Reinventing the wheel

It has been an interesting several weeks, I must say...

Went to a Coug Football Game. The Cougs made Duck soup. It was cool. Lots of key jingling, crimson and gray, yelling stuff like "Another Cougar First Down!", and other such crowd activities. It was like going to a Rocky Horror Picture Show, but without the transvestites. Lotsa fun!

Our horsie died of a horsie heart attack, and it made my daughter pretty sad. Poor Twiz...he had a good life full of kids and barrel racing, that ended peacefully in his pasture with his girlfriend (Tandy)...his head in the lap of the woman who has been caring for him for a few years...hope he is chasing apples in the sky. This is Little C's first loss like this, but she is handling it pretty well. We haven't been able to go out to see him for a long time (either bad weather or no money for the gas...), so the distance I am sure helped. How strange that we had finalized plans to go up last Sunday, and he had died the Friday before. Probably all for the best-it would have been harder on Little C if she had just seen him-or worse yet, if it had happened right in front of her.

Work is good, but stressful. Apparently our new director is trying to reinvent the wheel, and fix things that aren't broken, because she has been taken in by a motivational speaker. $100,000 later, and staff meeting after staff meeting designed to have us re-write our jobs, re-make our goals, re-evaluate our programs, and hold hands singing Kumbayah (or however you spell that) we are basically doing the same things we have been doing before. Still understaffed, and under-funded, like most social service agencies. Even more stressful for the rest of the agency, there is a major reorganization taking place moving people into new job groups. Our Area Agency on Aging has escaped the brunt of that due to Federal regulations that prohibit the breaking up of our cohesive group...otherwise we would be caught up in the seemingly pointless exercise in frustration. Apparently anyone in the agency who questions or complains is blacklisted. Sounds like some religions I know...

They had a training recently that was introduced by a staff person who talked to all of us like children...had us make a list of things that could help us have the gathering...such as raising hands and not talking over our neighbors...OMG. I mean, OMG!!! It was hard not to crack up, or raise my hand to ask if I could go to the bathroom....

I am working with some really neat clients, as well as some really strange ones. I went to one client's house who had about 30 dogs. That was quite...interesting...I came back to the office and poured hand sanitizer directly over my head.

Oops! Better get off to work! More latah...