Don't worry I didn't die

I didn't die, I just moved. Simple answer. I didn't fall off the face of the earth but the earth is keeping me very very busy. Work is going great, I love to spend my day playing with children and hanging out. It was a fun time when I got my first paycheck, I really havn't seen that much money go into my bank account at one time. I thought it was cool. Like I said BJ and I moved last weekend. We now live togeather **Gasp** but no worries, we are spending so much time getting settled it won't actually feel like we are living togeather until after we are married. Maybe we will get internet and I will be able to become more frequent of a writer and you all won't have to have worry about me anymore. I'm Okay!

Day late 6

So yesterday was 6-6-06 as everyone knows. If you didn't know I'm not really sure were you were at but you have bigger problems than knowing what is going on in my life.

Anyway, nothing really spooky or evil happened to me yesterday, basically it was just another day. Today however, I forgot my lunch, was originally scheduled for 5 kids but ended up having 6, got stuck at subway for the majority of my lunch, had a twilight zone moment at White hen right after that, and left work late. There that was six weird things that happened to me that would have been a little more meaningful if they had happened yesterday.

How to fill a 10.5 hour day doing nothing

This is great. You actually can take what you learn in school and apply it to the real world. Yes, I learned a lot of information about child speech and language development, but I also learned how to do nothing for several hours and still look busy. Yesterday and today I put this knowleadge to the test to see if I could go all ten hours and a half hours. Now just a side note: In the past two days I did have two clients so it is not an accurate to my day but if you need pointers to a ten hour day I can help.

8 am-turn on your computer. Put your lunch in the Refigerator and say good morrning to the front desk staff. Log onto the computer (computers are old so it takes a while). Check e-mail accounts, and daily schedual.
9 - Go see the Front desk staff again. See if more of them are there, Stop and fill up your water bottle. Review your plans for your future days to see if you need to do anything. Check your e-mail again.
10- Pick a letter of the alphabet and see how many arts and crafts you can find that will help your client with that letter.
11- Go to the bathroom. Wash your hands real well. Look through random toy closets and pretend to be planing something really good to do with the toys. (It helps if you take some things out and lift them up.)
12- Eat lunch real slow and talk to the other people you are eating with you. (Hint: go about 10 min early and stay about 10 min longer than supposed too.) Check e-mail and schedual to see if anything has changed.
1- Print out some craft activities and Color them. Bug the other therapists and ask them questions about their day and clients.
2- Check e-mail and the next days clients. Print out some e-mails. Get directions to some place on Mapquest. Check the directions to make sure they are correct. Zoom in and out on the map to make sure you know where it is. Fill out some paper work, make sure you make some mistakes so you can use the white out.
3- Pull a couple of charts to review. Maybe grab some new charts and make notes about the kids.
4- Have a snack. Check on the front desk staff. Make sure they are doing okay. Use the bathroom. Play with all the little gadgits in the bathroom, like the arisol can and towels and stuff. Check mail again. Write a couple of e-mails.
5- Check the next days sechedual to make sure nobody new was added to your day. Review the next couple of weeks, see how they look. See what other therapists scheduals are looking like. go back in time and see how past weeks looked.
6- Pack up for the day take a long time. Say goodbye to everyone, and ask them what their plans are for the day. And leave a couple min early.

Hope this helps you firgure out what to do with your day.

First week of work

Well I didn't die! Actually, I had a hard time remembering that I was actually getting paid to do what I was doing. And really, I didn't do much work at all. Just a lot of reading, listening and watching. I am working at The Rainbow Center, A PhysioTherapy Associate. I am now a full time Speech Pathologist. I actually got to say my title the other day and it completely threw me off. I had to identify myself over the phone and it was very hard to not say student speech pathologist. However, I am having a hard time remembering what clinic I work for. There have been several times when I say I am from Action for Kids or refer to my co-workers as Gina my old supervisor. I think I will go back next week.

On another note BJ and I got the apartment we were waiting for and Brett graduated. It was a fun and very busy week.