Here is a quick/ basic job discription of my new position!!


" What is the role of my Case Manager at Carmel?Case Managers are responsible for making sure that we are providing the services and supports that you are supposed to be getting. Your Case Manager will visit you and your Host Home Provider or staff to make sure everything is going well. Your Case Manager will train your HHP or staff person and will help you choose a new HHP or staff when needed. Your Case Manager will also go to your IDT meetings. In addition, Case Managers must make sure that we are abiding by all the rules and regulations set forth by the State of Colorado. There are also Case Managers for the SLS/CES program."

I know!

Ok so my spelling and grammar are not the best here and I'm sorry for that. But don't you think that it just adds flavor to the blog???? or not! I will do better but I'm not going back to edit everything, I will just move forward from this moment on! ok?

Will write something more interesting later!

New Job..........

So Ive decided to take the Non-profit job....Which oldly enough is located in a sad little building off of a major hwy. (the Government job had a new building and was located beautifully near the mountains.)

So at my new job I will have a case load of about 18 to 25. All Mentally disabled men and woman that need care and instruction. I will be responsible to visit each person on sed case load once each month. I will also be responsible for direct care staff (which includes covering for them if something happens and they cant work).

I must say that I'm still a bit surprised that they even asked me to take this job. I mean I don't have a lot of experience but I'm thinking that this may be were I should be. ( that was kind of a confusing sentence. I will have to tell you that my gramer and spelling is not always the best so maybe you will be generous and just smile at me and give me a few pointers sometimes. My feelings are very delicate so don't be too harsh or I may crumble into a pile of dust that just gets swept under a carpet and then trampled on (nobody likes dust under a carpet!!))

So what do you think? This is a good choice? or should I go with the Gov and all those Bananas???

No bad choice....why so hard?

So Ive been temping for about 3 months now. The company I'm working for cant make up their mind if they want me full time or not... So I started to look for more work. Ive been looking for work in the human service field for some time now (seven months really) and I have gotten nothing!!!! Cus "nobody wants me...guess I'll go eat worms..." Anyway, I got TWO call backs within like 3hrs of each other and they both want to offer me the job!!! "They like me! They like me! they really like me!!!!" Wahoooo! I have a job!!!

But wait...I have to pick one and say no to the other one...Aha! what am I going to do??? I hate making up my mind and I hate even more saying "no" to some one. So I don't know what to do.
So this is what Ive decided..... I will make a Pro... Con.... List (although it makes me feel like I'm in middle school writing down the reasons I like Bobby Swazky. Good times!)

Government Job:

Pro
1. pay: 32 bananas a year
2. job security
3. Great benefits (including Ed $$$)
4. work from 8 to 4:30
5. 20mins form home
6. 1 sick & vacation day each month
7. Great experience
8. Can change departments and not loose accumulated benefits
9. Could be closer to my goal of MS, licens, and a better job (in 5years)
10. No on the job driving (or very little)
11. this experience could be valuable2 non-prof
12. possible transfer (voluntary) to other parts of state

Con
1. Possible grumpy Co-workers
2. Stuck doing something I dint like
3. Berried in Paper work & policy
4. Possible angry clients
5. Get stuck not helping people
6. Just a pee-on in Big GOV
7. Could become a grumpy pants
8. Large case load
9. don't always get to see change

Non-Profit
Pro 1. Nice Co-workers/relaxed atmosphere
2. 4months in summer work 4day on 3 days off
3. Some ed $$ But not as much as gov
4. Smaller case load
5. get paid for miles (.47)
6. get $60 more for being on call
7. more personal people contact - work 4 cause
8. get to see lives change
9. "family" environment
10. possible transfer (voluntary) to other parts of the state
11. 401 -k after 1 yr

Con
1. 4 to 5,000 less a year
2. longer hrs in summer (see pro#2)
3. have to visit each case monthly (18ish)
4. putting more miles on car
5. on call about 1 week each month 24/7
6. What if I cant handle the mentally disabled population?
7. Frustration b/c of lack of funds & time
8. may have to cover for direct care personel

That's all I have for now please let me know what you think???
Thanks for your help. :)

My sister and I went to get all of our hairs cut this weekend! it was fun. She got about 6in off and I got about 4 off. SO my hair is super short!!! like almost to my ears!!! crazy! It is a bit shorter than i wanted it but that is ok b/c I as temted to get a "fro" cut and just have about an inch of blond curly hair all around! (now does that shound like fun or what?) So do I like it??? well yes but I know I will love in in a few weeks or a month!! I cant wait to straiten it and pin it up to see what kind of crazyness I can do with it!

I have church tonight so we will se what happens when everyone sees that I am practacly a hairless cat! Yikes!! lol ;)

Immigration

I finaly understand why people are so up in arms over all the mexican immigration.....

When I was in College I never could understand why people would not like all things Mexican (including the people who are here). I had many international friends from all over but most of them were from Centeral America and Mexico. And they were the coolest! I loved the way they talked and expressed themselves. I loved thier clothes, music and that they all loved to dance!! So for a few years in college I tried really hard to be a little blond Latina! I was always hanging out with some latins, going to dances with them, eating with them, and I even dated a guy from Panama! That was fun! Latin boys are super fun and sweet and know how to treat a girl. (and they are sooo cute too!)

So...I was odviously in the mind set of "wow! everything Hispanic or Latin is wonderful!" I was learning little songs in spanish and was sooo convinced that I would move to central america (maybe teach english or something) and marry a super cute latin guy and have little dark headed kiddos with blue eyes! (*this is reality... What really happend is that I fell for the best man at my friends wedding a few years ago and married a boy who is part Duch and part middle eastern. Now if thats not crazy I dont know what is! All the kids in my hubbys fam have dark hair and eyes and olive skin. But thier mom is super white white white!! Blue eyes, blond hair, very fair skin and looks nothing like the rest of the fam! End reality)

But what I found after moving to the big city with my Hubby was that the places that all the illigle hispanics (mostly from Mexico) lived the crime when up! the property values went down and things became very uncomfortable and unsafe for many families. This has made me very said. It is like finding out that your best friend or that some of your most favorate people in the whole world are not a good or cool as you thought. But insted they take things from other people and hurt them!!!
I also feel bad for all the Immigrants that are assoicated with this munch that takes jobs, lowers the standard of living, hurts property values, and creates an unsafe enviroment. Because as we all know it only takes a few germs to make a body sick. It only takes a few bad people to mess up up for hundres or thousands!!! And this again gives me more sadness.

I have also been finding out that the huge immigration from Mexico to USA is causing farms and labor hevy buisness to crumble and close. There just are not enough workers to keep things going in MEX. Farmers have to go get labor from other MEX states and hope that they stay around thought the whole harvest. B/c what happends is the farmers bring in workers who work for a few weeks and then run for the boarder!! so then they have to find new workers. The sugar cane harvest for example usually takes one or two months to compleet but this year it took about five months!! Farmers then have to rais the price of thier product which then makes it harder for the people to buy it which then weakens the MEX econimy and makes more people think about going to the country "up stairs". This is like being caught in a spinning marrigo-round that will not stop!

These people who are tring to make a better life for them selves (which is a really good thing) but they are doing so at the cost of the country they have come to and the contry they have come from. I don't have any answers really but I think it needs to start with MEX. The balence of wealth there is so up side down its not funny. So unless all those fat cats want to start being their own maids some day they better start putting some $ into thier country or they (and usa too) will be flushed out the poo.

The Nervous Take over!!

After almost seven months of nothing....I have three job interviews with in one week. I cant believe it!!! How crazy!!! My first is today and then there is one Monday and Wednesday. Im excited and happy but so nervous that I could chew my arm off!!!
I really wanted to post and say good luck to me!!! (well that is a funny thing to say....oh well)

Also Ive been dreaming of spring and cant wait for all the flowers to come out!!! I cant wait till I have a house of my own were I can plant lots and lots of happy flowers. I want daises and daffodils, and roses, and lavender and maybe some hyacinths...... So fun!!! and then we can have some tomatoes and beans!!! So wonderful!!!

I love the way that God made the earth to grow and renew! He is so good and amazing!!!!