Where Does the Time Go?

Seriously?  It's already Thursday.  And today marks my three month anniversary at The Ranch.  Geesh.  I feel as though I've been here forever.  Actually, yes and no.  Sometimes I feel that I'm still treated like the "newbie", particularly by one of the other Crew Managers.  I don't think he intends too, but it's a little irritating.  Don't you know I worked at The Farm for three years?  I understand how one minute I may feel like I have ten residents working with me, and the next thing I know I have two.  I understand that plans don't always work out.  You don't have to show me an example about how your day was perfectly planned and then you lost half your crew.  I get it.

Ok, venting done!

I'm still struggling a little internally, trying to figure out how to really make my crew good for residents.  Today we started building a picket fence.  People really got into it.  I like doing projects where people can see something come together, where they know that they put something together.  I know I can't always have that, but it seems more obvious on the Farm Crew than any other crew to me.  What to do, what to do?  But I am proud of myself that I led the crew all by myself today, especially with a carpentry project.  The Shop Crew Manager did help me out, so I can't take all the credit.  I learned something new today, and now will be able to do it again on a different project. 

I'm enjoying my time at The Ranch none the less.  I enjoy having flexibility to play rugby, to take a class (which I applied to CCV today!  Woo woo!)  I enjoy being close to my parents.  I do miss my friends in MA, I wish I could be closer to my rugby team, and I wish I lived in a place a little more busy.  But, it's where I'm suppose to be right now, the step I need to go on to something else, whatever that may be.