Happy

I am rather happy right now. And since that doesn't happen often or doesn't seem like it because I always right about negative things on this blog then I decided to add some happiness to it. Well I think I am happy because I had caffeine and although it makes me go to the bathroom every 30 minutes it makes me happy. Secondly today is my last day of work for a week because I am going on vacation. I am really excited, hope the weather stays nice and I come back to work ready to take on the last two months.

Lets see on a not so happy note we have had 4 clients die in the last 10 days. It even made the papers and everyone is like what should we do? Oh my goodness homeless people are dying which is good that people are talking about. But then the headlines will go away and people will forget about the homeless until the next round of deaths. When I hear people talking about the homeless population I feel proud about what I do. Because I feel like I have room to talk because I deal with these people on a daily basis. It also makes me realize that I really need to be more patient because I have been losing it little by little. Today I was doing a van ride to the hospital and next to me was this guy that volunteers every day and he started singing to the Dido song "White Flag" and he really got into it. It was really nice because it felt so normal just singing in the car. Sometimes I think the beanies really like riding in the car something new and relatively "normal". Just some time to sit back and listen to music. Yesterday I also found out that one of our clients tried to hang herself under a bridge but thankfully she was stopped. So it's been a hard few weeks for the homeless people here in Anchorage. It's a really tight community and when someone dies it hits all of them.

Let's see this past weekend me and the roomies started the garden. So much fun. We planted carrots, peas, radishes, zucchini, brussel sprouts and some greens. It's been really dry here in Anchorage so I hope that they all survive.

What am I looking forward to in the summer? Not having to wear my blue jacket which I have yet to take off. Participating in the marathon relay with some of my roomies and wearing a tutu. So I registered me and three roomies for the relay and we needed a name so I thought of the most absurd name I could think of, pink tutus, and threatened them with it so that they would give me another name to put on the registration. Sadly they liked the idea and we are now known as the pink tutus. There has been talk of actually wearing a pink tutu and passing it off as a baton, I think not. What else? Going on community trips to Denali and Homer. Just enjoying the light and spending these last few months with my community.