A quiet life

So many things are happening in my simple life.    Health, work, family and it seem overwhelming at times but I will make it.    I will continue to make the most of each day and do my best to make a difference.     I don’t know what the future holds but change is good at times.    I wish I knew what direction my life was going to take but no matter what,  I will be happy and enjoy the life that I have.

Drop Box

Sometimes I wonder

Why is it that just when you think you are making progress in life or career that someone comes along and takes that away.   Someone who says they respect you yet in private betrays you with disrespect.   Comments that are not only untrue but selfish and very hurtful.   Why can’t people just wake up, greet the new day with hope and make the most of each minute.   Instead, some people are angry with every moment and take advantage of others to elevate themselves to a higher level.    Life is too short and love is too precious.   Moments like today make me truly appreciate and cherish those things that are most important in my life.  My three girls, my successful career and Pooky nooky.

My lights and flowers

Just some of my yard work and outdoor decorations.  

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Dan Altman - Background on BrightFuse - A Talent Community

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Trip to New York

I went to New York a few weeks ago for some education and training.   The trip was very nice and New York was such an incredibly large city.   I felt like such a small part of a very large environment.   It was nice to get away for a few days and enjoy the big city.   Mount Sanai hospital was where the conference was held and was full of some great topics regarding complex coronary and peripheral procedures.   As for New York, I would love to visit again but not to live.   Just too big and busy.   Every other vehicle was a Taxi so many people.

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RV bath

Yesterday when I got home from work I spent three hours on top of my RV cleaning the rubber roof.    It get’s so dirty from highway travel but looks great now.

Then, today for about six hours I cleaned the sidewalls and every nook and cranny of the rest of my RV and it looks very nice.    I am tired and very sore.   My shoulder is killing me and my back is about to explode but noone cares……………….oh well.    No matter how rough life gets, I do love my RV lifestyle.

Rain rain rain

This past weekend we had over six inches of rain and it was great.   My RV was in a lake and I almost floated away.   I meant to take some pictures but got busy trying to find my paddle.  hee hee ha ha ho ho.    We need the rain but six inches in a few days………OMG.  The playhouse theatre was flooded as well and the stage area was under about three feet  of water.   We now have water pumps to pump the remaining water off the stage.   What a mess.   The Pioneer Playhouse starts there plays on June 11th and that should be fun.   Check out the website via the link in the previous sentence.

Invisible

I wake up to find I’m all alone

in a world that sees only itself and no one else

I lay awake in deepest thoughts

will someone care will someone  come

My heart is empty with none to give

my soul is dark  where passions dim

I yearn for love I yearn to feel

yet no one comes and none will care

I’m lonely now and forever more

They want my time and passions all

yet offer none to me at all

They take and take and take and take

yet when I’m in need they find no time

My pain will end in time I’m sure

how where and when I know not now

But I can give no more not now

I am not seen by those around

what does it matter if I’m around

for I’m invisible and never seen

and when I’m gone  they shall not care

it matters none since

I was never here at all.

More updates from my life in Kentucky

The weather is warming up although today it has been in the 60’s.   The past few days it was in the 80’s but cold again.  Here is my place with a little more green around.

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Struggle

I go through life searching for meaning.  Searching for answers.  Searching for the one reason that will give me purpose.   Those that used to give me that purpose are gone.  Those that brought meaning to my world are faded now, so my search continues.   Will I find the happiness I once had?   Will my heart ever be full with the love of another once again.   I wake each morning and hope for the day when my mind will be full of purpose and my heart filled with meaning.

trying to make a difference

This was a busy yet disappointing week at work.   I am trying to hard to focus on the real issues and build confidence among the staff.   They have such a strong past and recent history that I just can’t overcome since I had nothing to do with the past.   I try so hard to be positive and assure each of them that they should be proud and that we will make it through this but we have to find it in our hearts to put the past behind and move forward.   My goals and plans for this cardiac program will not work unless they become a positive source of strength among themselves.   All I hear all day every day is how unhappy they are, the are defeated and just don’t want to do anything above and beyond.   Very defeatist attitudes and that is frustrating.   Am I not doing enough?   Am I not focused on the real issues.    I’ve only been here for a little under three weeks and feel that I have accomplished a lot from my perspective to make things better in the short term.    I am the first one into work to make sure everything is up and running.   I am available all day at any time to listen to the many complaints and venting.   I am working on 202 things at the same time so that they can be more comfortable with the work environment.  Most of them don’t trust each other and that is sad.   I have crossed some major hurdles during my short stay so far and I am happy with that but the staff get so caught up with the negative past that they fail to see the benefits of those changes.    I don’t sleep much due to my thoughts being with the hospital and how I can make it better.   I don’t eat because my mind and body are so consumed with passion for this cath lab.   My headaches are a little worse but I don’t complain much about them.   I just want to make a positive difference and hope they will appreciate that in the end.   I can’t fix it all without their help and we can only work on one thing at a time.   So many issues….so little time.   Well, enough for now.

Here’s my Kentucky home

Pioneer Village       This is a link to my new Campground.   This is a national landmark and one of the only outdoor theatres that still exist anywhere.    Once it warms up, the theatre activities will begin and the little town of Pioneer Village will come to life.   I am one of just a few people to live right on the complex.   Very cool and close to everything in Danville.

Danville is frozen

Well, the campground I have been living for the past few days has been wonderful but is just a little too far from work.   The weather has not been nice and very cold with snow.   Saturday I am going to move to a cute little campground just inside of Danville and about 1 minute from the hospital.   That will be much better and I will post pictures of both places soon.  I’ve only been at work for two days and it’s all going very well.   I’m doing what I love to do and the staff are great.   I do miss the girls in Augusta but it was time for me to move on.  

Jailed by love

My heart was free and filled with depth

The deepest joy I’ve known so few

My love was true and ever so rare

All at once my world so turned

The laws of love were oh so firm

I fight the battle each rise and set

but in the end my love is my crime

The hurt is real and oh so deep

she left my life with her the key

that could unlock my cell of pain

Though my heart with proven guilt

My sentence be Jailed by love.

-D

Snow in Augusta.

I have been here in Augusta for a while now and on the day that I need to be on the road and traveling to my next assignment we get 6 inches of snow.   What the heck?  They haven’t had this much snow in a million years.    I love the snow and have missed it but NOOOOOOOOW?    Ugh.   I already have 5inches and more is expected over night and I will assess the drive tomorrow morning.   I don’t look forward to pulling my RV in the snow but I don’t have much of a choice.   OK.   Life goes on for me….hee hee.

Spoiled in Kentucky

Well,  I am working my last week at MCG childrens hospital cath lab and have been trying to find all of the essential places for when I move into my next assignment in Danville Kentucky.   I have found a few pubs, a YMCA, Kroger grocery, and even a laundrymat that has tanning beds as well.   Tanning and laundry at the same time?   Cool.

Winding down

It’s nearing the end of my time here in Augusta and I am looking forward to new adventures.   Where will I go?   Will it be cold?  Will it be somewhere tropical?   Who knows but I will post updates when I get them.

Winding down

It’s nearing the end of my time here in Augusta and I am looking forward to new adventures.   Where will I go?   Will it be cold?  Will it be somewhere tropical?   Who knows but I will post updates when I get them.

New RV park

Well,  I needed a change of scenery and decided to move to a much nicer RV park yesterday.   When I woke up Friday morning I had no idea I was going to move and after working most of the day, I went back to my old campsite, unplugged, hooked up and moved to my new home.   I have neighbors now and it’s much nicer.   It’s also much closer to work, shopping and tons of other stuff.   I should have done this sooner but I’m here now.  

Avatar 3-D

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I went to see Avatar 3-D yesterday and IT WAS OUTSTANDING.   I didn’t want to go at first but Ginny, a nurse that I work with, highly recommended it and said that she would yell at me if I didn’t go.   I went…….and……….well…………….WOW.   The movie was long but the special effects and wonderful story line kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole time.   As for the 3-D………..absolutely stunning.   If you think it might be like it was when “we’ were kids, well you are wrong.   The glasses are real glasses and the picture quality is more real than you could ever imagine.   You are really part of the movie and it’s all around you.    In fact…….I think I actually saw myself in the movie at one point.  hee hee ha ha ..   If you haven’t seen it yet……..SEE IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Missing my friend

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I miss my friend……I miss your smile and your face……….your laughter and embrace…..we shared so many years and so many ups and downs…….you were my best friend and I was your knight no matter what……..I was lost and you found me…….you were lost and I helped you return….our lives were together and apart…….yet we were always present in each others hearts…..then….one day…….you were gone……..what did I say….what did I do…..where do you go…….for this my heart is broken and lost…should I never find the answers….you must know that you were always the answer and always will be to me…..thanks for the memories and the precious moments of happiness and joy you brought to my life for so many years….I wish you the best……..I wish you the happiness of life……..and should I leave this earth before my time…..please know….that….I miss my friend.