Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Goodbye Mosaic

Today is the last day of the best, most hectically frustrating 14 months of my life. Today is my last day in my job with Mosaic. I do assisted living for people with disabilities and as of 8 pm tonight I am officially laid off. I am not excited about it... all week I have been talking myself into believing that I am relieved to be done for a bit... have a chance to stay caught up with my classes, take some time for me... then today I went to the shop and told Jay, now he wants a picture of me to remember me by, Tony starting crying and wanted to know if I didn't like him anymore... it took a lot of talking to convince him that I won't be leaving forever, that I will still go see him and the kicker, Lorraine, my lorraine... saw me as I was leaving and lit up like she usually does and immediately pulled me in for a hug. She and I have two things, we call each other "my girl" and she is non verbal... I am the only staff she says this to and the other is to put our foreheads together and do the eskimo kisses... another only me and her thing... she did all of those things today and it took all my strength not to break down completely. Corey hit himself repeatedly and said a few choice terms that I shall not repeat...lol. I am going to miss these people so much... it's really hard to devote yourself completely to a job, to make people your entire world and make yourself theirs and then just have it end involuntarily... They are the greatest influence on me to date... they have been everything to me and I am truly honored to have gotten to spend time with them.