Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Strange Dreams

Pregnancy brings with it many side effects, many of which I have experienced (nausea, swelling, bleeding gums, indigestion, etc.). Which confuses me to how women can not know they are pregnant, but that is another post in itself. The symptom of pregnancy that has bothered me the most has been the strange dreams that I have. These dreams have kept me from getting quality sleep for the past 6 months. These dreams are so vivid and real it is almost like I am either really there, or watching them on TV, so my brain isn't really resting. Most of the time I don't remember these dreams I just know that they are very strange.
However, when I woke up at 3:30 this morning I remembered quite a bit of my dream. This dream is interesting to me because it shows how much our brains absorb what goes on around us. Last nite I watched the show Intervention, which was about a young woman addicted to Meth. Last nite I dreamed that myself, Jake, my cousin Ethan and some random guy were addicted to smoking cheese, like in a pipe!! It was pretty strange. Most of the dream was us running around some huge park at nite in the rain trying to 'score' cheese. Before I woke up, I was really trying to get Jake and Ethan to quit because our boss (apparently we worked together) was becoming suspicious of us. So Ethan and Jake were going to clean out the car that we shared to get rid of any more cheese that we had. When I went to check on them they were standing in the parking garage smoking the cheese out of a hooka.
I am not saying that any of my dreams make sense, I am just saying....no wonder I am so freaking tired all of the time...look at what my mind is doing when I am supposed to be resting!!!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Should be glad I have a job??

Haven't been on in a while...been busy with getting ready for our baby that is due in December and with the hubby going back to Grad School. Sometimes I can't believe how crazy life can get in such a short time. But I have to admit, as crazy as it is I am so excited about all of the wonderful changes that are coming our way.
However with every thing good, comes the bad. Work has really sucked lately. The hospital that I work for had one of the most profitable years in a long time last year (not my opinion, the CEO sent a letter to everyone thanking us all for our hard work). Despite this, the hospital is tightening its belt and cutting back. They have instituting a hiring freeze and are trying to implement a wage freeze, I don't want a raise particularly, but I do think it is dangerous to stop hiring staff. They are also drastically understaffing us on a daily basis. I don't get upset when we are busy but I do get upset when we are so busy that it puts patient safety at risk. Two patients fell the other nite because we were so busy. The last thing is that all of this stress has caused a lot of tension between day and nite shift. I have worked nites almost as long as I have worked and I take a lot of pride in my work. I am getting tired of hearing that nites has it better than days and that we don't do anything. I am hoping that things get better soon because I don't like feeling like my work is not appreciated.
My biggest pet peeve is that management keeps telling us "Yes times are tough, but we should all be happy we have a job."