May
I'm not sure why I'm updating this. But I am.
Scott got his green card and his work visa... he's a legal alien now, which is wonderful. He's still working at Toyota with varying degrees of success. The money hasn't been great- barely enough to pay our bills- because my job fizzled out. But Toyota's thinking of building a new management position for Scott. It's not for sure yet at all but it would be such a good thing if it worked. As it is, I can't go looking for a new job because the kids will be here in June and no job will let me take a month off right after I start. So financially, we are stuck. It's frustrating. I had such high hopes when Scott started at Toyota. This month should be a little better- that is, the June paycheck should be a little better than this month (isn't it depressing to get less than $300 for two weeks, 55 hours a week, of work? That was this month). And I am picking up a few hours at my old job- I'm on-call and I'm working every shift they give me, including tonight.
Otherwise- family. Well... there's the sister who just got out of jail last night (theft). And the other sister (18 year old) who is pregnant for the second time this yet. And the brother down in Texas who apparently decided that smuggling drugs over the border was a good way to pick up some extra cash. But my mom, stepdad and gramma are all well.
Tomorrow is Sean's 4th birthday. We're celebrating it on Thursday because that's the only day everyone can come together. The one nice thing about losing my job is that I have more time to be with him.
School is going well. I had midterms over the last few weeks and scored A's and high B's on them- 3.3 was my lowest grade. I'm trying to decide how to handle summer quarter, since the kids will be here. I need to take the credits though... maybe I'll do Internet classes. They have three I need that are online (intro to computers, multicultural studies and oh hell, I can't remember the other I'd chosen). So that would give me a full load of 15 credits. I could do it at night while the kids are in bed. Scott works so much, I really can't take the time away from the kids while they are here. We don't have enough time with them as it is.
Scott got his green card and his work visa... he's a legal alien now, which is wonderful. He's still working at Toyota with varying degrees of success. The money hasn't been great- barely enough to pay our bills- because my job fizzled out. But Toyota's thinking of building a new management position for Scott. It's not for sure yet at all but it would be such a good thing if it worked. As it is, I can't go looking for a new job because the kids will be here in June and no job will let me take a month off right after I start. So financially, we are stuck. It's frustrating. I had such high hopes when Scott started at Toyota. This month should be a little better- that is, the June paycheck should be a little better than this month (isn't it depressing to get less than $300 for two weeks, 55 hours a week, of work? That was this month). And I am picking up a few hours at my old job- I'm on-call and I'm working every shift they give me, including tonight.
Otherwise- family. Well... there's the sister who just got out of jail last night (theft). And the other sister (18 year old) who is pregnant for the second time this yet. And the brother down in Texas who apparently decided that smuggling drugs over the border was a good way to pick up some extra cash. But my mom, stepdad and gramma are all well.
Tomorrow is Sean's 4th birthday. We're celebrating it on Thursday because that's the only day everyone can come together. The one nice thing about losing my job is that I have more time to be with him.
School is going well. I had midterms over the last few weeks and scored A's and high B's on them- 3.3 was my lowest grade. I'm trying to decide how to handle summer quarter, since the kids will be here. I need to take the credits though... maybe I'll do Internet classes. They have three I need that are online (intro to computers, multicultural studies and oh hell, I can't remember the other I'd chosen). So that would give me a full load of 15 credits. I could do it at night while the kids are in bed. Scott works so much, I really can't take the time away from the kids while they are here. We don't have enough time with them as it is.