Tuesday morning ... Getting psyched to work
Good Morning ... this is me. This should be a short note today, because we're already at work. We woke up this morning after almost 8 hours straight through sleep, and then we went to bed for another hour, because it was so nice ... We're waking up with a red mark on our face from the mask, but otherwise it seemed to go OK. I think officially then that the capacity in the water holder thing is big enough for about two nights sleep. That is good, because then the water is being refreshed all the time. I need to ask though if the water in the gallon thing needs to be fridgerated after being opened. Not sure of that. I think it was a pretty good sleep to go all the way through, but we were pretty tired going into it. We'd stayed at work until 6:30 pm, and then went to bed about 3 hours later after talking to the Deb :) For the record I'm posting a picture of what the thing looks like ... better that we all get over this right away. Deb's David was the most helpful ... he said with male authority that I still looked beautiful and he said we looked like a F-14 Fighter Pilot. That really helped with our frame of reference.Whoops forgot the pictures at home ... we'll get it later.
Now that we are at work ... we look at the clock and see that it's about 8:20 am. Our friend was IM'd but he's taking an on-line test for his sports, so we're not going to bother him. He's still expected in later during the morning.
Hmm, just dealt with a behavior situation between two clients. Although the second client is in the wrong for taking something small (less than $5) that wasn't hers, I'm more upset with the first client for being so negative and petty that she's disrupted her class everyday since. I told the staff to tell her, that our assistance will be stopped if she mentions it again by tomorrow after being told that the staff was handling it each day. This is just vengeful ... and we aren't going to support that. And, to make matters worse the teacher is buying into the negativity by making comments like I suppose that we'll all have to suffer now for a long-time coming. Man-o-man ... Just not going to do that!
Ok, ok ... let's get back to the regular stuff. We went through our tickler cards this morning. Hmm, I like that title. We just wrote it on the top cards. We also put a deserted island picture up on our computer sceen hehehe. Ahh just did the same to the second computer. Good for the spirit to be looking at blue sky and water. One day, we'll take a vacation.
Ok, that must not have been the point either ... point is that we went through the tickler cards and we now have to consider what our first major task is. We left off doing CARF work. We were going through the report sheet and marking off all the things that we already have. We also put together about five folders last night up on top. we've got space to buy about 6 more folders maybe 7 ... that would finish up the shelve area so they weren't falling over sideways. I guess we could though put in one or two large miscellaneous files ... that would work too. We figured out that we could use the dividers just as well. They don't show up over the top of the extra plastic sleeves, but they still divide the work. Ok, that's a good idea ... think we're going with it ... just for the reports all 2-5 pages long. Then we can do a table of contents ... but that will come later.
Right now the purpose is to complete all the paper projects for CARF ... want that task over. We still haven't figured what to do with the policy and procedures ... maybe what we can do is have tentative policies and procedures that haven't gone through approval stage ... something to get us past sister's and our friends immediate rejection because they don't want to add complexity where CARF says that something has got to be put in there. We gave our friend the other Lone Policy and procedure over a month ago and he's still not reviewed it. This is what happens when tasks go out to him. It's a slow process. He makes everything into quicksand.
Ok, not going to continue that thread ... best get on with it. We've got John Denver on in the background ... we'll go in a few moments (after clients go to church) to get the extra binders from supply and we'll get a fresh cup up ice water. Then look over at the other desk ... Do it now? Ummm ummm ... ok ... hold on.
posted by Ann Marie @ 3/08/2007 09:01:00 AM
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