Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Starting Over
I cleared out all the stuff on my blog, links blogroll, everything. Starting over in the new space. Try and make my way out into the blogging community again. Working too much s**ks.
I currently have a stupid cold. *blech* Hate having a cold. Not sick enough to be sick, not well enough to be well.
Work is still crazy. I'm about 1/3 time with the ASL interpreting program and the rest with the case managers. The infrastructure upgrade hasn't happened yet. Verizon took FOREVER to get the T1 line installed which was ridiculous, if you ask me. NEVER use Verizon if you can help it. But they are saying second week of February for right now. My sign language is slowly getting better. I don't know if I'll ever get to an actual conversational level, but today I was actually able to communicate with the deaf lady who works over there without too much help from anyone. It was kind of cool, truth be told. I don't think I've ever really felt like I was
communicating with her before.
I'm pretty much doing their administrative assistant stuff now. Which is good because the girl who was their admin is a full time interpreter now. They are going through a major growth spurt right now and can't fill a good chunk of the requests they get so they needed another staff interpreter. Another product of this is that they are going through an operational overhaul. Which is good, because it does need to happen. But as a result I am getting dragged into their program more and more. I went to one of the meetings yesterday and ended up on three committees. *ugh* I HATE committees. I hate meetings. These do seem to be productive so far, though, so I can't complain too much. I do worry, though as the process continues that if they decide to hire a new admin, if that will cut my hours. I'm not salaried. I should probably try not to efficient myself out of a job. The case management boss said she and HER boss talked about putting me in more of a "supervisory" type position with a peon to do the scut work like phones and filing and whatnot and I could take care of more higher level stuff and more of the IT stuff. I don't know. I guess I'll just have to do the best I can and trust that the universe will catch me if I knock myself out. LOL
Let's see...Aidan is still loving kindergarten. She's doing very well. When we went for her Parent/Teacher conference Miss C. said Aidan scored above average on all the tests and whatnot. And when I read bedtime stories to her she reads some of the story as well. Her Irish Temper is seriously developing. I thought wouldn't have to deal with "I'M NOT GOING TO FOLLOW YOUR RULES ANYMORE!!!" until she was at
least 13. No such luck, sad to say. I took her to the dentist last week and not only are her teeth developing ahead of schedule (her 6 year molars are already in) but apparently she's a hormonal early acheiver as well. After she threw a fit in the dentists office and wouldn't let them put sealer on her teeth or the flouride tray, she screamed and hollered out of the office, through the parking lot and all the way to Westbrook when she dropped that lovely bomb on me. She settled down when I told her "Well then you can't live with me anymore. I'm going to have to find the nearest orphanage and drop you off." One of those days when you really need to be reminded why you had kids in the first place. *sigh*
Ian is doing pretty well. He's definitely doing better than last year, but it's still a struggle. He's still not reading at grade level. Although when he reads at home (he has to read after he does his written work as part of his homework every day) he does pretty well. I'm wondering what second grade reading level is if he's still below it. But he comprehends everything he reads without any help. His handwriting is exceptional, according to his teachers. Long row to hoe on that, but worked out, it seems. Right now he's fixated on dragons. Yes, I'm silently delighted by that, thank you very much. LOL We are reading the Dragonology books my friend Amy suggested. Quite fun, actually. Right now we're decoding runes, which is the only written language dragons read. Ok LOTS of fun. Hee. He still has friends and from what I hear at the monthly meetings the teachers all do seem to like him, which is a plus. I'm worried about what's going to happen when he leaves the elementary school he's in now. Apparently the rest of the system is just awful. We've started talking about trying to buy another house. Preferably in a different school district. The one in the town south of us is pretty good with Special Needs kids, from what I hear, not to mention closer to work for me.
First things first, though, we need to get another car. John's Aspire finally died. So when the taxes come in we'll be shopping around for that. I'd kind of like to see if we can get a little car loan just to have it for when we try and get the mortgage. I don't know how much weight they give to rent and utilities paid on time. LOL AND I'm going to get my HP in to the shop. Something went haywire with the MediaHub exec and doing the factory restore just made it worse. I suppose if they have to reformat it, I can live with it. It's a nice little unit when it's working right.
And just to get my Geek On for a minute this Thursday is the night Grissom sends Sara
The Gift that will trigger
The Flashback when we see
The Talk that took place before he left on
The Sabbatical that puts the big horkin ugly Angstball into the Happy GeekLove Bubble. I hate angst. I have enough of that in my real life. I'd be quite content to have boring, happy Geeks eating Chinese food and watching the Discovery Channel on their couch in their house on my favorite TV show. *cries*
So there it is. Starting over. Peace out.
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