Updates in my life

I called yesterday about the daycare job and was told I don't have good enough job stability so they passed me over. Huh? You knew my job history before you called me for an interview, yet you interviewed me anyway. What's up with that? I was so upset that I screamed at Tim about how many times I've moved on his doggone whims! Then I went to work angry with him. I hate that crap. Ended up apologizing via text message but still ...

Still waiting to hear from the school. I'm hoping and praying it all works out, especially after last night.

Went in to work and things were okay. Had a good issues group with all the girls. They brought up concerns appropriately and had a great discussion about truth and consequences of not telling the truth. All was good until 8:45 when all hell broke loose!

One of the staff monitoring phone calls overheard an inappropriate conversation. She told the girl to end the call. The girl got angry and started to scream at staff. She then locked herself in the kitchen (she was using the kitchen phone at the time). When staff finally got the door open, this girl went ballistic. Four staff had to take her down. When it was all said and done, all four staff were hurt. She bit two of them, spit on one, body slammed one, and one was wearing sandals and her toenail got ripped off in the struggle. Not pretty! We had to call the police to intervene as this girl was strong and she was not calming down.

Meanwhile, one of our other girls who is bi-polar was cycling (going through bouts of hyperactivity, screaming, hysterical laughter, threatening). We had to call to have her assessed. That took a few hours and she did end up going to the psych hospital. She'll be there for a couple weeks probably.

Another girl stated she might kill herself, so she also had to be assessed. She has tried in the past so we couldn't just ingnore it.

In another home, a boy jumped out of a two story window and broke his leg. Don't know why or how that happened. And in the third home, another girl had major problems and was also sent to the psych hospital. It was such a crazy night! I got out of there at 2 this morning. *sigh* Just one more reason for me to get the heck out of there!

Today's a new day. I dread going to work. When someone is "going off" we call a five second rule. That means all the other girls are supposed to go to their rooms and remain there until staff come to get them. Staff was so involved in keeping the girl safe that no one could be upstairs to monitor the others so no one stayed in their rooms. All of them were dropped to the lowest privilege level and that means a special outing to a water park is cancelled for today. It's going to be H-E- double hockey sticks all day and into the evening, I'm sure. Man, this sucks big time.

So ... enough of my boring life. What's new with all of you? *evil grin*