Aisling

i was damn happy to have health insurance when they hospitalized me at the beginning of this month... i have a big deductible and some big co-pays for ER and the like but w/o the insurance i'd be completely screwed... does anyone know if you quit a job can you still do COBRA? and yes Michelle life HAS changed...its weird... but different!

so...now he's saying pittsburgh... i could get behind DC because its got the whole MD/VA surrounding areas...not too far from snow when i want to ride in the winter... plenty of work and good pay...lots of dance schools... but ... pittsburgh... i think there's a reason it starts with "pitts"... i looked at job opps... omg... holy underpaid nursing batman. 2 dance schools, both kinda meh... and um... yeah... i realize we sacrifice for loved ones... but having ones pay cut in half (literally.. in HALF!!) makes one feel a smidge hesitant. oish. scared. maybe a better state will pop up in his quest for the best phys ed college that the military will pay for..? meep?

Haha they can be assets .....

Dan you're too funny.... Heard back ! Got the assignments but they are just temporary ... So for now I will have to stick w this job til June for the health insurance

interview today... think it went well... keep your fingers crossed for me guys :)

well see.. the maryland area is where i'm heading as i was asked to come with the beau there... he has a job lined up end of the year. seems there are alot of nursing jobs there at least... for now i am trying to get this part time summer thing so i can cut and run from the current job. i don't mind working a few jobs at once if its not this place. :p

at this moment it looks like i may be going to the D.C. area by january... so for now i'm looking for some temporary work to get me out of this hell hole i'm at. unfortunately i can't afford to just quit or i would have yesterday thanks for thinking of me to both of you :)

at the moment i can't get any real work done because i have to sit here and make sure one of the patients doesn't fall and crack her head open since she refuses to stay in bed and refuses to stay in her chair out here. she won't take her meds, she tries to hit or kick or hurt you if you go near her and she calls you names on top of it... and two things occurred to me... that here i am babysitting the craziest of all the crazies in crazy town... and i hate my job. :( i never wanted to work in psych but geri is damn near close and its really just awful. i have very little patience for insanity/mental issues which is why i didn't go into psych (they hire anyone really ...) i'm starting to think i'd rather work at target then put up with this **** anymore.

michelle is kinky. LOL:lol:

(from a friend Bill, who's friend Eriko wrote him) A personal update on Japan. I met my friend Eriko when I was visiting Japan a couple years ago. She lives stateside now, but still makes frequent trips back to visit her family there. She sent this letter from her sister in Tokyo for any who wanted to hear about life there now: I have talked with my sister, Hiromi today on the phone. There are still many after shakes, one yesterday was 3.0 in Tokyo. She says that the shortage of the supplies were caused by selfish people who try to over stock water, rice, toilet paper, etc. to themselves. Hiromi said that she can not find any toilet paper in anywhere. The shelters are overwhelmed by so many refugees and the government is going to bring some of them to even Tokyo but precedes seriously ill patients and the numbers of people who can be rescued is very limited. Most gas stations are closed by their supplies sold out They are going to limit the use of gasoline for the civilians even in the cities of Kansai area. ( The west Japan) The official announcement from the Tokyo Electric power co. is very unclear about the safety of the ***ushima nuclear plant area. They started to limit the use of the electricity to 3 hours a day for the residents in Tokyo area and reduced the numbers of trains to operate in Tokyo causing a big jam in the commuting time in the evening. Yes, people in Tokyo still commute to their work, including my brother. About her friend, Mrs. Ohtsuka. She left Tokyo immediately (next day?) after the first earth quick and tsunami to find her mother. She text my sister earlier this week to let her know that her mom was miraculously ok. She lives in Miyako, Iwate, the fisherman's town right on the pacific coast, north of Sendai. The tsumani damage was quite a big there. She lived alone and most houses there were swept by tsunami but she was saved by her neighbors. Mrs. Ohtsuka said that her mother's village is such a tiny village in the town and no govenment or Army help is there. Maybe the shortage of the rescuer and the gasoline? Also you have to cross the river by getting in to the water to get to the village because the brige is gone. There is no phone reception in the village so she had to cross back the river to call my sister. Mrs. Ohtsuka and her brothers were going to bring their mother to Tokyo with them but now, they are staying there to help people who survived in the village. They need a lot of help, cooking meal for them, trying to find a body of the family members who are missing, etc. Hope that someone will send some kind of help there soon. -Eriko P.S. Please share this e-mail with whoever you think would like to know. .

nothing here... thank goodness.. i, like Michelle, don't open unknown or suspicious lookin stuff anyway

lol Dan you have your own beach bikini babe at home

lol no bikini pics up here i'm afraid peeps who wanna peep will have to see me in the hot tub apres snow LOL

Michelle you are so right ... it always is!!!!:p

michelle its not so bad if you don't take it seriously... for me its the anniversary of my grandfathers death so its mixed emotions kinda day hope you ate some chocolate! :)