I’M GOING TO COLLEGE IN 1 MONTH!!!
In spite of everything that has happened which might have kept me from going, I stuck with it. Even finding out the second vehicle wont be available for me didn’t stop me. I just dropped all my classes and found 6 that are online. It’s true that with the courses I ended up with the semester will be ungodly boring but at least they’re all relevant to my major, unlike the first time I went to college.
I just finished my application for a job… now, while that in and of itself isn’t all that squeeable, it’s a government job which I think could be great for me (the biggest downside is having to deal with “the bureaucratic mindset”, and you get plenty of that in large private corporations as well). I don’t think I’ve had so many butterflies in my stomach since my first day of college.
Oh, and congratularions, congodwarf!
I got to see my first scan of my little 'un (due in November) last week, and it looks like baby has my nose 
Squeee!
yay! these always make me so happy
After a month of unemployment, I got a job offer this week.
Congratulations!
I have another one. We went through a really, really tough period with my son during which he’d hit his preschool teachers, fellow students, sometimes us and scream in the classroom. It wasn’t quite to the level where he was being threatened with expulsion, but it was extremely concerning.
We talked to his pediatrician and our Parents as Teachers educator and were told to give it a few months, adjust what we were doing at home and see if we needed to talk to a specialist. After a few months of working through things, he seems to have come out the other side ok. When I dropped him off this morning, his teachers took me aside and I first thought, “Oh, God - more bad news! I need to get this kid more help!” Instead, they wanted to tell me in private that he had made a complete turn-around and that they were so happy with him: polite in the classroom, he listened really well, no hitting, he was helpful to his teachers and the other students, etc. He’s been great at home, too. I was so relieved, happy and proud of him I almost dissolved into a puddle.
I am finding myself starting to really enjoy cooking as a means of stress-relief and unwinding. I just got a new, expensive kitchen knife starter set. Just three knives, but they are the best quality and I am really excited to start using them. And I look forward to growing my collection with time. I’ve never been so excited about kitchen utensils before.
Also I bought a really great saucepan.
It’s been a rough couple months. This is the first day in a while I’ve actually felt happy and excited about something. And it wasn’t just finding the products, it was that the research and everything paid off and they had exactly what I wanted at the store for the best price possible and the sales clerks were so nice about helping me. Oh, and I started the morning off with some exercise. It was just one of those thoroughly pleasant days.
Also we are going to Michigan on vacation in a couple of weeks. Not ‘‘scary relatives’’ Michigan, but ‘‘happy carefree fun relatives and friends’’ Michigan. I’m really looking forward to getting away for a while.
So I guess my ‘‘squee’’ is that after extended sickness, depression and drama, things are finally starting to look up. I am psyched to go back to school and finish my final year and get my degree and just generally looking forward to life again.
overly, your kid story is awesome. I’m glad things are starting to calm down with him, and you should definitely give yourself some credit for his success.
My wife and I made plans tonight too. We are going to a nice restaurant for dinner, then going down the road to see the musical Wicked. Not only that, but Mrs. Gedd has a few contacts and after the show we are going back stage! We are going to meet some of the cast and then get a tour of the theatre.
Sweet!
Ooh, are they ceramic? I figure if I had really great knives I’d probably manage to cut my own head off by accident.
I think you’re far more likely to hurt yourself with dull knives. Good sharp knives take so much less muscle to use. I have one ceramic knive, and I love it.
My squee of the week. I’ve occasionally wondered if big cats liked catnip the way domestic cats do, but I’ve never been able to ask a zookeeper.
After almost two solid years of unemployment, the Other Shoe got a temporary job - it’s only for about a week, but 1) he’s excited to finally be bringing some money in and 2) I’m excited that it’ll be supplementing my piddly little paycheck and 3) I think he really, really needed the mental boost that finding something, *anything *provides and 4) maybe something else will come out of this one.
Congratulations! Doesn’t it feel great?
I have a decent job making decent pay. I’ve been re-employed for almost five months (got a raise already 'cause I was bold enough to ask), but it felt good to get a call from Barnes & Noble to come in for an interview, from an application I filled out back in February.
Uhm, thanks, but no thanks.
I get that in theory.
In practice, it’s probably wise if I buy precut food. 
Time Warner Cable has an intelligent customer support representative in the Rocky Mount area – I talked to her today! She was polite, and provided actual useful information that allowed me to fix a channel issue I’ve been having since the last thunderstorm. Since I was at work (on a break!) at the time I called, she also setup a service call in case I couldn’t resolve the issue on my own.
Yesterday I made one of a few stuffed animals that I’m going to gift my nephew, and it came out great! I spent a couple of hours hand embroidering the eyes and mouth, and was surprised at how well it turned out.
Today, we’re making purple potato and leek soup-- yum!
I just spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands to visit my bf (first time out of the U.S. since Canada for a few days when I was 11).
It was…great. I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with the city where he lived (the Hague), nor was I expecting to have zero regrets about how much I paid for the trip, either. It included a quick stop in England, so that added on another $300 or so. Money has been a bit tight with paying back college loans, is all.
I am still starry eyed. I will see him again around Halloween (he is coming here). And I liked the Netherlands so much, I am going back for Christmas and New Years 
Understood. Try cutting things like herbs with kitchen scissors. When I’m having trouble with my hands, I find it’s an efficient alternative to a knife.
I was in the front yard of my son’s house the other day, with him and the two-year-old grandson. We were unloading some things from the back of my van, and trying to make sure the kid kicked the soccer ball toward the house, rather than toward the street. So every time it came toward me I kicked it back in the right direction. And the response? “Good boy, Oma!” My reward for doing anything right? “Good boy, Oma!” I love that little boy.
I need to give a big thank you to Mrs Gedd for our “outing” Saturday to buy a new range. Our oven stopped working, and everywhere I looked said it would be $100+ to fix. We went to a local story after she did much research.
Whenever we make major purchases I start talking about what we are looking for. When the sales guy mentioned money, my wife taps in. In this case she whipped out her notebook, glanced at it and said something like, “Well at store X they offer basically the same model, but include feature Y and we can get that for only $Z.” It caught him off guard, and we got that model, a 5 year warranty, and installation for $Z.
Wow, I knew I married her for something other than her smoking hot body.
I have celiac’s disease and live on a gluten-free (GF) diet (no wheat or flour, so no normal breads, etc.)
This weekend, bf and I got to go to a GF expo and I found out that now not just one, but 2 local pizza chains have started carrying GF pizza crust! So now I can call up and order pizza delivery like a normal person!
Also, I had my first english muffin in over 2 1/2 years. And it was awesome!
It was such a nice surprise all the way around.