The night before Show Time

I know I have to get some sleep pretty soon, but I'm sort of wired right now. I'm wondering how much I'll miss going into the LATI website all the time. Not that I'll have more free time. Seems like there's always something else to do. I'm glad it will be available to us for a while longer. I like reading what others have written, and there are 3 staff from Allegany who are doing it now. I remember when Sherry and I first started it, I was calling Pam and Nora (they took it right before us) with all kinds of questions. They were great answering what we asked...NOT answers of course...but it was nice that they calmed fears and all. We're doing the same thing for Pat and Ginny...sort of like being cheerleaders I guess. They all laughed when I told them one of the most memorable things I saw was COFFEE-IN-A-BOX at the first face to face meeting. I had never seen that before and had to ask how it poured. But would you believe that on our way to a TIG meeting last week...we stopped at a coffee bar in Cumberland before we started out and they had them there!! Now if we could only get a Panera here!

Thoughts on the past few months

I'm standing here thinking about all that has gone on in the past few months. Wow. It doesn't seem like it has been months. I know the whole LATI thing intimidated me at first because I kept hearing how much time it took and this made me nervous. Even though we are a small branch, I still multi-task. I'm the branch manager and childrens services, and there are just 2 full time staff: Sherry and me. I was worried that I wouldn't have the time that was required. With a lot of support from my supervisor, Lisa M., I brought our sub Sharon in which allowed me time in the workroom. What a pleasant surprise it was to see that most of the work to be done for LATI was covered by workshops I had attended over the years. The biggest difference I saw was LATI dug a little deeper and was a bit more detailed. It WAS time consuming to finish the resources and it all got done. I'm having fun working on our project: I do not like having my picture taken and I can't stand to listen to my voice narrating photo story. I did a photo story a couple of years ago and didn't like my voice then. It's worse now. Oh well.
....to be continued.....