Back to the unemployment office

Well it is over. I am torn because I really needed the job but the the people were awful. They are the reason why nursing home surveyors have a bad name. To rant and rave and carry on in such a place is awful.
So when he told me today that West Virginia was not going to use contract surveyors it was a relief. It was also a lie. He had already told us they got a contract for the work but he refused to share the details in a group.
I will enjoy being home again with my precious deaf dog and sleep in the comfort of my own bed.
Bedsides it will give me more opportunity to write here.

This job

The job that I currently have is ending next week. I really like doing this job the only problem are the dragons I work with. Why do I say dragons because they breath fire. A couple of weeks ago we split up the teams that week 2 of the worst were in a different facility. It was a pleasant week, our work was done and there was no drama. This week back to pure hell. I even had the queen dragon dragging me around by the nose. When she wanted to dictate that everybody go back to the place of work really late and then really early I put my foot down and did not do it.
These dragon wanted to catch the nursing home locking someone out of the building and to catch them using less people than stated to transfer someone out of bed. Well they found nothing. What they succeeded in doing was making themselves really tired and making the whole team look like dragons.
I would like to continue to have this job but the dragons need to have their fire removed.

Injustice

My new job is keeping me way to busy. I really do not like it. I like the job it is just that the people I work with are self serving bitches.
We are supposed to be providing a service that ensures the residents in nursing homes are safe and cared for. I find it improbable that someone who can make derogatory statements about the residents of the town, the home itself , and the workers are able to make an objective opinion about what they are seeing. To make snide remarks of someone's parentage, relationship status, or economic status are uncalled for. I do not want to be near you because how do I know you are not saying the same crap about me.
So we are working in West Virginia and they have this law or statute that allows a doctor to sign a paper that makes anyone they want to loose all their rights. This paper states that the person "lacks capacity" thereby giving decision making authority to someone else. I cannot imagine being unable to decide what medications I wan to take, where I want to go, if I even want to not be tied to a chair because I might fall down.
Other states do not do this. In order to do something even similar would be to have a court appointed guardian. That is only going to happen if you are so out of touch with reality or comatose. Time for WV to get with the times and get rid of that piece of paper and the stigma it places on people. This is a good reason to not live in WV.

Cupcakes with

I have a sweet tooth that hurts all the time. In order to get it to stop I bake things. I also bake things when I get really bored. I usually do things by scratch but they have come out with a mix that makes cupcakes with filling in the middle.

Follow the directions on the box. Mix up the batter and place at least a heaping tablespoon in the bottom of each paper cup. Next comes the creme filling. Drop a tsp into each cupcake. Try not to let it touch the paper. Use a toothpick to adjust it to the middle. If it bakes touching the paper when you take the paper off the filling will stick to it.

Top each one with more batter making it as even as possible.
When done allow to cool completely. The package warns that the filling can be hot and burn your mouth.

So these particular ones are yellow cake with white filling and I thought I would try a new icing product with it. This product allows you to mix up your own flavor of icing. So I choose caramel as something different. I usually make caramel buttercreme by scratch to top a great chocolate cake. So as you can see from below the cupcake wound up with most of the filling towards the bottom. It is a trick to get it centered. Not real crazy about the fake carmel flavored icing either. It did however take care of the tooth.

Things that come to mind.

Requirements to work for the TSA. Any one would think they would be dumb, stupid, irritating and general asshole. Well this is true however, clever is another one. What other job in the world can you only have a GED or HS diploma, get a government job with retirement, insurance, and other benefits. They get paid $22 and hour for standing around and intimidating others.
I once was at the airport and messed up one of those full body scans by moving. I said just run the scan again. The powers that be claimed they could not as it was not their policy. Wake up idiots, you make the dam policy, change it. Anyone who frisks old ladies, young children, and cancer patients with colostomies needs to find another place in the world. TSA has become the terrorist.

I shop at Kroger. Have for years. My local store has decided to reorganize and redecorate the store. I cannot find a dang thing. Food stuff on the same isle with cleaning fluid. Make sure you read things well. I will go someplace else till you are done. Who knows I might like them better.

Airlines. Here is an idea. If they have a seat in the window board them first, then the middle seats and the aisle seats. Make first class board last because they hold up the line. Stop charging for luggage and make EVERYBODY check bags. All that scrambling around to stuff your bag in a hole it doesn't fit is irritating and slows us all down. Saw a lady the other day who couldn't figure out where to put her bag, and I suspect really couldn't lift it, just left it in the aisle. This same woman spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to lie down using 2 seats.

If you get on a plane wearing a costume that denotes a particular religion that the rest of the world suspects, speak in loud foreign languages, or have screaming kids you will be looked at and might even get unwanted comments. You did it to yourself get over it.

New kind of frosting that you add flavor packets to. Nice idea to make it your own but even better is if you place the display at eye level so we can see the packets without reaching way up and messing up the whole display.

Presidential election. I am still making up my mind. If I go with Obama it will be 4 more years of nothing new.(only because the house and senate won't work with him) or 4 years of new shit no one wants from the man who looks like a used car salesman. Can I move to England or France for 4 years?

In West Virginia there is a political race going on where Ed Boober is running for some office. Sorry all I could see was the Boober part. Seriously consider a name change like my friend Bertha Butts is now Bitsy Butts. What were you thinking?

Do not put me in a nursing home. They are warehouses for the undead. They exist only to line their pockets with government cash not to take care of you. If they cared about you then why does the government have to keep going in year after year and inspecting them. If they cared they would do it right the first time and every time.

If for some reason I should ever get killed in a wreck that was brought about because the Houston police were chasing some idiot who didn't want to stop for a traffic ticket, then please sue the city for billions of dollars. They place us all in jeopardy with these pursuits and they need to stop.

My dog is deaf. It will be a different challenge to communicate now.

Ruminations

This new job is keeping me busy. Between that and still trying to loose weight I have not been able to get here and do anything. I promise to get better.
The first survey is over and we have written 15 tags. Not bad for a nursing home that hasn't had a survey in 3 years. We actually expected worse.
It really was fun we ate out a lot and laughed a lot. I learned a lot too. The ladies I am working with are so very knowledgeable.
I spent this last week at home writing my citations and dragging the dog around the neighborhood. We have had cool mornings so the earlier the better. I just wish he would not poop in other peoples yards. I am not going to clean it up, Nobody picks up the horse droppings their dogs leave in my yard. I might charge for free fertilizer. I need to change direction of the walk so that the last bit is in the shade. The dog starts panting too hard in the sun.
So May 3 the dog gets his teeth cleaned. His mouth smells worse than his butt so it is really needed. I think he may be deaf. He ignores me a lot, but then most all the men in my life have ignored me. Even cutting his balls off did nothing to improve that.
Tomorrow is much day. Raul my Mexican gardener ( I guess it is not PC to say Mexican since I do not know from which country he is really from) will come and plant bushes and tote mulch to the back yard for the trees. I had to order 5 cubic yards of the stuff in order to get it delivered. I got tired of toting it around in the back of the vehicle. Not to mention I am too old to be doing that stuff anymore. Well maybe if I loose 10 more pounds.
So this morning I weighed self and have finally lost the first 10 pounds. It feels really good. Just that I have so far to go it is barely a dent. I am doing the weight watchers, bumped up my exercise and am learning to leave food on the plate at the restaurant. Hopefully I will be able to see my lady parts again with out a mirror, don't know how guys with the big beer guts know what the length of your junk is.
My scanner screwed up on me. It keeps saying the program is unstable. There is another scanner here that won't work cause it says it need ink. Don't know why it says that cause I have never used the thing. Tried to get the ink cartridge out so I could go get one. I couldn't figure out how to get it out. Sometimes technology cause more problems than they are worth.
Cells phones are one piece I could live without. People standing around in stores and other public spaces yaking loudly on phone is annoying. I was at the airport in Charlotte 2 weeks ago and some jerk was talking so loud you could not hear the overhead paging for flights. I wanted to jam that phone down his pretentious neck.
So this week we had a lady shot and killed in the parking lot of a doctors office and her 3 day old baby kidnapped. The baby was found safe and sound. The woman doing the murder wanted the baby because her boyfriend thought she was pregnant and she needed a baby so he would marry her. Well get this the lady she killed was white, her baby was white, the killer very black as well as the boyfriend. Talk about color blind. Don't really think that would have worked. One thing that pisses me off is that if the killer would have been white and mother black we would be having protests and riots claiming it was a hate crime. Why are we not having that now, I don't think this killer woman has any regard for people only herself.
Need to cut this short the dump truck should be here soon and it is time for lunch. Lettuce and tuna, yum.

Birdsong and dog puke

While I wait for my first assignment for my new job I am contented to continue to read more of Anne McCaffrey collection. The Rowan is the first in a series of books about humans with more than extraordinary telekinetic and telepathic abilities. I am also cleaning the house, dealing with yard issues, and a number of things.
When I bought this house I immediately bought three trees and planted them in the back yard. The intent was to make sure that there was some shade back there. It is on the east side of the house and the early morning sun would heat the house too quickly. So I planted 3 trees. I planted a silver maple, red oak, and a bradford pear. The oak and the pear have flourished the maple has grown a little. I do not know why the maple won't grow. It is frustrating.

the maple

the pear

The trees attract the birds. They flick and flitter about catching bugs and what not. They also shit all over everything. The chairs, the generator house, everything gets a hit by bird poop. Poop of any kind has germs, therefore my back yard is one giant petrie dish.
Well the flittery pooping birds are not that many because of the resident hawk. Yes the hawk. To be specific there are 2 of them. I have many pictures of them sitting on the fence, a movie of one of them eating something, and a movie of one swooping at me. They are beautiful huge beasts. Noiseless, graceful in flight they do sit majestically on the fence, watching. The little birds are noisy. They fight with each other, squawk  and poop as they fly by. There are a couple of doves that sit on the fence and kiss. The doves hide under the azaleas in the front yard. In the winter they look like they are puffed up trying to keep warm.
The worst are the ones who sit on the top of the chimney to the fireplace. While cheerful birdsong is okay for a short period of time but this one sits there for hours. The birdsong reverberates down the chimney and becomes 3 x as loud as normal. This drives the dog nuts cause he thinks he hears them in the house. But since the TV sits near the fireplace the birdsong drowns out the TV. I must appear crazy running out the back door flapping my arms to scare the bird off.
One day some birds were fighting in the backyard carrying on and such. It was early evening and the house shades most of the back yard as the sun sets in the West. I walked outside and was standing on the patio when I noticed the shadow what looked like batman sitting on the chimney. After my heart started beating again I turned around and saw the hawk sitting up there watching his supper cavort in the back yard.
The back yard is the dogs domain. He searches it everyday to make sure no one has invaded his space. He is 13 years old and his hearing and vision is not as it should be. Occasionally he gets an upset tummy and eats grass. Bird poop grass.
When that happens he come in and pukes. If you watch a dog they are not very eloquent when they barf. There sides heave in and out and this partially digested kibble comes out like a lumpy pudding. The worst is if you let them alone they re-eat it. They are not wasteful. In order to keep that from happening again I usually get up and remove the mess before they can re-eat it. After all something about that feast is what made sick to begin with.
Well my trusty friend puked twice the other day. I cleaned both up rather quickly. The second incident the dog spent 2 hours looking for it. He sniffed the entire living room floor and then some. Ugh what a disgusting habit. Must be something left over from being a wolf and when food was scarce.