A nice weekend

Overall I had a good weekend. I was ill with what I call a 24 hour bug that knocked me out on Thursday. I knew something was up late Wednesday evening when my throat started feeling sore and I was a little feverish. I did not go into work on Thursday. Went back to work on Friday and did not really push myself which was a good thing. Slept in a little on Saturday morning before spending some time at Barnes and Noble then headed over to Ann and Harley’s. During the storm on Monday morning, two pretty large tree limbs feel on their roof. I’m so glad it did not go through the roof. It basically propped itself on top of the roof and I sawed the limbs into smaller pieces and got it off the roof. The adjuster came and had a look at it on Tuesday. The only thing that needs to be replaced is the gutters. That in and of itself is almost a miracle especially when you consider how big the limbs were. Ann prepared some amazing food. Harley grilled Iowa think cut pork chops and let me tell you, there’s nothing like it in the world. It was yummy. There was twice baked potatoes, salad, home made bread, and devilled eggs. I was like a kid in a candy store. After dinner, Ann and I sat around and chatted. It was such a fun and relaxing evening.

Brian had called and left a voicemail while I was with Ann wondering if I was headed downtown for the electronics music festival and I told him I was. We met up downtown and once the music ended headed back to my place to chat. Can you believe we were up till 4AM?! I told him I needed to be up at around 7:30AM since there were a couple of things at church that I was responsible for. So, I ended up with three hours of sleep the entire day yesterday. My salvation was a cup of double shot espresso at brunch and I was amazed that was the one thing that kept me going while I was working at the facility. Speaking of working at the facility, there was an incident that could have turned out pretty bad if it was handled wrongly involving me and a resident. Let’s just say he was very angry at me for something he thought I did as a way to get back at him when in fact I was trying to get him to cope with the situation at hand. Cooler heads prevailed and instead of trying to make sense to him, I walked away and he ended up going back to his room. When the overnight staff came in, I informed him of the situation so he was aware of what was going on in case there would have been an incident later that night. Proves to show that you just never know what’s going to happen especially when dealing with residents who have mental illness. I’m most interested to see what’s going to happen today when I’m back at the facility later today. From prior experience with other residents, he’ll probably not even bring it up and it’ll be a non-issue. When dealing with people who are not suffering from mental illness, you could try to explain and make sense to them, but that’s just not the case with some of the residents at the facility. That for me is always the most interesting part of the job.

Well, believe it or not, not too many weeks from now I’ll be back home in Malaysia. It’s kind of weird because the ticket was bought many moons ago and I know the trip has been planned for quite some time, but I’ve not really thought about it. In fact, I still have not been thinking too much about it and one of the reasons is because I’m still pretty much swamped with work at Aging Resources. I’m trying my best to get as much done as possible because once I leave the country, that would be it. One of these days, I know it’ll hit me that I just really need to spend time thinking and planning for the trip home. Right now is just not the time. Mark my words though, the day will come and it’ll just creep up on me!