Of Transferring Facility

I am excited now that I am transferring to another work facility. I cannot wait. On Monday, I am starting at Sharon Care Center which is much nearer to my house. At least I don't have to commute that far like I've been doing everyday, everytime I go to work at Playa del Rey Care Center.

My 30-day wait was already over. It's sad to leave Playa del Rey because I've already grown there but I have to in order for me to be consistent with what I am doing. The driving everyday had exhausted me all the tim eplus the anticipation of the stress if being late added to that.

I don't want to grow wrinkles and of course I refuse to get old. Hahaha. But anyway, this transfer was been requested long ago and I am glad that it was approved finally. I am very very excited about it because it means a lot to me because I will end my daily miseries of driving into the traffic every morning had always ruined my daily work because the stress had always gave a toll at my job performance.

So now that I live near my new job, of course I am very grateful and happy that no more driving on a traffic freeways as wll as no more coming late to work.How ironic though but that's the only reason I can give you why I needed to transfer.

I mean working with the wonderful people in Playa del Rey had made me grow professionally as well as personally. I had a blast though I had worked here for over a year now. I am very much blessed to have met and learned from these people around me.

Another chapter close, another chapter opens. That's the wheel of life and we have to get accustomed to it because we are the only weavers of out life. And of course we have to make the most out of it so that we can have a very fulfilling life. Good luck to me.

Bottled Up Anger

Very disappointed right now. I am sitting here at the office for two hours waiting for my relief but apparently nobody came. I really don't know if he is coming or not. I am just plainly blindsided. I mean he is on the schedule but he did not show up. I am just holding my anger. I mean he just need to man it up about his schedule. Needs to be more professional I guess.

I guess, I have to stay until he comes. But the question is, when is he coming. After all I have a feeling he is not coming. If he had a plan to come he should have been hours ago. There's just some unanswered answers to my questions wherein the other party is not here to tackle the question. I hate being blindsided after all. You know.

I just can't express how I felt right now. Yes, I am angry but what could I do? I texted him and called him three times but no answer. I also texted the DON but no answer either. I am not in the mood of getting angry. I am just tired staying here for eight hours and doing admissions. I need to leave and sleep. That's all what's in my mind right now and nothing else.

True to what I believe in, I have to know my schedule by heart. As a professional, I have to give courtesy to the ones that is waiting for me so that he or she will not wonder and wait for nothing. It is irresponsible not thinking of the other party because that's just plainly not appropriate. It is a taboo and unethical.

So now, I guess I just have to admit the fact that he is not coming. What ever reason that he did not show up I don't give a damn anymore because it is obvious that he stalled and that I am here doing the double. I am very tired but what could I do. I did not anticipate this. I am very very angry. As if I am about to erupt like a mad volcano.

I wanted to scream but I don't want to be obvious. I am calm but deep inside me is boiling and screaming injustice and unfair. I would like to cry but I cannot do it. I am not gonna shed one tear just because of this insensitiveness of the other party. I just probably blog it here to vent out what I feel and that I will be okay.

I'm still here hopeful that he is coming. I hope he will after several text. It's just that unusual of him not to come because he knows he is scheduled. I am just surprised. I hope nothing happened to him. I hope he just overslept or something. But anyways, I'm still be here to wait for him. I hope he will get my text or my calls and let me know that he is coming.

I have to do my laundry early morning tomorrow and I need to go home rest and laundry tomorrow because I have to go work on my other job in the afternoon. Please Lord I needed for him to come so that I can do what I will be doing tomorrow. Hopefully, I can leave here tonight. Crossing my fingers.

I am still mad but what could I do. It already happened and all I do is to sit and just wait for him. I hope he will realized that I am here just waiting for him, that he will save me from getting tired and that I needed my much anticipated rest.

Well, I just got a message from my DON who also woke up for this fiasco trying to text his wife but still no answer initially but eventually she called her back and the wife answered that he indeed overslept and didn't heard his alarm because his phone got low battery. What a lame alibi but oh well what could I do he is super late and that the DON had knew about it already. What a shame!

Haist..... people just don't man up with their responsibilities. Still immature enough to be professional. No offense for him, I know how nice he is but it's just annoying that sometimes people just don't give a damn with other people's lives. That's all I wanted to say and I will feel good. At least I blogged my frustrations and disappointments here. Thank you for lending your ears.

My Year End Review

Every year, I did some review about the past years and I always blogged it yearly. Many had happened the past year (2015) that I even forgot to blog it because I was not feeling like blogging it or was just lazy to write it down here. Even so, I still have to write it down here just for the sake of future use, reading, or memory accounting. This was kinda late now but I still have to do it and here it goes:

January was really a dark month for me last year. I was just considering to leave my teaching job because I was accepted at a skilled nursing facility near Marina del Rey. I was so heartbroken to leave the school but things had just gotten out of hand with the scheduler at school plus they were kind of roughening up those instructors who were sending students home early. I am really devastated really so I decided to end every thing. I also bought a new car (2015 KIA Optima) on this month. I have to give up my aging Toyota Avalon which had stalled me in the middle of the freeway. Hahaha. Anyways, I had it for nine years and I am satisfied about its service to me.

February was still a drought for me. I'm still stuck at the school teaching student nurses, and still waiting till the third week of the month to realize my resignation. I came to a point that I am very lonely and sad and that I am not in good terms already of the scheduler at school. So I decided to quit teaching for good and I applied at Playa del Rey Center, a Genesis company. I send my online application via Indeed.com and I am still waiting for the call. I am still loveless on Valentine's day but I am trying to be busy at work just to keep me active.

March, I finally got a reply at Playa del Rey Center after talking to Joel RN, the interim DON , who happened to be a Filipino. He promised me that I will be accepted and he will make sure of it before he leaves the following month. He will be going to Sacramento for another assignment but he promised to work on my application. I'm still stuck in school trying to keep my face in front of the bosses but the rift between me and the scheduler had already escalated to a maximum so I decided to make a drastic decision to leave before everything will get out of hand. Officially, I quit on this month at Homestead Schools, Inc. Anyway, I'm still teaching at Medical Allied in Norwalk. In that I don't really have to lose my teaching experience.

April.... it was the month of prudent decision making and drastic life changes. Whether to give up teaching and work at the bedside, I'm still lingering what to decide. So, I decided the later maybe because I got fed up of the fulfillment or satisfaction I got from teaching. I've been teaching for a long time now but I'm still stuck at the bottom and I felt that I am so rusty already, so I decided to go back to the bedside to re-learn and hone my untouched skills again. This month was also a tax month and it hit me so much this year because I did not have a refund and I have to pay Uncle Sam.

May was a very fast-paced month. My orientation at my new job at Playa del Rey Center was no piece of cake at all. I have to start from the bottom as the charge nurse before they will give me the supervisory position. That's how Genesis operates so I still have the patience to do bedside care to just improve my skills they say. Well at least I liked it a lot. I tend to learn my patients by heart and also learned to learn from them. It was a fulfilling decision I made I guess.

June... as the summer months sets in the heat of the events that were coming to were full of fire. It was a whirlwind believe me. June was kinda labile for me although I still love working as a charge nurse at the bedside but from time to time I was tapped to do a unit manager position where I have to hone my leadership skills as a true leader and follower as well. It was kinda challenging but I have loved it so far.

July and August were a very hot months. Although job was good yet a lot of money had slipped my hands. But every thing was cool I guess. I had planned to go home for a vacation and I already booked and arranged my itineraries. I already gave my bosses a heads-up about the plan and so far I never had any negativism about it. I am such a fortunate guy to have a new and understanding bosses, I guess.

September was a month that anticipation was building up regarding my vacation but still I kept my cool. I still woke up early in the morning to go to work without any qualms because I know soon I will be on the road again. I am very very excited about it. If you could only know how much my emotions had been boiling up inside me. All the preparations were worth it because as the end of the month approaches I will be out here basking on the warm sands of Cancun enjoying the turquoise waters of the Carribean sea.

October.... I left for a fifteen day vacation in Mexico, starting from Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Mexico City, and Cancun. I had a blast especially spending the whole day at Isla Mujeres during one of those days. It was stunning there. As if I don't want to leave. Hahaha. Mid-month I went back to Los Angeles and readied myself again for a four weeks vacation to the Philippines. I went to Palawan and celebrated my birthday alone in a very secret and uninhabited island where I commune only to myself and be at peace on my birthday. I had a quiet time to myself and I am feeling awesome that day. What a celebration!

November.... I went back to the United States very very broke but who cares, I had a blast during my vacation. I went back to work trying to recoup my finances and eventually it had stabilized after two weeks. Glad that everything went well. I like the idea of going and enjoying my vacation first then work hard afterwards. What a mentality!

December.... I rarely had an off because of my goal of saving more money to recoup my finances after I had a very long vacation which rendered me broke. I worked on all the holidays wherein I still remember my boss telling me that I needed to work during the holidays because I just got back from vacation and that I owed her a lot for permitting me to leave and enjoyed my vacation. I don't have qualms at all about it because she was very very nice and extremely considerate to me.

All in all, the whole year was a blessing to me. Although nothing much had happened it still gave me the lesson to be content of whatever I have or had and don't complain at all because others were on a worse situation compared to me. Thank you Lord for all your unconditional blessings and love!

Of Using My Sick Hours

Had it occurred to you that you don't give a damn coming to work sometimes? Yeah, it just happened to me today and you know what I did not regret it. There's always comes a time that I am just sick of coming to work every day so it's just apt for me to call in and just wind up even just for one day.

That's why there is sick hours at work. So that's the time when I can use it because it will be taken anyway after twelve months. So basically I am being paid for calling in sick. How good it is to have that kind of benefit. Yay! But some employers are very strict about using sick hours. Some requires a medical certificate so that you can avail the sick hours, some do not. And I am very very lucky that my employer doesn't need some proof that I am sick. Very fortunate indeed!

When I started at Genesis Company I never used up my sick hours and I never did any sick calls. Today I decided to use some hours because I felt so tired and not really hundred percent ready to go to work today. I really felt that my body felt burnt out of working every day and waking up early in the morning where I still needed some good sleep. So this morning I decided to have a day off.

I woke up at 0300H having the urge to pee so I stood up, walked to the restroom which is just a few step across my room. As I was walking I felt the chill inside the room as well as the cold wooden floor at the hallway. I was still half awake when I woke up but I felt the urge to leak so I have to push myself to go to the restroom for the fear of aggravating myself having renal stones. It was a torture tiptoeing at the hallway, I look so pathetic I guess.

After I'm done peeing, I went to my bed and covered myself with the thick white downy blanket draped with another thick comforter to make me extra warm. I felt that I am not in the mood of going to work today and I realized that it is still early in the morning so I grabbed my cellphone and called the facility where Arlo LVN picked up the phone. I told her that I cannot make it today because I don't feel well so she told me that she will put me down and let them know in the morning. So that's how it started.

I went to sleep for another four hours and then at 0730H, I was woke up by my loud alarm clock. I immediately grabbed my cellphone and turned the alarm clock off then checked my calls but nobody had tried to call me. So that was an indication that the morning people had gotten my sick call from early this morning. Thank God!

Thinking that I am safe, I went to sleep for another four hours and felt really awesome after that because I rested well for the whole night.

Thank God there is sick hours to cover for the day that I don't-really-feel-like-working days. I am glad that my employer is very lenient about it and that it gave me some slack sometimes to take a day's rest. At least I don't have to stress out myself and think when will be my next day-off so that I can take some much needed rest.

Besides I just wanted to spend my sick hours off before I will transfer to Sharon Care Center so that I can start off from zero sick hours there and that I will not get tempted to call off because there was not enough sick hours to spend because I already exhausted it before transferring. And it really worked great! I never heard any complaint at all from Human Resources that I am abusing my sick hours and that's great indeed.

Mini-Reunion

These days I am glad that I have to spend time with my college classmates even for a brief time. It was a fun mini-reunion I guess. It's good to see old familiar faces especially when I have them for four productive years during my college days. It's total riot! Non-stop talking had ensued. It was a fun get together.

Sunday..... I have to meet Daneth at Malina's house. I left the house at 0800H because I still have to drive to Long Beach, CA to locate Malina's residence. I decided to pick-up a tiramisu cake at Paris Baguette Bakery and then gassed up my car and then off to Long Beach for a smooth drive at 10 and 405 Freeways.

Near 710 I made a ride and then I found out I missed the exit because I made a wrong right at the forked freeway. I went back for two miles then went out at the right exit. Then I went in the subdivision where the house was located. I arrived there ten minutes early. I thought I will be late because I missed my exit but alas I still came on time.

I then texted Langga and walked towards her house where she opened the garage for me. Daneth was already there. We were shrieking at each other when we saw each other and then hugged tightly as if we had not seen for centuries. We giggled and jumped around like little kids. It was a very awkward site to see. Good thing we were only by ourselves and no one was there.

We proceeded to eat the breakfast that Malina's husband has cooked for us after proper introductions to him (he was hot) then we started with our agenda, planning committee's for our 25th reunion in June. Daneth took notes of our minutes and then we assigned people at each committees until we finalized everything.

Then Majella came and joined our meeting, then again we shrieked at each other and screamed because we were so eager to see each other after we left each other during college. Our meeting was very proactive, productive, and fruitful. We had formed our committees and will be deliberated to our other classmates.

After the meeting Langga and family will be leaving for church so we took our limited time to get selfies at the Christmas Tree and the poolside. Then we bade goodbye at each other. I then dropped off Majella at her apartment in Carson and then I went home.

Monday...... It was Monday afternoon, after work I went to Carson to pick-up Majella because we will be meeting Ludy, who was visiting for a leadership seminar. We will be surprising her for this meeting. She doesn't know that Majella will be with me as well as Manang Joy Doromal together with hubby Kuya Chito. She thought it was only me who will meet her at the Hyatt Hotel Lounge.

I got stuck in the traffic to pick up Majella, so I felt that we might me a little late for the meeting. I then texted Pie to make her aware that it was traffic and also gave Nang Joy a heads-up so that they can wait for us at the hotel lobby.

When we arrived we met Nang Joy and Kuya Chito at the lobby and then I texted Pie to go down. When she saw me at the lobby she did not expect the three persons I brought. When she saw us she also giggled and shrieked and then we hugged each other tightly. We talked for a while then proceed to the lounge to eat dinner.

We talked a lot, laughed a lot, screamed a lot, giggled a lot, shrieked a lot, etc. It was really a fun night. Some people were just looking at us because we were very noisy. But we did not care because it was the first time that Pie had saw both of them. I am glad that she was happy and grateful that I brought both of them.

We ended up close to midnight. We did not stop until the head concierge had warned us that they were closing. We bade goodbye at each other and called it a night. We had a great night.

I then drove Majella back to Carson and then I went home with a little smile in my face. It was really uplifting seeing those people who had a mark in your heart especially who were part of my growing up and maturity. Thank you Lord!

Nail Biter, Hair Raiser, And Goosebumper

Yeah.... have you ever been in a situation where you have no choice anymore? An experience where you have to decide what is best for that situation. Whether to face it or to flee from it. A situation where you have to make ends meet. A chance to use your intellect to full use. Yeah it was a very challenging and nail biting experience.

Right now I will share you three situations where I considered a nail biting and unique experiences that will put you to the edge. These experiences were all personally experienced by me and I am very happy to elaborate it here. Hahaha.

Firstly, at work one time, we had like seven admissions. Of course, we anticipated that we're gonna be busy that night. My work was really very busy because of the fast paced admissions we have. We already had three patient reports out of the seven and we're still expecting some more. It was really total chaos that time and I don't know how we handled it.

As a nurse supervisor at work we have a share of good and bad experiences. We have to be really super vigilant and extra careful of the orders we are making because if we commit just even a slight mistake it will cost a patient their dear life. Our job has to be perfect all the time because if something happens to the patient we will be the one liable for the negligence and our license will be a stake.

We did all our admissions and finished all of them cautiously entering all the orders in the point-click-care system. Two hours before our shift had ended there were still no patient reports and our feeling was already at the brim because if we admit these patients close to 2300H for sure we'll gonna be super busy. Very nail biting experience indeed! Yeah?

Secondly, about handling financial situations. Have you every been on a situation where your money were all exhausted? There were no reserved money in your bank accounts because all your credit cards had sucked up all your savings for the monthly payments. You wanted to buy something but you don't have anything to pay for it. You wanted to fill up you car's gas tank but your debit card is zero balance. It was quite devastating right?

It was a very horrible experience to have no money in your wallet. In that I have to tighten my budget and really anticipate how much will be left in my wallet and bank accounts. Anticipation is the best key to financial problems. It was a very scary experience thinking that some credit card companies might send authorities to your house and had you picked up by the cops and put you in jail. That's the scariest thing to happen. It's gonna be a hair raising experience.

Thirdly, at a restroom where you came in a hurry to make a shit and when you're done you realized that the toilet paper had ran out and even the hand paper was really really depleted to the hilt. You got stuck in a situation where in there is shit in your sore butt and there were no papers inside the restroom. There were even no container to put water to wash your butt, but a trash full of dirty hand and toilet papers.

Sorry to tell you but I made the worst thing you were exactly thinking right now because of my extreme desperation. Hahaha. I am ashamed of what I did but to me that was a prudent idea that I could do that time. I don't want to scoop the poop in my hand and wash it at the sink. Yikes! What a goosebumper!

See in the end, these nail biter, hair raiser, and goosebumper experiences will really make you own the situation. I know it entails a lot of challenges and you don't have any means but to decide right there and then and to make the most of the situation to face the reality of using your wits.

Yeah it was very knowledge provoking and very fun experience indeed. Ces't la vie!

A Very Stinky Experience

I have a really funny experience the other day that I can't help to share with you guys. It was quite a funny-unforgettable memory and maybe considered a lesson infused experience. I just can't help but smile every time I remember it. It was so hilarious that I cannot stop clicking my tongue or shook my head several times. Hahahaha.

Okay, it was a dark-chilly-stormy morning that day in Los Angeles, and it was really really cold and windy as well. I left the apartment extremely shivering and covered in layers on that still dark and rainy morning. I breezed through the backyard to run to my car because of the pouring rain and started the engine. After that I drove to work in a still dark morning at 0610H. It was a very scary drive but I took caution because of the wet and slippery road.

I managed to drive through the rain despite it was foggy in my car. The visibility in my car was 70% and I can see the steam coming out of my body despite of the layers of jackets I wore. When all of sudden I smelled a very distinct and stinky odor. I was certain that I took a shower that morning but it seems that it smells like poop inside my car. But then it went away for a while until I totally forgot about it on the way until I arrive at work.

I started my day at work making coffee for myself then read all the endorsements at the communication books then started to breeze through the physician orders for the new admissions the previous day. Looking at the two admissions from yesterday, I had calculated and approximated that I will be having a very very busy day.

I already sat down on the black leather chair in front of the nurse's station and had positioned myself comfortably in front of the computer then all of a sudden I smelled that very distinct and stinky odor again that I had encountered earlier in my car. It seems that it was still at the tip of my nose. Because of the bulk of my computer work today I just decided to brush it off but still I can't help thinking that I took a shower today, had changed my undies, sprayed some Chanel Sports cologne, as well as put on a fresh and newly laundered scrubs.

But the question is where in the heck that stinky smell came from. I really don't have any idea that time. I retraced all the possible things that had any ties with it but couldn't come up with anything. It was really frustrating and very disappointing not because I cannot find it but because I have to suffer smelling it for the rest of the day. I cannot endure it anymore.

I did some charts to clarify some MD orders, sat and attended at the clinical meeting, patiently sat down with the bosses at the IDT meeting and listened to their un-endless rant about patient care, helped some charge nurses for their immediate patient issues but still every where I go that stink was still eminent and kept haunting my then troubled mind and confused mind.

Then all of a sudden I realized that maybe I have a skin cancer. I had read before about a skin condition that caused a person to be stinky like a rotten animal. As a nurse I know medically about a symptom claiming that there is a skin condition that cause someone to be stinky. Ohhh no.... too much rationalization it was driving me mad and making me crazy.

At 1300H I have attended the CARE Meeting and still I can smell it. After the meeting I went back to the nurse's station and did some more computer stuff and when I unconsciously crossed my left leg over my right leg, there I can really smell that stinky odor in full. Like it was spread in front of my nose and smelled it face-to-face. When I looked at my left tennis shoe I saw at the bottom of it was a hefty smear of mushy yellow dog shit stubbornly sticking at the sole.

Hahaha.... that's why the stink won't left me all day, it was just there at the bottom of my shoe. Maybe I stepped a heap of dog poop at my apartment's backyard while I was running to my car and had obviously did noticed and knew about it. Yikes! It took me all day to discover it, as well as suffer the disgusting smell as it followed me every where I go. Hahaha.

That is why I've been haunted by the smell all day. Hahaha. What a damn thing to happen. It didn't even crossed my mind to check my shoes. It was really an unforgivable thing to ponder. Hahaha.

Curious Voyeur

It's been quite fascinating lately to have watched some of the show's that the recent Miss Universe winner, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach have visited. It seems that I am a voyeur continuously prying on every videos that shows her television interviews. It was like creepy nice and I am one proud "kababayan".

Yeah, since Pia had won the crown on December 20, 2015, I just can't help myself watching or seeing some of the videos pertaining to her from YouTube and Facebook. It always consume my time at work, at home, my hours of sleep. Everything that I needed to do was been set aside or even done later because I just can't stop following here.

I mean I've been in a frenzy about her. Maybe because i was so proud that he won. I admire her tenacity and dedication to aim for the crown wherein God did not disappoint her. She really had worked for it.

One time she had decided to stop but it seems that she was meant for it so she tried again for the third time and she had won it. I think her process of maturity had made her more determined to win it. With all those years of preparations and grit she just proved to us that it is still possible to reach your dreams withot succumbing to failures.

Her win had inspired many of us Filipinos and I admired how she did it. It was very inspiring and worth emulating especially to the young kids. I myself was been touched by her story.

She was really lucky. Had Mr. Steve Harvey did not retracted his announcement of crowning Miss Colombia for the crown, Pia was already comfortable with the first runner-up position. But God is really good.

And also the people all around the world had seen what Miss Universe was really made of. The girls were just equally divided whom to side. And it really showed their true colors to the viewers and the audience at the show.

The reactions all around the world was really shocking because they were all rooting to the wittiest girl among the three and it was Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach who really shined that night. Even the judges has unanimously voted for the girl with the stunning electric blue dress.

Haist.... I just can't get enough of it and I was still clutching myself watching every videos I could see regarding Pia. I think I still have the Pia fever. Am I indeed a Pianatic? I guess I am. Lol!

Temporary Goals

Yes, it is year 2016! Time flies by very fast. And now, I am a year older and wiser again. Hehehe. It is really nice to welcome a new year with dedication to work. The previous years I always make sure that I am off during the first day of the year because I have a belief that if you start working on New Year's day then I'll be working for the rest of the year.

But it seems that is was a hoax. So I changed my stand of view and I am working. We'll see what will happen then. It's just experimental, but who knows what will happen. Then I have to scientifically prove it. Who knows I might be wrong. But oh well, I don't give a damn.

What is important is that the whole year will treat me right and that everything will be progressively into my benefits. I just don't know though, but still am hoping that God will always carry me through and that I will survive.

Yeah, finally 2016 was here and as it ushered itself gradually things really was been on the par. Hopefully, everything will turn out in my favor with the blessings of the Lord God.

For this year I expect good health and more spiritual growth. I hope I will have more time to spend with my God and to uphold my belief as a Christian. I never knew enough in my life without His humble assistance despite I am very stubborn and impulsive. He is still there to remind me of my values. Thank Lord for that.

I also pray that I will be financially stable and stress free. I know I've been working hard to maintain the constant flow of cash but it seems that everything still is lacking. And I hope that I will get appreciated in my work and that I get an ample raise at least to suffice my basic necessities.

I am also aiming to win a lotto to support my cause and project to educate youth especially in character building. It is my long time dream to save more money and retire in the Philippines to teach and be a good example to the youth. I wanted to be a motivational speaker since I am still young. But I know God has plans for me but I could not wait for it.

I know things happens in their own time but with much luck it can propel someone's dreams and aspirations to fruition. I hope I will win a lotto so that it can help me fulfill my dream.

I am also hoping that my travelling will be more this year and that I will more places to go, where I can motivate people everywhere I go. I hope I can also help a lot of people and that I will me more productive in my causes.

And finally, I hope I can have a very long respite or vacation at least to enjoy myself in communing with nature. These, I always hope to happen. So help me God!