Something About Nothing............ #14

[Charade67]

I am about to lose it. I contacted financial aid today to find out when B’s tuition waiver will post. They told me that they haven’t gotten the approval from HR yet. HR sent us a confirmation email back on 4/23. So I texted dh and asked him to call HR and light a fire under them. You would think they would want to make it easy for parents to pay them.
Gotta get back to work and deal with insurance and long and other fun things. I really shouldn’t complain. At least I still get to go to my job.

 

[cam757]

Happy Thursday!

At work today. Spent the morning outside the building trying to figure out a drive thru system for in-person absentee voting since our building is still closed to the public. Still lots of uncertainty on how it is all going to work.

Sunny day today but a tad chilly. Dinner is still undecided.

Great score on the paper products. Most places around here are only allowing us to purchase one package. I am buying TP and hand soap whenever I can find it. I haven't seen any TP in about 2 weeks though.

Sam's did not have a sign limiting the number but when I got to the self-checkout it did limit me to one so I just checked out the 2nd one separately. I think everyone was doing the same thing. TP has definitely been scarce around here so it was amazing seeing this huge mountain of it.

I will leave you with a cool sort of Mother's Day story. My Sunday school teacher's son and DIL have been trying to adopt their 2 foster children. They have hit several roadblocks along the way, but now it is finally going to happen. Their new son will be 9 on Friday. Their daughter will be 12 on Saturday. Sunday is Mother's Day, and the adoption should be finalized on Monday.

That is awesome!!! What a great Mother's Day for that family.

cam....it`s scary to read how many are now struggling to get meat! As of now we aren't in that position, but you never know, so we are keeping the freezers stocked up just in case......and yes, thanks to bulk buy we have plenty of TP to do us till Christmas I believe!!!

Yes, you can certainly see the result of all the processing plants shutting down and unfortunately there are not very many butcher shops around here any longer. I did stock up so we should be good for a while. I bet from now on everyone will keep a surplus of tp, paper towels and meat.

Yep, here too. Prices on meats are way up now too. We had a surge of cases in two local meat packing plants at the end of March, into April which took a lot of workers out. One plant had 164 cases in ONE WEEK! They are running again, but with new procedures and less staff. I would imagine that other areas of the country are now experiencing the same, as I've seen facilities in Kansas getting hit hard. One Tyson plant had over 700 cases. That's insane.

Yes, I have noticed prices going up as well. Nothing on sale. I bought 2 racks of ribs and paid more than I have ever paid for ribs before. Nuts. I did read that one of the Tyson plants is opening back up soon. I live close to Smithfield, VA but I don't think the Smithfield Foods packing plant there has any problems.

I wonder if there's another tp shortage. My aunt who lives in central PA had to send my cousin who lives in Washington DC tp! I guess the Nation's capitol was running low.

Not that it really matters but I wonder where all the name brand tp is going. What little I have seen has all been off brand. I haven't seen brand name since March.

 

[mckennarose]

I woke up cold because our ac was on all night ...
Temps today only in the 60’s
Our warm up is in a few days..

Can I still come down?
I just got a freeze notification on my phone that expires Saturday morning at 10 am. I am not looking forward to the snow.... IN MAY! What kind of craziness is this?!

 

[macraven]

Of course!
It’s only 68 here now but 70’s for a few days and next mid week 82-84

 

[Lynne G]

Okay, after eating lunch at 4pm, dinner at 6pm, I needed some funny:



And that’s gotta be truth for some?

 

[Charade67]

Finally got the tuition waiver posted. Now I just need to wait for them to make a couple of more tweaks to the financial aid package and then I will start making payments.

I think I need to write a book about stupid therapist stories. Today I had to call an insurance company to find out why they haven't been making payments for a client. It turns out that the therapist gave them her home address instead of our office address. Even better - she doesn't live there anymore. I don't know why her mail didn't get forwarded.

It strikes me that Nursing isn’t just a profession, takes a special person, in your DNA & not something you stop ‘being’.

Nursing is one of those professions that I could never do. I gained a lot of respect for nurses when I saw them take care of my mother when she had cancer.

So glad it is finally Thursday! It has been a hellish week at work. But I am proud to say the home monitoring program I helped develop for COVID patients at my hospital system is finally up and running today! I'm pretty excited about this one - instead of just sending people to quarantine and hope for the best they have a place on an app that they can track their symptoms and important vitals and our nurse team can monitor them and look for anything that warrants a phone call, telemedicine visit, or something more urgent. Totally worth the extra hours the last few weeks!

That sounds like something that is really going to be helpful. Congratulations.

Gotta get back to work and deal with insurance and long and other fun things. I really shouldn’t complain. At least I still get to go to my job.

That statement makes no sense. I have no idea what I was attempting to post.

Not that it really matters but I wonder where all the name brand tp is going. What little I have seen has all been off brand. I haven't seen brand name since March.

I managed to find a huge package of Charmin at Target a couple of weeks ago. I'm having difficulty finding good paper towels.

Tonight diner was take out pizza followed by strawberry and cream ice cream made with strawberries picked yesterday on a local farm. I think I need to go back and get more. I am finishing the day by watching my favorite movie - Singin' in the Rain.

 

[keishashadow]

FYI Disney springs opens 5/20

 

[keishashadow]

My fellow PA peeps. Plan on hunkering down till 6/1 if ur still in a red county

 

[mckennarose]

My fellow PA peeps. Plan on hunkering down till 6/1 if ur still in a red county

Yikes! I just checked it and it's until 6/4.

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

I tip my hat to everyone essential.....keep up the great work!

 

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[agavegirl1]

My DH is having shoulder surgery tomorrow. They opened up Minnesota's surgery centers for "elective cases" now. He is one of the first to be called since he is prevented from working until he gets the multiple issues fixed. Hope you enjoy the cartoons. I have more but need to sort through them. Some are specific to certain other boards like cruising as subject matter etc.

 

[macraven]

Keisha

 

[macraven]

My DH is having shoulder surgery tomorrow. They opened up Minnesota's surgery centers for "elective cases" now. He is one of the first to be called since he is prevented from working until he gets the multiple issues fixed. Hope you enjoy the cartoons. I have more but need to sort through them. Some are specific to certain other boards like cruising as subject matter etc.

Wishing him the best and a good recovery!
I had shoulder surgery on both of mine 3 months apart.

Praying he will feel a whole lot better once it is completed.
And he will be glad he had it done.