I think this weekend was one of the least relaxing weekends ever! Unfortunately, it followed one of the most hectic weeks ever! Last week was a really busy one for me. Monday night, we had the vigil mass for the holy day of obligation that was on Tuesday. Tuesday was an eternally long day. I was dealing with a crisis that included a mandated suspected child abuse report and ended with a 5150 from 9:15 a.m. until I finally got to leave the clinic at almost 7 p.m....with no break or lunch. On Thursday, I came to my Perinatal Co-Occurring group to find out that apparently all my girls had decided that they should just not take their medications. Add some psychosis and mania to people who are newly coming off drugs and who have a lot of raging pregnancy hormones, and it is not a pretty picture! I also had a meeting at work to help select the candidates for next year's internship class that they will interview. It's nice to be on this end of the internship application/interviewing/selection process instead of where I was this time last year! It's also nice to see just how impersonal the decisions whether or not to interview really are. It helped me lick my wounds from a couple of the rejections I got last year!
It is so hard to believe that this is my last full week of the first half of my internship. Next year, I'll be at Upland a couple of days, then at Perinatal, and then I'll be on vacation. When I get back, I'll be starting at CONREP. It's going so fast!!! I've got several clients at Upland who I am sad to be leaving, and after last Tuesday's all-day crisis, I finally feel like I've bonded a smidge with my supervisor. Otherwise I feel a bit like I'm having senior-itis. I know I'm leaving, so I'm ready to move on and get started at CONREP.
The biggest news on my front is that I have a really strong lead on a position at Fox Army Health Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, which is essentially in Huntsville (half an hour from Fayetteville). I've corresponded several times with the director of their neuropsychological services program, and then I had an hour and a half telephone conversation with her last Friday afternoon. She's essentially been running a one-woman traumatic brain injury clinic, doing all her own testing, scoring, report writing, and she's got a several-month-long waiting list and needs help. It would really be an ideal position for me. I'd be doing neuropsych testing and some psychotherapy. There's a lot that has to go on behind the scenes in order to create the position, but it is looking very promising. Please, please, PLEASE pray that things go well on this front!
Ramy is going to be finishing up one trial tomorrow and starting another one on Tuesday. Luckily for us, the bad economy doesn't slow down criminal trials any!
Rebecca is her usual joyful self. She has been having a delightful holiday season thus far. Last year, she was pretty wary of Santa. This year, she's excited about the idea of Santa, but she's still a bit cautious. She's very much into all the Christmas songs though. Right now, she is watching the claymation cartoon of Rudolph in our room. A few minutes ago, she was singing and dancing to Christmas songs, which I taped and will be posting very soon. She has her first dance recital next weekend. It is just for moms and dads, and I'm not sure how it will go. Yesterday, they allowed the moms in to watch them practice their number. As soon as I was in the room, Rebecca just looked at me and wouldn't dance! I may have to leave so that she will perform!
This weekend was extremely busy. Friday, it was pouring down rain. When I got out of my intern training day (Fridays are early days for us), I took the opportunity to do some Christmas shopping and got a lot of things done, but I got soaked in the process. That night, Rebecca helped me make a huge vat of spaghetti sauce, after we'd gone grocery shopping. Rebecca has turned into a wonderful kitchen helper! Cooking with her assistance only takes about twice as long! She is very inquisitive and eager to learn and help. She especially likes to stir and put in pinches of salt. Unfortunately, she only gets about four grains of sea salt in each pinch, so you can see why it takes so long!
On Saturday morning, Rebecca had dance class. When we came home, she helped me put together a pan of lasagna using the sauce we'd made the night before. She also helped me bake a pound cake. After a trip to Costco and a very brief nap of Rebecca's, we headed off in the rain to Claremont to go to Ramy's office Christmas party. We ended up as the recipients of a throw, which Rebecca claimed as hers, in the white elephant gift exchange, and Rebecca enjoyed playing with a little girl named Ericka and a little boy named Jason.
This morning, we got up and went to church. Then we got home, and Rebecc and I had just enough time to make the caramel icing for the pound cake. She was completely enthralled with the melting of the butter in the pan, although she didn't care so much for the use of the hand mixer. She liked the sampling of the warm icing much better though! Then we went for a Christmas brunch at our friends Madeline and Paul's house. Rebecca played with Rachel, Ashley, and Matthew for hours on end and was completely exhausted by the time we left. We had some incredible roast beef that Maddie and Paul had roasted, and we did a Barefoot Contessa-style sandwich with french bread and parmegiano reggiano, fresh mozzarella, arugula, and marinated tomatoes. It was so good....and tonight, Ramy and I were wishing we had another one! It's always fun to have time with friends.
So it was anything but a relaxing weekend, but it was a fun weekend. Unfortuantely, now it is almost 10 p.m., and I have laundry to finish folding and clothes to lay out for tomorrow. I have a complicated neuropsych and psych testing case that I'm doing all day tomorrow, beginning at 7:30 a.m.
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