Judecorp.

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!