight"

Hilarious Shake Weight Exercise for Women Video

I was working out at the school gym and they have a nice TV with cable on it so I was watching AM on MTV because I need to know what the kids are listening to these days and this commercial came on!  WT? Um, I know, I am probably late to the game but really shake weight...really?!?!?

It's just like that Schick Quattro Commercial!

Schick Quattro TrimStyle For Women

But I was cracking up with this shake weight commercial. Because hello! yes, my mind went there!

And then I saw this on YouTube

The Shake Weight for Men Workout

um..ok Shake Weight..O.K.

1 comment Tags: wtf?, commercials, shake weight
Bookmole

Long Time, No (serious) Post

How about a bullet list? Cos I am seriously not up to much, but it has been soo long since I posted anything of note.

  • When Husband said to Daughter OK, what is it you want to talk about, then? I think the properties of light and its structure were the last things he expected to hear. Open University course on physics has now been paid for (by Daughter), so we might get more of those sort of questions in the future.
  • This has has been struck by plague. Eldest Son had three weeks off work, so of course he got flu halfway through his holiday, passing it on first to Daughter and then to Me. Husband was in Rome, networking in the computer world, and seems to have missed it. Middle Son and Youngest both got it very lightly indeed.
  • Daughter has had her first Celebrity Sighting since starting a new job in Hampstead = Russell Brand and Katy Perry. Though when she rushed out the door to look, he was staring at it, so she was red faced and embarrassed.  Apparently Hampstead has a LOT of celebrities.
  • And French men selling onions and garlic from bicycles, though not with a beret or a striped jumper. darn.
  • Fireworks make Heidi WOOF!
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Katiebell

Changes coming....

   While I have been enjoying my job, for the most part, I've been exhausted by the commute and some of the problems that are inherent in the medical field...

     We seem to be awash not only in new nurses, but relatively new nurses, who are far more dangerous than the brand new ones.  They are the ones who know enough to do on their own, but not enough to recognize the more subtle  signs of problems and act on them.  Some days get really tiring, because I feel like I'm constantly answering questions, helping the newbies, handling my own load and keeping an eye out for problems that they might miss.  In addition, I've done a great deal more damage control than I would like.  With the long drive, and these annoyances, I have been thinking about a new job.  My Manager is also annoying me a lot...as the staff seems to be having a great deal of behavioral issues that no one is really dealing with....The biggest issue I have is with a weekend charge nurse who is not very competent but continues to remain in charge... 

Unfortunately, the grass is not greener anywhere else.  But with brown grass, I know that at least driving shorter to the brown grass it will be better... 
I have 2 opportunities for jobs.  
One is at the Celebrations Disney Campus of Florida Hospital.  This is a sure shot.  They have offerred me the day shift, and the manager offerred it without me asking.  It's just a transfer so I wouldn't even have to mess about with moving my 403B, changing insurance, etc.  It's a bit of a smaller Emergency Department, with a very different clientele.  So my pay would stay the same etc.
Downside is that this campus has a bad reputation. 2 nurses have transferred from there.  One was very unhappy, the other, seems to have just wanted to not drive so far.  

Second Opportunity  is 2 miles from my house.  Not affiliated with Florida Hospital.  I have a vague interview tomorro.  
Very small Emergency department, most stuff gets flown out.  I get a huge gym discount if I work there, and it's  so close that doing little bits and pieces of overtime would be no issue.  I don't know about pay or insurance.  there is a chance that both could be better....

Decreasing my commute time would help a lot too with more daily exercise. 

I really like where I work, but I am so so sick of getting up at 4 am, and trying to play the political game.  who knows what's going to happen though.
It's really hard for me to decide what to do.....I really want to stay in the same place, just so I don't have to figure out how to negotiate everything new....but I also see that this could be the best thing ever.....

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Scooter Kitty

Ah..something to tide me over til Bourne 4 comes out

Ok, one of my students showed me thing..(um..someone just started singing "blame it on the ..a..a.a..alcohol..." walking out of the library)..let me focus...Bourne 4 is coming out but this movie, "Green Zone" is just like all the Bourne movies!

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