Ooooh baby!

Woohoo!! The Spurs pulled if off tonight and beat Detroit. Sko! For once, it was a real, down to the wire, basketball game. I even had to stay late at work to watch the end of overtime to find out who was going to win! =) Yay Timmy Duncan! I love basketball!

Onto other subjects...

Katherine is coming to visit in 3 weeks! Wahoo!! I can not wait. I'm going to kidnap her and hold her hostage in my apt for at least a day and a night, so we can be stupid. =) And, of course, since that's all we do when we're together, drink lots. :-P I suggested we be stupid and go crash a wedding, but that would be too immature. Fun, but not cool being that I'm a responsible adult. I was given a verbal invite, so I wonder if that would still be considered crashing? It is quite ironical that considering I'm too good a friend to lose AND that I listened to many hours of caomplaining and ranting and "crying" over the beginnings of the relationship, that I'm not invited to such a momentous occasion. Ah well. I know who my true, real friends are; and they know how lucky they are to be my friends and I know I lucky I am to be their friends. We all make the effort to continue the circle of friendship, however hard it might be. I hate losing friends and friendships that I've worked hard at keeping. I think it's one of the worst feelings you can experience. But, before I get accused of not being over something, I'd best stop talking about it. Might I just add one more "BITCH!" which refers to both a male and a female.

Now, onto some work updates. However ironical it might sound, I think I actually like having 8 girls. Most nights I don't have time to sit down and do anything for myself until 8 or 9pm, but it makes the day go so much faster. Someone needs this or that, someone has a med to take, someone needs to talk to me, someone wants to go for a walk. It's great. Now, if the people above me could just get their shit together, I might be able to say "I love my job". I feel like I'm actually DOING something with the kids. I've had more therapeutic talks in the past 2 weeks than I think I have all year. With this many girls, some of the older (ones that have been there longer) are stepping up and acting more like role models and are being pushed harder by their peers. It's great to see the system working. Now, if I could just get better pay and perhaps some dabblings in case management or a more supervisory role, I'd be set. I feel like, well, actually I know that I am, taking on more than my job should be. I attend extra meetings, do a LOT of extra paperwork, help set in place new rules/expectations... a lot of the time I feel like I'm doing the things my supervisor should be doing. I wish I could just bump her outta there and take over. :-P

My little diabetical friend (KB) is doing GREAT so far. She came in with blood sugars never lower than 200... since being on insulin regularly and having an insulin adjustment, I don't think she's had more than 2 or 3 above 200. SHe's recognizing lows on her own, and I can see her happiness at having "good" numbers. I've got some stuff in the works as time allows to do some one on one diabetes stuff with her, figuring out what she knows, and then we're going to work together to teach the other girls. Ahh.. this is what I was meant to do! I want to run a group home for kids with diabetes! I don't know how that'd work.. but it'd be great. Spend 2-3 weeks there when first diagnosed, it'd be great! Small steps though. If I do good work with this one, maybe I can get my "in" at the hospital. :-P

My other PC is a slightly different story. She's a snot and a half, who most of the time I can't stand. However, she will somewhat respond to me and listen and talk to me more than most. We've had a few really good conversations, however her behaviors when I'm not there have not followed through with our discussions. She can't stand one of the weekend staff, and always blames her behaviors on her. SHe's one of those "so and so MADE me do this or that", like we hold her down until she lies or runs away or something. Whatever.. babysteps. She's better by a teeny tiny bit than when she came in.

We have another new girl, who has been with us for a week, who has picked me out as her staff of choice. She has some stuff going on, and apparantly I'm the only one she feels comfortable enough with to discuss things. She's cute, and fun to joke around with, much like my former PC that left back in March. I don't know that my supervisor would let me have 3 PC's, but I certainly wouldn't mind working with this girl. She is pretty mature and aware of how to act like a young adult, from what I've seen thus far. We'll see if that carries on.

So, yeah, that's what's going on at work. I've spent almost every one of my days off at the pool, soakin' up the sun. =) I can't wait for Alice the bunny to get back to NC to be stupid with me! Yay!

Ok, must get myself to bed.