Sleeping, eating, answering the phone...

I got up a little early today, about 09:00 or so. That's pretty good for when I don't have a whole lot to do in the day. My parents were coming at 10:00, so that gave me an hour to get ready, eat, take my meds, that kind of thing. Which turned out to be plenty of time. I decided that I needed to eat. Hey that's a good thing. So I made another bowl of miso soup with spelt soba. Ate that, still haven't figured out what the secret ingredient is. Oh, I think I just did, I haven't been putting any dulse in it lately. Dulse is so yummy. Most seaweeds are.

I then had time to take my meds, and do a bit of reading of the newspaper. There are some really good pictures of the flood that are in the paper, I'll post them once I figure out how I'm going to get them in my computer. Then as I was taking my meds my mum called (first time I had to answer the phone). I changed my answering machine message, for a more temporary message, which I'm not sure I'm going to change back, and did a bit of dithering around my appartment, then went to the co-op to meet my parents. I got there a bit earlier than they did. I was picking up some apples when someone says they just saw them, and then about 2 minutes later they show up in the store.

I got some good food. And for some reason my keyboard is having trouble with the double o. Maybe it's how I'm typing. Anyway got some cucumbers, apples, chocolate soy milk, a bay plant, some black eyed peas, some saurkraut, some pickles, some goat yoghurt, three types of cheese romano peccarino, sheep brie, goat gouda, some tempeh, some black eyed peas, some miso. I think that's about it. I stayed away from the potato chips and I'm so glad I did, I would have eaten them already. And I would have been beating myself up about eating them, which would make me want to eat another bag of them. That wouldn't be ``working'' for me. And well I've decided that I'm only going to get one type of chips, which is only available in one store that I know of in town. So, that makes it easier to avoid the whole chip binge thing.

I still have chocolate in my house. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not. I love it, but I usually can ration it quite nicely. And that's the thing. If it's not causing unhealthy eating patterns then it's not something that I need to be avoiding. And the chocolate isn't. Still, I don't respond well to sugar, and most chocolate is loaded with the stuff.

I just want to bitch and complain about my job a bit. I had a really nasty incident that happened here, I won't go any further into it, it was just ugly. Was kind of pissed about the fact that I can no-longer ignore these kinds of things. But then, I think I did the right thing. But what really pissed me off about my job was having people ask me to call my boss/co-worker (because she has the authority) because we had a thunderstorm. We had a hell of one on the 13th, but that was very unusual. So another thunder storm comes through. I'm told there is a flood warning. I check two diffrent sites that the flood warning should be on, and nope, no flood warning. They want me to do something. They want me to call the building manager. And if I can't get a hold of her, I probably should call someone else who has authority over her. I call my co-worker who is only one tiny step above me because he's suposed to be working 6 days a week, and me 1. This was one of his days.

They wouldn't listen to reason. The flood the rain lasted for about 10 minutes, and came quickly. Yesterday? Well the water was just barely running down the road. But no, a flood is coming, despite the fact that there is no flood warning for this area (there is one that passed about 1,000 km away and we wouldn't be in the storm path of a storm passing through there). They won't listen, they won't take action on their own volition. I'm acting based on the information I have, I'm telling them what I have for information, and that I'm acting based on that. But they'd rather be safe then sorry. But then these are the people that want a social worker on site 24/7, and to have the bathroom doors locked and that you have to request the key from the staff person who is here 24/7. We don't even have enough money to pay to have propper janatorial stuff done. The night managers get paid minimum wage for 5 hours a shift 7 shifts a week, and we're on call 24/7 and don't get any pay if we respond to an emergency outside of our shift time.

There are things I like about my job. Right now I'm working two shifts a week. That means an extra $80/week in money, that's really appreciated. I get to walk through the building twice a shift minimum. That's really nice to know what's going on. People like it when I take a firm stand about some infraction of the building policies. They just expect me to respond to every situation in the same way. Even if they are acting out of a paranoid delusion.

Another good thing, Jessica gave a friend of hers my number, because she was looking for a place to move into. Unfortunately the space won't work for her, it's too difficult to control her envirionment with how this place is setup. She sounded like a great person to have move into the building. Still, it's hard. We're looking for some good people to move in, but it's not a great place to live. Still if anyone knows of anyone who is looking for a place in Nelson either give me their number or give them my number. I'm probably the person most likely to know, who can respond quickly. My answering machine gets checked several times a day if I'm in Nelson, which is more than 90% of the time.

What else? Oh, back to today. OK, after finishing up at the co-op we went to the saturday farmer's market. It was really good. Lots of neat stuff. I got a rosmary plant there, and I'd picked up a basil plant from the co-op. So I have some herbs until I manage to kill them. Hopefully the basil will survive the summer, and the rosmary several years. That might be wishfull thinking. I'm hoping not though.

We then went out for lunch to a sushi place, the KC restaurant. We ordered a bowl of ??? oh damn can't remember what it is, veggies and rice noodles in a rice vinegar sauce, a sashimi assortment, a salmon sushi and a cucumber sushi (6 pieces of each) and decided not to order more. I'd probably order roughly the same for myself if I was out, but the three of us, it was about right. So maybe some friends can get together with me and we can go for sushi some time.

Then I came home, broght in my groceries, and saw my parents off. Had a good time, but I need to start cleaning up some of the mess that is my appartment right now, and then they'll come and help a bit with some of the other stuff. The stuff I just don't get around to doing even when I do clean my appartment.

Then I slept, got a call from Margo, talked with her a bit. Talked with Christine a bit also. That was before the cravings got to a point that I had to eat something. Hm, thinking getting a little something in me before bed would be a good idea. Maybe an apple. Well, I guess that's it. I talked to Margo a few times tonight. Haven't really talked a lot lately, but she called last night while I was out, so I wanted to call her this morning and did. Well. More on my life tomorrow.

Jessica