on a diet...hamburger plain, unsweetened applesauce, tomato juice...yum NOT!
Posted By: mttwo on 2005-08-10
In Reply to: Want to know what's for dinner tonight girls - sm
but it's working....yippee! So much for the tastebuds!
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It's my opinion that orange juice is tastier than apple juice.
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Other than Slim Fast has anyone had any luck with OTC diet products or diet pills? nm
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She's the boss, applesauce.
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I drink only unsweetened tea or water...
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Lipton Orange/Passion Fruit Green Tea. It tastes great unsweetened. nm
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Hamburger Helper :)
Just jokin' with ya.I work there too. Hamburger
maybe? I did read once where frozen meat works well since it stays frozen so long. I truly do feel your pain. My husband blows his neck out once every 3-5 years and it's usually three months off work, Vicodin, PT, and Neurontin, in that order. He has to do the traction thing where they stretch his neck and the bone slides back into place. Not very fun and very expensive but he says it works.
Hamburger helper-stroganoff, I'm lazy..
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stuffed zucchini with hamburger/sausage
mixture, including one egg per pound of meat, onion, seasonings. Remove seeds from zucchini, stuff with meat mixture, and pour over spaghetti sauce, top with cheese and bake Delicious! Of course, you can vary this to suit your taste buds!
The Mortgage-Lifter Tomato
A few years ago, I heard the story behind this great garden vegetable and did order some mortgage-lifter seeds from a catalog.
In the 1960s, a gentleman developed/raised mortgage-lifter tomatoes, selling them off for $1.00 each and sold enough to pay off his $6,000 mortgage. Thus, he named them mortgage-lifters.
Granted, it's too late in the year to start this enterprise now, but selling seedlings to gardeners is one way to earn some extra money.
I live in a rural area and do plant a small vegetable garden every year. I start tomatoes from seeds, and usually end up with more plants than I need. Most people I know do purchase seedlings; they don't start out with seeds. My son and I have decided that we will sell seedlings (more than just tomatoes) next spring at a weekly yard sale in our front yard.
Mortgage-Lifter story is here:
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00038&segmentID=8
I asked my daughter, a 5th grader, and she LOVES the hamburger idea. nm
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Tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwich.
Nothing grilled, it gives me a bellyache, just plain toast and cheese stuck together My son will have his favorite, fried liver and onions, my daughter will have cinnamon oatmeal, husband will have half a grapefruit, oatmeal, 2 eggs, and toast. I run a short order house in the morning, but at least everyone eats something good for them before they leave the house, so I don't mind at all. And I won't be surprised if a few neighborhood kids stop in for my soup and sandwich or the oatmeal. The only rule is that they have to put their own dishes in the dishwasher, not leave them for me to clean up.
Gizzards in spicy tomato sauce on rice. nm
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hamburger steak with onions, sliced tomatoes, mashed spuds. NM
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cherry juice
I used to drink cherry juice on a regular basis for stiffness in my knees. I researched it and there was much positive research done by Michigan State Univ. Info is on the web if you're interested. For me, I drank it for several months. In the beginning it was palatable but as the days went on it got to be awful to get down. And , as someone else pointed out, it cleans out your system better than a stick of dynamite! If you decide to use it, be sure it's the right kind-usually sells in concentrate and is sour cherry juice and ranges in price from $14-18.00 depending on where you get it. Good luck if you decide to try it.
apple juice !
supposedly a natural stimulant, and it works pretty well for me in a pinch.
With a Double Whopper on the side...hold the tomato and lettuce!
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Black cherry juice
Is black cherry juice good for arthritis?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
blueberry muffin and juice
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Forgot...also need to add lime juice. NM
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squash casserole, twice baked potatoes, cucumber/tomato salad
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I always used good old fashioned lemon juice -
in the bathwater for my beagle. She never ever had fleas EVER!!! I used an herbal shampoo of rosemary and pine and in her bathwater I would put about 1/2 cup to 1 cup of lemon juice in the water and rinse her off in it.
black cherry juice (100%) is excellent for gout - sm
along with warm cabbage leaves.
If you decide to drink black cherry juice, make sure it is 100%, no sugar or added water. Also, be careful about how much you drink, or you may end up with multiple trips to the bathroom :(
Holy Cow, a gallon of Jack Daniels? I had a whole juice glass once sm
and was sick for a week, can't imagine a gallon.
Seafood pasta and olive oil garlic sauce, red leaf salad, homemade bread with sun dried tomato
along with a big glass of white wine. MMMMMM
Happy Birthday, just make sure you have a DD and lots of orange juice for tomorrow morning!!!
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2 tangelos, 3 rice cakes, 1 Oreo, 1 orange juice popsicle, 1 English muffin w/grape jam.
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Forget all that mushroom soup stuff. Add carrots, celery, dry onion soup mix, a touch of tomato past
Add flour to mixture when roast is finished for gravy. Home made mashed potatoes and green beans with almonds and a salad. Yum.
Now THAT'S just plain scary!!!!
Yes, but sometimes they are just plain lazy sm
I have a couple of MT friends. I make about twice what they do, but I "work" roughly the same hours they do. They do a lot of whining about wishing they made what I made. When the work is there to be done, they tell me about the work piled up, but how they don't feel motivated. By the time they get motivated, the work is gone. Then it is whining about finding a new job, but when contacted, they can't get motivated to test and one is always wanting me to look over her tests to see if I think she will pass (I saw that her work was very poor indeed) and I have only done it once, which was enough.
Working at home is not for everyone. It takes a lot to park your buns in front of the computer when the dishes are in the sink and the laundry is piled up, or the kids, DH or whomever wants your time. It is SO EASY to not work. I get distracted by the housework, especially today because my daughter was home from college this weekend and every single coffee cup and bowl are dirty! I did her laundry, not mine over the weekend...so I feel distracted.
The OP is right. Use the answering machine or voicemail, don't answer the door (I never do) and get down to it. If you are like me and the housework drives you nuts, you can do what I do. I type 3 reports and go do a short, under 5-minute task, and sit back down. I find I can get the kitchen 90% clean in a day by doing this and I catch up my laundry this way too. Then I can focus because I like a really clean house to support me when I am working. It is a support because I don't think about it when it is clean.
My last rant is about those $tupid TV ads about working at home as an MT. Gimme a break! It is NOT like that.
I am against a union. It is plain what they have done sm
On the upside, they are great for looking out for the interests of the worker. They are responsible for helping to pull this country out of poverty post WWII, and for helping to implement laws which protect the health and safety of the worker.
In more recent times, they are pushed companies offshore. Automobile workers...they build so many of them out of the country. The plants and companies that don't employee union workers are prospering! They are cars they make are more affordable and they are SELLING THEM while the Big Three are asking for our money in the form of a bale out!
Closer to home, the Kroger outlets in Colorado, where I lived for many years, is union. Safeway is about half and half and the rest are nonunion. The end result has been job cuts at Kroger in every single department and cutting of hours for everyone. They have closed stores too. Their largest competitors are those who are nonunion and Walmart where workers are paid less than a living wage. The union has helped to push Walmart into the grocery equation.
Because we don't have leverage, we have no way to unionize and I am not in favor of it. If you want to make a difference in this industry, let us mount a campaign with our representatives to make it illegal to shift the transcription of medical offshore, or at very least to tax the beejeebers out the practice. THAT would protect our jobs. Because, quite frankly, there are not enough qualified MTs in the US to the work available...wages will have to go up, as will benefits, as companies vie for the best MTs.
Plain rude
It seems to be a matter of manners and training. It's just as inconsiderate and rude for this doctor to change his/her mind halfway through a dictation as it is to change your order at McD's halfway through the line. IMHO, customer service has gotten out of hand in both industries, expecting smiles in return for just plain rudeness. Maybe if MTs and the order processors at McD's were allowed to be more honest with the poorly-trained customers, there would be some changes. Otherwise, these customers think its okay to act this way.
a beautiful man! plain and simple.
and a great actor.
A lot of those Guru projects seem just plain
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That is PLAIN OLD WRONG. Other MTs can write their own, just like you did. SM
Why the h*ll would you want to give your own "inventions" away? Let them DO THEIR OWN.
I don't return....plain and simple....and if someone ask about their
When you do not return...that's where it hurts the business. They NEED our business in order to stay afloat!!
I like plain ol' Dell or Logitech.
I need a keyboard with a light touch, but I also like one that is clicky, if you know what I mean by that.
TiredMT and just plain tired -
more pay - so it doesn't take so many hours. You may be a bit late - nice try to the both of you. YKW (you know who)
No excuses need. He's an alcoholic, plain and
simple. Don't like it now. Never have. Don't have to stay, can make it on my own. I've done it before and could do it again. However, I choose to stay. I'm not giving up on him. He's an alcoholic and I'm a teetotaler. Don't like drinking, never have, never will. Love him, always have, always will.
and just plain out right dealing with folks!
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Actually, they just changed it recently to plain
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Plain and simple answer: No.
That is ridiculously low pay. Even if you are the fastest Transcriptionist in the world and you work 16 hours a day, you still would barely be able to make ends meet. Do you really want to live like that?
If you can do this job part-time so that you will have the experience to put on your resume, go for it. But constantly be on the lookout for something that pays better and when you find it, grab it.
You people are just plain E-less! hahahahaha!
Plain and simple burnout.
I used to carry two pagers for two hospitals all by myself, 24/7. They went off maybe a couple of times a month. The chore of being on-call is now shared with a few other people but now the after-hour pages come in nonstop and I don't know why. Me thinks some deal was made to keep an account or something but I really am just pulling that answer out of my tuckas. It's gotta be costing the hospitals a mint to have us at their beck and call like that....either that or they got a really sweet deal.
The other issue is it used to be a much more laid back environment. You logged on, did your work, and you were left alone. You kept an eye out for stats yourself and took care of them, because you are there because you are responsible.
Now you log on, strike up this thing called Instant Messenger, and sit there at your desk working your alloted shift but can't get up because you must be present if you get an IM for a stat...even though you are already on it because it's your job to be. Want to take a break? Yeah, sure, once you finish up this stat. Oh wait, I've got another one here that needs to be done super duper stat....you know what I'm talkin' about too, lurkers.
Ya know the movie, Office Space? I'm always referring to it with this company. You know the scene with the TPS reports, where the fella has 4 bosses telling him the same darned thing even though you already know your job? That's what I'm dealing with and, yeah, I've been reduced to the mumbling dude who worries about his stapler.
I don't blame my bosses at all, but the micromanaging thing is out of control and I have no idea why it has come to be, because it wasn't like this before. The days of a happier Hayseed with high line counts and company pride are long gone. I don't know who works there anymore as the folks I knew have all left, and that's made an impact as well. Ask for new scenery because of burnout, and all you get is a strokin', nothing more.
You can make it as plain or fancy as you like
From "Mary Smith, Inc." to "Transcription International" or whatever....
Just plain sick and tired
All I can say is I am just plain sick and tired of MT work with no chance of leaving for many years. Sick of burping, farting, snuffling, mush mouthed ignorant jerks who pass for doctors. Honestly, as stupid as they sound, I have no clue how they got through high school, let alone medical school. Working for peanuts and getting nowhere. The good days at this job are fewer and fewer anymore! The companies are making it harder and harder to make a living at this.
The plain and simple truth is
if we push, they will shove, and they will shove us right out of our jobs. Down the line sure it might help someone when they get tired of outsourcing, but we would all be out of jobs before then. I for one cannot afford that.
We can get mad, yell, scream, stomp our feet and demand better pay, then start looking for another job. We have no leverage and we are only one piece of the puzzle, not to mention the most dispensable piece.
that was just plain ugly, sorry I read that post (NM)
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I just speak plain ole Texas vernacular....sm
And I don't wanna hear one mean word about it. When I was transcribing, I typed in classical, perfectly grammatical American English, but now I post (and talk) just like I please. :D :D
when to put a comma before 'which', in plain English... ...
Some nonessential clauses begin with who, whom, which or that and include a verb.
Put a comma before those.
Example: The house, which is a very old house, is situated on 45-92 Grand Street.
Consider the commas as 'hooks.' The clause 'which is a very old house' could be 'unhooked' and dropped out of the sentence because it is not necessary to identify where the house is situated. It is merely extra information and not essential to the basic meaning of the sentence.
In all other cases do NOT put a comma.
Acc to my experience there are more cases that do NOT require a comma before 'which.' Also, the trend nowadays is to minimize the usage of commas and hyphens.
when to put a comma before 'which', in plain English... ...
Some nonessential clauses begin with who, whom, which or that and include a verb.
Put a comma before those.
Example: The house, which is a very old house, is situated on 45-92 Grand Street.
Consider the commas as 'hooks.' The clause 'which is a very old house' could be 'unhooked' and dropped out of the sentence because it is not necessary to identify where the house is situated. It is merely extra information and not essential to the basic meaning of the sentence.
In all other cases do NOT put a comma.
Acc to my experience there are more cases that do NOT require a comma before 'which.' Also, the trend nowadays is to minimize the usage of commas and hyphens.
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