I feel like I'm continually finding new things that I would like to work on. The latest was a suggestion by my psychiatrist to try sleep hygiene, so I went to Barnes & Noble and found a book for that, along with a couple of other books. I've been reading through that over the past few days, and have gathered some good information. This is also ( Read more... )

I am a perfectionist. Although someone looking at my life might now believe me at first glance (or maybe I've just been blind to this myself while everyone else sees clearly and just hasn't thought to mention it), I am undoubtably a perfectionist, and it's getting in my way. Marla Cilley, also known as FlyLady, notes that perfectionism is not ( Read more... )

This morning I did another chapter in my workbook, which was focused on living in the now. The first part of the exercise entailed listing out the things in my past that I've done, or that others have done, that still bother me. I felt pretty good about the fact that most of the things that still chaff are things that have happened in the last ( Read more... )

Things I've Learned Working With At-Risk Youth ( Read more... )

I just sent in my cover letter and resume for two different positions at work... one is a case manager position, and the other is a team leader position. I'm guessing that the team leader position is for the younger kids' unit, so it would probably include some case management duties since I don't think they split the team leader and case manager ( Read more... )

This feels like it has been an exhausting, and very productive day... I worked from 8-1:30pm, and then relaxed for a little while before heading over to Mom and Dad's house. From about... 6pm maybe, until 11pm, we were hard at work priming and painting my room. It is now a really nice green color with white trim and ceiling... the floor is still ( Read more... )

I don't waaaaanna go to work! *pouts and glares* I don't think I'll ever be very good at the whole "real world" thing. I get so tired of working, even when my shift is only two hours long today. If I didn't have to work today I could have stayed in Indiana and had more family time! I could have had some of the hot mulled wine that Heidi brought ( Read more... )

Okay, so we REALLY got snowed on last night! I woke up around 8am, and had to spent about an hour digging my mom's car out of the snow so that I could use it to get around today. I litterally had to keep digging the wheels out of the snow as I backed up a few inches at a time. At one point I thought that I was going to get the car terminally ( Read more... )

My boss and his wife are great... and soooo horrible at the same time. Mary, my boss's wife, aparently likes to give gifts a lot. Today when I came in to work Sid (my boss) handed me a pretty green cup with my name on it, filled with caramel kisses, reeses cup minis and kit kat minis. On top of that he's constantly handing me cookies that were ( Read more... )

For some reason today just really wasn't a very good day ( Read more... )