The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde

It has been an interesting week. You gotta love being a mandatory reporter! I finally made the call on Friday to report the sexual relationship of one of my clients with someone who was literally twice their age. Although I know it was the right and the only thing to do, it still didn't make it easy! I had to call my clients parents to give them a heads up that someone may be calling them to ask them questions this week, and when their mother was asking their sister about the person in question I could hear her not so positive response. Her mom was asking her about the person and she refused to give her any information because she thought it was ridiculous that we were reporting it. It is odd because I am almost certain that the person didn't give my client accurate information about their real name and identity. I can almost bet that this was not a first time offense for this person, and I hope that the natural consequences for inappropriate sexual relations with a minor catches up to them! I am looking forward to my vacation on Tuesday. Even though I am just going to watch my niece and nephew while my brother and his wife go on a trip to celebrate their tenth anniversary it is still my first official use of vacation time since I began working at my job! I am excited to relax on the beach and spend some time with the cutest niece and nephew in the whole world:) I am continually kicking myself for not using my vacation time from last year because I lost it all... a whole 8days of it! I am planning ahead and I am going to use all of it (with maybe the exception of five days because we can now rollover five days to the next year). I am finally realizing that we have the vacation time for a reason, because in my line of work you definately need a break and have to take time off for your own mental health!

A series of "one of those days"

At times I feel like I am just one step behind an anxiety attack... cause despite my time constraints it almost never fails that my to do list keeps growing! At times I wish that my job was a bit more predictable, but then I realize that I wouldn't really be satisfied with monotony either! I just wish that I at least felt as if I was on top of things more often!!! I need to do a better job at managing my time I am sure, but some days I feel like I am running from one thing to the next! Today was one of those days that around every corner lurked another unexpected situation to tackle... an assembly that sucked away an hour, telling a girl that I had to report something that she told me in session (it absolutely floors me at the inability of some grown men to keep their dicks in their pants!)having a girls parents show up unannounced from out of state and expecting me to fit in a session, telling a girl that the guy that she is having a hard time letting go of (who presents one of the biggest risks for relapse) has just been locked up and mandated treatment(which with his mindset will have absolutely no impact), and to top that off feeling like my phone was permantently glued to my ear returning calls and leaving messages. I know that things will work out, but with the vacation time I am taking next week, and the things scheduled the few weeks after it is going to be an interesting ride!!!

Soo excited...

For some reason the other day I was thinking about this child educational video that I came across like five years ago now that I got a great deal of entertainment out of... I think it crossed my mind cause I was looking at my library card and I remembered that that was where the girl who exposed me to the loveliness of the video got it from (I thought anyway?) So through the wonders of the internet, google, and youtube I found the song excerpt and now I feel as though it is my responsibility to spread the goodness to as many people as possible...

Freak Coincidence or Bad Omen???

So I finished up my take out Chinese food tonight and broke open the fortune cookie in anticipation only to find it empty... I was sorely disappointed because I truly enjoy the entertainment of a good fortune now and again, and I felt slightly cheated. After I had thoroughly examined the cookie to make sure that it truly contained no fortune I thought about the possible meanings of the whole experience. I wondered if it containing no fortune was simply neutral because then the fortune was neither positive nor negative, but also curious if in the absence of a fortune it was making a statement of fortune that was non-existent? I suppose that if I were to suddenly die that it would be an indication that it was an omen of impending doom... but until then I am banking on freak coincidence!

"My hands are on the wheel so I’m driving to Idaho"...

I decided to visit home since I had good ol' good friday off... I guess that is how my place of employment gets away with taking the 24th of July off too since most of the world does not recognize that as a holiday either?! I got into town later than I thought since I was trying to wrap things up from a four day work week... I am beginning to see the connection with four day work weeks and four letter words (but only because I feel inclined to accomplish as much in four days as I am supposed to do in five!) It has been hard since I was sick and (am still recovering) because although a day off is always a good thing I was already behind with things and am no closer to being caught up... even with staying at work on thursday till almost eight which got me home at 1:30 in the morning! I have decided that I am officially not impressed with itunes tv episode downloads. Not that I have ever been that impressed, but I don't know if it my internet speed or what, but I have literally been downloading two shows for over 9 hours, and one just BARELY finished. That to me is absolutely rediculous! Good thing I thought of doing it while I was visiting home because I am pirating a non secured internet connection at my apartment and the connection would not be reliable for fourteen hours straight! It has been an interesting couple days, and it is feeling like it is almost time to return to my normal day to day back at my apartment. I have enjoyed the family, but there is an interesting dosing limit that one aquires with age?! Sleep the last couple nights has proved to reinforce my previous theories about sleep and dreaming when I am back in my childhood bed. I have had some pretty interesting dreams and I was able to sleep in until almost noon today which is something I wasn't even able to do when I was sick... There is definately an unconsious connection with non responsibility and freedom of thought when I am sleeping at my parents house.