My thread

[Cobra]

Yeah so I'm totally into talking about myself. I am my most interesting subject so I thought I'd create a thread for it since I'm posting on this board first addition......

Moving all the stuff into the new house today. Icky work.

Here's most of the guns we have sides the 3 pistols. I got the great task of carrying them all too the basement and laying out untill the gun cabinent get unloaded and put up.

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Gald I'm not doing the heavy stuff. Brother and dad.

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Too much stuff.

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[Elrathin]

If that is all what you did Cobra, that is about 1/20th what we had to do when my grandfather had to move with his weapons hehehe. Of course my Grandfather is a weapons dealer hehehe.

[lily]

Not being a gun owner, looking at all those made me think of a survivalist camp........add that to no houses around :lmao:

[Alonzo]

You do realize that whether you shoot something with 1 or 10 guns it's not getting any deader, right?

Damn, where I live most people don't even keep one gun.

[Cobra]

They're all hunting guns and get used a lot. Rifles for deer season, shotguns for rabbit and dove hunting, .22 for target practice and shooting birds. My brother and dad are both hunters. No where near as much as some guys like my cousins who are literally always hunting but plenty. I don't really hunt, don't find it fun except for rabbit hunting but I'm not fast enough with a shotgun to actually kill anything. Not a good shot.

that's really not that many guns and two are just pelet guns. The black ones.

[ViolaLee]

You should put your pics on photobucket.com and then click the edit button and resize them for message boards. That way the screen won't stretch all out to the side.

[Cobra]

I would be can't edit after the time limit.

[Pookie]

Man, that area is FLAT! Wooo! I live in the mountains and I hope you're going to plant some trees or something. Good luck with the move. That's a four-letter-word from hell!
Purrs,
Pookie

[Cobra]

It actually pretty hilly around this area, they just bulldozed most of the yards flat.

Okay so new subject. I got accepted to UofL and plan on living on campus for my freshman year or at least one semester. Which dorm should I pick. Some of these I can't even get into. 11 by 16 is the norm size, with two beds and two small desks. Hafta have a rommate most likely.

http://louisville.edu/student/housing/seasonal/firstyear2008.html

http://louisville.edu/student/housing/future/halls/residencehalls.html

[jafar00]

I hate moving. My wife gave me a good sign that she is planning on staying put here for a while longer by making me wallpaper the lounge today. On that note, if your pregnant wife heads off to the shop with your neighbour's wife, be very afraid. She didn't tell me about the planned wallpapering until she got back from the shop with everything!

[Cobra]

So I'm going to take the MNA test not this coming but next tue. so I can get certified as a nurses aid. Then the school is gona let me sign out since I only have two classes and work after I find a job at one of the nursing homes.

No one does this stuff exactly how it’s laid out in real practice. They make things too complicated I guess so it can be tested over. Easy stuff but they break it into what 22 separate steps that you hafta repeat back to them word for word as you actually do the skill and have to do all the stuff in the exact order laid out. An example of a skill we might be tested on and your gona do if you’re working a nursing home. I'm typin them all up to practice memorizing word for word since their gona be all perticulier about it.

Male perineal care.

1.knock, identify, greet, and all that.
2.raise the bed for good body mechanics
3.position resident on his back, remove the linens
4.fill a wash basin with warm water
5.put on gloves
6.place water proof pad under buttocks
7.retract the foreskin if the person is uncircumcised
8.grasp the penis
9.clean the tip, use circular motions, repeat as needed using clean part of washcloth each time.
10.rinse area with another washcloth
11.return foreskin to it’s natural position
12.clean the shaft of the penis, use firm downward strokes, rinse the area
13.Help person to flex knees and spread legs.
14.Clean the scrotum, rinse well, observe for redness and irritation in skin folds. ( by the way how exactly am I sposed to know what an old mans ball sack is supposed to normally look right barring serious stuff)
15.Pat penis and scrotum dry
16.help him lower legs, cover him and have him turn onto his side away from you, fold the bath blanket back between legs.
17.wash, rinse, and pat dry the anal area, wash from scrotum to anus with one stroke.
18.remove waterproof pad
19.remove/discard gloves
20.cover the resident with linens, remove the bath blanket.
21.lower bed, signal light in reach of resident.
22.Wash hands, report and record observations.

[lily]

I guess there is no such thing as a stupid question.......so I've got to ask......why don't you have to give him a complete sponge bath?

[Lazarus]

I guess there is no such thing as a stupid question.......so I've got to ask......why don't you have to give him a complete sponge bath?

I would imagine that the privates are washed daily due to the preponderence of bacteria present.
A full-body spongebath probably is an every-other-day occurrence.

[Buck Laser]

I guess there is no such thing as a stupid question.......so I've got to ask......why don't you have to give him a complete sponge bath?

I would imagine that the privates are washed daily due to the preponderence of bacteria present.
A full-body spongebath probably is an every-other-day occurrence.

Hey!! Where were all MY sponge baths? I hadda spend 6 weeks in a cancer hospital back in 2005, and nobody gave me nothin'! I want my sponge bath, dammit! Specially the part about gentle downward strokes on the penis!:evil:

[Cobra]

LOL nah you only get those when your out of it or so weak you can't move. Rest of the time you'll do it yourself or you'll stay nasty. Alzheimer’s patients, strokes, ect.

Lily, yeah that procedure is also part of a full bed bath but they don't get those daily and this is something your supposed to do everytime you change their diapers or breifs as they call em in the nursing home.

[Pookie]

Uh, Cobra, if you notice a condition called "priapism," back off a little on step #12 up there.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Cobra]

Calling the lady who runs the local nursing home today to see if I can get a job their. Shouldn't be a prob, she knows my counsoler and her husband works for the school. Wish me luck.

God my abs are sore. Did set ups yesterday when my brother convinced me to work out with him since he got the weight bench set up. Arms and shoulders are sore too but there's nothing worse then sore abs.

[Cobra]

So I got my army ROTC acceptance letter a few weeks ago. Full ride scholarship, books, ect. but a 4 year active duty service obligation after you graduate. You can still drop out during the 1st and 2nd year without a commitment to the military if you change your mind but you hafta pay back the money. UofL nursing school, I could probably get a scholarship from one of the local hospitals or the state of Kentucky but then your stuck in Kentucky/that hospital for the same amount of time. At least I'd get to travel the other way.

[cronic]

They're all hunting guns and get used a lot. Rifles for deer season, shotguns for rabbit and dove hunting, .22 for target practice and shooting birds. My brother and dad are both hunters. No where near as much as some guys like my cousins who are literally always hunting but plenty. I don't really hunt, don't find it fun except for rabbit hunting but I'm not fast enough with a shotgun to actually kill anything. Not a good shot.

that's really not that many guns and two are just pelet guns. The black ones.


I used to love squirrel hunting.. didn't matter tho if I came home empty.. just the sitting in the woods and listening was the fun part.. Now.. I dont hunt anymore.. I enjoy to much watching all the critters doing their thing!!.. still have my guns tho.. I need to take them out and wipe off the dust sometime

[Cobra]

I hate squirrel hunting, well in the summer at least. Mosquitoes eat ya alive sitting in the woods like that even soaked in bug spray.

3 more days till the test. Wish me luck.

[NDNdancer]

I hate moving. My brothers hate moving me. Every time I move, everyone threatens to throw out my books! I could fill a small town library with all the books I have.

My family all hunt too, nice rifles. Where did you say you lived? *G*

You do know that stealing is a cultural thing for my People. It's harder to steal from your enemy then to kill them, more honor too!

Good luck on your test!

[cronic]

ah yes.. moving is so much fun..ugh.. speaking of moving.. My daughter has been in an upstairs apt for 4 years and now wants to move..I'm glad she found that downstars rental with a washer and dryer even but sheesh.. moving day is tomorrow and its like.. wintery out.. 4 inches of new snow and all that jazz..bleh....I hope her guy has a few friends there to help cause driving the truck is more then I want to do already in this cold.. lol...woo hooo

[Cobra]

So spent part of the day at a boat and rv show, boring but the family wanted me to go with them. Some nice motorcycles there tho.

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[Cobra]

Ran a mile tonight. Hate it, it's gona be the hardest thing for me. I have to be able to run two miles by fall. Running is evilllllll.

[Cobra]

The cat's. The big ones my neighbors, the lil ones mine. My cat decided she likes the outside tho she lives mostly in. Hope they don't fight, my cats not only little, she's front declawed. that big ol tom would eat her alive but they seem to get along so far.

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[Cobra]

Me

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Creepy pic of the Ohio rive cloaked in fog.

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[lily]

You're such a little cutie! Is that the new house?

[Cobra]

Yep.

......

[Cobra]

Think I may have just landed a job. Went to the local nursing home to turn in my appliation and they gave me an interview right away. Tough one, 3 people all asking complicated and open ended questions. Think I did well, they seemed to like my responces and this place is advertising all shift positions open in the paper. Got a tour of the facility after the interview.

Pays 9 dollars an hour, 10 on weeknds and your expected to work every other weekend. That's pretty good and the best thing is this place is close, not more than a 5 minute drive from my highschool or house. CNA's make beter money then I thought for begginers, I expected not to get paid that much till I'd worked atleast 6 months.

[lily]

Wow.........that sounds great and not bad pay for still being in school. Every other weekend also is a deal.

It takes a special kind of person to work in a nursing home. I was the prime caretaker of both my parents and when my sister was dying, I kind of lost it and wouldn't leave her room except to shower or when her kids came......it was hard work and that was for people that I loved. I can't imagine doing it for strangers. You've got a good heart, Cobra.

[PostmodernProphet]

how's the cat doing, that the neighbor shot?.......

[Cobra]

Great, fully recovered. She's the little one in the cat pictures I posted in the last page.

[Cobra]

Here she is.
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and me after getting my hair cut today.

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[preservanation]

I don't know which one is cuter!
I hope for a full recovery...for you both.
(kidding)

[Cobra]

I just ran a mile and a quarter. My best yet, pretty sad tho considering I've been running for a month or two. Either way, yea for me.

[Cobra]

News is predicting snow tonight. I hope it comes, cross your fingers. Come on snow and ice. The weather man ought to be shot if he's wrong after getting all our hopes up again.

[Cobra]

Man I just got back from walking in the snow. It's really coming down, we have like two or three inches already. Schools out and if it don't warm up we may get two days outa this snow. Best snow in three years. Nearly killed myself slogging a mile thru it with my brother.

[Cobra]

.....

[lily]

Around here we call 2-3 inches of snow a dusting.......hells bells.....we have at least a 2 inch snow pack on our street, since they didn't plow after the last snow.:lmao:

[Cobra]

Got the job. Part-time too, go for my drug test tomorrow, pays $9 an hour.

[lily]

Congratulations!

[Cobra]

Thanks

Blah I'm sick. Chills just started, muscle ache and headache all day, really bad sore throat all day. Couldn't sleep at all last night. Shaky and week, hate being sick, gona take a steaming hot bath to try and get rid of the chills and muscle aches.[hr]I didn't even get a flu shot anyway.

Flu season, and vaccine, looking worse

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_he_me/flu_season;_ylt=Ap3U1_Bpu1VnEjQb_KUxUNvVJRIF

ATLANTA - The flu season is getting worse, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the flu vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs. The flu shot is a good match for only about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

The situation has even deteriorated since last week when the CDC said the vaccine was protective against roughly half the circulating strains. In good years, the vaccine can fend off 70 to 90 percent of flu bugs.

Infections from an unexpected strain have been booming, and now are the main agent behind most of the nation's lab-confirmed flu cases, said Dr. Joe Bresee, the CDC's chief of influenza epidemiology.

It's too soon to know whether this will prove to be a bad flu season overall, but it's fair to say a lot of people are suffering at the moment. "Every area of the country is experiencing lots of flu right now," Bresee said.

This week, 44 states reported widespread flu activity, up from 31 last week. The number children who have died from the flu has risen to 10 since the flu season's official Sept. 30 start.

Those numbers aren't considered alarming. Early February is the time of year when flu cases tend to peak. The 10 pediatric deaths, though tragic, are about the same number as was reported at this time in the last two flu seasons, Bresee said.

[Cobra]

Fever now, took a nap, woke up hot, 101.2. Dammit, I start my job wen. I can't go into the nursing home with the flu, maybe I'll we well by tue. no school tomorrow for prez day.

[lily]

Sleep, juice and water.

[Cobra]

Last night was terrible. Went to bed, woke up about two with the chills and my throat on fire. Got up and fell back in bed, then finally got up and got some water, walking back I fainted in the kitchen floor, then spent thirty minutes calling for the family for someone to help me back to bed, mom took my temp, 103.8. Then I got hot, felt like I was on fire for about and hour before I fell back to sleep. Woke up again at 4 soaked in sweat, like my shirt was literly dripping so I changed and went back to sleep. Woke up this morning and the fever broke, feeling a lot better. Was gona have a physical today and they went ahead and did some blood work and throat swab for the flu and mono. Strep throat was negative.

[Cobra]

Man my fever just came back. Back and arms started aching and I got chilled, only 100 tho and I just took some tylonal.

[lily]

Don't breath on me!

Seriously......I hope you feel better soon.

[Pookie]

Oh, yuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I hope you feel better real quick, sweetie. I think your cat is beautiful! So glad she is okay, and you are a pretty lady!
Purrs,
Pookie

[ViolaLee]

Cobra you look like a sweet girl! What's with all the guns and hunting and war and stuff?

LOL!

Just kidding....and I hope you feel better soon!

[Tharagor]

Reminds me of my wife and I moving into our new place, except it's all blades, including my bat'leth.

[Cobra]

Mom came in to talk to the principle, then I got bawled out by him for attendence. Said I missed three days, I only remember missing one. Said I was lying, oh well, said okay I'll just use up my three parent notes. Mom was pissed since I am 18 he wouldn't talk to her.

[sam]

Cobra, I worked in a nursing home as an aide during high school; they didn't require any sort of certification. The first couple of weeks I came home in tears because some of the residents were so desperate for just a family resident or someone to talk to.

But eventually, I became friends with quite a few of them and loved to listen and hear them talk about the 'old days' and their families. There were two wards, the one I worked in was with the semi ambulatory, and fairly lucid. The other ward
was for those with progressive senility and physical handicaps so bad that usually it was only the guys who worked there. You look kind of tiny to me, trying to get a 280 lb man out of bed and into a wheelchair is impossible.

Like Lily, kudos for taking on a job both emotionally and physically difficult. I But it really was worth it to me.


I was born and bred in Cleveland; do you still live there, or did you move to another state?

[Cobra]

God my chest and back hurt.

[Cobra]

First day at the job, just orientation. 6 hours worth, boring as hell but you get paid. Get our badges and schedules tomorrow.

[Cobra]

The CNA's at the job I got are unionized so that means I hafta be too. Union dues cutting into my paycheck and I'm part time so not getting any benifits from it. The nurses aren't union just us.

[Cobra]

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lol that's how I dress up to go walking in the frigid cold. The facemasks are missing so one must improvise.

[Cobra]

Start work for real today. 11 to 7 will prolly be what I work. 8 hours plus 3 for school is 11 hour days. Should put away some green tho working that much.

[AnnEsthesia]

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lol that's how I dress up to go walking in the frigid cold. The facemasks are missing so one must improvise.


lol.. you look like El Bandito!

[PostmodernProphet]

I'm sending your pic to Homeland security.....looks like a terrorist to me......

[Cobra]

lol

Damn I'm beat and only halfway thru my shift, came home for my lunch break. Hard ass work, been on my feet 5 hours straight. Lifting, pulling, pushing.

[Cobra]

Ahhhh, home. My feets hurt and legs and back.

So what I did today. Passed our food trays which are heavy as anything, fed residents, gave one a shower and got soaked. Then when I was drying her off she had a BM on the floor and I had to clean that up and rewash her. Pulled people up in bed, emptied catheter bags, took out trash, more feeding, wheeling people around. Some of those chairs are freakin heavy and hard to push. Yes i think I'll bitch everyday from now on untill I stop this job in the fall. 5 months, sheesh.

[lily]

Awe.........just think of all the old people you made happy today, sunshine!

[Cobra]

:blah: :love:

[Cobra]

Sigh hafta go back to work tomorrow. Can I gets my thread stickied so I don't hafta search to find it.........

[Cobra]

Sigh, got to play in more poop today. This time I was cleaning up a guy who had diarrhea, got it all over, thru the brief, pad, and on the sheet & blanket, rolled him to wipe his butt and he went again all in my hand and all over the new pad and sheet, gross, you learn to breath solely out your mouth at this job. Couldn't help but gag this time when it happened. He didn't get totally clean but the best we (another aid was in with me) could do.

[Cobra]

We're getting it all right. Now for the good news, I'm gona get out of church and that retreat I was gona be forced to go to with it this bad.:clapper:

Heavy snow forecast for Ohio, Ky.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather;_ylt=AuRkc8NL5xOHtovYAUh_K0tvzwcF

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A heavy late-winter snowstorm Friday pummeled residents from Arkansas to the Great Lakes, knocking out electricity for thousands and promising to bring near-blizzard conditions to Ohio and Kentucky.

In several Florida communities, tornadoes damaged buildings and left residents without electricity. Two people died.

While the storms dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of Arkansas and left about 44,000 homes and businesses without power, people in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky were bracing for a massive snowstorm.

"It could get real nasty," said Dusty Harbage, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Jackson, Ky.

[Cobra]

Outside my house, 1:30 am.

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[cronic]

those pics look like my front porch right now to.. all the pretty snow falling..
NW Ohio is not letting up snow wise

[lily]

Cool pics. I'm so glad you guys are getting the brunt of it.....they said 4-7 inches and now it's only down to 3.

Thanks cronic and cobra.:D

What's your total Cobra?

[Cobra]

Don't know yet, looks about 2 to 3 inches so far, the porch has drifts so it's deeper there. Still comin down strong so we'll def get 4, hopefully 7.

[Cobra]

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[Cobra]

Man I hafta go to an all day church retreat tomorrow. Hate it, Easter can't get here soon enough so I can be done with all this. Trying to become a confirmed catholic....

[lily]

That's a lot of freiking snow!

[PatrickHenry]

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heh! You look like the Abominable Snowman!

[Cobra]

They put some cows right in my backyard. Not exactly of course but pretty close, I like cows, listening to em moo and all but they're about the stinkiest animals.........

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[Pookie]

That IS a lot of snow! Love the pug -- what's his/her name? Looks like he/she doesn't mind that snow at all.
Zat you all bundled up? Brrr!
Purrs,
Pookie

[Cobra]

Pugs, don't get too creative with the names. Cats just called kitty.

Man another wonderfull day of work. Feet hurting but at least I didn't have to deal with a lot of poopy residents. Gave a lady a shower who didn't really need one cuz I read the list wrong but it didn't hurt her none. They only get 2 a week anyway.

[Cobra]

In shit up to my elbows today literally. Everybody had running bowls. Had to change this mean old guy, he slapped my ass and grabbed at the other aids boobs. Plus cursing, we told the nurse and he cussed her too, always get the nurse when they're acting like that. Then church straight after work. Sigh, home now tho.

[PostmodernProphet]

don't be so hard on the guy.....just remember he can't get out of bed and chase somebody, he HAS to hit on a stationary target.....

[Pookie]

Ugh, Cobra, that must be frustrating.
I have a friend who has 2 pugs, and their names are Bugsy and Pugsy. Even though the names are so close, when he calls one, the right one comes to him. I thought it was fascinating to think maybe dogs catch the nuances of language. Do they?
Purrs,
Pookie

[Cobra]

So spent like 9 hours in church yesterday. Sucked, got confirmed as a catholic and first communion tho. The Easter mass it's self was 3 and 1/2 hours, longest anybody had ever been too, They baptized like 20 people and took forever. I've had enough church to last me a good long time now. Wont be back anytime soon.

the church


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the preist
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Atleast we got to play with some fire.

Lighting of new fire out in the frigid cold, took forever.
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Cobra was ready to catch some people on fire with her lil candle.
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Here's me, I played with the camera thru half of it.
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[PostmodernProphet]

I think the guy behind you is what my avatar is going to look like when he grows up....

[DANG]

I know how brutal Catholic services are. I went to a wedding once and my stomach
was growling after the first 1½ hours. I will never go back. I felt like I was being hijacked.
I was not impressed by all the pomp and showmanship. Nobody was healed.

I am sure you did your homework before you joined up with the Catholics.

So,
Did Ratzinger ever perform a validated miracle?
Thats a requirement for sainthood... I am sure popehood would be a bit more stringent.

I know he made it easier (http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Whitney0426.htm)for pedophile priests to evade justice.

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[Cobra]

I joined the catholic church for my mom.

[Cobra]

Look what the cat brought home. Didn't figure her for a mouser till today. Nice kill kitty. She done munched the head off.

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[Pookie]

Oh noooooooooooooooooo!! Cobra, that was one of Zo's rats!
Now we're in trouble. Quick, you hide the cat, I'll take care of what's left of the body, and bar the door.
Are the guns cleaned?
LOL!
Little huntress she is. She's pretty, too. Is that Kitty?
Purrs,
Pookie

[lily]

I think the guy behind you is what my avatar is going to look like when he grows up....


:madlaugh::madlaugh:

[Cobra]

lol that cat done caught her another mouse and is chowing it down now. Good cat, we'd be over run I'm guessin without her kills.

[Cobra]

Man my right shoulder is killing me. At nursing homes they don't have the automatic beds, we have to crank them with a lever to move the head and foot up and down. Hard to do especially when you have someone heavy in the bed. Could be the lifting to I guess, lifted like 3 people from chair to bed by myself yesterday.

[Cobra]

Found you my thread. Some updates to add but it'll wait a bit. Anyone wana just be nice a sticky my thread for me so i don't hafta be forever searching for it.

[Cobra]

Spring is bursting out all over the place here. Really nice today. Took some pics.

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Here's a pic of the new boat the family just bought. Not really into boating myself but we have a pretty good sized lake only a lil ways away.

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[Cobra]

Brother went turkey hunting this weekend. Got a really nice one.

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[cronic]

nice bird.. :clapper: wow.. That looks like beautiful country there to..

[Cobra]

Yeah it nice.

Going to ride my motorcycle to work today. First ride of the year, nice day but looks a little like rain.

[Deadshot]

Good looking Tom. You live in a rich, beautiful area and it looks like you enjoy it.

Have a good one.

[Cobra]

Just bought a new bike. A 2008 Ninja 650R, green one. Real nice bike, all the power i could want, balanced, and sets well.

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg256/Nikki6103/g2.jpg

[Pookie]

Cool!! Looks like you are living in a lovely area. Great camera, too. What kind is it?
Purrs,
Pookie

[Cobra]

Some real pics, didn't get to ride it today. Cold and the winds gusting and I've been working all night. Stupid job.

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[Cobra]

Yawn, home at last. Work went okay. Something kinda funny, going to give this old man a shower, get him undressed all except the pull up, going to take that off behind the curtian cuz were sposed to provide for privacy and all that, guess he took it the wrong way and called out quite loudly, don't you worry none honey it's deader than a doornail, just take em off. We got some dirty ol men there, atleast he wasn't one who tryes and grabs you. Had my ass grabbed several times.

[Cobra]

So they're doing some construction work to add on to my school. Well today a big ol block on concrete came crashing thru the roof into one of the classrooms. Of course the students were moved out of the room. Few more feet and it would have been a real tragedy. The construction people kinda suck, they've cut the pipes and shut the water off twice, now they're sending concrete blocks thru the roof while people are in class, wtf.

[Cobra]

What a fuckin day at work.

Okay so we go in and everybody is arguing which hall they’ll work. I’m not but prolly should have, get stuck on the worst hall in the entire facility. We start out, getting people up for supper, call lights goin off left and right, everybody’s dirty cuz first shift didn’t get them changed, had a hell of a time with it all, lots of full bed changes cuz someone didn’t pad then enough, then supper ends hafta get them all back into bed and changed again, call lights still going off like crazy, lazy ass nurses who wont do shit to help, then we hafta give to of the worst people showers. Heavy as anything, stiff as boards, and wants a yeller. 250 pounds of dead wait is hard to lift, specially when the persons trying to hit you while your doing it. Lady screamed at the top of her lungs the whole time. You get soaked yourself doing showers and came out with soggy shoes. More rounds. We have half of another hall now cuz a girl went home. Go in to check on them on last rounds and a lady is bleeding like crazy, blood all over the bed, poop as well, hafta get the nurse then do a full bed change. Finally done and hafta take to garbage’s out to the dumpster by myself. They were too heavy, couldn’t heft them so had to lift at the bottom. Trash juice (piss, blood, bowel, puss) comes streaming out all down both my arms and right leg. Get soaked in the shit. Then I hafta go back and take the empty garbage can back to the hall. Clock out, 30 minutes late, then strip down outside my car and drive home with no pants or shoes. Just finished and good shower. Man fuck this job and this company. I’m giving my notice after next paycheck and finding another job like the rest of the aids around here.

[Cobra]

Got my senior graduation annoucements. Now I'm not actually going to graduation but thought I'd send some out and see if I can get some money in return seeing as some relatives and family friends have hit us up before.

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[lily]

Those are really pretty!

[Cobra]

work today was just as bad. Had the same two ladies for showers. they shit the whole time, then again on the floor of their rooms, we nearly dropped the 200 pound screamer, just made without getting covered in shit ourselves, everybody had dirrhea today, fuckin sucked. Got out on time tho, was working with a girl who works really fast.

[Cobra]

based on FASFA data you are not eligible for a college access grant or or any other government grants. Your expected family contribution exceeds the maximum allowed. Why it bad to be middle class, not poor enough for help, not rich enough for college payments not to be an extreme financial burden. Stupid government.

[PostmodernProphet]

based on FASFA data you are not eligible for a college access grant or or any other government grants. Your expected family contribution exceeds the maximum allowed. Why it bad to be middle class, not poor enough for help, not rich enough for college payments not to be an extreme financial burden. Stupid government.

/grins.....why should I pay more taxes to send you to college.....you can afford a new bike.....I have my own two kids to pay tuition for......:dork:

[Cobra]

lol

I did get a lil money from the kentucky state tax payers tho. About $1,432.00, they have a merit award system, As and Bs at the end of each year gets you money so does ACT scores.

[Cobra]

The standards I hafta meet when I take my army physical fitness test are.

Push-ups: 19 -2 minutes
sit-ups: 53 - 2 minutes
2 mile run -18:54 minutes

The only one i can make right now is the sit ups. Those are the female standards, males hafta do the run faster, in 16 minutes and 42 pushups. Thank god for double standards, no way I'm doing no 42 pushups in the time I have to be able to do this.

[Cobra]

Fried fish tonight, brother and dad caught a mess of catfish today. They're not huge like the ones you catch out of the Ohio river, these came from taylorsville lake, but should be tasty.

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[Pookie]

Oh yeah, catfish is great! Looks like you have plenty there.
Purrs,
Pookie