Hello Pat and anyone else who is here
How did your journey downtown go? I hope you got everything accomplished needed. And that you were able to wake up on time, and then get your body's time / sleep rhythms back into sync. and get the photos printed for your awesome cards.
I held on through Monday and Tuesday at work; then on Tuesday afternoon I did go to an Urgent Care place (the one in Waterbury that is part of Central Vermont Hosp). Was diagnosed with a sinus infection but she also ordered 2 chest x rays to check for pneumonia. Those came back clear thank goodness but now I don't want to think of the cost of the x rays
It is one of those horrible facts of living that we pay over $600 a month in health insurance premiums yet still have to pay so much for anything medical. Oh well. It's better when I don't think about it
Anyway the antibiotics kicked in almost right away and I feel so very much better!!! I had forgotten what it was like to NOT be sick!
Just finished 2 hours of shoveling. We got only a couple of inches but it was like 2 inches of SnoCones. The heaviest wettest stuff ever. Good exercise is all I can say.
Work is okay. It is very frustrating that there is so much that I am not told, that I just have to kind of find out, and I really, really don't like that method of learning. I ask as many questions as I can and try to do what I think is expected, but there is something almost every day that is not quite right. Nothing bad or horrendous, just comments from the downstairs lead teacher (a female curmudgeon
) like "I have been introducing the kids to raisins but they don't like them IN things, and they picked them all out" ( I had prepared bagels with peanut butter and raisins for their snack the day before). And that is totally valid..yet I had specifically asked one of the other downstairs teachers, the day before, if the kids liked raisins in things and she said yes. Or that the Cheerios/peanut butter bars were a bit hit..."but don't put the apples in the middle". Well, listen, lady, that was to add some fresh fruit to a snack. And the co-director (who praises EVERYTHING I make, bless her!) suggested that I bake chicken drumsticks for the kids' lunch one day, they were on sale and she thought the kids would love it...the downstairs curmudgeon decided that the kids would NOT love it and I think she persuaded the kids to NOT eat them!! 3 kids out of 15 ate them
I'm sorry for all this venting Pat
And yes it is only until the end of April. and I'm thankful to have a job. But I know what I am capable of (and how much I usually make an hour, I'm making 30% less) and it is so frustrating that nothing is written down, that I had 1 1/2 days of 'training' before being put on my own. and the other co-director is hinting that she would like new ideas for meals and snacks...well that would mean researching on my own time at night, and I am not making enough money for that! Harumph.
ooops I kept on venting didn't I. Well we do say that we can talk about anything here right
I hope to hear about anything and everything that is going on!