I'm almost 40. And I havent written a blog in a long assss time. What up?!!!

So I forgot I even had a blog.

I just read most of those old ass entries and I'm over here cracking up.

So much has changed.

Most importantly, K is 11 and almost 12 and she is a pre-teen attitude machine who smells pretty bad most of the time. I try to make her wash but everything is a struggle. I even smell her underarms and go check the tub to make sure its wet. Then sniff her towel to make sure she really used soap.

Sometimes she turns on the shower and lets the water run while washing her underarms in the sink. Those times I will check her and she is dry everywhere else, then I have to yell and make her wash for real while I sit on the toilet next to the shower posting on FB.

I'm pretty sure she hates me. But I'm ok with that as long as she smells good while doing it.

I'm still single.

Pretty much didn't work out with the long distance dude. Even though I still care for him. I can't be with someone who treats me unkindly. I have enough problems.

Also, I've been celibate for the past 4 years. I just really got tired of being with guys who just wanted sex. Like, all they want is sex. Like Friends with Benefits but the only benefit is sex. Like, if I'm moving I can't call  you to help me with my couch but you want boink me on it after its in the new apartment. Naw, son. Nope.

All of a sudden it became cool to have a "main chick" and a "side chick" and a mistress. But all these chicks are supposed to be faithful to this one guy. I can't even deal. Nope.
So the hot box is closed for business. Until......I'm not sure. But telling men you have been celibate for 4 years sure runs off the panty sniffers in a hurry.

I'm still a social worker (duh, I didn't go to grad school por nada)

The Re-entry gig ended in 2012. It ended badly too. My program was shut down and funding moved somewhere else. My heart was shattered in a million pieces.  I was unemployed for a while (I heard the term over-qualified a lot) and had a bit of a financial disaster. Moved in with my Dad for 2 years (that was interesting). Then we moved to the suburbs in 2014 and have been out there ever since.

Oh, I also had a stalker (long story, maybe one day I'll tell it).

As far as my Social Work career goes, I got my LMSW in 2013 and a few days ago (literally 10 days ago) I finally got my LCSW. So now I need a new job. The job I have now is not the move for me and I can't wait to get out of this place.

Wow this is depressing. Did anything else happen...

Oh, my cat died. RIP Tigger!

He deserves a shoutout. He was 15 years old (maybe 16. He was old as shit).

So that's the updates. Now I will keep writing some new posts....yipppeee.

Type to you soon.

Is anyone reading this???

Ok so lets talk about my job

So I'm a social worker. Its my first job working as a boss. I'm running a program for adults coming out of prison. This is something that I have wanted to do since I was 19 years old.
So why am I so bored at work?

So basically what I do all day is answer phone calls and write pamphlets, go to meetings and answer questions from my staff.

I have lots of meetings and I have to run some of them. I'm pretty shy so that's hard.

I'm a social worker and I have been doing it since I was 21 years old- so 10 years. I have always been the case manager, therapist, care coordinator, or whatever.

I have worked in psychiatric hospitals, jails, drug treatment facilities, counseling centers, and places like this. I'm so used to dealing with clients, visiting them in their houses, calling them, dealing directly with their problems.

but this program is my baby- I made it all up in my head really.

we help these guys get jobs, housing, education and whatever else they need.

I have stats in my head that you probably don't want to know

like:

it costs 45,000 a year to keep someone locked up

about 4500 a year to give them services

65% of all released offenders re-offend and return to prison, most within the first 3 years

1 in 100 Americans are in prison right now

sadly- 1 in 9 Black men is in prison right now (wonder why I can't get a date!)

I hate prison- its a racist concept, especially when you think that the majority of inmates are poor young and Black.

It is very possible to buy yourself out of prison- its called getting a good lawyer (look a OJ)

Right now our prisons are so over crowded because of the messed up drug laws that most sex offenders get PROBATION. This means they don't even go to jail when they rape a kid- they just have to report weekly and have their picture put on a sex offender list like this one

http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/index.htm

Oh you bet your azz I check out these sex offenders and if I see one near my daughter- mama bear will go on the attack.

Anyway my job is cool, some of the guys have jobs already- that we helped them get.

Job is the crucial link to help someone stay away from a criminal lifestyle. USA runs on the mean green and if you ain't working for a living- you better believe the money will come from something. Have you been in a grocery store lately?

So that's my job.

I'll tell you more about me later- the USA women's gymnastic team is about to come on.
Peace