#porch privacy

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Craftsman Porch - Porch Inspiration for a mid-sized craftsman screened-in back porch remodel with decking

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Porch - Craftsman Porch Mid-sized screened-in back porch design with decking in the arts and crafts style

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Backyard - Porch Ideas for remodeling a medium-sized craftsman screened-in back porch with decking

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tell us more about your crazy hut job?

I'm a "Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician," which is an extremely funny and verbose way to say I'm the overnight counselor for a halfway house.

A halfway house is a type of live-in program for people who just got out of long term hospitalization, prison, etc and need help re-adjusting to normal living. In most cases, halfway houses only rehab people for 6 months. But, in my case, it's for people who completed rehab for addiction, but because of their disabilities, still need support learning complex processes like navigating pharmacy orders and medicaid before they feel comfortable living on their own. So, they stay as long as it takes them to become comfortable managing their own insurance, utilities, meds, etc.

The position is analogous to being an overnight counselor at a summer camp, but year round and for adults with detailed but ultimately straightforward medical needs (eg: I am not qualified to do inject anything but epipens and insulin; any other injection is "a nursing home problem.")

The daytime crew does most of the actual hard work, in terms of teaching people how to interact with society and get their meds on time and so on. My job is to go through the checklist of things the state wants sterilized every day, and sterilize it all. Floors, counters, walls, trash cans, phones, etc etc. Since the facility is in an 8 bedroom house, not a medical building of any kind, there's a LOT of sterilizing of just about everything all the time. Once the sterilizing is done, I organize the paperwork from that day that the daycrew did.

And when clients need help they come to me overnight.

I help with anything from panic attacks to counting out medications to budgeting, though for the most part I'm just acting as The Keeper Of The Cigarettes.

Everyone is allowed to keep their cigarettes in their rooms, but most of them prefer to lock them in the office lockbox, since they're so expensive. If they want a smoke overnight, they come to me and I unlock the box and they take what they want. If they keep cigarettes in their room they're free to go smoke whenever as long as they do it at least 20 feet from the building.

Everyone currently living there has been there for at least a year, and the facility itself has existed for decades, so it is well known in town and by the residents. In town, no one would ever dare call "The Group Home" anything as derogatory as "the crazy hut," to be clear. I don't live in some kind of monstrous backwoods dystopia, haha.

But the residents can call their home what they like. I'm not gonna be the kind of asshole who tells people they can't have a bit of fun renaming their living situation. Especially when... you know... just because people call it "the group home" doesn't mean they actually respect our residents. If calling their house the crazy hut brings them joy and lets them feel bulwarked against the social exclusion they face, then crazy hut it is.

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Someone is literally shooting off fireworks

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4 days out from a full year of living in what is essentially my dream house :’)

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a time honored tradition on this blog that every time I build a front porch, this happens

to be fair though, that chair does look comfortable for... activities

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Craftsman Porch Atlanta

Idea for a large, arts and crafts-style back porch with decking and an addition to the roof

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Front Yard Calgary An example of a mid-sized modern stone front porch design.

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Atlanta Backyard Ideas for a sizable Craftsman-style back porch renovation that will include decking and a roof extension

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Contemporary Porch in Dallas Idea for a large, modern stone front porch with an addition to the roof

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Backyard Porch

An example of a large craftsman back porch design with decking and a roof extension.

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Wilmington Side Yard Mid-sized classic side porch idea with a roof extension and decking

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Deck - Transitional Deck Inspiration for a sizable transitional backyard remodel with a coverless outdoor shower deck

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Backyard - Porch

Large arts and crafts back porch photo with decking and a roof extension

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Porch Backyard in Houston

Mid-sized country concrete screened-in back porch idea with a roof extension