There have been times that I have used this platform to complain. Bad Jennie! I have so much to be thankful for. I have a wonderful family, the most amazing friends on the planet and I’m retired. I also have great memories!
I am so blessed that my current employment situation consists exclusively of memories of being employed. As I’ve said before, I LOVE retirement. Being retired during a pandemic provides me with time to paint my sunroom and time to remember the good times I had while working. It’s a “time” triple-hitter!
My last position consisted of coordinating a patient portal for a large Federal Organization’s patients in my state. I met many wonderful patients, and worked with some amazing care providers. I also came away from that position with some funny stories. My favorite is the “genitalia” story. Sounds frightening, doesn’t it? When I first told the story to my children (no patient-specific information disclosed), they had the same looks on their faces as they had when I told them that we were going to have the “Facts-of-Life” discussion.
Back to my story. On a day, much like every other day, I was in my office, when one of the front desk clerks came in and shut the door behind her. She started with, “Jennie, this is probably going to make you angry.” She was wrong; it made me laugh. She went on to say that there was a patient in the lobby, who had approached her desk asking, “Is there a Geni Talia here?” She responded, “WHAT?” And the patient continued, “Don’t you know where I can find a Geni Talia?” To which the clerk responded, “I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what you’re asking for.” The patient, with mounting frustration and volume replied, “You know, Geni Talia, she runs that patient portal thing.” From that day forward, I, Jennie Taylor, was referred to by some as the Geni Talia of the program I coordinated.
These are the kinds of work experiences I remember while painting my sunroom. Yep, retirement, and a pandemic, provide me with opportunities to remember the good times and the laughs the working me, a.k.a. Geni Talia, had. Life and retirement are good!
Freshly-painted sunroom looks a lot like the non-freshly-painted sunroom, minus the dirt that had been behind that cabinet.
It's Me: Jennie Block Taylor 
I am LOLing right now! 😂😂That is a funny story, and I’m glad you got your sunroom painted.
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Very funny story! I remember filling out a client information form for someone years ago. She said that her daughter’s name was “Vageena.” I asked her to spell it, and she did: V A G I N A
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That is sooo funny (little Vagina probably doesn’t think so though)! The workplace is definitely funnier than fiction.
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LOL I’m rolling in laughter, Geni Talia! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg! Yes, I don’t see pale mint green wall. It does look the same. Did you change your mind?
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It’s a VERY pale green – kind of like “a paler shade of white.”
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I looked again and I see the pale mint green on right corner of wall that is near window. Nice!
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Beautiful work… Geni!
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I’ve been seeing on television, people with their pale mint green walls! LOL There’s this one ACLU Atty on a news talk show, in his kitchen with pale mint green walls. Then on sitcom “My Three Sons” house has pale mint green walls in living room. Now, your sun room. Kool!
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