Tabling Tough Talk
Good morning! It’s me! Ok, maybe me without the exclamation marks, but still me nonetheless. We’re up a little early and writing from what we have been lately. We got up and spent a half hour with Sweetie before he left for work and then we took our shower. It’s about 5:30 am now. We’ve got just a little over an hour then before we have to do much. Though, it be advisable somewhere in there to take the medicine. Hmm?We had a very nice evening though we were by ourselves for the most part and just reading. Rich came home about 8 and we stayed up with him about 30-45 minutes before falling too tired. He had talked a little, but had started to look at his business work. When I got too tired and reached for the fudgicle, he decided as well that he should get some sleep because he had to be up early. Good dear.
Well, there ya go … you’re all caught up!
Hmm, you already know of my business predicament in getting the staffing ready this morning. I don’t necessarily want to go there. I do want to eek out a minute or two to make sure I get all the goals into the book, but other than that … I’ll want to go straight to work on the other. Hmm, maybe it would behoove me to go in a few minutes early, so I can do that before getting Group 1. That be a good idea, right?
Let’s see 5:36 am now … why don’t we cut off this morning at 6:40. That should give us an extra 15-20 minutes. Good thinking!
Good good. I did a little snooping. I found that between Candices clients and mine we need to find 7 sets of documents, and then Holly has 6 clients that we’ll look for their goals and objective sheet. That will be good for the records. I have to convince her though not to tear them out. We can get them while she’s not there this morning, but we’ll need her not to destroy them after they get there.
We’re thinking they should be in her files, unless she hasn’t taken care of them.
We should be able to do that when we’re up front this morning.
Pshwoo … on top of it this morning!
I could probably in a pinch take my flash drive and pull the records from Rosa’s computer, but then that be too much time away from the group, plus it might be an inconvenience to Rosa. Ok, shhh… we’re going in early, remember.
Hmm, I wonder if I’m going to be able to have things done by noon on the staffing.
I had forgotten about going in for the goals. That’s what all this work has been for … so I can work through the goal book with Sister easily. I’d like to be there for the first time to make sure I’ve got everything in there that is necessary and to see if the book IS as easy to use as I tried to make it. Feeling a little preoccupied with this book. It’ll be ok, right?
Mmm, that was good. I went in for some more coffee and remembered Rich had gotten some little pastries that had sausage, eggs, and cheese in them. They are smaller than a pop-tart, but turned out pretty good. They did take a minute to heat up, but that’s within my reason. Good good. Will that now keep me filled up? It would seem like it was plenty of protein.
I wonder if we’re going to have Internet today. I think Sister’s nephew Mike is coming in to take care of it, but I’m not sure if he can do the heavy wiring that may be necessary. Supposedly Sr. is the only one to get on-line service now and that’s VERY unsatisfactory.
Ok, next … next? Shoot it’s hard to focus when you’re just thinking about what has to get done at work. Maybe we’ll get ready at 6:30 am. I think Sister starts letting people in at about 7 am. I don’t think she’d mind if I was coming in early to get some stuff done. Maybe I could finish up with the books and get the ICAP done too. That would be a great idea! Leave more time for the report and the goals. In a pinch, we don’t have to have the long goals written up, and I might not do that so I can be working on goals with Sister Florine. But, it’s always nice to think them through first. If Cathy is not there today, I will scream ACCCKKK! Hmm, should maybe then have a backup plan. I suppose a good start would be to look through his staff training notes, and then another good idea is that maybe Stephanie would be in if Cathy were not. Ok, let’s not borrow trouble. See this is what happens when you do things last moment. Sister was taking up a lot of time. And, this is going to happen again next week if I’m not careful. We have several Monday staffings in a row. Doesn’t help that Sister doesn’t like them.
Ok, we’re not going to worry ourselves to pieces right?
We are reading now the book about the problems in Fallujah, Iraq. That’s enough to worry anyone. The part I just read was about when they found those American contractors, burned them to pieces then, tore them up a bit, and dragged them through the street before hanging them on the bridge. I think it’s one of the most ghastly things that have happened in the war directly. Any senseless death is bad, but so much disrespect was shown in those instances, that it’s hard to think of those people as being civil. The same time frame. The Iraq people killed 23 of their own police force. I don’t think from the heading of the book that Fallujah story is going to get much better. It talks about 4 stages of development. We’ve gone through the parachuters being in charge of the town and now … where we are in the story … it’s been handed over to the Marines. It’s only the 2nd stage of development so we’re thinking it’s not going to get much better.
I do like how the story is put together in that … they take the work of many writers and journalists and piece together the different viewpoints what happened, so that the whole thing is really backed up pretty good. I think it’s harder to read though this kind of book more than a psychology book where they are just talking about rage and anger and aggression. Here in the story it’s all played out on National headlines first, and then in book form. I tried watching a news show where there were two Senators debating, with one being Senator Kerry who’d just been in Iraq.
But, there was still way too much that I haven’t processed yet, which made the listening very difficult. The format was difficult too because the Senators were a bit dominating and loud in trying to get to their points, before the moderator could cut them off for the next question. Senator Kerry was particularly bad at bulldozing his way through.
If this is difficult for me to listen to … you might guess how the other might make me very uncomfortable. I think that is what its all about though. Somehow we’ve got to reach inside ourselves to accept all that could happen over there. We feel still compelled at this time to figure stuff out.
Hmm, we’re just checking the subject where we had left it over on the board. First thing I read is that JuDee is saying that’s enough talk about the war. I’m going to need then pulling back over there. She instead turned the talk over to her son having called. There then was another parent who talked about her son … and then Carolyn stated it from the perspective of God and sin. I think she thought about it and it was a sincere response, but she then to said … try not to over-analyze it and leave it to Jesus Christ because we as people are not called on to know all the answers. Then she said something of loving my handling of the snake situation.
After that … it was five more posts that were light. I guess that’s the end of serious. No one wants to say anything more it seems. I’ve probably pushed the envelope too far. I’ll pull back a bit. My heart isn’t into the light stuff like “go fasters.” That’s military talk for tennis shoes.
posted by Ann Marie @ 7/07/2008 06:26:00 AM
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