Yes, I'm measuring this time period based on Bobby's class. He has successfully made it through week 3 of grad school! Things are getting a little better around the house. We're both learning when to stop going. We're listening to our bodies and taking care of ourselves. I'm taking on more freelance work, so I've been a lot busier. Unfortunately, at my work, we have had to schedule ourselves 2 months out. So if I don't like my schedule for February, there's not much I can do except take some freelance work to change it up a bit!
Another exciting thing happened this week. After much discussion, I have decided to attend the CODA Conference in Colorado Springs, CO this year! It's in July and I'm SO excited to go! With traveling, I'll be out of work 5 1/2 days. I'm hoping my buddy Lauren will be in town so we can meet up at least once and hang out while I'm around! I thought about extending my stay and visiting with Lauren, but it really is a lot of time off that I can't take. Because it's a Wednesday night-Monday thing, I really only have to make up 2 days of work because I don't usually work Friday-Sunday. But the longer I stay, the more days I have to make up, which gets to be overwhelming. Plus we're going to New Jersey in May, so that's another 2-3 days I have to make up. Although I love that I get to make my scheudle and be flexible with it, I don't work full time, so I don't get PTO. It's a bummer, but it's just an accommodation I have to make.
So this weekend, we will be purchasing our plane tickets! Yes, it's 5 1/2 months ahead of time, but we really want to save on the cost, since we will be traveling and have to pay for flight, hotel and conference. I'm going with a few people from work so it'll be a really cool experience. And of course it'll be really hard to be away from Bobby for that long. The longest we've been apart since we've been married is 4 1/2 days when I went to Utah for Sorenson training. But it'll be SO worth it!
That's really all that is new in our lives! Feel free to leave comments about what's going on in yours!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Oh how I love a new schedule......
Well, it's official, Bobby is now a grad school student! He started on January 6 and is in class two nights a week. He's taking Developmental Psych and Theories of Personalities. Both classes he took in undergrad (well, both of us took it, actually), so hopefully they will be more of a review and maybe go more in-depth than what he did in undergrad. He seems to be enjoying it so far, but it's been really tough on the two of us. He is in class Tuesday and Thursday night then I'm involved with either choir or confirmation on Wednesday nights. So during the work week, we see each other on Monday night, basically. Which is actually a good thing because 2 of "our shows" (House and Heroes) is on Monday night. Weekends have been pretty laid back since he started school just because he gets so worn out during the week. Yeah, in undergrad he was doing 15-18 credits a semester but he wasn't working at the same time. So now he has 6 credits PLUS working full time. It's a big adjustment that he'll have to make and that we'll have to make, but it just takes time.
There really isn't much else new going on in our lives. I have Bunco coming up next week, which I LOVE! I have my massage scheduled for the 31st! For my birthday last year, I asked my mom and mother-in-law to just give me money so I could have a day at the spa. So I did that and fell in love with the place I went, Kalla Lily. Now I go there for all of my hair needs and I'll be going back for another massage. I said I wanted the same thing for Christmas. So my mother-in-law and brother gave me gift cards to Kalla Lily so I could treat myself again. I enjoyed my spa day, but I really just want a massage. I'm hoping to make it a fairly regular thing to get a high-quality massage. We have someone that comes into work and they do 10-minute massages, but it's not the same. The 31st will make it 3 months in between massages, so if I can keep that up, that would be amazing! I'd LOVE to go monthly, but that would be a little spendy.
If you work in education or are in school, enjoy the 3-day weekend with Martin Luther King, Jr day on Monday!
There really isn't much else new going on in our lives. I have Bunco coming up next week, which I LOVE! I have my massage scheduled for the 31st! For my birthday last year, I asked my mom and mother-in-law to just give me money so I could have a day at the spa. So I did that and fell in love with the place I went, Kalla Lily. Now I go there for all of my hair needs and I'll be going back for another massage. I said I wanted the same thing for Christmas. So my mother-in-law and brother gave me gift cards to Kalla Lily so I could treat myself again. I enjoyed my spa day, but I really just want a massage. I'm hoping to make it a fairly regular thing to get a high-quality massage. We have someone that comes into work and they do 10-minute massages, but it's not the same. The 31st will make it 3 months in between massages, so if I can keep that up, that would be amazing! I'd LOVE to go monthly, but that would be a little spendy.
If you work in education or are in school, enjoy the 3-day weekend with Martin Luther King, Jr day on Monday!
Monday, January 5, 2009
New Year, New Start
Happy New Year everyone!! We hope you all had a fun and safe New Year's Eve!
We went to Josh and Anna's house (Bobby's best friend and his wife). We've been going over there the last 4 years, since they've had their townhouse. The usual suspects were there, and we had lots of good food and drinks to ring in the new year! We had a great time!
Now that it's the new year.... we're starting some new challenges. Bobby starts back to school tomorrow. He will be going to St. Mary's University in Minneapolis for his Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy. He's taking 2 classes this semester, while still working full time at South Metro Human Services. We don't know how it's going to go with school and work, so he's starting small with just 2 classes. If it goes well, he'll probably keep doing 2 classes each semester and just take an extra year to finish the program. OR he always has the option to take summer classes. He will go straight through until April 16, the day before his big 25th birthday! No spring break, just class all the way until April.
I have taken on some new responsibilities at Sorenson as well. I was welcomed on board to the mentoring team. That basically means that when new interpreters start at VRS and they're in the 2 month training program, I mentor them. I give them support while they learn the ropes and eventually take calls on their own. There's a team of about 15 of us so it'll be a fun new experience for me at work. I also interpreted the Christmas Eve service at my church, and have been thinking about proposing that I be a regular fixture in that position. My parents have been struggling a bit with their church and don't know that they'll have a place to worship every single week. It's just a thought I've been having. I haven't actually said anyting to the church about it. But when I was doing confirmation there and my parents would come to worship once in a while, and while I was involved in high school ministry, they had an interpreter there. Over time, there were no more Deaf congregation members, so they let the interpreter go. I do enjoy religious interpreting and wouldn't mind doing it again at my own church on an occasional basis. I also LOVE singing in the choir, so it would be hard NOT to do that every Sunday. Again, just something I've been thinking about, who knows if I'll act on it. And I'm still teaching confirmation to 6th grade girls. They get more and more fun every week and it's something I really do enjoy doing.
As far as the two of us.... we just finally bought a new mattress!! We've been using Bobby's old full-sized mattress and now we have a queen! YAY!! This year we will be taking a trip with Pat and Kara to the East Coast to visit family in May. Then this summer we hope to get up to my family's cabin a lot more than before. We usually just go on July 4th weekend, but hopefully we'll get up there once or twice more this year. I also am hoping to see my college roommates someway, somehow this year. We had originally planned a trip to Vegas for this spring, but since Bobby doesn't get a spring break, we're not sure about that. I've been wanting to get back out to Washington, so we'll see about that!
Here's wishing you all a fantastic 2009!!
We went to Josh and Anna's house (Bobby's best friend and his wife). We've been going over there the last 4 years, since they've had their townhouse. The usual suspects were there, and we had lots of good food and drinks to ring in the new year! We had a great time!
Now that it's the new year.... we're starting some new challenges. Bobby starts back to school tomorrow. He will be going to St. Mary's University in Minneapolis for his Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy. He's taking 2 classes this semester, while still working full time at South Metro Human Services. We don't know how it's going to go with school and work, so he's starting small with just 2 classes. If it goes well, he'll probably keep doing 2 classes each semester and just take an extra year to finish the program. OR he always has the option to take summer classes. He will go straight through until April 16, the day before his big 25th birthday! No spring break, just class all the way until April.
I have taken on some new responsibilities at Sorenson as well. I was welcomed on board to the mentoring team. That basically means that when new interpreters start at VRS and they're in the 2 month training program, I mentor them. I give them support while they learn the ropes and eventually take calls on their own. There's a team of about 15 of us so it'll be a fun new experience for me at work. I also interpreted the Christmas Eve service at my church, and have been thinking about proposing that I be a regular fixture in that position. My parents have been struggling a bit with their church and don't know that they'll have a place to worship every single week. It's just a thought I've been having. I haven't actually said anyting to the church about it. But when I was doing confirmation there and my parents would come to worship once in a while, and while I was involved in high school ministry, they had an interpreter there. Over time, there were no more Deaf congregation members, so they let the interpreter go. I do enjoy religious interpreting and wouldn't mind doing it again at my own church on an occasional basis. I also LOVE singing in the choir, so it would be hard NOT to do that every Sunday. Again, just something I've been thinking about, who knows if I'll act on it. And I'm still teaching confirmation to 6th grade girls. They get more and more fun every week and it's something I really do enjoy doing.
As far as the two of us.... we just finally bought a new mattress!! We've been using Bobby's old full-sized mattress and now we have a queen! YAY!! This year we will be taking a trip with Pat and Kara to the East Coast to visit family in May. Then this summer we hope to get up to my family's cabin a lot more than before. We usually just go on July 4th weekend, but hopefully we'll get up there once or twice more this year. I also am hoping to see my college roommates someway, somehow this year. We had originally planned a trip to Vegas for this spring, but since Bobby doesn't get a spring break, we're not sure about that. I've been wanting to get back out to Washington, so we'll see about that!
Here's wishing you all a fantastic 2009!!
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