
Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. Last night my Mom and I were talking about the winter doldrums we've both been fighting. I told her that I had been looking at google images of pretty Spring flowers to try to get me in a better mood. I am just tired of the icy road conditions and the frigid temperatures! I want to see some flowers and lush green
My daughter had her 28th birthday on Valentine's Day. I wish I could have been with her on her birthday. I haven't been
with her on her birthday since she moved down south in the summer of '98. I sent her a custom made picture on stretched canvas. She loves the pop-art style so I had a favorite picture of her done by using
photofiddle.com. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the picture too. I also sent her a hoodie jacket and a little crop sweater. I told her that when she got the two packages in the mail, I wanted her to call me and open them up while on the phone with me. So she did that and she loved the picture!
I am off work today and tomorrow. I took those personal days off next to the weekend so I could have a mini-vacation. I have really been feeling burned out at work and just needed a little break.
There is a new woman working in our department. Her training phase is over but she still has a lot of problems remembering things. She started working there about two weeks before Christmas. She is extremely annoying to me. Well, actually she annoys everyone else too. First of all, she has some major body odor problem. She wears nice clothes and she looks clean and all but some days her body odor is so offensive that it is hard to even stand right next to her. She doesn't have this odor every single day but we have all noticed it
several times. It smells like onions and old chicken soup! Ugh! One day last week when I had just arrived, she had just left about two minutes before I walked in. I went to the cubicle where she had just departed (not knowing this) to clock in on the computer there. I sat down to do this and immediately my nose was assaulted by the most disgusting odor. The other co-worker sitting in the cubicle in front of me heard me say, "oh my God...what is that smell?!" She came over to me and whispered that "Lydia" had been sitting there and yes she had been "ripe" all day. It was very embarrassing. I am not exaggerating when I say that the smell was so strong and offensive that I couldn't even stay in there and clock in. I had to get up and go up front to where I usually sit (that chair was now free because another woman had left too) and clock in there. The smell was so strong that I got some air freshener and sprayed in the smelly cubicle too. I didn't want the patients to smell it!
I have never worked with a woman who had such a bad problem with body odor. I wonder...does she not notice it herself??? The first time I noticed it was the second day she worked there. At the time, the other women were mentioning it and I said maybe it was because she was very nervous after a long day of learning new things. I didn't expect it would happen again but it has. Our supervisor has noticed it too and I think she is in a quandary over what to do about it.
The other reason that "Lydia" gets on my nerves is because she has a "know-it-all" personality. No matter what you talk about she always has to "one up" you about what you say in a bragging way. She always knows something bigger and better than what you are talking about. She is also extremely nosy. Nosy about your personal life and for some odd reason when supper time comes, she gets so curious about what we are eating. I thought she did this with just me but apparently she does it to the other gals too. When I open up my bag to get out my supper, she will walk up and bend over close to it and ask me, "Oooooh what are you eating??!" I would never do this to her when she is trying to eat her supper.
I don't like how I feel when I am around her either. It makes me feel like I have become a bitch. One of the other ladies there who I have become very good friends with, feels the same way as I do in that regard. She told me the other night that she has never met someone who really puts her off so much that she feels repulsed by her. I hate feeling this way about someone. I like to get along with everyone. It is pretty bad when you get your schedule for the next month and you take special notice of the nights when you
have to work with Lydia! That is what me and my friend both said the other night.
On a positive note, we have another fairly new woman working there and she is a hoot to work with. She is very funny and fun to work with. She tends to be a bit too loud in her tone of voice but she is learning to tone it down after we have good-naturedly reminded her to "take it down a notch". She knows she is loud and doesn't get offended when we have told her this so that is a relief. She is very good with the patients and very kind, helpful and cheerful with them.
I watched the Academy Awards last night. I always watch it every year. I don't know why but every year that I watch it, I get teary-eyed when there is a really emotional or endearing acceptance speech! When they show the montage of people who have passed away in the last year...oh that always causes me to tear up! I did notice that they never showed the actor Roy Scheider's picture during that "in memoriam" montage. I never realized that until just a few minutes after it was over they had mentioned something or played a snippet of the movie Jaws' theme and then it made me think of the recently departed Roy Scheider and then I thought, wow they didn't remember to include him. If they did, I missed it. Heath Ledger was the last person they showed during that montage. There were a few actors that had passed away that I didn't know about their death until they showed their picture like the character actor
Dabbs Greer. I never really knew Dabbs Greer's name but when I saw his picture I remembered him in several movies or tv shows. He was a good actor.
I have been watching Big Brother 9 and watching it on Showtime After Dark when I get home from work. That show has jumped the shark. I have watched it since the first season in '99. Big Brother has always been one of my guilty pleasures. I tuned in last night and thought I was watching a porn movie! Two of the girls were doing a strip tease and lap dances and then they all moved outside to the swimming pool and half of them were naked and everyone was making out with each other. That was on Showtime's Big Brother After Dark. There is no way that crap will be shown on the CBS broadcast. They will edit it and put a different spin on it, I am sure. There isn't anyone on this season that I am rooting to win.
Edit: I have tried five times now to try to get spaces in between each paragraph and if this last attempt doesn't work...then piss on it! I have tried all different ways of spacing down three to four spaces, backspacing, deleting a line etc. and still each time I hit publish it is all bunched together. I hate how that looks but oh well!
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