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This is COLD!!!

It’s never a good time to get a pink slip or lay off notice but this one takes the cake.  See if you don’t agree with me.

MADISON, Wis. – A nurse was called out of surgery so a manager could tell her she was being laid off. Dean Health said the surgery was minor and the patient wasn’t affected, but the manager who summoned the nurse from surgery violated medical protocol. Dean Health spokesman Paul Pitas said the incident happened at Dean’s West Clinic in Madison on Wednesday or Thursday.

Pitas said there was a period of time in which a nurse wasn’t present during the procedure. He said while there were other clinical staff present, the absence of a nurse is a violation of patient care procedures.

The Madison-based health care provider announced Wednesday that it planned to “immediately” lay off 90 employees. Pitas declined to name the employees involved or what type of surgery the nurse was attending when she was called away.

Like I said, this is about the coldest lay off notice I have ever heard of.  I can’t help but wonder if they put the patient in any jeopardy by calling her out of the surgery.  I sure hope not but if it was me or one of my family members that they were doing the surgery on, I would want to know.

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Some helpful hints for you

My mother told me that the US Postal service sent out a message to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow-jackets away. I use it when I am working outside. It really works. The yellow jackets just veer around you.

1. All this time you’ve just been putting Bounce in the dryer! It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.

2. Spread sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.

3. It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don’t get opened too often.

4. It repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.

5. Eliminate static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.

6. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.

7. Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.

8. To freshen the air in your home – Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the e closet.

9. Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.

10. Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.

11. Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.

12. To freshen the air in your car – Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.

13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan.

14. Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.

15. Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.

16. Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.

17. Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.

18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.

19. Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.

20. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.

21. Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It will keep them smelling fresh.

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One of my friends is on Steroids

I have a close friend that has started using steroids.  Just the name steroids scares me to death.  I don’t like them and even talked to him about my concerns.  I know they can enlarge your heart right along with your muscles because after all, your heart is a muscle too you know.  He told me that I had nothing to be concerned about because he was using them responsibly.  In fact, he was under a doctors care while using them and had a prescription for them.  I asked him if his doctor worked on a street corner or in a real doctors office.

I decided to do a little checking into buying steroids through the Internet myself just to see if it was easy to do or what.  One web site I found helped to put my mind at ease just a bit.  It didn’t promote illegal use of steroids or even readily promote anabolic steroids for sale like I was afraid it would.  It was full of warnings about steroid use such as what harm it can do along with a few of the benefits too.  Steroids are like any other medication and should be seen as just that, medication.  It does have some benefits but they still scare me.

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Crazy Weather!!

I don’t know about where you live but we have had some really strange weather around here. One week, it’s in the lower 70’s, the next week, we’re lucky to be in the mid 50’s. It’s no wonder there are so many kids sick. This strange weather is enough to give everyone pneumonia.

Oh listen to this. I think the low this week was supposed to be about 30 degrees. THAT’S COLD!!! It needs to either stay warm or stay cool. Not COLD!!! I’m just not much into cold weather. Besides, it’s Easter weekend so it’s time for old man winter to get the heck our of town!

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Going Green?

Everyone is talking about going green. Well we have been green for the past 25 years at my parents home. Behind our house we have a building that has our Radiant Heating system in it. It not only heats our house but also all of our hot water we use.

There are 55 gallon barrels at every downspout from our guttering so when it rains, the barrels fill up. At the bottom of each barrel, there’s a spigot that is attached to soaker hoses that go through our landscaped plants and if it doesn’t rain enough, we just turn the soaker hoses on and water everything. There’s stuff you can put in the barrels that keeps mosquitoes from breeding in them and it also won’t hurt the plants either .

All the junk mail we get is sorted through, shredded and added to our compost bins along with any scraps we have like banana peeling or any other fruit or vegetable peelings. We always have rich dirt for my flower boxes on Moms porch rails.  It’s not that hard to most of what we do so you might want to take some of these things we do and do them too.

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I’m so proud of my friend

I have always thought my friend acted a bit odd from time to time but thought it was just her. You know, every one’s different in different situations. Some days I’m really quiet and other days, well I’m wide open. She has been that way since our junior year in high school. I just thought maybe she was ‘blossoming’ since she was usually pretty shy. It wasn’t blossoming though. It was drugs.

She called me today and told me that she has a cocaine addiction. Cocaine!!! I was shocked. I didn’t know what to say. Then she told me that she was going for treatment for her addiction. I almost cried I was so proud of her. She’s a great person and has a really good family that is standing behind her all the way. That’s a lot more than some families would do.

The treatment center she’s going to is a really good treatment center too. I wouldn’t expect her family to send her to anything but a good one. I made sure to let her know just how proud of her I was for admitting she had a problem and going to get help. That’s a huge step in the right direction. I promised her that I would write her at least once a week while she’s gone.

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I learn something new everyday

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. (Do you doubt this?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to “do” this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You do not doubt this, do you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

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Didn’t Barbi just turn 50?

Didn’t I see that the doll Barbi just turned 50?  Well she has aged way too good.  To celebrate, they need to make a new Barbi.  A friend of mine sent me this picture and I thought it was perfect and just had to share.

It is about time this happened to her….

fat-barbi

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More lost in shootings?

What is going on in this country?  I just don’t understand why someone would walk into a nursing home and start killing innocent elderly people like that man in North Carolina did last week.  Now today there’s a man that walked into an immigration office and up to 13 people have died from that shooting.  There for awhile it was people that worked in the post office that was walking into where they worked and killing people and that’s how we got the stupid saying of “Going Postal’ on someone.  Then it was in the schools that students were walking into and just killing as many people as they could.  Now it seems like this can happen at any time at any place.  I just don’t understand what’s going on at all.  Isn’t life precious to anyone anymore?

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I am so tired of hearing about Nadia

Octomom is getting on my nerves.  You can’t go anywhere without seeing or hearing something new about her.  She is constantly on TV, on the computer, on just about everything here and there.  I’m sorry but I don’t feel the least bit sorry for this ‘unusual’ woman.  Why in the world would the mother of 6 children want 6 more implanted and then end up giving birth to a litter of eight babies instead of donating the embryos to other couples that can’t have children?  That would have been the sensible thing to do.

While we’re on that subject (sensible that is), it seems that she has now fired all of the nannies that are supposed to help her with her babies.  Good move!!!  Let’s see her take care of the 10 she has at home now.  The department of Social Services will definitely be investigating now because no one can take care of the 4 of the octuplets that she has home now and the other 6 at one time.  She fired them because she said they were spying on her.  There’s something wrong with this picture!!!