Psyche
07-13-2005, 08:00 PM
had one of those crappy days that you wish you hadn't woken up for.
I knew yesterday was going to be bad. It was my Monday at work..
Starts off, we have three 1:1 suicidal patients on the ward (meaning a staff member has to be with them at all times, including the bathroom) so I get to sit and stare at a person for 8 hours. Hard to keep myself awake, but I do it. Then I find out I have to stay till 4:30 in the morning (my regular shift is 2:45p-11:15p). I don't want to do it, but I have to (plus overtime is nice). So I proceed to spend another 5 hours staring at suicidal people while they sleep so they don't hurt themselves, whilst developing a migrane. Migrane starts making me feel like I'm going to puke, so I have to put up with friendly jests from coworkers that I'm pregnant (which got on my nerves after the first 5 minutes). So, I finally make it to 4:30. I get in the car, turn the music up loud to keep me awake, and head home. I got maybe 10 minutes away from home and all of a sudden it gets hard to accelerate and my oil light comes on. *side note - in April my saturn caught on fire while I was driving it, so I'm a bit on the nervous side now* I shut my car off and reach for my cell phone. OH CRAP, I left it at home. Now my husband and I have a friend that lives down the stretch of BFE highway that I was driving, so I figured it wasn't that far and I'd walk there and call my husband, all along the way alternately cursing and crying and hoping my husband would realize I should be home already and come look for me. An hour and 4 miles walking later (and still 2 miles away from our friend's house), he shows up. We go back to my car and we get it to drive, all the while it's drastically overheating so we have to stop every so often and let it cool. It takes us an hour and a half to put put it to his friends house 6 miles away. By this time it's around 8 oclock and I still haven't gotten any sleep. Needless to say, I so wished I hadn't woken up yesterday. Or something =[
Now I'm being barraded with stupid female driver comments from my husband and father-in-law =[
I knew yesterday was going to be bad. It was my Monday at work..
Starts off, we have three 1:1 suicidal patients on the ward (meaning a staff member has to be with them at all times, including the bathroom) so I get to sit and stare at a person for 8 hours. Hard to keep myself awake, but I do it. Then I find out I have to stay till 4:30 in the morning (my regular shift is 2:45p-11:15p). I don't want to do it, but I have to (plus overtime is nice). So I proceed to spend another 5 hours staring at suicidal people while they sleep so they don't hurt themselves, whilst developing a migrane. Migrane starts making me feel like I'm going to puke, so I have to put up with friendly jests from coworkers that I'm pregnant (which got on my nerves after the first 5 minutes). So, I finally make it to 4:30. I get in the car, turn the music up loud to keep me awake, and head home. I got maybe 10 minutes away from home and all of a sudden it gets hard to accelerate and my oil light comes on. *side note - in April my saturn caught on fire while I was driving it, so I'm a bit on the nervous side now* I shut my car off and reach for my cell phone. OH CRAP, I left it at home. Now my husband and I have a friend that lives down the stretch of BFE highway that I was driving, so I figured it wasn't that far and I'd walk there and call my husband, all along the way alternately cursing and crying and hoping my husband would realize I should be home already and come look for me. An hour and 4 miles walking later (and still 2 miles away from our friend's house), he shows up. We go back to my car and we get it to drive, all the while it's drastically overheating so we have to stop every so often and let it cool. It takes us an hour and a half to put put it to his friends house 6 miles away. By this time it's around 8 oclock and I still haven't gotten any sleep. Needless to say, I so wished I hadn't woken up yesterday. Or something =[
Now I'm being barraded with stupid female driver comments from my husband and father-in-law =[