Monday, December 22, 2008

cupcakes and duct tape

This morning while I was at work, my husband stopped in with Jocelyn. He brought me dessert for lunch that ended up being my breakfast. It was from the Amish Door bakery, and it was really good. It is a chocolate Happy Holiday cupcake!!!

It even had cream filling!!! What a great family to bring me a chocolate, cream filled cupcake at work!!!
Anyway, I ate the whole thing and went back to my work. I worked all day and we had a meeting at 1:00PM for first impressions in the nursing home and on the phone. A lot of interesting topics came up. It was pretty much a refresher for me from receptionist boot camp, but it brought some new light to a few things. One of the things that stuck out to me most was an example brought up from another nursing home. There was a lady who ended up at her second choice nursing home due to her being in the hospital and there not being an open bed at her first choice facility and it was a weekend. She asked her nurse for the newspaper because there was supposed to be an article about her grandson in the paper about his sports that he was involved in. The nurse had told her that they didn't get the paper on the weekend, and there wasn't any office staff there. Well a dietary aide had been walking past this woman's room and overheard this conversation. She went back to the kitchen and got on the internet and printed off the sports section of the paper. Then, she returned to the woman's room and introduced herself as a member of the dining staff. She then proceeded to give this woman the printed off papers and told her that she hoped the article about her grandson was there. She wanted to make sure that her time with them was enjoyable and knowing that her grandson was very important to her, she thought the papers would brighten her day. The woman was so grateful and "wow"ed by this act that later in life after she had went home for a while and had to have some surgery and go back to the nursing home, this place was her first choice. This story got me to thinking, what have I done to "wow" someone lately? Not anything big, just something small that would really brighten the day of someone else. I am really going to pay better attention to my surroundings and find a way to be more receptive and show someone how much they really do matter.

I ended up working until about 6:30. I came home and started wrapping Christmas presents with my brother. Somehow duct tape came into the picture...so this is my creative side for the day!

It took me forever to get that bow to look just right.


I almost forgot about the Jeff Gordon stocking that I got to go with this gift...I like the duct tap ribbon after all. It was really cute when I finally finished and just gave a little added pizzazz to this gift for a very original "country boy".

Monday, December 1, 2008

OUCH!

Sunday morning at 2AM-ish, I can't really be sure, I was sleeping...my husband sent me a message that he was being taken to the ER because he had cut his finger pretty bad. I asked him if he wanted to meet me there and he said no, that a guy from work was taking him and that he would bring him back to work to get his car. So, I did exactly what he told me to do and went back to sleep. Well, several texts came from him and then I think it was sometime after 5AM that he came home.

When he got home I was asleep and the first thing he said to me was..."Want to see my finger? I had to get 7 stitches!" NO, I didn't want to see his finger, if you're alive and ok, lay down and go to sleep, Jocelyn gets up when she wants to, and that will be too soon when it happens (that's what went through my head). I don't even know if I was responsive, it was like I was so tired that I could hear what was going on, but I couldn't really tell if I was talking back or not.

Later, after I woke up, I found out that it was cut to the bone, he got 7 stitches, he cut it on a kettle as he was cleaning, the skin was just flapping there, and there was a lot of blood. Not really a story that you want to wake up to, but he is okay and his finger is all wrapped up and splinted for the next couple weeks.

Don't you know that it would have to be his bowling hand? He has to miss bowling for at least the next two weeks, of course he still wants to go to the bowling alley to watch his team bowl...what joy do men actually get from hanging out in a bowling alley just watching everyone else bowl...I guess some things I will never understand.