*sigh*

I know how this works, so it really shouldn't upset/depress me, but 'Stroke Doctor Dick Day' does exactly that to me.

Yeah, that was a crude way to put it, but two days after being told our department had to cut 30 hours out of our schedule by the end of this month, I see a hospital-wide email going 'Hi, today is Doctor Appreciation Day and we're going to give them a luncheon!' (which usually involves a three to five course meal with things like filet mignon and lobster (!)), yeah, pardon me who's down here at $11.60 an hour and with possible hour cuts looming over my head if I'm not exactly thrilled about 'showing my appreciation' to them in the hallway.

They need another expensive lunch about as much as they need another yacht or vacation in the Bahamas (or whatever the 'hot' vacation spot is these days).

Okay, done bitching and now hauling my ass off to do my job...

And as a note after a few minutes--I know it's not the doctors, but the hospital that's putting a high premium on shit like this rather than on making sure their employees are well paid and cared for, but still, it doesn't help to know where the money 'they don't have' is really going after it's taken from us.

There are times

Where I alternate between feeling good, feeling distressed, and feeling disappointed about realizing that really, people don't change all that much from the time they're kids until when they 'grow up'; only what makes them act the way they do changes.

Sometimes.

Meme meme meme

Seen just about everywhere today...

Based entirely on my personality (so if you've met me before, block what I really look like out of your mind), hunt down a "played by" (picture of an actor/celeb/musician/model/whatver) who you think would best represent me. Reply here with the picture or link.

...Posting a pic of Jon Bon Jovi/Derek Bliss is cheating. Besides; we don't have the same equipment. ;)

The State of the Foot

She's doing good. :)

She's now comfortable enough to sleep on a towel next to the bedroom window instead of under the bed, and also comes out later in the evenings to stretch out on the living room floor instead of (again) staying under the bed unless she wants to eat, s@@t, or get attention.

Last night and today was also a first in her getting up on the bed without 'asking' me first, aod for getting on the bed when I wasn't even on it at all. :)

She does not like Science Diet moist, so I will likely switch to a different brand. She'll eat it, but only when she's really hungry, which means she's also under-eating a little to avoid having to eat it. That's not good IMHO.

She's still cute and sweet and smart.

We're having scratching issues right now, but that'll just take and patience on my part to get her going after the right things...rather than my box-spring mattress. XD.