The Finger

So Nate and I have been busy, busy bees. We have both worked a ton this past week and to be honest I am starting to forget what he looks like. Nate gets up to go to work at 4 in the morning on weekends and Ella and I sleep in for a bit and then hang out. Normally Nate would get off at around 2:30 and be home for the evening but one of the guys who works there hasn't been coming in lately so he has been working quite a few shifts 10 to 12 hour shifts. On the week days he goes into work at 10:30 and doesn't get off till 8, because he closes the grill.

This weekend has been crazy, I worked on Friday until seven which is normal, but then offered to stay late, as family not an employee, helping get ready for kids day in the park. We stayed at work till 1 in the morning. When I got home Nate was asleep and then he woke up late at 5:15 to be at work at 5:45 and ran out the door, at some point he told me he cut his finger but I was pretty much still asleep so I didn't even realize it. Saturday I had to work at the park all day telling people about our center and that was crazy I worked outside from 10-5:30 and was supposed to work at night from 5:45-10, but got someone to cover for me. Nate ended up working 5:50am to 7:30pm and on the way home called to tell me he need to go to urgent care when he got home because his finger had not stopped bleeding. We waited a bit after he got home and ate some dinner and then headed over. He ended up needing stitches but he had waited too long, they typically need to do stitches within six hours, and it had been over 24 so the irrigated it, numbed it and used some fancy vaseline gauze and wrapped it up well. We have to go back tonight so they can look at it again and then they will teach him how to wrap it and we will have to go back in a week so they can check on the progress of the healing. He is also taking an antibiotic to prevent infection. Nate is back at work today so it didn't slow him down at all.

We are excited that he is going to be home in a bit and we will get to finally bake the lasanga Ella and I made two days ago. And get to take care of some much needed business.

So about this guy I've been working late because he has called out. His name is Thi, and he's a nice enough guy, 25 and has a five month old son. But if I close and he opens, he gives me a list of things I did wrong, which is good in a way because I haven't even been there that long and need to know what I can do better. But it also seems like he is just looking for things I've done wrong, which sucks. And he has written that I haven't 'stoked' some things enough. I feel this is unfair because I give the soda cups and lids one hell of a pep talk before I leave for the night, and they all seem pretty stoked to me. But perhaps he meant to write stocked. Other than that it's a really fun job, and I've been making wicked awesome tips. We just bought Ella a super fancy Eddie Bauer car seat that can last until she's old enough to be out of a car seat. There are some really stupid car seat designs out there by the way. I also got the fist season of Scrubs on DVD, and we bought stuff to make a scrap book of our Brazil trip. Oh, and the finger checked out alright at the doctors tonight.