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So I’ve been meaning to post something here for a while. Just a general life update as it were.
Life here in Casa Stockdale has been pretty good. We stayed home for Christmas this year which was the first time that E has ever not been in Wyoming for Christmas and the first time since before college that I haven’t spent part of break traveling, it was kinda nice to just chill around the house. E and I were worried that we would get sick of each other with all the time stuck around the house but when I went back to work after the New Year we were both surprise how much we missed me being home. It was a nice realization. Christmas was cool. I got a nice soft leather briefcase/bag-thing from my parents which will be great for grad school and I got an ipod shuffle from my mother-in-law which was a huge surprise and very cool. I hate the ear buds though, they hurt my ear and I feel half deaf after I take them out, I think I’m going to end up using my old headphones from my CD player, probably for the best after that study came out about how much worse for your ears ear buds were compared to headphones. Any other ipod users out there have issues with their buds?
I mentioned grad school above and how I’m actually looking at it again, not for biology this time but teaching. I’m looking at a masters in teaching either from UPS or UWTacoma. I had been looking at UNR (back in Nevada) but after talking to someone from high school I’ve heard it was pretty bad so that’s off the menu. UPS would be nice but its really expensive and not as working adult/family friendly as UW is suppose to be, so I have to really consider that one. I deiced on the whole teaching thing when I finally had the epiphany that I really don’t like doing research and that being the main thing you do both to obtain and use a PhD I figured I needed to look another direction. So back to my original plan which was the teaching master’s. We’ll see how it goes.
Elizabeth and Peter are doing much better, they were sick for a while but are both feeling much better. Peter just keeps getting bigger everyday. He’s not talking yet but we’ve been teaching him some sign language so he is getting easier to communicate with which is really nice. E is really digging the homemaker thing but also trying to make some money with sewing and substituting for paper routes. She’s also somewhat on the job market due to me considering grad school. I would have to quit my job to do it so she would have to make the money for the family, so we’ll see how that goes.
Work is its same old, I had a lot of fun making new menus and recipes over break but am pounding my head against the wall again as I struggle with how poorly the place is run and how hard it makes it to work there. I’ll live. No matter what I’m getting out of that place, wither grad school or a new job we’ll have to see but not going to stay there much longer.
I feel like I have more to say but it doesn’t fit with the flow of this post so I guess I’ll save it for a different time.
Peace to all!
Life here in Casa Stockdale has been pretty good. We stayed home for Christmas this year which was the first time that E has ever not been in Wyoming for Christmas and the first time since before college that I haven’t spent part of break traveling, it was kinda nice to just chill around the house. E and I were worried that we would get sick of each other with all the time stuck around the house but when I went back to work after the New Year we were both surprise how much we missed me being home. It was a nice realization. Christmas was cool. I got a nice soft leather briefcase/bag-thing from my parents which will be great for grad school and I got an ipod shuffle from my mother-in-law which was a huge surprise and very cool. I hate the ear buds though, they hurt my ear and I feel half deaf after I take them out, I think I’m going to end up using my old headphones from my CD player, probably for the best after that study came out about how much worse for your ears ear buds were compared to headphones. Any other ipod users out there have issues with their buds?
I mentioned grad school above and how I’m actually looking at it again, not for biology this time but teaching. I’m looking at a masters in teaching either from UPS or UWTacoma. I had been looking at UNR (back in Nevada) but after talking to someone from high school I’ve heard it was pretty bad so that’s off the menu. UPS would be nice but its really expensive and not as working adult/family friendly as UW is suppose to be, so I have to really consider that one. I deiced on the whole teaching thing when I finally had the epiphany that I really don’t like doing research and that being the main thing you do both to obtain and use a PhD I figured I needed to look another direction. So back to my original plan which was the teaching master’s. We’ll see how it goes.
Elizabeth and Peter are doing much better, they were sick for a while but are both feeling much better. Peter just keeps getting bigger everyday. He’s not talking yet but we’ve been teaching him some sign language so he is getting easier to communicate with which is really nice. E is really digging the homemaker thing but also trying to make some money with sewing and substituting for paper routes. She’s also somewhat on the job market due to me considering grad school. I would have to quit my job to do it so she would have to make the money for the family, so we’ll see how that goes.
Work is its same old, I had a lot of fun making new menus and recipes over break but am pounding my head against the wall again as I struggle with how poorly the place is run and how hard it makes it to work there. I’ll live. No matter what I’m getting out of that place, wither grad school or a new job we’ll have to see but not going to stay there much longer.
I feel like I have more to say but it doesn’t fit with the flow of this post so I guess I’ll save it for a different time.
Peace to all!