It’s feast or famine at my job.  Saturday was a half day, but Monday I worked 15 hours.  It was a stressful morning – they had me alone at one of our hospitals with a full day of work, including a blood transfusion in the morning and I haven’t given blood at this hospital before, so it was a whole new set of documentation and procedure to figure out.  During the first 45 minutes of my day I found out we had two additional patients, and I hadn’t even had a chance to do water checks yet!  I called my coordinator who lovingly swooped in and helped me.  Then the day changed and it looked like I would go home around 1, and just be on call.  But THEN I had to switch hospitals for another treatment.  My patient took, literally, hours to be arrive.  Once we started I had problem after problem.  I finally got permission to end the treatment for the night, and it was 9:30 pm.  On the drive home there were strong winds.  The cars on C-470 were swerving around, trying not to blow into each other.  Bed was heaven. 

On my day off today I stayed in pajamas until lunch.  Ben spent a good chunk of the morning on math homework.  I played with Jack and did my usual day off fare – laundry, grocery shopping, knitting, TV shows (there are so many good ones this fall!).  I made meatloaf and potatoes with broccoli and cauliflower for dinner.  Brian came over to share some Halloween cupcakes.  It sounds like Halloween trivia last night was a blast, I’m sorry I had to miss it.  We had more wind today, so I kept Jack cozy in lots of layers.  He’s been rubbing his eyes all day.  I can’t tell if he’s super sleepy or if he’s having a mild allergic reaction.  If it’s allergies, then to what? Wool hat? Knit romper? Sweet potatoes? Cat hair? These are all new things that he got into today.  Oh well.  He didn’t seem distressed about it.

This weekend I’m looking forward to Amanda’s Home Speech Meet.  Brian and I get to be judges.  We’re all doing a sleepover at the condo Friday night.  Jem and Natasha, plus baby and three adults!  It should be lots of fun. 

I kind of hope to get home in time to attend the ward “fall festival” aka Halloween party Saturday night.  We have costumes but no place to show them off.  Sunday we might go walking around the Highlands neighborhood.  Brian might have people over at night. Who knows, maybe we’ll just answer the door in costume.