You mean Christmas has come and gone? I must've missed it.. Those royal crown eggnogs certainly did their jobs on this day.. Can't wait to miss New Years, maybe some tequila sunrise and a few wallbangers this time.. (I was wondering where those extra ties came from).
Work. We used to get 2 days apiece off for Christmas and New Years but we've been losing bennies steadily; now we just get one day each. Its all rather meh...
At least there's a chance it will be quiet. 75% or more of our customers are closed Friday, and many are closed through next week (how do I get one of those jobs?)
@duodec My office was closed Christmas week, but we were required to use vacation time for it. I feel bad for new employees who only get one week of vacation a year, being forced to spend it in the middle of the winter.
I was quite torn about what to select as my answer to this poll, as I'm flying to VA to spend a long weekend with my sister and her family. Travelling? Check. Family time? Check. Shopping? Possible check. :-)
Consult appointment with a head/neck surgeon; then going to visit my two best friends so we can compare Christmas gifts and swap amongst ourselves without our families knowing.
@Kidsandliz Thanks for the kind words. I have to get some testing done for something that might be an issue, or might turn out to be nothing. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks.
Work... hospitals don't close. But at least I'm going to a really fun improv show tonight. For any Philly area people, check out: http://www.phillyncrowd.com/ Cheap, highly entertaining evening.
Same as @Cinoclav. But I'm non-clinical, so no one really cares that I'm here.
My last place of employment closed from Christmas eve through January 2. Paid vacation time. It was awesome. I get more overall time off here, but that 'forced' time off was great.
@lisaviolet boy do I hate laundry, I've never had a washer and/or dryer in my apartment/house so it's always a pain in the ass. I need a robot to do my laundry.
Going to the gym with buff daughter-in-law, telling everyone there she's my girlfriend, and having her overhear me and in retribution embarrassing me on the bench press machine. Oh yes, and picking up my car from the body shop. Meh.
Sending random Christmas-themed messages to friends and family.
"'I', said the cow, all white and red. 'I gave him my manger for his bed. I gave him my hay to pillow his head. I', said the cow, all white and red. So every beast by some good spell, in the stable dark was glad to tell, of the gift he gave Immanuel. The gift he gave Immanuel."
It's an old legend that, on Christmas Eve at midnight, all the animals fall to their knees and speak, praising the newborn Jesus.
Back in the winter of '69, my dad was serving a short time for a DUI, and mom ... I don't know where my mom was. Anyway, I was home alone Christmas Eve, and I stayed up extra kind of late to see if my dog Buddy would talk. And he did. I don't remember his exact words, but that's not important. What matters is that a 7-year-old boy experienced his own personal epiphany.
What's my point? Well, it's that Christmas reveals itself to us each in a personal way, be it secular or sacred. Whatever Christmas is, and it's many things to many people, we all own a piece of it. It's like...well, it's kind of like Santa's bag. Inside there's a gift for everybody.
My Christmas wish for you tonight: may your dog talk.
@saodell My dog talks to me all the time. He just doesn't speak English. I don't speak Dog, but we understand enough of one another's language to be best friends. The important parts aren't about words anyway.
And now...because the reports are awaiting validation from people who are not here...I'm listening to Good Omens. All but 2 episodes are available. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knthd
I'm volunteering an extra shift as an online crisis/lifeline counselor because it was expected call volume would be high today. Fortunately, it is NOT. Which makes me happy.
Working on a research paper to improve my vita to hopefully make it easier to find an academic job again. Plus laundry and cleaning up cat puke over and over again (my sick cat).
Christmas was in the 70Fs, I spent it in shorts and sandals. The 26th I woke to heavy rain mixed with snow and 34F degrees outside. I abandoned my plans for after-Christmas deal hunting and settled down on the sofa with the dog, the cat, a cup of tea, a tin of Christmas cookies, and Netflix. A couple of hours later my mom calls me in tears from her assisted living place. She went to the front desk to ask for a roll of toilet paper and they said she had to buy that herself. She asked if they would sell her one and they said no, she had to go to the store and get it herself. My mom is 75, in stage 2 Alzheimers, uses a walker, and the apartments are at the top of a very steep hill at least a half mile from the nearest convenience store. Plus of course it is freezing cold and pouring down slushy rain. So I have to bundle up and drive over there to take her some toilet paper. Shame on them.
@lisaviolet I am planning to send an email to corporate if I can find an address today. When I got there she had a 6" stack of mail she was sorting through, postdated back to April when she moved in there. They'd been putting her mail in the mailbox of an empty apartment and never gave her all the cards and letters the family sent her the whole past year. And this is the best place available for low income seniors. It really sucks that if you don't have means you don't have choices either.
@moondrake They should be held accountable. Just damn. I hope someone gets in big trouble over this. I'm glad you're there to help her. Can you imagine the tenants with no family nearby?
@lisaviolet What bothers me is the image of somebody's grandma with dementia actually wandering off down that steep driveway in search of toilet paper in the freezing cold. I am so glad my mom isn't that far gone and had the literal presence of mind to call me instead of doing as they told her and going to buy it herself.
@moondrake Exactly. Do the employees not see the liablity issue here? Really, WTF, a roll of toilet paper? Just thinking about it puts me into rage mode. Fuck those people. Seriously. Fuck them.
@moondrake When it comes to the elderly, I have a soft spot (just call me a bleating heart, if you will). I'd probably take my quarter of a xanax, calm down and be rational about it (which means I wouldn't say how I really felt). My sil is pretty rotten to my mil (which was part of the Thanksgiving drama) but the bil has been put on notice to curb his wife. I was ready to call the police on her....
@lisaviolet That's hard to be in the middle of, and the holidays seem to bring out the best and the worst in people. One of the reasons why I brought my mom here to be near me was to get her out of the constant storm of family drama in east Texas where she'd been living. I don't know why those folks (related in blood but not spirit) choose to live that way. For the most part I keep a pretty calm approach to life, which has had a very positive affect on my mom's progression. She actually gained some ground on the dementia tests since she's been here. She used to have these huge meltdowns and end up hospitalized from all the stress, which hasn't happened at all in the 9mos she's been here. Her doctor was pretty amazed at the improvement. I don;t need those jerks at her residence messing with her zen.
@moondrake I really like to hear of children being advocates for their parents. My mom passed away in an assisted facility a few years ago and they were super nice to her during her stay.
@moondrake In Kansas there is a nursing home and assisted living adovocate/ombudsman system. Upon admission, families are given information about it and are urged to use it. They can help solve little problems before they become big ones and help you with big ones, too. The nursing homes encourage use of this system because they want to know if they are not providing the needed services for their patients. I'm sure Texas must have something like this, maybe?
@barnabee Not to my knowledge and I work in social services. Texas is not exactly forward-thinking when it comes to looking out for the least able among us.
@moondrake If nothing else that place should have a little store of its own with basic essentials like that - even if they mark it up a lot. That is horrible what that stupid person told your mom to do.
Work. Or at least pretending to...
@nadroj here is something else to do while you are bored at work: http://thechive.com/category/girls/bored-at-work/
On Meh, duh!
showering
Working to pay off a credit card.
Sleeping and TV binging (that looks wrong... I'm not using Bing on TV...)
@baqui63 : Bingeing.
Nursing my a hangover from too many Holiday Cheers....
EDIT: WTH is "my a hangover" anyway?
@TheDagda ... Must be a code for 'hic!'..
@unkabob Just because I was drinkinking on a farm in North East Thailand does not mean I am hic ...
EDIT: Now I have gone from "I was" to "I am"....with about 6 other hung over Thais...
@TheDagda It's one level worse than your b hangover
@hallmike I'm Irish...and I am here to tell you... คนไทยสามารถดื่มเช่นชาวไอริช (Thais can drink like the Irish)
@TheDagda... That's okay, it'll all come out good in the end.
You mean Christmas has come and gone? I must've missed it.. Those royal crown eggnogs certainly did their jobs on this day.. Can't wait to miss New Years, maybe some tequila sunrise and a few wallbangers this time.. (I was wondering where those extra ties came from).
Cleaning!
Doctors appointments. Gotta get everything done before health insurance out-of-pocket maximum resets on the 1st.
Work. We used to get 2 days apiece off for Christmas and New Years but we've been losing bennies steadily; now we just get one day each. Its all rather meh...
At least there's a chance it will be quiet. 75% or more of our customers are closed Friday, and many are closed through next week (how do I get one of those jobs?)
@duodec you are not alone...
http://thechive.com/2014/12/23/work-happens-33-photos-4/
@duodec My office was closed Christmas week, but we were required to use vacation time for it. I feel bad for new employees who only get one week of vacation a year, being forced to spend it in the middle of the winter.
Getting an ultrasound at the hospital (just checking things out, no worries). Meh.
@Tiamat114 better than a mammogram...just sayin..
@TheDagda Or a colonoscopy
I was quite torn about what to select as my answer to this poll, as I'm flying to VA to spend a long weekend with my sister and her family.
Travelling? Check.
Family time? Check.
Shopping? Possible check. :-)
Driving home from my sister's house Friday after not buying a speaker dock. Big band rehearsal Saturday morning.
I spent the day after Christmas by waiting in a line at a local DMV. Thank you for asking.
Heading out to a 3 day music festival.
@Bingo That sounds like fun!
@Bingo trade you. :)
Consult appointment with a head/neck surgeon; then going to visit my two best friends so we can compare Christmas gifts and swap amongst ourselves without our families knowing.
@bluedog hope whatever the consult is about that everything is OK
@Kidsandliz Thanks for the kind words. I have to get some testing done for something that might be an issue, or might turn out to be nothing. Hopefully I'll know in a couple of weeks.
@bluedog Hope it is nothing. Waiting for this kind of thing sucks…
Sitting around the house, maybe get in some golf. Anything to stay away from the malls until Sunday.
Work... hospitals don't close. But at least I'm going to a really fun improv show tonight. For any Philly area people, check out: http://www.phillyncrowd.com/ Cheap, highly entertaining evening.
Same as @Cinoclav. But I'm non-clinical, so no one really cares that I'm here.
My last place of employment closed from Christmas eve through January 2. Paid vacation time. It was awesome. I get more overall time off here, but that 'forced' time off was great.
@Mavyn I wish no one cared that I was here. Alas, I work in Nuclear Medicine and today seems to be lung scan central. Ugh
@Cinoclav I'm a DBA and report writer. The day I deal with patients is pretty much Z Day + 1000. Today I am working on COPD bundle reporting--woooo!
@Mavyn We have an internet business run out of our home. First phone call of the day came at a quarter to seven....
@lisaviolet Oy...I'd get a google number for that, I think, so you could send them directly to voicemail.
@Mavyn We usually get up around six anyway. And my husband really enjoys talking to people on the phone.
@lisaviolet I'd still want the option. :D
@Mavyn I guess we could always turn the ringers off. nods
@lisaviolet Post his number. I'm sure he'd LOVE to talk to all of us.
@hallmike He probably would.
Christmas on the day after Christmas
Skipping work, going to Hersheypark.
Cleaning.
Laundry. There's always laundry around here.
@lisaviolet boy do I hate laundry, I've never had a washer and/or dryer in my apartment/house so it's always a pain in the ass. I need a robot to do my laundry.
Doing the dishes and needling my niece to do her homework.
Not buying a speaker doc from Meh.com
@jseay65 Hey - me too! Small world.
@hallmike me three
Going to the gym with buff daughter-in-law, telling everyone there she's my girlfriend, and having her overhear me and in retribution embarrassing me on the bench press machine. Oh yes, and picking up my car from the body shop. Meh.
Same basic thing I did yesterday: nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be.
@Headly doing nothing when you want to do nothing is one of the best possible feelings.
Family and games mostly, but I did spend some time browsing the Amazon outlet store (called "Woot" for some reason). And I'm here.
Sending random Christmas-themed messages to friends and family.
"'I', said the cow, all white and red. 'I gave him my manger for his bed. I gave him my hay to pillow his head. I', said the cow, all white and red. So every beast by some good spell, in the stable dark was glad to tell, of the gift he gave Immanuel. The gift he gave Immanuel."
It's an old legend that, on Christmas Eve at midnight, all the animals fall to their knees and speak, praising the newborn Jesus.
Back in the winter of '69, my dad was serving a short time for a DUI, and mom ... I don't know where my mom was. Anyway, I was home alone Christmas Eve, and I stayed up extra kind of late to see if my dog Buddy would talk. And he did. I don't remember his exact words, but that's not important. What matters is that a 7-year-old boy experienced his own personal epiphany.
What's my point? Well, it's that Christmas reveals itself to us each in a personal way, be it secular or sacred. Whatever Christmas is, and it's many things to many people, we all own a piece of it. It's like...well, it's kind of like Santa's bag. Inside there's a gift for everybody.
My Christmas wish for you tonight: may your dog talk.
@saodell You're a little odd. I like that.
@saodell Now that would be really spectacular considering that I don't have a dog… (only feeding ones that are not mine).
@saodell My dog talks to me all the time. He just doesn't speak English. I don't speak Dog, but we understand enough of one another's language to be best friends. The important parts aren't about words anyway.
Working. Shipping stuff, mostly. And, at some point today, going home to enjoy family, pets, and maybe even some Destiny.
@hart I hope you don't enjoy your pets in the same manner as @marklog.
@Cinoclav Ugh, no
And now...because the reports are awaiting validation from people who are not here...I'm listening to Good Omens. All but 2 episodes are available. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knthd
@Mavyn And I've moved on from lung scans to Hida scans... 37 more minutes!
@Cinoclav A co-worker just came over and told me I should leave, so he wouldn't feel guilty about leaving early, since I was in before him. HA!
Trying to figure out why I always get an error signing in to my meh.com account?!?
@kakapo well .... it worked this time!
I'm volunteering an extra shift as an online crisis/lifeline counselor because it was expected call volume would be high today. Fortunately, it is NOT. Which makes me happy.
Working on a research paper to improve my vita to hopefully make it easier to find an academic job again. Plus laundry and cleaning up cat puke over and over again (my sick cat).
sick :( and Christmas day too
Day after shopping for all of what I didn't get that I could use. AND went house shopping, seems there are a few open houses this weekend.
Crashing. Letting all of the holiday stuff ebb back and just relaxing with my family. For all of January, if possible.
Christmas was in the 70Fs, I spent it in shorts and sandals. The 26th I woke to heavy rain mixed with snow and 34F degrees outside. I abandoned my plans for after-Christmas deal hunting and settled down on the sofa with the dog, the cat, a cup of tea, a tin of Christmas cookies, and Netflix. A couple of hours later my mom calls me in tears from her assisted living place. She went to the front desk to ask for a roll of toilet paper and they said she had to buy that herself. She asked if they would sell her one and they said no, she had to go to the store and get it herself. My mom is 75, in stage 2 Alzheimers, uses a walker, and the apartments are at the top of a very steep hill at least a half mile from the nearest convenience store. Plus of course it is freezing cold and pouring down slushy rain. So I have to bundle up and drive over there to take her some toilet paper. Shame on them.
@moondrake You should be able to report this to the manager of the facility. This is just wrong.
@lisaviolet I am planning to send an email to corporate if I can find an address today. When I got there she had a 6" stack of mail she was sorting through, postdated back to April when she moved in there. They'd been putting her mail in the mailbox of an empty apartment and never gave her all the cards and letters the family sent her the whole past year. And this is the best place available for low income seniors. It really sucks that if you don't have means you don't have choices either.
@moondrake That is beyond ridiculous.
@moondrake They should be held accountable. Just damn. I hope someone gets in big trouble over this. I'm glad you're there to help her. Can you imagine the tenants with no family nearby?
@moondrake So sorry to hear about this- I hope you can get someone to address these issues for you.
@lisaviolet What bothers me is the image of somebody's grandma with dementia actually wandering off down that steep driveway in search of toilet paper in the freezing cold. I am so glad my mom isn't that far gone and had the literal presence of mind to call me instead of doing as they told her and going to buy it herself.
@moondrake Exactly. Do the employees not see the liablity issue here? Really, WTF, a roll of toilet paper? Just thinking about it puts me into rage mode. Fuck those people. Seriously. Fuck them.
@lisaviolet No rage. It's still Christmas. The Grinch is always out there but we can't let him get to us.
@moondrake When it comes to the elderly, I have a soft spot (just call me a bleating heart, if you will). I'd probably take my quarter of a xanax, calm down and be rational about it (which means I wouldn't say how I really felt). My sil is pretty rotten to my mil (which was part of the Thanksgiving drama) but the bil has been put on notice to curb his wife. I was ready to call the police on her....
@lisaviolet That's hard to be in the middle of, and the holidays seem to bring out the best and the worst in people. One of the reasons why I brought my mom here to be near me was to get her out of the constant storm of family drama in east Texas where she'd been living. I don't know why those folks (related in blood but not spirit) choose to live that way. For the most part I keep a pretty calm approach to life, which has had a very positive affect on my mom's progression. She actually gained some ground on the dementia tests since she's been here. She used to have these huge meltdowns and end up hospitalized from all the stress, which hasn't happened at all in the 9mos she's been here. Her doctor was pretty amazed at the improvement. I don;t need those jerks at her residence messing with her zen.
@moondrake I really like to hear of children being advocates for their parents. My mom passed away in an assisted facility a few years ago and they were super nice to her during her stay.
@moondrake In Kansas there is a nursing home and assisted living adovocate/ombudsman system. Upon admission, families are given information about it and are urged to use it. They can help solve little problems before they become big ones and help you with big ones, too. The nursing homes encourage use of this system because they want to know if they are not providing the needed services for their patients. I'm sure Texas must have something like this, maybe?
@barnabee Not to my knowledge and I work in social services. Texas is not exactly forward-thinking when it comes to looking out for the least able among us.
@moondrake If nothing else that place should have a little store of its own with basic essentials like that - even if they mark it up a lot. That is horrible what that stupid person told your mom to do.