Sweet!
Good evening. Hi how are you doing? I don’t think we’ll write for too long. We’ve just finished tidying some stuff up and have a little more time before Rich comes home. He’s visiting his son who is wrestling tonight. He should have a good time.
He brought his disposable camera to finish up the roll his vacation pictures are on. That should be fun.
We’ve had a pretty good day, but it’s been a lazy one. Well, we did get work done during the early hours, but it’s been a while now since we seen real forward progress. We have done the board so feeling good there. I had added some of those notes to the last post here. There are quite a few threads I’m writing in, but this last one seems the most important as to moving along the time continuum with our fellow Marine parents. I’m very, very grateful to them.
Earlier, Rich had gone out shopping and doing other small errands while I took my shower and wrote. After he got back he’d brought some really big hot dogs and French bread. *Sigh* We got a little crazed. We just wanted to be fed immediately … and poor Rich is like … no the food I cook has to be heated first. We were so incensed we might of ate his arm if he put it in front of us. I don’t think we truly grew past our Neanderthal background. We got VERY whiney. And, then when we got our half a hot dog, we weren’t happy thinking we’d been tortured for nothing!
It was some bad times. I’d like to say they wouldn’t happen if we didn’t have younger parts, but we know better about EVERYone taking responsibility for bad behaviors. HMPF!
Rich said … I thought we were going to watch the game together, but we said we had to sleep away our bad mood. So, we covered ourselves up on the recliner while he was on the couch. That lasted for 2-3 minutes and then we looked over at him and his eyes were closed. Well you can imagine … we said THAT’s not fair … I thought we were going to watch the SOX together. He said he was watching it by listening and that he knew baseball so good that he could rest his eyes. DOUBLE HMPF. Well, that just looked too inviting. So, we got done being mad and went and curled up by his lap. He can’t go napping without us! That wouldn’t be fair.
So we both slept through baseball together … it was so romantic.
WooHOO … SOX won 4-3 … that was some pretty good fan-nappin!
I think that we’ll write for a bit now and then we’ll read about 7 pm or so. It’s 5:40 pm now.
We got a call about 20 minutes ago from Thom. It was very nice to hear his voice. I wasn’t sure I heard everything. He talks outside I think and the wind blows into the phone. He said he had some fun with learning the new weapons, but he says the moral is down – too many guys are being homesick and questioning whether joining the Marines is a good thing. They are feeling trapped and fear it is going to be like it is now for the next 4-5 years. Thom doesn’t think like that, but he can see it with others. Thom is looking very forward though to being at the next spot – his MOS school (Military Occupational Specialty). He says that about 90% of the guys he can do with out.
I guess there were more problems with liberty in that the Drill Instructor (DI) seemed to be having a bad time last night. He was asking for more and more I think … this part was a little confusing. But, I guess the other guy who was scheduling fire watch – must have been a new Marine coming up, because somehow he got into the habit of charging other Marines for taking them off the list to work. Marines don’t like that sorta stuff. So, somehow or another Thom got the job. I guess he’s the scribe. I think the scribe job must have come with the change in responsibilities.
Thom has always been very ethically minded, so he put on watch some of the guys who had before bought their way off the list. So now there’s a bunch of people mad at Thom. *Sigh* I guess if Thom can deal with it – I can too. I’m proud of him for doing the right thing.
Ahh that was Thom calling once more … he sounds very FULL!!! He said he ate the entire pizza, but one piece. I guess they didn’t have breakfast and they wouldn’t be having dinner after the liberty because it was too late. Hmm, he also said that they don’t have DIs any more they have combat somethings … like combat sergeants.
It was combat something. He says they’re pretty good, but still mess around with you. It sounds like there’s a lot of guys that could be messed around with. I think part of Thom having extra liberty was that he said something smart ass so lost a couple more hours than others. He was being sarcastic about the junky stuff going around. Eh … he’s still a good Thom!
I think it helps Thom that some of his close friends can see him for who he is. He really goes out of his way to be nice to everyone – even to the one’s no one else can stand. He says after this hike … AHHH… The hike is a pretty hard thing … it’s 15 K … and if a K is .621 miles then he’ll be hiking 9.315 miles. Loaded down with full pack, going up and down hills, and sometimes doing it at a run I think is a very hard thing to do. I think they are being trained to be pack mules. Just what doesn’t break him will make him stronger right? He says that he’s in better physical and mental strength for this one more than the last. He’s ready to tackle the hills … he thinks he’s going to do well. So GOOOO THOM!
I love his confidence. I love the Thom. But, then I love Maury and Joe too! Funny how that turns out :
Hmm, have I said that before? I called Maury to see if Thom has talked to him too.
I don’t think he had too much time so I’m thinking that he didn’t get to everyone.
I’m really glad he talked to me. It makes me feel like a jillion bucks! He’s got such a good attitude about what he’s doing. He’s going to make a good Marine … he’s doing all the things that they line up for them in values. If he gets mad at those who don’t then that’s on them, not him.
Ok, ok … shhh. I can talk about something different, right? It will be ok. I’m going to believe in Thom. YEAH! MOM!!!
*Giggle* Ok, silly Mom too! But, that’s ok.
So, what’s next? Probably not too much to write about at this point. The extra work stuff I did this morning made me feel good, but there’s going to be a big priority in getting things done tomorrow before the 1 pm staffing. I haven’t done anything for it yet. I should have talked to the trainer last week, but there just wasn’t time. I think I even stayed late, but there still wasn’t time. I had been just cleaning stuff up. AHH no I didn’t stay late – I was cleaning things up, but I was supposed to go to Dr. Marvin’s, but then I hurt my back taking these big books in my bag to the car. I was running a few minutes late and tried too hard to keep up. Well, they’ll be lighter tomorrow.
I did both groups and I printed out extra calendars and goal data sheets this morning. Before I’d cleared most of the stuff out of the books, beside what’s supposed to be there. I also made new summary sheets for both groups and did some fancy stuff like making sure there were incident reports and satisfaction surveys in both as well as a new set of QMRP Caseload lists. I think they are looking very good. I’m going to shoot Sue when she starts stuffing junk in there again. She likes to fill up the pockets with old work instead of processing it the way it’s supposed to be.
I can see that Sue is proud of her work, but it needs to be showcased somewhere else. I’m leaving them the old 3-4” binder with divisions in it … so if she wants to stack up work, it will be there instead of in the goal book. Just isn’t necessary. I’m looking strangely forward to using them. I still have to get some of the old goal sheets explaining how to do the goals. I know there should be some for both me and Candice clients. Holly is like forget it … I just want her to tell me what the goal is. She left nothing, but old notes, and then had the audacity to say we didn’t do it right?!! Well what the f(*&%#() is right?! I decided that I was going to sit down with her and Sister Florine when she goes over the goals. I think she was looking forward to some one-on-one time with Sr. Florine, but I need to know how to do the goals too. Especially if Holly is going to blow off her responsibility in listing the goal steps. I’ll make a permanent record for the books. I’d rather do the work myself than not to have the job done right. I think it is unfair to give the work to Sr. without directions. Holly is just BS by saying she can do it verbal. The staff should expect more from her. I’ll be sure to let Sr. know what is happening.
But, not tomorrow … I gotta get through the staffing. I think I’m caught up with the annual reports … am I? Let me think. No, I bet not … I think I’m caught up EXCEPT one – the last one that was on Wednesday. Better take care of that Monday night or Tuesday. I also have to fix the goal sheets for the two clients that were staffed by Candice. She wrote the report for only one, and she didn’t do the long goals for either. That’s got to get done this week. Hopefully, I’ll start collecting some paperwork too. I had sent out those letters – 16 of them all together asking for stuff. I’ll give them about 3 weeks, and then I’ll back it up with phone calls. AND, I need to make sure my annual dates are all good … I know that a couple of the staff have been out from CSO … so we’re backed up over there a little. Hmm, why are we thinking Monday morning already anyway? YEEKS!
Rich just called. He said he’s running late … instead of being back at 6 pm, he’ll be getting in 7-7:30 pm, or most likely 8 pm. *Sigh* can’t say I wasn’t expecting that. It will be ok. I’m getting somewhat eager though to be doing some reading.
I think I’m going to finish here so I can get it in the blog proper.
Thinking though I had wanted to do something with pictures. I haven’t had a good picture for a bit. What could I add?
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Ahhh... ;)
posted by Ann Marie @ 7/06/2008 06:37:00 PM
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