Facebook Fun

So, if you have a Facebook account, you've been tagged 12 times and instructed to do this ditty...

25 Random Things About Me

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. I heart swirls -- anything with a swirl design I want to own. It's even better if the swirls design has some flowerly design incorporated into it.
2. I have to remind myself sometimes that I met my husband on the freakin' internet.
3. I've never had the chicken pox.
4. I love to take baths...love it.
5. When I used to do TKB classes on a regular basis, I'd often get goose bumps while doing the routines because I was so in love with it.
6. The best investment I've made recently is a white noise maker called a sleepmate.
7. When I get enough sleep, I'm a nice person.
8. My favorite white wine is Reisling.
9. I'm writing this as I watch a movie with my husband. The only time I ever just sit and watch a movie...do nothing else... is at the movie theaters... because people would yell at me if I did something else.
10. I read People magazine from cover to cover... starting Friday night and ending Sunday night...sometimes earlier. I love celebrity gossip.
11. I get excited when my clients want to play a game while we talk about life...cause I love to play games and talk about life. I've learned more games and more about life as a result of the privilege of knowing them.
12. I'm married to a magician and he's one of the best magicians I've seen. I'm partial and yet I think I'm right.
13. I'm now a connoisseur of magic and a critic. It's hard to entertain me now.
14, I'm a part of a love triangle. My two dogs fight over me.
15. I smell everything I am going to eat. If it doesn't smell good, then I don't eat. I also won't eat anything past the expiration date. I can't get past it psychologically.
16. I started drinking alcohol while attending seminary. I also have never done any drugs.
17. I love my iPhone. I am seriously obsessed. I have a nightly ritual of crawling into bed and checking the weather channel application, the mobile news application and making sure I'm up-to-date on the latest status updates on Facebook.
18. I listen to Adam Carolla in the morning and Tom Leykis in the evenings. My husband thinks I'm the best wife because I listen to these guys. There's other reasons why he thinks I'm the best wife...
19. I think sometimes that I'll never go to church again...
20. I love cars... I wish I was rich so I could own many, many cars.
21. I love coffee makers... I admit I try to keep up with the Jones' when it comes to coffee makers.
22. If there were an Office Supplies Anonymous, I'd be compelled to go and others would encourage the admission that I have a problem with acquiring office supplies for the sake of acquiring office supplies.
23. My mom, sister and husband don't let me wander into the pen aisle of Office Depot unattended.
24. I can't whistle to save my life. I also don't have the genes to roll my tongue.
25. I love to take baths, float in the pool or splash in the ocean. I love water.

words and phrases i've learned being a therapist

I'm sitting in the library diligently try to catch up on progress notes. I'm listening to some recorded session because apparently when you have 19 clients (well, 22 with my private practice clients), you can't quite remember everything. The thought occurred to me that I've developed quite a expanded vocabulary not only clinically as I try to write like I have a master's degree but also as I've interacted with the kids at my site. This in one new phrase that I've learned since being a therapist and a real life example of how it was used outside of my site:

"for a minute": A time span implying a very long time.

An example, the AT&T guy used this phrase on Monday night when we picked up a new phone for my husband. It went something like,

Husband: "I've been with Verizon since they were AirTouch."
AT&T guy: "Yah, you've been with them for a quick minute."

My husband looked perplexed. I just kept on keeping on. I know a quick minute means a long, long time. I had to let the husband in on the new definition of minute.

More to come...

alls you people are driving me nuts

I told my husband last night at 2:30am in the morning that everyone under this roof is driving me nuts...

Last night at 2:15am, I awake to the rattling of a cage. The dogs stay in a big kennel in our room for the night time. Scoti is a perfect angel and is just as content as can be in his kennel. Roy is mostly content but often DEMANDS to be taken out of the kennel at such fun times at 2:15am in the morning during a work week. I first ignore him then tell him to be quiet. Then I rattle the cage back at him which only works for about a minute which is comparably longer than the every second that ensued before that. Only to eventually take him out of the kennel and properly escort him outside to do his business. Oh, I didn't tell you the dogs WEREN'T house trained and James and I have been in the long, arduous process of house training. There is something to the saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Flip. Anyway, Roy (the dog who is my little furry, smelly and licky thorn in my side) barks to let me know he is done being outside. Then crawls into bed with me and James. He doesn't decide to sit at the bottom of our feet like ever other dog in America... he has to sit at the top of the bed right above my head. There he passes out for the rest of the morning only to wake startled when I would toss or turn...like I was inconviencing him. I'm so sorry...

Roy is obsessed with me. He follows me around everywhere! He wakes me up in the middle of the night because he wants to be next to me. Seriously, I'm not cut out for parenthood...and I think this little stinker of a dog would somehow hurt our child secretly because of jealously. Already, I am in the middle of a bitter love triangle between Scoti and Roy. Dare I show them affection at the same time. A barking brawl breaks out. It's not pretty.

I'm moving out to the backyard. Pewter, the cat, she doesn't drive me nuts. Her and I could live peacefully out in the backyard.

ancestry.com

Last night I got hooked on a genealogy sight called ancestry.com. I have longed wanted to do this and the mood struck me last...all that way until 3am in the morning. I still have some work to do on it and I wish I could find more current information on family that has been estranged but I did find a great photo of who I am sure is my father's biological father. He died when my father was 15 years old and by that time my grandmother had already married my grandpa. I also found the New York Passenger List of when my poppa and my nana and the kids (including my mom) came from England. Very cool.

the bubble bath

I'm here to report that the distraction I bought at the store yesterday in the form of yummy bubble bath was just that...quite yummy. There is a nothing like an aromatic, bubble-filled and relaxing bath. Well worth it.

I got a job!

I was officially offered a position as therapist at Pacific Clinics this morning. I had the interview on Friday and they told me in so many words that I got it but they couldn't tell me that I got it. References, blah, blah, blah. So, now I can officially say "I got a job!"

It is a therapist position working with at risk youth. They are in a charter school and it's kind of the last ditch effort to get them on track and graduated. That's the jest of it. It's a self-starter type of position where I'll be making appointments with kids and their families at home or in school. I get a laptop and a cell phone and I go in for supervision and a bi-weekly staff meeting.

So, I'm excited...to make money, to get lots of hours done and to meet a challenge I have not met yet. It'll be a tough and intense job with lots of paperwork and ambition but it's obviously the results that'll be the most rewarding! The cool thing (although we need the money) is that I still have several weeks until I'll probably start. Most likely my first day will be my 32nd birthday, October 20th.

The need to focus

Today on my way back from my therapy appointment in downtown Pasadena, I stopped by Sephora to get some makeup. I realized once I left the store that I have a succinct approach to going into stores like these. "Stores like these" meaning stores I love and want to spend lots of time in but if I do then I'll spend lots of money that I should not spend. That's "stores like these". I realize this because I zoom into the store trying not to look at anything. I just get what I need and then I get in line. Tonight it almost worked but then I saw the bottle of my favorite body wash/bubble bath/shampoo. The ones that have all the food scents. Black licore made it home with the make-up I really needed. But tonight I will enjoy a yummy bubble bath which in the long run, I really do need.