Yep, it's official, I'm EMPLOYED!!! woo hoo!!

Love the place, and the crowd I'm working with. One of the girls I've been in school with for the past year and a half is also working there...I don't mind being the only girl, but it's nice to have another around, especially one I know I get along with.

Tomorrow I'm back to the gym, have to get back in better shape! Somehow over this school year I managed to put on about 30lbs...I weigh as much now as I did when I was 9 months pregnant with the munchkin....not happy about that....and since I know I have to do a medical for my job in a couple months, I best take care of that extra baggage. Somehow when you are wearing coveralls all the time you don't notice you've gained weight...till you try to 'dress up' to go out....ICK...

What else...it's starting to get green here, the trees are in bud and I expect they'll all go 'POOF' in the next couple days...I'm so looking forward to that, the view out my window will be so lovely when the trees in the back yard all fill in.Won't be getting any time off to enjoy the summer, but I should be out on the water a couple times with work and we do lots of work in the yard when it's nice out, so at least I'll be out on the few nice days we get here!! Way better than having to sit in an office all day.

or being stuck in the barns with no windows....

I'm really liking how the future is looking!

Still missing this place, but haven't gotten back into the swing of it yet...

Maybe it's just that I've been busy with finishing school and stressing about when/where I was gonna find a job. That stress is gone now, got a job where I'm doing my work-term, finish work-term Friday and start working there on Tuesday, really thrilled about it because it's a peach of a job, one of those that lots of people would like to have, but difficult to get....starting salary is more than I expected and the benefits and pension scheme are excellent. Couldn't ask for more!

I'm really lucky that one of the women I went to school with for the past year and a half also got a job there, we get along great and it's nice to have another female there who is as driven to do this kind of work as I am.

What else...

hmmm.....

well....spring is here, sort of...summer will arrive for a couple of weeks and then we'll be back to winter....I really hate winter, but guess I'll be facing it for a few more years to come. Still, I'm looking forward to summer, might have some company visiting for a bit, festival is always fun and some nice weather will be awesome! I'm thinking of getting myself and the kidlet some rollerblades when she passes, it'll be a good way to get out and get active with her...and maybe if she finally figures out how to ride her bike I'll be better able to keep up on the blades than I would on foot....of course that's barring me breaking my neck on them!!!

The munchkin is growing like a weed, turning into a wonderful little lady for the most part, though there are days we both want to strangle each other...I'm not looking forward to her teenage years...sigh....then again....if she's as responsible then as she tends to be now, I shouldn't have much trouble...I hope.

Such a bad blogger

I'm feeling a need to get back here, feeling the draw...

Could be that I've just finished my program at school...and I'm waiting to see what's next? Knowing me, that's a good guess. I have a work term coming up, and I've passed out my resume to a few people, nothing much happening yet, but I know there is interest. My choice was made well I think....and the interest is from places I'd like to go.

yeah

back to being a bit cryptic again too, I know....

suffice to say, I'm back in limbo...and I hate limbo...that's part of why I went back to school...too find my way out of limbo!

What else...I've done well in the field I picked, had no trouble keeping up with the guys, had no trouble showing them what to do on occasion either! Yeah, they helped me out by time too...Proud of my self and the other two women who completed the program with me!

Other than that....life is kinda status quo...the boy is still around by times, whatever...

now I'm thinking I should get back to stuffing a funny in here when I don't have much to say. Get back to that whole "7 minutes a day" blogging thing....good way to start I guess...that and coming to visit some of you to see whats been happening in your worlds.

C U ROUND!

A woman was in town on a shopping trip.

She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second.
In the third everything had just been reduced to $5, when her mobile phone rang.

It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU.

The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that she'd be there as soon as possible.
As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the shops.
She decided to get in a couple more shops before heading to the hospital.
 
 
She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a cup of coffee and a beautiful slice of cake complimentary from the last shop.
She was jubilant.
Then she remembered her husband. Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital.
She saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her husband's condition.
The lady doctor glared at her and shouted, "You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn't you! I hope you're proud of yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit! It's just as well you went ahead and finished because it will be more than likely the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life he will require around the clock care.
And you'll now be his caregiver!"
The woman was feeling so guilty she broke down and sobbed.
The doctor then chuckled and said,
"I'm just pulling your leg. He's dead! What'd you buy?"