Women.....

Okay...I have to admit...I love working with women...without jumping on the whole "I am woman, here me roar" soapbox, it really is enjoyable.

Not to say that the few men I do work with aren't great (hey, I'm a nurse, and there just aren't as many male nurses as there are female), but women just seem to get each other in a way that is different. At one point today...I was left spinning my wheels, trying to solve a million stupid little problems, when one of the psychiatrists I work with (who yes, is a woman) looked up at me from her office and said, "Kim, are you okay? Can I help with something?" Now at the moment, I didn't recognize how meaningful that was. When I first started on that unit; the docs were almost all male, and I spent most of my time spinning my wheels and trying to accomplish everything. Not once, did any of them ever notice that I was overwhelmed, and if they did, they sure didn't bother to ask if they could help. She got my stress level, and just wanted to let me know that she got me at that moment. And that was cool. Just a brief snippet in time, where someone else made the effort. In my experience, men just aren't as good at that as we are. We see it in one another. And we get it. It's just that simple.

That being said, it's not like I don't fantasize about winning the lottery and quitting my job....hell...somedays I think I don't even need a lottery winning. But it's very rare (I actually would like to use the word "never" here) that it's because of the women I work with. Sure, we fight, squabble, bitch and moan on occasion, but no grudge is ever held. It can't. We are sad when a coworker leaves to try something new or move onto "greener pastures." We cry at one another's successes. And because we are nurses, no illness, body part or emotion is too embarrassing to talk about. How cool is that?

And the icing on the cake? We notice one another amazing new eyeshadow shade. We drool over someones amazing new shoes. We giggle @ work...we play jokes one one another....I spent half my day saying "vacuum" to coworkers who found this hilarious. (If you don't get it, whisper it to yourself in a mirror and see what it looks like!) We threatened to "pants" my boss who was wearing pair of jeans that are now way too big for her, who also found this funny. And we actually managed to get a lot of work done too. Good day at work....

Now to get this kid to pee on the potty....oh hey...they had some great advice for that too!!!!