So... WTF?
1) My co-worker's wife's grandmother died early this year.
2)
My grandmother died in March.
3) Another co-worker's grandmother died the same week.
4) My grandmother's brother died in April.
5) My aunt learned a couple of months ago that she has colon cancer.
6) My former boss (with whom I got along with) was in a serious motorcycle accident last Thursday and is currently in ICU.
It has been one HELL of a 2006 if you ask me. People say God only gives you what you can handle. He must think I'm the strongest person on the planet, because this is a LOT to take all in one go. It gets harder to focus on the good when so many (major) bad things happen so close together.
Focusing on the good:
1) I now have a job that's just 3 miles from home.
2) Hubby just got a cool new job.
3) My daughter is the funniest little girl in the world.
4) My dog is the sweetest dog in the world.
5) I'm almost done with my Master's degree (I graduate in August!).
Things I'm doing to make my (and my hubby's) life easier:
1) I just hired a lawn mowing service. It's hot as hell out (90 degrees+) and humid. Plus, we just don' t have the time anymore.
2) I'm working on finding a housekeeper. Our house is horribly messy and dirty, and again... no time to clean.
Things I'd like to do but can't afford right now:
1) Hire a personal chef
So I went off on a tangent. My mind wanders when I try to avoid thinking about bad things. Anyway.
Strange Dream
Ok, so I had a very strange dream last night. Here's how it went:
I'm on this bus with my husband and Little One and we get off somewhere in the city where there are old but brick-faced homes. There's a hole in the front of one of them, and that's where we head. As we approach the house, we see stairs that lead down directly from the hole. We take those stairs and meet up with my dad, who leads us through some rooms that have stacks of supplies. One room has stacks of Aeron chairs. We get to the main room where people are working in their workstations and he shows me around a little more. There's a row of reclining chairs that are specifically for napping during the day. He shows me around a little more then tells me that the company wants to hire me, and they want to offer me a $1.5 million salary. For whatever reason, I tell my dad that I have to think about it, and I could hear myself thinking that I really like where I currently work, and would I want to make that kind of move?
I don't remember too much more of the dream, but I'm sitting here thinking... WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING? Someone offers me a million-dollar salary and I have to THINK about it?! Sheesh. Any interpretations are welcome. :)
Fours Meme
Four jobs I have had in my life (no particular order):- Burger King
- Häagen Dazs
- Lechter’s
- Babbages
Four movies I would watch over and over:
- Labyrinth
- Shrek
- Finding Nemo
- Alice in Wonderland
(Think I have a thing for animated movies??)
Four places I have lived:
- East Northport, NY
- Lincroft, NJ
- Alpharetta, GA
- State College, PA
Four TV shows I love to watch (no particular order) :- Lost
- American Idol
- Desperate Housewives
- 24
Four places I have been on vacation:
- St. Maarten
- Ireland
- Las Vegas, NV
- England
Four web sites I visit daily:
- Google
- Pair Networks (for my email)
- GMail
- MyPoints
Four of my favorite foods:- Filet Mignon
- Stuffed Shells (the Italian kind!)
- Breyers Coffee ice cream
- The Italian chicken that my hubby makes.
Four places I would rather be right now:
- Home
- Beach
- At a spa getting a massage
- Whitewater Rafting
Four Friends that have been tagged that I think will respond:- Heidi
- Marc
- Melanie
- Tia Gabriela
The Things that Kids Say
I was going through my email this morning and got one of those "click for points" emails from
Inbox Dollars. Well, this one triggered a memory. A while back, my mom told me that when I was in preschool, they had some questions they would ask the kids. One of them was, "What do you do when you get hungry?" My answer? "You die." Of course my mom was called in about this because they were very concerned for me. To which my mom laughed, because of all the "Sponsor a Child" commercials that pretty much said that lots of children die every year from hunger. What they didn't say is that there's a difference between hunger and starvation... so for whatever reason, I thought that you could die from being hungry!
Another thing I was afraid of as a kid... being sucked down the drain when the bathtub was being emptied. No matter how much my mom reassured me, I thought you could get sucked down the drain like you see in cartoons. I think about this every time I give my Little One a bath because she wants to stick her hand in the drain! Total opposite of me.
It's Finals Week and I Lost My Brain
Ugh. I am just SO over this semester. I had a presentation on Monday that went crappy because the instructor decided to ask a million questions that I didn't have the answers to. Then I had a take-home final that was posted on Tuesday that is due tonight... and that's only
half of the exam! It was 8
LONG pages, and there's more to come tonight. AND we have project presentations due tonight.
Last night, I had to finish up yet another take-home final that is actually due on Friday, but I won't have time to work on it tonight. So, I finished it up a little after midnight last night. Of course I was exhausted this morning.
I have yet another take-home final that's due in 2 weeks, but at least I have a couple of weekends to work on it. It's actually due on the same day that I start my summer classes. So, I think I'm going to email the professor with my final instead of showing up for the last class.
Ugh, I will be so happy when this is all over in August and I have a piece of paper in my hand that says I have a Master of Computer Science!!!
