weber state game

i'm not sure why i keep going to U games. all i do is get bored and take pictures of weird stuff that has nothing to do with the game itself.

the enemy's section

the rich people's section


we should have just stayed home. i think our new tv is bigger than the jumbo-tron.


he kind of blends into the background, doesn't he?

the decline of social work values

i put these MK eye shadows for sale in the bathroom at work a few weeks ago. they were discontinued colors, ones i can't sell at full price anyway. the plan was to mark them down even more this week so i could get rid of them, because otherwise they would just go in my personal "makeup graveyard" or in the trash.

i went in the bathroom this morning and what do i find? over half of them are GONE. at first i thought maybe someone took them with the intention of finding me later to pay me (it's happened before). but then i noticed that the container was up-side-down, and the eye shadows were all akimbo. it looked like a crime scene for sure.

like i said, these were basically worthless to me, so it's not the financial loss that hurts. it's the fact that some social worker, who is responsible for the lives of vulnerable children, can't even be trusted with a $6.50 cosmetic item. who even needs that many eye shadows? i go through like 3 a year, if that. are they planning to sell them on the MK black market ("the pink market"?) for gas money? i know we don't make a lot of $ here, but i thought social workers had better values and morals than that.

save the date...

Trisha + Joe's Wedding
Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Point Restaurant at The Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.thepoint.hci.utah.edu/index.html

hideous or hottie?

i heard an interesting conversation on the radio the other day. this male DJ was saying that if his girlfriend were ever to leave him, he hopes that she would date someone hotter than him. he "just wants her to be happy." his female counterpart, on the other hand, said she would be PISSED if her husband remarried a hottie. she would feel much better if he married a woman 100 pounds heavier with bad skin and gray hair.

so i was thinking -- if joe left me, would i want him to end up with jessica alba or jessica feltcher? now notice i didn't say "if i died" because then i would definitely want him to get with jessica alba. dying would be MY fault, so why should joe suffer? (unless he killed me.) but i think if he left me, i would curse him to a eternity of cellulite and wrinkles. maybe i'm just shallow and vindictive. and is there a gender difference here? what do you think? please vote.

Baby Shower

I was really stressing about "party favors" for Kara's upcoming baby shower. That element of the party planning hadn't even crossed my mind, what with the food, games, presents, house cleaning, and broken microwave to take care of between now and then. Then Carly had to go and mention it.


So I just wanted to show off the super cute favors I came up with at the last minute. They are vanilla lip balms with a personalized message with Kara's name and the date of the shower. I'm so proud of myself!

things that make me want to quit

this week concluded our annual audit, in which child welfare cases are randomly pulled and caseworkers are scrutinized within an inch of their jobs. wasn't i so lucky that my "random" case happened to be a family with multi-generational substance abuse and domestic violence problems, over ten past cases with us, and a host of other environmental factors like poverty, lack of education, and the current economy crisis? despite my mad social-work skills, i just couldn't seem to "fix" the fact that this kid's mom died of a drug overdose, he's addicted to pot, he's flunking out of 11th grade, he can't keep a job, he's been charged for possession and trespassing this year, and he recently got into a "wrestling match" with his dad.

so, readers, i'll have you guess which portion of the audit failed -- "child status" or "system status"? if you guessed "child status," you are WRONG. apparently these reviewers felt that this kid is functioning just great! who cares that he has 5 F's -- it's an improvement over the 6 F's he had last quarter. and we're not so worried about his positive drug tests -- it's just pot! this is the "system's" fault, or in other words, it's MY fault as his caseworker. i should have updated my assessment more often. i should have invited his drug-addicted grandparents to a team meeting, because after all, they are his support system. i should have kicked the therapist's ass who gave him the wrong diagnosis, which prevented him from being in the appropriate treatment program. i doesn't matter that the parents told the reviewers that they love me and want my help with their kid until he's 18, because i just didn't do quite enough paperwork to fix him!

what a great message this is passing on to us caseworkers -- we don't care how your kid is doing, as long as you're typing more logs and have more meetings!!

welcome

i've decided to start a blog, due to popular request by certain people who seem to think my life is exciting, and my competitive drive to give my favorite bloggers a run for their money (i.e. http://wealthymusings.blogspot.com).

i'm not really sure what direction to take here. should i try to keep everyone updated on my schooling/working/wedding planning? or should i use this as a forum to vent all my rantings and ravings about the annoying people that surround me each day? or maybe i could just post my favorite recipes for y'all to read. any suggestions?