Does your dad have a sports team he is fond of, or was fond of as a kid?

Haha, no. People keep talking to us about baseball (at the hospital and the nursing home both), and the other day, my mother said to him, "You could become a Red Sox fan!" and he just laughed and laughed. Good times.

yeah - it's just an easy visual to add to rooms and to bring back fond memories, also conversation started with staff/visitors.

Timelies all!

Folks are here.(In fact my dad is checking his e-mail on Gary's computer) When Gary gets home, we'll head to his mom's for dinner.

Eeesh, Sox, that's no fun to hear.

Yah. It's incorrect, and also was delivered mostly because we are going out of state for Mother's Day - the first we haven't spent with them in 10 years.

Jesse - hugs to you and your mom.

Liese, he knows I'm a big nerd. I've known him and his wife for...almost 25 years. They are awesome, some of the best people I know. Truth FTW!

I always leave my strawberries out of the fridge to warm before eating, because I think they taste sweeter that way. Then my husband puts them back in the fridge. And I eat fruit bought at the farmer's market straight outta the bag. Who needs washing?! Former farm girl, here; I figure I've eaten enough dirt to fill a small raised bed.

Which day is your birthday, Sheryl?

I ugh on your behalf, Sox.

I am putting out a 'Coming Soon' sign in front of the house tonight or tomorrow morning. We have a huge egg hunt on Saturday morning in the park across the street and I want to put out a teaser for the masses. It will be a few days before the real estate sign and listing actually happens, but I don't want to pass up on the advertising opportunity. It will have the website address on it with more info and pictures and stuff. Still need much better pictures.

Nervous and very excited at the same time. Will need house ~ma soon.

Oh, that's really smart, Laura -- people will see it when they don't have time to really look, but by the time they do, you will be ready!

People also love to get in ahead of a listing, too.

Coworker said she'd help with a tour, took the training class to brush up, spoke up with a lot of good information, so she has some decent knowledge already. Then whined later that the new recruits could handle being thrown into the deep end (which is in direct contradiction to the established training program which is under my direction) and is basically rescinding her offer of assistance. CHED director offered her assistance instead after I noted that the first chica seemed to be bailing. And it's not fair to the second gal. And I get that the first is under a lot of stress with her new responsibilities (this is the same one who keeps screwing me out of classroom space) and is it worse to force the issue with her and make her stick to her original word despite maybe her stressing about her own job that is culminating in a month, or to abuse the kindness of the second gal who's huge event is on a week?

And then the ED made me want to cry at staff meeting when he told me he didn't want me drowning silently and getting overwhelmed and angry and resentful due to my workload while in the same breath pointing out all the nitpicky shit he wanted done yesterday in front of everyone (I immediately started drowning silently and feeling angry and resentful). Maybe it was just the first part that set me off. I seem to have a hide trigger to being told I'm not wanted to stress out. It makes me stress that I'm failing miserably just by allowing myself to stress. Like, I'm being told that I'm not allowed to stress, and if I do, it's my fault.

That lemonade with the strawberries in it was pretty good too, but my attempts at artistic epiphany have been...I wanna go to sleep.