I did, however, come home and look up the American bald eagle, because my curiosity was now piqued.  I was glad to see that I was right, both of them have white heads.  I don’t know if I’ll ever see that aide again or not, and I don’t know if I’ll bother to inform her of what I found out.  Sometimes people get aggravated when you point out to them that they were mistaken, and I really don’t see the benefit of doing that.  I used to tell people all of the time when they were mistaken, and I learned that is a good way to alienate yourself from other people.  So I’ve started trying to just say “oh really?” and let it slide.  What do you think?  Is that a good thing, or a bad thing, to “let it slide” for the sake of keeping the peace and getting along with other people?

Four years have passed since the car accident happened that ruined my life. I was on my way home from work when I was rear ended by a car whose driver was too busy talking on the phone to realize that the cars in front of her had stopped for a red traffic signal.

She rear-ended the vehicle in front of me, pushing that vehicle into the rear of my truck. At the time of impace I was in the process of changing the CD in the CD player, since I had already stopped for the traffic light. I was badly injured as a result of the accident, and we had to hire a lawyer to help us to recover the costs of the accident. I wish that we had been able to find a claim calculator on the Internet back then to help us figure out what type of award we might be able to expect from the accident. As it is we still have not yet settled from the accident, and I am thinking that we never will see any money from it.

So then she started getting mouthy about how much it upset her that the camera was running, that she felt that it was a violation of her rights to be recorded.  Then she said that she felt violated and told me to turn the camera off.  I told her that I was NOT going to turn the camera off, and that there would be no need for her to “feel violated” as long as she kept her shirt down and her pants up!  Her mouth dropped open, her eyes bugged out and then all the kids laughed like crazy while she sat down in a big huff.  I thought that was a pretty good response, don’t you?

It is really hard getting up so early in the morning to do the early morning bus run.  Being a substitute, sometimes you don’t have a run assigned to you in advance and you have to go into the office and be “on call” and wait for an assignment.  If a regular driver calls in at the last minute because of illness or an accident then you are given their run at the last minute.  I don’t like that because I don’t know the roads at all and am not given much time to review the route directions to figure out if the directions are right or wrong (they are often wrong.)  That also involves getting up at 3 am in the morning to get to the office on time for being on call.  That means I have to go to bed at about 7pm the night before.  That’s hard to do.

So many of today’s medical professionals can choose from a variety of scrub clothing that we are seeing more and more of out and about in our daily lives, much like the ones that you can find at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/. The ones that are geared for the pediatric sector are really cute. I’m sure it makes a difference for the kids that they deal with each day and hopefully cheer up the place as well. Lord knows a busy pediatrics office can use all the cheering up that they can get. I can’t imagine working in that environment with all the crying and screaming kids day after day after day…….

So yesterday I broke down and bought a new one. This one cost about twice as much as the first one did; it has more bells and whistles. I don’t know how to use it yet; I am actually a little bit intimidated by it. Being technologically challenged is a sad thing to be in this day and age!

Even though we lived way up in Maine, which isn’t all that far from Canada, I have to be honest and say that I never had the chance or opportunity to take such a trip up there. Now that we are living way south I don’t know if I’ll ever get up there or not. I have several friends and acquaintances that are scattered here and there that I’d love to be able and visit. Most likely I would never have to spend a dime on any hotel or motel rooms, nor pay for too much food along the way.

I love the fact that you can customize them now online with special photographs that you can upload yourself to make the gift card more memorable – when the recipient pulls out the gift card to use and sees the photograph of the giver on it, it reminds them of the person who gave them the gift – and I think that is wonderful!  Or the picture could be of the recipient himself so his brother/sister can’t steal it and claim it belongs to them when they are caught!

My husband and I thought we had covered all our bases when we opened the doors to our pet store earlier this year. Boy, were we wrong! When the first client got up to the register I realized I had never research credit card or bank card processing companies! I have to tell everyone those first few weeks that we only accepted cash which was not only really embarrassing, it lost us quite a few sales. Now that we have all our ducks in a row I feel much more professional than I did at the beginning but for a while there I think we were both running on fumes. It’s definitely not easy owning your own business and it’s hard being responsible for every little problem that arises that at the end of the day I love being my own boss. I don’t ever think I’ll go back to corporate life, especially since I get to play with adorable dogs all day and get paid for it! Who could ask for a better job?