I'm gonna put on a dashiki and blow your mind!

[snapdragon76]

OMG! An actual post from me! Try not to faint from the surprise!!

First off, some good news. Remember me mentioning about my friend who had what looked to be brain cancer? Well, the doctor who read the scans originally read them WRONG!! Her oncologist reread them and said there was no cancer! So YAY!!!!! My grandpa still has malignant lung cancer though...

I actually did some much needed cleaning today. It was a nice day and the spring cleaning bug bit so I took advantage of it since it happens so rarely. I got my bathroom cleaned and vacuumed the floors and took out the trash before I was spent. Still! quite the accomplishment I must say! My apartment isn't going to be in Better Homes & Gardens anytime soon, but it's not a pig sty at least!

Went out to eat with my friend Lonna yesterday. We went to Steak and Shake, which I hadn't been to in a dog's age, so it was very nice! We talked and ate and had a good ol' time. She's going to Japan in a week or two with her sister and her Japanese teacher. She wants to do something involving the Japanese language, so she took the Japanese proficiency test last year sometime over in Seattle I believe it was. Since we both like manga, I told her we should get jobs in the biz, her translating from the original Japanese and me adapting the English into a workable format (kind of like what umadoshi does). THAT would be awesome!

My job is still my job. Even though a few of the doctors I post charges for are moving into the newer building, according to my supervisor I'll still be getting their charges to post. Especially since they stopped doing the charge capture thing (too much human error). So it's nice to have some job security at least, even though I don't really want to be doing this for the rest of my life. I keep thinking about what I'd like to do if I were to move to Tennessee like I so want to. Hell, if I need to, I'll work stocking shelves at Wal-Mart until I can find something else.

My dad and stepmother (possibly) are coming down in April in their motor home to help my step-uncle and aunt retire over here. There's a place close to Orlando called The Villages where a lot of retirees go. So I'm going over to see them for a few days while they're down. I just hope the time I have to take off doesn't interfere with me being able to go to Tenessee for two weeks in September. It shouldn't but they changed the time off requirements now, so it's hard to say...

Well, I'm going to go now. I have to catalog my DVD's and video games and I need to get a bite to eat at some point. Ciao!

Comments

[zelamenomiko.livejournal.com]

Wow, way to be industrious. I desperately need to clean my living space, and I keep putting it off putting it off and putting it off (not to mention putting it off) for whatever reasons. It's getting a bit out of hand.

Have you thought about doing a little volunteer work for your local library? That might be a job area you might be interested in looking into.

Glad to hear that your friend's doctor read the scans wrong. That's so scary when they do that, you'd think they'd be a little more careful.

And OOOOOO, Steak 'N Shake!! Yummm . . . and now I'm craving a milkshake. Damnit.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your friend was given the all-clear! That's scary -- and now a relief!

You work for doctor's now? What happened to your old job in the office? I hope you like your new job better than the old one!

I hope you get to go to Tennessee in September. That would be AWESOME. :D

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad to hear that about your friend.

And yay for cleaning! Sounds like you got a lot done.

I hope things go well at your job. Job stress sucks.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Well, it happens VERY rarely, so I need to take advantage of it when it does come.

Well, the key word there is VOLUNTEERING. I needs to get paid, hon. I help my mom out with the rent as well as other utilities, not to mention feeding my book addiction (crack is cheaper).

Me too! She's had enough hardship in her life!

Mwhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! You know you want one!!! >:DD

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Me too!

I still work in an office. What I do is I have certain doctors for whom I post their daily charges i.e. the patients they see per day. They fill out a fee ticket marking what kind of office visit they had, the diagnosis, and whatever procedures they may have had. I post them into the computer database so that they can be sent to the insurance companies to be paid and whatnot.

They were doing a system where the MA or someone would take the charges and post them in the computer and they'd be printed up ostensibly to be automatically uploaded into the computer, but there were a lot of errors in the format that they eventually stopped doing that altogether.

I hope that helps explain a bit more.

Me too! I hope to eventually move there within the next few years if I'm lucky!

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a very good thing!

Yeah, my cleaning mood doesn't come very often I'm afraid...

Me too. I think all jobs have a certain amount of stress. more so if you don't really like your job. Mine's OK, but not ideal for me. But it's a job and I can't complain too much.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

Is this the same office you were in a year or so ago? I didn't realize it was a medical office if so. It sounds interesting!

Are you getting tired of Florida? Tennessee would be a nice change!

[zelamenomiko.livejournal.com]

I need to get inspired to clean. *flops down on the couch* Yep, really working on it. ^^;;

Oh, sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant volunteer for the evenings or something while also having the paying job, then pounce when an opening becomes available. Sorry, I should have explained myself better. And yes, crack is cheaper than books. :( Why can't I have a cheaper habit?

I doooooooo want one! But the closest one is an hour away from me!! *wails*

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've been with this office since July of '07. So a few years then!

It has it's moments. A lot of it can be a bit tedious, what with basically doing the same thing day in and day out for eight hours everyday...

Yes, I am. We've been here for 20+ years and I am SOOO ready for a change. I hate the weather here sometimes, especially during the summer where it gets so wickedly hot you feel like suffocating. Plus it can be hella expensive here. And everything is flat. No land features whatsoever. I miss having actual seasons, like spring and fall and such.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I like my job, though not as much in the new house. But the problem I really have with it is that I can't live off the salary. :( Ah well, maybe someday I'll find something better.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

lol I can tell!

Well, I dunno. Usually by the time I get off of work, I'm so tired I crash for the rest of the night. Which is why I'm finding it very difficult to exercise when I get home from work... TT_TT

I knoooow. Damn me and my biblophilic tendencies! Grah!

He he heeeee! Sorry 'bout that!



Sorta.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Well, all I can say is to keep looking and maybe you'll get lucky and find something you can live off of. I can't really live off of my salary either, which is why I have to live with my mom still. It's more of a roommate situation... at least, that's what I keep telling myself.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with living with your mom. If my dad moves back into his old house I'll probably move in with him.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I missed that it was medical in the past, then.

Change is good -- I hope you get it! I would miss the seasons, too. I like fall and spring a lot. And expensive is not good. Tennessee sounds great!

[zelamenomiko.livejournal.com]

I hear that. I keep telling myself to write or do something productive after work, but I'm lucky if I can even convince myself to work up the energy to shower, which isn't good. Of course, it never takes much to convince myself to take a bath . . . XD

*laughs* I went to my parents for two weeks and brought ten books from my shelves with me. I promptly bought seven more. O_o IT'S AN ILLNESS!!!!

Suuuuuuuuure you are. XD

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Provided he can get the crazy woman out of it first...

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I dunno if I really went into detail about it though, so it's understandable.

So do I! And I even kinda miss winter too. Not the killer death winter we've recently had, but the nice winter wonderland kinda thing.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the main problem at this point... I keep hoping he'll do it but I just don't know.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes I'm like "I wonder if I can get away with just a spit bath today." But I usually have to wash my hair, so I might as well shower."

IT TOTALLY IS!! My main problem is manga. Now, I get regular books also, but mostly manga...

Heh heh heh...

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Well, he might need to take legal actions at some point.

[zelamenomiko.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky, I can kind of get away without washing my hair every day (every other day is a must, though) because the horses don't care and I usually wear a baseball cap at work. So it works out.

See, I haven't bought manga in a while now, but books . . . lots and lots of hardbacks . . .

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I don't wash my hair everyday either. But then I don't shower every single day. I know, scandalous! But since I don't have the type of ob where I'm working out doors or doing a lot of physical labor, I can get away with washing every other day if need be. Besides, my mom and I kind of alternate days, so if I took a shower everyday, we'd use a TON of water.

Ahhh, hardback are a lot more expensive then paperbacks, so that accounts for a lot of moolah. There are times I try to wait for paperbacks, but sometimes I don't. Like when the last Harry Potter book came out...

You should totally check out my GoodReads (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/331823) profile sometime so you can see how far my book addiction has gone...