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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Sunday Weekly Round Up

My week started amazing, it started with a day off and then finally being sworn in as a Essex County Court Appointed Advocate for children in foster care.  I was proud of myself, it's something I started long ago and gave up on because of time and boy issues.   I'm giving it another shot because it appeared in my life again while thumbing through a paper at a coffee shop.  Now I'm just waiting for my case to be assigned to me so I can go pick up the file.  I wonder who they will pick for me.  I'm already signed up for a bullying workshop for next Friday, I want to completely immerse myself in this to see just how much I love it and have a passion for it.   I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, I know I want to help but how much of it do I want to do?  Since I've always thought about being a foster parent one day, I think this is a great place to start.


It was a interesting group I trained with but in the end we did it.  Some of us dropped out in the middle and maybe another half with eventually give it up.   What matters is that someone stays and advocates for these kids that seem to be forgotten about by the rest of the world.



This is the other part of my week, the part where I've finally accepted that I am in the beginning stages of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.  I'm not surprised, I worked behind a desk for over 14 years crunching numbers for 8 hours a day.  Right now the pain is the morning, I seem to be ok during the day.   I've bought this brace to help me out with that because I don't want to have surgery for this right now.   How am I going to write that book I always wanted !  I still use the computer a lot so this is something I really can't have going on right now.  I'm also toning down on my texting.   I am not a phone person, I always feel awkward on the phone and I know it's just all in my head.  Well, looks like I have no choice but to use the phone more and I'm also pretty glad the Iphone has a voice recorder I can use too.  I need to get over this phone phobia.  This whole texting versus actual human contact is getting out of hand.   I also miss a phone with a keyboard I can feel and now it seems that all they sell is touchscreen.  What's the next big thing?  I don't want to get swallowed up my technology anymore, I want to hear and see people when I talk to them.



My other very big discovery this week was finding out my trouble maker cat Artie lost a front fang.  I did't even know, I would just look at his face these past few weeks and see something that was off.  I know this cat's face like the back of my hand.  Finally I found out what it was and I wasn't very happy about it.  It scared me and it reminded me of how fragile this little animal is.  I can't imagine every losing my Artie without completely losing my happy at the same time.  Animals...  I can seriously say I love animals more than I love some humans and I don't think that's crazy.  If everyone felt this unconditional love they would understand what it feels like and always want it in their lives.  He's ok though and I took a look at my older cat's mouth and discovered half of his tooth was also missing.  I guess it's common but I should still take him to the vet.

Apart from all this, this week was a good one and I did accomplish one big thing.   I'm happy with that.



Next week I hope to have finally finished organizing my closet and my computer room.  I also hope to finish editing the pictures I took with my brother's camera.  He has a really fancy camera that he let me borrow to take pictures of some vintage I want to put on sale.   They look great, much better than the pictures I take with my camera so I hope to get to that this week and put some awesome vintage on sale.  I've really been slacking with my auctions but I neded to take a breath from it to regroup and restrategize.  

It's so beautiful today, it's 72 degrees in the fall..  I'm going to enjoy some outside time..


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