I have a family here on Earth

So...

It all went down at work today, people. 

I won't get into detail because I just know I would the person who got fired for writing too much about work on her blog. 

However, the reason I bring it up is because, seriously..

Sometimes I have the BEST family ever.

I called my Dad crying because of work and he told me..and I quote "Get your license, and once its in your hands, I'm going to come down there to help you move home and then go and have a talk with those people". *when my dad says "have a talk", he means "intimidate someone with his size and  with threats of violence". *

My sister Erin immediately began berating the person I was talking about with all sorts of creative bad language. "Oh my gosh, what a #%*#Q &(#   &()# er! I am going to #$()#% his ()#$& and then #%()#% because he is such a &()$#&_ *  She then made a number of wild threats which I talked her down from, as I don't want to have to visit her in prison.:)

I then got a call from my other sister Danielle, who informed me that the person I was talking about "doesn't sound mentally stable" and that she felt like it must be hard for me, being smarter  than my coworkers (in her words) to have to sit there and listen to "their crap". 

My sisters told me that my mom was "fired up". 

My brother in law called me with his ideas for revenge. Thanks, Jackie. 

It is so amazing to have a family like that.

 To know that I have people who care about whether I had a bad day at work or not.

Who would defend me, even if I were in the wrong. 

I have sometimes wondered why I am in the family that I am.

There are moments when I feel like I don't belong.

That I am nothing like any of them. 

But it's moments like this that I know why I have the family that I do.

It was God's plan.

 He knew I needed them and they have always watched out for me. 

Thank you, guys.

 You are all so crazy, but that is what makes you amazing.

Lori Ann

Here I go again..

Well, its happened again.

I can't say that I am surprised. 

I'm getting another intern, people!!

This girl doesn't know it, but she is LUCKY.

She should have had MY internships. 

I had to intern in a psycho-social rehab with an insane field supervisor named Eleanor
 (at least that was her English name)

I couldn't pronounce her Polish name.

 That's right, she was Polish. 

The whole goal of my internship was to avoid her. 

It wasn't hard most of the time..she spent every afternoon on the phone yelling at someone in Polish. 

It's my personal belief that she was calling Poland itself.

On the company phone.

When I did interact with her, it was bad. 

It didn't help that the entire time I was interning there, I happened to be obsessed with Brokeback Mountain.

She told me that I needed to stop talking about that #@%* movie.

She made me start a baking club.

 With schizophrenics. 

Have any of you baked with schizophrenics?? 

Nothing like dying rice krispy treats green in an overheated third floor kitchen in the middle of Norristown, Pennsylvania.

With schizophrenics!!!

So, if I nap in my office..3, maybe 4 hours per day, while she runs my

 therapy slash arts and crafts empire,

 she should not hesitate to consider herself the luckiest intern this side of the Mason Dixon:) 

Lori Ann

p.s.- In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I may have brought bad interning luck upon myself. In my office (aka "the game room") at the above described internship there was a ouija board ( I have NO idea why) and I may or may not have used it to try and find out what I was getting for my birthday. So yeah, God may have been punishing me with a crappy internship. 

She's mean and she's evil (think Elvis's greatest hits!)

To whom it may concern
(aka Danielle and Erin):

LOOK WHAT I GOT FOR HALF PRICE AT HOBBY LOBBY!!!
(and that's not all..I got stuff to make you both a surprise..I'm gonna get my clients to help me...get excited!)

p.s. It doesn't show up very well, but everything I got is really SPARKLY!!

Signed,

Your favorite little sister!

Take a long last look

I am inspired by other people's blogs. 

Very inspired.

From recipes for homemade tomato soup, to relay marathons, to homemade wreaths.

I don't know about the rest of you, but one thing that has inspired me is

NieNie's back to school feasts.

I love how she celebrates life.

I don't have any little ones to send back to school, but I decided to celebrate what is important to me...y'all know it..I am celebrating..

the END OF SUMMER, hallelujah!!

Red grapes. I am addicted!  I bought 10 dollars worth the last time I went shopping.

Enjoy Lori's first annual End of Summer celebration dinner!

The infamous pumpkin salt and pepper shakers

A little "bubbly" in the words of Nie Nie

She always lists what she served, and it always sounds so amazing..like "herb roasted salmon and fresh string beans".

 I will list what I served..get ready for some competition, Nie!

Lori's Celebration Dinner included the following:

Fresh walmart frozen chicken, baked

Great value brand corn, from the can, microwaved for 2 minutes

This weird potato casserole I made, with chopped potatoes, cream of mushroom, sour cream, and great value brand mild Cheddar cheese

cucumbers and more of that Cheddar cheese

snack pack chocolate pudding for dessert

Lori An n

Stirring and stirring and stirring our brew

It's August 26th...Fall is so close, I can feel it.
 (Not in the weather or anything..this is the South)

This is the time of year when I create what I like call

"Lori's Cauldron of Fall Magicalness".

It's everything I need to have a great fall season.

If all the right ingredients are in this Cauldron, then it will be an amazing season.

Sometimes, I am tempted to put experiences in the cauldron, like "playing in the leaves with my nieces and nephews" or "drinking apple cider and watching scary movies with my sisters".

Then I remind myself, magical seasons aren't about people and experiences, they are about THINGS.

 Shiny, sparkly things.

 Long after the leaves have died and my nieces and nephews go home,
 I can hug those orange twinkle lights and experience true happiness:)

So, this years cauldron MUST contain the following:

1. 1 big pumpkin

2. 3 small pumpkins

3. 2 sets of orange twinkle lights


4.10 fall themed, amazing smelling candles



5. Fall table runner (maybe homemade)

6. Fall center piece (I want to make this)

7. Fall wreath (I want to make it)

8. pumpkin scented bubble bath

9. several gallons of apple cider

10. cool container for Halloween candle



11. one Halloween advent thing

Not really alot to ask, right?

And my family members call me fussy and demanding. 

I guess this will show them!

Lori Ann

It sounds so good to me

I don't talk enough about my career on this blog.

Dang HIPPA and all its confidentiality rules!

I have been the therapist here at Day Treatment for 5 months.

I still feel like I am swimming along, about to go under.

You would think I would feel prepared..I spent six years in college, and have worked in mental health going on 4 years.

It's just that

being someones therapist

is different from anything I've experienced.

I feel like I have the power to really mess up some of these kids, and I don't like that feeling.

Also, I thought what to say would come easier to me. You can only say

"how do you feel about that?"

so many times.

I think my biggest issue is that I am not an exceptionally insightful person.

I don't automatically think "they are saying one thing, but mean another".

Blah..blah..blah...

Sometimes these posts bore even me.

I need some excitement in my life.

 It's time to work on another life goal!

Should I take the midnight train to Georgia

or try and sleep in a field of blue bonnets?

Lori Ann

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

God is punishing me.

Punishing me for posting possible Mockingjay Spoilers on my blog.

Went to bed at 8pm, set my alarm for 4
 (see, I wasn't even going to be one of those midnight crazies!)

At 4 am, get up, find myself blocked into my parking spot and have to do LITERALLY 30 minutes of inching back and forth, getting out and checking how close I am, backing up until I can slide by this car.
 (I have no idea why they were parked right behind me..jerks!)

Anyway, soo.....its about 4:30 am, I run into my nearest Walmart, grab some grapes, and head for the book section.

You guessed it.

NO MOCKINGJAY.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am currently eating grapes by the handful and denouncing Sam Walton and all of his descendants!!

Lori Ann