Archive for October, 2007
October 9, 2007 at 6:30 pm · Filed under sponsored
There’s a great new sweepstakes going on right now called the $50,000 College Education Sweepstakes, where all you have to do to win $50,000 is watch some soaps and answer some contests. The sweepstakes is sponsored by the popular soap operas “As the World Turns” and “Guiding Light.” Boy, I wish this was available when I was entering university some 10 years ago! What an awesome sweepstakes. I encourage all and any of you to enter who want to fund your children’s education! Hurry before the opportunity passes. It can’t hurt to try, especially if you’re a soap addict for those shows! 
October 6, 2007 at 7:54 pm · Filed under daily
Oh my goodness, this is soo boring. I’ve been working on service logs (progress notes) for work for the last 3 hours. I’m almost all caught up with every case, but then I have to do exit summaries and intake assessments. Garrrr, I feel like I’m never going to get done. If it weren’t for Foo Fighters playing in the background, I think I’d be completely bored out of my mind. Not to mention, it’s hard to remember every single contact I’ve had with every single client over the last two weeks, from phone contact to face-to-face to case management. That’s probably what’s taking so long. Gaarrrr. I wish I was done with this already! I might wake up early tomorrow before yoga so I can get some more done before Jen (R) comes over.
Speaking of tomorrow, I’m very excited! Not only do I get to see Jen (R) again, we’re going to be experimenting with photography. She’s going to be our model for tomorrow. I can’t wait. We have all these ideas and I hope we can put them into play. Weeee!!
October 5, 2007 at 5:52 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
I think it’s time for another load of laundry this weekend — I try to do at least one load of laundry per week, though last week it didn’t really get done (half — it’s dried, cleaned, but not put away) because we had such a busy weekend with Chelsea staying over and Jen and Brandon coming to visit (all good things!!). If we manage to keep the house relatively clean throughout the week, and clean once a week on the weekends, we don’t have to do big cleaning and the house stays in relatively good shape. It makes me feel less stressed too. I even like doing little things like putting pens away that are strewn all over the our tables, or dusting the bookshelves so that I don’t sneeze every time I look at them, or even putting the recycling away (we have 2 HUGE bags of recycling in the kitchen to go out, which needs to be done because the bags are starting to overflow).
A clean house is a comfortable house. I like seeing clean surfaces on tables, chairs, and shelves. Silly me. I guess I make a pretty good housewife after all, eh? (Even though I’m far from being a stay-at-home wife.)
October 5, 2007 at 5:47 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
Dave and I are planning our honeymoon as we speak. We’re waiting for his passport to come in so we can actually buy tickets. We’re mostly decided on Hawaii, but that can still change to Mexico or the Caribbean or something like that. Anywhere would be great right now. I just want to get away with my wonderful HUSBAND (yes, I still can’t get used to calling him my husband — it rocks the tongue something awesome). I’ve heard going to Vegas and staying in the Bellagio hotel is also nice too, if we’re inclined to go to Vegas any time soon. Maybe as a vacation. For the honeymoon, we both want something tropical, something hot, something by the ocean, with palm trees and water. We love the water, what can I say. I don’t think we’ll ever move away from it, to tell you the truth.
October 5, 2007 at 5:44 pm · Filed under daily
Happy Thanksgiving to all you fellow Canadians out there who celebrate this holiday. Yay for the weekend, is all I can say! I got to go home a wee bit early (which for me meant I got to go home at 5:30pm), and the 3-day weekend begins! Monday is Thanksgiving, as well as the two boys’ birthday parties, so we’re going to celebrate all that by getting together with the in-laws (who I adore and love). I can’t wait to see the kids — I find that I greatly miss them when we go too long without them. For us, “too long” means anything more than a month. So I’m excited to see Jaeden, Nick, Katie, Chels, and Reilly again.
This weekend is a relatively free weekend, thank goodness. I’m going to catch up on loads of paperwork for work and make sure I’m all caught up — at least for another week. Heh. My cases are starting to look manageable again, but that can’t happen until I actually close the ones that ended a few weeks ago.
I love my husband, and I love coming home to him.
October 4, 2007 at 7:32 pm · Filed under sponsored
My mother one day told me about a time when she was going shopping in the mall and one of her tooth crowns came off. She thought she was seriously going to die — both from the embarrassment as well as from the physical pain. She had to pretend nothing was going on and went to the bathroom to try to ease the pain, but wasn’t able to actually get it fixed until much later on. She called me and told me all about it while it happened, and how she didn’t have anything to fix it right at that moment in order to at least go through the rest of her day. How horrible! I imagined what it must have been like for her, to have that ugly pain. I remember when I was a little girl and broke my tooth while running down the street and falling on the sidewalk. I can imagine what that pain was like for my mother. Anything that has to do with the teeth and mouth hurt an awful lot because we’re so hypersensitive there.
Now, looking back at it, I wish that Dentemp OS was available for my mother to use so that she can at least repair the crown in the store and get on with the rest of her shopping. It is an instant pain reliever, allowing her to actually be able to eat on it after only half an hour of setting it in. It’s completely safe to use and tested by the FDA, and approved. I’m going to tell my mother about it so she can be prepared if it ever happens again!
October 4, 2007 at 7:18 pm · Filed under daily
Dude. I am tired. Pooped. Very very pooped. Exhausted. Boy. However, I think all of my cases are going well at work, which is such a blessing that I will take the exhaustion any day in order to have work go well. I have a few new projects in the works, one of which includes making some illustrations for Ronni’s upcoming wedding. I have some ideas in mind but haven’t actually sat down and drew anything yet. I hope she likes what I come up with. Another includes doing some fun jewelry stuff for my new etsy site, and possibly playing around with greeting cards with Sylvia, my mother-in-law. All fun things to do. Wish Sisser was around — we’d have loads of fun making jewelry and selling them off.
Just one more day, and the three-day weekend will finally be here. I will use it to sleep, read, and catch up on a load of paperwork. Tomorrow is a nerve-wracking day for me as I will be trying something new with one of my clients that I haven’t done before. Yikes!! Anxiety, be gone, you vile thing you!
October 2, 2007 at 9:55 pm · Filed under daily, sponsored
So today has been a good day. Really really busy. I had several clients who are very demanding of my time (one of them even requires that we call them once a day due to the intensity of the case), so I ended up having 5 appointments today. Made them all. Was late to one because Jen and I were goofing off and I mixed up the time when she told it to me (long story, really). It was bizarre but we finally made it and it wasn’t too bad. Another client I spoke with regarding drug rehab and rehabilitation services for her kid, and another one I really connected with. This work is so awesome. I can’t get enough of it. I really like what I do. It’s the greatest feeling in the world. It’s not so much as “helping people” anymore. It’s like it is ingrained in my blood or something. It’s part of who I am now. It surpasses all the cliches that you hear about being a therapist and helping people and blah blah blah. It’s so awesome. I love my life.
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