Something to talk about
Things I haven’t written about:
1) My job as a mother’s helper. It’s been going on for over a month. The original ad stated up to 15 hours a week, but it’s been more like 3. It’s a nice family, a little pocket cash has been nice, but not a long-term solution to my emptying bank account.
2) My bird-watching. I am doing a project for the class that went to Costa Rica and I became intrigued with bird-watching while there so decided to give it a try. It’s both fun and frustrating (how aware are you of the tens of birds h-i-g-h up in the trees? That you can never get a good gander at?).
3) My grandfather has (had?) a fractured vertebra. Yesterday they put cement in his back. I haven’t seen them in probably a month. They were very adament that I not come up, despite the previous two months of weekly, “So when will we see you again?”
4) I am up for an office assistant job I really, really, really, really want.
5) The whole job situation/school scheduling/volunteer time has got my head ordering vodka tonics 24/7. I have alternate plans/times tables if I get the job, if I don’t, if the condo sells, if it doesn’t, if we win the lotto, if my grandparents take a turn for the worse, if Jupiter’s effects on Mars become too strong….etc. If some movement doesn’t happen in some direction soon, I will explode from uncertainty principle effects.
6) Between injury (hello, ankle-I’ve-sprained-six-times-and-now-is-just-a-facsimile-of-an-ankle), study sessions (best score on an organic chem test yet!), and condo open houses, I haven’t spent a whole Saturday at the sanctuary in a while and it’s starting to wear on me. The whole switch-gears things in general is wearing me down.
7) I bought a steam cleaner. I am officially 47.
Ha! I recently bought a steam cleaner, too. After seeing it featured in an infommercial. And I was super excited about it! And only a little ashamed.
Put me in a home, already.