Jacquelyn's Space

My husband, stepson and I went to dinner and the movies last night – we had a blast. We saw the movie Role Models. My stepson picked out the movie. I wasn’t really interested in seeing this one but it turned out to be a good movie – it was hilarious. I highly recommend it; We laughed our asses off. It is pretty crass humor but I like most kinds of comedy, and sometimes you just have to be bad. I liked this movie so much that I want to get it on DVD when it comes out.

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I couldn’t believe how crowded the movie theatre was last night. I guess I should have known because it was a Friday but I have never seen such a mad house as the theatre last night. We had to buy our tickets ahead of time and catch a later show than we wanted to because it was so busy.The movie we saw actually sold out so we had to squeeze in – no seats between the next group of people and our group. Craziness! I was thinking "Wow, and there really is a recession? How do people have the money to go out?" but during the great depression movies always did pretty well – people like to go as an escape. Me? – I go as an escape from my homework, LOL. I or my husband don’t get to the movies that often, we usually just go as a treat for my stepson.

I just watched the Sex and the City movie and I totally loved it! I meant to see it when it first came out but never got around to it- too busy or sick but I finally watched tonight. I didn’t think it would be that good but it was freaken’ hilarious. It was  pretty sappy, and at first I really didn’t feel the chemistry between Big and Carrie but it turned out fabulous.

The only bad thing is the movie made me want to go shopping!LOL I want a body like the Sex ladies first. Oh yeah, the sex scenes were fabulous as well (there was this one hot guy in that movie, hmhmhm) – guess what else I want to do?

 

 

This is  such a historic moment! I am having mixed feelings though. Overall, I am happy that Obama won the election. I am just so scared though. I am afraid for him. I afraid that he will be assinated by some idiot. I am afraid that he won’t live up to everyones’ expectations – he is only one man, afterall. And there are a lot of expectations, a lot of hope. There is going to be a lot on his shoulders, a lot riding on his presidency. This is too much for one man, I am afraid. I just hope and pray for the best.

Cool! Monday I found out there is an organization at school called the Non-Traditional Student Organization. I as so happy – I was looking for something like this. It is for students like me, who may be a little older than the average or students who are married and/or have kids.

 

This organization hosted a party at school Monday so I went to get the scoop. It was fun – they had free food and a live jazz music (I love jazz and the musician, a flute and sax player, was very good). I met up with a classmate and she was talking to another older (like me, hehe) student. Well this lady looked familiar so I asked her what her name was. It turned out she is the ex-wife of an old boss of mine – she and I actually had a class together at school (Mott) a long time ago (and she used to come into the restaurant where I worked a few years ago). She remembered me too. Haha, its a small world. All three of us ended up joining the NTSO.

 

I talked with this other lady for a bit to catch up – she was going to school for teaching but she is seriously thinking about being a physical therapy assistant. She told me her son just graduated with his Assciates Degree as a Physical Therapy Assistant and got a great job in no time. Then his resume was circulating and he actually got another great job offer – for a lot more money then his first job offer. This is making me rethink my plan – I still want to go into Psych but I need something else while I am getting my degrees. I really want to have a good job while I am getting my Masters so I am trying to think what I can do besides restaurant work. This might be an option I should look into because the medical field is booming right now.

Well, my stepson, Jordan, had his surgery and everything went well except it took forever to get him into and out of surgery. He has to spend the night at the hospital.

The surgery was scheduled for 1pm but my stepson didn’t actually get in there until 5pm or so. That really sucked. He had not eaten anything since dinner, the evening before, and was very hungry. He didn’t get back to his hospital room until almost 10pm. We (his Mom, Dad, Step-dad and I) all thought he might be able to eat then but he was so groggy and just wanted to sleep. I was hoping he would be more awake and stuff but it was not to be.

I don’t know what the problem was at the hospital but we (his Mom, Dad, Step-Dad and I) were not impressed with the service – the whole scheduling issue and the  lack of communication also. The poor kid hadn’t eaten, was probably bored and /or nervous as heck, or at least anxious because he had to wait in pre-op for a few hours (unfortunately I was not there). Before the surgery, I guess the staff kept telling everyone "20 more minutes until surgery – 20 more minutes" so of course no one wanted to leave to maybe like get a break or something. So any info we were given, when we actually received the courtesy of being given information, we could not rely on.

Then after the surgery no one came to tell us anything! No one came to tell us when the surgery was over – I believe his Mom had to go and search out that info. Because of the lack of communication we were not even able to go and see Jordan in recovery – no one let us know. So the day pretty much sucked all around. Like I mentioned earlier, I was not there the whole day, but Jordan’s Mom and Step-Dad were, and my husband was there almost the whole day (he arrived around 12pm, we didn’t get out of there until after 10pm). That makes for a long stressful day, specially when you want to see your son/stepson safely out of surgery and somewhat alert and happy (and eating since it had been more than 24 hours since his last meal).

I know a hospital can get behind on scheduled surgeries and it may back-up the rest of the day, but this was ridiculous. I am thinking that if your surgery is scheduled for the afternoon you’re pretty much screwed. You need to hope and pray for an early morning start time.

Hospitals today – UGH!