The official nightshift thread....
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If my celery sticks are tasting sweet... Could it mean I'm doing better on my sugar intake?
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Hey-ohhhh!
Got my new id today...funny thing...IL's DL background is the same color as my hair...so I spent all that time on it and you can barely see it! AND...I could have just renewed through the mail but I wanted to update the weight and the pic...I've lost between 10-20 lbs since then. I get there and they hand me a 42...and call 25. Ugh. The bozo next to me is SLEEPING with a 37 in his hand...I almost pulled a switcheroo on him, lol. Anyway...forgot to change the weight! So I have a new (mediocre) pic where you can't see my coif and my weight is higher than it really is. Wonderful.
Went to the German store the other day. Got some blood sausage, landjaeger, stuff for dinner. We had ajvar and liverwurst on baguettes and spaetzle with homemade herbed butter topped with weisswurst. With helles to wash it down!0 -
@LosinIt84 I'm here in the lab until 7 also. Hope the remainder goes quickly.0
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About to start my rounds and pop into the chimp compound and large animal. Received an email today about a guy 'protesting' the Bastrop County Animal Shelter earlier today. By 'Protesting' he apparently was running around in the middle of the street screaming loudly. He claims to be affiliated with Animal Liberation Front and because we are a gov't facility we've got the FBI checking his background.... If he hates the Bastrop County Animal Shelter and how they treat their animals (with love and compassion) he's REALLY going to hate us when he finds out what WE do. With our animals each getting their own quality of life committee and tons of enrichment and toys... man he's not going to be able to STAND us...0
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DiddleOnTheRun wrote: »If my celery sticks are tasting sweet... Could it mean I'm doing better on my sugar intake?
Logged 132 days straight.....
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Frankie_Felinius wrote: »Hey-ohhhh!
Got my new id today...funny thing...IL's DL background is the same color as my hair...so I spent all that time on it and you can barely see it! AND...I could have just renewed through the mail but I wanted to update the weight and the pic...I've lost between 10-20 lbs since then. I get there and they hand me a 42...and call 25. Ugh. The bozo next to me is SLEEPING with a 37 in his hand...I almost pulled a switcheroo on him, lol. Anyway...forgot to change the weight! So I have a new (mediocre) pic where you can't see my coif and my weight is higher than it really is. Wonderful.
Went to the German store the other day. Got some blood sausage, landjaeger, stuff for dinner. We had ajvar and liverwurst on baguettes and spaetzle with homemade herbed butter topped with weisswurst. With helles to wash it down!
@Frankie_Felinius I need to go to your house for dinner!
Although we had some skinny chicken Parmesan on spaghetti squash with a side salad and some watermelon for dessert.
I have a grilled chicken salad to look forward to in about an hour, with some grapes and watermelon(we're big on watermelon) and then some veggie egg frittatas when I get home to go with my glass of wine. I might squeeze in some homemade hashbrowns but I haven't decided yet.
I make the egg frittata muffin things in advance so I just reheat and eat. They are great with onions, bell peppers, and spinach inside, and a sprinkle of cheese on top. Light enough to sleep on but filling enough to where I'm not going to bed starving and waking up ravenous.
@LosinIt84 and @DiddleOnTheRun what do ya'll do in those labs? What are your job titles? What is the pay like? Do you enjoy your work? If applicable, what kind of degree do you have?
I'm only 26 and I like the research that we do at our facility and I am thinking about heading in a 'lab work' type direction but I am unsure where to go/what to do, so any information would be helpful.
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News flash: If you can't pay for a room, you can't have a room. Why would you just expect me to believe you can pay in the morning? It's not an unreasonable policy, and trust me, the business is making plenty of money...0
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jennifer_417 wrote: »News flash: If you can't pay for a room, you can't have a room. Why would you just expect me to believe you can pay in the morning? It's not an unreasonable policy, and trust me, the business is making plenty of money...
Wow....Some people's children, I swear.0 -
@lilaclovebird
Let's see now....
I am a MLT (Medical Laboratory Technician) in a lab, in a rather small hospital, only 2 miles from my home
Perhaps you might have heard of "Quest Diagnostics"....more than likely you have not....anyway that is my employer.
Associates of applied science degree.
I run the test that are ordered in the ER mostly, except for the morning rounds for the patients on the floor . Then most mornings I get to do phlebotomy on some of the patients, if the work load is too heavy for the phleb. that comes in at 5am to stick everyone before 6.
Funny, I never thought I could actually "STICK" anyone, but it is a requirement to be able to.
I find the actual contact with the patients to be much much more rewarding than my laboratory responsibilities. Even though it requires me poking them with a sharp object
sometimes more than one time.
My job on "Night Shift" I do QC and maintenance on our analyzers: chemistry, cardiac, coagulation, hematology, urinalysis, plus blood bank QC, and other various duties. (anything day shift doesn't want to do)
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The pay...(somewhere between probably $17-$22 here) but would be better at a larger lab. It hasn't quite amounted to the job I had before as a manufacturing production control person.
Hope this helps.
Oh! I'm here all by myself during part of the morning. No phleb!!!
So any ER patients that the nurses do not get blood from when they start an IV, I get to stick.0 -
@lilaclovebird I'm so glad your lab results turned out so well.
@paul199madrid Thanks!
So sorry to hear about your layoff, that is how I ended up here, back to school, and a new career.
There is truth to the old saying "You can teach an old dog new tricks"
By the way....where in the world do you live? Copper mining?0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »News flash: If you can't pay for a room, you can't have a room. Why would you just expect me to believe you can pay in the morning? It's not an unreasonable policy, and trust me, the business is making plenty of money...
Wait...what???? lmao
My shift has been mildly stupid so but we should be pretty low key till 6am. I want a sugar free red bull so bad I dreamed about it!
@Frankie_Felinius when's dinner!?0 -
Man, I used to cook all of the time...I just don't anymore. Luckily my guy picked up the slack and he's not bad. Every once in awhile I'll get enough motivation to make something but I'm rusty! I broiled the baguettes...made both batches...uhhh..."Cajun". (I burned them both. Idiot.) No biggie. A little scrapey scrapey action and they were fine.0
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Dinner tonight is a frozen thang by the brand evol. You seen 'em? It is all no preservative hippie shizz. So far nearly everything has been super tasty. Frozen entrees, burritos, breakfast things. The meat is like, REAL meat...not processed weird crap typically found in frozen foods. The best thing was a buffalo mac and cheese. Oh. man.0
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Only one client going out at 3 a.m. for fresh air. News flash: you're blind and I'm a short and not particularly muscular 124 lb female. This is not the nice side of town. Get your butt back inside or I'm willing to lock it out.0
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jennifer_417 wrote: »News flash: If you can't pay for a room, you can't have a room. Why would you just expect me to believe you can pay in the morning? It's not an unreasonable policy, and trust me, the business is making plenty of money...
But what if he had amazing blue eyes? 0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »News flash: If you can't pay for a room, you can't have a room. Why would you just expect me to believe you can pay in the morning? It's not an unreasonable policy, and trust me, the business is making plenty of money...
But what if he had amazing blue eyes?
Haha, he actually did have nice blue eyes, but he was putting out too much of an overall creepy vibe, plus being a jerk to boot!
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I'll take a room... I'll pay with my winning and optimistic personality.
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SongDragon wrote: »I'll take a room... I'll pay with my winning and optimistic personality.
Nope, sorry, your eyes aren't the right color. ;-)0 -
Aw.Too much gray in my blue. Green eyes are my temptation.
Morning hunger kicking in. Brought a smoothie.0 -
Do cool ranch doritos count as a morning snack?0
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bethanie0825 wrote: »Do cool ranch doritos count as a morning snack?
Are you having them as a snack in the morning? Then yep!
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paul199madrid wrote: »sufferlandrian wrote: »I'm getting really tired of forest fires. They evacuated Essex today. We aren't far from there and the smoke in the afternoons is killing us. I've decided at this point they should let the fires just burn and it would be done already.
You in Washington?
Montana, just outside Glacier National Park0 -
Hi guys! I'm a night shifter. I just saw this thread. So hi~0
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My stomach would revolt on the Doritos. It's a little sensitive nearing 24 hrs awake. But it's good if it works for you! Almost always fruit or cereal for me.0
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I might or might not be eating a bag of chips right now
BUT it's a 140 calorie bag and it's part of my breakfast/lunch/whatever meal I'm calling this right now.0 -
Break in the action. Maybe I can get a ride in.0
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I try to refrain from them for the most part because most of the time, I have an awful habit of losing control. But this is a single serving bag, and I had it with my tuna fish so I'm like meh I'm good. I think my entire meal was 300-400 calories so it's not like I'm going over anything0
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Yep. Feeling much better after my breakfast. I had an orange, too.0
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