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and last updated June 5th., 2004.
WELCOME TO MY DAY..
IT IS NICE TO HAVE YOU SHARE IT WITH ME...
Well folks..exactly six months since I updated this "weekly" diary..
And having left completing the accreditation process, begun in 1998, while I was away in USA., till 2004 to complete, husband was finding how much more was involved getting 15 staff through their workbooks and compulsory question-and-answer session than it would have been had we completed it at once, when we had half a dozen only.
And there were shop alterations that had to be organized and endured,the Powers-That-be having decreed that we were displaying perfumes in the Pharmacist-supervised area, where the Wound-care section SHOULD be.
I've written a lot of drafts and collected a lot of pictures but these have stayed in my "diarydraft" folder, since I seem to have less and less time at the home computer these days .
(Funny, I thought MORE time-on-one's hands was supposed to come one's way as one ages. I seem to be working more days , and much longer hours, every year!)
And by the time I get home at 7.30pm, and cook a gourmet dinner, the excess creative that once went into constructing scintillating websites seem to have QUITE deserted me!
I guess now I can understand more why men of a certain age begin to snooze in their chairs directly after dinner (or, in our house, sometimes even DURING dinner!)
Of course, anyone who has had anything to do with a Government/lobby groups-inspired Accreditation process would also realise that my computer had to handle a lot of tasks not previously required. (We used some 5 reams of printer-paper creating the necessary documentation between signing up for the assessment in January and gaining Quality Care Accreditation on March 24th).
Strangely enough, I found a lot of the training I had acquired as a librarian stood me in good stead, since it was left to me to make sense of user-unfriendly computer-guidebooks and compose detailed procedures manuals and staff records folders. In fact, so many of the things we are obliged now to implement are things I was used to using in my library, and which I had introduced, or attempted to introduce, back when I first joined the business from academia, but had been outvoted by staff and husband, who doesn't like "rules" or "sticking to procedure", since he "doesn't have time for that kind of thing".
I was feeling a lot like the subject of Kipling's poem, "If I can keep my head while all about me are losing theirs.." and most of the time I did, I think, but as I said, several times, I'm sure, I would have preferred NOT to have to stage-manage all this on second-thought, with just three weeks to get it all together!
And in the Pharmacy Quality Care Accreditation testing, there are some five or six key questions which, if answered incorrectly by any ONE staff member, the term "FAILED ACCREDITATION" is applied, and we are NOT told which questions these will be.
So we fixed that..
Right. There's no doubt, woundcare sales are up up a lot, ), but perfume sales, where we at least make some profit, are down to Heck!!!
And it was a long-drawn-out affair.
One set of shelves had been ordered for installation in November, but late did at least turn out, this time. to be better than never! It looks great and works well!
And then we had to replace the perfumes where the wound-care section had been, which meant specialling out a lot of stock..
...and install a new makeup agency after Revlon set us impossible conditions..
and I even managed to get the workroom/storeroom cleaned out and revamped before the inspector arrived. I finished that on the Saturday afternoon and he was due on Monday, so it was a bit touch and go!! But he had seen it before I worked on it, so was duly impressed!
So I suppose what finally provided the input spark for this update was the early arrival of Grandchild number 11, in Abu Dhabi .
The little girl , prettily named Rayann, had to have her head shaved, in Islamic tradition, despite my expressing a (very occasional..why bother?) objection.
So I suppose it will be a little bald girl we meet in December when they come over for a non-Islamic Christmas with us. And this time, I think I have actually organized some Halal meat to be available in Geelong at only two weeks' notice. I mean, with a huge supermarket across the corridor from us all day every day, why should we have to go to Melbourne for Halal or kosher. Kosher? I'm gonna work on that next!!!
Actually, the new baby arrived only days after I was presented with another three grandchildren by indirect acquisition, the daughter's partner having three aged from 22 down to 17, and they all having decided to combine households and become one big happy Brady bunch.
And they are actually..happy, I mean..they get on incredibly well, though daughter is just now realising how much work is involved in keeping house for 11 people, nine of whom have not been raised to assist with domestic chores!
She says she took a leaf out of my book and bought a pair of matching towels for each inhabitant, with each person quite clear what colour is his or hers, and that has cut down the towel load somewhat.
Hmm. They do say if you get old enough, you are surprised at how much your parents seem to have learned.
Wonder how old I'll have to be before they are old enough to appreciate me??
Love to everyone ,and everyone on our side!
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