(Technically, it is May 12/06)I am back online and although I have a lot on the go right now, I feel like I ought to keep up with the daily grind of backdated entries so that when I look back on things with my Swiss cheese memory, things make at least a little bit of sense.
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Through the clamour of Julia�s health, I have been teaching. It has mostly gone well--I have some great classes and some challenging ones. I had parent teacher night and my table was lined up for every moment I was there. On the last night, I was not done until almost 9:30! Everyone else was already packed up and ready to go home. It was crazy. I had an administrator evaluating my class and that went REALLY well and he basically told me that he wouldn�t change a single thing about my lesson! So, it's nice to know that I have one area of my life under control.
I am still living with my in-laws and it still makes me nutty. We went house hunting yesterday and I think we found a place we'd like to put an offer in for. We are waiting to talk to the bank tomorrow but I think that things will be OK and hopefully we will be able to move in by the end of April. Or, better yet, by Spring Break, which for us starts on April 12th.
We put in an offer ($340,000!!) on a 1400 sq foot single family house tonight (March 26th)--3 bedrooms, bi-level with finished basement.
The seller is a bit of a jerk but it has been on the market since November which is nutty for this town but things seem to be picking up on the real estate front so I hope that we find an accepted offer soon. He has countered at $347,000 and says that is firm but we have until tomorrow night to decide what we want to do. I kind of want to accept the counter but don�t really like being dictated to by an ass, you know? But if we counter and he comes back with the same number and we accept I think I would feel retarded, so we have to think about whether or not we really want to jump on this or wait to see what else comes up. There is a duplex we are considering one street over but it is just as much and is slightly smaller (even though the renos inside make it a technically nicer place, siiigh, decisions!) so there are other options but it would be nice to live in our own HOUSE finally. Keep your fingers crossed--and if you have an opinion, let me know before tomorrow night!
Dwayne wrote an aptitude test for the college apprenticeship program so we will see if he is accepted. If he is, they set an entire apprenticeship program up for him and he is into the industry just like that. I dont know when we will hear back--hopefully soon!
Dwayne wrote an aptitude test for the college apprenticeship program so we will see if he is accepted. If he is, they set an entire apprenticeship program up for him and he is into the industry just like that. I dont know when we will hear back--hopefully soon!
Elena is doing well. She is coming off a slight cold but weathered her fever without any hint of seizures--hurray! The doctor said that I couldnt be that unlucky to have two daughters with febrile seizures but since Julia's started almost exactly when she was Elena's age now, i dont want to count my "lucky stars" just yet. She has mastered the word "no" and is working on the word "mine". It's a barrel of laughs!
It is hard not to focus entirely on Julia and her increasingly frequent seizure activity but I have to remind myself that there are so many other things that need as much of attention.
12:08 a.m. - 2006-03-26