Published on 12, July, 2020
For those of you that have lost the plot, tangled yourself in the thread, lost a button, misplaced their armoured shelll....hang out here!
This is the Home for the Mis-Wired, waiting for the ferry to Autopia / sitting in the waiting room of diagnosis .....tickets please! All aboard!
How long do you give it before we get our threads in a twist on this one!?
It's been an odd first week at my new job. Ups and downs. The people (as in 'clients', but I hate referring to them that way) run the whole gamut, from very quiet and easy to extremely challenging. One lad in particular, though, is amazing. The first question he asks everyone new is their date of birth and the year. He then tells you, with barely a pause, what day of the week it fell on. He's always right, too. Astonishing!
Glad there have been positives to the week too. So are you sticking at it next week?
Happier than I was mid-week. I wasn't at all sure after the first couple of days. I found one of the other staff members in particular to be very hard to get on with, but we worked together on Friday and found some common ground. Partly, of course, it's about getting used to new things and people, and getting to know the people I'm dealing with. They're much more challenging than ones I've been used to in recent years. At my last job, they were either very capable or confined to wheelchairs, with very little in between. Here, they're all mobile. Some of the more challenging ones are totally focused on one activity, which they do over and over all day long - like listening to the same song all day. Others are a little more active. We've had several trips out - to trampolining, putting, bowling. Next week, I'm off shadow shifts and working alone on 1-1s. That'll probably be better, actually. And once I've been added to the company's insurance, I can drive the buses, so I'm likely to be out much more.
On the whole, then, I feel buoyant about it all. Another couple of weeks and I'll be more certain. At least I don't have the horrible thing of shift changes and extra hours hanging over me. I know when the day starts and when it finishes. That's a big bonus.
We're all survivors here....
Watched 'Lone Survivor'. Seemed appropriate.
Hey..,still rattling here. happy to lock up if it helps
Bless! I reckon somebody would grab hold of me and pull me to safety!
I reckon you have all gone sleepy byes so I will just check everything's locked and everything is ok,try not to chatter to much in your rooms,I will look in on you all later.nite nite sleep well.
big hugs to all.x().
Lol! Not good
He is a brave man,technically I can swim! I flap about trying to coordinate arms with legs but end up all over the shop.have swum a width but more like I am fitting.
Have a big drinkie and a small movie.... glad you made it to 100 letter 'k's....**joke** on the book.
Hey...Tom says he'll teach you to swim if that helps! x
Hey tom"you are a very naughty man" loving the limericks, right old chuckle.
Ellie your idea of this post was brilliant.look at the fun we all had, I think the suggestions were good as to who would do what,it kind of says"we have listened to who you are and judged you fit to be?" An anchor Lol.love that,only thing is I know I can't swim but I only weigh 9 1/2 stone so would get bounced all over the seabed dragged along bouncing off rocks and dodging sharks.
Big hugs happy jokey pals.
Yes been really good thank you everyone but yes tired now!
Sorry if you were overwhelmed..been a quiet day...but I do like to socialise in what I'd like to think is a safe and supportive environment....can be like a puppy of its lead when give the chance!
friggin pine needles......they are buggers!
Me thinks the sudden burst of energy on here by us all has been real good fun,a bit exhausting though.
nice to have a laugh and let ones hair down!in my case to let my one hair down ha ha Lol.
hey Ellie thank you for keeping the laughter going,on the ferry and ultimately the island you can be in charge of laughter. Hope all is ok Ellie,to wet for gardening but I think I read you got the gravel drive raked.
not easy raking pine needles off of gravel.
big warm hug,well it's flipping cold and raining outside,even had thunder earlier.
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Great news tom,meaning more that you are feeling better about the whole place,take it steady and be patience with yourself.
Had to rest a second as replies were popping up all over,I was replying to posts that had been replied to,replies I had not yet read. Admin will think we are trying to break this place,
manly hug to tom.
That's good news and hope you continue to feel that way. 1-1 and getting out sound better too. Good you felt up to writing this weekend as well.
So happy to hear that you have found some positives and sound much more relaxed, enjoy your evening.
Time for a little drinkie and a movie! I was going to see 'It' tonight, but I think I'll leave it until tomorrow when it won't be so busy.
Have a great evening, folks! xx
Me, too. I think, in many ways, my mini-crisis was a combination of the newness, the need to learn quickly, plus a bit of delayed reaction to the events with mum. I'm carrying on with writing, too. Getting towards the end now. Almost 100k words.
Good...hope it continues on a upward trend....
They all know I'm an Aspie, too, and it's been nice to get positive responses to that