Chanel Cavaliere

I'm sitting here chair dancing to "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill.  I had TiVo'd their twenty fifth anniversary concert and watched it yesterday.  I was dancing in my living room. My cats were looking at me funny but I didn't care! Damn I've been listening to them for twenty five years!!! Makes me feel old-but yeah they still freakin rock!

I love Cypress Hill BIG time.  Since seeing that concert, I've been non stop listening to my collection and bought some singles I didn't have.  They are coming out with a new CD at some point too. Am excited for that!

So what should we talk about first? My evaluation or my stupid coworkers?

It may have to be split into two separate posts.

I had my evaluation last Thursday.  However, before I met with my boss, she had sent me the filled out evaluation so I knew what was coming.  At least I thought I did.  Another "fully meets".  Plus some negative comments from her.  I've never gotten my eval before meeting the boss.  I'm not sure if I like that or not.  I spent several days upset wondering if I'd try to fight the evaluation or not.

When I finally did meet with her, she was first off, apologetic that she hadn't checked on how I was doing for most of the past year. But then she said that I'm one that she doesn't have to check on as I do very good work and don't need to be watched.

Say what??????

Here I was sitting there thinking I'm about to be crushed when a total 180 happened.  She told me how great a nurse I am and that my patients love me and there are many surveys where patients actually state how awesome I treated them.  I've not seen any of these, nor even knew about these so I was taken aback.

We got into the fully meets vs exceeds rating.  I told her I felt I deserved an exceeds rating as I bust my a** and do more work in my 28 hours a week than BOTH of my two full time coworkers do. She actually agreed with me!

Say what??????

It seems that because I was under the impression that I wasn't even going to get this evaluation this year due to earlier meetings telling me that I've got a bad attitude that I filled out my self evaluation fast and furious not really putting any examples or documentation to prove I deserved an exceeds rating.  I asked, but it was too late to fix it for this year.

What she told me was to keep a file and every extra thing I do, to put it in that file and next year when I fill out my eval, to promote myself big time and I'd have the proof saved up from the past year.  I'm going to put in for exceptional which is the top rating and has to be signed off by the director of nursing not just my boss. Gonna aim high big time.

I have to say I did not expect this meeting to go this way obviously as I've told you all what I thought would happen.  I was definitely happy that she said those nice things about me.  It's validation for what I do.  I don't do it for the money.  I take care of dying cancer patients.  I want to make sure they are well taken care of and I think I do that.

I did ask her to get me those surveys so I can see exactly what people said about me. That would be a nice thing to save for a bad day sort of thing.

Since I've now rambled, the coworker update will be next post.  You will want to stay tuned!

Today we have Chanel Cavaliere.  A gorgeous chocolate brown shimmer.  I did not capture its beauty to the fullest.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Maybe I did capture its beauty in the second picture! To me, this is the perfect brown polish. You all know how I love me some brown!!!

Seems I got almost 800 hits this past Thursday.  Anyone know why?

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Colors by Llarowe Unorthodox Annie

I ended up having to take both of my cats to the vet this past week.  It's hard enough taking one cat to the vet, but two in the car at the same time? Insane.  Checkers is the truly awful one.  She pees, poops, pukes and foams at the mouth all while whining this awful sound.  Sam wouldn't make much sound except Checkers was freaking him out so he was whining too.

By the time I got to the vet, I admit I was pissed at them and yelling at them.  Stuff like, "yeah like I really want to spend my time off driving in the car with you." kind of stuff.  People were looking at me funny.  Then they made me wait almost forty minutes to be seen so that wasn't helping.

Finally we got to see the vet.  Checkers is brewing a bladder infection and I noticed the same signs she was doing back in April when I didn't know what was happening then.  She got antibiotics. Sam is still constipated and I needed the vet to tell me it is OK to give him laxative daily and what dose to give him.

Why? Because as of 9/3/16, I am on vacation and I don't want to have to worry about these two while I'm fishing.  Sam will just have to go a week without laxative as I certainly won't ask my neighbor to shove laxative down his throat like I do.  I needed the peace of mind so I can take off with little worry.

Guess who commented on my original NexGen post from 2014? Nails Inc nail polish! They were dissing that it's safe, that's it the filing that hurts your nails and I was like well duh, but it's Nails Inc!

Back when I was still buying every polish in sight, I was trying to get stuff from all over the world. Back then, you could only get Nails Inc in the UK.  This was before the ban on mailing polish from the UK started.  I still have those original bottles and they have their own place in my collection.

I may have to bring one out to wear for posterity.  That post has already gotten 41,585 hits since it posted in September 2014! I'm in shock.  But if you google NexGen, my blog comes up!

Oh and I've decided to clear out the inactive accounts on my Instagram.  I had 3800 followers, but would only get maybe 12 likes a post.  So I downloaded an app to clean it up.  It's going to take a few days, but when it's done, I should be right around 1000.  Unless I get rid of the ghost followers too. But I can't figure out if the people who look at my posts, but don't comment or like, are they considered ghost? Even though they were there?

I'm not blocking, just removing.  So if you should get deleted, please don't take offense!

Last update for today.  Last weekend, I spent about $30 downloading music I had on old cassette tapes from my youth in the 80s.  Jesus Jones, Jesus and Mary Chain, Souxsie, KonKan etc. I listen on the way to work and back as it's an hour each way.  I don't do shuffle as shuffle skips songs and plays the same ones over and over.

I listen A-Z so I hear every song. Do you know that a whole week of listening and not one new song has been heard yet???? It's killing me! So freakin my life.

All right, it's a purple day! Here is Colors by Llarowe Unorthodox Annie.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

First how freakin long are my nails here? Am missing them already! Anywho, this purple is stunning and I had missed this one!

What's new in your life? Talk to me people.  I've not gotten a comment in ages!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Lost Boy

Today's polish is a stunner people!!!

But first, an office update.

My damn coworkers have lost their damn minds.  I swear they are going to be the death of me one of these days!  My back hurts had a nervous breakdown in front of everyone this past Friday.  She was crying hysterically while loudly saying "I hate this place." She then would say that she was going to have to come in to work on the weekend as the work isn't getting done.

Um ya think? You chose to do half days.  Did you think your work would magically get done?

I shudder to think that in two weeks, she goes on vacation for two weeks, flying to Hawaii.  Hm, you can fly hours on a plane, but can't come to work? Anywho, you know she ain't going to sit on her a** and rest her back while on vacation.  So she won't come back any better and it'll just be chaos all over again.

I'm scared that myself and the other coworker are expected to cover her job while she's gone.  It's going to be hell for those two weeks.  Light a candle for me people!

Now the other coworker had applied for the official job she is doing to get the title and the pay. She had her interview and I don't know if they are stringing her along or if there are other candidates to interview, but they ain't telling her nothing.

She decided to email them telling them she is looking for another job that she isn't going to sit around and do the job she's been doing for a few years without the title and the pay raise.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  What are you nuts???????

You do not ever send an ultimatum like that and hope they will give you what you want.  It is just wrong and stupid and I was shocked when she told me what she had done.  I was literally speechless.

The other thing is, she only needs four years and then she can retire! So all she needs to do is keep her mouth shut for the next four years and be done! Now she's going to jeopardize her job and if she goes somewhere else, they may actually expect her to do work not just sit and act like she's Ms Princess all day like she does now!

I just keep my head down, but in my mind, I'm just shaking my head at these two.

For some reason, people just tell me their secrets.  I totally know so much more that would shock you! I might tell my boss some of it if and when I have my yearly evaluation.  That will depend on how hard she puts me down.  If I'm crying too hard, I won't say anything! HAHAH!

Now let's look at this gorgeous polish.  I wasn't too impressed by the bottle shot, but putting this on made all the difference.

Here is the Enchanted Polish Lost Boy.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Shall we just take a moment?  Is this not freakin gorgeous? I am in love big time with this one!

Is your work place drama filled like mine? What do you do to get through your day?

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

EZ Dip Gel Attempt #3

Hey guys-today we have the third attempt at my doing EZ Dip gel nails at home.  In actuality, I've already done them again since I took these photos.  I'm behind in my posts.  So these photos are two weeks old. The ones I did yesterday, I did not take pictures of as I figure three times is enough and don't want to bore you!

Yesterday's nails got cut down to the quick.  Not intended, but I ripped two when removing the gel and didn't feel like gluing tips on.  So in future posts, you will see much shorter nails.

Now first this attempt- I was going to go back to the pink gel.  I just felt that three dips of the clear made things too thick.  The craziest thing happened when I was soaking off the clear gel.  I got all this "stuff" stuck to my ring and my fingers and when I dumped the leftover acetone down the sink, all this crud stuck to the drain.

It was like sticky cotton candy.  I could not get it off me and had to get tweezers to pick it out of my drain as I didn't want it going down to my septic.

My thoughts are that maybe I didn't use enough acetone? I try not to waste any and I think the combination of the melted gel and the cotton mixed to make an awful substance.

The set I did yesterday I used more acetone and while the crud still happened, it wasn't to the degree of this past one.  I also made sure that I "stayed within the lines" as it were and attempted to keep as much off my cuticles as possible.

I think I did pretty good.

This is two dips of pink gel.

As you can see, I pretty much kept it off my cuticles.

Here is the side view so you can see it's way thinner than the three dips of clear.

I was way happier with this set than the set before.  See how much thinner it is? Of course I was terrified I'd break a nail with it being this thin, but I didn't-until soaking these off two weeks later!

My thoughts so far? I have GOT to stop using acetone for my polish cleanup.  What is happening is the gels are lifting from the cuticle area.  I know part of this is that I am still getting gel on my cuticle itself and part is using acetone for cleanup and it is getting under the gel.

My other issue is the longer my nails get, they curve down add this to the lifting at the back and I was doing some damage to my nail bed itself.  I was using nail glue almost every day of the second week wearing these. Not cool.

When I soaked these off, my nails were super duper long.  While I liked them, I don't like the curve down thing. Where they curve combined with the gel lifting, I had a weak area of bendyness.  So that's why I cut them down so much as I needed to clear out the damage and start over.

Am I going to stop doing this EZ Dip process? Oh hell no.  Not right now anyway.  I love the length I do get too much.  Plus my polish lasts oh so much longer without chipping.

So in closing, I am still loving this process and the more I do it, the more I learn and the better I will get. If you have any questions, ask away!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?