Monday, August 25, 2014

Day 1

I was up bright and early this morning... after about 3 hours of sleep. Didn't stop me from hitting the snooze on my alarm 3 times before finally rolling out of bed.

Got myself all ready. Haven't really had to do that for a while. Was a little rusty. Felt a bit like a chicken with my head cut off. Had prepared most of the stuff I would need last night, but still felt like I was missing stuff this morning. Managed to walk out the door without my lunch.

Got some bus tickets and rode the bus. Still HATE the bus. 15 minute trip takes 45 with OC Limo. Craziness. Probably better than trying to park at the absolutely terrible Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. Still managed to arrive very early.

Met with the social worker and got the general idea of what will be going on for the next 6 weeks. It seems to be very structured, which I think will be very good. Met everybody else in the group. Observed for my first day. I guess they like to ease people into it. It's quite interesting how it works. It's basically on a rotation. They rotate 1 or 2 people in and out every week, so there are more experienced people and newer people all the time.

It seems like it will be a good program, and I really feel like I'm ready to change the things about myself that I don't like. I only hope I have the strength to change those things and stick with them over time.

1 down... 29 to go... doesn't seem like very many days... I think they'll be mostly good days though... I guess we'll see....