Friday, March 11, 2011
People of the ER
You know that website "People of Walmart?" (I'm not going to link to it because I really don't like it, You can google it.)
Well we should make a new one called "People of the ER."
I, unfortunately, had to spend some time there last Saturday night and, let me tell you, there are some real winners in the ER.
1) Let's start with Stompy McStomperson, as my husband called him. He was a drug addict trying to score some painkillers. In the meantime, the doctors and nurses were doing their best to stall him and make him wait for a long time. In response, he decided to start stomping the floor...constantly...for over an hour. Then he would stop for 10-15 minutes, then it's right back at it again. Keep in mind this is at like 2 in the morning. Then he would ask every woman that walked by "Are you my nurse. I need my nurse." Come on, dude! I'm sure you know who your nurse is and stopping every other nurse just makes it so people who really need help have to wait longer to get it (um, people like me, who had to wait 6 hours to find out I didn't have appendicitis).
2) Next we'll go with Cussy McCursin. He was an elderly guy that had fallen in the nursing home. I really did feel sorry for him. He had dementia and had no idea where he was or why. When they asked where he was, he said he was someplace where they sold Chevrolets. When they asked him the year, he just didn't answer. All of that, I'm OK with. What I'm not OK with is that every other word out of his mouth was an explicative. "You blankety blank nurse. I need some blankety blank dinner or I'll blank in my pants." The nurses did try to get him to stop but everyone in that wing of the ER heard every bad word out of his mouth.
3) Last of all we have the crazy parent with the screaming kid. The child needed a breathing treatment, which I'll grant you, it's no fun to have to hold someone down for one of those. However the mom was just yelling at her kid over and over. "What's wrong with you? Stop screaming, stop yelling!" Hello!! What's wrong with the kid is that it's 3 in the morning. They're tired and they don't feel good. You're sticking some strange thing over their nose and mouth and holding it there. Of course, they are going to be upset. Stop yelling at them and just try to comfort them.
That definitely was not one of the better nights of my life. I hope that next time one of us ends up in the ER, we won't be put on the crazy ward but they will put us with normal, sane people who are just trying to get better. If that places exists.....
What about you? What's your worst ER experience?
Well we should make a new one called "People of the ER."
I, unfortunately, had to spend some time there last Saturday night and, let me tell you, there are some real winners in the ER.
1) Let's start with Stompy McStomperson, as my husband called him. He was a drug addict trying to score some painkillers. In the meantime, the doctors and nurses were doing their best to stall him and make him wait for a long time. In response, he decided to start stomping the floor...constantly...for over an hour. Then he would stop for 10-15 minutes, then it's right back at it again. Keep in mind this is at like 2 in the morning. Then he would ask every woman that walked by "Are you my nurse. I need my nurse." Come on, dude! I'm sure you know who your nurse is and stopping every other nurse just makes it so people who really need help have to wait longer to get it (um, people like me, who had to wait 6 hours to find out I didn't have appendicitis).
2) Next we'll go with Cussy McCursin. He was an elderly guy that had fallen in the nursing home. I really did feel sorry for him. He had dementia and had no idea where he was or why. When they asked where he was, he said he was someplace where they sold Chevrolets. When they asked him the year, he just didn't answer. All of that, I'm OK with. What I'm not OK with is that every other word out of his mouth was an explicative. "You blankety blank nurse. I need some blankety blank dinner or I'll blank in my pants." The nurses did try to get him to stop but everyone in that wing of the ER heard every bad word out of his mouth.
3) Last of all we have the crazy parent with the screaming kid. The child needed a breathing treatment, which I'll grant you, it's no fun to have to hold someone down for one of those. However the mom was just yelling at her kid over and over. "What's wrong with you? Stop screaming, stop yelling!" Hello!! What's wrong with the kid is that it's 3 in the morning. They're tired and they don't feel good. You're sticking some strange thing over their nose and mouth and holding it there. Of course, they are going to be upset. Stop yelling at them and just try to comfort them.
That definitely was not one of the better nights of my life. I hope that next time one of us ends up in the ER, we won't be put on the crazy ward but they will put us with normal, sane people who are just trying to get better. If that places exists.....
What about you? What's your worst ER experience?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Blogging for Books Review: The Shape of Mercy
Are you a blogger who loves to read? Blogging for books sends out free books in exchange for your review of them.
The Shape of Mercy
by Susan Meissner
College sophomore Lauren Durough is trying to escape a life of privilege by attending a state school and living in the dorm like a "normal' person. She decides to take a part-time job in order to prove that she can make it on her own. She accepts a job transcribing a 300 year old diary into today's language. The diary is of a teenage girl who lived during the Salem witch trials. Mercy Hayworth, the diary's author, had been accused, tried and convicted of witchcraft and wrote about it all in her diary. The diary's owner, 83-year-old Abigail Boyles, has her own secret motives for wanting the diary transcribed. As the book progresses, Lauren is caught between the world of Salem in 1692 and today's world of social classes and preconceived notions.
This was an AWESOME read! I thoroughly loved it. This is the first book I have read by this author
and it makes me want to read more. She makes the characters so deep, so real and complex that you feel the turmoil within Lauren as she struggles to mix what she has been taught about money and social status and what she is learning in the real world. You get caught up with Mercy and her plight to stop the witchcraft madness back in Salem, all the while knowing her fate is sealed and it can't be changed. You feel frustration as well as sympathy for Abigail as she regrets choices she made in the past, choices that can't be changed and haven't been forgiven. And through it all, God's hand is seen weaving the circumstances and changing these three woman's lives. In the end, you are left with a book you just can't put down until you are done.
I give it 5 out of 5 stars! Go buy it today!
The Shape of Mercy
by Susan MeissnerCollege sophomore Lauren Durough is trying to escape a life of privilege by attending a state school and living in the dorm like a "normal' person. She decides to take a part-time job in order to prove that she can make it on her own. She accepts a job transcribing a 300 year old diary into today's language. The diary is of a teenage girl who lived during the Salem witch trials. Mercy Hayworth, the diary's author, had been accused, tried and convicted of witchcraft and wrote about it all in her diary. The diary's owner, 83-year-old Abigail Boyles, has her own secret motives for wanting the diary transcribed. As the book progresses, Lauren is caught between the world of Salem in 1692 and today's world of social classes and preconceived notions.
This was an AWESOME read! I thoroughly loved it. This is the first book I have read by this author
and it makes me want to read more. She makes the characters so deep, so real and complex that you feel the turmoil within Lauren as she struggles to mix what she has been taught about money and social status and what she is learning in the real world. You get caught up with Mercy and her plight to stop the witchcraft madness back in Salem, all the while knowing her fate is sealed and it can't be changed. You feel frustration as well as sympathy for Abigail as she regrets choices she made in the past, choices that can't be changed and haven't been forgiven. And through it all, God's hand is seen weaving the circumstances and changing these three woman's lives. In the end, you are left with a book you just can't put down until you are done.I give it 5 out of 5 stars! Go buy it today!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
What I Learned Wednesday: Ways to Make Money Online
I have been researching ways to make money online and I've come up with a myriad of information. I'd love nothing better than to share it with you :). Maybe together we can learn how to earn some extra spending money every month.
1) As we talked about earlier, become an affiliate: Post advertisements on your blog and/or send out blog posts that advertise deals.
2) Write Freelance Blog Posts: Are you knowledgeable in something? (Hint: Everyone is knowledgeable about something.) Find someone who wants that knowledge and is willing to pay for it. There are many websites out there that recruit bloggers to write articles for them on a wide variety of topics. This article gives you some resources for that.
3) Use Swagbucks as your search engine and earn points called Swagbucks. Typically I earn between 5-7 swagbucks for every 4 or 5 searches I do. When you get to 450 swagbucks, you get a $5 Amazon gift card. It may not seem like much, but it's free money for doing something online you'd probably do anyway. I've made $110 over the last year just using Swagbucks (my sister has earned a lot more!).
4) Shop online through My Points. Get rewarded with points per dollar for your purchases. For example, shop at Kohls online and earn 2 points per dollar. Shop at Kmart online and earn 5 points per dollar. Redeem your points for gift cards to Amazon, Kohls, Target and more. I have $150 in gift cards over the last year using My Points.
5) Do online surveys. One of my favorite survey sites is Synovate. You earn points for completing surveys. every 5000 points earns you $5. I have earned $30 over the past 6 months this way. But not only do you earn money at Synovate, you get full sized free products to try out and answer survey questions about. Over the last 6 months, I gotten a bottle of shampoo, a tube of toothpaste, Rice Krispy treats, Scooby-Doo fruit snacks, 2 full-size rolls of paper towels and a large thing of napkins. Besides helping us save money that we would have spent for those things, it's always fun to get free things in the mail.
1) As we talked about earlier, become an affiliate: Post advertisements on your blog and/or send out blog posts that advertise deals.
2) Write Freelance Blog Posts: Are you knowledgeable in something? (Hint: Everyone is knowledgeable about something.) Find someone who wants that knowledge and is willing to pay for it. There are many websites out there that recruit bloggers to write articles for them on a wide variety of topics. This article gives you some resources for that.
3) Use Swagbucks as your search engine and earn points called Swagbucks. Typically I earn between 5-7 swagbucks for every 4 or 5 searches I do. When you get to 450 swagbucks, you get a $5 Amazon gift card. It may not seem like much, but it's free money for doing something online you'd probably do anyway. I've made $110 over the last year just using Swagbucks (my sister has earned a lot more!).
4) Shop online through My Points. Get rewarded with points per dollar for your purchases. For example, shop at Kohls online and earn 2 points per dollar. Shop at Kmart online and earn 5 points per dollar. Redeem your points for gift cards to Amazon, Kohls, Target and more. I have $150 in gift cards over the last year using My Points.
5) Do online surveys. One of my favorite survey sites is Synovate. You earn points for completing surveys. every 5000 points earns you $5. I have earned $30 over the past 6 months this way. But not only do you earn money at Synovate, you get full sized free products to try out and answer survey questions about. Over the last 6 months, I gotten a bottle of shampoo, a tube of toothpaste, Rice Krispy treats, Scooby-Doo fruit snacks, 2 full-size rolls of paper towels and a large thing of napkins. Besides helping us save money that we would have spent for those things, it's always fun to get free things in the mail.
Monday, March 7, 2011
How do you do your laundry?
I my house, I call laundry the "neverending chore #2" (dishes get the number one spot). And I am always looking for ways to improve my neverending chores.
Lately I have been "testing" out two different laundry methods. I'm still not sure which is best, but here they are:
1) Do all your laundry in one day. This is how I was taught to do laundry and how I have done it for 10 years. Have a big 'ole laundry day and just switch out washer/dryer loads all day. Then put on a good show on TV and start folding your life away.
2) Recently I decided to try something different - do one load of laundry every day. Put the load in the washer first thing in the morning. Switch it out before lunch and fold after school. I kind of like this method but it's throwing me off a little on how to deliver it and get people to put it away. With method #1, I would put all of Julie's clothes in one basket, all of David's in another, and so forth. Then I'd deliver the baskets to their rooms and it would be their job once a week to put away clean clothes. With method #2, I'm not sure if I should have an ongoing basket for each person and add to it as I go, still delivering and putting away once a week, or if I should deliver them everyday.
What do you think? How do you do your laundry? I'd love to hear what works for you.
Lately I have been "testing" out two different laundry methods. I'm still not sure which is best, but here they are:
1) Do all your laundry in one day. This is how I was taught to do laundry and how I have done it for 10 years. Have a big 'ole laundry day and just switch out washer/dryer loads all day. Then put on a good show on TV and start folding your life away.
2) Recently I decided to try something different - do one load of laundry every day. Put the load in the washer first thing in the morning. Switch it out before lunch and fold after school. I kind of like this method but it's throwing me off a little on how to deliver it and get people to put it away. With method #1, I would put all of Julie's clothes in one basket, all of David's in another, and so forth. Then I'd deliver the baskets to their rooms and it would be their job once a week to put away clean clothes. With method #2, I'm not sure if I should have an ongoing basket for each person and add to it as I go, still delivering and putting away once a week, or if I should deliver them everyday.
What do you think? How do you do your laundry? I'd love to hear what works for you.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
How does it work? - Groupon
Groupon
Have you heard of Groupon?
It's the mac daddy of deal of the day sites - the one that started it all.
How does Groupon work?
Every day new deals are posted on the site. They are posted by city - Atlanta, New York, Chicago, etc. However, you don't have to live in that cities to take advantage of the deal. Some deals will be local to that city; so, obviously, if you don't live there, that deal won't be worthwhile for you to invest in. But quite often there are deals that are for online merchants or deals that can be used at a national chain.
Most deals posted on Groupon are 50-90% off the retail price. The site can offer the great deals it does because it gets a large group of people to invest in that deal. For each offer, a certain number of people must invest in it before the deal is on. Your credit card will not be billed until enough the deal has enough customers and "is on". When you visit the Groupon site for a deal, you'll see either a little scale telling you how many people still need to invest in the deal or a message saying "The deal is on."
My Experience:
I've gotten several deals through Groupon:
3 Redbox rentals for $1 (gotten that one twice)
$20 gift card to Barnes & Noble for $10
4 movie tickets for $20
The movie ticket deal actually fell through because the online merchant offering the deal through Groupon went out of business. However, Groupon was very professional and refunded my money as well as sending an apology email. I was impressed with the way they handled that situation.
So, go check out Groupon if you haven't yet. Sign up for the emails related to the closest big cities to you. And go get some great deals!!
Have you heard of Groupon?
It's the mac daddy of deal of the day sites - the one that started it all.
How does Groupon work?
Every day new deals are posted on the site. They are posted by city - Atlanta, New York, Chicago, etc. However, you don't have to live in that cities to take advantage of the deal. Some deals will be local to that city; so, obviously, if you don't live there, that deal won't be worthwhile for you to invest in. But quite often there are deals that are for online merchants or deals that can be used at a national chain.
Most deals posted on Groupon are 50-90% off the retail price. The site can offer the great deals it does because it gets a large group of people to invest in that deal. For each offer, a certain number of people must invest in it before the deal is on. Your credit card will not be billed until enough the deal has enough customers and "is on". When you visit the Groupon site for a deal, you'll see either a little scale telling you how many people still need to invest in the deal or a message saying "The deal is on."
My Experience:
I've gotten several deals through Groupon:
3 Redbox rentals for $1 (gotten that one twice)
$20 gift card to Barnes & Noble for $10
4 movie tickets for $20
The movie ticket deal actually fell through because the online merchant offering the deal through Groupon went out of business. However, Groupon was very professional and refunded my money as well as sending an apology email. I was impressed with the way they handled that situation.
So, go check out Groupon if you haven't yet. Sign up for the emails related to the closest big cities to you. And go get some great deals!!
Ever wondered how a certain website or business works? Ask me in the comments and I'll try to explain it in a future post.
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