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Happy Aloha Friday y’all!
I can’t remember the last time Friday looked sooooooooooo GOOD to me! It’s been a pretty heavy week, and next week – at least the first three days – will be worse. Still the price of progress is . . . hard to calculate!
I’ve been working on responding to the citations we got on our JCAHO survey. After that, we’ll wait for them to decide what to do with us, and then start submitting Plans of Correction and all that rot. I swear, we’re just being regulated to death in healthcare. In Education, too, says Crucita. We spend more time dealing with paperwork for compliance issues (because people do stupid things and Congress hits us with a two-megaton whomp to correct that) than we do delivering care or teaching kids. Crucita and I are also seeing the same kinds of responses to our “industries.” I become more and more aware of more and more people who don’t give a rip about trying to stay healthy, and Crucita seems more and more kids (and their parents) who don’t give a rip about being educated. (“I won’t do it. It’s too hard.”) As I recall, I’ve put that kind of information in a couple of notes; it’s just so prevalent and so ubiquitous that I can’t help mentioning it again.
But then, there’s good news, too. Talked with Tim recently and he’s just getting along really well. Still installing those dish-tv thingies, still playing his violin when he gets a chance, but he finds that the overwhelming urge to get another gig so he can become rich and famous isn’t quite as important as he once thought. He had an amusing story about a friend of his who works in a restaurant, and just happened to meet one of the couples that goes to our church. They had gone there to eat, the conversation turned to “where do your live,” one thing led to another, and his friend found out they actually knew Tim from when he visited us in Kauai “What are the chances?”
Maria Cereza FINALLY got a job at Banner Health Care in Phoenix and she’s just ecstatic about it. She’s delivering trays for food service, but the cool ting is that she’s eligible for their in-house training program for CNA. That’s something she’s wanted to do since high school, so three cheers for her. The kids are all OK and Tommy is doing his part by working hard at being the House Spouse.
Crucita is totally jealous of all of you who keep writing us about having retired! We want to do that, too. Hopefully before the housing market totally tanks or immediately after it picks up again. I figure I’ve got six more years to go before I retire. This has been a difficult year for her because of the way the kids — and even the other teachers — interact with her. She finds a great deal of consolation, though, in her involvement with our Parish – as do I – and we’re having a GREAT time reading all of the Harry Potter books again. We’re going to read the whole series straight through! We just got to the part where Professor McGonagall took away Harry’s FIREBOLT. If you don’t know what that means, you should read the books. They’re great fun!
Finally, this in closing:
Remember the six simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
6. Share the Joy as you pass The Word along.
Remember to pray for the MBN because all of us love you.
chick
739AFC092807
Happy Aloha Friday y’all!
I can’t remember the last time Friday looked sooooooooooo GOOD to me! It’s been a pretty heavy week, and next week – at least the first three days – will be worse. Still the price of progress is . . . hard to calculate!
I’ve been working on responding to the citations we got on our JCAHO survey. After that, we’ll wait for them to decide what to do with us, and then start submitting Plans of Correction and all that rot. I swear, we’re just being regulated to death in healthcare. In Education, too, says Crucita. We spend more time dealing with paperwork for compliance issues (because people do stupid things and Congress hits us with a two-megaton whomp to correct that) than we do delivering care or teaching kids. Crucita and I are also seeing the same kinds of responses to our “industries.” I become more and more aware of more and more people who don’t give a rip about trying to stay healthy, and Crucita seems more and more kids (and their parents) who don’t give a rip about being educated. (“I won’t do it. It’s too hard.”) As I recall, I’ve put that kind of information in a couple of notes; it’s just so prevalent and so ubiquitous that I can’t help mentioning it again.
But then, there’s good news, too. Talked with Tim recently and he’s just getting along really well. Still installing those dish-tv thingies, still playing his violin when he gets a chance, but he finds that the overwhelming urge to get another gig so he can become rich and famous isn’t quite as important as he once thought. He had an amusing story about a friend of his who works in a restaurant, and just happened to meet one of the couples that goes to our church. They had gone there to eat, the conversation turned to “where do your live,” one thing led to another, and his friend found out they actually knew Tim from when he visited us in Kauai “What are the chances?”
Maria Cereza FINALLY got a job at Banner Health Care in Phoenix and she’s just ecstatic about it. She’s delivering trays for food service, but the cool ting is that she’s eligible for their in-house training program for CNA. That’s something she’s wanted to do since high school, so three cheers for her. The kids are all OK and Tommy is doing his part by working hard at being the House Spouse.
Crucita is totally jealous of all of you who keep writing us about having retired! We want to do that, too. Hopefully before the housing market totally tanks or immediately after it picks up again. I figure I’ve got six more years to go before I retire. This has been a difficult year for her because of the way the kids — and even the other teachers — interact with her. She finds a great deal of consolation, though, in her involvement with our Parish – as do I – and we’re having a GREAT time reading all of the Harry Potter books again. We’re going to read the whole series straight through! We just got to the part where Professor McGonagall took away Harry’s FIREBOLT. If you don’t know what that means, you should read the books. They’re great fun!
Finally, this in closing:
Remember the six simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
6. Share the Joy as you pass The Word along.
Remember to pray for the MBN because all of us love you.
chick
About Chick Todd
American Roman Catholic reared as a "Baptiterian" in Denver Colorado. Now living on Kauaʻi. USAF Vet. Married for over 50 years. Scripture study has been my passion ever since my first "Bible talk" at age 6 in VBS.
