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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Keeping up with the General News

Good morning. This is me. We’re dealing already with a kitty who seems a little put out. He’s complaining that I won’t feed him. But, I fed him at midnight last night when he woke us up … he doesn’t get fed twice. You can see MY point, can’t you? Yeeks. He’s like pushing on all sides of my arms trying to get just the right wedged in position. And, he wouldn’t look at me right away … I know when he’s really ticked off at me … He needs a lot of encouragement. But, we can’t be having double rations on the tummy can we? Hmpf!

It’s already 6:30 am. We’re showered and all those etceteras but we still feel like we’re running tired. Rich said that we slept for a straight 12 hours. We’re hoping we’re not coming down with a cold. We have a little congestion in our nose. Boy that be a terrible thing.

Hmm, took care of a few things. This morning is speeding too quickly in front of us. I don’t think I’m going to be able to think fast enough to get much written.

You already heard how we spent our evening … cranking out them Zs. And, when we did wake up it was because Rich had gotten us up. He said he got home at 7 pm … he must have called us and we didn’t answer. He said we didn’t budge the whole time he was still up. When we woke up to take care of the kitties, then we crawled into bed with him … that’s the sweet part!

Rich talks to me in his sleep I think. I crawl in and he stirs and usually he says one or two things to make sure we’re tucked in just right and then within a breath he’s already deep into his sleep breathing. He’s so romantic I feel sometimes I could bust out. I love him with every incredible centimeter of my brain. *Sigh*
Right now he’s behind us typing on his computer. I don’t know what he’s working on, but he seems to be concentrating hard. He’s such a love bunny.

Ok, you … we’re not focusing much! We’re just into our buddy dream space. Moving on?

As to yesterday … not a real lot going on. I talked to Sister a few times about this or that. I did the group for CIRCLES and that seemed to go ok. We tried the part of splitting the group up in teams and we worked just with them learning the purple self-hug gesture. It was pretty interesting in that they all had to learn to work together. We just kept going back and forth from one side to another and trying to get them all coordinated to be doing the gesture … we did a little competition with being timed how long it would take the whole group – one side or another to work together in doing the sign. We were basically working on them being responsive to the commands.

We have a new girl yesterday that is going to be Holly’s client. So there was some personal observations being done there. She seems to have a little attitude thing going on there … she resisted things that I had hoped would just go smoothly. I think she knows more than she was willing to put out as to compliancy with the group directions. We’ll have to see how that goes.

I worked on the things that I was supposed to be working on with the Qnotes, but it was a struggle to maintain motivation. Rich had come in for a few moments too so we got to talk to him, which slowed us down from the normal pace we’d built up to. I was really being sluggish.

Hmm, not too much time left now. I think that’s about enough of yesterday. I think toward the last part of the day we faded into something that kept us there an extra half hour, but I don’t recall what we’d been doing. We had meant to leave on time … so can’t imagine what was keeping us there a bit longer. *Sigh*

Hmm, I remember something … we talked to Sister about the new staff things going on. She’s considering now three new ones although nothing is confirmed to see if that’s all going to be going through. We’re still in the making plans stage. I will be working with one of the new candidates tomorrow. Sister gave me something to read over with that, but I’m not sure what that was all about … it was late in the day and we hadn’t gotten a chance to read over her notes before we had to be moving on.

I think in general what’s she is thinking is that the first new one would be doing Group 1 four days a week and then the 5th day she would be splitting her time helping out Holly or myself. That is a new development. I have to think of that more when we get time. The second person would take Group 1 and the majority of their goals on her one day of coming in a week. The 3rd person she was considering turned out to be a no show, but sister was in general preparing for taking over Group 2, because there’s a possibility that Theresa might be taking some medical time off. I think that person turned out to be a no-show though. We’ll have to see.

But, for now that’s about it. We’ve got to be getting along … maybe we’ll get a chance to catch up some later, right? Ok … until then …