Unintentionally Kicking Arse
Sep. 26th, 2017 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredxmertzMy Work At Sheltercare
Work has been loving me lately. The 2 programs where I work both would love to hire me as a full time Counselor/Advocate.
I'm pretty well respected at Garden, and I an constantly honored to be such a central part of a really great team. i've worked there on & off for almost 6 years now. I've seen a few program managers come and go, mostly its the medical staff and the kitchen staff that were really the heart of the place, we did have a really great office manager for a while, too. He & his family lived (and hunted) on the program manager's property, and tended her livestock. So it was like a family....
My most important function at Garden Place now is passing meds. I'm no nurse, and I'm no psychologist, but I get into a very Zen-like hyper focus when I'm dispensing psych meds.
I've been covering for scot at Uhlhorn, and it makes more sense for me to be at Garden.
a bunch of he newer Garden employees are leaving this week, and one co-worker I've worked with for almost 4 years. He is trying to get a job with Lane County Mental Health.... they pay much better.....
I'm finally trying to get Oregon Health Care Plan coverage again... I haven't seen a doctor since January of 2011. I've seen a counselor quite a bit, and I owe money to my counselor. I think I can pay it all off this week, but its been sitting there way too long.
Relief workers are supposed to stay under 30 hours per week, but they've been approving me to exceed that number for the last 3 weeks,
My pal Colin Burrowes is coming from Listowell, Ontario to visit me and go to see Jesus and Mary Chain 10/24 at the McDonald Theater. Flogging Molly will be playing the same venue on 10/16. He may be making a film about his trip.
I feel like I need a big win, as this recent breakup has kind of put me out of circulation for a while, but I'm easing back into "public life". I cut way down on my drinking, no whisky and stopped smoking pot. I had been smoking a lot of pot.
so the breakup has meant a little re-boot, but I'm feeling rested and ready for the world.
Th positive feedback at work is helpful, and having Dave living here has been awesome. He's not a neat freak, but its a comfortable, lived-in feeling, he loves my animals, he makes coffee every morning, and he's gone most of the day. It remains t be seen if he'll be much help with the yard or odd jobs, but he plays bass for the Indiscretions, so i have a live-in bandmate again, and i dig that.
I've been on the motorbike quite a bit, and that is great therapy for me.
In the meantime, I am still a little fazed by the absence of my favorite person in the world.
Work has been loving me lately. The 2 programs where I work both would love to hire me as a full time Counselor/Advocate.
I'm pretty well respected at Garden, and I an constantly honored to be such a central part of a really great team. i've worked there on & off for almost 6 years now. I've seen a few program managers come and go, mostly its the medical staff and the kitchen staff that were really the heart of the place, we did have a really great office manager for a while, too. He & his family lived (and hunted) on the program manager's property, and tended her livestock. So it was like a family....
My most important function at Garden Place now is passing meds. I'm no nurse, and I'm no psychologist, but I get into a very Zen-like hyper focus when I'm dispensing psych meds.
I've been covering for scot at Uhlhorn, and it makes more sense for me to be at Garden.
a bunch of he newer Garden employees are leaving this week, and one co-worker I've worked with for almost 4 years. He is trying to get a job with Lane County Mental Health.... they pay much better.....
I'm finally trying to get Oregon Health Care Plan coverage again... I haven't seen a doctor since January of 2011. I've seen a counselor quite a bit, and I owe money to my counselor. I think I can pay it all off this week, but its been sitting there way too long.
Relief workers are supposed to stay under 30 hours per week, but they've been approving me to exceed that number for the last 3 weeks,
My pal Colin Burrowes is coming from Listowell, Ontario to visit me and go to see Jesus and Mary Chain 10/24 at the McDonald Theater. Flogging Molly will be playing the same venue on 10/16. He may be making a film about his trip.
I feel like I need a big win, as this recent breakup has kind of put me out of circulation for a while, but I'm easing back into "public life". I cut way down on my drinking, no whisky and stopped smoking pot. I had been smoking a lot of pot.
so the breakup has meant a little re-boot, but I'm feeling rested and ready for the world.
Th positive feedback at work is helpful, and having Dave living here has been awesome. He's not a neat freak, but its a comfortable, lived-in feeling, he loves my animals, he makes coffee every morning, and he's gone most of the day. It remains t be seen if he'll be much help with the yard or odd jobs, but he plays bass for the Indiscretions, so i have a live-in bandmate again, and i dig that.
I've been on the motorbike quite a bit, and that is great therapy for me.
In the meantime, I am still a little fazed by the absence of my favorite person in the world.