Me, too, but it's the dark chocolate. I get up and do something else, have a few bites, and then

• POLL: How do you handle stress when you're having a bad day transcribing? - EmmaMT
  • I have a hugfest with my dogs. Works every time! nm - Lifer
    • hugfest - ginny
  • a couple of things - KB
  • I go for a run on my treadmill to a really upbeat CD. - Avid Runner
  • take my lunch break and take a dip in the pool - very relaxing, but hard to get out sometimes...nm
  • Me, too, but it's the dark chocolate. I get up and do something else, have a few bites, and then - back to it, reluctantly. :( nm
  • I get a pikc-me-up drink from Starbucks or - Dunkins...drinkable junk food you could say!
    • oops that should say "pick" me up.. obviously! - nm :-)
  • I turn on the news and realize that I am safe and blessed. - And then I gratefully go back to work.
    • Exactly what I do - but we are only temporarily. - blessed - we never know in today's world
  • I listen to my favorite music. - nm
    • I look at traffic reports... - mt
      • gas prices and general misery in the world just depresses me, worse than my job LOL - nm

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When I worked in-house, our production level was less because we had to answer the phone and the door.  Even working at home for a hospital, we were only required to do approximately 110 lines per hour.  Of course, it was easy to do more.

It sounds like they're jerking you around in regard to your pregnancy.  That could be illegal.  Understandably, it is difficult to work and care for a child at the same time.  Do you have anything in writing about the daily production levels?  As for the routing, you might even have a larger pool of dictators if you work for a national.  For the most part, routing and carbon copies are all listed in your account specs to refer back to, however.

Do you use a word expander?  I wonder if that would help you out.  Maybe that's why they keep raising the production level is because some of the MTs are using Expanders and really knocking out the lines.

I think you'd be happier working at home with your baby.  I wish I had done it sooner because I wasted so much time working outside the home, being resentful, feeling guilty over leaving my kids at daycare, and going to college to find a bigger, better paycheck.  I started out slow in MT because I only had to make around $700 gross per month to equal what I would have made after daycare at my old job.

Well, you don't worry about any of this right now.  Taking care of yourself and that baby are your first priorities.  You didn't mention a significant other, but don't let anybody tell you that you have to work fulltime.  I always thought I had to work fulltime to be a productive member of society because it was drilled into my head by my family.  Being a good mother is a fulltime job in itself.  No stressing.  Everything always works out in the end.

Was turkey hunting in central Texas and was bitten numberous times over the course of the weekend.  Still unsure if it was done in the field or in the motel room at night.

The bites look exactly like the ones described in the original note on this thread.  Center blisters with big red welts under them (half to silver dollar size).  They break and scab and become very dark and then start to decrease in size after about 10 days.  My doctor gave me a cortisione steroid to take orally for 6 days and an anti-biotic to stop any possible infection.  My friends and I are all outdoorsman but have not seen this type of bite before.  Everything points towards spider but typically spider bites are defensive and they will bite once and leave.  I was bitten 11 times in 3 days.  As far as a recluse is concerned, the odds are slim as they are definetly a "one and run" type of spider and with as many times as I was bitten, I would've been very sick.  If you have many of these bites and are not very ill, chances are it was not a brown recluse.

Sorry you don't seem to be able to deal with the reality of MT world as it is in 2005.  You are the one with false illusions that somehow there is a code of ethics in any company or these MTs would unite to fight ??? uhh what's the fight and where is it at.  Might as well try to get a herd of cats together to fight an undefined battle for you once you figure out who your enemy is.

For an entire month maybe once or twice a week, I have been bitten by some unknown sneaky bug that leaves a center water blister and a huge red swollen area around the blister, maybe  the size of a half dollar coin.  I have been putting neosporin on it but would love to know what is biting me.  I woke up this morning with 3 extra bites.  I knew about the one on my wrist which has already started to blister.  I am thinking of going to the doctor but don't want to look like a wacko going in for nothing.  However, I absolutely hate insects and they seem to love me with the bites.

The itching  seems to happen when I am in the backyard (lots of trees and bushes).  So, might be getting bit there first then the bites get worse as time goes by.  They leave scabby cicular scars.  The skin looks healed but very dark.

Anyone else with this experience or should I just head to the doctor.  Can't really afford it but tired of the bites and the scars they are leaving.  Thanks.

What are you talking about, I am lost and am a Country fan.

I like the light on but hubby always walks into the room at night and turns the light off (you can tell who pays the electric bill).  I just wondered, is it better on your eyes to type with the light on or off?

I hate standard time though.  They can leave it as it is now and eliminate going back to standard time in the fall as far as I'm concerned.  The clocks always go back right before Halloween too so the little ghosts and goblins have to trick or treat in the dark.

It does mess things up a bit changing over though.  Last night my kids were all hungry and I said, "Oh for goodness sakes it's only . . . .. ALMOST SEVEN??"

Oops. . . . "hello, Dominos?"  :)

 I am changing the meaning of this emoticon. She is melting chocolate!

Thanks for reminding me I have bananas in my freezer, lol.  Maybe I'll make some banana bread today too.

No message sweetie.  Send me some Dove candies.