I realized it had been a very long while since I had updated. There have been times where I have wanted to write, but then the motivation left me. I purposefully packed my laptop for this trip so I could sit in the quiet and update this journal ( Read more... )

My brain has been a bit spinny lately, but in a good way. The Volcano Harbor has seemed to settle down considerably and we're working through this schedule of continuing to see at-home clients and private clients on Saturdays. We're slowly paying off the debt we've accrued, but still able to have a nice meal or go to a local function. It's not ( Read more... )

I've felt the need to write sporadically over the past couple weeks, but then feel as though I couldn't put all of it together. There's times where I'm struggling, and then times where I'm elated. I know that the swings are relatively normal and expected, especially with the thought that the other shoe will drop and Volcano Harbor doesn't really ( Read more... )

It's now Day Three of having Socks. He moved out of the bathroom today and spent a good portion of the day napping in the office window. He's still growling and not too keen on Sadie, but there hasn't been too much kerfluffle. I had to pull him out of the bathroom today so Fidget could shower. The things we do for our pets ( Read more... )

We went to the doctor's today, a new doctor, still lamenting how the other one took his life in May. We talk about prehypertension, my father's skin dry and him not understanding the need to drink water. Momma's blood pressure has dropped; she's groggy and doesn't understand. We leave her in the "care" of the housekeeper so we can make at least ( Read more... )

We struggle. We talk about the work-life balance. How to keep a house clean. How to keep up on ADLs. How to be healthy. How to move money to pay the mortgage I've forgotten. The flights I take to the bedroom I've slept in intermittently since I was a freshman in college. How bitter I can sometimes be when the job loss happened. How I ( Read more... )

It's been an exceptional time since I updated. I would've liked to appropriately write this through a client on a computer, but instead, I'm using an app. Even I can limp into the future.

We're halfway through Overtime October, the month I'm trying to make at least one mortgage payment by working enough overtime to kill some damned body. Last week ( Read more... )

I flew back last Saturday, looked at Fidget, lighter from a much-needed conversation with my parents. He said I looked less burned out, less angry than when I had flown from Florida before. I finally felt as though there were some things said, some compassion given, and an agreement met. I used all of my interpersonal training. I left Florida ( Read more... )

Today began well. I finished my paper, went to class, shared interesting stories about Fidget, and thoroughly enjoyed my Marriage and Family class. I go through rapid-cycling emotions where I want to seek family therapy (but know that my parents would not participate) to trying out techniques on my relationship with Fidget to wanting to throw the ( Read more... )

Again working overnights at the new house. (Really need to figure out a name for it.) They let go of the full-time overnight person, so I got a hollering phone call last week asking for my availability. Working full-time overnights was not my original idea of a Spring Break, but I'll take the extra cash flow, even if it is minimal. I've already ( Read more... )