"It's a big job gettin' by with nine kids and a wifeBut I've been workin' man, dang near all my life, but I'll keep workin'Long as my two hands are fit to useI'll drink my beer in a tavernSing a little bit of these working man blues...." -Merle Haggard, 1969 We have a workin' man!!… Continue reading Workin’ man blues
Yesterday I listened to a podcast episode from the Friends on FIRE podcast. (I don't often listen to this podcast, but I guess I follow them on Instagram, b/c I saw a post there that intrigued me.) It's a financial podcast, geared toward the FIRE movement. (Also, disclaimer- we are not "FIRE movement" people, so… Continue reading Retiring at 41?
WORK: Work has been a bit intense lately. The long vacation break was very restorative for me, but I returned to sort of a chaotic scene. I mentioned before that I'm newly responsible for covering a bunch of tasks for someone who recently left. All in all, it's going okay, but you know how it… Continue reading Today’s thoughts: Work + Health
I can't believe it, but we're in the home stretch now before our trip. We are here. (countdown sheet I made for my nieces in Ireland...45 day seemed long when I made it, but the time flew by.) Work This week did not turn out exactly as I'd hoped, mostly due to some unexpected work… Continue reading Final countdown
3 things on my mind today: Remote Training So our new nurse data analyst started on Monday (yay!). I mentioned before she is a nurse I used to work with, so I already knew her. She's great. I am the primary person training her, so I've spent a lot of time lately getting ready for… Continue reading Remote training, writing and 14 years
No School Day Friday lunch out- CHIPOTLE. mmmm. This week the hospital sent out a newsletter update, part of which outlined the newly updated "work from home" policy. It talked about how COVID really changed the perspective on work from home positions- which prior to the pandemic were fairly rare within the hospital administration world.… Continue reading Work from home policy post-covid & Asher’s art 🙂
Since we've been home all week 24/7, I'm missing most of the "anchors" in my life right now. It's nice, in a way, to have some total "free for all" days, but also still odd. (Less odd now than it would have been a few years ago, since we have become fairly used to this… Continue reading Parkinson’s Law + work/time expansion…
Wow, I feel utterly exhausted this morning. This week has felt way too intense with the addition of what felt like 4,329 different appointments mixed in on top of the regular workweek and everything else. I generally dread weeks when I have appointments of any kind, because I just know how they mess up the regular… Continue reading Mini WFH rant
Wish I were sitting back here this morningTGIF.Since I changed jobs a few years ago and generally feel much happier with my work/life balance and my job overall, I don’t typically dread the workweek or count down until it's over. So I don’t really embrace the whole “TGIF” thing too much.But today, TGIF. This week… Continue reading Parenting Fatigue. TGIF.
The good thing about a bad day is that it’s usually followed by a good day. That’s my experience, anyway. I don’t too oftenhave multiple bad days in a row, maybe because the bad day forces me to stop and re-evaluate WHY it was a bad day and make some intentional changes to avoid another… Continue reading A good day
GRATEFUL KAE 