There are no words

For the past week we have been working short at work. The facility has enough residents and enough quantity care for them to allow 4 CNA's to work each shift. We have residents that require just a little more care then most so we need the extra person. Well every freaking day some bonehead would either call in sick or just not show up. Do they discipline these people? Nope they just carry on. Do they find someone else to come in and work? Nope. I am tired of a job where I get screwed out of breaks and lunches. At least I get paid for them because I am not taking them but still everyone needs a break from the insanity. Then yesterday was the day that broke the camels back. One person called in and two didn't even bother to show up or call in saying they wouldn't be there. So how many CNA's does that leave on the west wing? Two. Over 40 some patients. That is over 20 per CNA. Way too many for the state requirement. ( 8-10 residents per CNA) Which doesn't happen anyway. On the days that we do have 4 CNA's I have anywhere between 12-16. I was half tempted to call state and report it. It is not only resident abuse it is staff abuse and either one they have zero tolerance. I was so ticked off yesterday I didn't even bother to take my blood pressure because I knew that it would be off the charts. I told my mom that in a text message and her reply was so funny. "OMG that is wack. Do what you gotta do." The fact that she would send that kind of reply was funny but the fact that she spelled whack wrong was even funnier.

Then last night one of the guys that my mom and I carpool with to Chorale came over to fix the computer. My mom was taking some kind of test and the computer froze so she called the help desk and go a hold of an idiot. He had her do something and the whole computer went down. We couldn't open anything. So Jason came over and fixed it and told us what we needed to do. So it is back up and running again obviously. He had to bring his three girls because his wife works nights. I took the two older girls over to the park for awhile but as soon as people started bringing their dogs they wanted to go back. They were afraid of them. The youngest was 9 months old so she stayed with her dad. When we got back they watched The Little Mermaid. I didn't get to bed until after 1am because I couldn't put my book down. It was good. It had been awhile since I read one book in a day. I used to to it quite often but now I don't just sit and do nothing for my job.

Yesterday two other co-workers and I decided to do a fat-camp. The prize is whoever loses the most weight in one month gets to pick the movie that the other two will take the winner to. Two of us weigh the same. With all the running around I have to do at work everyday it shouldn't be too hard. I mean I lost 3 pounds since the last time I weighed myself. It was probably about a week ago so that is good. If I got back to the what I was in high school I would be happy.

I decided to hold off on getting a new car. All three of my brothers told me that it isn't a good time to buy a car. Since they pretty much know what they are talking about I went with it. Now I just need something else to do today.