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Mom and her friend Brad came over and painted Mira's room a nice blue/lavender. Hopefully the paint fumes aren't too toxic.
Mira's doing alright, though she is staying awake progressively more and more. This in turn, means that she's getting progressively more bitchy. But it's not so bad. The problem at night isn't that she deprives me of sleep so much as it is that she wakes me up right when sleep starts getting good.
So I basically have to decide my fate for the next 5 years within the next month. This will be done through a series of decisions with specific timelines:
1) Do I apply to go to UNR this fall? If so, I have until the end of March. Alternatively, I've been seriously thinking of applying for law school, specifically immigration law. But there are no law schools in Reno - we'd have to move to Vegas (UNLV = in-state tuition) or DC (3 of the top 10 part-time law schools are there). Either way, I'd like to get some sort of grad school under my belt before I attempt to work for the State Department. But with a law degree (and the equivalent of a house payment in student loans), I'd have a much better fall back plan in case things don't go as planne.
2) Do I buy a house? Obviously, not if I move. Even if I don't move, I still don't know what I want to do with the house. Christina's renting to own the house we're living in right now from her dad anyway. So do I buy a house for me and the family and give up the money Christina's sunk into buying our house now? Or do I buy a condo and rent it out? The disadvantage to renting the place out is that I have to deal with renters and also a second rent payment if it's unoccupied. But $8000 for buying a house is pretty decent.
3) I want to join the military part-time. Probably the Air Force reserves or something. Leadership and international experience plus potentially learning a rare language? Those on a resume will eventually make me rich. Plus, having military service (and a rare language skill) is the equivalent of affirmative action for with the government - especially on my road to becoming a diplomat. The question is, when? There is a solid 5 months of training I have to get to just to become an "officer" - after that, there's job training, which will tak a few more months. And it boils down to this: what 8 months of Mira's life am I willing to miss? It certainly won't be happening this year - the first year is all about milestones.
4) If I move, I can go where the jobs are. I certainly don't want to be doing what I'm doing for longer than I have to. A house complicates my ability to move. But Reno has all my friends and family (and a supply of people willing to babysit).
Dang it. I hate being grown up.
Mira's doing alright, though she is staying awake progressively more and more. This in turn, means that she's getting progressively more bitchy. But it's not so bad. The problem at night isn't that she deprives me of sleep so much as it is that she wakes me up right when sleep starts getting good.
So I basically have to decide my fate for the next 5 years within the next month. This will be done through a series of decisions with specific timelines:
1) Do I apply to go to UNR this fall? If so, I have until the end of March. Alternatively, I've been seriously thinking of applying for law school, specifically immigration law. But there are no law schools in Reno - we'd have to move to Vegas (UNLV = in-state tuition) or DC (3 of the top 10 part-time law schools are there). Either way, I'd like to get some sort of grad school under my belt before I attempt to work for the State Department. But with a law degree (and the equivalent of a house payment in student loans), I'd have a much better fall back plan in case things don't go as planne.
2) Do I buy a house? Obviously, not if I move. Even if I don't move, I still don't know what I want to do with the house. Christina's renting to own the house we're living in right now from her dad anyway. So do I buy a house for me and the family and give up the money Christina's sunk into buying our house now? Or do I buy a condo and rent it out? The disadvantage to renting the place out is that I have to deal with renters and also a second rent payment if it's unoccupied. But $8000 for buying a house is pretty decent.
3) I want to join the military part-time. Probably the Air Force reserves or something. Leadership and international experience plus potentially learning a rare language? Those on a resume will eventually make me rich. Plus, having military service (and a rare language skill) is the equivalent of affirmative action for with the government - especially on my road to becoming a diplomat. The question is, when? There is a solid 5 months of training I have to get to just to become an "officer" - after that, there's job training, which will tak a few more months. And it boils down to this: what 8 months of Mira's life am I willing to miss? It certainly won't be happening this year - the first year is all about milestones.
4) If I move, I can go where the jobs are. I certainly don't want to be doing what I'm doing for longer than I have to. A house complicates my ability to move. But Reno has all my friends and family (and a supply of people willing to babysit).
Dang it. I hate being grown up.