Talk about Black Tuesday

Work today was surrounded by panic and worry. I think every cloud in the upstate was hovering over the hospital I work in. There have been anouncements about "reductions in work force" for weeks but apparently today was the day when the managers of several departments offically laid people off. All told we lost 7 people from our department and two of our pharmacists (who literally just had babies) volunteered to cut their hours to 32 a week to save another job from being cut. It was so heart breaking.... :( Thankfully I was downstairs in our employee pharmacy when everything went down.

Also poor Sandro is just about in a coma he's so sick. His fever has *finally* broken and I'm trying to talk him out of working tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

On a lighter note, the parentals are headed this way. I still have some cleaning to do....

yea....ok, crazy.

Have you ever read the Bible passage that says "If your right hand offends you, cut it off" well.. during this week, a utility worker called 911 because while he was working on a house and noticed a bloody man stepped out of his home and chucked his hand accross the street. That hand did something bad and it had to go! He cut it off with a kitchen knife and then refused to have it reattached. Crazy!!

It was an interesting week at work.

FINALLY!

Well anyone who knows me knows that I have always wanted a corvette. Well, as of 3-14-09 I am the proud owner of a '76 vette :) I have not decided on a name of it but am taking suggestions!

Anticoagulation

I am done with my 7 week class for work!! woot woot! In other news, I have monday off, and so does Sandro and I am PUMPED!

Chillin in Charleston

So I pull into the driveway friday after work. Sandro says lets go. Gets me in the car, drives for TWO HOURS without releasing a peep of where we were going despite guilt trips, demands, and flat out begging. Finally I see a sign for Charleston and say "is THAT it?!" He looked as relieved to say that it was as I was to hear it.

I had no idea what a happening place Charleston was! Our hotel was in the historic district which is full of nice restaurants, schmancy bars, and cool hotels. The hotel was at least a hundred years old, full of antique furniture.. just really cool stuff. We walked around that night, even went to the beach at midnight and tiptoed in the sand. IT was nice... there wasn't a soul around.. just us and the waves... and the foam :)

Saturday we slept in til noon, got some coffee and explored downtown! There is so much history and charm in charleston! I immediately wanted to move. We walked around and shopped the little shops, walked the busy street with all the big name stores, and checked out the pier, got pushed and shoved around in the marketplace, and just enjoyed ourselves. Did you know that some stores have live models? Sandro pointed out a store window and said that they were real models. Of course I didn't believe him, so I stared and scrutinized until one of them cracked and started laughing at me lol. aha! Gotcha!

One of the coolest things we did was a horse carriage! We originally signed up for an hourly horse drawn carriage tour... but I got one look at the two donkeys pulling a loaded cart of at least 16 men, women, and children and seriously wanted to upgrade to private tour. It was worth it! We had a big black horse named Loretta aka "slow-retta" and saw all the churches, the plantation homes, the 4 million dollar charleston row homes, and the market places. It was WONDERFUL!



This is a picture of the carriage and our guide (minus the suit) that I found on their website (apparently they will also do weddings!) .


This is me and Slow-retta. *note the donkey cart in the back! Tee hee!

Later on saturday we went on a walking graveyard tour which was creepy because we were walking around in the dark in a graveyard. The stories really weren't that creepy. Sandro did just about walk into a tree branch which scared the crap out of him and made him clutch his umbrella like he was about to lay out a beat down....Which was priceless and made me laugh my loudest laugh. Yep... we were the obnoxious yet "fun" ones of the tour!