Lazy evening

I took a little hiatus from the internet last night. Wednesday is my last late night of work for the week (Mondays I babysit until 10 or so, Tuesdays I volunteer until 8:30, Wednesdays I work until 7) and instead of coming home and trying to go through LiveJournal and e-mail and stuff, I made Smooch and I a nice dinner (farfalle pasta tossed with chick peas and spinach in balsamic vinegar). Then we settled in to watch episodes 2 and 3 of Season 2 of "The L Word" (DVD arrived today). Then we, erm, went to bed early.

I have to say I made the right choice. I feel much more ready to face the day today and I definitely enjoyed our laid back night full of QT. It doesn't happen very often that we have a chance to dodge our obligations or hide from the world, but when we do, it's just the greatest thing ever. I wish we could do it more often. (Of course, it means I didn't write my monthly "joint topic" article for Strangeland.net but I'm over it.)

In other exciting news, I found out I impacted someone, and that is always so exciting! I collaborate with this woman from another agency for one of my clients, and several months ago I found out that she had given the client money (from her own pocket) when they were having hard times. I totally went ballistic and had this huge talk with her about boundaries and about her role, but most importantly about how giving a family money upsets the power dynamic in the relationship, giving her some "power over" instead of "power of." I was pretty sure the conversation was received as "blah blah 'don't give money' blah blah 'you'll go broke'" but I found out from a coworker yesterday that she took all of the power stuff to heart! She was telling my coworker how I opened her eyes to power dynamics with clients and showed her that she needs to be more careful about making sure the balance of power errs on the side of the family.

I'm so excited about that, I could poop my pants!

Early day?

So much for my early day at work. I was originally supposed to be done at 4:30pm. Then my 3:30pm home visit cancelled and I thought I would be able to knock out some paperwork that was building (I wasn't originally going to do that) and be home by 5:00 easy. Then I walked into a hornets' nest at my 12:45pm visit (that was supposed to be well over by 2:15) where everyone was crying, ended up there until 3:15, got to my 2:30 at 3:30 (I'm glad that 3:30 cancelled!) and then went back to work to do that paperwork and decompress, because I was too keyed up to go home.

Oh well, so much for coming home by 4:30 and pounding out that StrangeLand article. I'm starting to think that I'm not the best person to be doing this. I like doing it a lot, but there's got to be someone more reliable than a crazy overextended social worker with a 50+ hour/week regular job, a babysitting job, a volunteer job, and an estate to clear out.

(Gosh, writing that out makes me feel like a /serious/ lunatic!)

boooooooooring

I wish I had something sub-sub-subsubstantial to say here, but I have no brainpower left. I swear, I am one of the most unexciting and unstimulating people on the planet these days.

What can I do to make myself more interesting?