Weird uses for alcoholic beverages

In my spare time, I like to cook. I also like to eat and drink.

These articles on odd uses for red wine and vodka are certainly unlike any of the ones I normally read.

I'd take a bath in red wine, but clean mold with vodka? I don't think so.

That is all...more to come.

I'm on vacation...

But my mind drifts, here, there and everywhere.

I talked to one of my former coworkers, who is now a code monkey for a major health system here in RehabLand. Before you know it, I have a contact (actually four) for a project I'm doing at work.

The part I really love about being on vacation: cooking. I cook more when I'm on vacation than any other time. I have time to check my recipe books, plan, shop and actually cook. I've made soups, stews, cakes, pies and all sorts of other goodies while I've been on vacation. I even made my first duck dish.

My absolute favorite thing, though, is actually budgeting time for myself and doing what I plan: exercising and taking long baths. Yes, it may be terrible for the skin, but as Winston Churchill noted to one US president "I have nothing to hide." 

Just let me hide in the bathtub with a good book for a while, and all will be good.

Back to cooking. Bath (and book) to come...

Nirvana

Cold Boulevard
+ Biofreeze to balky shoulder
+ philosophy Lemon Cookie bubble bath
+ a good book 
= a great way to end the day.

Wax on, wax off

I'm not doing any waxing here or at work, but, I am off tomorrow. Yes!

Today was a busy day, even though we weren't saddled with the admissions of yesterday. Mr. AKA blew his IV at 0500 and I could not stick him because he'd already been stuck 7 times before I got to him. How many people did it take (and sticks) after that to get a working IV? Only 5 more tries with two veteran nurses. It was terrible. Why they didn't give him a PICC is beyond me. He was off fluids today, so I had to encourage PO fluids and he's still tired. I got him cleaned up finally, which was the first bath and shave he's had in a week. (The Washington folks were "short-handed" he said, so he didn't get a bath). I just can't stand to have people be dirty!

We had to feed him his breakfast, he nibbled at lunch and I had to really push him to drink. He drank more in the afternoon than he did all day. I checked him out again before I left and he was doing better. I still worry about him, though. He's been through a lot.

My other guy went off to his appointment, so all I had to do was get him cleaned up and ready for the pickup. That was a breeze. His neighbor, Yosemite Sam, got cleaned up in the shower today, since he agreed to let his nurse do that. He wouldn't agree to a total scrubdown, though, so she just had to shoot water into the crusty beard and rub.

I got all the rest of my work done with five minutes to spare. It was nice to stroll out on time.

More later...