*****Disclaimer the first is long, wordy and picture free but the interesting/ pictures are farther down.***
Well it seems yet again I have failed on my plans to blog. I recently found a friend from college had a blog so I went way back to 2008 when she began and got caught up. How fun to catch up on her life and the crazy funny antics of her now 3 year old son. It inspired me to get back on my blogging. If nothing else for my own personal reflection of life events. And who knows maybe an old friend will notice my blog and be a dork like me and go WAY back to the beginning and catch up on the missed years, and if I don’t’ have much well they wouldn’t take a week to get caught up like it did me.
So lets see what’s happened since December. Unfortunantly I don’t have a cute little kid to provide plenty of blog worth information. My life is pretty routine hence why I blog so little I don’t think my blog would be very interesting if I blogged every few days about what I’ve been doing and it is repetitive beyond belief. Go to work, come home and relax a little, cook supper, think how I desperatly need to do some house work but I’m too tired and put it off til later. Watch some tv, eat supper, crosstitch then go to bed and read before sleeping. Rinse and repeat most days of the week, month, and year.
I’ve been working a lot these 3 months. This is great for the bank account as well as a reason to make my lazy behind get off the couch and do something. However as just stated lazy is my middle name so working just makes me tired and more lazy. It’s a never ending cycle. It doesn’t help that I don’t have a consistent work schedule and that is rough on my body. If I worked 5 days a week I’d get use to it and in a routine and could manage but this work 4 days then off 4 days then work 3 more days then off 2, etc, etc, etc, is hard. After some deep thinking, soul searching and discuss in with the husband I’m looking into some full time positons most likely not in my chosen (i.e. gone to college for) career choice. I am a certified elementary teacher. I have wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember minus a few years during late high school early college where I dabbled in another area. SO teaching is in my blood something I’ve wanted practically forever. However my 5 years of having my own classroom I was never truly happy. Granted few jobs are the ideal perfect situations but these had multiple problems for me. Don’t take me wrong I don’t regret those 5 years. They are a part of my life and what makes me who I am. They have given me life long experiences, lessons and friends that won’t be forgotten. I thought a key reason to my troubles was location so I came up my job and moved closer to my hometown and in a place with more opportunities. I didn’t get a teaching job as hoped so I decided to substitute. This kept me in the school buildings get that exposure needed for being offered a teaching position plus keep me involved with kids but with benefits of not having to deal with the daily classroom teacher grind. We’ve now been in this new town nearly 2 years and I’m still just subbing. Now it’s been a generally good experience but still not happy and not having a steady salary is putting a major strain on the bank account and my marriage. Something needs to change. I’ve been interested in the aspects of anything clerical. I like that organization and order that comes with office work. I like the variety of things to do. In college I worked in the reception office of the university health clinic and really enjoyed it. In subbing I’ve had several opportunities to work in the office of one of the local elementary schools and have LOVED it. Still get that kid environment plus the office organization and such. So this is the new career path I’m heading. Idealy I’d love to get a position in a school but those are few and far between, more so than teachers and there’s not enough open positions I can even get one of those so I’m not holding my breath for a school office job. I’m actively searching for any medical offices needing a receptionist. So if you know of anything in my area hit me up!
Ok well all that was very long and wordy and no exciting pictures so heres for some less daunting stuff. The beginning of March brought good time for this aunt. I became aunt to my 3rd niece. This is baby Erika. A few days old. I don’t have many pictures of her because I had been sick the previous week so only spent a few minutes with her. The other picture is Erika’s older sister Breanna.
These are my husbands sister’s girls. They live in our hometown so we don’t get to see them on a regular basis. When we are with them I’m trying to catch up with the family plus pay attention to Breanna who has to show me all the new things she’s gotten since I was last there so I don’t typically get around to taking many pictures. I actually spent a lot of time with Breanna in her first 6 months. We lived in the same town and I kept her a lot before we moved at the end of that summer. I have quite a few pictures of Breanna but they are all on the desktop computer which has never been set up at this house. Perhaps I should do that sometime if nothing else to get my pictures off of there…Geez another project lol.\
Being as we had planned to go in that weekend to see baby Erika we went ahead despite my having been sick. Since she is older and has a better immune system I was able to see niece number 2 Jesslynn ( my brothers daughter). She’s about 7 months old in these pictures and a ball of fun. She is crawling and babbling like crazy. Here she is sitting with Grammie ( my mom) and me on the couch being mischievous yet oh so cute. Chewing on grammies robe belt, playing peek a boo with the couch decorative doiley.
So I’ve been rocking the iphone for maybe a year now. I really like it but I had a hand me down iphone
3. This old of a phone is no longer compatible with things so I wasn’t able to update apps or get any new ones. As much as I’d like to stay with the iphone I can’t afford a new one and I know before long a used one won’t be compatible and I’ll have to get another one so I looked into another route for the time being. It happened that my sister owed me some money from a while back so we agreed that she would use what she owed me to buy me a new phone. It’s an android which I’ve never had experience with but I’m learning and it’s ok. It took some time to figure it out and how to balance and move things around to not use up too much memory but I’ve pretty well got it down by now. The biggest problem is that it as a phone to talk to people is useless in my house. Too much brick I suppose because I only have like a bar of service and drop calls like hot potatoes. But out of the house I can make and hold calls just fine and the apps work great. I think I’ll just have to find a little antenna booster for in the house to make calls.
Well this has gotten lengthy and if you’ve stuck with me thus far congrats and thanks for the support. I’m going to try to do better with posting more often. I will leave you with this parting shot of my babies and their four legged cousin looking out the window. They love windows!
