"Shhhhhhhh, be vewwwy, vewwwy quiet; I'm hunting...

Well gang, It's finally hunting season. My vacation time! Wooo Wooo. I won't be blogging much, but will be sure to post some deer camp stories as time allows. Gotta love a vacation where you're awake earlier than you would on a work day.



We have awards for the deer camp this year. The person with the biggest deer gets the lucky brown boot award. And the person with the smallest deer gets the 2nd place weenie award. There's even trophies to pass out.

So far this season it's deers 2 and hunters 0. Mom and Dad have both hitten the foul beasts with their cars. Hopefully we can even up the score here a bit.

One major concern is that my sister in law will go into active labor soon. We were hoping that the blessed event would have happened last weekend. But, Susanna (the baby) is as stubborn as the rest of us and decided she was happy where she was for the time being. But, family comes first and we'll drop what we're doing to be there when she's born. We may arrive in a blaze of orange, but we'll be there with smiles on our faces. Though I think my brother might have Susie out in full camo the next day. The next guesses for the baby pool are for the week after Thanksgiving, so we're crossing our fingers.

Good luck to all the hunters. Please be careful!

-Reffie.

Lists lists and more lists...

I am by nature a very routine person. Each day starts out with a "To Do" list. And if something happens to disrupt that routine, the whole day is shot. Sometimes I wonder if I have a light case of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Today was one of those days. I started off on the wrong foot because I slept through 3 of my 4 alarms. Then I rushed around trying to get ready for work and get the stuff I needed done before work done. I was only 2 minutes late badging in.

My normal routine in the morning is to get the orders off the printer from the night before. Get them separated by department and scheduled in the computer. (Which was made all the more fun beacuse the printer had run out of paper over night and had multiple orders stored up.) Next I have to check to see if the patients have changed rooms or been discharged. Then I have to get the phone messages off of the 6 phone lines, print out everyones schedules and distribute them. Answering the afore mentioned phones is another large part of the morning. And finally, I go pick up the stats and dictation and distribute them to the 5 offices we have here in town. So, I was no where near ready when another of my co-workers showed up an hour early. Then another co-worker called in sick. So along with everything else I was doing, I had to call and cancel all of her appointments from 7 am to 5:30 pm.

I'm happy to announce that I survived the morning. It was touch and go for a while there, but the world didn't end. Now it's lunch time. I can go eat my chili and rice krispy treat and enjoy my book for an hour. Except that due to the remodeling they are doing to the lobby, there is no place for me to sit and read. Ok, I can handle this... I managed to acquire a chair and sat in the midst of the construction. It would make quite a comical picture I suppose. Me sitting there in the middle of scaffolding and construction workers.

2:30 finally rolled around and I was able to get home without any major catastrophes. I'm going to check my emails (Still dealing with the whole Norton crap,) exercise, watch the Wings game, and continue to cross things off the to do list. I'm going on vacation after work, so hopefully tomorrow goes really fast. I've even got to do lists for while I'm on vacation.

Now, I must get back to my regularly scheduled programing. Now where did I put that list again?

Monday Monday....

"Monday, Monday, Can't trust that day. Monday, Monday, Sometimes it just turns out that way. Every other day, Every other day, Every other day, Of the week is fine, yeah. But whenever Monday comes, But whenever Monday comes, You can find me crying, All of the time."

Ok, it's Monday. I never expect Monday's to be easy days. I expect the worst and am pleasantly surprised when something good happens. Work was as crappy as I expected it to be. I am beginning to wonder if my co-workers were abducted by aliens and replaced with look alikes. Eye rolling has become a big part of the daily routine for us secretaries. Would they like a little cheese with their whine? And it's not just the staff that's gone loony. The patients are way out there as well. I spent 15 minutes setting up an appointment for a guy today. Gave him detailed directions on how to get there. (Helen Keller could have found it with the directions I gave him.) And then at the end of the conversation, he double checks everything and has it completely backwards. And the office radio has decided only to be totally static on every station. You get static mixed in with every song. The only stations that come in remotely clear is the Christian stations. (Is God trying to tell us something??) Then during the middle of the day I remember that I forgot to find the plaque that I need to bring in to the gift shop at work to get the new baby's name added to it. Crap!

After work I had to run to the store to pick up some more ammunition for my rifle. Somehow, the box that I had has disappeared. I had half a box left after sighting in the weapon last month, and now the entire thing is gone. That went reasonably well. I was able to get in and out of the store with only minor difficulties. Then I got home and checked my emails. Guess what. Norton anti-virus auto renewed my subscription. I'm pounding head on the desk at this point. I had shut off that feature when I had manually renewed last week because I wanted to use a different credit card. So I have now been billed for 1 Norton subscription 3 times on 2 different credit cards. I'll have to spend another week on the phone with them trying to sort this mess out. UGH!

Because the whole Norton fiasco my checkbook is screwed up. So, I go to balance it and find that I've totally screwed that up as well. So I spent hours going over the last 8 months and still cant get it to balance correctly. So, now I get to call the bank and double check everything with them. I wasn't that far off, but I'm missing something somewhere.

Good thing I'm going on vacation this week! They'll be checking me into the mental health unit soon..

My sister in law hasn't had the baby yet. She's still having contractions though. I've officially lost the baby pool unless the baby comes on a day that no one has picked. Then we go to size and length as a tie breaker. My niece Leah spent the weekend with us. She's working really hard on potty training. I'm so proud of her. Now it's potty training, tomorrow it'll be driving.

I'm going to exercise and go to bed. I'll end Monday and pray that Tuesday is a better day. See y'all later! -Reffie