Here’s a picture of Sarah at work in the operating room. She works in the children’s hospital. In fact, she assisted in the surgery that was done last week on the little girl I work with in our morning group.

Sarah said one nice thing about the fugly clothes you wear in the OR, you just get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, put nice makeup on your eyes, and go to work. Don’t need to do hair, because you’ve got a shower cap on your head, and the only part of you that anyone sees is your eyes!

How are you enjoying the time change?? I hate it!! I was awake still at after 1:00 am, and my alarm went at 5:45 this morning. I was awake several times during that time as well. It’s black as SOOT outside, and I’m back to leaving to work in the pitch black at 8:00 AM. It’s depressing I’m telling you! I wish they’d just leave it alone!

Well Ben and Jess were here for lunch. They just left to take her to the airport. He’ll be a sad sack for a few days I would imagine! He has to go work at the radio station until midnight, so hopefully that will keep his mind off of it!
Jay and Sarah will be coming for supper in a couple of hours. They, on the other hand should be happy as can be with all the excitement they’ve got going on! I’ll be glad when they take their rotten little cat home! That little bastard has meowed off and on half the time since he came!! I was completely wide awake until this morning at 4:00 AM, when I finally took some OTC sleep aids. I’ll be taking them again tonight, because I start work in the morning, and I generally always sleep like poo on Sunday nights!
In other news, operation SVELTE starts tomorrow! I have 6 months from TODAY to get rid of some of this excess “baggage” I’m carrying around with me! Hubby plans to join me, so it will certainly be easier than all the years where I’ve been dieting and working out, and trying so hard, and he sits eating chips and drinking beer, not giving a rip! We lost weight together before, and it made it much easier!! Wish me luck! Lord knows I’ll NEED it!

I copied this from Ben’s blog.

Poo-urse

Today i was driving and distracted by a female passer-by as she was walking her dog. I noticed that this lady was quite attractive but, at the same time disturbingly ugly……due to the fact that she was carrying a bag full of crap. So i decided that no matter how hot you are you cannot walk your dog and have a bag full of shit with you and still look good. So I created the Poo-urse! The Poo-urse comes in many styles and looks like a purse but, its not it’s a bag that disguises your bag full of shit for a purse. So you can still maintain your attractive-ness and have a bag full of poop with you. (PATENT PENDING)

Benn.

Ben did a great job last night! Hated the music, but he sounded comfortable, relaxed and seemed to have a good voice on the air. Grandma and Grandpa even endured it to listen to him!

Last night hubby came up with his once a year zinger! He’s got a good sense of humour, but not a “quick wit”. I can come back with something almost instantly, most of the time, as can the kids, but hubby is not so much like that, but last night, I think he came up with his best one yet!

We had ordered pizza when Ben came over. He brought Miles. I locked all 4 cats up in my bedroom, otherwise it’s like eating in the middle of a pack of coyotes. When I came back downstairs to eat, hubby says, “I hope you turned your loptop off!” I looked at him like his was a fucking idiot, as did Ben, and I asked him, “Why???” He says, “They might be watching Kitty Porn!!!” LMAO Cracked me right UP!!

Ben makes his guest DJ debut from 10-11 pm tonight. I guess I’ll get to hear more crotch talk and listen to terrible modern rock music, but that’s what a mother does. Just like when I used to go to Sarah’s rugby games, not understanding a damn thing!!! It’s one of those sacrifices! The “key” will be whether I can stay awake through it! I’ve been sleeping extremely poor, so who knows what kind of shape I’ll be in by then!

This morning it was a bit cooler after a good rain last night, so I got outside this morning and weeded the flower beds, pruned all the shrubs and flowers, and mowed the lawn. I did a little laundry, and that was enough to tucker me OUT!

Ben is working on getting into the Radio broadcasting course eventually at the tech school. He’ll have to upgrade some, so in the meantime, he’ll continue with his carpentry apprenticeship (he goes in January), and in September, we’ve got him registered in a couple of Radio related courses. He also volunteers as an intern, out doing promotions for a radio station in Edmonton.

This station has a guest DJ every week, and Ben is on the air for an hour on Thursday. He taped it last week. He said it was the best 20 minutes of his life! (no wonder Jess went home) So all week, they are running the promo for his segment. He just phoned me, and told me it was going to air at 3:45, so I endured 3 horrid songs, and finally it came on. It went like this:

Ben: Hey! My name is Ben ********, and I’m going to be on *******
Ben: I’m deathly afraid of air hockey! Because I’m so tall, my crotch is just the right height, for all the pucks that come flying over!
DJ: Hey Ben! Are you going to be talking about your crotch all night??
Ben: I sure hope not! I hadn’t planned on talking about my crotch at all!
DJ: Glad to hear it!

This is truly my proudest moment as a mother. Pfffffftttt

I was rudely awakened at 1:00 am Sunday morning by the ringing of the telephone. It was Ben. He was REALLY upset! It seems that he found out “accidentally” that Jess had been fired from her job. (she was working for the same company as hubby, only a different store) Ben was LIVID, as well as miserable… asking me, “What do I do? I know I have to dump her, but what do I do??” I tried to calm him down, and told him to call her Mom in BC and get her Mom to talk to her, and tell her to come home. He phoned later, to tell me broke up with her, and she was having a panic attack. He was going nuts, trying to figure out how to calm her down. He quickly hung up, and I didn’t hear from him until he showed up here at the house yesterday afternoon, in tears, because he’d just dropped her off at the airport. He talked to me for a long time, telling me how much it “sucked”, and that she was such a nice girl, and he loved her so much, and why couldn’t she just get her shit together. She was giving him some time to think about whether he wanted to end it, or try long distance again.

Ben was really concerned that “the people he cares most about” (being hubby, Sarah, Jay and myself) would never respect her. I told him that I had nothing whatsoever against her. She’s a total sweetheart. I told him, that I’m now convinced she has emotional or mental problems, such as depression or something. Ben then told me that she’s been diagnosed with depression before, but I don’t think she’s on meds or anything. I told him that I thought he should strongly encourage her to go to a doctor and have a good check up, and maybe start going to a counsellor. At least now her Mom can take care of her. So I advised Ben to just take it day by day, that there was no reason he had to make an immediate decision, so he phoned her and told her that, and he seemed a lot better last night. He stayed out here, and slept in our basement. He didn’t want to go home to an empty condo, as Sarah and Jay have been on holidays in BC for the past week. She gets home later today, so I’m assuming Ben and his kitty will go home today.
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As I mentioned earlier, I had some “issues” with Ben and Jess. I described her situation, and my concerns about it, in a previous entry. She did get a job, but it’s only part time. She’s always complaining that she doesn’t get enough hours, yet she has taken 2 of the 3 weekends off since she’s been there!!! Including this one. Ben also took 2 UNPAID days off this week to go off camping for 4 days. Obviously this wouldn’t be a problem, or any of my business, but we’re constantly helping him out with money and stuff. Just last week his driver’s side window got smashed in overnight, it cost $200 to fix. Hubby paid for it, and gassed up his truck to the tune of $70.00. Yet the little asshole can afford 2 days off! Grrrrr Even my Mom has been sending him money!

Jess has to find a new place to live by the end of the month, and she’s behind $700 in her rent to Jay, only works a few hours a week, so how the hell is she going to afford to have a place?? I suppose she’ll continue to squat at Sarah’s, paying no rent, living with my 19 year old son who’s too immature to look after himself! I can tell you, when he gets back in town, he’s going to get one of Momma’s big lectures!!! And it’s going to be loud!!

I ended up having a very nice day off! My son phoned me at 11:00 and wanted to go out for lunch. He picked me up, and we went into the City. We had a nice lunch, and then I took him shopping. I bought him some jeans, a couple t-shirts and a couple of pair of shorts. He’s grown about 6 inches since he last got new jeans, and I know his budget doesn’t have much room for a “clothing allowance”. He looked totally different in a pair of jeans that fit properly! LOL He was very appreciative, and we had a nice afternoon.

Hubby is working about 18 hours/day this past week, and it’s nearly killing the old man, and it’s pissing me off! Not because I can’t deal with being home alone, because I can, but because the Oilers game is tomorrow night, and it’s just going to be such a dumb, stupid rush, and he’s going to be so tired, that we’ll barely get to enjoy the game. A game that’s in a series that we’ve waited 16 years to watch, not to mention spent incredible money on! Pffffft! Stupid company.