Well here we are, well into 2012 already. Where does the time go? We had our first trip of the year to California to visit Mom and Dad Greenleaf in Hemet. The weather was pretty rainy and cold this time around. My mom said that it was unusual for this much rain to fall in Hemet. We did a little geocaching on the way down and while there. After a few days, the sun came out finally. For the second time, I ended up sick for about half the trip. As soon as I got into California, I got stuffy and very sick. We have come to the conclusion that this has to be an allergy of some sort. The same thing happened to me the last time in California. It was good to see the folks and visit with them. They were getting ready to head back to Washington shortly after we left. Before leaving for Hemet, I moved from my job with Riverstone Health back to the main Mental Health Center here in Billings. Riverstone lost the contract for the SDMI program which was a Medicaid program for the Mentally Ill. I was pretty bummed that I had to move back to Mental Health due to the fact that I once again had to start counting units. It is very stressful and I have become very tired from all of it. I will be having my left shoulder repaired in December. The tear in the rotator cuff has gotten to the point of where it is constantly hurting me and I am losing range of motion. What really sucks is that we no longer have sick time through my employer. They have gone to strictly Paid Time Off (PTO). We have to use this PTO for everything now. I have started coming to work sick because I can't afford to lose all my vacation time for sick time and appointments. I have to wait until December to have my arm repaired because I do not have enough PTO to cover the surgery recovery time. I will get my new time in December. There is a lot of stuff that has happened since the three years I was gone to the other job. I was actually assigned to the Mental Health Center for the whole three years but worked off site at Riverstone. Since that time, they moved into a new building where we work with 22 other people in one big room. We have cubical s there. They are very small and there is no place to hang photo's or anything. We have to do our own cleaning as the janitors are not allowed into that office space. I lost my computer that I had at my other job and have to share them now with the other 22 people. All of this change was difficult for me to adjust to and for the first few months, I felt out of place and basically useless. It is a little better now except I can't quite get up to speed on the units. It is a job though and I am thankful for it.
We are planning to grab the elusive Delaware this year for the last of the 50 states that we have geocached in. We are thinking that we better grab this state very soon and get it off the bucket list. After we get it, we will set out sights on Canada. My little internet business hasn't quite caught on yet. I just don't want to give up yet. I moved over to Etsy and gave Intuit the boot. I was being charged $52.00 per month and no one was seeing my site. things are much better with Etsy. The market is so saturated however, that it is hard to sell anything.
My beautiful and talented daughter graduated from Montana State University College in Bozeman on the 5th of May 2012. I am so incredibly lucky to have this wonderful woman in my life. She now will start another chapter of her amazing life as an elementary teacher. The children she will teach will be the luckiest on this Earth! She graduated with honors and I could not be any prouder than I am at this moment!
This is a very important election year. We must all get out in November and vote Obama out of office. If he gets another 4 years, we will surely become a socialist nation. He is everything that is bad for the United States. He has no sense of business, doesn't care for our military men and women and portrays himself as a narcissistic, self centered man who doesn't deserve one more minute in office. If you do anything at all this year, vote him out!
That's all for now, I will write more after our trip to Delaware. Cheers! Freedancer
