To-do list for the morning

Need to Clear the Cobwebs

We’re getting a late start this morning.  

 

We’re figuring that we are going to have to do some tasks today.  There's laundry, bills, and grocery delivery service.  We filled the last bowl of kitty food and there’s no more coffee.  Needless to say there are worries about toilet paper too!

 

We did get the new camera and have been trying not to panic the system by “needing to know it all instantaneously.”  We've had a few basic accomplishements.  Oh yeah, have to charge some batteries.  We’ve discovered only our "at work" computer can we do the USB thingie.  Hmm…  Must obviously mean we need a new "at home" computer?

 

We looked through the Quick guide that allows you to actually take your first couple of pictures.  We were at work, so we took a few of the desk, then snuck up on Forest Path.  Think we need to wait on the kitty pictures.

 

Hmm, have that PDF Dr. Marvin gave us.  We’ll want to look at that this morning too.  Oh dear … Think this is going to all happen after our first nap. 

 

*Yawn*  Ok, we’re up now … timer for batteries beeping.  Chief seems very interested in the camera cord.  Better put the camera away … need to clear the cobwebs.  Hmm, maybe just look at 'em for a while.  They're kinda pretty, and it's Sunday!!  "Charlette, oh Charlette!"

Time to Relax

Assistance Needed

 

Our World

Need to apologize ...">  thinking of late that we spend a lot of time talking about just "Our World."  Thing is we actually know very little of what goes on out in the actual lives of other folks.  But, sometimes we take a peek, or of late, j-peeks.   

We know that in general, people wake up, care for their bodies, do something toward work or play (both we figure is really about the same as the other), then we seem to  nurture ourselves before turning in for another night.   

It seems when people don't nourish themselves enough, they get caught up in an illness that is either physical or emotional.  That causes others around them to hover with reminders to be taking better care.  In general, it seems that most folks care about one another.  People need and appreciate being valued, and to feel self-value.  No one takes better care of "self," then the self itself! 

Yesterday we did a group that we haven't done for a while.  Once a month late in the afternoon, we lead the individuals at work in a relaxation group.  It seems like most the folks come in pretty tense.  They're still working through the dramas of the week and haven't had the chance to unwind. 

We try to "nurture" the nurturing process.  When you stop your own buzzing to ask people how they are doing ... a lot of what you hear is that they tend to be ok, feeling good, or have been insulted or overwhelmed with something or another.  So you do a little assistive nurturing.  You listen, care, maybe even empathize, no one really wants to feel bad, or see you feeling bad. 

We figure this is all a pretty good process, because in reality my world is yours, and yours is ours.  Hopin next that folks will have found so much growth in one another, we'll all get a chance to to kick back and enjoy.  Things will keep getting better and better.  'Cuz in livin this kind of life, we discover love.  Man, does that ever go over well with the morning's coffee and bagel!  (Or, in some cases ... fruitloops even!)

General Malaise

Hmm, where are we now …?  Last night was a Dr. M. night.  He is going to be moving from the 4th floor to the 7th.  There is always little life changes.  We figure it’s best to adapt sooner than later.  It seems this change is reflective of other changes and it’s sometimes hard.  ">http://

Last week Sr. Tess prioritized one particular CARF project, now this week it’s another.  Note:  We need to be staying fluid and do whatever is necessary at that very moment. 

One of the changes that happened this week is that we had to let go of the individual that had been wreaking so much havoc.  He’d been practicing running out of the building, but the last time he ran down the street and across a busy street.  Sister Tess felt that self-endangerment was something beyond the center’s scope.  

We talked of other work matters to Dr. M., bill paying, cameras, friends, the house/renting, time management, our forgetfulness, just a smorgasbord of topics, really. 

I don’t know how we got there, but he said something about us switching in appearance "> like with interests, facial gestures and posture.  We didn’t know what to think of that, though we’d heard it before.  He says that we’re subtle.  Hmm, that’s what our first major therapist said.  My father said it differently; he compared us to “a snake in the grass.” Thanks Dad …

We left Dr. M’s office … feeling kind of bleary and foggish like.  We know to look for his expression.  It was telling us that things would be ok.  We like his confidence in himself and us.  Afterward, we took us out to what is becoming our favorite restaurant.  We like that the waitress remembers that we drink one glass of Riesling with our meal. Sometimes multiplicity kind of feels scary and over intimate, like heart on sleeve.  But, what is normal, really?

Hmm, Pam-lesson #1

Morning ... Just trying to do "the right thing" in learning how to put pictures not in the little boxes so much.  Who says, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks?"  Thanks for your patience with me on this.  I know, I know ... next thing would be to create a test journal, right?  One thing at a time though...

">  Hmm, this would be the start of all great things?  Thanks very much Pam for creating excellent directions and Marcia Ellen for conveying proper protocols!  "We're a tryin!" 

Much love,

The et al system management team