Blog Challenge Day 06

Your Day.

I got up this morning when my alarm went off at 4:30 am. I let my dogs Ariel and Toby out of their kennels and carried Toby into the bathroom with me, while Ariel snuck into Mom's room. Got my shower and got all ready for the day. Mom drove to work while I snoozed and we listened to Josh Groban's Illumination CD for the hundredth time. Got to work around 6:30 and put my stuff in my locker and put on my lab coat. Found out that our Micro set-up guy was sick today and it would be just me and the girl that has been training in set-up for almost 3 weeks and gave her notice 1 1/2 weeks ago, so doesn't care much about her job. I also had to help the person who is training on the urine/stool culture bench and release all of the cultures that she puts in hold. My supervisor was training a student from our Medical Technology program on the respiratory/wounds bench, so it was me manning the phones as well. I managed to get a procedure written for her on our new oxidase slides in the morning as well as working on another project about monthly maintenance cards that I need to finish by the end of the year. I realized before break at 9 that I needed to do the daily temperature readings and reminder culture papers to send up to the floor because our temporary set-up girl (TSG) didn't know how. Got my morning break at 9:30 and had coffee and a muffin and got to knit on a hat some. Released cultures when I got back from break and worked on getting a few cultures ready for sending to the University of Washington for various things like sensitivities and organism identifications that we don't perform. Our media order came in around 11:00 and I helped TSG find out where it needed to go and verified that we got everything we were supposed to. Made copies of the shipping orders and sent them down to materials management. Continued to release cultures from the urine/stool bench. Went to lunch around 12:00 and trekked down to the cafeteria and got a chicken salad and a roll. At lunch I helped one of our students who wanted to learn to knit get started. She thought maybe she had learned how to knit before, but then after a while decided it was maybe crochet. I told her I'd bring crochet hooks tomorrow and we'd try that. Again helped out my trainee on the urine/stool bench and got most of the rest of the cultures released when she went to lunch. Started humming random classical tunes and our evening micro tech said, "Sing it girl!", so then I really got into it. Told her about the greatest baby toy ever by Baby Einstein the Take Along Tunes. I've bought one for Nicole and Melinda and have one hid away for myself. Her step-daughter is expecting and she thought it would be a great gift, so I got online and printed out a page so she could find it at the store. Mom came by and said that she could get her hair cut today and what would be the best time, 3:30 or 4? I said 3:30 cause I thought I could get off on time (I am supposed to be off at 3 pm). Sat down with my trainee and really plugged through the cultures she had questions on. Got a phone call from the floor about something I had to pass on to the Chemistry department and communications had gotten crossed. Straightened that out with Chemistry and we found the paper that had been tossed in the Hippa bin when it should have gone to them. Called the floor back and explained what happened and ironed out all the wrinkles. Called Mom in Hematology and said, "Go get your hair cut and come back for me." Finished the bench with my trainee and got on to doing the pending lists and other end-of-the-day paperwork. Found out TSG hadn't reported or finalled any of her C. diff rapid tests all day. Also found out she had received a TB culture and hadn't informed me, so late in the day that I didn't have time to set it up. Picked up the papers we have to send to Infection Control and bid my co-workers adieu around 4 pm...only an hour overtime. Clocked out and went up to the parking lot to wait for Mom. Stood around for about a minute thinking maybe I could pull out the hat I'm knitting on and leave the yarn in the bag so I could stand there and knit when Mom pulled into the parking lot. We vented all the way home about what drove us crazy that day. Got home and found my Burpee seed order had come. Yea!! Starting seeds indoors again in February for my garden. Got some comfy pants on, turned on Ellen and got on my elliptical. Mom went out and tended to her chickies. After she got in she started making a lemon meringue pie. I worked on some homework, studying for taking my Specialist in Microbiology test to cover the 36 credits of continuing education I need every 3 years, and to add some more letters after my name. Mom started a chicken breast on the Foreman's grill and boiled some water for noodles. I came over and helped finish up dinner which was tomato bruschetta and chicken and spaghetti noodles with browned butter and Myzithra cheese on them. YUUUUUMMMM. Mom cooked the lemon pie and I came down on the computer to print out some stuff to help the student who wants to learn to crochet. I searched around for the right size hooks to take with me tomorrow and Mom came down in the living room to watch TV. We watched a couple of episodes of How I Met Your Mother, me knitting her typing on her book on her computer. I remembered that I hadn't blogged in a while and came over and read through a couple of other blogs and then sat down to type this.

And now I am going to bed. Ready to do it all again tomorrow?