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Maybe you could ask them to wear a mask. They don't give you a choice at the clinic. I'm working at the elementary school now and when I said I had been sick twice since I started in September I was told it's part of the job. Hope I am developing good immunities.
Is the agency supposed to supply germproof masks!? What I need to do is get a backbone and turn around and walk out saying "Call me when you're not contagious." Of course it's often too late when I find out I've been exposed.
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I think the agency should supply masks. But really if they wash hands and cover their cough I would think you would be ok. I worked at the nursing home when they closed the doors to visitors because of the flu being so bad and I didn't get it. But now since starting at the school I have been sick twice. But then preschoolers aren't very good about covering their coughs and we see a lot of runny noses. Maybe my immune system isn't as good as it used to be.
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Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Is the agency supposed to supply germproof masks!? What I need to do is get a backbone and turn around and walk out saying "Call me when you're not contagious." Of course it's ofte..."The agency would never cough up the money! As it is I slather myself with hand sanitizer after many meetings.
I stopped in at the office to post a "Separated At Birth?" and look up a new client I have to start with as soon as I'm off vacay and back in harness. I couldn't flinking believe what I saw. The social history is One. Paragraph. Long. No list of mental health symptoms. Nothing about what was going on in the kid's life at the time the symptoms started. No early developmental information. No health history. It mentions in one sentence that the kid was emotionally abused when staying with relatives and doesn't say how old she was, what they did to her or how she handled it. It says it went on for 11 years! She was placed by the state with another family for 11 years! And there's nothing else about that in here! It says she uses drugs but not how much or how often. There's a section for "Mood" -- fairly important information when you work in mental health -- and he left it blank. He left it blank! He says the kid was hospitalized twice -- no information on why she was carted off to the hospital, how long she took to stabilize, nothing. It says she's been on all kinds of meds and doesn't list any of them. Basically, all I've got here is the kid's name.
I worked in the intake department for 4.5 years and I cannot believe this is being allowed. You're given 4 hours to do an intake and you get the next 24 hours to type it up. If this useless document took him half an hour I'll eat my hat. With A1 sauce.
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Wow! That is crazy. Someone was in a hurry to get home for Christmas, it sounds like. Maybe thought they could sneak in and get it done before you needed it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!Stay warm!
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Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good jokes to share from those christmas crackers?
Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?
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Does anyone have any good jokes to share from those christmas crackers?..."
What Christmas crackers?
Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good jokes to share from those christmas crackers?..."
I give up. Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?
Fishface wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good jokes to share from those chri..."
He had nobody to go with!
Koren wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good jokes to share from those chri..."
You don't have christmas crackers??
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Does anyone have any good jokes to share f..."
I dont know. Maybe we call them something else.
Koren wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good j..."
Bon bons? They go 'snap' when you pull them and out comes a party crown, a trinket and joke.
We have them here in NYC at the specialty candy store. I had never heard of them before a co-worker showed them to me last night.
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Does anyone h..."
I dont think I've ever heard of them.
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Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Selina wrote: "Koren wrote: "Merry Christmas to everyone here that celebrates!" Buon Natale, Joyeaux Noel, Feliz Navidad! Praise the Lord!Does anyone have any good jokes to share f..."
In this country Christmas crackers are not available -- they were maybe a century ago, but died out somehow. They sometimes get mentioned by great-grandparents as something they used to have fun with back when dinosaurs ruled the earth...
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Does anyone have any good j..."
Fishface, is there anything you dont know?
All kinds of stuff. If it's trivia, especially something I heard in passing in elementary school (I learned about Christmas crackers
I learned about those in 2nd grade when we are shown a movie with that as the title; Zan Stewart asked what the title meant and Mrs. Hansen explained it. She said she had not heard of anyone having Christmas crackers since her grandparents' time. Subtracting that from my current age, figuring from shortly before the pterodactyl went extinct, that works out to about a century ago. This is the kind of stuff I remember. Ask me to subtract 6 from 7 and I'll probably be stumped.
Fishface wrote: "I learned about those in 2nd grade when we are shown a movie with that as the title; Zan Stewart asked what the title meant and Mrs. Hansen explained it. She said she had not heard of anyone having..."Oh shame where do people get their bad jokes from then? You should reintroduce them into the country.
After all your country made a big deal over halloween and now we have all sorts of junkfood and costumes cluttering up the stores on that day. We didn't use to before.
Most people just tell the hungry beggars to go home and have a decent meal rather than cadge others for junk food which we don't have. But then you do have pinatas as well, which is similar.
The trinket inside the christmas cracker is usually something completely useless like a plastic car, or a pencil sharpener that doesn't work, or a whistle or key ring that easily breaks lol.
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Sounds like Cracker Jacks. Great marketing gimmick to sell to kids.
Selina, the older I get the more I think that most of our holidays are utterly stupid.
Koren wrote: "Selina wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I learned about those in 2nd grade when we are shown a movie with that as the title; Zan Stewart asked what the title meant and Mrs. Hansen explained it. She said sh..."Lol. I just like having the day off.
I dont like holidays in which people tell you you need to buy stuff. I had a friend who hated Valentines day because his family were in the florist trade and that meant he had to work like crazy that day, and them the next day they had to chuck all the flowers they had grown because nobody wants to buy a rose the day after. Also feb is not the best time to have roses in bloom.
Its also like having anzac day in april when poppies only bloom in november, so everyone needs to buy those artificial poppies. But then things are kind of upside down where I am.
More than once I've gotten into checkout-line conversations with people who feel pressured to buy flowers or greeting cards on Bosses' Day, Sweetest Day (whatever that is) or Valentine's Day. We all support each other morally, saying this is a bunch of malarkey, but we buy the flowers and candy anyway.There is always the up side. The day after Valentine's Day is HALF-OFF CHOCOLATES IN HEART-SHAPED BOXES DAY!!!
Selina, most Americans get their bad jokes from TV or fortune cookies.
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Oh those heart shaped boxes of chocolates. I used to eat the caramels and give the rest to the kids. Finally I told my husband to stop buying them.
I prefer the fruit and nut creams, personally.
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Darn. I could have shared with you.
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Fishface wrote: "More than once I've gotten into checkout-line conversations with people who feel pressured to buy flowers or greeting cards on Bosses' Day, Sweetest Day (whatever that is) or Valentine's Day. We al..."Fortune cookies have jokes? I thought they had fortunes..I dont know we dont even have them here..
Selina wrote: "Fishface wrote: "More than once I've gotten into checkout-line conversations with people who feel pressured to buy flowers or greeting cards on Bosses' Day, Sweetest Day (whatever that is) or Valen..."They used to have fortunes; now they have everything but. Movie quotes, Chinese vocabulary lessons, lucky numbers for the day, deep thoughts...Here's one I just opened as I was finishing the lunch I got from Golden House:
"YOUR COMPANIONS ARE YOUR MIRRORS AND SHOW YOU YOURSELF"
This restaurant's fortunes usually have a Chinese vocab word on the back but this time there's a Web site called SecondFortune.com...
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Koren wrote: "Ok, so I am older than dirt, but, at the risk of sounding like my mother I have to say it...Boys in leggings looks weird and probably should not be allowed in school. Actually, some girls should no..."Having survived, unhappily, wearing dresses until junior high when we were finally allowed to wear pants (thanks to a girl protest), I can't say that letting boys wear leggings is a bad thing and at least they will be covered up.
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You must be about my age. I also went through the girls and pants thing. What I'm saying is...the boys I saw, the leggings dont leave much to the imagination, as do some girls. Need I say more?
Hey, at least they finally stopped wearing Spandex. That was just an abomination.
Koren wrote: "Julie wrote: "Koren wrote: "Ok, so I am older than dirt, but, at the risk of sounding like my mother I have to say it...Boys in leggings looks weird and probably should not be allowed in school. Ac..."I guess it would matter on how tight they are.
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Leggings aren't much different than spandex. I did get some for my granddaughter that were thicker than some and they aren't so bad.
Most leggings, in fact, contain Spandex. But with that said, we are past the worst excesses of the Eighties:
I will never understand how men in spandex leggings, lipstick and high heels were supposed to be the epitome of manhood. Give me Sid Vicious any day!
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I will never understand how men in spandex leggings, lipstick and high heels were sup..."
Ok. Today I saw the worst. I dont know this girl, but she is in high school. She was a short, very obese girl. She had flesh colored, too small leggings and you could see her black bikini undies through the leggings. It was right out of the people of Walmart video.
My boss told me leggings aren't pants. I asked her, then why do they have pockets?On another note, where I catch the bus in Queens there are two long tables, probably about 6' x 4' covered in books. There are also milk crates with records (LP) in them. There are prices on everything. I saw this book: Jim Thorpe, Original All-American, which I wanted to buy. Here's the problem, there was no one there. No one to take money or make change, and no place to leave money if this was all on the honor system. So I didn't get it. And it made me sad.
That's very honest of you, Bel, but how frustrating!!!Koren, NEVER say you've seen the worst of anything. Life then immediately throws some entirely new nightmare your way.
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Koren, NEVER say you've seen the worst of anything. Life then immediately throws some entirely new nightmare your way."
Oh no. Now I'm worried.
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We had over 50 millilitres of rain fall in one hour and there was a flash flood at one of my worksites. It totally washed out one of the brand new apartment buildings ground floor but thankfully the gardens have absorbed all that water, although some were swimming in it... it doesnt snow where we are but it sure likes to rain!
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I'm glad we dont get that. We are not close enough to a water source to have to worry about flooding. Glad you are ok.
We were told to expect "up to" 3 inches of snow and got 10 today.
We got some white stuff too. Not even an inch though.
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I'm just coming out of those woods myself. Is it too much to ask that people cancel their appts with me if they know they';re contagious?