Claire
Master Chef
Do you ever get mad at yourself? What have you done recently that made you want to kick yourself in your own rear end?
What do you need pens for when you have needles!Oh boy! Daily! For some reason, lately, I've been leaving my pen on the desk and wandering off to other units. I get there and have nothing to write with. Trust me, lack of writing utensils is chronic for nurses.
What do you need pens for when you have needles!
(Get it? Needles and pins? )
PrincessFiona60 said:Because no one will let me chart in their blood...
When I worked for a vet (OK, I don't pretend dogs, cats, mice, etc, are humans!) we all had cords with magnetic pens round our necks, over our scrubs. Do they still make them?
Oh, I thought that is where you kept your cattle prod.Not much anymore. They are perfect weapons for people to grab onto and there are some things you really don't want your pen to dangle into.
It's just odd that after this many years I'm starting to leave my pen lying around, instead of putting it in my pocket. At least my screwdriver is still in my pocket
Do you ever get mad at yourself? What have you done recently that made you want to kick yourself in your own rear end?
Welcome to the club My favorite pasttime is wondering what the heck did I come in here for. And guess where I am that's right the pantryWow, what a question! Mostly I get angry with my mind! How many times, today alone, have I walked into a room and stood there like a fool, looking around just trying to remember why in the world I went in there!? I need a new brain organization system!
Steve Kroll said:Yes!! Bear with me... long story.
As some of you know, I am a hobby winemaker. I recently had an opportunity to buy some frozen Chardonnay juice from a place in Washington. It was very good quality juice, so I ordered 10 gallons of it.
When the juice arrived I thawed it out and transferred the contents into two 6-gallon glass fermenting jars and set them on the kitchen table. I then added yeast and waited for fermentation to begin. Now I would normally do all of this in my winemaking room in the basement, but my wife was out of town for the week, and I thought that since there was no one around to tell me not to do it in the kitchen, that's where I would do it.
Well, a day went by, fermentation started with a vengeance, and the 10 gallons of grape juice is wildly bubbling away. Stupidly (and I say stupidly, because I really DO know better), I decided to stick a long spoon into the jar opening to stir it. For those who don't make wine, I'll go ahead and tell you that you really shouldn't agitate an active fermentation, because it just causes everything to foam up. It's like shaking up a can of soda pop.
But that's what I did. And no sooner had I done so, than I saw it foam up quickly. It foamed up and out the top of the glass container like a sticky grape volcano. I would guess that two gallons foamed out of the top before it stopped. And just like the shaken soda analogy, there really is very little you can do to stop it.
So I ran downstairs to grab a towel, but by the time I got back to the mess, it had foamed all over the kitchen table, and then run onto the very expensive rug under the kitchen table, as well as all the chairs, floor, etc.
It took about 2 hours to clean up the sticky, syrupy mess (wine grapes have about twice as much sugar as table grapes). I've since mopped kitchen floor twice and it STILL feels sticky. On top of that, the bill to clean the rug is expected to run around $60.
Moral of the story: even if your wife isn't around, don't do things that she wouldn't like. It WILL come back to bite you.
Oh, I thought that is where you kept your cattle prod.