struggling to adjust to a 28 year old daughter and her adorable dog moved back home and disrupting two old peoples lives…..

ohhhh i can only imagine.  :)  But i also know you'll cry when she moves out.

fighting off some kind of stomach bug….ugh….

swamped at work as usual…..

so happy to hear my daughters have mended their broken fence…..

wishing I would have had the guts to get my head shaved yesterday at the St. Baldrick's event…..

tired.

Just got done supporting one of my best friends through a c-section for twins.  She was a surrogate for a wonderful gay couple from NYC, and I got to be her support person today.  I'm proud of her, and glad I could be there to help her. 

telling Jen that is seriouslly all kinds of awesome….

just busted my ass on the elliptical.  shorts weather is coming…. 

ok, it's Minnesotal. Shorts weather is coming in four months.

that is awesome, Jen.

tired. dog tired.

my roommate announced she's moving out may 1. pretty dramatic girl fight went down (i don't remember the last time i yelled at someone - i think it was my last roommate).

i have to rent the whole unit because i can't afford to stay here anymore - need the place fully stocked to pay mortgage. so scrambling for tenants… open house tomorrow.

meanwhile, i can't afford a place in may 1, so i've got to find places for three cats to stay so that freebie and i can couch surf. so far two cats are spoken for (thank the baby jesus!) and freebie and i have offers from three couches and a basement.

i should be back on my feet by july 1, but MAN what a humbling experience.

started a CNA course today (part of pre-requisites), signed up for the pre-NLN test (needed for application to nursing school), and applied for general admission to the community college where i hope to be accepted this fall.

got stuck in three traffic jams and ran a red light today…

hoping to make it into bed without falling over from exhaustion. gotta study for two tests and get a chem assignment completed between now and wednesday. 

not sure what the universe is trying to do to me, but glad i feel like fighting. it's better than the alternative.

wishing Mox luck and feeling really, really proud to know her.

metnally exhausted…..

happy that spring break started today. I promptly kicked it off with sleeping in until 9…. my body and brain needed it!....

wishing I could have today off from both jobs…...

realizing if i did that I wouldn't be able to pay for my speeding ticket…...

Looking forward to seeing my people when I go north next week… I can't wait to see my nephews and friends…...

waiting for the word that my bestie has her hubby back home…should be in the next day or so….

happy that my son has fallen in love with a city and a medical school….Rochester NY will be our destination for the next four years….

exhausted after working in the yard all day yesterday…

sad to see the chatter has been ignored by myself and everyone else….

agreeing with David about the ignoring the chatter… I'm just as guilty as everyone else, I guess :)

it's our indipendance day today and I cleaned the apt.

getting addicted to 24. still in the middle of season 1 so no spoilers please. it's the best action show ever!

wishing everyone a wonderful week!

Anticipating a big change coming…

Spill the beans, fleck!

...peeking in…

...lost five birds last year, and one this year…

...haven't seen the boy in over six months…

...need to get back into this place, where the cool people are…

...got annoyed w/ twitter in november; haven't tweeted much since; gotta unfollow some chick who thinks the personal lives of celebrities is 100% her business (especially when they screw up somehow), then maybe i'll get back to tweeting more…

...my lack of twittering led to a general lack of internet use (other than unsuccessfully looking for work)...

...my failed attempts at becoming employed have led to serious depression…

...just been mypsacing it a bit lately…

...seriously need an f-ing job, life is seriously sucking right now…

Finally have access to a computer again. My mom somehow managed to kill our computer, but luckily we have a friend who is a computer expert and fixed it for really, really cheap.

Back to work after 3 1/2 months off. I had to go back to my old company because I just couldn't find anything else. No room at my old store, so they moved me. But now I'm only working 3 minutes away from home. I'm just mad because now I don't qualify for a vacation bonus this July.

And wondering what happened to the chatter. I've been offline for more than 2 weeks and haven't missed anything. I remember there was a time if I didn't check in for 2 days, I felt lost.

...i feel like doing cartwheels, but am not very good at it…

OK, not it's official, so I can spill the beans…

After 10 years with at my current job (local health department) I am "movin' on up" to the state health department.  I have been officially offered a position in the asthma prevention program at the Ohio Department of Health.  I will start there at the end of May.  It's a little more per hour than I currently make, but it's also 5 more hours per week (local health only works 35 hrs/week), so it will end up being a decent pay raise - but now there will be a commute to downtown Columbus, which sucks but I'll manage find.

So I'm very excited, but a little nervous too because I know NOTHING about asthma.  But apparently I impressed them enough during my interview that they feel confident in my abilities anyway.

Oh, and here's what's been going on at my current place of employement:

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2010/04/28/story-lancaster-flea-infestation-health-department.html

so glad to get out of there!  (But my wife will still be working there, so hopefully they get this straightened out).

Congrats, Fleck!!!  How exciting.  And if I as a midwife can learn enough about asthma to treat it, trust me, you'll do fine.  ;)

Congrats, Fleck!  What an exciting new opportunity!

Having a great quarter academically.  Wish my diabetes would mellow out.  I'm now working very hard on watching what I eat, and I walk at least an hour every day.  I have lost ten lbs in the past two months, but my numbers just aren't going down like they should.  I'm meeting with specialists and have been living at the doctor.  I'm not having the tummy troubles like I did before, but the numbers are what's disconcerting. 

Relationship is going very well.  Brad is a very awesome guy who is so great for our family.  It is so refreshing to be in a healthy relationship for once.

Hope everyone is well!

Good luck Fleck!

waving hi to the chatter…..

feeling like I am 80 this morning after a day of work around the house and yard….

staring at a month of May in which I will move two daughters to new apartments and a son home for a temporary period….