UGH! I started a reply today and somehow lost it! I hate it when that happens.
Basically my position now, because I am part therapy and part UR would be moved from behavioral health to case management which would mean a new boss and immediate new co-workers. I love my position now because its 32 hours and it's not ALL therapy which can be totally overwhelming on a locked acute adult psych floor.
Does this all have anything to do with the reason you were "denied"?
UGH!
My options are to go with the move which would mean moving offices which sounds silly but I love my office location and office mates; stay under behavioral health and do ALL therapy and be a 40 hour a week employee which keeps me in the same office and same department but like I said, 40 hours a week on the psych floor can be taxing; or find a new job which I have been looking and have a final interview this Tuesday.
I did the typical pros/cons list and don't see a pronounced winner. I came home to this news on Monday and have been struggling with a decision ever since.
Well...that new job has better long term opportunities...yes? Even though it IS change and you hate change, you will have to deal with it at some point in the not to distant future. Yes?
Commute is a con though on that one, though huh.
OMG! I totally forgot about THAT!
LOL! Looks like you found the picture.
That was when I came out and yelled at the boys for being too loud (I felt like the house mom lol!) they woke up Jenny and Jill. It was pretty funny. I'm glad you didn't fall down the stairs (you were fine, not in danger of falling)
I even drank like 32 oz of water before the "drinking" started that night. Plus I had a bunch before the spa as well.
Sometimes you can do everything right and it just hits you wrong. I think many of us have been there. Heck, that happened to me in my race on Mothers day. Not the same thing hitting wrong but the impact was pretty significant and its super frustrating when it's something you've done before, you think you know how your body will react and it doesn't do what you expect it to!
He likes incriminating photos and has been known to post his own on FB!
that does not surprise me in the least.
What I want is people pictures!
I will try to get you some as soon as I can! I am lame but need to just plug in the phone direct to the laptop and email them over. It will probably be thursday. Email me a reminder?
And she says don't believe something unless she say it three times. She said it once again at the "after party" at my house on Sunday.
That makes three!
It's been so long since I threw a party I forgot how to manage food proportions and I didn't want anyone to go hungry!
We were not hungry!
I still have two bottles of "the good stuff" not to mention 20 or 30 in my cellar. I need friends to drink great wine with!!!
There are some fuzzy bits from that night.
. But I didn't worship any gods, or drive any busses of a certain stone like nature!
No you didn't! Thank goodness
Normally I'm fine after a massage but I usually don't come home to five courses with wine pairings.
True. And they were lovely full glasses!
I got the Gumbo which was very good. I ended up eating all the Andouille Sausage out of it since Fran didn’t want much of the soup after she ate her half a sandwich.
I love gumbo, that looks delish!
Fran and I were all over the Beignets. Only my parents had any idea what Beignets were, and the others at the table were really reluctant to try them. Darcy wouldn’t even give them a try. But we did end up polishing them off. I can’t believe it was such a hard sell!
that's just wrong, I'd have eaten their share!
Jenny, Cynthia and Darcy were the “ice girls”. They took the coolers down to the ice machine (which I’m sure had a sign reading, “please do not fill coolers from this machine”) and filled every last one of them!
Each trip they deduced that the ice machine was still OK, since it wasn’t emitting smoke or anything.
No sign but we were seriously amazed it kept up with us. We really expected it to run dry/empty
We commandeered a couple “bench style” tables that we placed at the back of the living room to make a bar. I believe that Cynthia masterminded that, but I’m sure Jenny gave her some help, at least I think so.
Yes, bringing the one from the loft area down was definitely a 2 person job!
And I just realized we left a lamp that we moved on top of the TV cabinet in the main LR. LOL!
I had warned folks that if they wanted to help they could show up anytime after 4PM, but if they didn’t want to be helpful they shouldn’t show up until 6PM.
Ok that is a riot, I didn't know about the "unhelpful" part! Explains all the boys arriving later.
We laughed our butts off getting that ice!
It was collaborative effort between the ice girls. It was a lot of work setting up for dinner but also lots of fun! Cynthia did a great job organizing the bar and Jill was up to her elbows in chicken carcasses.
So glad I didn't have that job.
I am sure I would have lost at least a finger trying to cut them up.
Oh my goodness, the funniest part is how directionally challenged we were EVERY time trying to find the ice and then our way back to the villa. And at that point in the day we had one drink each...at lunch!
Our view was incredible!
That villa was something else. There was so much room. I really loved the girls' room too!
The view was insane, WOC from that balcony was something I'll never forget. A gift.
You ladies were a hoot! Jill and I were just glad we weren't the ones draining those ice machines!
It was our arm workout for the day. Or week. LOL!
In hindsight, I bought way way way too much chicken, but the tri tip and brats were probably about just right! Thank you so much Jill for your skills with the knife! I never would have thought of cutting the breasts in half, but it made total sense once you thought of it!
It was all fabulous
I loved our room. Even with 11 people staying there, I never felt like anyone was on top of each other.
I agree!
Strawberry Soup, oh yeah and the girls worked really hard to make these little cards so everything was well labeled!
Oh the cards, that was so funny! We used up every postcard in the villa, hit up each desk!
Mac and Cheese (I didn’t buy too much of that either!)
YUM! I had a nice serving of that
This was the only picture for the DIS that we actually took that night.
YAY!
After this, we cleaned up the food, and packed it up for later. Cynthia put Jenny and Jill to bed, I guess they sort of overdid it at Trader Sam’s the night before. And Cynthia, Naked Jim, and I think someone else helped us put away all the food. I was still standing and still able to enjoy my glass of wine for the birthday girl. I think it was sometime around midnight when we all called it a night!
LOL, they put themselves to bed. Yes, it was around midnight, not too bad all things considered I don't think! We got everything put away and dishwasher loaded, with just "your" items in the sink for handwashing so they didn't get mixed up. It was in pretty decent shape when we went to bed I think.
I need to see what I can salvage of the week.
I want to know what you were doing.
had our share of rum at Trader Sam's the night before but I'm a morning person not a night person and was on MST. 10:30 seems early but it was 11:30 at home. I wake up at 6 am everyday so rarely party at night. Great time though!
It was a great team effort!
The cake was amazing as was all the food. 
