Sunday, 14 December, 1997 08:13

While you were sleeping....

I got a good, solid ten hours of sleep today; Karen was amazed, she said, since the grandkids were all over and almost uncontrollable. They went out and got an xmas tree today, and I am expected to help trim it in the morning. Yeah, right.

I'm having trouble working up any enthusiasm for the season, even though I'm trying. It seems to be an excuse to spend money... this is what the retailers are aiming for, anyway. And Karen's family seems to think that it's blasphemous not to... but I've never minded blasphemy in any form. But... the root effect is... Karen's feeling bad about it.

The other problem is... and this is different from most other years... is that right now we don't have any disposable funds, in any form. So, even though my attitude is relenting, the wherewithall is nonexistent.

One thing that is different from every other year, though... the xmases celebration is going to be at Andy and Karla's this year. I thought this was pretty nice, until I figgered out the reasoning behind it. Last year, it was, as usual, at our house, and I managed to get it declared an alcohol-free zone. I thought that everyone had a good time, and I had a better time than I usually do. I really get tired of every occasion being an excuse to get drunk for some people in the family. And it appears that the family is tired of my attitude. The hell with them, let them go on their drunken muddleheaded ways.

This has been an amazingly quiet Saturday night... come to think of it, every night that I've worked this rotation has been pretty quiet. That is the way I think that things should always be on third shift.... and they seldom are. Since about 22:00 last night, I've always had at least a half-hour between patients... a nice, leisurely pace. Jeez, I could do this all the time! After all, just being awake doesn't make me tired, it's the running that is frequently involved in getting way too much work done. Well, just being awake after about 20 hours does make me tired, I guess, thinking back on the last three days...

I sluffed off on making the doctor's appointment that I talked about last week, but I'm going to do that on Monday. My cough/cold is coming back with a vengeance, it seems. I would kinda like to put everything off until after the first of the year, when my other insurance kicks in and I can come here to St. Francis and not have to go to the other hospital. But I don't feel that it's necessary to wait on the cough, that will just be an office visit if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, I've waited too long anyway...