Well the football season is nearly over except for the final with Chelsea and Bayer Munich. Both my teams stayed up Wigan and Norwich City (I like Delias cook books).
So now we are warming up for Le Tour watching the giro Italia.
Its still nice weather and I went for a surf today really warm water. There is a big warm water current off the coast so it is amazingly warm. Not much in the way of waves.
I have been playing some nice golf for me, 3rd in 3rd grade and a nearest the pin. i got 24 points in a 9 hole comp I play so I thought I might be in with a chance of winning, of course someone got 34 which is just a crazy score for a nine hole comp. oh well.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Cozy day
Still cold and wet but I'm slow cooking osso bucco with apple cider and some chilli. I have a lot of apple and pear cider. The golf membership includes 150 dollars free at the bar to encourage drinking I guess, or maybe its for de-stressing after golf, a very frustrating game. I dont drink after golf very often as I'm driving anyway so I had to take the $150 of booze all at once as it disappears at the end of the year, so we are very well stocked in ciders, possibly over stocked considering we are "light weights" in drinking terms. I dont know how cider will go in osso bucco instead of white wine but its nice to try different things.
I've been reading up on diabetes in pregnancy as they are diagnosing a lot more of the mothers as Type 2 diabetics but frankly so far I find it unclear to say the least, there seems to be no agreement on levels of blood sugar. They want us to do far more testing of the babies but the guidelines are murky. I am not going to do the formal test anymore as you have to squeeze 3/4 ml out of a babies heel which is very difficult. It used to be 1/2ml which was possible but they bought a new machine which requires more blood to test. Anyway I'm lousy at doing it so I'm not going to do it. I have a list of things I dont do at work now, my non bucket list. Top of the list all the rubbish paperwork they throw into the place. I have got smarter through I dont say anything. Often I used to say when they introduced the next great idea that I thought it was rubbish which meant it was my fault when nobody did it. This is a funny story from years age they introduced a new nursing care plan which nobody liked and got rid of the one we did like, nobody would fill them in as they were useless. As punishment they would send people down to medical records to fill them in, of course sitting in a nice sunny patientless room for an hour or so was very appealing so the chances of the form being filled in went down even lower.
On friday I had a sickie as I'd played golf for 2 days and could hardly walk. Friday is the worst day as they do the most caesars that day, induce women who often end up C/Ss too and then try to pile general patients on top of everything. I'm so glad I didnt go they said it was the worst day ever 34 women in a 28 bed ward, people sitting in the arm chairs, the nurse unit manager yelling at everyone then being taken off to Cas in a wheelchair with her medical problem. No staff as a couple of other people off as well as me. No bed cleaner for the day. Then the higher ups came to straighten it out by telling the poor bird in charge to ring night duty to come in early, dream on, these people already doing a 10 shift. they refused.
Did I feel guilty no relieved, I really just feel too old for the chaos through I defy anybody to come through those days without damage. What a mess hospitals and nursing has become all over the world.
I've been reading up on diabetes in pregnancy as they are diagnosing a lot more of the mothers as Type 2 diabetics but frankly so far I find it unclear to say the least, there seems to be no agreement on levels of blood sugar. They want us to do far more testing of the babies but the guidelines are murky. I am not going to do the formal test anymore as you have to squeeze 3/4 ml out of a babies heel which is very difficult. It used to be 1/2ml which was possible but they bought a new machine which requires more blood to test. Anyway I'm lousy at doing it so I'm not going to do it. I have a list of things I dont do at work now, my non bucket list. Top of the list all the rubbish paperwork they throw into the place. I have got smarter through I dont say anything. Often I used to say when they introduced the next great idea that I thought it was rubbish which meant it was my fault when nobody did it. This is a funny story from years age they introduced a new nursing care plan which nobody liked and got rid of the one we did like, nobody would fill them in as they were useless. As punishment they would send people down to medical records to fill them in, of course sitting in a nice sunny patientless room for an hour or so was very appealing so the chances of the form being filled in went down even lower.
On friday I had a sickie as I'd played golf for 2 days and could hardly walk. Friday is the worst day as they do the most caesars that day, induce women who often end up C/Ss too and then try to pile general patients on top of everything. I'm so glad I didnt go they said it was the worst day ever 34 women in a 28 bed ward, people sitting in the arm chairs, the nurse unit manager yelling at everyone then being taken off to Cas in a wheelchair with her medical problem. No staff as a couple of other people off as well as me. No bed cleaner for the day. Then the higher ups came to straighten it out by telling the poor bird in charge to ring night duty to come in early, dream on, these people already doing a 10 shift. they refused.
Did I feel guilty no relieved, I really just feel too old for the chaos through I defy anybody to come through those days without damage. What a mess hospitals and nursing has become all over the world.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
A rainy day
We have the heater on already as I've been on the veranda reading the morning paper and now must defrost. There was a little bit of sunshine but it didn't last long.
I went to aquaerobics this morning at the leisure centre, both the friends I normally do it with didnt go but I chatted with the knitting lady, we talked about schools because there was a sports carnival outside on the tract, poor kids I said running in the rain, she said they dont feel it. I said I once fell in the creek at lunchtime in full winter uniform and sat through class all afternoon soaking wet. We talked about our primary school and did I know so and so, her son (who was in my class) had been her daughters partner for a while and was the father of one of her grandchildren. He had died from a brain haemorrhage. In this town we always say small world. I asked the splashy lady where she worked as she mentioned it was her day off she said the shop one of my daughters works in and she knows her well. You always find a connection in this town so you have to be careful what you say!
I was thinking about QI [BBC program with Stephan Fry] he was asking the panellists how old they were, they said their age but he said all our cells change over at different rate so by about 5 years we are completely different. Its an interesting thought, also much of our "self" is not ourself at all its micro organisms. Also we have two brains the top one and a more rudimentary one in the gut. He didn't explain exactly what was meant by a brain, I guess a bunch of nerves controlling function.
I tell myself that when I have sore bits that they can get better. You think when you are older the sore bits are permanent but really the way the young mothers and my children complained when they were young, its just human to have soreness, not just being older.
I am reading the biography of David Hockney who made us all see swimming pools in a new light I just love his art. It is very interesting as he was born in Yorkshire like my husband and lived in the world I just read about, the swinging 60's.
We are having tea now (celestial seasonings tension tamer) and a piece of cake said like Worzel Gummidge). Then I will do some more knitting. I finished the big cardigan for daughter just the icky job of sewing up 1/2 way through some socks and have started a jumper for me.
I went to aquaerobics this morning at the leisure centre, both the friends I normally do it with didnt go but I chatted with the knitting lady, we talked about schools because there was a sports carnival outside on the tract, poor kids I said running in the rain, she said they dont feel it. I said I once fell in the creek at lunchtime in full winter uniform and sat through class all afternoon soaking wet. We talked about our primary school and did I know so and so, her son (who was in my class) had been her daughters partner for a while and was the father of one of her grandchildren. He had died from a brain haemorrhage. In this town we always say small world. I asked the splashy lady where she worked as she mentioned it was her day off she said the shop one of my daughters works in and she knows her well. You always find a connection in this town so you have to be careful what you say!
I was thinking about QI [BBC program with Stephan Fry] he was asking the panellists how old they were, they said their age but he said all our cells change over at different rate so by about 5 years we are completely different. Its an interesting thought, also much of our "self" is not ourself at all its micro organisms. Also we have two brains the top one and a more rudimentary one in the gut. He didn't explain exactly what was meant by a brain, I guess a bunch of nerves controlling function.
I tell myself that when I have sore bits that they can get better. You think when you are older the sore bits are permanent but really the way the young mothers and my children complained when they were young, its just human to have soreness, not just being older.
I am reading the biography of David Hockney who made us all see swimming pools in a new light I just love his art. It is very interesting as he was born in Yorkshire like my husband and lived in the world I just read about, the swinging 60's.
We are having tea now (celestial seasonings tension tamer) and a piece of cake said like Worzel Gummidge). Then I will do some more knitting. I finished the big cardigan for daughter just the icky job of sewing up 1/2 way through some socks and have started a jumper for me.
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