It’s hard to believe, but today I have some regular house-hold chores and work this evening. Nothing else.

It seems like my whole week, no – my whole month just opened up for me.

Why? Because finally, after 2 years of looking, I am done looking for a job. No more resumes, cover letters, emails, checking job boards. I’m done.

What brought on this feeling of finality?

I GOT A TEACHING JOB!!!

Woot!

It’s a 5th grade position at a Catholic School. I will be the only 5th grade teacher. They have one class per grade. The principal and the two assistants were fantastic and I loved the school! The interview went SOOOO well. I was hoping against hope that they thought so too. Evidently they did because they offered me the position at the interview – even though they still had interviews scheduled for later. Then after the other interviews they called me and offered again officially. I’m so STOKED. You don’t know how relieved I am to finally have a REAL job. It means so much for us. It means that buying a house is no longer a dream – it’s a time line. It means regular shopping for needed clothes for me and the girls. It means new bedding and bath stuff for the house. New furniture. All of this is eventually, but it’s all stuff that has been attached to “when I get a job…”.

Know what else it means? That the boxes and boxes of curriculum and trade books and misc. educational items that I’ve been lugging around for the last 10 years are finally, FINALLY, going to be out of my storage shed, my garage and my house! That right there is enough to get any sane person totally revved up!

Friday after the interview I called hubby to tell him the news – he said it was the best Father’s Day gift I could have given him.

All week end I’ve been wandering around just smiling randomly. I keep thinking – I want to do this in my classroom… I need to get this out of storage… I can use this for that…. etc., etc.. Then I stop and think “I HAVE  A JOB!” It’s awesome.

I was really starting to doubt myself. I thought maybe I wasn’t meant to be a teacher after all. I always thought it was my calling, but maybe I was wrong I thought. At the interview though I could see they appreciated all my gifts and talents. It was redeeming. I think God has been trying to guide me this direction all along, and I have been resisting. As usual I think I know what’s best for me, when the truth is getting out of the way is what’s best for me! LOL

OK – I have a LOT of cleaning and organizing to do. (I have to clean the garage first so I have someplace to bring out my teaching stuff and go through it – it’s a vicious cycle – )

I hope to be back on xanga more, now that I don’t have to spend all my free time looking for jobs.

Whew. You can’t imagine the relief and excitement I feel. It’s AWESOME.

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!

I’ve been swamped – still. What else is new huh? I’ve been working tons at SuperCuts. We’ve been short staffed – to the extreme – and I’ve been working lots to help out. This week will be better (already is, I was actually off for the entire day today) and next week will be even better. One stylist gets back from vacation, and a new stylist finishes hair style academy the end of the week. In addition, one of our stylists who had transferred to another store transferred back. That’s a difference of 3 stylists – in a small shop thats 1/2 our staff! I’ve still been applying for jobs. One job that I applied for has said they have two full time EA positions. I’m considering it. I would rather teacher, but at this point, I have to consider any full time job.

Tomorrow is BUNCO! Woo hoo! I wasn’t able to go last month (too crazy, and still had company). I’m very excited. I’m also going to be hosting book club – if only I can settle on a date! I’m working on it! I was hoping that it would be sat, but alas, I have to close so thats a no go. I chose the book Etta based on a recommendation from my SIL and I have to say it was a good read. I really enjoyed it.

In other news – Ducky returned home today. A week early. She was having a tough time and decided to that she needed to come home. I must say I was relieved. I knew she was having a tough time, and I was worried for her. It was a tough situation and I’m glad she’s out of it. Besides that, we missed having her around. It was way too quiet with her gone! She’s the spark, the live wire in the family. She’s so much like me it’s not even funny! LadyBug is like her dad. Outgoing, friendly, smart and very technical. She loves to cook, to tinker with mechanical things and she’s very gifted athletically, although she doesn’t have the discipline or desire to pursue any gifts in that area. Ducky is outgoing, a little crazy, a little rebellious, gifted with words and has honed your use of sarcasm to a fine edge. They are both so different, but so alike. I really enjoy both of them — they each have such great personalities. LadyBug tends to drive me crazy with her testing and I often believe that is a direct result of her father’s genetics! The stories I have heard from my MIL makes me think LadyBug’s dad drove his mom to distraction as well. She once wished twin red-haired boys on him. She later apologized to me for that, but I think that LadyBug is my twin red-haired boys in disguise! LOL

I’m off, and I’m actually going to go visit some of my xanga buddies!

Have a great night and I’ll hopefully talk to you again soon!