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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Just nudging me along

Good morning. This is me. We’re here … at work that is … I don’t know why we’re doing this instead of jumping into work direct, but this is what is happening. I have to ask could I do something more work like? Why don’t we try to think, hmm? What should we be doing? Hmm, might need to use the washroom. That be a good idea, hmm?

A little spacy. We didn’t get to drink coffee this morning … that might be a problem.

Ok, better … some tea. Just old fashioned Lipton. But, it’s hot and has at least some caffeine. I also turned on the air … at least down to 68 degrees. It’s a start … the bigger group is in today in the Leadership group making it warmer in here. I’m going to be ok, I’m going to be ok, right? I did take my medicine so that part should be ok. Just need to calm down.

This is our first morning without Fishyman. I checked my messages this morning. It doesn’t seem that he called. Maybe tonight. I’m guessing they got in some night fishing last night and will be up bright and early this morning. I’m hoping for the best … He really wanted to bring home a championship this weekend. I’m hoping for the best for him.

I don’t think I have much to add as far as things on the schedule. I went to the therapy last night after stopping by to get the taco salad. That was good. The therapy went ok. It was hard and I seem to have lost a connection I thought I might have with Tiffany. She’s still pretty verbal as to making corrections … There was another situation where the little girl – maybe 4-5 years old was in and she had a bad session I guess where she didn’t work so hard and made a lot of excuses. She cried at the end because they wouldn’t give her an award for working hard. Tiffany jumped all over that. I told her later it was because she’d been wound up. The guy had said you should be doing ok because you even had a party today, but we know that parties tend to wear on you. Poor kid … victim of party circumstances hehehe.

Everyone is just being themselves.

I went home and took our medicine and then ate something that Rich had set aside for us and then we went right to bed. We woke up around 4 am, but went back to bed. It was too much for us to be up. The pain this morning was just medium. We put the ice on it on just before leaving and got on our way. The ride in was long, and then we got to work, and here we are.

So, with all that said, we need to figure out how to make today productive. We’ve got to do something with Q-notes today. I’d like to have one or two finished, if nothing else … at least start on the second. We’ve got group 2 today for the extended relationships, and then we’ve got staff training. Sr. wants to get in there though and Maria has an exercise she wants to work through with the group.

So, that’s a pretty good idea. I had a schedule made up, but I don’t think we are going to get too much into it, besides it had been set up to be a computer group.

We’ll just stay in the staff dining room and see what happens.

Tomorrow is our in-service which means we’ll have a special day of meetings and lunch. I might have mentioned that already. I’m not sure if we’re going to have therapy yet … We’re scheduled for it, but its an odd day. Oh yeah, tonight there is Dr. Marvin. We’ll see. I don’t think we have to be in until 9 am tomorrow, but if we’re up we’ll come in early. UNLESS, we get to do some writing from home? Maybe?

I’m still a little sleepy now … so I think we’re going to need to do some organizing … something to get our mind more focused.

Ok, officially, we’ve been doing some of the supervising and curriculum work first thing and then going over to the other stuff. I’m not sure if we should do that, or if we should go right into those Qnotes. I brought over my extra drive just in case we wanted to jump right into the work. It’s going to be a struggle. Hmm, what would happen if we had some chocolate … that might give us some caffeine? But, the sugar could make us more tired? Guessing that’s not such a good idea. Be nice to have some real work getting done. Maybe with the slow days behind us we could get a jump on Qnotes to make up for lost ground and reassure ourselves of getting work done.

Hmm, that would seem to make sense. Just have to focus…

We’re back … we’re on a break. We’ve got 15 minutes left of our lunch, and then we are going into back to back meetings that I’m supposed to be in charge of. The first is the Circles Program for Group II, and then staff training. I don’t know how much time we’ll get to do what I planned. Sr. wants to come in and talk and one of the staff members wants me to have everyone complete an attitude test in following directions. I think they are getting to get cues from one another. Hmm, I wonder if I should have them spread out in the room so they don’t see what one another is doing. That might be a good idea … I should leave a few moments earlier to make sure I get copies. I’m good on directives and copies of the other stuff.

I always get a little nervous doing things like this … I should be ok with it by now, but I still get nervous. I don’t know if I’m going to remember everything … It helps to have the cheat sheets we’ve been making up.

I did good on concentration before lunch. I completed from 3 people 9 Qnotes, which mean 2 are done and there is only four more to finish the third person … It be inspirational to try and finish those extra two people too, but I don’t think I can do it with the meetings, plus tonight I leave 15 minutes early to make Dr. Marvin’s appointment. Lots to do.

One of the ways I get un-spooked is to get in the thick of it – see people and talk to them … I’ve got an automatic hi message for those who initiate that gesture, but for the most part I feel like I’m ghost walking down the hall. I guess this is a good marker of being “My part.” Hmm? Ok, ok … I know gotta get going.