Wow
Every day I think "I need to post...this is stuff I need to be able to remember" and everyday I've felt overwhelmed, gotten too busy, been too tired, had no time, had no energy. I don't even know the last time I posted. Let's see - quick update...
- I gave my notice at work on Wednesday, I have a new job that I'm starting on June 15, and I'm very exited about it. It's in Burlington, so it's almost as close a commute as my current one, and I feel like my opportunities there will be limitless. Of course, me being me, this is also causing me a lot of stress because my leaving where I am now is going to make an already far too small group even smaller, and I love the people in my group, and I hate that my bettering my situation makes theirs worse, but this is right. In the meantime I feel like I have a MILLION things to do to make this as smooth a transition as I can, and again, me being me, my emotions are all over the place. So far I'm doing good not flaring, although the fog and exhaustion are really hitting now, so I'm steeling myself.
- Kelsey took her PSATs on May 9th, got her grades this week - wow do they do them differently than we did - didn't we only have 2 grades, math and english? She gets math, writing, and reading. Turns out that in math, she's bang on the average of 10th graders in the country, and in terms of writing and reading, she's well above the average. Now we know where to focus, but to be fair, there were questions on there that she hasn't learned about yet!
- My neice Alyssa flew in from LA last weekend and I took Thursday and Friday off to take her and Kelsey to walk around UMass Amherst, and BC. (Well, I tried to take Friday off - my not being here Thursday made things blow up, so I came into work for a few hours Friday to fix things) I was blown away by both campuses, so completely different than Plymouth State, and I am suddenly feeling the 20 years it's been since I graduated. Everything is so much more advanced, I felt incredibly jealous that they get to go experience this now, and I felt a huge craving to go back to college...the libraries, the labs, the tools they get now to learn! DUDE!
- That same weekend, Tyler and his anime club at school went into Boston for Anime Boston, a 3 day fan run convention in the Hynes Convention Center. I drove them in Friday, and helped them check into the hotel near Fenway, then drove them to the Hynes - they were all cosplaying (dressing up as characters they like) - Ty was Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, his outfit was great, he worked really hard on it - he got some professional pics done, I have to get my hands on them to share. I saw SO MANY amazing cosplayers as I drove out of Boston (to work...) that I decided that when I picked them up Sunday, I'd come in early, and spend the day at the convention myself. I picked the kids up at the hotel after they checked out (by the way, a parent stayed in the hotel with them...I'm not THAT cool a mom) and drove them over, and then hung out with his group the whole day. It was amazing. I had so much fun. We watched anime, we bought cool stuff, we saw presentations and Cosplay Chess...yeah. I'm a nerd. Huge.
- At Anime Boston, scored an import for the PS3 called Demon Soul - I am addicted. This might be the straw that broke the WoW camel's back...
- This past weekend, I noticed that our backyard was littered with paper, that seemed to come up from our septic tank. Oh yes, the one we haven't pumped in 15 years? Urgh. Called to get it pumped, which was yesterday...turns out the system is on the verge of failing. I guess I'm not selling my house anytime soon... Seems that the pipes that carry the water out of the tank were crushed due to the fact that the previous owners filled the back with dirty land fill - huge rocks, lots of concrete and road, basically crap. It settled, the pipes were a certain time used in the 60s that can easily break, and that was that. So even if I had had my tank pumped every year, this would have happened, it just took this long for us to find it. Great. This could end up costing us more than a new car. I don't have more than a new car. I'm feeling a HUGE amount of anxiety there. We'll see how this all turns out.
- Went to check my appt. for the pain specialist, should be the same day as the first day of work at my new job...oh wait. It's not listed anymore on my online system. Email them, only to find out they put in a new pain clinic at this place, and oh, I should be seen in that setting instead. Call this number and make an appt. ............. You know I need to see you for pain. You know I've been waiting since January. You cancel and don't say a word? Yeah. /sigh
- Have to do a drug test today for the new job, and they're checking into my background - the company they use for that asked me for proof of work from a company from 2002 that is now bankrupt and non existant, and they also want a contact at the company to verify employment. Umm.....
- I gave my notice at work on Wednesday, I have a new job that I'm starting on June 15, and I'm very exited about it. It's in Burlington, so it's almost as close a commute as my current one, and I feel like my opportunities there will be limitless. Of course, me being me, this is also causing me a lot of stress because my leaving where I am now is going to make an already far too small group even smaller, and I love the people in my group, and I hate that my bettering my situation makes theirs worse, but this is right. In the meantime I feel like I have a MILLION things to do to make this as smooth a transition as I can, and again, me being me, my emotions are all over the place. So far I'm doing good not flaring, although the fog and exhaustion are really hitting now, so I'm steeling myself.
- Kelsey took her PSATs on May 9th, got her grades this week - wow do they do them differently than we did - didn't we only have 2 grades, math and english? She gets math, writing, and reading. Turns out that in math, she's bang on the average of 10th graders in the country, and in terms of writing and reading, she's well above the average. Now we know where to focus, but to be fair, there were questions on there that she hasn't learned about yet!
- My neice Alyssa flew in from LA last weekend and I took Thursday and Friday off to take her and Kelsey to walk around UMass Amherst, and BC. (Well, I tried to take Friday off - my not being here Thursday made things blow up, so I came into work for a few hours Friday to fix things) I was blown away by both campuses, so completely different than Plymouth State, and I am suddenly feeling the 20 years it's been since I graduated. Everything is so much more advanced, I felt incredibly jealous that they get to go experience this now, and I felt a huge craving to go back to college...the libraries, the labs, the tools they get now to learn! DUDE!
- That same weekend, Tyler and his anime club at school went into Boston for Anime Boston, a 3 day fan run convention in the Hynes Convention Center. I drove them in Friday, and helped them check into the hotel near Fenway, then drove them to the Hynes - they were all cosplaying (dressing up as characters they like) - Ty was Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, his outfit was great, he worked really hard on it - he got some professional pics done, I have to get my hands on them to share. I saw SO MANY amazing cosplayers as I drove out of Boston (to work...) that I decided that when I picked them up Sunday, I'd come in early, and spend the day at the convention myself. I picked the kids up at the hotel after they checked out (by the way, a parent stayed in the hotel with them...I'm not THAT cool a mom) and drove them over, and then hung out with his group the whole day. It was amazing. I had so much fun. We watched anime, we bought cool stuff, we saw presentations and Cosplay Chess...yeah. I'm a nerd. Huge.
- At Anime Boston, scored an import for the PS3 called Demon Soul - I am addicted. This might be the straw that broke the WoW camel's back...
- This past weekend, I noticed that our backyard was littered with paper, that seemed to come up from our septic tank. Oh yes, the one we haven't pumped in 15 years? Urgh. Called to get it pumped, which was yesterday...turns out the system is on the verge of failing. I guess I'm not selling my house anytime soon... Seems that the pipes that carry the water out of the tank were crushed due to the fact that the previous owners filled the back with dirty land fill - huge rocks, lots of concrete and road, basically crap. It settled, the pipes were a certain time used in the 60s that can easily break, and that was that. So even if I had had my tank pumped every year, this would have happened, it just took this long for us to find it. Great. This could end up costing us more than a new car. I don't have more than a new car. I'm feeling a HUGE amount of anxiety there. We'll see how this all turns out.
- Went to check my appt. for the pain specialist, should be the same day as the first day of work at my new job...oh wait. It's not listed anymore on my online system. Email them, only to find out they put in a new pain clinic at this place, and oh, I should be seen in that setting instead. Call this number and make an appt. ............. You know I need to see you for pain. You know I've been waiting since January. You cancel and don't say a word? Yeah. /sigh
- Have to do a drug test today for the new job, and they're checking into my background - the company they use for that asked me for proof of work from a company from 2002 that is now bankrupt and non existant, and they also want a contact at the company to verify employment. Umm.....