Gettin along with Whoopi..
Good morning. This is us … it’s taken a little bit to get us this far. Think were disoriented. Just 2/3 through a cup of coffee. We went through the email and some news … we were pretty caught up from last night. I think we went to bed at a good time. I need to focus now, but now Missy has something to say. Oh, she just wants to know if she can talk while deciding whether or not to lay down. That be a woman for ya! Talk, talk, talk.We had a bad series of dreams last night or early this morning. They were about being attached to devices like electrodes by people self-trained in sadist type torture. I don’t know why me, but It happened in three different situations.
Thought I’d escaped from one and there I was in the next. There were others involved … at least the second and the third. Second was another female friend also getting electrocuted, and the third we were trying to protect small kids who were siblings. It seemed like a large part of the dream was dealing with pain and not letting the others know we were conscious. Now I see a connection to my youth … it seemed we faired better when others didn’t know we were paying attention. It was important not to react, because then they’d go through another series of choices, most which we didn’t think we’re better. It would take us some time to figure that out, but now my mind is achy. My eyes are burning
Little chair nap there.
Ok, we’re up again … we found our favorite morning radio show. It would figure it is on the computer if its in the car. We’ve been listening to “Wake-up with Whoopie,” which is part her and there is music in-between … This week she is out though so they are playing “The Best of her” and her side-kick cubby. Yayyyy she’s coming back on Monday. Ok now we’re just drifty. It’s about 6:00 am … thinking maybe I should take a wake-up shower that be a good idea, right?
Hmm, that seems to be better. I still have Missy telling me what to do … Don’t let her know that I said this, but she can be kind of a nag … You know? Shhh … it’s a secret.
We talked to Dr. M. last night … we thought and he confirmed that he was tired.
And, we have to remember the appointment next week is at 5 pm, because he has a lecture before that. We asked if that was enough time and he said sure he has 10 minutes after the lecture. Like who in this world can lecture a bunch of doctors, stop, conclude and get back in the office in the right place to do a client session? Eh, people like this … they belong on pedestals.
Hmm, we got Missy to stop, but then she wanted to be petted on her tummy, but then we couldn’t type … So, we stopped for about 10 minutes, but then she had to shoo.
We were listening to Whoopie on procrastination. That’s a hard one for us. I umm think we are that, but I don’t want anyone to agree to that … k?
Oh yah Dr. Marvin. There was a cranky part out first, but then she went away after she got a chance to express herself. I think it was because our leg had felt strained yesterday and the walk to his office is long. It might have started frustrated at him, but that was just a screen. Then we remembered to talk about money, cuz we asked sweetie pie and that’s what he said to talk about. It took about three parts and we got through it, but it was hard. We have to make our minds to go to the bank tomorrow morning and talk to a bank manager. And, then he asked us what we had to talk about … and we thought some more and did some switching, but then we figured that we needed to ask him how to get our account functional and what was going to happen to the money … would it pay back requests, or just the regular ones coming in monthly. After that he said we could stop thinking of money. He said we did good!
Afterward we talked about our Sweetie Pie and some work stuff, and about some school stuff … and that’s almost all of our “stuff.” Nothing too exciting … we tried not to be too bad a patient, because he wasn’t feeling top speed. *Sigh*
After, we went home … umm had a shake, dinner and then pretty soon went to bed not too exciting. We did enjoy most of the day because after we get past the comlaining part we were doing client goals today with 5 people. I do enjoy that work, but often find myself thinking that time is slipping by. But, each of the ½ hour periods go by so quick. I set the timer for 22 minutes figuring that it will take a minute or two to wind down and an extra 5 minutes to walk down the hall and send the next person. We’ve got the goals pretty much figured out … a few are still having changes. I like what we’ve done to the journal goals where we are looking for realistic content like examples, details, suggestions, feelings, etc. But, if the client is off-conversation, or saying things that aren’t realistic it doesn’t get counted as correct. This way I can track content. The important part though is that there has to be training in between. Usually it means giving one suggestion.
Like when I ask what you would like to journal about … I might bring to point the problem last week in repeating so that this time we are going to say each idea only once.
There’s one client that I was particularly excited about … we’ve been working with her for the last 3 weeks being able to count places to the left of the decimal such as singles, tens, and hundreds. You all remember that right? Hehehe. Part of the exercise is being able to see three digits and know that you have to then say the number hundred and then the next two numbers go together like fourty-two dollars and then two numbers together for the cents. After that there is another goal where she gets $50 in tens and she has to give the right number of tens for the amount (under $50). I might have talked about this yesterday, but the point is that she’s remembering think through the work on her own … and now she seems to be doing it mentally in her head without the visual cues. It’s the most wonderful thing when somebody is showing signs of learning. Like wow! She certainly wasn’t the only one, but maybe the most noticeable. We’ll wait til she’s more confident before we show her off to the DSP in her room. I don’t want the DSP confusing her with other methods right now. So anyway … That’s about it this morning. We’re definitely up now and need to put on shoes, socks, take the medicine and get out the door. Whoops, better leave a note for Sweetie Pie reminding him to get better. See ya!
posted by Ann Marie @ 3/23/2007 06:55:00 AM
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