The Year Ahead

I have long been facinated with New Years eve/day superstitions. Some of the more interesting ones:
* Hold a 20.00 dollar bill in your hand when the ball falls and you will have enough money for the comming year. (I've done this the past couple years and I've yet to truely run out)
* Eat Black Eyed Peas with New years dinner for luck
*Wear Pink Underware on New years Eve/ Day for luck in Romance (It SOOO doesn't work!!! UPDATE: they are suposed to be new. oops!)
*The first visitor to your home should be male, dark haired, and bearing gifts (Maybe Garret should visit you on New Years Claire)
*Eat Cabage on New Years day for luck.
*Empty pockets or empty cupboards on New Years Eve portend a year of poverty
*To assure good luck for the New Year, one should sleep with a horseshoe under his pillow on New Year's Eve.
*Bills should be paid so you will not be in debt during the comming year.
*Nothing -- absolutely nothing, not even garbage -- is to leave the house on the first day of the year- the year must begin with something's being added to the home before anything subtracts from it.
*Make sure to do some work -- and be successful at -- something related to your work on the first day of the year, even if you don't go near your place of employment that day. Limit your activity to a token amount, though, because to engage in a serious work project on that day is very unlucky.
*Also, do not do the laundry on New Year's Day, lest a member of the family be 'washed away' (die) in the upcoming months. The more cautious eschew even washing dishes.
* And then there's the old standard of kissing at midnight

I just hung my 2008 Susan Branch calendar and in the middle of the January drawing is the most perfect quote for the comming year (unfortunely): " oh bed! oh bed! Delicious bed, that heaven upon earth, to the weary head." ~ Thomas Hood

Random Thoughts

* I just finished my seventh class with a perfect 100%
* I start my next Class January 1st- Psychopathology (which means that you have a MH diagnosis not that you're a psychopath) & Marriage and Family therapy
* If my deadbeat clients don't start showing up consistently, I will never finish my Practicum/Intership!!!
* Related to the above, I just picked up five new clients so hopefully I will get more then a few hours a week!!!
*It doesn't feel like it's three days before Christmas. Maybe a day of present wrapping and cookie baking will change that!
* I have taken even more of a liking to the song "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses. I think it's because I wish that some of that "old christmas magic" they talk about would come my way!
* I feel ripe for a change and I'm really hoping that 2008 is the year everything starts working out for me. And everyone else too, but especially me (I'm putting this one in lavender because that seems to be my color.)
* My local supervisor, Dr. K, told me that he thinks that I should go in to a Psy.D (the non-scientific version of a Ph.D in psychology) after I finish my Master's. I said we will see how I feel after I finish the master's degree. At this point I would like to get my MRS degree followed by my MOM degree before I consider a Psy.D or Ph.d. But the huge compliment is noted!
* My school supervisor is annoying the crap out of me. He says that he believes in building a relationship (no mom not that kind of relationship), but during every individual supervision I have had with him there are always interuptions (people walking in to his office, phone calls) and this week and apparently my next "individual" supervision will be shared with another student, who seems to be more needy then me(so she talks more then I do and so I barely get to talk about my stuff). How do you expect to build a relationship if I never get to talk to you?! DUH!!!!! (yes I know I sound about 9, but it felt good!) Although, I feel I must add that the school just switched presidents and hired a Provost so he has had a lot of extra work, but still.....
* I'm sick of having to be on top of everyone and everything- I've had to do a alot of micromanging at work and at Pinebrook and really, with my school supervisor a little (with the scheduling of supervision times) I wish I could just stop at being on top of my things!
*Wow do I ever need this vacation!

Gettin' What I deserve (Finally!)

Almost every Tuesday during supervision, my on-site supervisor tells me in one way or another that he is very pleased with all that I have done during my short time as an intern. The joy that this brings me, I cannot explain. After two or three years of working under people who do not appreciate what I do or how well I do it, it is beyond nice to get the professional validation I have been craving!! My supervisor has a PH.D, has been a licenced psychologist for almost 20 years, and has been working in the mental health field almost as long as I've been alive. It never ceases to amaze me that someone who, by rights, could treat me as if I know nothing treats me like a respected collegue and my supervisor at work, who has a bachelors and almost no clinical experience, treats me like I know nothing.

UGG...it's only Monday?!

I don't really have anything new to post, but I feel like venting. My free time seems to fly by while the hours that I am working (paid or not) last f--o--r--e--v--e--r! If only I could come in to some money so I wouldn't have to work so much! Oh Well...three more weeks until my much needed vacation!!