God is Laughing

I once heard that if you want to make God laugh, make plans.

He must be rolling down the aisles by now.

Friday I get an voicemail from my supervisor. She needs to talk to me. I email her back that I will be out (B is having mouth surgery on Monday) and can she talk to me via email. She emails me to find out if I want the position that I wanted months ago LOL.

Um okay. Then the schools call me. Apparently as of Friday there is a job freeze. They think they can still hire me but are not definitely sure.

Then my supervisor calls me again today. She has another children's position to offer me. So I go from one job offer to three in the space of a weekend.

God's sides must just be aching by this point.

I'll let you know what other twists this story takes.

Good day and why did the dinosaur cross the road?
Because chickens hadn't been created yet.

She was Impressed

And I got it!

And around again

Okay so today I get a call from the person I was supposed to interview with on Tuesday. She was there at the school waiting for me. But someone got their wires crossed and didn't send me back.

Oops!

So I have an interview tomorrow. And it is for a school 15 minutes away from my home. I don't want to get excited but I am. Back to working with kids is so where I wanted to be 5 months ago when I asked for a transfer. And I want it even more now. But I am trying to keep it in check. Just in case...

Yay! Tonight is pizza night with T. I so look forward to those all week. And tomorrow is day off and interview. My cup spills over. Oh speaking of spilling cups...

Last night was Henri's night. My kitten loves water. He always runs into the bathroom when I go in there on the off chance that I might leave the water running for him. So we got him a kitty water fountain last night. At first he didn't know what to think of it. He crept up slowly to it. I guess he thought we might turn it off before he got there. And then he didn't leave the room for like two hours after we turned it on. He was in kitty heaven.

I got up this morning and he had drank so much water that I had to refilled the bowl.

Good day and drink 8 cups of water a day before Henri drinks it all for you.

The Newest Loop

So I wanted to tell all about how my interview went but it didn't.

I got up this morning, got all ready for my interview and went to the school. But the principal didn't have me down as coming in. Heck, she didn't even have a school media specialist position available. I called the HR for the school system and there aren't any SMS positions available anywhere.

My best guess is that she may have called me for the Reading teacher position. I wouldn't have taken though.

It was just so surreal. I even double checked my phone to make sure someone indeed had called from the schools. The suckiest part was I was looking forward to it. It has been five months since my request at work and nada! I miss working with kids. I didn't know how much until the chance came to work with them again. I just feel so stuck here and it is like I am being punished for being good at something.

Good day and it sucks.

Parents

Parental units. I have two very good ones. I was wondering about being one yesterday. It appeared as if that was all I could see yesterday. I heard stories about their children from my staff, my sibling deleted parts about parenting from his blog and his wife mused on the joys and sorrows of parenting.

I have already discussed this with B and we would both like to get used to the roles of husband wife first. T wants to be an aunt but she is going to have to wait a couple of years. Or so...

I wobble on the idea of children. Somedays yes. Somedays no. But I want it to be a time when I am a definite yes. I have been told by a number of people about what a good mom I would make. I think I will but only because I have such great role models to look up to in that department. I have a great mom. She is so incredibly capable and smart and has such a wonderful wonderful sense of humor. She has such strength and grace. And it is the kind of strength that you don't see coming. I think she could have been a great queen. LOL And she is... just of a small country and population of 6.

I also see a great example in my sister-in-law. She and her daughter has such an amazing bond. She has a lot of the same qualities as my mom. She has a deeply caring heart and I love her desire to help others. She's a fantastic role model for her daughter. And yea, God, she is quirky but it is in such a way that it shows a joy of living. But she is not afraid of showing her folliables. And that takes such strength to show a weakness. She is crazy about M. and it shows.

Maybe that is what it takes... a little craziness : P or sometimes a lot : D

Good day and hug a mom today.

A Meriade of Choices

Blue or green? Small or big? New job or not?

This has been the theme of my week. It started on Sunday. The day B and I got a new car.

I'd been planning on turning in my bug and getting something new. Something bigger and more reliable and as good on gas mileage. I did my research. We ended up with a 2008 Toyota Corolla. It was ranked very higher both with NADA and Consumer Reports. Overall the car buying experience was better this time too. I went with Ernie Palmer Toyota and I didn't feel strongarmed nor did I feel like I needed to bring someone along to argue for me. Though B did come along for moral support.

So new car.... my other choice came today. I have an interview with a local school system. It knocked me a bit of a loop. I still don't know what I want to do. I am going to the interview and will have to decide once I have more information.

So much is changing. I am glad to have B to hold onto. As long as that never changes, I should be good. Good day and a change will do you good.

Keeping up with Pop Culture

There are few things I enjoy more than taking classes unless it is taking a good class.

Not the snooze filled, sit and listen while I talk and my syllabus looks like a doodle bug explored on it class.

Such was the case on Friday where I got up and went to my Keeping up with Pop Culture class. It was offered by Neflin. It was interesting and fun. But it also made sense with my job. I think I will stop telling people I am a librarian and start telling them I deal in information. And then tell them I have told them too much and ask whom to send the body to... :D But it is true. I deal in information and it is mondo important to know how people get information. Pop culture is a major deal in that it deals with readily available and mass distribution information.

I never imagined how fluid information has become and the ways of obtaining are growing exponentially. I think I came out of it better knowing where people go.

In the back of my brain, I do wish I could be more of a student. I love learning and figuring stuff out. LOL which got me into trouble on Friday night.

I've never been one to play games all day on the computer. But I have also never played a computer game based on Nancy Drew. Oh my goodness. I played for an hour on Friday before B got home. And then got back on about 12 midnight thinking I'll just play for a bit. He went to bed and I was still playing. A little while later, I noticed it getting light outside. When I got out of the game, I realized it was almost 7 o'clock in the morning. I couldn't believe it. It had felt like barely any time passing. And it was until I laid down that I realized how tired I was. Hence you might say I like the game. Just slightly. But I am going to have to limit my playing.

Last night I played until 3 am. Ugh! Hello, world. My name is Eve and I am a gamer.... : P It'd be tough but I will resist.

Good day and watch out for Nancy...she's evil :D

Finding slugs

Growing up I used to read Nancy Drew. She embodied my desire to solve mysteries. Even now I love mystery shows and mystery games. I love the idea of figuring things out. There is so much of life that I just can't figure out.

Like hate. I could never figure it out. Why would you lump everyone together into a group and pick something that they couldn't change to not like?

Or not try something and just assume you hate it. You never know what you might like if you tried it.

I try to keep an open head and heart. This year's theme for the teen reading program was You Never Know. And you don't. Think of how many things you might have missed if you had hated today and just stayed in bed.

I would have missed this blog. I would have missed my chocolate covered nutter butters. I would have missed hunting and finding books... ah the mystery of where someone put that book.

I so do love it.

Good day and never stop trying something new.

February 9, 2008

That is our date. It is set. Cruise tickets purchase, packaged purchased. And I think I have enough left over to buy some Toxic Hell. Though I can't imagine having a better groom. He has gotten the full blast of what it means to be a Cowart. But he just stands there ready with support, kitties and hugs... which means he is utterly the most perfect person for me. He is wonderful and I am so lucky. I'm glad that it is six months away though. Plenty of time left for my favorite things... planning : ) and him :D

As far as life as a Cowart, it has been interesting. P got into some major trouble.
I won't bore ( okay so not a bit of it actually is boring) you with details. If you check out Dad's blog, you will get the juicy details. Dad wondered if it had anything to do with the aerosol things that H and I found when cleaning up her place. I will say that I spoke with P and she did say that she was using recreationally the aerosol and MJ. J is supposed to go with her to some NA meetings and she mentioned wanting to receive further counseling. I think right now I am done mostly with getting upset over it. I think I don't feel that it is as much of a shock right now.

So I am focusing on the wedding. The Carnival people are supposed to be sending me a package of details to go through and over with B. And I think February was the perfect pick for us since amethyst is the birthday stone ( I so did not know that before) and violet is the flower. We're going with a black and white color scheme with purple as the accent color. But all that aside, I've marrying the best man in the whole world for me. Okay, someone stop me before I go off ona B rant : P

Good day and Woot!