“Sham-What the Hell!”

Oh wait…I meant “Sham-Wow!”  You know what I’m talking about right?  And forgive me if I’m light years behind the blogosphere and all the hot topics that have since come and gone since I’ve been detached from the real world.    I’m still busy as hell at work (totally not complaining) but this little topic [...]

More Good Stuff about Me!

Here’s a few more notes that I received from residents during my last day of work.  It was a sad day and I shed a few tears while saying my final goodbyes to the residents.  I will miss then but am so so so happy that I landed into that job and was able to [...]

A Day of Goodbyes

Today is my last day at my current job.  I cannot believe that I’m leaving my little cocoon where I’m surrounded by 400 old people who love me to death!  I also cannot believe that I’ve been working at a ‘real’ job for an entire year!  Where did the last year go?  It feels like [...]

Songs & Goodbyes

Short post today as I’m taking some time to write my “Goodbye” letter to my beloved residents.  Word got out that I’m leaving so a few of my residents already know.  I figured I’d better get a formal resignation letter out to them ASAP so I can quit avoiding those awkward situations when ‘Betty’ asks [...]

Old People Gross Me Out

Not all old people gross me out.  For the most part I feel that older people are rather clean and have good hygiene.  But as a program director at a senior living facility-I see both sides of the cleanliness spectrum.  I’ve been around a gentleman who had scabies.  I’ve been enlisted to inspect a residents’ [...]

Socializing Dramatically

T’s finally back and no longer in a comatose/sleeping beauty state.  I was finally able to socialize with someone close to my own age.  Not that I don’t love chatting with my 88 year old residents,  but you know what I mean.  T and I went to the Y to work out.  Well, I’m assuming that he worked out.  [...]

Just Grand

Last night I was out till the wee hours of the morning.  Ok, so maybe midnight isn’t the wee hours of the morning.  I was on a trip with my residents to Humble, Texas.  We attended “The Opry in Humble”  An Opry is a show featuring country music with some redneck comedy mixed in.  I [...]

Spice Up Your Life

Wasn’t that a Spice Girls song?  It was.  I was pretending like I kinda thought it might be, but I didn’t know.  I could probably sing every single song on that CD.  So could my friend Jessica.  She was obsessed.  Anyways….this post isn’t about the Spice Girls.  It’s about being old.  I’m back to work [...]

Chillax…It’s Just a Random Post

Good morning!  or Good <insert time of day>!  Whatever time it is, I’m glad that you’ve stopped by PLSF.  It’s 12:16 a.m. right now and I just got done doing some serious cleaning.  T is coming home soon and I want him to think that I always keep the apartment really clean and orderly.  And [...]

I Teach Walking

Here, let me explain myself.  My job as an Activity Planner gives me the opportunity to be busy all day.  And not the sucky kind of busy-like entering numbers into a data base busy, but busy like walking all over the place doing this and that.  I currently teach two “classes.”  On Monday’s I teach [...]