Ayn's Multiple World

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Good morning … this is me. Hopefully, we’re in better shape this morning than we were yesterday. It’s about 4:15 am now … we got up about 15 minutes ago. We were very surprised to see when we looked toward our computer that Rich had gotten four pictures of himself fishing. I think the other guy that was taking the pictures must have taken care of it, because there was one picture that was even blown up and had had a frame around it.

The pictures are GREAT!!!

In each of them he has very large fishes that he is holding. With the big picture not only do you have the nice scenery of blue lake, green trees and blue sky – you also have this really nice billowing white cloud just hanging perfectly as if its only purpose was to jump in Sweeties picture and be beautiful in doing so. Each of Rich’s faces looks SOOO happy to be holding them big fishes. On the big one he remembered to take off his sun glasses so you can see the pride.

Whoops! Fishyperson woke up for a few minutes. I could hear his alarm clock went off so he got up to go to the bathroom, but he’s headed back to bed. He was at the big card club game last night so got in very late … Ahh, we just tucked him in with a smooch! I remember when he got home last night, because we left the light on and our glasses on so he’s wake us up when he was fixing those problems. I guess we’d fallen asleep too with our fudgesicle stick still in our finger tips. Yup, yup … that’s dedication! Fishy man said though when we asked that he didn’t win a gazillion bucks for us, but that Bob won just over a hundred bucks. Our guy said he came out $3-4 ahead. Pshwoo. Good old Bob didn’t win all his money!

Hmm, there was something too about last night … we had nightmares again. This time there were two opposing forces and they were kind of sadistically attacking each other … with knives and slashing, poking and electrifying each other … It was more like vaporous monster like figures. They started with this one woman who had attached herself to us in a hotel. Even though Rich was there she had wanted to be in a girl-to-girl relationship. There was this part too about listening to voice messages on the phone. The calls were from family that we were meeting in the hotel. She got very angry when rebuffed or put-off because of the phone messages, so she started attacking us. Rich got her outside, and then she was begging to get in. The other series of dreams started then with this female character.

First there was just her, then it was her with a couple of partners, and at that time we were sorta like her in that we were shadowy characters too … not Rich, but maybe the boys. As the dream and violence continued, there were more and more characters added so that by the time we woke up we were very ready to wake up and there were about 50 characters on each side. We’re thinking sort of like Addams family in that things were very strange and off-key. In between the violence there would be short glimpses of the family sitting/laying around in close proximity breeding more and more young ones who would very soon out of crib start their end of the violence with new tricks. It was pretty horrible.

Ok, that’s enough of that. Let’s go somewhere positive? We loss some more weight … we were this morning at 273.2 WOOHOO!!! This is the lowest we’ve been so far. With Rich leaving for fishing this morning, it would be good to get down to 270 before he got back – but, that’s pretty extreme. Maybe at least though a pound or two? That be nice. Rich said he left a hundred dollars at the table. The deal is that he said he would give me another hundred every 25 pounds we lost. This means that after we lose another 16 pounds and are down to 257 that we will get another $100 WOOHOOO!!! I’m not sure what we’re going to end up with, but it be a good excuse to get out on Saturday when Sweetie is gone. We need to stop at the Village Hall to pick up our city vehicle sticker … and I’m pretty sure that has to be done before noon. We’ll get there if we really try, right?

Hmm, what else is news? Hmm, I think it’s been a couple of days since we’ve written. So there are probably things that are happening at work. First, though I wanted to say that we got home in time to spend almost a couple of hours with Sweetie before he left for cards. I had gotten home with enough time to eat and he’d gotten home soon after. He’d stopped and done some errands AND he seems to have gotten to a store that sells flowers, because we got some beauties! We arranged them in a vase when he was getting readjusted. Hehe umm that means he had to use the washroom. We talked for a few minutes after that by the computer. We had to get him a Wisconsin fishing license. That was kinda cool. Didn’t know you could do that sorta thing on line – but, you can!

AFTERWARDS!!! Well SOMEbuddy might have been fooling around … but WE wouldn’t say that out loud, right? Ok, points then been made!

*Sigh*

Ok, ok … getting back into serious again … we have had a couple of good days at work. Pretty much just working. Speaking of yesterday, we got in about 15 minutes early so that we could be meeting up with Maria to go over some goals. I guess she is getting in at 6 am because she has to take some time off to get her son to camp each morning. Guessing that that would be a 4-6 week deal. We sat down and hammered out some ideas with her … we had to go through like 4 clients. These were all Candice’s clients that she didn’t’ fix before she left. That’s ok … bye, bye, bye.

I was really pleased with ourselves, because after talking to Maria we continued – as to we needed to spend a few moments in Group 4, because one of the clients had become upset, but then her teacher came in very soon afterward, so that left us time to be going to our regular morning group – Group 1. And, we’ll get back to that, but the point is after THAT group, we went back to work with Maria’s goals and even though we were interrupted again by teaching with the same group doing goals – we got back AGAIN to Maria’s goals and we finished them up about 2:30 pm. SWEET! One person we had to do three goals and a goals and objective couple of pages. And, then with one girl we had to do two more goals, and then after we had two more people who needed one goal apiece – so, that was real good work. I was pleased with the result and being able to lay it on Maria’s desk – same day service.

Group 1, was no problem taking care of. There was the one client who always talks so much, but I decided to put that on my grounds, in that I asked a question as to how her step-father was doing. I wasn’t sure if he was still living with the family or gone. I’d heard he was gone, but wanted to clarify. It turned out that the step-father had died. The girl gave me all the details – she’s got a good memory, and I don’t believe she was elaborating. Then after that, she’d talked about being in the choir at church and her Pastor’s wife having also died. Both of these were in the last 2-3 weeks it had seemed although you can never be sure of time with this group. It’s not one of their specialties. After I’d heard quite a bit of information, I stopped her and told her that I thought it would be a good idea to get this information down in her journal. She has a journal to write things, especially when she gets upset. She thought that was a good idea, so we wrote about a page summary and then read it back to her so she would know what I had written.

She thought it was a good summary and she said sure when it came to making a copy of it for her chart. I also let Sr. Florine read it – her DSP and I told Sr. Theresa that the gentleman had died. I think we were all a little surprised. Usually, that kind of thing this client would say right away. Maybe she had to the other Sr., but the rest of us hadn’t heard it. This person had been a big influence on the client before and had caused her quite a bit of angst, even though she loved him. I was glad that it had come up in this way and I thought it might explain some of the trouble she’s been having.

In the meantime … her peers had been listening too. This client is the best as far as simple talking or telling of stories. After she had finished, one of the other clients had slipped a picture of Rosetta – home drawn into her notebook, and another client had come over with a picture of a nicely drawn heart. It was very sweet of them to do so. They had thought of their friend going through this set of circumstances and they’d reached out to her. It is very touching. It was good attention spent.

Back in the office … we had spent the time taking care of the other issues with the goals. After I’d finished that project I took some time to sort out what had to be done next. We were still working with these first five clients would had an annual and were at different processes. We wrote down a card with those five and the next five coming up in July or August, and then we wrote out some columns of what had to be accomplished with each. Each needs an ICAP, long agenda – with DSP notes, long goals, goals and objectives, and an annual. We noted who had each of these done – which took a little effort in finding. Candice had had two of the staffings before I had gotten there, but she hadn’t taken care of the majority of the paperwork. We had to trace that back.

We had thought we’d take care of one of the girl’s annual – the oldest client of the bunch that needed something done. And, by old it means – she had waited the longest for her paperwork. But, we found absolutely no notes as to her staffing and how things had gone. We decided to take a chance and call the girl’s mother who we’d related to quite a bit in the past. It turned out that she was in a bad mood, because the government had decided to take $96 out of her Medicare check each month to pay for coverage she didn’t want. I referred her to Holly because the client in question was hers. We have both sisters in the family being serviced by the center. I’ve got the oldest sister, so we’ll try to focus on only her. The mother asked for a day or two to calm down before she tackles what we need to go through for that. It’s been a month today since that staffing so I’ll be asking her to talk about anything that I should know that might be a concern. I want to do this right. I was very apologetic for the other Q who hadn’t taken care of the situation correctly by having written out the report before she left. It left us all dangling a bit.

Since I couldn’t progress that much more and I couldn’t progress the girl’s goals I decided I better go on to someone else. The girl is between goals at the moment and she is going to be Sr. Florine’s client, so I want to make sure which goals she wants to work on before I write anything up. That’s being nice of me 

Ahh, Sweetie is up again … it’s about 5:15 am. He’s in the shower now, but we made sure he knew how appreciating we were. We were sitting in the washroom waiting for him to appear. We made sure he knew that he deserved all of our attention. We told him we wanted to see the whole show   Silly us! We also wanted to make sure he got on the scale. He was already naked and had been avoiding that. We asked him how much did he think he weighs and he groaned about 285. But, the scale registered 290. HMMM, that doesn’t sound too good. We know that when he gets back he’ll say he ate too much and won’t want to re-weigh. BUT, I think it’s fair. So officially, that makes me 17 pounds lighter than him. Sheesh … he’s got to do something or we’re never going to be competitive with him again. I had hoped I’d be more of an inspiration, but I don’t see him going in that direction. He shouldn’t weigh as much as he does, because he says that most days he doesn’t eat meals in the morning or afternoon. I think he does things like pretzels and red licorice that he doesn’t want to count, but needs to be counted. I’m worried over him.

I’m not sure what to do to help him more. I’d much prefer he eat more often, but less at each meal than he is doing with the food at dinner time. For example, he didn’t see a problem in eating TWO thick pork chops instead of one. I did work hard at pointing out the fact that one pork chop was probably about 8 ounces and that 4 ounces would be sufficient. He did eventually give up the other pork chop, but I wasn’t able to be around all the time to watch what he is eating. I know last night he ate with the guys. There’s no telling what he consumed. My baby needs to be healthier. He’s breaking my heart, cuz I worry that he won’t be here to share my life. This leaves me feeling things I don’t want to feel.

Ahh my fishyman just got a weight lecture … we watched him finish getting dressed, and then we got him coffee and helped him get out a note to his brother. Now he’s down loading the car with the first round of stuff. He has about 15-20 minutes before he has to go. I’m going to need taking my shower by then. Chances are I’ll go and talk to him though when he gets back upstairs. It’s sorta a hard thing when he goes. He won’t be back now until Sunday night. He says I have to do three things – maybe four. I have to empty the dishwasher, clean up the living room, walk at the zoo, and go clothes shopping. I think he’s leaving me holding the bag! Let HIM do all that stuff. Ok, ok … now your just pouting. Whoops there he is. BRB

Whoops he’s going to take one more load real quick. He has to drive to the other fishyman’s house and they’ll go from there. I should figure out how long they will be driving – maybe 4 to 5 hours. I know they are heading to Wisconsin Pool 10.

That’s about it.

I had a note from my mother in the mail box this morning. She says that John has basil cell carcinoma. I think that is a skin cancer. He’s going to be going over the next couple of days to a dermatologist in the cities because they can’t get in to Duluth until September. She also says that her brother Wes, seems to have diverticulitis which is what my grandmother had. I just remember it’s a significant change in diet, so that you can’t be eating roughage. She had problems with her bowels, and she had trouble with keeping blood – know she needed transfusions. I sure hope it turns out to be something different, but it may not. I’ve really let go of my commitment to be calling people more often. I’m going to need being on the phone this weekend.

Hmm, Rich is back … he has about 10 minutes now. I’m hoping that he’ll come out here. I’m already comfortable … Yeah!!!

Hmm, now our poor fishyman is gone fishing. Poor Rich … he’ll probably miss me some. Well he said at least he misses me at the end of the day when he would like a back rub! AHA! There’s value at them finger tips!

He came and sat down and we talked. Pretty much it’s loose chatter about what the other one has to be doing. He reminds me of my tasks and he reminded me to keep the flowers watered. And, we reminded him not to fall out of the boat. He says he floats though. So then we’d have to remind him not to get konked on the head if he falls in. Well, we didn’t actually say that, but we mean it! We were doing ok until he said, “I love you!” Then, we were back to following him out the door for our last kisses. There’s always a feeling like just one more smooch, just one more. But, in the end, we always let him go. He was already working on fish strategy. He’s bringing a few of the fishy pictures with him … clipped onto his map book. He says it’s for when he accidently opens the book then he can show the guys. Hehehe … they be sneaky!

I think I’m going to miss him already.

But, I know that I’ll get distracted in-between times. That’s the nature of the beast. Ok, you … 15 minutes left … got to make a decision here. Do we go to work early, or do we stay and use the time for writing?

What would be left to write about? We pretty much have the day down, but we haven’t talked about anything extra. Like today is a Dr. Marvin day. We missed last week so will have some catching up to do today. I don’t think he knows yet that Candice is gone. WoOHOO! That’s pretty much the big news. It would be nice to get into something constructive today. I don’t know what form that would take. We’re pretty good at work – much more focused than we have been, and the relationships with Rich and the kids are going ok. I still worry about Maury a bit, because I think he seems a little mopey. I think this is more to do with our relationship than with everything in general, though I know he’s working hard. I think that all is going well with Joe and him, but that Joe might have another place to go by August – I think he’s getting into the place above the Karate Dojo. I would hope that maybe on his own, he’ll let me come and visit. I’d really like to see how he is going to be living. I never saw the places on Ovaltine.

My off-work life is going pretty good too. We’re still reading. We read yesterday night until we fell asleep and only about 10:30 pm woke up to go to bed proper.

Well as proper as you can get with a fudgicle stick in your hand.

I’m not sure exactly what we could talk about with Dr. Marvin. Maybe we’ll have something after the end of today. Now, I’m really worried about what’s going to happen with Staff training. I think Sr. is going to come in again and expect something very inviting for herself and the group. I should have time to plan it after working with Group I. I think I’ll go back to the rules 119 … Officially we should be talking today about Normalization and age and cultural appropriateness.

Hmm. Ok, that will be a challenge. I’ll have to think about that as I go into work this morning. I’m bordering on wanting to be there and here at the same time. I sure do love being able to be in charge of my own time. I think though that being in charge of Group 1 the first hour is good for us. It gets us past the slump of not doing too much when I first come in. Lately, I’ve been so enthused by the time I get back to the office that I want to be doing anything that is work related toward getting something done and accomplished. No different today. So, I guess at that … I should get on my way. We can do this, right?

posted by Ann Marie @ 7/10/2008 06:48:00 AM Comments: 0