Ramblings By Rhianna

Hello!
It’s been an interesting week for me. The day job has been a challenge, though a lot of fun. I mentioned before that I have about a dozen new nurses that are new to nursing and most definitely to my department.  Seeing everything about the job from their perspective is always good. It’s a little like seeing the world from a child’s eyes, it’s exciting and something wondrous. It teaches me how to present information in a better way, but it also helps me gage how much further they must come to be able to do the job. We are all looking forward to when they are ready to be on their own and take over the place.

 
Last Sunday my youngest nephew flew in for a visit this week from Florida. Then Wednesday another nephew and his girlfriend drove up from New Orleans. Along with my nieces, who live in Indiana, it has been a regular family reunion. I went straight from work to visit with them and then was able to leave on Friday a bit early. I know, if you are at all like me, I’m one of those “get to the point” people. It’s a wonder I can read a book, though most of us can raise our hand if someone were to ask “Do you jump over too much description in a book, to get to the action parts.”

 
Back to the action. Over the weekend, it’s been fun and crazy. We saw The Happening” , I won’t bother to tell you the storyline, but the movie was just very lightweight. I thought it would be more than it was. I liked the theme, and there were some good actors in this movie, but they were not alpha characters. I know Mark Walberg has the ability to be a strong presence in a movie and play alpha, but in this one, he plays a very mild man. I found it hard to relate to him, despite the obviousness of his playing the everyman role. Some movies or books, simply require a strong hero and I felt this one did.

 
On Friday night the electricity went out for about four hours. We could have stayed at my sisters place, but mom decided she had to stay in the house without electricity, so me and my youngest nephew and niece headed there and hung out. We played scrabble my candle light, it was actually a hilarious game. My nephew managed a seventy-five point turn on the triple word and cleaned the floor with us. Last night, Saturday, I was on my game and won both times we played, despite only 64 points for a seven letter word. We love our scrabble. I’m a good loser and a sassy winner.

 
When my youngest nephew came in on Sunday, he went through a stack of dvd’s he had not seen, so Sunday, Monday and Wednesday night, we all watched the Blade series. Its graphic violence was enough to thrill them and the third one had enough humor for me. We are all vampire and paranormal fans. Who isn’t?

 
The New Orleans crew left this morning and my other nephew flies out tomorrow to head back to Florida. I enjoy them so much, that it is very sad to see them go and know it will be a long tme before I see them ago. I have to tell you that I think my family is a very cool group of individuals. Razor sharp wit and just fun people to hang with. This afternoon Evan popped in another DVD that he has never seen, while I snoozed on the couch. I love it when I can say, “Oh, that’s a classic film, you have to see it.” There are so many movies like that, especially for the young. He’s a comedy buff, so I have now seen most of the episodes of the Chapelle series. Edgy funny. Love it too.
I did some shopping and my friend’s daughter just got back from five weeks in China and brought me back a fan. Its yellow beige colors are working in my feng shui knowledge area. I wish I could read Chinese, because one side has a lovely picture and the other is covered in writing. It may be telling me to buy fruit at jinn lee’s fruit stand, but the writing is lovely, so I’m happy with my own interpretation.
That’s my week! Tell me about yours.

As you noticed, I finally got some pictures up from the Lori Foster Conference. Most of them are people who were at my table or from my RWA Chapter. I didn’t take a lot of pictures, because I am so bad at remembering names, unless I’ve actually had a decent conversation with the person. My table did have some fascinating folks there. Jennifer DeCamillio, Susan Carr, Michelle Boungafiglio, Ann Christopher and there was a couple of funny and interesting readers, who also happened to be nurses.  The second day it was the same group, but we also had the Three Musketeers (Anya Bast, Lauren Dane and Megan Hart) Also Beth Williamson hung out. I enjoyed everyone I met. Gia Dawn and Bianca D’ark are my new role models, both are just great to be around and open to questions and good conversation.

Let me know if You are going next year and we’ll hang out.

 
Rhianna

PS  I’m still waiting for my neice to load up the pictures of Jodi Wallace and her sister and Angela James chatting with Kim Grooms. They are part of my RWA group and just neat folks. We all ate dinner at a yummy Italiam restaraunt.