Post-It-Note-Tuesday

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Monday Minute

If ya wanna play, go link up with Ian! Kimber is cohosting this week!!!

If you could have plastic surgery, would you? If so, what would you get done?
Yep, I would have my boobs done and some lipo and my lips...I think that's it though.

What laws have you broken?
Well, I speed...pretty much every time I drive...and there are some other ones but I can't tell all my secrets!!!

What is your quirkiest habit?
I separate m&m's and skittles when I eat them. I've done it since I was a little kid, it's my OCD thing.

If you only had 3 songs to listen to for the rest of your life what would they be?
Um...this is super hard. I love music and I don't know if I would survive having only 3 songs to listen to.
"You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon
"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Bif Naked (the original is awesome but this one's harder)


"You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin" by David Allan Coe

How often do you have sex?
2-3 times a week, sometimes more, sometimes less...just depends.

GTKY Sunday

 

 Go link up with Keely to play!!!

 

The Q's.

1. What kind of athlete has the hottest body?

2. Are you a planner or a procrastinator?

3. Diet or regular (soda)?

4. What's your one "must have" for Fall?

5. What's your favorite fast food restaurant?

6. What do you think is the sexiest profession for a guy?

7. Did you wear braces?

8. Would you rather have a guy that's super sexy or kind?

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1. What kind of athlete has the hottest body?

I personally like football players because I like the big guys, with big shoulders!

2. Are you a planner or a procrastinator?
Oh I am a total procrastinator...I plan but I usually don't get around to it...LOL

3. Diet or regular soda?
I drink regular coke...diet stuff is just nasty and it's worse for you!!!

4. What's your one "must have" for Fall? 
 I don't have one...I would like lots of things but being a student without a full time job, I just can't have anything yet! :) I'm excited about football though!!!

5. What's your favorite fast food restaurant?
Taco Villa or Chik-Fil-A

6. What do you think is the sexiest profession for a guy?
I think men that work hard, at any profession are sexy! I know of enough that don't work at all and that's just pathetic!!!

7. Did you wear braces?
Yes, I wore those torture devices for 3 1/2 years...

8. Would you rather have a guy who's super sexy or kind?
Kind because that makes them sexy!          

Grr...

I really wanted to change my layout to this cute thing from shabbyblogs.com but I can't...it's very annoying. They had tons of cute layouts but alas, I am not savvy enough for that!!! I decided to go clean out my email after that because I have one of my six, yes six emails because I get a LOT of newsletters. I unsubscribed and deleted until I was down from 800 or so to 300 or so...crazy, I know. I need to stay on top of that account but I don't and then I just get overwhelmed!!!

I read an interesting article about retiring to Belize on Yahoo. Then I read an article about the seven cheapest places to retire. One of them was Mexico...as if I didn't know that but how safe is that?!?!? I would think not very...but that's just my opinion! France was listed which sort of shocked me. Obviously, I never looked into retiring overseas but you never know. The couple that retired in Belize live off of their social security!!! Yeah, that's all they live off of!!! I doubt that I'm going to move overseas when I retire...but you never know. At least I have the option, if I want. Plus, the article mentioned something about being able to retire as early as 40!!! That's just seven years away!!! I won't be ready to retire then I don't think, but if I am, Belize here I come!!! LOL!!!

I think I have fooled around long enough on the internet for now!!! I have to go get dressed and stuff!!! Have a super awesome Friday everyone!!!!

My mission should I choose to accept it...

I was trying to figure out what to blog about today...so I read through all of the PYHO posts trying to come up with something. I got several great ideas but none of them were really what I "wanted" to blog about today. I was struggling...and then it hit me. Mission:Declutter. I have a serious clutter problem in my house. I like stuff, so I buy it, or someone gives it to me or I find it...I could go on forever here but seriously, I have too much stuff.

The hubs and I live in a house that's approximately 1200sq ft. It's a decent size for us, since we don't have kids, although I still think it's too small. We are big people, even when we're "skinny" and we have two big dogs and a cat. There is NO WAY that a baby would fit in this house!!! (Yes we have an extra bedroom but it's the computer room and the cat box room so clearly the baby couldn't go there!!!) Obviously, if we had to make room, we would but I really don't want to. I know, that sounds really bad of me but it's true, I don't want to have a baby while I live in this house. It's a cracker box...too small. I'm not saying that I want 10,000sq ft, that's just ridiculous and I don't make and won't ever make enough money to pay someone else to clean it, so there goes that idea. Honestly, I don't need that much space and I don't think that I ever will, I just don't see it...unless we have eight kids or something but I don't plan on that!

Anyway, back to my mission. I am going to declutter my house. Sometimes I think I have a problem, then I watch "Hoarders:Buried Alive" and realize that I don't. I'm just lazy. That is the unfortunate truth...but I am going to change that because being lazy for 33 years is long enough!!! I start looking around me and I start to get completely overwhelmed...but then, I did this to myself so, I can undo it. Yes, it's going to be a long hard road and I am not going to like it, but it must be done. Good bye clutter!!! I'm sure that I will miss it and my house will NEVER be spotless but I can minimize the clutter.

Here's a picture of my desk...just so you have an idea. I'm going to start in my bathroom because it's the smallest room in the house and I am going to be better able to make headway there. This is going to be a process but I hope to have it completed by August 19th. I'll keep you updated!!!
P.S. I have decided on the order in which I'm decluttering: bathroom, bedroom, living room, dining room, den, laundry room, kitchen, computer room!

Pour Your Heart Out Wednesday

If you're interested in "pouring your heart out", go link up with Shell. And now for our friendly public service announcement, "Just a brief reminder that everyone linking is pouring their hearts out and we should be respectful in our comments".  

Today I decided that I would post about how super-sensitive I am. I've always been this way, I get my feelings hurt easily but I don't always say anything because I would never want to hurt someone else's feelings, even if they hurt mine first. It's not as if I run around bawling my eyes out about every little comment that people make, I am better about not letting everything get to me, but some things really do. I tend to take it very personally when someone doesn't like me, for whatever reason. The person that I was speaking of in my last couple of PYHO posts is one of those. It really truly hurts my feelings, or it did, that this person doesn't like me. I didn't realize it until I was talking to one of my sisters about it and she said that it hurt my feelings. *lightbulb* That statement was extremely helpful in figuring out how I really felt about that whole situation and helped me come to terms with it.

Yesterday, I found out that I was not eligible for rehire at one of the hospitals here and it really hurt. The situation in which this came about is long and drawn out and very dramatic and I'm not going to rehash it here. Mainly because I think that's inappropriate considering that I am applying for a job there. Needless to say, I'm certain that I did the right thing but I ended up getting fired for it. I still stand by what I did but the actual firing was supposedly because a doctor made a complaint against me. I doubt very seriously that happened. I wish I'd had the guts to call that doctor's office and check it out for myself but I didn't. Part of it was that I hated my job and I was looking for a way out and I was naive enough to think that it didn't matter, but it did. I was a little self-satisfied and stupid, but I was young. That was during my first round of nursing school and I just didn't realize how important some things are. Had I known then what I know now, I would have fought it. I don't know that I would have wanted to stay in that particular department because I'm certain they would have made my life a living hell. I tried to rectify the situation anyway by taking the weekend night shift and they wouldn't have it and I thought that was all I could do.

Anyway, the fact that they marked me eligible for rehire really hurt my feelings at first but then it made me really angry. These particular people had sent me to a counselor because they said that I was hard to work with. The counselor said, and I quote, "You do know that you're too smart to be working in that department, right"? Now, that makes me sound very arrogant and believe me, I'm not. I know that I am smart, but I also know that I am not the smartest person on the planet, there are people who are much smarter than I am but not everyone is, especially these particular people. The counselor went on to say that jealousy had a lot to do with the whole situation and he was right. I was the only one in school in the entire department, at least that I was aware of. I was getting an actual degree, not the certificates that the director had. Now, I am not putting the director down, perhaps that was all he was capable of but on the other hand, circumstance could have prevented a further degree. I don't know nor do I claim to know. I do know that in this particular instance, those certificates didn't qualify this person for a director's position. I should have known when I got sent to the counselor that the firing was coming, apparently they were smarter than I gave them credit for at the time. They led me like a lamb to the slaughter. Oh well, I forgive them, they're the ones who have to answer for what they did.

But, as usual, I digress. So back to the fact that it made me very angry. I ranted and raved about all of their mistakes and missteps, thinking that would make me feel better, and it did somewhat, but I feel much better about the whole thing today. I figured out that I take things too personally. While I do feel that the course of action that they took when they fired me was personal, I'm over it. I know what I have to do to resolve it and I will get it taken care of. I am getting a thicker skin than what I used to have but deep down, things still bother me. It's why I talk about things over and over, I am trying to figure out in my head what I did wrong when I just need to stop and look at the situation for what it is. If I would take the time to figure out that I don't have as much power and control as I assign myself sometimes, I would realize that a lot of what happens to me or how people treat me isn't personal. This is an epiphany but it takes some time to make my brain believe it.

That being said, I hope everyone has a great Wednesday and takes the opportunity to "Pour Your Heart Out"!

WHAT?!?!?!

Wow, I love when you get information that would make a huge difference in the way you approach things, especially after you've been working really hard to make something happen and then you get blindsided with the information! I found out today that I am ineligible for rehire at one of the hospitals here in town. I have been applying for jobs and talking to different people and sending my resume and such an NO ONE told me that I was ineligible, not even the people in the human resources. SERIOUSLY?!?!? Um, that would have been extremely helpful to know, I could have started the appeals process much sooner but no, I had no idea. Thank goodness that the nurse recruiter called me today and told me. She also told me what to do to appeal that status. I have talked to the human resources department multiple times in the last several months and they failed to tell me this little nugget of information. It would suck to tell someone that, I understand that but why give someone a false sense of hope??? Why not just tell them? I am going to take my letter of appeal to the hospital tomorrow. I hope that I will be able to speak to the director of human resources so that I can get this situation straightened out.

The worst part of this is that I got fired for doing the right thing...I won't go into details but suffice it to say that a supervisor was having a relationship with another employee and it caused a huge amount of chaos. I tried to go to the director multiple times but was told to go to that supervisor. I told the director repeatedly that this supervisor was part of the problem but he refused to listen. The employee left her email open and a friend of mine printed them out so I took them to human resources as a last resort. Then I got in major trouble in my department for not using the chain of command, which I had, and then I subsequently got fired for a supposed "infraction". I should have checked the validity of this infraction because I'm sure that it was untrue. I did what I was supposed to and documented it but that didn't make any difference in the end...mainly because the people that I worked for wanted me gone because I had exposed their supervisor for his wrongdoing. No good deed goes unpunished I guess...but I'll get it all straightened out and then get a job.