Lazy, lazy day!
This is the first real lazy day I've had in a while. I didn't get out of bed till about 2, then I moved to the couch until about 4:30, at which point I finally took a shower and went to the store to get some groceries. Then I lounged around for a few more hours until I went to the gym. Nice. Of course I was up until close to 6am again... but still. This is why having a 3 day 'weekend' is perfect. I have one day to recouperate from the week, and then still have 2 more days to do weekend type stuff. I love it!
This week was nuts. 3 of the girls ran away last Friday night (2 of my girls, and 1 from the other cottage), and were brought back Monday night. They were picked up in Eden, which is about 2 hours away, and coincidentally near family of one of the girls. Later on we found out that the grandmother & father of one of them had been supplying them with money and hotel rooms and stuff. Then, 2 left again on Tuesday night, to be brought back on Wednesday afternoon, only to have one leave again Wednesday night. Fools. Of course, all week it's been DAMN cold, so sucks for them. We tried confiscating all their shoes and jackets, but they found ways to get more. (From other clients mainly). It was a nut house with them coming and going and getting others riled up. Now, just one of our girls is gone. And, she's about to be placed somewhere else being that we can't contain her to even begin to help her. There is no telling what drugs she's been on, and that is one of her main treatment concerns, so we're not even sure why she came to us in the first place, given that we don't do substance abuse treatment. So... hopefully by the time she comes back, we will have discharged her and not have to deal with her mouth and attitude. I got called a crazy white "cracka" several times, among other things the one afternoon she was at the cottage. I was like "do you really think that hurts my feelings? I could give a rat's ass what you call me, bring it ON!"
ANYWAY. It was one exciting moment after another. We coped in our usual ways.. spazzing, laughing, making animal noises all shift. Whatever. :-P I love the people that I work with for that reason, none of them take the kids seriously and aren't afraid to act like fools. Now if we just had a REAL supervisor that knew how to work with these kids and supervise us.. we'd be the best team ever! But, I've ranted enough this week about our supervisor, so I don't feel the need to do it again here.
Let's see, what else? Oh, one more gripe that sort of goes back to the supervisor. All 3 of us that work Sunday afternoon/evening, want the day off. Coincidentally, it's SuperBowl Sunday. I want it off cuz I'm going to be in Nashville getting my puppy!! Someone else wants it off cuz it's her bday. The 3rd person, who has yet to ask officially, wants it cuz of the FB game. So, the 2 of us that asked off, were pretty much told to "work it out for ourselves" as to who gets it. Meaning see if we can switch shifts with people or something. What the hell? She's not been letting anyone have vacations b/c we're not fully staffed, and she's hell bent on having 3 people on each shift, but not willing to count herself as a 3rd person. ARGH! So, we've been plotting and will most likely all call in sick on that Sunday. I'm not driving to Nashville in 3 days, when I have people to see and stuff to do there. Kiss my ass, bitch! ERGH! Sorry, I wasn't going to rant.
I really need to have something else to post about besides work! How boring is that? It's snowing right now, that's news worthy! Supposed to accumulate up to 2 inches tonight! Lordy, shut down the city! heheh. It's supposed to be gone by Sunday afternoon though, so I don't have to worry about being stuck at work. Cuz I WILL be leaving at midnight if it snows.
Anyway, it is time to focus on Thursday chat.
This week was nuts. 3 of the girls ran away last Friday night (2 of my girls, and 1 from the other cottage), and were brought back Monday night. They were picked up in Eden, which is about 2 hours away, and coincidentally near family of one of the girls. Later on we found out that the grandmother & father of one of them had been supplying them with money and hotel rooms and stuff. Then, 2 left again on Tuesday night, to be brought back on Wednesday afternoon, only to have one leave again Wednesday night. Fools. Of course, all week it's been DAMN cold, so sucks for them. We tried confiscating all their shoes and jackets, but they found ways to get more. (From other clients mainly). It was a nut house with them coming and going and getting others riled up. Now, just one of our girls is gone. And, she's about to be placed somewhere else being that we can't contain her to even begin to help her. There is no telling what drugs she's been on, and that is one of her main treatment concerns, so we're not even sure why she came to us in the first place, given that we don't do substance abuse treatment. So... hopefully by the time she comes back, we will have discharged her and not have to deal with her mouth and attitude. I got called a crazy white "cracka" several times, among other things the one afternoon she was at the cottage. I was like "do you really think that hurts my feelings? I could give a rat's ass what you call me, bring it ON!"
ANYWAY. It was one exciting moment after another. We coped in our usual ways.. spazzing, laughing, making animal noises all shift. Whatever. :-P I love the people that I work with for that reason, none of them take the kids seriously and aren't afraid to act like fools. Now if we just had a REAL supervisor that knew how to work with these kids and supervise us.. we'd be the best team ever! But, I've ranted enough this week about our supervisor, so I don't feel the need to do it again here.
Let's see, what else? Oh, one more gripe that sort of goes back to the supervisor. All 3 of us that work Sunday afternoon/evening, want the day off. Coincidentally, it's SuperBowl Sunday. I want it off cuz I'm going to be in Nashville getting my puppy!! Someone else wants it off cuz it's her bday. The 3rd person, who has yet to ask officially, wants it cuz of the FB game. So, the 2 of us that asked off, were pretty much told to "work it out for ourselves" as to who gets it. Meaning see if we can switch shifts with people or something. What the hell? She's not been letting anyone have vacations b/c we're not fully staffed, and she's hell bent on having 3 people on each shift, but not willing to count herself as a 3rd person. ARGH! So, we've been plotting and will most likely all call in sick on that Sunday. I'm not driving to Nashville in 3 days, when I have people to see and stuff to do there. Kiss my ass, bitch! ERGH! Sorry, I wasn't going to rant.
I really need to have something else to post about besides work! How boring is that? It's snowing right now, that's news worthy! Supposed to accumulate up to 2 inches tonight! Lordy, shut down the city! heheh. It's supposed to be gone by Sunday afternoon though, so I don't have to worry about being stuck at work. Cuz I WILL be leaving at midnight if it snows.
Anyway, it is time to focus on Thursday chat.
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