Ayn's Multiple World

A chug- chug-chugging along morning ... trying mostly to remember

Good morning, good morning! We’re doing pretty good … we’re up a little early, but not as much as yesterday. It’s now 4:45 am. We’ve got the iPod all set up and we’re listening to last night’s shows. I think yesterday we went through about 8 of the 13 at least that’s the number that reissued the newest copy. That might though be because some of the other 5 shows are weekly’s instead of dailys. We’ll have to check on that later. We’ll find out by tomorrow. But, you know the big thing?

IT’S RICH’S BIRTHDAY!!!

WooHOO! We had to be reminded though unfortunately. He played a little game on me and it took a bit to figure out where he was going. I had fallen asleep early, but then woke up to the beautiful sounds of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was wonderful. It was something on Public TV which apparently Rich was taping. Then since we were up … it was something after 11 pm and Rich wasn’t home yet on account of it being his card night. So anyway we were up then watching a Westwing show because we’d forgotten that Rich wanted us to see a show before he got back because he’d seen it the night before when we fell asleep and he wanted to make sure we saw it too so we could go back to watching them with each other.

So, anyway we were up and atom when he came home. I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but then he said something that reminded me it had been his birthday … and I remember trying to gather information, but then I said, but today is the 3rd thinking his birthday is on the 4th, but he was saying no it was already the 4th today which put me into a panic thinking that I’d missed it, I was feeling terrible, but then I looked at the clock and I thought wait! I didn’t miss it … it’s just that the clock has now turned 1 minute after midnight so he was only being theoretically right not overly logical.

About that time our mind just unwinded on him and we jumped him wrestling him to a laying down position … we were so aggravated at him for teasing us and making us thing we’d forgotten … but we had forgotten that today was the day even though we saw it on the calendar that Rosa puts out. Just that we’d had in our mind mostly just the event for the boys on Sunday. Pswhoo. Well, one way or another, you can imagine that we wanted to get him into bed so we could give out some birthday surprises including of course the massages. Wow! At least he let me do that much!

So now our baby’s in there hugging his pillow, I’m sure.

Hmm, so about now we’re thinking we’ve got about a half hour before our shower, and what should we do for sweetie. He said something last night about going to one of his friends who is having a “deal” at his place. That kinda hurt our feelings because we thought he might want to spend time with us, but then we’re with Dr. Marvin tonight until 6-6:30 pm. So, somewhere it have to be after that. I don’t think that other deal starts until 6 pm. We’ll have to see … if he really wants to go to the other place – where most likely a card game or two will be started up, then we will of course be adaptable to spending his birthday on another night.

*Sigh*

Maybe we should let the time on going to work be for thinking things through. Or, maybe he’ll let me talk about it more when he wakes up? He’s being terrible about letting me spend any money on him, but then if I don’t do or get him something then who will? Maybe his Mom and maybe his kids if they are not mad at him, but I don’t really know how all that goes. I think Rich would be most happy if his kids just called him. Being a father is extremely important to him.

Hmm, not getting too far with anything today, but I did take the shower, take my medicine, packed the bag and started the dishwasher. We sang sweetie Happy Birthday too, but he was too tired to wake up. When given the option he said – 6:30! That’s 20 minutes extra time to sleep. I think that’s fair especially since it was about 1 pm that we both fell asleep last night. Damn good massaging!

Time is slipping by. I just discovered that Rich had brought home rib tips. It was his turn to feed the card club last night. It looks like there were leftovers though not many compared to the size of the platter. It was good, but Rich was right … it’s very rich.

I think before I close off on a short blog entry this morning, I wanted to say something about yesterday … well at least a couple things. First, I wanted to say that we did well with the groups. During the morning time with Group 1, we tested everyone on money identification. I forget the percentage, but I think they were at about 78%. We have to check that figure. The thing is that we got through the entire group that was there at the time and we felt the system was complete. We have to progress that now this morning, but I think in general we’re on the right track. I will have to see what the next area is. We might to the test, because yesterday we did the practice. I will have to pre-work the program to see if the questions and answers are the same each time round. It makes things a lot easier to chart.

The next part that is very exciting to me is that we spent very good time yesterday in working on Qnotes. We got through about 2 ½ clients which ranged each from 7-11 notes each. I did have to stay until about 6 pm to get to where we were comfortable in stopping. I have to concentrate now to remember exactly what was going on.

Where are we … can we focus this much? Ok girls let’s focus.

Let’s see we were doing what? Focus, focus.

Why am I blanking out here? We need a starting thought. Let’s see … we want to talk about Qnotes. Why is this so hard? I remember thing that there were about 2 ½ completed. This might be too hard for me this morning. I just remember the feeling that things were going very well. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this right now. I think I’ll continue this later when it is easier to think through. Sorry for the mental block.

Ok, where can we go from here? Hmm, it’s just a few moments, maybe we should think about waking up Rich. We’re at 6:27 am.

Hmm, maybe we should focus on just calming down. It is very frustrating not to remember what was happening yesterday. I just remember thinking that we’d been making progress. Ok, what is it that we can remember without burning out internal structures?

Maybe we should find something easier. What is going to happen today? Today is the first week of the new month, so we won’t be having staff training. That’s really nice, because I want to get back to the Qnotes project.

Hmm, Sweetie Pie is being a little resistant to waking up this morning. We just spent 5 minutes massaging him, but then he said … I didn’t go to bed until 1 pm.

So, we asked when he’d like to get up and he said … 7 pm. So we’ve got about 20 more minutes and then we’ll try waking him up just before we go. We’ll have to check in later as to progress in this department.

Hmm, where should we go now since our mind is so disconnected? It bothers me that we can’t remember the work we were doing with the Qnotes last night. What do I remember … can I at least remember who we were working on? Hmm, that’s a thought.

I know … I was working on one of the clients that are in the lowest functioning group. This is a client whose staff – Cathy is the most observant of keeping track of things.

We learned something different last night in our comments where we could write comments purely on the statistical value of things that we were seeing rather than depending on the trainers to give us comments toward progress. This is an exciting new revelation in the way we do business. The system that we’ve developed with the new Qnotes is faster, more expedient, and more directly to the point of analysis.

This makes me feel like a million jillion bucks. For the first time in over a year we found ourselves excited about doing Qnotes. We completed about 25 notes yesterday between these 2 ½ people and we still took out an hour to work with Group 1 in the morning and then again Group 1 for the Circles program.

That takes just a second of thought too. Yesterday what we found to be one of the most predominant parts of the session was to be calming down the group so they could listen and work with each other. There was especially conflicts when they entered between the two guys that can be known for giving problems. We worked through their listening better by doing things such as moving both on either side of me. We then cleared up each of their immediate problems. It took a few moments to go through, but the difference was very outstanding. We went from them being bored, disruptive and slouchy to being an active part in the group. I think this has something to do with what we’ve said in the past. We need to get past their issues before we can concentrate on a higher learning process.

During the session of correction with one of the guys … he stumbled through saying basically that he wanted to be doing something else. It became part of our responsibility to explain to him that he couldn’t decide in this meeting which way to orientate the class. I think he’d come in with an agenda of being the focus of the group and this competed with the other gentleman. After the meeting, I walked into Sr. Florine’s room … I noted that Holly was in there which was disturbing, because she was interrupting the group from gaining their sense about being with Sr. Florine again.

But, to cut the story short … I told Sr. that they’d come in very fractured in that they were all over the place and not paying attention. I told her that I felt we left them in better condition than when we’d gotten them. I think somewhere in unspoken terms she might have gotten the message, and to be fair they had just gotten out of lunch so maybe the control with them had been lost during that half an hour period. I do know as a staff, if you don’t be with them directly to take care of their immediate needs whether it be attention or other, then they will take most of the time you thought you had to circumvent and real learning objectives you may have had. That’s something that has to be understood or you end up very frustrated and feeling no sense of purpose.

Maybe we can then later go back into the progress we were making with the Qnotes.

It’s almost time to post now. I do want to say that we remember driving home and thinking that we could honestly get the Qnotes and Annuals finished before the Christmas holiday. I think this is now about 3 weeks away. If I got through about 8 reports so far, that would leave 14 remaining … if we only did 2 a day (rather than the last two days 2 ½ a piece) then theoretically, we would need just 7 work days to get it done. So, maybe with that in mind and still needing to schedule time for the Annual work, we could think about finishing the project not next week, but early the following week. That would give us almost 2 weeks to finish the annuals alongside all our other responsibilities. We are really shooting for a goal now … and I feel optimistic that it will be good work done. Let’s go for it right?

posted by Ann Marie @ 12/04/2008 06:57:00 AM Comments: 0