JBInvolved

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My third week of training in St Louis began on Monday and it has been an interesting couple of days.

My journey started with a rather productive session of reflection on my 3 hour drive to the hotel. There has been a lot going on in life around me and my personal life that time to reflect was nice. I’ve never had so many different songs on my I-pod open a whole new meaning to me before. It was enlightening.

I got a handicapped double queen room in place of a king suite. I had checked in too late and they didn’t have any suites available. I guess I couldn’t complain because it was going to be more living space for the week, or could I. My room is right next to the elevators, hopefully this will continue not to be an issue. I guess I shall see come Friday night. Hopefully there aren’t any party people staying on my floor.

You never know what all you will need when living in a hotel for a week; well, I do now. First is my suitcase with my clothes (obviously) but most importantly my DVD player. This is not a portable DVD player, this is a real hook to the back of your TV kind of player. I am now an expert at hotel TV and DVD player hook-up. But that’s not all, I also have my duffel bag with my misc goodies in it. I am a coffee snob. I have to bring my own coffee maker, filters and creamer so I can make what I like. I don’t drink folgers and I like dark roast. That is only part of my goodie bag. Other luggage includes a cooler with different snacks, a bag full of munchies, toiletry bag and two laptops with bags. I have my personal laptop and my work laptop. So in other words I look like a high maintenance geek of a woman when I am lugging everything to my room.

So Tuesday morning I get up at 730 to start getting ready for my day full of meetings and my handicapped shower isn’t playing very nice. The regular shower head won’t work and the other one is so low I either have to take it off and try to rinse my hair with one hand or get on my knees to get under the water. Oh yeah, and all the hot water was gone. Can you picture it…cold water with a shower head that is barely hitting you and on your knees to rinse. Quite humorous. Made my special coffee and headed to the office.

We started a case on Tuesday afternoon. Made it to the hospital at about 330pm. A women had died of a broken heart. Truly, look it up, it is a true diagnosis. Very sad situation, young women with children and a husband who has only a few months to live. Good came out of it, she will save several people’s lives today and I helped with that. This was the best part of the last couple of days. The more and more I do this, I just learn more about life. You can’t put stuff off until tomorrow or the next day, you have to deal with it today. Tomorrow you may literally drop dead after living a very healthy life and leave everything unresolved because you thought it could wait. Serious posts are not for today.

I got back to my hotel room to inhale the smell of burned coffee. I had left my coffee pot on all night. OMG!!! So I left it to soak in the bathroom; I was really too tired to mess with it. After about 3 hours of sleep I was rudely awakened by a screaming stomping child above me. He was out of control screaming at his mom; I had to put another pillow over my head in order to go back to sleep. When I woke up later I decided to go clean out my coffee pot. I stuck my hand in the pot and scrubbed with my finger. You would never believe that my finger went through the glass, started bleeding and the pot busted. Are you freakin’ kidding me!!?? I am so going to have to go buy a new one tomorrow.