You may need to install the newest version of Quicktime to view this montage the way I made it….
While I’m restoring my muse I’m playing with my toys. Alas my veggie gene has kept me from bringing in my new all in one printer scanner… gotta do it before next weekend … just not today… lemme know if you’re able to enjoy the montage
I have accepted a transfer to a new position with my employer. Beginning next month I start a whole new training period that will prepare me for a position that for once melds all of my professional background and experience. I’ve been a nurse for 27 years now. The last 16 years in management; 7 as a critical care educator, 8 as a Quality & Risk Management Director and this past year in a venue that puts me on the regulatory monitoring side. Well starting next month I will be in a job that will have me training healthcare facilities about the regulations, how to be in compliance with them and what to expect from regulatory investigators.
Much further but more condensed travel will be involved, but the schedule will eventually be mine to set up in advance and I will almost always travel distances for stays that will let me bring my kitties with me and use my own car rather than come and go 55 miles each way every day or fly and lose money on taxis and hotel room service. I already have four whole weeks set up for different stretches of 4 - 7 days through mid November and for all I have to drive get paid mileage and meals (I’ve picked hotels with kitchens to stretch my food dollar all the way.)
I know the curriculum, have some great first hand experiences to give it life and I’ll get out of my shell, back to some extroversion and back to the fun I had teaching. I know my personality is iNFj (weakly expressed introvert, strongly expressed intuitive and feeler and moderately expressed judger. My judger aspect actually lost ground a bit this year and last round of testing put it to almost neutral. Supposedly that makes me a good negotiator/mediator since the two traits that affect my approach to diversity and discord are close to neutral meaning I identify easily with both sides and can interpret one for the other and vice versa. Actually when it comes to the job I have now I have been criticized/teased for being too much of a middle ground person - aka - too soft and empathetic. I prefer to think of my understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare agencies as pragmatic and realistic and the regulations and standards as reasonable, but idealistic when it comes to implementation and enforcement. Too many rules conflict with each other and were written by legislators and paper professional who have no practical experience on the front lines where the real paper/rubber meets the real road and truly affects the lives of healthcare consumers.
Introverts need quiet time to recharge. What better way to compensate for the extroversion of presenting complex and sometimes contentious information to diverse groups than to have built in travel days on either end of what amounts to a three day training week? Yeah sometimes I’ll have to travel on Sunday and come back the next Saturday but that won’t be the rule. My strength for the job is that I like and possess expertise in some unpopular subject matter. I’m told that will take me hither and yon because other trainers would prefer not to tackle it.
Goals are great, implementing them in the land where no man has gone before and finding best practices is by no means an easy task and trust me, those agencies who stumble on strategies that actually work DO NOT share (unless surreptitiously offered bragging rights) with their competition. So, I’m really looking forward to being able to be a middle gal… someone who can suggest multiple approaches that I have seen work to whole audiences without disclosing trade secrets or daring to tell anyone how I think they should do it… “Here are some approaches that I’ve seen work, you pick one that fits your world, culture and staff.” Or even put the question out to a room full of folks and ask them “how they’re approaching a difficult requirement and what strategies have they found helpful/useful/successful?” I’m so looking forward to it, though I have no illusions. I’ve presented training to diverse groups before and found the diversity so contentious I lost control and the day devolved to a dismal loss. It didn’t happen often, at least not in my meeting/classroom experience, maybe five times in 17 years - four were physician committee meetings where I was the (kevlar required) messenger of bad news or unpopular regulatory requirements, and once was when I tried to present the most popular course I developed and taught (a blood gas interpretation workshop) to neonatal ICU nurses instead of adult/pedi ICU and student nurses … hey I was pressured to do it against my better judgement … hey I do adults … hey I used info from neonatal ICU text books … hey I had no idea that the Neonatologists in the area didn’t know or follow the text books… arrrrgggh! One nurse went on the attack after 30 minutes and I never did regain respect or control over the classroom atmosphere even though I reminded them from minute one that I was not a practitioner in their world and never claimed to be. Under duress, I put together the continuing education course for them and could not find anyone other than one MD to present the case studies… I got stuck with the pathophysiology of the numbers the physiology of how the body reacts to abnormal… accurate as my information was, it didn’t correspond to the existing practice norms or the nurses’ understanding and my experience did not prepare me to anticipate or adapt the the radical divergence from published, endorsed and accepted practice. I learned a hard lesson… when you’re the messenger only, never take any personal stance on or ownership of your message - this is what the evidence recommends, it may not be something workable where you are - you may well have to take what does work for you now and tweak the new requirements to fit your world…
Well that’s it for me these days. One good thing, is that having to empty the back of my car to accommodate travel with kitties and hauling training materials will force me to get my 5 month old ‘new’ printer/scanner inside this house where it’s likely I will actually get around to scanning some of my new artwork for y’all. No promises for the short term. I’ve broken too many already right George….
Not much new on the spanking front. A bit more self service, some e-mails with potential new friends. Slow and careful …
hope y’all are well.
:) patty
Old drawing, new to this blog….
Found a way to post my alaska trip in slide shows here… I put them on you tube. So for those who’ve been asking, here they are…. [edit 09/19/090 changed the music tracks for each - Skagway to Yukon has given me some trouble .. i’t give it another try -fuck it Skagway is stuck with the soundtrack Quicktime gave it.]
Stop 1 (after a day traveling up the inside passage) Ketchican and a walking tour of the Tungass Rainforest… Lots of bear sign and sightings… 
Stop 2: Juneau. A very gloomy morning, a town with a bad attitude and a pilot with the worst attitude possible. Views were nice, but it wasn’t always clear what we were looking at.
I’ve noted that since adding videos that this page loads quite slowly. So the rest of the legs of the trips will be links.
Or you can go Just Life to my vanilla place and watch them all.
Juneau - after the gloom: We left Juneau’s gloom for a sunnier climps. Was coolish, but gorgeous.
Skagway - a blessing … no rain and a neat train ride that shadowed the old Yukon gold rush trail. I got a few images of the old trail in this slide show… hope you enjoy the slide show’s ending with sunset views…
… lovely sunset…
And Prince Rupert … A very bright and enthisiastic Quebecqua (pronounce kaybekqwa) bush pilot chattered with us through the whole trip and it was amazing… there was an even more glorious sunset.
lemme know if you like it…
got pointed to some awwwwwww videos on you tube by a new email friend. This one was especially nice. plenty more just go to you tube and search kittens….
I’ve had a rough week. A two day assignment some office time and now a bout with a stomach bug. Lots of folks I know have come down with something, so I guess it’s just one of those things even though I’ve become a bit of a hand wash and sanitizer compulsive. Tomorrow I’m on the road again, sure hope my symptoms subside before then.
Her spankings have been very scarce
And her mood has approached something fierce
But there’s never a doubt
That the right choice will out
Past time spanks induce giggles not terse.
This from a news report posted on AOL tonight …
‘In a recording of a legislative hearing, Duvall [a California Assemblyman] can be heard talking about a recent sexual escapade with a woman he says is 18 years younger.
“I’m getting into spanking her,” Duvall is heard to say on the videotape.
The other man asks if she likes it, too. Duvall responds: “She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s ’cause you’re such a bad girl.’ ”
Now ya just gotta know that you just never know …. LOL.
oh and p.s. this spanklitician has (oops had) the right (afraid-of sex) wing family values set giving him 100% approval ratings for his votes and position statements related to morality. No I don’t fault him his tastes or appetites. He’s a human being with desires. Just dumb about it. Wonder if we’ll ever get a politician with spanko and liberal sexual ideas to come out on purpose and not by such a predictable and arguably sad accident. Sure makes me think again… and again … and again….
There once was a likable gal
Who went down on one very hot pal
He was ever so grateful
The effect was quite fateful
Red hot chillies! The gaul!
Yummy lookin’ ain’t he….. and I wonder how it would feel if right after nibbling on him I put my mouth to work on the real fella?
Ahhhhh doncha just love having spankable thoughts rattle around in your brains? I sure do. Yummy.
After the first song plays you can pick a new one…. All good this quiet day. Memories keeping me company and what’s next playing possum on my mind’s eye these days… enjoy.