A Day in my life - 2022!

 It's 2022!  As usual, I'm going to share how the first day of the month went for me.

As you know, I'm still an on call nurse for the skilled nursing facility that I used to work at full time.  I've only gone in a few times in the last month, to try to help the person who is doing some of my old job.
She messaged me late Friday afternoon to tell me that another new nurse, had just quit with no notice. (I can't believe how many people do that.  I feel it's so unprofessional and is so hard on the people who are left).  Anyway, she asked if we had plans for New Years Eve and said I would get a big bonus if I picked up the night, plus I would get double time as it would be a holiday.  Our New Years Eve plans had fallen through, so I agreed to work.

I went in to work about 10:15.  After getting report I had to call the Dr to get antibiotic orders for someone, then had some meds to pass.

At midnight, we stopped to countdown into the new year and toast each other with sparkling grape juice in styrofoam cups.  We are classy like that!

I worked on some continuing education courses that we have to do every month.  This one was dealing with dementia.

The night was fairly quiet, other than one lady who kept coming to the nurses station because she was sure she hadn't had her meds. 

The day nurse started at 6:30am.  I gave her report and we counted the narcotics. I left around 7 and enjoyed these Christmas lights on the way home.  Our township always does a really nice job with decorations.  There are lights like this all the way down the main  boulevard in our town.

I got in bed about 8am and slept till 2pm.

When I got up and I started some laundry.

Because I knew I would be sleeping a lot of the day, I had gotten a lot of my usual work done the day before.  I had also taken down all of our Christmas decorations, except the tree.  I needed Bob for that.

This is a tip I read about a few years ago.  It doesn't work on a big tree, but it works for ours.  We take a roll of plastic wrap and wrap it quite tightly around the tree, decorations and all.  Then Bob picks it up and carries it downstairs. I carried the stand and tucked it into the corner of a closet, he puts it in the stand and it's set for a while.

Here it is, with all of our other decorations.  When it's time to put it up, he will carry it back up.  I then cut the plastic wrap and take it off.  Most of the decorations stay in place,  I usually have to just touch it up - and it's ready to go!

The fig plant went back into the corner where the tree was, and our house is back to normal.  It always feels good to get everything put away.

We had a frozen pizza for supper.  This is a brand we have been enjoying.  We like the thin crust, and the flavor is good!

Here it is after it came out of the oven.  I add halved cherry tomatoes to my portion, I love the pop of flavor.  Bob doesn't like tomatoes and thinks I'm crazy.  :)

We ended the night watching this movie.  It's really more of a documentary and is made by the people who made Courageous, Fireproof, The War Room.  It's about people's relationship with their Father and how it impacts their relationship with their heavenly Father.  It was very good and I recommend it!  We rented it on Amazon Prime.

And that ended January 1!