Packed Full Week

Working as "floaters" in other Communities is nice because we get to see how other locations do certain things. The downside is that it is difficult to coordinate the work schedules for the couples that are involved. This week, for example, we are working 6 days as a result of having to fill in at El Cajon for managers that are off on the opposite days managers have off at Arcadia. Our work week runs from Sunday through Saturday and the only full day we have had off this week is Wednesday. Not only that, we will have put in 5 nights of on-duty time for ecalls. It's been a tough week.

We were asked to come in an hour earlier yesterday to talk about an individual that has arrived at our community from the home office in OR to work for a month here at Arcadia. His name is Gary Rossi and he is a Strategic Sales Leader that is here to help out with the sales function. It wasn't worth having us work an extra hour.

There are 2 big events that we have to host these next 2 days. The first one is a Margarita Happy Hour today at 4 PM, and the second is tomorrow at 12:30 PM - a Cinco De Mayo festival where we will have Mexican food and entertainment outside in our courtyard. The beat goes on and there seems to be special activities scheduled for every weekend which is what has to be done to get people in to visit.

There is good news on the benefits front. Our health insurance has kicked in (May 1) and that is a major goal accomplished. Josie has coverage now until she turns 65 with the Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage plus 18 months of COBRA if and when we leave here. We figured that even if we left now, the COBRA would be enough to cover the health insurance gap until she turns that magical age for Medicare. Of course we would have to pay for that coverage, but it would be a lot less than private insurance. The objective now is to get appointments scheduled with Doctors so she can get new prescriptions and get a good physical exam. We both took the vision and dental insurance which was a no brainer for just a few dollars a month.

It's off to work again for our 5th day this week - one more to go...