26 Days To a New Year

Hello All
Hope all are doing well? Normally I would have waited a couple of days before writing here but since it’s 25 more days left of this year and 20 days till Xmas I’ve been having a long on my mind. Project and getting that ready for next year as its going well and on plan. Work went well today as they have started putting out the Xmas decorations and all. Folks have started going on vacation as well and we had a few prerelease conference today as well as we’re gearing up to release about 20 on the sixteenth of this month. Well for sure cut down on some of our over crowding as well. I received one today and for sure will receive some more tomorrow as well. A lot of traffic in the building today and I was a little un-edged when they kept bring up the new residents that just arrived as to we don’t know what’s on their minds and as soon as that door opens up they could decide to get rabbit in them and take off running. I’m a 45 year old man and running after a 15 or 16 year old isn’t for me. I’ve mentioned to the staff on several occasions that they need to think safety and if one of then does run off I’m sure not going to go chase him. They know how true this is as we’ve had three of them run off a couple of months ago. Our facility is surrounded by water as well and one decided he wanted to be Aqua man. You think I went in after him in that cold water. No Sir! Plus I’ve been having back problems here lately too. I don’t think so. The local sheriff’s department ended up snatching him from the water in a boat. I’ll give him credit he was a strong swimmer as night was falling and he was moving along pretty well. With the holidays being here they really want to be home with their families and desperation does set in and we’re prone to loose more from runaways and AWOLS from their home visits. Not only me but my co workers will really have to be on their toes as well to prevent a lot of this from happening. The weather has been dropping here in Houston as most folks would say we don’t have a winter but when you’ve lived here all your life well 65 degrees is cold to us. LOL Some where like Portland or Idaho I’d really have some issues if I lived there. I was on line from work to chat but really didn’t feel much like that either. I chatted with a few from Bear411 but just wasn’t into it today. I guess I’m still having personal issues with myself but I’m keeping focused and on plan as well. As some of you may have been talking about my Ex and I’ve come to realize that there comes a time when one has to let it go. It’s been about 5 months now but it’s still kind of hard as one wants to keep up hope too. Right now I know that’s not going to happened and I guess I am jealous of his new relationship as well but I’m not going to be like a psycho bitch on television and try to break them up. I’ve been mentioning moving on and I need to stick to my gun and do that. The fact that I was stood up this weekend doesn’t help build my confidence either and I have been trying to set up something with Mike from V. for a while he says he wants to meet but he’s never put forth the effort to do so, Excuses or something. So I’ve decided to stop asking or even trying. I can take a hint. I won’t stop contact but I won’t make an effort to make it either. This leading me on things has gone on long enough and on that note I hope all had a wonderful weekend and a great Monday as well and are doing fine. Looking forward to hearing from you all as well soon. Hugs and until fingers meet keys.