It's snowing! What in the good grief is going on! This is spring... Where is the sun? Where's the lemonade? Where's the exhilarating smell of fresh cut grass? And I can't believe I'm saying this right now, but I want to hear the peepers! I'm so sick of being cold all the time, yet I know as soon as the warm weather starts rolling our way, I'll be complaining that it's too hot. There's never a happy medium. And I already know that work, in the ER, is going to be no fun this summer. Just as I knew at the begining of winter that it wouldn't be fun for that season either. The way it works:

Winter fills our emergency room with people who think that we can cure them of their flu. There are no antibiotics for the flu!! You have to wait it out! Instead, you all go to the ER, coughing all over us and spreading your germs. So when we get sick, if we don't call out of work... we get sent home. Because the hospital knows you all are going to complain about the staff coming to work sick. So instead, we all stay home to make you happy, and yet you still complain when there isn't enough staff. It's a vicious cycle throughout the winter.

The hot summer weather brings us all the idiots who don't know enough to drink plenty of fluids. Or should I say drink plenty of water!! If I had a dollar for every person that comes into the ER, in the summer, because they are dehydrated... I'd be rich. And if I had an extra dollar for every dehydrated person that tells us, "I drink plenty of fluids! I have 6 cups of coffee and 4 cans of Pepsi a day"... I'd be a millionaire. Coffee and soda does not hydrate you!! Caffeine is a diurectic! It makes you pee like crazy! Causing you lose electrolytes and all that other good stuff! And with the hot summer sun make you sweat like a filthy pig... you need water!! Stop wasting the fire departments time and ours! While they are driving your dehydrated ass to the hospital (which you could easily drive yourself) some poor soul out there is having a heart attack and truly needs that ambulance!

My second job, being a Whiskey Girl... I love it! I went to my first event, the Worcester Tattoo Expo, March 15th and 16th. It was a blast. And believe it or not, with as many tattoos as I have, it was the first tattoo expo I had ever been to. And there will be plenty more to follow. I met alot of people and saw a lot of crazy stuff! Here's a few pictures of me working it whiskey style!

I love what I do (as a Whiskey Girl and being an ER tech) but I didn't think it was going to make my life more hectic than it already has been. Oh, and not to mention being the merchandise girl for MindsetX. It's really a lot of fun, but it's stressful trying to schedule events and work around my schedule for the ER. And I feel really awful at work (in the ER) because I am asking so many favors from people to cover this day for me and swap that weekend with me, and then when they need a favor I can't help them because I already have events scheduled! I don't ever want to be that person who takes and takes and never gives back. And if I do have a day off from the ER it's usually a day that Tony has off as well and I don't want to do anything but spend time with him. But that time that I do get with him is usually staying in for the day and me spending time on the internet searching desperately for shoots. It's no wonder the poor guy seems down and depressed all the time. I'm hoping to God that this will all pay off in the end!

I am sitting here, in a hotel room, right now with plenty of time on my hands. Which means that I have no excuse to not post an update. The reason behind the hotel room... Tony has drill this weekend, and with the snow that God was ever so kind enough to dump on us.. it is just easier for Tony to get to and from drill tonight and tomorrow morning. And instead of us spending the night away from eachother, I am staying here at the hotel with him, regardless of the fact that it is only a thirty minute drive. And even with him being only a phone call and a short drive away, we all know that there is nothing better than falling asleep in the arms of the one you love. Please correct me if I am wrong.

As far as an update on my life... it's hectic. You already knew that. Hectic with a whole lot of work. Last week it was work and bringing Tony to and from doctor appointments at the VA. It's about time they got their butts in gear and started taking care of him (and all the other men and women serving our country). I am not a huge fan of the VA, but since hubby's aches and pains have been caused by the military and two trips to Iraq, he has to go to the VA. A couple of weeks ago, Lisa (social worker from the VA) caused me to have even less faith in the VA along with leading me to realize that they do not fit my standards of professionalism. She called me husband and left him a voice mail telling him that he tested positive for symptoms of a traumatic brain injury and that he needs further testing. She ended the voice mail with a contact number and that was that. My poor hubby was clueless as to what this traumatic brain injury meant so immediately after listening to the voice mail he got in touch with me. He figured I would know, considering the fact that I work in an ER, and if I didn't know... then one of the doctors, in my ER, must know. With the emergency room experience that I have, the first thing that crossed my mind was "Oh my God! He's got a subdural hematoma!(ie:head bleed)." I eventually got to listen to the voice mail from this Lisa lady and I was just so upset at how undetailed her message was. The least she could have done was told him that she needed to speak with him personally and for him to call her back. You just don't leave a message like that for someone. It's like one of our ER nurses calling you and saying, "Oh I'm just letting you know that your grandma came into our emergency room and she's dead" or it's like having your doctor call you and say, "Yeah I'm just letting you know that your HIV test is positive." You don't do something like that! You tell the person to come on in to the office. You don't know how people are going to react things. People need solace. And even if they don't, what's the harm in trying to be there for them anyways, honestly?

Other than being upset about the whole VA thing, I'm doing alright. I've been trying to book more photo shoots and I have also become a Whiskey Girl. You probably have no idea what that is or means, but trust me.. it's a step in the right direction for me. I am extrememely happy to have been accepted into such a beautiful group of girls. I haven't been able to attend an event yet, but there's a few of them going on this month and I am excited about it! I get to show people what I'm made of and it's for a good cause as well!