Wow, it has been a while since I have blogged, sorry about that. Sorry to say that things have not really been that exciting lately. Just workin, doin laundry, shopping, visiting the women’s prison… the usual. Oh wait, have I told you about the women’s prison thing?

As most of you know, I joined the NY Junior League last Fall. Once you join the League you join a committee for the year. The committee I joined this year was “New Lease on Life”. This committee helps incarcerated women to learn life skills so that when they get out of prison they will be able to deal with everyday. So this semester we are spending one night a week teaching them how to find short and long-term housing. There are lots of rules for the facility, no open toed shoes, no green clothing (they wear green jumpsuits and we would not want to be mistaken for an inmate), no cell phones, no wandering the halls alone…etc. All in all, it has been an interesting experience. We are not allowed to to ask the women what they are in for however, many of them are pretty forthcoming with their wrap sheets. All in all, it is interesting working with these women. On the outside it is easy to feel little sympathy for them but when you get to know them you realize that you could be in their situation if you had an addiction. Most of them are in for drug sales/using etc. There are a few that are in for other things such as embezzling money from an elderly lady or running a daycare where you feed to kids bendryl every day so they will sleep. It is really sad because many of these women will go right back to jail.

So as I change topics, I am really excited that a few of my great friends are coming to visit me this weekend! I can’t wait!
I am sure I will have lot’s to tell everyone after the leave.