apparently, the only german i know, i don't know very well.
Ingrid wants to know what's going on, and because I love her, I will post.
1. Went to Michigan for Jon's graduation and to see some family before I go to New Mexico. The graduation ceremony was horrendously long and boring, with some particularly awful speeches (wherein the principal related commencement ceremonies to funerals, and since you should keep it short at a wake he'll keep it short, and then he proceeded to not keep it short and spent the rest of his speech talking about kindergarten). When you got the names of 500 students to read out loud, it takes a while. Also, my mom has been remodeling the house and it looks pretty good.
2. Speaking of New Mexico, there is a new development in the saga. John will probably never move to Albuquerque permanently. He's moving into a leadership and potentially management position, and to move away entirely would not be good for his career. It makes sense. It did kind of seem too good to be true when we though he could move out there with me. But, there is a very good side to this, which is that he can do a half-time deal; that is, spend half his time in DC, and half his time in Albuquerque (going back and forth every 2 or 3 weeks). And, he could start that right away. It did require me to start a whole new housing search since I now need a place with two rooms so John (and I) can use one as an office - if he's going to be working from home out there, he most certainly doesn't want to be cooped up in one bedroom the whole time. But, I've already got a line on quite a few places - and from the looks of things, I may not have to pay more than I was going to pay for a single room. Even less, in some cases. I still can't believe how cheap things are out there. Anyhow, now I've got to start looking at cars too, to figure out what I want to drive when I get down there, especially since John's car will stay in DC permanently.
3. We booked our tickets for Indonesia the other day, as indicated by my previous post. It ain't cheap. But, we were able to finagle a much lower price than we originally thought we'd have to pay by being a little sneaky. Once I get over the sticker-shock, I'm going to really look forward to the trip. It will be a lot of fun. And we won't do a big trip like that again for quite some time probably, so it's worth it, in my opinion. Oh shoot, that reminds me I need to fill out visa forms for Indonesia. And probably get another armload of shots at the health office downstairs. POOP. I hate that part. >_<
4. Work is - well, work. But I'm getting awfully, awfully tired of killing mice. There are two sitting on my desk right now, awaiting their fate. I can't WAIT for that part to be over. Other than that, the boss is keepin me busy, getting what she can out of me before I leave.
In general, I have a lot of stuff to think about and get stressed out/anxious about, and time is passing way faster than I would like. And though I'm doing my best to be calm and stay out of the anxious mindset, every now and then I just get this awful, overwhelmed feeling. The sooner I can stop that the better, because I imagine my life isn't going to go in the direction of simplicity from here on out.
1. Went to Michigan for Jon's graduation and to see some family before I go to New Mexico. The graduation ceremony was horrendously long and boring, with some particularly awful speeches (wherein the principal related commencement ceremonies to funerals, and since you should keep it short at a wake he'll keep it short, and then he proceeded to not keep it short and spent the rest of his speech talking about kindergarten). When you got the names of 500 students to read out loud, it takes a while. Also, my mom has been remodeling the house and it looks pretty good.
2. Speaking of New Mexico, there is a new development in the saga. John will probably never move to Albuquerque permanently. He's moving into a leadership and potentially management position, and to move away entirely would not be good for his career. It makes sense. It did kind of seem too good to be true when we though he could move out there with me. But, there is a very good side to this, which is that he can do a half-time deal; that is, spend half his time in DC, and half his time in Albuquerque (going back and forth every 2 or 3 weeks). And, he could start that right away. It did require me to start a whole new housing search since I now need a place with two rooms so John (and I) can use one as an office - if he's going to be working from home out there, he most certainly doesn't want to be cooped up in one bedroom the whole time. But, I've already got a line on quite a few places - and from the looks of things, I may not have to pay more than I was going to pay for a single room. Even less, in some cases. I still can't believe how cheap things are out there. Anyhow, now I've got to start looking at cars too, to figure out what I want to drive when I get down there, especially since John's car will stay in DC permanently.
3. We booked our tickets for Indonesia the other day, as indicated by my previous post. It ain't cheap. But, we were able to finagle a much lower price than we originally thought we'd have to pay by being a little sneaky. Once I get over the sticker-shock, I'm going to really look forward to the trip. It will be a lot of fun. And we won't do a big trip like that again for quite some time probably, so it's worth it, in my opinion. Oh shoot, that reminds me I need to fill out visa forms for Indonesia. And probably get another armload of shots at the health office downstairs. POOP. I hate that part. >_<
4. Work is - well, work. But I'm getting awfully, awfully tired of killing mice. There are two sitting on my desk right now, awaiting their fate. I can't WAIT for that part to be over. Other than that, the boss is keepin me busy, getting what she can out of me before I leave.
In general, I have a lot of stuff to think about and get stressed out/anxious about, and time is passing way faster than I would like. And though I'm doing my best to be calm and stay out of the anxious mindset, every now and then I just get this awful, overwhelmed feeling. The sooner I can stop that the better, because I imagine my life isn't going to go in the direction of simplicity from here on out.