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Aubrey is taking a nap so I have a few mins...
I'm not even sure who reads this anymore besides Laura, so Laura (and anyone else), here is an update haha
My life for the past month-ish:
-I've been back to work over a month now, and I'm both glad and sad at the same time about it. Going back to normal life, at my job that I love is great. Making money is great. I really like my coworkers, and I can't think of a much cooler place to work than here. The downside is obviously the lack of free time and time with Jake and Aubrey. I work 8-12 hours a day (it is insanely busy at work right now), squeeze in time for the gym, and I only get to see Jake and Aubrey a few hours in the evening (if I'm not at work all evening). I come home from my first shift at work, after running to the gym for a bit, to a second full time shift (as a mom) at home. I really don't sit down for the day until about 9:30pm. I really wonder what I did with my time before. And there's always the possibility of the baby waking up randomly at night (although it is getting more rare now thank god).
-Jake is a stay at home daddy right now, and strangely enough, I think him getting laid off from his previous job wasn't all that bad of a thing. He's the best babysitter she could have right now while I am away at work. She is way too young to be in day care at this age, and she is with a parent and not random people who don't love her like we do. Our income has suffered slightly, but having a parent to take care of your child is priceless.
-Aubrey is getting big so fast, and I am absolutely obsessed with her. She is the cutest baby ever, of course. She sleeps 11 hours just about every night, and her bedtime is 8:30-9pm. She is starting to laugh, "talks" and coos, is getting more curious about things, and is really interactive now...so cute!
-Our apartment is getting small. Like really small. Baby moved in and we are running out of room. We're gonna see if there are any affordable houses in the area to rent--we really need the space. I wish I had more of an idea as to what is going on here job-wise, because we would be thinking about buying a house rather than throwing money away to rent. The only thing I am apprehensive about is the "permanence" taht comes with house-buying. I don't want to be tied down...even though I really love it here, it's a beautiful, great area to live in...I'm just a person who doesn't want to do the same thing for years and years and stay in the same place.
-I must be crazy, but I am starting classes this fall. I imagine I will probably have to downgrade to one class because of the lack of time, but I really miss school, and it is something I want to do for myself. Most of what I do now is for someone else (working to bring home money...although I like my job, taking care of a baby, being a wife to my husband, etc.), I really want to get a graduate degree. I started at FIT last year, then got pregnant, and took some time off. Now I'm hoping to get into a program at the University of Colorado--M.S. in Aerospace Sciences, major in Earth/Space and remote sensing sciences. I'm applying for spring, hoping to transfer atleast one class I took at FIT, and taking 1-2 classes this fall through colorado to hopefully transfer if I get accepted in the Spring. The program is super competitive, and have been working on my application for over a month now. It is one of the top Universities in the country for aerospace/space sciences, and would really love to get in. Boeing pays tuition, fees, and books. They also allow time to go do research, and school-related things like that. Their department has a distance learning division, and I'll be doing a good portion of the program through that (if I get in...). I'm kind of intimidated by their desired GRE scores (570 verbal, 750+ quantitative!!! wtf!), and have been going nuts trying to do well on that test. I took it last weekend, did average without much preparation, but definitely want to try again. I should have taken it right at the end of undergrad when I was still quick with test taking and not 3 years out of school. I'm having to practice for it, and it kinda stinks. Otherwise I have been hunting down previous supervisors and stuff for recommendation letters. I've got 3/4 done. I hope it works out...I wanna go out there this fall or winter to check out the campus and meet potential faculty advisors, etc. And heck, its in Boulder, CO lol.
-Back to the "tied down" feeling thingy...I might be getting tired of living in FL. As much as I love it here, and will always consider it home, I am getting ready for a change. I'm gonna follow whatever happens here with my job first (I hope things work out, and will be happy if they do of course, but everything is so beyond up in the air right now with human space flight, it could go in 10 thousand directions right now. But if all goes out the window here, I won't be completely distraught. It might give us an opportunity to go wherever Jake's career path takes us, and I would not be opposed to going back to school full time--somewhere else. Who knows. Why can't full time student be a job?? I know eventually it sort of can be at the post-grad level. Maybe I'll go that route someday lol.
OK baby is awake, gotta change diapers and feed her!
I'm not even sure who reads this anymore besides Laura, so Laura (and anyone else), here is an update haha
My life for the past month-ish:
-I've been back to work over a month now, and I'm both glad and sad at the same time about it. Going back to normal life, at my job that I love is great. Making money is great. I really like my coworkers, and I can't think of a much cooler place to work than here. The downside is obviously the lack of free time and time with Jake and Aubrey. I work 8-12 hours a day (it is insanely busy at work right now), squeeze in time for the gym, and I only get to see Jake and Aubrey a few hours in the evening (if I'm not at work all evening). I come home from my first shift at work, after running to the gym for a bit, to a second full time shift (as a mom) at home. I really don't sit down for the day until about 9:30pm. I really wonder what I did with my time before. And there's always the possibility of the baby waking up randomly at night (although it is getting more rare now thank god).
-Jake is a stay at home daddy right now, and strangely enough, I think him getting laid off from his previous job wasn't all that bad of a thing. He's the best babysitter she could have right now while I am away at work. She is way too young to be in day care at this age, and she is with a parent and not random people who don't love her like we do. Our income has suffered slightly, but having a parent to take care of your child is priceless.
-Aubrey is getting big so fast, and I am absolutely obsessed with her. She is the cutest baby ever, of course. She sleeps 11 hours just about every night, and her bedtime is 8:30-9pm. She is starting to laugh, "talks" and coos, is getting more curious about things, and is really interactive now...so cute!
-Our apartment is getting small. Like really small. Baby moved in and we are running out of room. We're gonna see if there are any affordable houses in the area to rent--we really need the space. I wish I had more of an idea as to what is going on here job-wise, because we would be thinking about buying a house rather than throwing money away to rent. The only thing I am apprehensive about is the "permanence" taht comes with house-buying. I don't want to be tied down...even though I really love it here, it's a beautiful, great area to live in...I'm just a person who doesn't want to do the same thing for years and years and stay in the same place.
-I must be crazy, but I am starting classes this fall. I imagine I will probably have to downgrade to one class because of the lack of time, but I really miss school, and it is something I want to do for myself. Most of what I do now is for someone else (working to bring home money...although I like my job, taking care of a baby, being a wife to my husband, etc.), I really want to get a graduate degree. I started at FIT last year, then got pregnant, and took some time off. Now I'm hoping to get into a program at the University of Colorado--M.S. in Aerospace Sciences, major in Earth/Space and remote sensing sciences. I'm applying for spring, hoping to transfer atleast one class I took at FIT, and taking 1-2 classes this fall through colorado to hopefully transfer if I get accepted in the Spring. The program is super competitive, and have been working on my application for over a month now. It is one of the top Universities in the country for aerospace/space sciences, and would really love to get in. Boeing pays tuition, fees, and books. They also allow time to go do research, and school-related things like that. Their department has a distance learning division, and I'll be doing a good portion of the program through that (if I get in...). I'm kind of intimidated by their desired GRE scores (570 verbal, 750+ quantitative!!! wtf!), and have been going nuts trying to do well on that test. I took it last weekend, did average without much preparation, but definitely want to try again. I should have taken it right at the end of undergrad when I was still quick with test taking and not 3 years out of school. I'm having to practice for it, and it kinda stinks. Otherwise I have been hunting down previous supervisors and stuff for recommendation letters. I've got 3/4 done. I hope it works out...I wanna go out there this fall or winter to check out the campus and meet potential faculty advisors, etc. And heck, its in Boulder, CO lol.
-Back to the "tied down" feeling thingy...I might be getting tired of living in FL. As much as I love it here, and will always consider it home, I am getting ready for a change. I'm gonna follow whatever happens here with my job first (I hope things work out, and will be happy if they do of course, but everything is so beyond up in the air right now with human space flight, it could go in 10 thousand directions right now. But if all goes out the window here, I won't be completely distraught. It might give us an opportunity to go wherever Jake's career path takes us, and I would not be opposed to going back to school full time--somewhere else. Who knows. Why can't full time student be a job?? I know eventually it sort of can be at the post-grad level. Maybe I'll go that route someday lol.
OK baby is awake, gotta change diapers and feed her!