Hello...how's it going?

Hello...I'm Jana. Nice to meet you.

Just a little about me: Female, 54 y/o, married for 3 years. 1 daughter. 3 stepsons. 2 cats/1 dog. Live in Denton, work in Dallas. RN for 2 years, working usually 7p-7a at a large hospital in the D/FW area. GYN/Oncology. Music, books, old movies, food & cooking, crochet/knitting. Political independent, somewhere in the middle of the road these days.

So what am I doing here? Well, everybody else is doing it. Maybe I have something to say--then again, maybe not.

Anyway, I was just called off my shift--instead of starting work at 7 pm, I'll start at 11 pm. We'll see if I actually do go in to work tonight. Here in North Texas, we are awaiting our first ice storm of the winter. Yes, it does get cold enough to freeze down here! And we usually get at least one good winter storm every year. Ice storms suck, though. I can usually drive on snow. But I absolutely hate even the thought of doing my 45-mile one-way commute on the ice.

I've packed a little bag with a change of undies and my toiletries. I'll take an extra uniform. I'll pack some extra food. Why go to this trouble? Because there is no guarantee that I'll be able to drive home in the morning, and I'm scheduled to work tomorrow night. Our patient load is low, so there will be a bed to crash in. And a shower. I'm just hoping that the weather holds and that it doesn't get icy before I have to leave here around 9:30 pm tonight. The weather forecast is bad enough for me to worry--can't afford to miss 2 shifts. We are broke, which is a subject for another post.

Temperature hovering at 37F. A little damp outside. I guess we'll see. Earlier today, NOAA said that the temps on Tuesday wouldn't get out of the 20s. Now they're saying 32. It's all a crap shoot, isn't it?