Dollar General

I absolutely love Saturdays at Dollar General when I have a $5 off $25 purchase to use. They have lots of name brand items you will often find at a good sale in the weekly circular and lots of cheap brands on items you need.
This week I didn't spend a lot of time looking through coupons and sale adds. Wisk was on sale for $4 and I had three $2 off coupons. Kiss artificial nail & art was on sale $1, I found a coupon for $1 off and printed four of those. Unfortunately they were sold out of the stickers and art, but I picked up four square tip artificial nails for FREE. Yellow dot clothes are 50% off, so I picked up two short sleeve shirts and one shirt/short outfit for my little one.
My total at sale prices $27 plus tax. Always hand over the store coupon first, then manufacturer coupons. Pay $12 plus tax for about $40 worth of products at retail price (which is totally insane who pays $5 for a tiny t-shirt with a pocket?)

The day I met Nathan!

Terrence, LA. He yells"Rolling"

 As we were taking pics I told Mark about telling my niece I had met Nathan and she asked if Melanie was there too. He said he had actually spoke to her earlier.

Les, He was number 2. His parents both psych nurses

Cannot believe how nice he was.

 We also had the chance to speak with the producer Gary Donatelli, who was asking everyone to spread the word on Facebook and social networks. When he mentioned radio I asked if he was interested in Brian O'Brien's station and he decided to give me his number to give to him. As Gary was writing his number I couldn't resist "So Mark, I've got this guys number how about yours." I know, I know. I'm hilarious.

Dylan Baker, Director/Actor

Kim Zimmer- Sweet Lady

Just another day on the set...

It's my first day back to work after about 6 days off, and I'm hearing about how my coworkers prepared the room the day before to prepare for 'them' today. It's going to be a busy day, and they have asked that one of the nurses act as a nurse expert. We talk about our excitement as we assess patients and quickly try and get our work done.
I had passed meds and was exiting a pt's room when our eyes met. I waited in the doorway for the crowd to walk by before pushing my computer back to our desk. Then realizing the person who smiled at me was wearing a hospital gown, I knew it was him. Got to play this one up.  I floated across the nurses station and said "He looked at me and smiled" before collapsing in the chair!
They began to work quickly setting up cameras and letting us know where/when the scenes would be shot. During this time Mark Hapka walked out in front of our desk and stood. I looked up and quickly chirped "Hi Nathan." It seemed like it took a second for the realization, he probably doesn't answer to that much nowadays. I said, "we are really big Days fans." Then as I recall my coworker 'hijacked' my conversation. We were asked if we were interested in being extras and signed the forms. For a couple of scenes we stood in back of the nurses station and watched. Then came our big moment... we sat at our usually spots and pretended to work while they filmed. Maybe we will be seen 'working' at the desk on the movie!
We worked while they worked. We spoke to several of the ones behind the scenes and learned that they were from all over. Someone from New York, New Jersey, Ohio and of course LA. By about 3 pm we were tired of hearing "rolling" from down the hall as it sounded  a whole lot like the guy with the lunch trays yelling "troley."
The day came to an end and we had still not gotten our pictures with Dylan and Mark. We gave report and gathered phones and cameras and waited outside of the film room. It was there around 8:00pm after a 12 hour shift where I nearly cried watching them film the grieving scene. Finally they were finished for the day. Everyone had been so nice and friendly all day, but I was sure it was now, when they were tired and ready to leave when we would be shunned in the very least. Much to my surprise one of the behind the scenes guys searched out Mark and Dylan and made sure we got pictures with them.

What an exciting experience!

picture belongs to 23blast.blogspot.com

Recently at work a strange group walked through "taking a tour" with a BRMC employee. They stopped and told us they were thinking of shooting a movie at the hospital. After they walked away I began asking about them and found out that among them - actually the one doing the talking was Dylan Baker who had played on Spider Man 2. I tried to search facebook to see if he had a 'fan page' and accidently typed his name in my status and was unable to erase it from my phone. Ha.
Shortly after that they visited again. This time I spoke to Dylan Baker face to face. He was asking about IV's and how it would look if a patient ripped it out. I joked with family saying "he knows House" because I found out along with Spider Man he'd also appeared on Monk, House and other things. This visit they told us they would be filming April 5 and 6th.
Enter Google. Must find out what this '23 Blast' is about. I found their blogspot. Check out http://23blast.blogspot.com/ and like their facebook page as well. So as I begin to read their blog about the movie the first post I come upon... "We're happy to announce that playing our film's hero, Travis, will be the talented Mark Hapka." Now honestly I had never heard of Mark but reading on, "He joins 23 Blast team after a short but successful career in television most notably playing Nathan Horton on the long running Days of Our Lives." Say what!? Nathan Horton aka Mark Hapka is going to be playing a pediatric patient, in one of my patient rooms. Awesome! Check the schedule. Yes I work both days! Woo hoo!