God bless Christopher Columbus. I'm so glad he discovered the New World in October. (Wait, did he actually discover it this week in October, or is it just when we randomly decided to celebrate it? A quick Wiki tells me that it was actually on the 12th of October 1492 when land was first sighted on his ships). I so needed this three-day weekend. It was relaxing and productive!
Friday afternoon, Ramy and I both got home early, even though I had taken advantage of my early afternoon off by running a bunch of errands. We had a quiet, relaxing night, because Ramy was feeling a bit under the weather and Rebecca had a runny nose. We just ate at Corner Bakery, went to Target, and got coffee/tea. Rebecca and I went to dance class on Saturday morning, and she did great as usual. They decided to split her class in two and were taking the ones who needed more special attention into the smaller class. Rebecca actually doesn't need special attention like most of the littlest ones, so she gets to stay. She's actually the only 2.5 year old left in her class, I think. Fortunately, she doesn't have to change teachers, which is great, because Rebecca is quite attached to "Miss Di-nana." Afterward, Rebecca decided she needed another breakfast. We decided to go to Saturday evening mass, so that we could sleep in on Sunday morning! So we went to church at 5 and then went out to dinner, except that Rebecca was confused and thought it was breakfast since we just got out of church. Fortunately, we went to Mimi's, where they have breakfast all day and she was satisfied with her Mimi Mouse pancakes for dinner. Sunday was the day of canonization of Damien of Molokai, which is a really big deal, because he's of the same group of priests as are our priests. So there's also now another Saint who was from the USA.
On Sunday morning, we slept in late, which was glorious. Ramy and Rebecca walked to get us breakfast, and I picked them up. Around lunchtime, we headed out to West L.A. and went to the Grove/Farmer's Market. It was a beautiful cool fall day. We shopped and walked around, got some yummy food, and enjoyed the nice long weekend. We came home and watched a documentary about Jonestown. I'm not sure how that's related to our day at the Farmer's Market, but Ramy and I were both intrigued, and Rebecca was asleep! We slept in again this morning. Ramy took Rebecca with him to visit his mom and dad, while I tackled some household projects. Namely, I finished the closet switchout. In addition to weeding out the last of the summer clothes, I also got rid of all the extraneous wire hangers that breed in my closet. Nonetheless, I decided that our next house needs a walk-in closet for each season's worth of clothes...for me. I made homemade chicken noodle soup, with homemade chicken stock, home-roasted chicken, and home-made noodles for dinner tonight (and lunches!) and also got tomorrow night's dinner made as well. Rebecca has enjoyed her nightly dose of the 70s. She's been dancing around here to the Bee Gees tonight, buck naked (or, "nekkid," as we say in my neck of the woods).
So now it's time for another week, unfortunately. I say unfortunately only because I really like hanging out at home with my husband and daughter, sleeping late, watching tv, and playing "bouncy ball." Since I do have to go to work, I'm glad to be really loving the work I do. It was a busy week with a lot of clients seen and a lot of work done. I was busy every second of the day! Last week, I learned that a client that I did an intake on a few weeks ago committed suicide. I actually haven't had a real client of mine commit suicide while I was seeing them (thankfully). This client was one who wanted meds only, so I only did the intake and got her in with the MDs. It made me feel bad, but not for as long as I think it would if she had been my ongoing client. We got the list of charts that will be audited from our clinic by Medi-Cal. Wouldn't you know it, two of my charts are on the list, and they're both ones that I inherited and that are about 3 inches thick each. Since no one wants to have a chart get disallowed, I'll be checking these charts with a fine-toothed comb. I'm supervising three practicum students, and I am enjoying that. My Perintal girls remain my favorites, although I had to seriously confront one of them on Thursday. So, all in all, life is good. Now I just have to get cracking on finishing my dissertation and embark on the postdoc/job search.
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