Ayn's Multiple World

Some more time on-line, but pretty busy with the news

Good morning ... this is me. AND, we're up earlier this morning. Woohoo!

It's about 4:15 am now. Rich followed me in getting up, but only long enough to say that I should be going back to bed so that we can be up at the same time. It's just that he's been gone for the last couple of days and we weren't feeling so great, so both times we went to bed earlier. AHA! We also tried something sneaky. We fed our kitties before we went to bed. So, they let us sleep in, unfortunately, they still wanted to be fed this morning ... not sure that's going to work out ... I know they can't afford weightwise to be fed twice a day. Have to work through that. Maybe I'll have to split up their meal. Not sure yet.

I'm going to need to fight through not crawling back to bed now ... I really want the time to be writing, but we feel kinda tired yet too. We had a pudding and the last small piece of chicken ... so I'm thinking that now that my tummy is happy than it will think it's back to bedtime. The other problem that we have sometimes is that we get to feeling cold and need to snuggle back into bed, but we put one of our small blankets over our legs and the other blanky over our shoulders - HA! Take that sleep demon!

So ... where are we? I think the kitties are settling down ... so that part of us is more calm. News is on ... we're listening to Anderson Cooper now so am feeling good about that. Gay stuff is in the news. People are fighting against California's new of California's new marriage ban ... people are pretty frustrated with the Mormon's because of their involvement. Now the guys are just talking over each other and AC isn't watching it close enough so it's not productive. Ok, there he goes. Pswhoo!

Have to admit the guy on the right side is pretty right don't see where he's getting his shtuff from ... he's pretty crazed on promoting one stiffling view of life and he's trying to say majority should rule the issue - but, that's not a good idea for the minority, because they are the ones who need to suffer through. The far right guy also says that because historically it was one thing it has to be that everytime, but that doesn't allow for growth and development and change. Like everything has to be static. I find that mode of thinking downright depressing. What like life doesn't have evolution? Hasn't that been the way all along?

Ok, that's enough of that.

Like we were saying ... sweetie came home later last night, but I'm not sure when. I seem to recall the feeling of him lifting my glasses off my face, but that's about it I'm afraid. I'm thinking he didn't stay up either, because the channel was still turned to CNN when I turned on the TV this morning. Maybe tonight we'll catch up a bit after Dr. Marvin's office?

Hmm, tomorrow they are going to do their special on the Jonestown murders. That will be a must see. It's a 30 year anniversary. 900 people dead. It will be on at 8 pm. Ok ...nuf of that ...

Better subject ... they are still showing versions of dogs for the President Elect's family. They are getting cuter and cuter. The last one looked like an adorable black lab puppy. He was pretty cute.

So as to last night? I ate too much chili ... that didn't help my tummy much ... and I'd eaten too much bread during the day ... and now I have that much more cinnamon bread. I don't know why I feel compelled to eat it. Maybe just my general sneakiness in getting it past Rich. Ok, girl ... slow down ... it' will be ok. Shhh...

Maybe we better think of something else ... shoot sure doing a lot of avoiding this morning. What's up with that? Yah, I know ... we don't want to think about it. Maybe it's a good time to be going to Dr. Marvin's office. Seems like we don't always consciously figure out what's going wrong, but stuff adds up in our head and needs to be explored proper. I think that's one of the things Dr. Marvin helps us with - to get past the hard stuff.

Whoops AC is done now the morning show. We can handle that ... *sigh* ... aha! it's one of those things that state for us that things CHANGE!!! Isn't that the whole Obama plan? John Roberts and the other lady is on now ... I forgot her name. She's pretty good though too. Yeeks Columbia is rioting - because some fraud guys took millions of money of people's savings. I think they had a false loan company.

Hmm, are we going to get past the news here? Ok, one more thing ... the Dow had another 400 some drop and it's been the third major drop in as many days. Oh and Paulson is on-line again with his new changes with how to handle the 700 billion dollars they have to spend however. It has to do with toxic assets ... now they are going to be doing more shoring up of consumer loss like credit cards and loans, etc.

Ok, let's get back into personal k? Where are we ... anything else from last night? Naw ... it was kind of a downer night. We watched news and then fell asleep early. I think we left work pretty much on time ... about 15-20 minutes late. Let's think through the day for a moment. What's in our memory?

Well, I think we got there on time, but we didn't have time to do much because we'd stopped for gas on the way in. YEEKS! That was terrible. My gizmo said that we only had had 17 mpg. That kind of stuff really scares me. I'm trying to adjust to the part that I paid more and am wasting more gas, because I wanted to get a car that felt more safe to me. That is true, but gas trip, by gas trip ... the costs and guilt are killing me. We should probably talk to Rich or Dr. Marvin and ask for some help getting past the lesser thoughts. Not that they aren't worthy, just that I got to be dealing with them - and so much more.

After we got there and put down our things, we went up to the front to watch Group I. They had work in the workshop - the tag job, so we weren't able to work on the computer, but it seemed things went well enough. I'd written about 3/4 of a page before the real work began, but then there just wasn't enough time while I was checking the client's work. We had a little problem with one of our problem clients, she wanted to go rogue. Heheh ... I do like that term. She was in one of those moods where she didn't think her work needed checking because she'd counted it. So then in a straight forward manner, we pushed her through recounting, because she'd made 2 out of 5 mistakes. She was very cranky. I also had to tell her to stop talking after 8 am when the work had begun. She's been going on and on pretty obtrusively. Her peers complain, and I know she has to control herself sometime, because she's now on a volunteer job where they could dismiss her if the talking got too much. She will now talk outloud to herself if there is no one more direct to be talking at ... not with, but at!

Afterward she apologized, which I guess I could be grateful for, but as well, I wasn't going to tolerate much going off. I was right in that when Sr. Florine got back, she complained about all the talking too and asked me to say something more to the client. I'm thinking now that the staff isn't coming down on her consistently, because the talking has become more and more unconstrained. We'll have to see. I know it's threatening to the client not to be talking, but she really has little knowledge of how disturbing it is to have to listen to her. Though yesterday she stated out loud while she was trying to work through her position - that her mother had said too that she has to stop talking so much. Not sure where to go from here. She seems to be talking at a level it's like breathing for her.

We did ok with keeping up with the client counts though. Sr. Florine had left not sure which tag to go onto next, so we set it within our site to run the clients out of work with the tag they'd been working on. I had to start up several new positions, because Sr. had not set them up and I had to continually adjust the workload so that people all finished at the same time. We had run out of work for 3 of the 10 people and the others were finishing up within 5-10 minutes. I felt good about that. Margarita walked in at 8:30 am and said she'd take over ... I had told her we were running them out of that size tags.

Kiran Chetry ... AHA! That's the other anchor person on the morning show. I watch enough CNN to know the main players. Kiran Chetry was a tricky name to learn not quite like John Roberts. But, seeing it in print once will make it a lot easier to visuallize ... Jason is one of the young males, but I didn't catch enough his last name. I think he looks a little too gaunt, but he gives good straightforward interviews.

I think that Margarita liked coming in knowing she had stuff to do. She dismissed me, which I liked, but didn't like. I still had 10 minutes on the clock. Not that I had to be there, just I usually wait until the Sisters get back. I ended up hanging around a few minutes longer, because the clients kept needing to be checked, where Margarita was off to the side preparing tags for people - which included staff from other rooms. They were coming in for work. Margarita's way is to usually make people wait until she gets to them, but it hadn't really been necessary if I just stay to back up the clients as she got ready for work. I know that she gets in at 8 and not 8:30 am so that meant she either got in late, or as normal had been off chatting to other staff. I needed to get over that frustration in that she was probably dismissive of me, because she needed to get over the fact she'd blown off her work for a half hour. I don't usually mind, unless it affects me or the clients directly. In those cases I think it's rather pretentious. HMPF!

Anyway after I made sure all the client's immediate needs were met, I left happy to be getting on with my day. We started by doing something, but then we realized after 20-30 minutes that we had a staffing at 10 am and it was now just after 9 am. So, we prepared for that. Kathy was going to be the CSO person and sometimes she gets there early, so we tried to be real quick. We were just finishing up when she came in - so then we dropped off our stuff at the staff dining room where the meeting was going to be held and we left to get the client. His parents were both out of town, but we figured with Kathy that we better do the meeting and then we'd clear things up later down the line.

The staffing went fine ... since it was only the three of us, we spent more time asking questions of the client. He was doing an excellent job at keeping up. Usually when his parents are there they do all the talking and he doesn't get to say so much. It was a pretty relaxed meeting. We might have to do it again though after his parents get back in town.

After the staffing got over we we're very conscious of trying to be fitting into the schedule we'd set up. We knew we had the time between 11-12. At 12 we were going to be having a meeting for Group I - Circles. But, we were prepared for that ... So, we followed the schedule and got out some of the CARF materials that were scheduled for the time. We didn't get far there, but felt proud we'd refered back to the schedule. The really cool thing? After the meeting we had scheduled work on Annuals and although we were a few minutes late due to carry over, we did start the Annuals. We picked up the first client and worked from there.

I am happy to say that after we started the annual, we got pretty much into it. We were able to finish the one withing the hour allowed. That included getting some copies made and preparing an envelope to go out for signatures. I think we are going to wait and send them all out together instead of one at a time. Then if its a problem - due to the lateness of them - then Sister can yell at me just once and get it over with at the same time. Yup, yup ... we think like this. I felt encouraged in that if we can get one done a day, we would be able to get them finished before the Christmas break. I feel much surer of that now. We still have to do the work without many flaws, but I feel a sense of hope thinking by the holiday we could be free and clear.

There is a problem in that I cannot do the annuals AND the extra goals sheets at the same time, but that will have to just wait. Maybe there will be more time toward the end - there's some extra days, but maybe that part will have to wait til after Christmas, unless I were to bring it home. It seems like more staff is asking for the sheets - I'm thinking that sister said something during one of the last meetings of getting their work done. If anything crashes my schedule it will be the goals. We just might make sure they have the regular goals and objectives sheets. I forgot about those yesterday. Most often though we have to go through the long version of doing goals to get that part done - because it's some copy/pasting. I will have to think through that. I'm more likely to consider it a first of the year goal - giving me the option to do it during the break. I think that's the fairest deal since I've put them off so long, but will still need the extra time.

After the annuals ... I was just a few moments late, but I went into the general 1/2 hour. We did a few little things, but for the majority of the time we wrote out the chart for Group I and the Circles program. The group had been pretty good ... we got them all through the first series of questions in good order and four of the 12 completed the second set. Next week we'll finish the second set and get through the last set, which will have three more small groups of people. That might not make sense for you, but I know what it means ... we're all good. We got through the stickiness of group I and their disdain for each other by moving them around a bit. So we made the seat to my left the "Hot Seat" and had people rotating there and switching the other seats according to who the next person would be coming to Hot Seat. There were some grumblings, but for the most part we got through it. There is always so many little things to learn beside the focus lesson. Getting along and more flexible is important.

I was happy with the new chart. It's pretty much the same thing as the one from the day before with the other group. Just some of the items tested are different. I'm more sure of the chart part of it. It seems to make sense. It was pretty easy to put together, but it took a few moments to get it to wait until the proper time to be working on it ... and after it was finished it took something extra to make sure I stopped looking at it so I could continue the work.

But, I did it!

The last thing of the day was to be working on the QNotes. I had had a good experience of that the day before so I was more game to be getting back to it. I knew first thing I would have to do was to work in the graph to it too. My thought the night before thinking it over - that the Qnote was missing the portion where it showed the State people where the data actually was that we were using for our analysis portion. I had remembered somewhere in there someone had said that some people use a graph ... so that thought held up in thinking if I make it look easy to the State Inspectors, they would spend less time taking it apart. Plus, it better distinguished what would be our effort in comparison to what Candice had done. Our big complaint with her work was that it didn't show the data.

I told Rich about it later and he asked if I weren't adding the work load back onto the project, but it was actually very easy to do. The numbers had already been calculated with the work already happening ... it was again just a matter of typing the label and number, and then cutting and pasting it to the QNote. I had to go over the one client's I'd done yesterday and the then go over the blank copy for the rest of the client's, but we were happy with how it turned out. Little worried about some color clashing, but I don't think that can be helped. Chart colors are chart colors. We had kept the greenish blue from the QNote form used before and we weren't willing to change all that up again. We had felt it gave the form some continuity.

OK, hold up ... we'll be taking a shower for a moment and then maybe wake up Rich ... awe you know we're all for that!

Hmm, we're back ... it's about 6:20 am. We did the shower, medicine and packing part AND we crawled back into bed with delightful for 5 minutes. He's just getting out of the washroom now ... he'll come here because we brought him in a cup of coffee. Hmm, he's here now, but he's a little groggy. He says he was up to about 11 pm last night. He said he also went to a truck stop to pick up his brother. That was a real nice thing. He hasn't said anything in particular about how his mother or Bud, or Mark is doing. He's just trying to wake up. His mind slides more easily over to the news. They are talking about Paulin again and the transference of power and responsibility.

Now ... it's up to 6:30 am. We're watching our minutes slip away. They've got a nice picture of the Merril Lynch Bull ... that helped us side track a bit. Hmm, in 6 states gas is below $2 a gallon ... WOW! Sweet!

Well ... time is going by some more. Rich and I were talking he said I sounded more Republican. I just dissed the Michigan Governor. She says the American automakers want to lead ... our thought there is well ... then fuckin lead ... don't come to us with your hands out beggin ... Do what your supposed to do you greedy bastards. HMPF! Ok, well you can see where we were going with that conversation right? I just don't like the idea that all these big corps who've been raping and pilaging are getting free hand outs. There was a lot more conversation on waste by AIG ... They've got to take management anew ... maybe CAP their incomve and find someone more interested in doing a good job than what he can make in profit.

Now they are doing China as a new world leader. We as American's are taking this to be a threat. It's got more than a billion people. That's pretty much a lot. They are saying we have to start all over with them in discussions and that we have to give them due credit for being who they are. We are supposed to work with them on economy, arms, ecology, etc. I think that's all good ... just wonder how much China is open to being open. Bush considered them more competior than ally, but we need to create something new or it will get to be the problem we want to make of it.

Whoops ... losing Rich. I think he's going for that second cup of coffee. Maybe I better get dressed. YEEKS Christmas commercials - can't do that.

Ok, dressed and ready to go. They are now talking about giving PTSD people Estacy. This sounds like not so much a good idea ... YEEKS!

posted by Ann Marie @ 11/13/2008 06:56:00 AM Comments: 0