My Holiday Workout

 

haha!

 

We all got down to the Riverfront excited to see the Nina & the Pinta ships docked there, but there were NO SHIPS! WTF?  They were supposed there until Monday morning.  Come to find out they pulled out early this morning at dawn because of the rising river water at the port site.  We were totally bummed! :(( but they do have a website and touring schedule so they’ll pass through again. 

 visit the website here 

I've been watching way too much ID (Investigative Discovery) channel...horrible true-life crimes...It hard to fathom the horrors that a human being would  inflict upon another human being.  Its the kind of stuff nightmares are made of ... :((

Yep, I need to stop watching this channel esp before bed...yikes!

Recipe ...

A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog wouldn’t eat.

~Author Unknown

Save Your Own Life If You Live Alone?

 I thought this was pretty interesting. 

Don't Panic, Watch This!

Monday Morning at the Opera!

 Pavarotti before 8 am? come on...nooooooo!


This doctor is listening to Pavarotti and his big voice is nearly taking over this dictation that I am having to listen to on a patient! it is very dramatic...highs, lows...one of Pavarotti's best! but it shouldn't be played during a patient dictation, good grief!  I can barely hear the doctor over it, but then again who can hear anything but Pavarotti when he would open his mouth,  huh?!

What a way to wake up the morning! LOL

You've been demoted ... or worse...

  well it appears my immediate boss lost her position and she will know what it feels like to have to meet production at 3 1/2 cents a line because she has to work like I do as a quality assurance editor.  I hate to say it serves her right but ... now she'll get a taste of what we have had to put up with.  She wasn't too sympathetic to us QA team members--well...well...call it karma shit. just glad my name was not on that list.  I report to who was her supervisor now.  wow.  3 people got demoted it would seem to include my immediate boss, or should I say ex boss...and 6 people got totally whacked.  shit.

Blah. 

I'm tired.

Isn't this week over yet?

Milk Is Not Milk Anymore...

I don't know about ya'll but all my life ... milk is milk and its white, and I love a good cold glass of milk, and with my cereal or oatmeal.  However, when milk is NOT white, and is a dirty tannish-brown color ... it kinda turned me off...

which is what I saw when pouring it into my cereal bowl! ick!

In my search for better and healthy alternatives I decided to give "Silk" Almond & Coconut milk a try.



NEVER again!!!  It was horrible with cereal.  gag!  and I can't imagine making tapioca pudding with it either! what good is this stuff??

Bliss - A Quiet Conversation

yep...I've been a bad girl...

 

my sin...LOL...staying up past my curfew!

Funny I didn’t sleep worth a damn all night. I guess that was my just punishment … which made for a long Monday ... not to mention a less than my usual production excellence.  Rolled around till the alarm clock went off.  I like to sleep on my stomach or on my left side, but my left arm is still out of whack, going to PT 2x a week, hopefully get it straightened up but somehow I doubt its gonna help much.  PT says its an impingement.  gr8.  Going tomorrow at 5:30.

Today I received news...

 

that my 2-1/2 year old grandson is deaf with limited hearing only in the right ear (100% deaf in the left ear) which daughter was told is equivalent to plugging up your own ears and then talking...he hears muffled speech...I don't know all the details ... we are just all trying to deal with the news.  I had suggested she seek advice because his speech was delayed and/or not understandable and with a sister nearly 4 and talking all the time, he should have picked up speech easily.  I suspected he needed speech therapy but come to find out he is deaf, which explains the speech issue.  She also told me that he also has staring spells, some type of seizures, and was seen in the ER a couple of times for them.  They are not treating him for seizures right now since he is so young.  I am trying to process the news, as we are all, and will begin to research after I get all the facts from daughter.  I told her not to worry, that we will deal with this as a family, and do what needs to be done.  Connor is such a sweet kid, always was quiet but all boy...rambunctious, has way too much energy! He is only still when he is sleeping... I call him 'my little buddy' ... at this age he has been reading lips more than likely.  Going to see a neuro-otologist to see if any hearing aid or cochlear implant may be on help in that one ear Oct 5th.  Whatever it takes for him to flourish, we will conquer it with him!

Monday, Monday...

Yesterday I binge-watched Neflix nearly all day...nothing else to do, it rained steadily all day. Monday comes and there is no work and so I sit here pondering life and all its crapshit.  I am tired of being by myself.  However, while I would love to have a significant other in my life, I have found that in personal relationships expectations are the death of happiness. It gets complicated, one or the other get disappointed, hurt, frustrated...so they just give up instead of fighting for the very thing they wanted most ... to truly feel loved by someone. I haven't felt that since ...

okay okay...

You got my attention...for whatever it means...

Yesterday, I too was empty at my QA hub and logged out at 7 hours and 55 minutes. 

That is 3 days in a row...I about shit my britches! 

Seriously...this is downright creepy. 

Makes me wonder if some foreboding event is about to unfold. 

OR

Perhaps I should make my way to the out of the way convenient store and pick a random lottery ticket. 

Stwange things are happenin'

Just how weird is it that for the last two days, at the near end of my workday,  I run 'out of jobs' at exactly 7 hours and 55 minutes ...lacking only like 5 minutes of having 8 hours in.

Must be a sign of something...kinda creepy



...its also creepy that I have been waking up at exactly 4:20 in the morning and doze until the 6:30 alarm hits.

midnight already?

... and I should be in bed.  I'll get there in a few.  I did get an email from my boss today apologizing for her bitchiness Sunday when I called her over the work situation.  Yep, she was over the top, she knew it, just bad manners to do to those employees who already feel abused by this work situation and management's lack of giving a damn.  I'm over it.  As soon as I can find something comparable I'm outta there, unless of course they fire me first.  Probably be the best thing cause I'm gonna run my mouth and have my say and my boss knows it.  Today was a good production day, no complaints.  All I can say is TGIF.  Bring on the weekend! 

knew it was too good to be true...

Well-- I had steady work until 12:50, went to lunch, and then it was pretty much on and off for an hour and then fairly steady again.  Since Monday I've been down 55 minutes so I even got that done! Hopefully the next two days will be 8 hour days without having to sit 10 to get 8 in.  Stellar production today reaching close to 4500 lines (last time I looked).  Maybe my production per pay period won't be too bad.  :(

what is today? ... Wednesday?

 OMG, I sat down here at 7 AM and have not run out of work yet...



shocker!!!!!!!!

just another 'fuck you' Monday...

back to the craziness. OUT OF WORK! seems to be a recurring theme. I worked half an hour and ran out of work already! geeze...this is going to be a long day. I was asked to fill in a 2 hour slot last night from 5 to 7, but then ran out of work before 6 making a call to my boss ... wasn't sure why she asked me to work when I was NOT pulling work. She got hot under the collar ... It didn't seem to matter to her that this was MY weekend time that I gave up to work these 2 hours to help cover, however I expected to have work, otherwise I make no money and feel like I've wasted my time.

 

Its like our free time isn't valuable at all any more. They don't care if we have work or not. She was a total bitch. This place is getting on my last fu**in' nerve. Its all I can do not to tell her to take this job and shove it!!!!!! I so wished I could. I wished she had to work just 1 week and put up with what I have to do just to get in 40 hours and try to live on 3 and a 1/2 cents a line production, no hourly wage.  She wouldn't like it much.

So...great ... another week and this bullshit all over again. Its not like I am making any money this past week either seems like after being off on Labor Day.  This week is going to be a hustle just to get a decent paycheck.  How pathetic is it that vacation pay doesn't equate the money you can make if you work. I can't even take time off work and enjoy it because I lose money...even though I need time off from this crazy place. :((

so quiet...

 and still...

its rained all weekend.  I seem to be drowning in the silence of it.

Sundays should be lingering, unhurried, and full of possibilities ...

so are the...The Waves ...of our lives..

new dance craze....

 "woozy to the left side" ... seems to be my symptoms for the last two days.  Lordy.

Its sad when you call your doctor and you can't get in till Tuesday.  Having symptoms without any cause you can put your finger on is a little scary.  Not to mention if other symptoms develop, acc to FAST protocol, I might have to hit the ER if I'm able to.  I have combed through other etiologies, such as dehydration or ear issues, or low blood sugar, which could all be possibilities I suppose--so I'm gonna force fluids, see if things improve.  My dad had a history of mini-strokes, so I'm a little concerned, you never know what can happen.  I've had full blown vertigo before due to an inner ear infection I didn't know I had, so I know its not that.  Oh well, if I stroke out, and never post again,  try not to miss me...LOL...

like anybody reads this stuff...

ha! I can't count how many times I've done this...

 

well I was off Monday, and its today Wednesday and I'm down 3 hours on the week.  I may need to work a couple of hours in somewhere before Friday. Work has been slow it seems maybe because of the holiday who knows. 

The Innocents

 Been watching this supernatural/drama that wasn't too bad over the weekend.  Didn't like how it left off but there'll be more to unravel.  Watched The Sinner too, pretty good.  Gonna watch Shameless next (says its irrelevent and raunchy...right up my alley! haha)

Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy stars as Frank Gallagher, a single father of six who spends much of his free time drinking at bars. The Gallagher children -- led by oldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum), who takes on much of the child-rearing responsibility due to her mother's absence -- manage to raise themselves in spite of Frank's lack of parenting and unusual parenting style when he does choose to act like a father. The drama is an adaptation of the BAFTA Award-winning British show of the same name.

Anybody watching this?

twiddling my thumbs here ...

 

I am not surprised to say the least, however, you'd think after a holiday there'd be work on the system, but its been a whole hour and nearly 30 minutes since logging in and I've logged only 55 minutes of work.  Its gonna be a long day at this rate, ugh!

somebody offer me a better job, will ya?!  fun coordinator...lol...comic relief...

update:  at 10:30 a.m., I have logged only 1 hour and 55 minutes of work.  How long will it take me to reach 8 hours of logged work.  Go ahead all your mathematicians and figure that one out!

1 hr 55 minutes  for sitting 3.5 hours.  1.5 x 6 = sitting here 8 more hours? damn it that puts me working till 6:30 tonight? haha ... that shit ain't gonna happen!

Cleansing my karmic house in September...

Yep, time to take a look back and a leap forward.  Time to truly let go of those things that no longer serve me. Time to walk between worlds...the spiritual and the physical...so to speak...



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Gotta do a soul purge every now and then...take a really long look at oneself...the shining outward and the inward shadow self.  I have to try to remember to be grateful...grateful for every experience, both good and bad...act with love towards everyone no matter which is in my nature to be this way...check my motives at the door trying to make sure they come from a place of love ... keep my attitude in check (that's a hard one sometimes)... and always forgive..forgiving is always the hardest but the most necessary to move on...I do it for me, not for the other person, they are on their own journey. I choose to carry or release my burdens as my soul dictates...

I find it hard sometimes to "turn the other cheek" when disappointed in others who are behaving badly towards me for what I can gather no good reason other than being in their own heads and going through their own challenges and purges...but that is theirs, its not mine...they have to own it ... just like me when I get my ass in a tizz and throw negativity around its on me.  I do own that because I know karma has no timeline...it ebbs & flows...but it will come around and  I wanta be on the receiving end of good karma.   💕

Happy Labor Day to yuns~!

Sunday, Sunday!

 that Isabella she takes more pictures than any kid I know...we had a really good late afternoon together.  :) Went to a family picnic ... it was good to see my sister...Isabella had a good time too. 

It seems that friends took most of my weekend...one is needy without a car, and who bitched because she spent $10 bucks on a microwave, then sworn up and down it wouldn't work...it did work...it was just the operator...blew up my phone over it...whining and complaining...I was ready to give her her $10 dollars so she would just shut up and stop whining...She said it was missing a leg too, if she had known that she wouldn't have bought it...I told her to use some redneck ingenuity and prop that son of a gun up...then she asks with that?? while youngest is ringing in whining about not having a car and wanting to go to the family thing, however it turned into can you get Rosalie some formula until tomorrow...of course I would and did, but she never contacted me today about the family gathering :((

and then Bill came down from Ohio...spent the night in the spare bedroom, went back today about noon.  He has COPD and asthma, and always coughs and hacks up and out gunk...to be quite honest made me nauseous.  ugh.  Talk about a whiner too..at times short with me even...I did suggest that perhaps he see someone himself to give him a sounding board of support.  We grew up in the same small town..our families knew each other...he's like a big brother-- but Lord, he needs to have a frank discussion with Carla, his wife...guess they are having some issues.  He said she has become more verbally aggressive and hostile since taking some new medication. She is burdened with end stage kidney disease, her lifespan is shortened, she's looking at amputation of a toe, perhaps her leg...and is shutting Bill out.  He's just a wreck. They are both my friends, its hard to see them at such odds.  Nothing I can do really; they live 4 hrs away.  . 

Anyway I didn't feel too appreciated...nor do I feel rested, so its a good thing I'm off tomorrow...I am going to spoil myself all day by doing absolutely nothing for nobody!

insulting to the eyes...

 

tsk tsk...always wear a brazzier in public ladies! ... holey moley.  :(((

pissed off...

I just love getting emails on any report that the client finds errors on that came through my QA hub.  While I pride myself on doing an excellent job for what I have to deal with and process in day just to keep my head above water at 3 1/2 cents a line, there is occasionally stuff that will slip through me.  Granted, not too often, and if it does its usually on a file that did not require a full proof.  

One such file in particular was sent to me email saying there was critical error on it (IV dosing per hour)...HOWEVER...I did not proof this report content. Instructions dictate that this particular location does not require a full proof or the MT does not require a full proof (voice to text) ... 

All I was responsible for was to fill any blanks in, check demographics (pt name and shit) and location, and ship it on.  I told my boss I will not be held accountable for MT mistakes on a file that did not require me to listen to it, and that I was tired of getting emails of such a nature.  This job is giving me PTSD every time I have to proof a file for this client.  I am starting to take it personally...its nearly every damn week I get an email about one of their files :( 

End of rant! 

Rolllin' In the Dough today!

 
yep, stellar day...I even had to edit documents at 0.03 cents a line, which ended up making me only $5.35 and hour for that 1 hour I had to edit, I'd go broke quick trying to edit the Speech Recognition engine as they spit out some god awful stuff...they don't pay me enuff to edit that crap. 

However, for the other 7 hours in QA, I ended up make $23.69 cents an hour!

I feel good! haha!

amazing...

I actually got in a whole day of QA work without incident or delay in pulling work...that's a big deal on a Monday around here lately. I've heard a few QA people resigned, which obviously leaves more work for me, as I uploaded 86 documents. Doesn't mean I'm not looking for better work and/or a better employer. :)

and today my son is 44...he called stating he had some joint issues with his shoulder, knee, had a hernia he needed to get fixed...I tellya... makes me feel old to be his momma.  He is my first born babe.  I guess we are having a pig roast on the farm this labor day weekend.  Should be fun.

this cartoon made me laugh thinking about those commercials where they give you the worst case scenario!



my knees could be a little happier...I wouldn't mind the euphoria! haha!

yep...Monday already again!

 

and after 10 minutes of logging in we were out of work again.  :((  I have appts this week, and no doubt going to need to make up hours. 

in other news, my hot water spicket would not turn off...I had to beat it into submission...that ancient valve hadn't been turned in 50 years probably under the bathroom sink. Gotta get that replaced.  Its always something around here.   :(( gacckkk!

work? pfffffffttt

 

 
same old shit, day in, day out, so I am sitting at my desk...I've logged 2 hours and 55 minutes by 11, however I've been here at my desk since 7:15.  Anybody need a good quality assurance person?! I could sure use a good paying job that actually has work for me consistently throughout the day.  Maybe I should be an independent contractor...

back to Monday...

well I worked 10 minutes, no more work coming into the QA hub, checking back in at 10.  Didn't sleep a bit last night, not sure what was up with that...I'm gonna be dead later.  I couldn't even get back to sleep or nap this morning.  Gonna be a long day.  :( 

 

guess I'm waiting on something 'miraculous' to happen...

pretty sure its not gonna~

texts sent...no reply.  Sometimes family are just the worst. :(

How has everyone been?  I've been slaving as usual.  Is there no life out there at all? I'm wondering...

annoying...

 Work is coming into the hub slowly, so I am constantly having to log in and log out.  I am only making money on those lines i proofread for quality, so I am not giving them MY time unless there is work on there.  I am not getting paid anything to sit idle and wait on the next job to pop up.  I was told to flex...flex...damn this flex shit...I did that Saturday because it was the same scenario last week, but still on Saturday I think I fell short of a 40-goal week.  Not to mention my past 2 paychecks have sucked.  I need to pay more attention, and spend less time on a job, therein sacrificing quality pretty much but they put us in this position.  oh well. 

Long week!

 

having a few cocktails and watching the movie Iron Man...it just sucked me in...not really my cup of tea as far as movies but maybe it was Robert Downey, Jr. and the cocktails kickin' in! haha...and the next one was X-Men, I tuned that one out.  Gotta find something more interesting to watch.  Maybe a Netflix find.  Hope ya'll are doing well...enjoy your weekend! :)

Brain Dead ...

 Well, I must be losing my mind...

I could have sworn that I put an Iphone 6 plus and an Iphone 5 in a certain place; in fact I swore up and down that somebody must have taken them ... LOL...but come to find out I had moved them and did find them today when I went on a hunting mission for them.  I'm not sure they're worth much and I might keep both of them as a backup in case this Samsung goes awry on me, and in case granddaughter loses or breaks that big Iphone 8 her grandfather got for her a couple of months ago.  I've had a Samsung before and the darn thing just quit, lost all my pics and data.  Hate it when that happens...I also hate it when I put stuff up and can't remember where I put stuff--

anyway ... talk about feeling toopid...haha...

Happy Soap For Your Crappy Life

Shitty day. Crappy life here lately.

We kept running out of the work starting at 10 a.m. in the QA hub so I am down 45 minutes; by 4 PM but I couldn’t sit any longer in that damn chair. My a$$ was growing roots! Not to mention I was tired.  I came up to my bed, laid down and didn’t get up until 7 PM.  So much for making up that 45 minutes today.  I wasn't planning on sleeping that long.

I about lost my shit when I pulled this file into my QA hub. At first I thought this medical transcriptionist was crappy (or lazy, we get a lot of that) but it wasn’t the MT...this asshole doctor kept cutting in and out due to handler error of equipment more than anything with fluctuating volume that cut out...so it went to client with pretty much all these blanks.

Document contains Blanks (hells bells! ya think??) 01:53,01:59,02:55,03:02,03:08,03:12,03:17,03:26,03:32,03:49,04:04,04:26,04:55,05:01,05:11,05:12,05:17,05:34,05:50,05:58,06:07,06:13,06:27,07:20,07:25,07:32,07:46,08:04,08:06,08:19,08:22,08:52,08:54,09:03,09:09,09:14,09:36,09:47,10:22,10:33,10:54,11:13,11:21,11:28,11:36,12:14,12:20,12:22,13:31,13:34,14:03,14:21,14:27,14:51,15:09,15:21

try making money on this file at 3 and a half cents a line, NOT!!!. It took too much time to listen to, 15 minutes of hell ... they ain’t paying us enough for this crap shit. On any given day I have to get over 3 thousand lines to make any money worth my time...here lately been falling short of that goal due to these shitty files. :( time is money for me.

Maybe I should buy some Happy Soap.

Every day is a struggle not to fall in that dark abyss.  maybe it wouldn't be such a horrible place...being inside one's head ...

just poking my nose in...

 

to see if there is any life out there in Blogger land?

holy shit~!

I know these people exist...! haha!

DON'T ASK!

haha!

 

and just where I have been? in my own head ... living in my small inner circle which is work and pretty much nothing else.

I'll take one of the below...

 
or maybe all of them....I feel I'm in a self-destructing mood...work has been so slow dragging in today...I've had to log out once during shift...I'm down 50 minutes of work time, so that means I have to work over today (if we have work) or tomorrow, or any day before Friday.  :( gawd.  You know what's coming...more firing of people, and then we'll be short-handed and mandated to work over.  :(  so predicrable.