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We’re ONLY ONE WEEK away from the start of the 3rd Annual Maine Fungi Fest - May 17-19th at USM in Portland, ME! 🍄🌿💃🏼
Area A offers educational keynotes, panels, & workshops on “all things fungi, plant based healing, & expanding consciousness.” 📚🌿💡🍄📝
Area B offers nature-inspired 🎶 musical performances, 🎨 live painting, 🎙 comedy & spoken word, 🥁 healing arts, 🤹‍♀ circus arts, 💝 local vendors, 🖼 an art gallery, 💆‍♀ wellness practitioners, 🤸‍♀partner acrobatics, 🧘‍♀ acro jam, 📖 mushie storytime for kids, 👩‍🎨 face & body painting, 🍄🥬 mushroom parades & veget-balls, & more!! 🌈🌿💚
We hope you can join us for this multifaceted educational & uplifting community gathering! 🌻 Grab your 🎟 ticket 🎟 to access Area A + Saturday night’s offerings featuring @hilatheearth @toninagy @dustinrosata @amelia.aglow & @djdamienpaul 💃🏼🔥🥁🎶🌎💚 Learn more at MaineFungiFest.com
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-maine-fungi-fest-tickets-751791407337?aff=oddtdtcreator
For the best showcase of what will be at the festival, follow Permatours on IG. @permatours
- Seeking local Earth-conscious brands to join (tables start at $50 & get each vendor 2 tickets to the paid section of the event) Outdoor vendors.
PROCEEDS:
All proceeds from this event are put towards the work of the Maine Consciousness, Healing and Living Medicine Project - M.C.H.L.M.P.
2024 VENUE DETAILS:
Maine Fungi Fest will be held at the University of Southern Maine - Portland, located conveniently in downtown Portland and only minutes from Interstate's Rt. 95 and Rt. 295
ON CAMPUS LODGING:
Portland Commons is located right next to our event program area. All rooms within Portland Commons have in-suite restrooms. All bedrooms have a full XL or twin XL bed w/linen (double apartments), an individual closet, a desk, a chair, and a bureau.
Rooms can be purchased on ME Fungi Fest’s website for both Friday Night and/or Saturday Night. Check in time & check out time TBD.
Parking I just checked with the organizer and when you buy a ticket, you get a code to purchase parking for $5.

We’re ONLY ONE WEEK away from the start of the 3rd Annual Maine Fungi Fest - May 17-19th at USM in Portland, ME! 🍄🌿💃🏼
Area A offers educational keynotes, panels, & workshops on “all things fungi, plant based healing, & expanding consciousness.” 📚🌿💡🍄📝
Area B offers nature-inspired 🎶 musical performances, 🎨 live painting, 🎙 comedy & spoken word, 🥁 healing arts, 🤹‍♀ circus arts, 💝 local vendors, 🖼 an art gallery, 💆‍♀ wellness practitioners, 🤸‍♀partner acrobatics, 🧘‍♀ acro jam, 📖 mushie storytime for kids, 👩‍🎨 face & body painting, 🍄🥬 mushroom parades & veget-balls, & more!! 🌈🌿💚
We hope you can join us for this multifaceted educational & uplifting community gathering! 🌻 Grab your 🎟 ticket 🎟 to access Area A + Saturday night’s offerings featuring @hilatheearth @toninagy @dustinrosata @amelia.aglow & @djdamienpaul 💃🏼🔥🥁🎶🌎💚 Learn more at MaineFungiFest.com
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-maine-fungi-fest-tickets-751791407337?aff=oddtdtcreator
For the best showcase of what will be at the festival, follow Permatours on IG. @permatours

Seeking local Earth-conscious brands to join (tables start at $50 & get each vendor 2 tickets to the paid section of the event) Outdoor vendors.

PROCEEDS:
All proceeds from this event are put towards the work of the Maine Consciousness, Healing and Living Medicine Project - M.C.H.L.M.P.
2024 VENUE DETAILS:
Maine Fungi Fest will be held at the University of Southern Maine - Portland, located conveniently in downtown Portland and only minutes from Interstate's Rt. 95 and Rt. 295
ON CAMPUS LODGING:
Portland Commons is located right next to our event program area. All rooms within Portland Commons have in-suite restrooms. All bedrooms have a full XL or twin XL bed w/linen (double apartments), an individual closet, a desk, a chair, and a bureau.
Rooms can be purchased on ME Fungi Fest’s website for both Friday Night and/or Saturday Night. Check in time & check out time TBD.
Parking I just checked with the organizer and when you buy a ticket, you get a code to purchase parking for $5.

Compassionate and empathetic professional with over 4 years of dedicated experience in assisted living facilities, eager to transition into a hospital setting. Known for delivering exceptional personal care to residents/clients, prioritizing their comfort, dignity, and well-being. Proficient in a wide range of tasks, including bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, incontinent care, oral care, and vital signs monitoring, always adhering to established policies and protocols. Adept at maintaining a clean and comfortable living environment by promptly attending to bed-making in the morning, turning down beds as needed in the evening, and conducting weekly bed linen changes, ensuring optimal hygiene and comfort for residents. Ready to bring proven skills and a compassionate approach to enhance patient care in a hospital environment.

Just a little vent to follow up my cry on the drive home. 🫠
I'm a charge nurse in a small but very busy CSICU. We stay full with CABGs and valves, regularly have Impellas and IABPs, plus take ECMO and implant LVADs occasionally. Since it's a smaller unit, drama can spiral quickly. The night crew is largely very chill, good team workers, and reasonable. There are, however, a handful of nurses on the day shift who are... less so. When I first started on this unit a few years ago, I actually wasn't sure it was going to be a good fit, because I immediately detected a toxic undercurrent. Some of the nurses are stringent with their charting to the point of mania, and many of them do not chart by exception, but with fill a whole assessment flow sheet with normal findings. Not only that, but they make comments about other nurses' work and charting, and not in a constructive way.
I work the weekend program, nights, and was relentlessly bullied for months by a day shift weekender before she thankfully left. That being said, I'm confident with the care I provide, and I feel I made huge strides during my first year on the unit and managed to meet the extreme expectations of my peers more often than not. I'm really proud of the work we do on the weekends, we hold it down with minimal resources and a skeleton crew.
However, I dread Monday mornings. Monday morning comes around and our arrogant lead surgeon and toxic NPs do formal rounds (the toxic providers are a whole other issue). The NPs can be very difficult to deal with, and I'm glad I only have to do it once a week. Our surgical care coordinator and clinical lead are also present for these rounds, and they both love to nitpick the care that was given overnight/over the weekend, and seemingly love to point out any little "error" they can.
This sort of came to a head this morning when my clinical lead pointed out during rounds that I had failed to put SCDs on my patient, who was up in the chair. He had been up less than 30 minutes and I had gotten him up, stripped and made his bed, then grabbed updates from everyone before going to give charge report to kick off the day shift. I was complaining a bit at the desk, sarcastically asking a coworker if SCDs in the chair weren't more of a tripping hazard than any kind of help. My clinical lead heard me and countered that they are as effective as SubQ hearin. Normally, I'm very non-confrontational, but after what feels like months of of being shit on every Monday morning, I decided to say something. I told her I understood the utility of the SCDs, but felt a little frustrated the she felt the need to tell me during rounds, as the patient hadn't been up long, and it feels a bit reductive that they seemingly search for things to critique every morning. She got a little defensive, and told me that we've had "lots of DVTs lately," and that she was just reminding me. I tried to diffuse her defensiveness, basically telling her that night shift has just been feeling a lot of negative feedback lately despite the fact that we are doing good work. Overall, I left the interaction wishing I hadn't said anything, as I think she feels I was overreacting, and I don't want her opinion of me to be tarnished, because she is in a position of authority on the unit.
I think it all just felt worse as well because of the existing toxicity on the unit. It feels like night shift is happy to roll with the punches, pick up slack, tie up loose ends, etc, but day shift has very little grace to give. This is a sentiment I've heard from almost every night shift staff member. When I was initially being bullied on weekend program (for little nitpicks as well), I tried to discuss some of the negativity with my manager, and she brushed it off, saying that our nurses "hold each other accountable," and we "have high standards" for our care. I feel there's a difference between accountability/high standards and just straight up criticism for the sake of criticism. Not to mention that night shift is expected to do a lot of things that are not reciprocated by day shift. For example, day shift will 100% talk shit if a room isn't fully restocked, but night shift routinely comes in to depleted supplies and messy rooms. We just deal with it, as we all recognize that it's not a huge deal to go grab some supplies at the start of shift. Night shift also completes all baths, weights, linen and line changes, and get patients up to the chair before shift change. The last three hours of the shift are usually crazy because of this.
I love working in critical care and know that I'm a great nurse, but I sometimes feel suffocated by this unit. I've been a nurse for nine years and have worked on hospitals for twelve, and I have never felt this way in a job before. I make great money in this role and love my night crew, I just wish the day shift would lay off sometimes. 😮‍💨

Going to be moving out on my own and buying my first place soon. I do have some things I can bring with me to get started, but will also need a lot of other basics. I am already having to spend a lot on renovation to make the place livable, so I want to get all the little odds and ends as frugally as I can.
I am willing to buy some things used (wood furniture, nothing with fabric), but others I would prefer to buy new.
Since this will likely be my “forever” or at least long time home, I don’t want it to look all mismatched like a college dorm room. I would like it to look elegant, simplistic and put together. Bougie on a budget, if you will.
I’m also hoping to do a one-stop shop, all at a physical store if possible, and want to know what the best choice to consider would be.
I already have: second-hand couch from family, kids bed and bedroom furniture set, dishes, coffee maker, some decor, TVs
What I will need: kitchen items (glasses, pots/pans, utensils), dining table, coffee table, end table, bath towels, new bed/bed frame for me (will likely purchase this online), lamps, entertainment center, area rug, bed linens, pillows, window curtains, shower curtain, bathroom items
Would my best frugal option to get all of these things in one place, while still having a cohesive look at a reasonable price be: IKEA? Home goods? Somewhere else entirely?
Also - how to purchase all this? I’m estimating it will be in the ballpark of $2,000 for everything I need. I do have money saved but would rather use as much cash as I can toward the actual home purchase if possible. Is putting all of this on a 0% interest CC the best bet? I am generally very responsible and don’t carry debt, so I’m not worried about going hog wild if using a CC.

We’re ONLY ONE WEEK away from the start of the 3rd Annual Maine Fungi Fest - May 17-19th at USM in Portland, ME! 🍄🌿💃🏼
Area A offers educational keynotes, panels, & workshops on “all things fungi, plant based healing, & expanding consciousness.” 📚🌿💡🍄📝
Area B offers nature-inspired 🎶 musical performances, 🎨 live painting, 🎙 comedy & spoken word, 🥁 healing arts, 🤹‍♀ circus arts, 💝 local vendors, 🖼 an art gallery, 💆‍♀ wellness practitioners, 🤸‍♀partner acrobatics, 🧘‍♀ acro jam, 📖 mushie storytime for kids, 👩‍🎨 face & body painting, 🍄🥬 mushroom parades & veget-balls, & more!! 🌈🌿💚
We hope you can join us for this multifaceted educational & uplifting community gathering! 🌻 Grab your 🎟 ticket 🎟 to access Area A + Saturday night’s offerings featuring @hilatheearth @toninagy @dustinrosata @amelia.aglow & @djdamienpaul 💃🏼🔥🥁🎶🌎💚 Learn more at MaineFungiFest.com
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-maine-fungi-fest-tickets-751791407337?aff=oddtdtcreator
For the best showcase of what will be at the festival, follow Permatours on IG. @permatours
- Seeking local Earth-conscious brands to join (tables start at $50 & get each vendor 2 tickets to the paid section of the event) Outdoor vendors.
PROCEEDS:
All proceeds from this event are put towards the work of the Maine Consciousness, Healing and Living Medicine Project - M.C.H.L.M.P.
2024 VENUE DETAILS:
Maine Fungi Fest will be held at the University of Southern Maine - Portland, located conveniently in downtown Portland and only minutes from Interstate's Rt. 95 and Rt. 295
ON CAMPUS LODGING:
Portland Commons is located right next to our event program area. All rooms within Portland Commons have in-suite restrooms. All bedrooms have a full XL or twin XL bed w/linen (double apartments), an individual closet, a desk, a chair, and a bureau.
Rooms can be purchased on ME Fungi Fest’s website for both Friday Night and/or Saturday Night. Check in time & check out time TBD.
Parking I just checked with the organizer and when you buy a ticket, you get a code to purchase parking for $5.