Credit where Credit is due

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I have the best boss ever. Really and truly. Go to great lengths to make her happy. My dad asked me the other day what it was she did that warranted such praise. It made me pause to realize that it was simply because she says things like Thank You and I Love How You Organize Everything. Wow, a kind and communicative human being. How sad that they are so rare in overseers that it’s something to be grateful for. But grateful I am.

Then I recalled our meeting that morning. We receive several letters and phone calls every day from people with desperate stories about loved ones dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder and suicide. The stories are truly heartbreaking. I found several my first week that were several months old. And when MML and I went over them her distress at how these had fallen through my predessors fingers, how late we were, and how much she wanted to help them, really touched my heart.

The Worst Boss I Ever Had worked with and did research on the disabled. His own son was terribly physically disabled. The day he found out I had fibromyalgia he said to me that if he had known that when he interviewed me he never would have hired me. It was that statement that I believe sealed his fate when I filed a claim with the state for benefits based on a hostile work enviornment.

To be working with such a wonderful and truly caring indivdual is so welcome.

Cancer this week

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Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) witnessed the full range of experiences that life on this planet has to offer, from war to love and everything in between. During an interview he gave in Jerusalem in 1994, he said, “I can stand on my balcony and tell my children, ‘Over there I was shelled for the first time, and over there, to the right, just beneath those trees, I was kissed for the first time.'” I suspect his words will soon be meaningful for you, Cancerian. It’s likely you’ll have a breakthrough or epiphany near a place where you once suffered disappointment. Halloween costume suggestion: the phoenix.

Well, since I’m loving my job right now, great people, seriously nice boss, a truly good human being she is, 30 hours a week suits me but it’s barely enough to get things done, and since it’s so close to a place where I had the absolute shittiest boss in the world, well perhaps I’m having the breakthrough already.  But I prefer to think that perhaps I’m soon to find love because that certainly qualifies and I’ve been doing that magical work too.  Abundance abounds.  But hey, I’ll settle for liking going to work.  I can deal with that.  It’s a novel concept for me.

Halloween Potluck

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Every year one of my recovery meetings has a Halloween potluck. There are actually 4 Halloween sober parties I’ve got on the agenda, only know of one for sure that I’m going to. The potluck where I know everyone. The challenge was to be creative, look great, and spend as little time and money as possible.

Pulled out the one outfit I still have left from my SCA days. Going as Boudica. Warrior Queen. Gotta figure out my spear. But have the hair, the face paint, and the clothes…

Wool tunic (black) with linen undershift (green). The woolen tunic embroidery design is mine, the embroidery design on the linen was begun by my ex-teacher. (She did about 20% and then sold it to me for $5 and I completed the work.)  The woolen tunic has slits over the thighs surrounded by the motif on each side.  Amber, bone, wood, and rowan berry necklaces.  Wove the belt with tablets in a technique known as card weaving. The design is not from the Romano-British time period but it was a challenge I set for myself. The combination is stunning I think and it will serve. The leather belt with the shield boss buckle I got at Walmart of all places. I know. Only shopped there twice years ago and once I heard about their practices I never went back but the belt is awesome and can’t be denied. I wear it every day. This time it will be seen and not hidden under a t-shirt.  The red wig will be braided and the like with beads in it.  A woven band to hold the defiant bangs down.  Green pants in the same linen as the tunic and leather boots.  Good enough.  I think it will be Good Enough, which is excellent since that is the name of this particular meeting.  The Just Good Enough group.

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