More Happenings

Well, it's been a busy week. I worked Thur, Fri, Sat and that was busy. It went well but it was busy. Then I had my one night off and had to be to corporate orientation today. Yuck. I know it's necessary but yuck anyways. It's the same at every hospital. You spend a day going over safety, HIPPA, disaster plan, codes, corporate compliance etc. All good info but this is the 3rd or 4th time I've been over all this stuff in the last 6 months. So, YUCK. But it's done and I shouldn't have to do it for another 3 months unless I stay here for another contract then it will be longer. There was a big upside to today though. I was talking to a bunch of other travelers about my housing situation, how I opted to take the money instead of having them find my housing and I was having a hard time figuring out what to do. And one of the other travelers announced that she was given a 2 bedroom apartment which she isn't using one bedroom of and she would be willing to rent to me. I told her that I have my cats with me and she said she didn't mind but she would check it with the apartment complex. They didn't care either as long as I paid a pet deposit which is refundable and not to expensive, so I am moving into her apartment tomorrow for $500 a month. The downside is that I still will have to wait on getting Sadie as I think asking to bring my dog too might be a bit much but I had already decided that I was likely going to have to wait to get her until my next assignment anyways as I wasn't real sure how to get her down here sooner. So I will at least have living arrangements that are more private and way cheaper. I am very excited. Then I went to Linen's and Things to get an air mattress, one of the nice aerobed ones and while there, I found a 20% off coupon which I was able to use on the air mattress and so I saved like $60. This way I can gradually pick up a few necessary things and then my next assignment maybe take the money also and I will already have a bed and stuff. So, that is my news for the week. All the more money now to pay bills and maybe a bit extra to buy some spermies with, in case my one vial I have in storage isn't enough. Also I may see if I can get some days off in June to go home and do an AI. It will be near the end of June and close to the end of this assignment.
One other thing thats interesting in an annoying sort of way. This laptop the last 2 days when I turn it on, there is this little thing in the task bar that says it's downloading something and I have no idea what, I can't figure out how to make it tell me or how to stop it or when it will finish. Probably some evil little windows gremlin that's being installed. Don't get me wrong, I liked my windows XP just fine, but I am convinced that Windows Vista is some sort of evil plot. I suppose it's showing how much I dislike changing some things. Like technologies that I have to relearn.