Incompetence at it's finest

As you know my knee has been bothering me for a little while now. So I was looking forward to seeing my knee doctor. Well I went to the Dr.’s office yesterday and it was a nightmare. I had to wait in the waiting room for a little while as usual. Then I went into the exam room and spoke with the nurse. The nurse took my medical history and left me for the residents. The residents came in 15-20 minutes later. They asked me all the questions and jerked my knee around every which way and back. They left talking of x-rays and talking to my Dr. Then I sat, I read 2 magazines. I was getting pretty frustrated and was getting ready to poke my head out of the door when the residents and my doctor came in. My Dr. asked if I just came back from x-ray and I said “No. I was never sent to x-ray.” Then the Dr left the room for a bit to determine what to do and yell at the residents. So he came back in and said that he wouldn’t waste anymore of my time and asked about my problems. He popped me up on the table and jerked my knee around some more. He told me that he wanted an MRI done on my knee. When I had my MRI, I was to have the x-rays that weren’t performed during that visit. I was sent on my way. Or so I thought. I got out to the front desk and the receptionist informed me that I didn’t have the proper paper work and they stuck me back in my little room to fill it out. I could then go on my way. From what the receptionist was saying I determined that the residents had just rotated from the spine clinic. So they were new and had little knowledge of how the sports med clinic worked. I did not get my x-rays due to confusion of who was supposed to send me to x-ray.

So after an hour and a half at the Dr.’s office I have no answers. I do however have an MRI and x-rays scheduled for next Wednesday the 13th!

I'm So Excited!

This weekend is going to be a big weekend for several reasons. 1) My grandparents from Florida are going to be in town. Since I had surgery last year we couldn't go down and see them. So it has been over a year since I have seen them. That is entirely too long. On top of that we are getting together with that WHOLE side of the family. It will be nice to have the Ruskoskys back together again!!! 2)It is the cow chip craft fair. Which means a trip to Sauk and looking at a lot of cute crafty stuff. My goal is to find my sister something sappy to hang in her house. Since her fiancee thinks that our apt is too sappy, I am going to find something sappy to give her whenever I can! 3) While we are in Sauk my mom and I are going to scope out some neighborhoods in Sauk. Actually we are looking at houses, on the outside, to see if they are in nice neighborhoods. WE ARE LOOKING AT HOUSES!!!!!!!!! I am SO excited! I feel like we have been waiting FOREVER to buy a house. Now that Wal-Mart pumped up our savings account we will be able to find a permanent residence. We have been scoping houses out in Sauk City and Lodi since Josh accepted his job offer. We are hoping to find something and move in sometime in January. I really don't want to move before Christmas unless absolutely necessary. The plan is to talk to banks after Labor Day and see what they have to say about us and our credit and how much house they are willing to finance us for. We have an idea of what we want to spend. Let's hope that the bank tells us that is in our price range!

OH THE INSANITY!

I have been so crazy at work the last week I don't know if I am going to be able to keep my head on straight for the next 5 days. I am currently working on a bunch of stuff. I got an assay to work today that I didn't think that I was going to be able to. So that is exciting but I have to write a report now and have it done by Monday. That will be over $100K that I have brought in for the company in that past 4 months. I know that they can never get rid of me I am a cash cow!!! The bad part of this is that I am getting the rep of being able to get any difficult assay to work. That isn't cool. That means that I may be getting all of the hard assays from now on.... I definitely don't want that.

Josh is really enjoying his job. He is pretty crazy there too as the office is SEVERELY short staffed. On top of that his boss has been out the past 2 days moving. He is enjoying his job very much. He has just come into a situation where they are months and months behind on their work. It is hard enough to play catch-up when it is your own work and you know how to do it, much less coming in with no experience and picking up someone else's slack.

That's all from the Casa de Honer.... hopefully it won't be a week before you hear from me again....

Short Term Unemployment

Just 14 days post Wal-Mart, Josh has a new job. Not only does he have one but he started today. You will remember last week when I said that Josh got a call from the Kalahari for an interview. Well he got the job offer Friday and accepted it on Monday, what a whirlwind! Josh spent his last day of freedom in Danny Daycare, shooting clay pigeons and scaring the crap out of the dogs. Just the way I am sure that he wanted to go down.

I am sitting here hoping to hear something from him about how his day is going. I am not sure that I will hear from him but I hope that I do so that I don't burst before the end of the day. I am planning on surprising him with his favorite dinner of Swedish meatballs for supper. I am sure that he will appreciate that surprise.

I will let you know if I hear anything!!

Home Sweet Home

I got home Friday afternoon without any troubles at the airport. I was all prepared to be let down when I got to the airport. I was planning on having to stand for a long time everywhere I went. I was equipped with the number for American Airlines so that I could call and complain if I was bumped or cancelled. The lines were incredibly long at the terminal. My advice to anyone is E-Ticket. I don't think that they give paper tickets anymore unless requested. E-Ticket is totally the way to go. I was pretty nervous because the curbside check in lines were VERY long. I heard some people complaining of a 30-45 minute wait. I walked into the terminal, asked where the self service kiosk line was. The line was a tenth of the line for the counter agents. Within 15 minutes I had my bags checked and my boarding passes in hand, heading for the long security line. I missed the bomb sniffing dogs on Friday. When I was hanging around on Thursday they were constantly running up and down the terminal. I didn't see any Friday morning.

I was standing in line behind a family from the middle east. The son, who was in his late 30s or 40s was the one who was traveling. As we were inching towards the security check point a TSA agent came and pulled this man aside. This man could hardly understand what the agent was saying. Each question was repeated at least once. The man was traveling through London Heathrow with a final destination in Pakistan. At first I felt very sorry for this man, this was an instance of racial profiling at it's best. However, after leaving the checkpoint and listening to more news I felt comforted as there were arrests of Pakistanis in connected to the thwarted security plot. I am well aware that not every middle eastern person is a terrorist and that all terrorists aren't middle eastern and you hear stories of the increased percentage of middle eastern travelers who are always pulled aside for secondary screening but, I did feel safer.

I stopped to buy some souvenirs, a book to read and a bottle of water. I made it to the gate and had plenty of time to sit and read or surf the internet. I was however a little nervous because my boarding pass for the flight from Chicago to Madison said that I had to see a gate agent to get my seat assignment. I didn't know if that meant that I didn't have a seat and had to go on standby or if they were just waiting to hand out seat assignments due to not knowing how many people were going to be on the plane. When I got to the gate I was happy to see that it was that they hadn't assigned seats yet. It was such a quick flight to Madison, I believe it was something like 25 minutes from Chicago. I was so excited to get home! Don't get me wrong, I had a great time in Boston, which I will post about soon, but my extra 20 hours in Boston really wore me out!