Life happens. Sometimes all at once.
What can I possibly say about this week? It started out well enough; two days of subbing in two different libraries. There I am cruising along, liking the new service I'm working for, taking off on Wednesday so I could work on my final project for my Instructional Media class.
Then the whole thing fell apart like Charlie Sheen's stage act. See if you can keep up.
*Hubby had a doctor's appointment Wednesday afternoon - a follow-up for the digestive pain and issues he's been having for nearly two months. She sends him to the ER.
He's still in the hospital. So far I have yet to hear what, exactly, they think is wrong with him, but they've run plenty of tests. First they thought it was fluid around the heart, but there isn't. His heart is doing some wonky thing, but the cardiac specialist says it's not a big deal. (Uh, okay.) His stomach is feeling better and they've taken him off the liquid diet. Hopefully tomorrow he will be home.
*About half an hour after Hubby called me to say he was going to the ER, the school district I interviewed with last week called and offered me a full-time job. A full-time teaching salary and all the trimmings, working in the one-year-old Media Center, complete with new Smartboard and brand-new technology, at the Camden Early Childhood Development Center. Pre-K and Kindergarten. The babies, as everyone in the HR department calls them.
I said yes.
*So, for those playing along at home: no work on Wednesday, no work on Thursday, since Hubby was in the hospital and I had to help Boy out at his Book Fair, since we missed Family Night on Wednesday night because after his soccer game (they won!) I had to go to the hospital. No work today, because I had to go and pick up my pre-employment packet, including the stack of paperwork you need to fill out before you can start working. I start May 2, and hopefully will be able to schedule a time to visit the school before that.
*Of course, while I was out on Wednesday night at the hospital, the electrician called and wanted to start work on, what else? Friday. So as long as I had to be off from work, I said come on over.
He's about half done, so the Writing Loft project is finally moving forward once again. With more money coming in, maybe next year I'll be able to actually finish the attic properly. And get a new deck. Or a patio or something. Save up for a real vacation maybe.
*And somewhere in the middle of all that, my beta reader finished with the revised SMOKE & MIRRORS, so someday I need to make the final tweaks on that, because I need to send it out again.
*Oh, and new job means I can afford to go to NJSCBWI in June. I can just squeeze it out before the deadline, which makes me happy, because there are a bunch of workshops I want to attend and friends I want to see that I only get to see at stuff like this.
Waiting and waiting and then....BAM. Sometimes life happens all at once.
Then the whole thing fell apart like Charlie Sheen's stage act. See if you can keep up.
*Hubby had a doctor's appointment Wednesday afternoon - a follow-up for the digestive pain and issues he's been having for nearly two months. She sends him to the ER.
He's still in the hospital. So far I have yet to hear what, exactly, they think is wrong with him, but they've run plenty of tests. First they thought it was fluid around the heart, but there isn't. His heart is doing some wonky thing, but the cardiac specialist says it's not a big deal. (Uh, okay.) His stomach is feeling better and they've taken him off the liquid diet. Hopefully tomorrow he will be home.
*About half an hour after Hubby called me to say he was going to the ER, the school district I interviewed with last week called and offered me a full-time job. A full-time teaching salary and all the trimmings, working in the one-year-old Media Center, complete with new Smartboard and brand-new technology, at the Camden Early Childhood Development Center. Pre-K and Kindergarten. The babies, as everyone in the HR department calls them.
I said yes.
*So, for those playing along at home: no work on Wednesday, no work on Thursday, since Hubby was in the hospital and I had to help Boy out at his Book Fair, since we missed Family Night on Wednesday night because after his soccer game (they won!) I had to go to the hospital. No work today, because I had to go and pick up my pre-employment packet, including the stack of paperwork you need to fill out before you can start working. I start May 2, and hopefully will be able to schedule a time to visit the school before that.
*Of course, while I was out on Wednesday night at the hospital, the electrician called and wanted to start work on, what else? Friday. So as long as I had to be off from work, I said come on over.
He's about half done, so the Writing Loft project is finally moving forward once again. With more money coming in, maybe next year I'll be able to actually finish the attic properly. And get a new deck. Or a patio or something. Save up for a real vacation maybe.
*And somewhere in the middle of all that, my beta reader finished with the revised SMOKE & MIRRORS, so someday I need to make the final tweaks on that, because I need to send it out again.
*Oh, and new job means I can afford to go to NJSCBWI in June. I can just squeeze it out before the deadline, which makes me happy, because there are a bunch of workshops I want to attend and friends I want to see that I only get to see at stuff like this.
Waiting and waiting and then....BAM. Sometimes life happens all at once.