seriously. awesome husband @_antgas and i are home for another snow day. i'm supposed to intern today and the place is closed. i'm losing intern hours every time this happens. i mean, i'll make them up.
but i was kind of excited to go in today. they're revamping the chemical dependency program where i'm interning to make it more of a day program. instead of people coming in for an hour and a half group three or four times a week and an individual once a week, they're offering unbillable (free) groups to keep people there all day. they're structuring the billable (required for treatment) groups and times for individual sessions so that there is some free time in between. so you show up for group at 9:30am, and your next group isn't until 12:30. you get out at 10:45... what will you do until then? most of the people are driven by OUR van, so they have to wait.... why not have free groups that they can attend?
i'll be doing one orientation group a week - going over rules, the stuff they signed, basics of why they shouldn't use tobacco or energy drinks, etc. and i was offered the choice between a general substance abuse group or opioid group - i chose the opioid. i think that will be very interested, focusing on opioids. the heroin and opiate problem on long island is seriously an epidemic. i'd talk about different opiates at each group maybe, show what they do to your brain, work on education. since it's not 'billable', i can't make it too treatment-y - it can't really be like full-on counseling. i'm sure some coping skill stuff will come up, we'll work on relapse cues and prevention, but it won't be primarily a therapeutic group.
i've also picked up cross stitching recently. i've purchased a couple of patters from subversive cross stitch and a couple of etsy stores. because they're not my designs, i can't sell them. so i'm guessing i'll give them to friends - and maybe give away a few here....
it's funny, you'd think (i thought) that cross stitching would be horrible for my hands since they're so swollen and achey. it's not painful at all, and i don't think it's hurting anything. my pain levels haven't changed... maybe my hands have gotten a little looser (they're not any stronger, but they feel a little easier to move).
so today will be another day wasted at home. awesome husband @_antgas will play video games most of the day, i'll tool around online and cross stitch most of the day. i bought potatoes yesterday for dinner tonight - i'm thinking big, yummy baked potatoes (his is a white potato and i bought sour cream; mine is a sweet potato and i'll cover it in butter and brown sugar) and soup. maybe i'll whip up a batch of my delicious pretzels and we can watch a disney movie. we're (i'm) planning our anniversary trip to disney and have had a hankering to watch 'beauty and the beast' for a few days now. or maybe 'sleeping beauty'. we'll see.
are you somewhere it keeps fucking snowing? are you going stir crazy? are you ready to punch the next weatherperson who uses the phrase 'polar vortex'? and are you mad at whoever decided to start naming winter storms? (this one is pax. PAX i tell you. i hate that fucking name.)
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