i am glad to have gone through the EFY stage and i didn't mean to make it sound like it was just something you get past to get to the real stuff. like i said, i learned so much from EFY and those summers and i wouldn't give them back for ANYTHING. enjoy it while you're there and when it's time to move on, you won't be able to enjoy it so easily. at least that's how it happened for me. i was just done.
oh and i really love orange creamsicles. just saying...
16 May 2008
15 May 2008
jobs and like, summer and stuff
i now have 2 summer jobs lined up for the summer. one is full-time (temporary) working at Vangent, and one is doing a job for Infoition like I used to before I started working at the high school.
oh, our computer has a virus, but we just happened to purchase a laptop with luke's school loan money yesterday, so that'll have to do for now. my brother kevin is going to come check it out and see if he can save the desktop (pray for my PC!) also, luke's tuition for the summer has been paid, so we're feeling okay right now. things look good for the summer. we decided to cut back on some costs, so we're canceling our cable as soon as the NBA Finals are over :P and won't get anything like that until we move at the end of July. that should save us a little money for the time being.
this'll be the first time 2004 that i'm not doing EFY during the summer. i'll actually get to participate in my family's 4th of July celebrations and Ava's birthday! even thinking about it makes me tear up (i'll just blame it on the hormones) because for a long time my priority has been friends and just doing whatever i wanted during the summers. granted, EFY was a lot of hard work, but it was really just a lot of exhausting fun. i enjoyed it and it taught me so much, but i am really glad to be past that stage and moving into a more eternal family focus, even if it means i'll be in a stuffy office all summer.
oh, our computer has a virus, but we just happened to purchase a laptop with luke's school loan money yesterday, so that'll have to do for now. my brother kevin is going to come check it out and see if he can save the desktop (pray for my PC!) also, luke's tuition for the summer has been paid, so we're feeling okay right now. things look good for the summer. we decided to cut back on some costs, so we're canceling our cable as soon as the NBA Finals are over :P and won't get anything like that until we move at the end of July. that should save us a little money for the time being.
this'll be the first time 2004 that i'm not doing EFY during the summer. i'll actually get to participate in my family's 4th of July celebrations and Ava's birthday! even thinking about it makes me tear up (i'll just blame it on the hormones) because for a long time my priority has been friends and just doing whatever i wanted during the summers. granted, EFY was a lot of hard work, but it was really just a lot of exhausting fun. i enjoyed it and it taught me so much, but i am really glad to be past that stage and moving into a more eternal family focus, even if it means i'll be in a stuffy office all summer.
13 May 2008
all figured out... almost
i decided it would be best to NOT participate in my classroom's field trip to Worlds of Fun today considering strong smells and overexertion still cause me great discomfort. luke is there and got put with all the students who don't do any rides, so he's not having the most fun ever. at least he didn't have to pay for his ticket. he wants to go back soon, so he can actually do some of the fun things that there are supposedly worlds of. i am back at the school with a student who couldn't go on the trip because his foster parents told him he had to participate in the fundraiser if he wanted to go (parents had the option of having their students do the fundraiser or they could just pay for the ticket). we've been in the classroom next door, so i could kind of help out, but now we're taking a little break.
i have a job interview tomorrow at Vangent to do customer support for student financial aid inbound calls. that will be just for the summer and since my sister works in HR there, she got someone to call me just the day after i submitted the application. this summer job (assuming my interview is successful) will be a great help to us this summer, so yay for that.
yesterday, we also received a loan that will make it possible for us to work out our 1 car situation. since luke will be driving to and from JCCC all summer (the shuttle doesn't run in the summers), we have to figure out transportation. the old eagle summit just will not make it with all that highway driving, i'm afraid. also, luke is going to be making another phone call, but should be starting a paper route for the LJWorld here soon. all of those things will put us through the summer until i can go back to work at the high school... then from there we'll figure out what we have to do with Luke in school full-time during the fall (especially when it comes baby time in November). By then we'll know exactly how much of a student loan/grants Luke will be receiving for the fall and spring semesters.
these are not interesting or exciting things to write about, but they are things that have been up in the air for us for quite a while, so yesterday was a very good and accomplishing day (everything was settled kind of all at once after school yesterday).
break's over, but that's kind of what's going on with us right now. i'm just waiting out this last week before my 1st trimester is over, then maybe i will slowly start to feel better each day. that's the hope. and school's out for summer next thursday (wednesday and thursday we get out at 12:00pm), so then i'll start that job on June 2nd (if i get it, which i really am assuming i'll get...you only have to have a high school diploma to be qualified for it --- i know, i'm getting a lot out of this degree of mine).
yay for the fact that it's 1pm already.
i have a job interview tomorrow at Vangent to do customer support for student financial aid inbound calls. that will be just for the summer and since my sister works in HR there, she got someone to call me just the day after i submitted the application. this summer job (assuming my interview is successful) will be a great help to us this summer, so yay for that.
yesterday, we also received a loan that will make it possible for us to work out our 1 car situation. since luke will be driving to and from JCCC all summer (the shuttle doesn't run in the summers), we have to figure out transportation. the old eagle summit just will not make it with all that highway driving, i'm afraid. also, luke is going to be making another phone call, but should be starting a paper route for the LJWorld here soon. all of those things will put us through the summer until i can go back to work at the high school... then from there we'll figure out what we have to do with Luke in school full-time during the fall (especially when it comes baby time in November). By then we'll know exactly how much of a student loan/grants Luke will be receiving for the fall and spring semesters.
these are not interesting or exciting things to write about, but they are things that have been up in the air for us for quite a while, so yesterday was a very good and accomplishing day (everything was settled kind of all at once after school yesterday).
break's over, but that's kind of what's going on with us right now. i'm just waiting out this last week before my 1st trimester is over, then maybe i will slowly start to feel better each day. that's the hope. and school's out for summer next thursday (wednesday and thursday we get out at 12:00pm), so then i'll start that job on June 2nd (if i get it, which i really am assuming i'll get...you only have to have a high school diploma to be qualified for it --- i know, i'm getting a lot out of this degree of mine).
yay for the fact that it's 1pm already.
09 May 2008
07 May 2008
yes, more.... and even more to come!
yesterday was an excellent-feeling day... that is until i got home from the choir concert. i realized when i got there that i had forgotten to eat dinner, then had to stay there for about 3 hours .. FOODLESS. people who know me would say this could be a big problem even if i didn't have a baby feeding off of me. well it was. i was so hungry that on the way home i stopped at mcdonalds (against my better judgement) and ordered a burger. i ate it in the car on the way home, hoping it would save me from the horrible nausea i knew would follow.
big. mistake.
i am home AGAIN today because i have still not been able to just purge this undying nausea... caused mcdonalds and my own carelessness. if i move too much, it (the nausea) gives me a not-so gentle reminder to not try doing that again, so here i am in front of the computer only slightly moving my fingers and right arm, wasting hours. i even made a blog banner for a friend's blog, though she didn't even ask for it. i'm really that bored. i like how it turned out though:
i have a really strange obsession with editing pictures and creating these little things, so if anyone wants a banner, let me know.
i'm bored.
big. mistake.
i am home AGAIN today because i have still not been able to just purge this undying nausea... caused mcdonalds and my own carelessness. if i move too much, it (the nausea) gives me a not-so gentle reminder to not try doing that again, so here i am in front of the computer only slightly moving my fingers and right arm, wasting hours. i even made a blog banner for a friend's blog, though she didn't even ask for it. i'm really that bored. i like how it turned out though:
i have a really strange obsession with editing pictures and creating these little things, so if anyone wants a banner, let me know.i'm bored.
06 May 2008
heartbeat, luke's knees
At first I heard a couple of loud sporadic ticks and got really confused. It sounded too loud and strange to be what we were looking for, but then again I wasn't really that sure what it would sound like. She made funny concentrating faces until she finally focused in on a quiet, constant thudding of our little baby's heartbeat. The pulse rate was about 170, she said, exactly as it should be. Luke says it sounded like a man's heartbeat. I didn't cry, but felt a a simple overwhelming joy that such a tiny little rapid heartbeat belonged to a beautiful spirit who has been waiting to come to the earth to gain a body and to be our child.
:) yay.
On another note, Luke had gone to the doctor last week, where they told him he ought to have *both of his knees* X-rayed. They said he might have to have surgery or might have arthritis. He called yesterday about the results and as I got in the car after work, he said "so, I have to have surgery." Then he talked about how he has a bone spurt that needs to be cut out and blah blah blah blaahhh blah blah blah blahblahblabla my husband is a liar!!!!!! He's fine and just wanted to see my reaction. What a dork (but I love him...).
I'm going to the Free State choir concert tonight and am getting paid to support a student "just in case" (she has never needed the support so far). It should be nice.
Oh yeah, and happy 7 month anniversary to Lucas and me yesterday. We celebrated by eating free chipotle for Cinco de Mayo because we work for the school district. It was sweet.
:) yay.
On another note, Luke had gone to the doctor last week, where they told him he ought to have *both of his knees* X-rayed. They said he might have to have surgery or might have arthritis. He called yesterday about the results and as I got in the car after work, he said "so, I have to have surgery." Then he talked about how he has a bone spurt that needs to be cut out and blah blah blah blaahhh blah blah blah blahblahblabla my husband is a liar!!!!!! He's fine and just wanted to see my reaction. What a dork (but I love him...).
I'm going to the Free State choir concert tonight and am getting paid to support a student "just in case" (she has never needed the support so far). It should be nice.
Oh yeah, and happy 7 month anniversary to Lucas and me yesterday. We celebrated by eating free chipotle for Cinco de Mayo because we work for the school district. It was sweet.
01 May 2008
www.barnabybright.com
My friend Becky Bliss is in a band with her husband Nathan (who took her last name, how awesome is that...) called Barnaby Bright. They write really beautiful music and every once in a while I will get on their website and just let their songs stream until I have to start them over again. Take a look. Becky is a great girl and I feel she is very deserving of all the success she will achieve through this. Right now she and Nathan are working for NBC and recently wrote the theme song for the new season of Nashville Star, so that's her singing if you see it air.
I am home today because I haven't been able to hold anything down (so much for that one great chipotle day).
So, Luke and I started to watch a movie last night around 9 (after watching the American Idol results show, which was a little surprising... Jason Castro, your time is far spent) and I was so exhausted tired by about 9:45. I felt so bad because this has happened a lot lately every time we try to watch a movie (even if it's earlier in the evening, I end up feeling like I need a nap). If anyone knows Luke, you know that he LOVES to watch movies, so he's resorted to just watching them when I'm asleep. Sorry, Luke! Life changes so quickly, doesn't it..
yay for good music and saltines.
I am home today because I haven't been able to hold anything down (so much for that one great chipotle day).
So, Luke and I started to watch a movie last night around 9 (after watching the American Idol results show, which was a little surprising... Jason Castro, your time is far spent) and I was so exhausted tired by about 9:45. I felt so bad because this has happened a lot lately every time we try to watch a movie (even if it's earlier in the evening, I end up feeling like I need a nap). If anyone knows Luke, you know that he LOVES to watch movies, so he's resorted to just watching them when I'm asleep. Sorry, Luke! Life changes so quickly, doesn't it..
yay for good music and saltines.
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