Work is going great. The boss has been letting me loose on new projects with little to no instruction, which honestly feels wonderful. The old boss never would have given me the kind of freedom I have here. Of course, Boss looks over everything after I’ve done it, but since it’s all going out over his name, that’s only natural and expected.

School is now done for the kids. Thank goodness, because I don’t know how much more of Buggie’s horribly terribly awful attitude I could have handled.  I do remember how bad Junior year was, and I didn’t even bother with ACT or SAT testing because I knew I was just going to end up at the local community college if anything. So I was sympathetic to the stress, but dang.

My calling at church is going very well. We’ve planned several good workshops and seminars for the next few months, and we’re starting to think about our big service project that we’ll do with the young women near the end of the year. Sadly, the charity I was really hoping for, Feed My Starving Children, is currently booked through about February of next year. So I’m keeping my eye open for cancellations, just in case.

The kids are doing well. Buggie ended up getting a 29 on the ACT without knowing any physics or finishing the written portion. Yeah, getting into college won’t be a problem for her. Paying for it, however, looks like it will be a big problem for me.

And I am stitching!  I’ve been working on the Christmas fairy during work and a crocheted baby blanket at church. Of course, I don’t have easy access to my camera for status pictures… LOL

The RSS feed is actually updating now!! yay!

In other awesome news, I have a job at last!  Not the one I interviewed at last week (still haven’t heard back from them after leaving a follow up message on Wednesday) but an attorney who’s local to me and was a second-generation referral from church. I met with him yesterday and he put me to work immediately.  Woot!

Also, my dad just got confirmation that he’ll be working for the Census Bureau.  NOT as a census taker (the people that go door to door when you don’t send in your form) but as some sort of supervisor. And it’s a government job, so that opens up major doors for hi.

I managed to complete 4 hats and 1 scarf in time for the church auction for Girls’ Camp.  I also added in the baby blanket I made back in September, just because.  We’ll see how much actually sells and how much comes back home LOL.

Another interview this week. They’ll make a decision next week and plan to have someone start approximately 4/1. I’ll be following up with them and with the tax attorney from a month ago on Tuesday.

We’re having a fundraiser at church next weekend for girls’ camp, and I’ve been churning out crocheted hats and scarves to add to the auction. I’m hoping to get one more hat-and-scarf set and maybe another 2 hats done, and then maybe I’ll see about doing some little beaded pins as well.

Buggie’s been doing a ton of babysitting recently, which is great. At least someone is working, and she doesn’t have to keep asking me for money when she wants something. Which really isn’t often anyway, she’s definitely learned how to be self-controlled and frugal over the years.

I clearly have too many places to share certain types of information… I completely forgot to post here and now it’s a non-issue.

I had a series of interviews for a temp-to-perm job the last two weeks. I ended up not getting it, but I’m not upset about it. Over the course of the nearly 3 weeks since I was first contacted to determine my interest, we went from “occasional overtime” to “a couple days a month” to “I’m so backed up that you’re going to be putting in 2-3 hours a day every day for 4-6 weeks”. The interviews went really well and in the end it was down to me and one other candidate. They ended up going with the other person in the end, and I think it was because I have kids and they were concerned about my ability to work that much overtime. I had family lined up and ready to cover so I could take it, even though I was having doubts myself. In the end, I’m glad that she decided to pass me over. It would have been nice to have gotten all that overtime pay, but it would have been a major strain on the family situation. I do have other irons in the fire.

I’m back in the stitching groove as well, putting several hours into Autumn Sunset Sampler as well as working on a crocheted scarf during church. Half an hour a day, one day a week…. this is an awfully slow scarf. Then again, so are all of my other projects lately.