It feels like the past....

month hasn't existed....it's just flown by so fast.  There are some things I'm trying to get done, but I have a major addiction problem.  Sudoku! It's a fabulous game from Gamehouse.  It ranks me in comparison to how everyone in the world is doing.  I've actually been #1 a couple of times and in the top ten probably 20 times or so.  Wow....I did that well!  I have to get away from it, because I'm not getting the things done that I want to get done.  My knitting has just been sitting next to me all week.  I'm knitting a couple of dishcloths for my friend, Kim, who is retiring next month at a very young age.  I have a friend having a baby in June and I need to get busy on that.

I'm training a new guy at work and he's just not getting it.  We haven't gone beyond the basics in a month.....they are taking him up to 7 hours when he should be getting them done in a couple hours or so.  There's so much more he has to learn and he has to get it done in an  hour day.  I'm starting to get frustrated and my voice is showing it.  I'm clueless as what more I can do.  My co-workers are very sympathetic, but that isn't helping him learn.

I'm still struggling with the buprenorphine.  It's not doing anything much at all.  I want to sleep all the time.  Getting out of bed and then walking from my car to the Max and from the Max to work is a big struggle every day.  My right hip is so painful that I'm actually thinking about a cane.  I just don't want to go there.  My next appointment with my rheumatologist is in a month so I will hobble along until then.  I think I want to go back on the Vicodin.

I think the oven is hot....I love little frozen canapes.  Easy, easy dinner.

I can't believe someone actually

read this!  Well.....maybe 2 people.  I started this mostly as a way to vent.  I come home from work and I'm alone.  Sometimes that loneliness really gets to me and I just need to write.  I'm not a writer by any measure.  I did enough to get by in college and that's it.

My daughter made my beautiful hat.  She bought the pattern so she doesn't share it. Quite a few have bought the hat from her.  She makes them to order.  I wish I could remember the name of the pattern.  I'll have to ask.

This is a hat Susan made for a friend.  It's pink and brown and I'm just the model!

My buprenorphine didn't do it's job today.  I have upped the dose to 6 mg bid.  I had quite a bit of hip pain today.  I was on my feet from 9-1 without a break.  Clinic was extremely busy as usual.  I'm trying to keep working there, but I know if I don't want to, my doc will write a letter.  But I already have my co-workers pissed at me because I'm not doing Thurs AM clinic any more.

I was so cranky the last hour at work.  I said things I regret and I need to apologize.  I hate it when I get like that.....nothing stops my mouth from opening.  I've prayed and prayed about it and I know I need to pray more.

Susan and I went on Portland's Yarn Crawl this past week-end.  We only did 3 westside stores and one in SW Portland. I decided I was going to spend money and I did!  I didn't buy everything I wanted....not even close, but I did spring for some gorgeous yarn.  Angelika's Yarn Store in incredible!  It's all about Cascade Yarns.  She carries enough of any kind or color to make any project you want.  Most stores only have 2-3 skeins of any one color at the most. 

I'm off to find something to eat.  I rarely shop anymore and I live mostly on cereal.  Don't feel like that tonight. 

And I thought that life

would be beautiful from my last post.  HA!  I got a new RX for the buprenorphine.  When I went to the pharmacy to pick it up, the pharmacist said that insurance would not pay for it for another week.  So....how was I supposed to titer my dosage?  I had to drop back to 2 mg bid for a month.  Today was my appt and I found out that my Rx was screwed up.  Both the nurse and the doc were very apologetic.  So now my RX is written for 4-6 tabs 2-3 times a day....or something like that.  So what it boils down to is that I now have 270 per month rather than 60.  What a difference!  I already started taking 4 mg.  So I'll try it for at least 5 days and see how I feel.  Then I might increase....or not.  I'm so happy that this is worked out.  I was feeling terrible with lots of hip pain.  Some days it really hurt to just move.  And sometimes my back would be at least a 5 (on a scale of 1-10) for a day or so and then ease up.  Then it would be another body area.  But the hip was constant.  And my right shoulder and arm would beginning to bother me when I would knit.  Can't have that!  Maybe I'll get over my knitting slump now.  I guess that just having the Rx problem fixed has made me feel better.

I'm now the lead microbiologist for Multnomah County, Oregon!  OMG!  I didn't think of it that way at all until a few days ago.  I started ~Feb 1 and I didn't get hardly any training.  I'm learning so much and making a few changes as I go.  I thought it would be a struggle to get things changed, but my boss seems happy that I'm making things better.  I have a couple of co-workers who are very supportive, but one is leaving at the end of the month.  I started training a new person this week.  I've had him doing some reading, but tomorrow we will start on 24 hr urine cultures.  That's the easiest and most consistent culture we do. 

There are lots of things to say, but my pea brain is hungry and I need to eat.  It's having trouble remembering things.  Note time!